October 9, 2013

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Ground control to Major Hadfield Canadian astronaut inspires listeners with speech about his life and space Mark Hendricks Ω Science & Tech Editor Canadian astronaut and former International Space Station (ISS) commander Chris Hadfield spoke to a packed Campus Activity Centre on Oct. 4 about his life as an astronaut and what The complaint might be seen as “a subtle drama” to some, but the humanity can do when we work together.

Labour Relations Board will be the decider in the case. “I have some pictures to show

(Brian Turner/Flickr Commons) you,” Hadfield teased.

Hadfield certainly did have pictures to show. Anyone who has followed Hadfield on Twitter knows that while in space he took tens-of-thousands of pictures of Earth and brought the realities of living in space home for social media followers everywhere.

Hadfield used these pictures as talking points for his presentation, which took the audience from Earth to space and back to Earth again. Hadfield is Law faculty goes to labour relations board accusing fairly modest about his trips into TRUFA of acting “discriminatorily and in bad faith.” space, recalling little details such as which underwear was appropriate for each occasion.

Karla Karcioglu Maw said the complaint hasn’t really “I’ve put on my space affected law students and that it wasn’t underpants three times,” Ω Roving Editor something students were directly told Hadfield said. “They were actually a diaper because that’s On Sept. 12, TRU law faculty filed about. a complaint to the Labour Relations “It seems pretty contained,” Maw what you wear in space, and Johnson and Johnson puts little Board against the TRU Faculty said.

Association (TRUFA) and its employer, Third-year TRU law student Chris pink and blue astronauts on them TRU. Albinati said it will be students who for us.”

The complaint says that there’s receive the collateral damage from “You’re driving out to your been a “breach of the duty of ongoing issues. rocket ship and everyone else is fair representation” and that over Albinati is concerned about the driving away from your rocket the previous two years, the TRU value a law degree from TRU, based ship because it has about four Faculty Association (TRUFA) acted off the school’s reputation, compared million pounds of fuel in it and “arbitrarily, discriminatorily and in to other established law schools across everyone has to get out to a five kilometer circle because if bad faith on its dealing with [law Canada. faculty].”

“When you are competing in this it blows up that’s how big the More specifically, the complaint says sort of environment, a new brand is a crater is going to be,” Hadfield TRUFA failed to “properly inform itself big question mark,” Albinati said. “The said. as to the needs [and] particular interests more bad press that’s coming out is Ever since he was a young of TRU’s Law Faculty” and has rejected making it worse for [students].” child Hadfield started steering “without reason, all proposals made by “If [the program] gets limited in his life towards becoming an [the law faculty] for modifications of terms of salary, and can’t attract the top astronaut, even though at the the collective agreement which would faculty, then our law program becomes time it was impossible for a Canadian citizen to become an accommodate the specific needs of a third-rate,” he said. new law faculty.”

VP advancement Christopher astronaut. But Hadfield got his The agreement was in effect from Seguin said the complaint is not a lucky break.

“They put an ad in the April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2012 and negative issue but rather “an issue was extended while the university and necessary to the creation of the [law] newspaper that said ‘wanted, TRUFA continue negotiations for a school.” astronauts’ and I thought, ‘yes, new agreement.

“All new ventures come with this is my chance right here,’” The complaint states that the actions change, and this new venture is a Hadfield said.

by TRUFA “genuinely threaten the very complicated one,” Seguin said.

The international nature of continued viability of the law program “However, we are positive that we the ISS was a large focus of the at Thompson Rivers University.” have found extremely qualified faculty speech. The space station was TRU Society of Law Students’ who are providing a world-class legal built by countries all over the external representative Kelly Maw education to our students throughout world and according to Hadfield called the complaint a “subtle drama this issue.” is an example of what people can in the saga,” referring to a history TRUFA and the TRU law faculty do when you give them a good, of events that also includes the were contacted by The Omega seemingly impossible, example. resignation of founding dean of law several times but could not be The journey to the ISS was the culmination of a lifetime’s worth Chris Axworthy. reached for comment.

TRU law complaint a “subtle drama in the saga”

of effort for Hadfield.

“After a voyage that had started when I was nine years old and taken me through two shuttle f lights, I had to learn to speak Russian [and] learn to be the pilot of a Soyuz to f ly to the space station,” Hadfield said.

“We got to the space station and opened the hatch and it was just a wonderful experience.”

Hadfield took the audience on a tour of the world from space, giving a view of the planet that only a few people have ever seen in person to the guests in attendance. He also used his pictures to show what life is like on the ISS as well as the scientific work that goes on there.

“If you’re on the space station and you close your eyes and wait a minute or two you’ll see a

bright f lash,” Hadfield said. “It’s one of the high energy particles going through your optic nerve, you can actually see the radiation going through your body… which is not that settling.”

Eventually Hadfield’s journey took the audience back to Earth and the difficulties of being on Earth after six months of weightlessness about the ISS. “You can’t believe how heavy everything is,” Hadfield said.

“You have to pick up your arms, which just seems so unfair.

You have to hold your head up, I hadn’t held my head up in six months.”

Hadfield opened the f loor to questions, and befitting his inspirational status, over half the questions were from children dreaming of space.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield pauses for a question during his lecture at TRU Oct. 4.

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A new budget model for TRU Jessica Klymchuk Ω News Editor TRU has chosen this fiscal year to do a budget model review. The university is re-evaluating the way it allocates its $168 million in a routine process that hasn’t been done in five years.

These changes will be reflected in the 2015-16 annual budget.

Vice president of administration and finance Matt Milovick said every five years is standard for reviewing the budget model. Simon Fraser University’s VP administration and finance Pat Hibbitts, said SFU does a budget model review about every five years, as well.

“As good administrators I think the onus is on us to really look at systems with some frequency,” said Milovick.

At the board of governor’s meeting on Sept. 20, Milovick said there was a desire to re-evaluate how the institution does its budgeting and the intent would be to look at different ways of allocating resources.

Milovick said the current model may have been the right

allocation at the time, but things have evolved.

“The grant of the institution hasn’t changed significantly, at least not in a positive way, and tuitions have grown slightly. You see more tuition depending on where the students are enrolling,” Milovick said. “So it’s

good to get a sense if we have the right distribution of revenues in our current model.”

“Are the faculties and departments that we have resourced appropriately?” he asked.

The review was discussed at the

review process and look at other models.

“In the way that we allocate our resources there are some areas that really struggle,” Milovick said.

Areas that have been reliant on the government grants as their only source of funding haven’t seen a positive increase in five years, so critical services like student services have been limited, he said.

The budget model will also have to take into consideration the new strategic plan and allow for investment in areas that the university decides are priorities, Milovick said.

Because the current model sees the faculties keeping all the tuitions, faculties that are inexpensive to run and have high enrolment numbers have high revenue sources. One consideration will be whether those areas need all those resources, Milovick said.

“There isn’t a faculty or a unit that has a target on its back,” he said. “We are looking at everybody.”

The budget model review will take a full fiscal year, so that all areas of the university are involved in the process, rather than an isolated evaluation.

“You don’t get support or buy-in that way. People ( Jessica Klymchuk/ The Omega) don’t understand it, people beginning of September with the are afraid of change,” Milovick budget committee of senate (BCOS) said. and will be on the agenda again in ”Change is hard, so you have to October when the methodology of socialize the community.” the current budget will be analyzed.

The first task of the subThe BCOS will form a sub- committee will be to form a committee to spearhead the budget working plan for the next year.

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Colleen Fuller, author, researcher and health care activist will be at the Smorgasbord Deli, 225-7th Ave. for a press conference on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 3:30pm.

Ms. Fuller is co-author with Diane Gibson of The Bottom Line: The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada and author of Caring for Profit, How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada’s Health Care System. She is an independent health researcher for the Parkland Institute, and is the president and co-founder of PHARMAWATCH, North America’s first and only direct-from-consumer adverse drug reaction reporting program.

Ms. Fuller is in Kamloops to participate as a panelist in a Town Hall meeting at Parkside Lounge on Thursday, October 10 at 7pm.

This Town Hall is part of a public information blitz intended to make Canadians aware of the impending changes to our Canadian Health Care system. (See advertisement page 6 for more information)

TRU joined the Research Universities’ Council of British Columbia in 2011, despite not being a research university, and now seems to be trying to remedy that second part.

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One year down, one to go TRU halfway to forming strategic research plan Jessica Klymchuk Ω News Editor TRU is half way to finalizing a strategic research plan for the next five years. The plan will help guide the university’s research priorities and activities from 2014 to 2018.

Sustainable development was the overarching research theme for the previous plan, formed in 2009.

The 2009 plan included areas such as advanced technologies and applications, agrifoods, bio-products, quality control, bioremediation and product testing, ecosystems and environmental resources, verbal and cultural literacy and communication technologies.

Associate vice president of research and graduate studies Will Garrett-Petts said many of those issues are coming up again.

“The feedback is that there are too many, and what we need to do is prioritize four, or at the most five, areas that we really want to focus on in the next five years,” Garrett-Petts said.

Between 80 and 90 faculty attended the initial consultation in September 2012, which aimed to align the university’s academic plan with the old research plan, recognizing that the old plan was stale and dated and needed to be revised.

“The university’s strategic plan, the academic plan and the strategic research plan all have to be coherent,” Garrett-Petts said. “It was an opportunity for us to see where we’ve come in the last five years and see to what extent [the old plan] still represents us.”

In the past year, the department of research and graduate studies had been involved in outreach, which included faculty meetings discussing partnership development and the impact of new technology on research.

A meeting was held with the associated undergraduate research conference to look at the role of undergraduate research. Garrett-Petts has also met with nine departments to discuss research capacities with faculty and was invited to discuss research with TRUSU. A strategic research plan consultation website was formed where visitors can comment on the old research plan, but GarrettPetts said there hasn’t been much of a response. The majority of the feedback is coming in-person

from the strategic research plan community committee, which includes faculty, staff, students and community members.

In May, a survey was distributed to fourth-year students, graduate students and faculty, which spawned the major areas of concern, including tensions regarding the balance between teaching and research and lack of space. Space is a concern for science faculty and students because of the lab space required to do research.

However, the survey identified that over 80 per cent of both faculty and students see research as being a key component for the university to move forward.

“That was something we weren’t sure about before we did the survey,” Garrett-Petts said, adding that he feels there is a strong base of support for increased research.

The first of three town hall-style research planning meetings was held Sept. 20, when faculty were able to provide detailed feedback on the concerns that arose from the survey.

One of the biggest changes this time around is TRU’s public declaration that it is a research university.

This will be TRU’s first strategic research plan since TRU joined the Research Universities’ Council of B.C. (RUCBC) in 2011.

The RUCBC monthly meeting took place on Sept. 13 at TRU, where the presidents of the six universities met to review and plan the council’s future focus and activities.

“One of the things that the universities have decided is they need to push for more graduate students opportunities in the province, more funded seats,” Garrett-Petts said. “They also want greater access to universities for communities like ours.”

Kamloops mayor Peter Milobar was the guest speaker and spoke highly of TRU’s research initiatives and their direct benefit to the Thompson Nicola region, specifically in relation to mining and forestry.

Garrett-Petts says the membership will surely have an impact on the research plan, which will be approved by the senate in April.

“I think it raises the stakes for all parties,” Garrett-Petts said.

“It’s a public declaration of our intention to integrate research activities and opportunities as widely as possible, into everything that we do.”

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Editor’s Note Mike Davies Ω Editor-in-Chief I’ve decided this week to give a brief editorial comment on a few things within these pages rather than go on a long, protracted rant about something that’s bothering me or impart words of wisdom that most of you will ignore anyway.

As with everything labelled “opinion” that we publish, these thoughts are my own and not necessarily shared by the rest of The Omega staff or publishing board.

“Law complaint…” (cover) I knew when they first announced the formation of a law school here that it would be trouble, and thought that trouble would likely come in the form of finances.

To the law faculty who think they are entitled to more money,

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“New program brewing at TRU” (page 5) I like beer more than most people. I would even consider taking some courses about it if they were offered.

But it seems foolhardy to implement an entire new program that will involve expensive infrastructure to be built at a time when your current faculties are clamouring for their share of the pot of money that is shrinking and you are re-evaluating your budgeting practices (page 2 this week).

Maybe if the market was clamouring for brewmasters and there was no end in sight to the demand for this education in our society, this would be a good idea, but based on the numbers provided — 1,000 jobs available nation-wide

— it seems the admittedly small number of schools offering similar programs might make up that difference. This is especially true considering that number includes the people required to hot-glue the boxes shut as they come off the production line and make sure the labels on the bottles are straight — hardly skills requiring a year of schooling.

Wellness Matters Courtney Dickson Ω Wellness Columnist I recently heard a couple arguing, as a man criticized his girlfriend for busting out an energy drink, calling it poison.

So that got me thinking: Is the amount of caffeine in an energy drink enough to call it poison?

The amount of caffeine found in a can of Red Bull is approximately 76 mg, which is a little less than average for most popular energy drink brands.

A can of Pepsi has about half of that.

Though coffee and tea often contain more than that (though this varies based on brewing practices) 76 mg isn’t a small number.

Health Canada recommends an absolute maximum of 400 mg of caffeine per day, but that varies based on height, weight and age. So while 76 out of 400 seems like very little, chances are you fall beneath that limit of how much you can healthily consume so that number increases.

Then, of course, you have to account for the chocolate, medicine and other

sources of caffeine you use in a day to get a definitive answer as to how much you’re consuming.

Suddenly 76 mg doesn’t sound so bad, but some are finding reasons to agree with the man who referred to energy drinks as poison.

The Toronto Star’s David Bruser landed on a story about energy drinks in 2012 while working on another investigative series. While reading reports by Health Canada, Bruser found that at least three teen deaths had potentially been caused by consumption of energy drinks.

In an Aug. 13 Globe and Mail column by Dr. Michael Dickinson, a reader asked about potential risks associated with allowing teenagers to consume energy drinks. Dickinson stated that a more appropriate name for energy drinks is “stimulant drunk containing” drink. He also said moderated amounts of caffeine are tolerated in adults, but can be addictive and lead to withdrawal.

While it is common practice to mix alcohol with energy drinks, it is particularly condemned by Dickinson. By mixing the two, he said the chances of serious side effects and alcohol poisoning increase greatly.

While Canadian papers The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star investigated energy drink use mainly in adolescents, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis published a story in January 2013 about how adults are affected by energy drinks. In 2011, more than 20,000 adults in the U.S. visited the emergency room due to energy drink-related symptoms.

The common side effects of energy drinks include insomnia (which, for those intending to stay wide awake to study, doesn’t seem so bad), heart

Value of Arctic is more than just oil Nicole Halseth Over the Edge (UNBC)

PRINCE GEORGE (CUP) — In recent years, the Arctic has become a hot commodity, and Arctic issues are “Role model for teaching” increasingly making their way into (page 8) international headlines. Russia is only the latest Arctic nation to follow this This sounds awesome. trend.

I don’t know how many times According to Daniel Sandford I’ve thought — especially during of BBC News, in his article history classes — how much fun Russia’s Arctic: Mission to Protect it would be to pretend to be these Wildlife,“Russia is planning huge oil characters being taught, or imagine and gas developments in the Arctic how they would react to current Ocean off its northern coast–drilling situations in our society. that could threaten pristine wildlife What might Genghis Khan do for habitats.” a living these days? Wouldn’t it be Despite warnings from Russian super fun to learn all about him and scientists that large populations of then portray him in a job interview walruses and polar bears could be for an IT gig in Silicon Valley? put at risk, the Russian government Granted, the games Gorman and is continuing early exploration his crew are playing sound like of potential production areas and they’re all set in the past, I think may begin activity within the next that would be pretty fun, too. I two decades. This future activity think it would leave one with a will depend on fluctuations in deeper understanding of the course international oil and gas prices. material to engage on a level where Polar bears and walruses in Russia their creative side is actively (and around the world) are already picturing the world around them facing hardships resulting from as the one they are learning about climate change and environmental instead of the one they are in. degradation; the most significant of After all, aren’t the other worlds which is retreating ice due to melting, of our imagination cooler than our which has forced numerous Arctic own most of the time? animals away from traditional feeding editor@truomega.ca grounds to further inland where food is more dangerous and more difficult to procure. Instituting large-scale oil and gas production would likely further disrupt their lifestyles due to noise and pollution, chasing away food which is already growing scarce.

These activities would also risk potential oil spills that are devastating on the surrounding environment, and can be dangerous, costly and time consuming to clean up. palpitations, nausea, anxiety and Like Russia, Canada is now facing headaches. a similar dilemma where it comes to So, while the numbers say the dealing with our own Arctic interests. amount of caffeine in energy drinks is Arctic Canada is rich in culture, probably normal as long as that’s the biodiversity and natural resources. It only caffeine a person consumes in a has a longstanding history of being day, reports of death by energy drink a place of intercultural exchange imply that energy drinks could be just through interactions between as deadly as poison.

Arctic explorers and vibrant Inuit School is exhausting. It seems communities. Arctic Canada is pretty easy to stay up all night interspersed with unique ecosystems working on a paper and just stop at the and life that exist nowhere else on the gas station and buy an energy drink planet, though both the Inuit and these to get through the day. If you need to unique ecosystems have recently crack open a can to get by, be mindful been facing the challenges of climate of how you are feeling and monitor change and continued environmental the amount of caffeine you consume. degradation.

Paying attention to what your body is Canada’s Arctic also holds great telling you could save your life. political and economic potential.

First, it has gained increased attention recently in regards to the Northwest Passage, which after further glacial melting may serve as an efficient and viable international trading route.

Second, our Arctic holds enormous potential for large oil and gas reserves, which makes it extremely valuable to the international community.

However, this current and future oil and gas mining threatens the environment in which it is housed.

Arctic nations around the world are gradually realizing this fact, and placing more focus on protecting their habitats because of it. This gradually increasing awareness remains, even if some do not appear to be on the same page.

Given the challenges Canada’s Arctic is already facing, we must Coffee has just as much caffeine in be cautious not to follow such an it (if not more, depending on how environmentally damaging route it’s brewed), but the common pracif we wish to continue enjoying a tice of mixing energy drinks with vibrant, sustainable Arctic in the alcohol, and overreliance on them future. Should we fail in this respect, to get by, make them dangerous. we may not be the true north for much

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I say this: When anyone else in the world applies for a position in a unionized environment, they understand that their rights, responsibilities and remuneration will be determined by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that organization has with their employer. To demand that the faculty association renegotiate the CBA because your wages should be reflective of the market value of lawyers in the private sector is ridiculous.

If you don’t want to teach law at TRU because you could make way more money by opening a practice — do that instead.

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Bone Marrow: It’s also in you to give Livia Turnbull The Other Press (Douglas College) VANCOUVER (CUP) — We often do not think about leukemia or bone marrow at all. These things are rarely talked about on TV, unless there is a cute dying child who wants to go to Disneyland. Some people may have needed to donate bone marrow to treat their siblings, but the process itself is rarely talked about. It is a depressing subject, especially for those with friends or children who have or had leukemia. However, there is a way you can help people in need. Canadian Blood Services is looking for people from ages 17 to 50 — although they would prefer people from ages 17 to 35 — to be bone marrow donors.

Bone marrow is the soft, spongy tissue found inside people’s bones that acts as the site for stem cells to grow into blood cells. When a person has leukemia, their white blood cells reproduce at an extremely fast rate; as a result, the bone marrow itself becomes diseased and has to be destroyed. To be completely cured, that person needs new bone marrow.

Leukemia patients need new bone marrow, but there are not enough matches. Siblings have a one in four chance of matching bone marrow.

Identical twins cannot be bone marrow donors to one another because

their genetics aren’t different enough to fight the cancer—a transplant wouldn’t kill the cancer cells, and the patient would be in danger of relapsing. However, by donating bone marrow, you may be the rare match the patient needs in order to recover.

Just about anyone can donate bone marrow, but there are certain requirements. To be a bone marrow donor, you must not have cancer, diabetes, HIV or AIDS. If you lived in high-risk places for dangerous diseases — such as England or Africa — for six months, you may need to have further testing. If you have a diverse ethnic background, you are especially needed, as you have a greater chance of benefitting patients from different ethnic groups.

Applying to be a bone marrow donor is very simple and it costs absolutely nothing. All you need to do is go to www.onematch.com and answer a series of questions. Once you submit your application online, you will receive an email thanking you for your enrolment thus far. The information you sent will be processed within five business days and, if you do not need to have further testing, you will receive a Buccal swab kit in the mail. You will have to swab the inside of your mouth and then send it back to them along with a form containing your signature.

Acute myeloid leukemia, commonly treated with bone marrow transplantation, is the most commonly diagnosed acute leukemia in adults.

(Paulo Mourao/ Wikimedia Commons)

After that, it is just a matter of waiting for a match. You cannot pick your match, so if you have someone in your life that needs bone marrow, unfortunately you will have to keep hoping for another donor. However, once you’ve found that match, you will have a chance to save another

person’s life. You won’t feel a thing during the transplant, but you’ll be in pain as you recover for a few days.

People with a high-risk form of leukemia only have a 15 per cent chance of surviving five years without a match. On the other hand,

people with a low-risk form of leukemia have a 70 per cent chance of surviving the same amount of time without a match. Even after five years, the cancer can still come back. You can break the cycle.

Donate bone marrow before it is your turn to need a donor.

Reading literary fiction helps when reading people and apparently chicken really don’t have nuggets

The science of brewing

The primary purpose, as the researchers told Reuters Health, was to serve as a reminder that not everything that tastes good is good for them

How the beer you love gets from grains in a field to beer in a glass

This week in science Mark Hendricks Ω Science & Tech Editor

Read books to read minds Reading literary fiction will improve your understanding of how others think, according to a study published in the October issue of Science.

The study is careful to distinguish between literary fiction and popular written fiction, but admits it’s a murky boundary. According to the study, literary fiction focuses more on character development and psychological motivation, whereas popular fiction focuses on plot.

Those who read literary fiction performed better on a test where they had to look at pictures of actors’ eyes and attempt to determine the emotion they were conveying.

The group that read literary fiction was contrasted with groups that read popular fiction, non-fiction or nothing.

Find out more: www.reutershealth. com

Shape-changing metals Scientists discovered a type of metal that will change shape based on temperature without causing any internal damage to the material.

This type of metal isn’t new, it’s known as a martensite. They are also known as memory metals, as the

molecules will re-align in an orderly fashion. The old martensite metals were composed of nickel and titanium.

These old metals will degrade over time with repeated changes however.

The new metal is made from zinc, gold and copper, and can change a virtually unlimited number of times with no internal degradation of the metal.

This new martensite metal has applications in any process that involves changing temperatures, even potentially allowing solar panels to point at the sun themselves as the metals change according to the changing sun.

Find out more: www.bbc.co.uk

Find out more: www.npr.org

Chicken nuggets contain little meat Take chicken nuggets from two U.S. national fast food chains, mix them with chemicals and analyze the results to determine what’s in them and what do you get? Only 40 to 50 per cent chicken meat according to a study published in The American Journal of Medicine.

Between the two chicken nuggets, there was a mixture of fat, blood vessels, nerves, skin cells, organ linings, cartilage and bones.

The offending fast food chains were not identified, as the authors of the study did not intend the study to be an analysis of the state of the chicken nugget.

The chicken nuggets that you eat may be less than 50 per cent chicken meat.

(Photo courtesy yoppy/Flickr Commons)

Mark Hendricks Ω Science & Tech Editor The beers that so many people enjoy around the world undergo quite a remarkable process from field to glass. There are four key ingredients that go into making beer: barley (or other cereal grains), hops, water and yeast.

To get a detailed view into the process of making beer, I spoke with Chris Stewart, assistant brewer at The Noble Pig. It all starts with barley in a field. The barley is harvested and sent to a malting facility. Malting is the process of soaking the harvested grain and then drying it with high heat to produce a partially germinated grain. The barley is then roasted to a desired level depending on the type of beer being produced, a light roast for lagers, a heavier roast for porters.

The grains are then coarsely ground and mixed with hot water at a brewery in a process called mashing. Mashing breaks down the starches present in the grains and converts them into simple sugars that will be used later in the brewing process.

The liquid (which is now a mixture of simple sugars, water, and barley juice) is extracted from the leftover mash. This liquid is known as the wort.

The wort is boiled and hops are added to the mixture. Hops give beer its bitterness and some of the f lavour, the rest being determined by the types of cereal grains used and the temperature of the liquid.

Once the boiling process is completed, a whirlpool is induced to separate the chunky hops and other congealed proteins from the liquid. The process is almost done but we still don’t have beer.

The wort is cooled and moved into a fermenter where the yeast is added. The addition of yeast officially changes the wort into beer!

This is where those simple sugars produced earlier come into play.

The yeast eats the simple sugars and converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

The beer is then cooled in the fermenter, causing the carbon dioxide to bond to the beer (this is carbonation) and is left to age for at least a month depending on the type of beer being made. At this point it is ready to be pumped through the pipes of your local brewery and poured into a glass for your enjoyment!

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A new program is brewing at TRU Karla Karcioglu Ω Roving Editor Several university professors are working alongside one of Kamloops’ long-successful brewers to bring a new brewing program to TRU. Dean of science Tom Dickinson has been helping Ron Smith (professor of biology) and David Beardsell (master brewer and partner of the Noble Pig Brewhouse) set in motion the paperwork and processes to formalize a brewing program on campus.

One of the first goals of the brewing program is to open a brewery on campus, complete with a pub and a tasting room. Beardsell is having discussions with the TRU Community Trust, a corporate entity that focuses on property development, to determine if there is a place on campus where a brewery would be permitted.

Smith is in the process of presenting a proposal draft of the course outline, calendar description, learning objectives and a course list to the school.

Beardsell said that they are in the “exploratory stages” of the process. He said this could be the one thing TRU needs to be a really cool university and that it would be the first university in Canada with a functioning brewery.

Scott Stokes, a TRU alumnus who graduated with a degree in biological sciences in 2005, is a brewer at the Labatt brewery in Edmonton.

While he was at TRU, he participated in a co-op program with Labatt. When he graduated he worked with Beardsell, then-owner of Bear Brewing in Kamloops, before going back to work for Labatt.

Stokes said that there is a definite demand in the Canadian beer industry for skilled workers, especially those with hands-on brewing skills.

He also admitted that the industry and the job demand isn’t the size of trades or nursing, but noted that the industry is growing and because it’s very specialized, there are few skilled workers available.

Beardsell estimates there are about 1,000 jobs that currently need to be filled.

Stokes said that because brewing requires a mix of microbiology, chemistry and engineering, breweries usually hire engineers for the task.

According to Industry Canada’s statistics, breweries employed 10,093 people in 2001 and 8,727 in 2010. Of those 8,727, there were 4,146 working in production and 4,581 in administration.

The one-year program is three terms long, with 15 credits per term.

It will be an interdisciplinary program blending courses in science, business, trades and arts.

The majority of brewing courses will be open to all TRU students age 19 or older who meet the prerequisites, with preference given to students in the program. Students will graduate with a diploma or a minor in brewing.

Courses tentatively include history and philosophy of brewing and beer, brewing chemistry, the business of brewing, evaluation of beer and bottling and packaging. Smith was especially pleased when the registrar’s office approved the course code “BREW.” There are only two other schools in Canada with brewing programs. Niagara College has a two-year Brewmaster and Brewery Operations diploma, which it offered to Olds College in Alberta for first classes in fall 2013.

The brewing facilities at the Noble Pig Brewhouse in Kamloops.

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What you had to say

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“Yes, because if it’s local it could benefit Kamloops and its economy.

And why not if it guarantees a job.”

“Obviously they should be investing in trades and nursing because that is the future, rather than opening a brewery. But the brewery can provide students some jobs as well.”

“I think they could have more funding and more diversity in the business program that we already have, and where they already have a lot of students who are willing to take those courses. But because we are in B.C. I think someone should offer brewery course, and why not TRU.”

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Game review: Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar Games brings raving madness on a whole new level Phillip Ciossek Ω Contributor Grand Theft Auto finally returned to consoles and Rockstar Games truly delivered a masterpiece.

Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) takes place in the fictional state of San Andreas, precisely in the city of Los Santos, the selfdeclared “Bulimic Capital of America” and its surrounding areas, including rednecks, meth cookers and an altruist camp.

The biggest change to the game from previous versions is the three playable characters.

You have the charming, but aging, Michael De Santa, a retired con man with a loving family that consists of a stoner son, a promiscuous daughter and an adulterous wife. Next on the list is Franklin Clinton, a young gangster straight out of downtown Los Santos with his sidekick Lamar Davis and Chop the Rottweiler. What would GTA be without a crazy maniac? Now we finally have him as a playable character: Trevor Philips. Philips is a career criminal, killer, meth cooker, tweeker and drugs and arms smuggler who was touched

by his hockey coach when he was young.

Another (non-playable) character is Lester “The Molester” Crest, the brain behind all the planning and big scores.

Each character has his own missions tailored to his personality, which lead up to the big heists. Michael is busy with his family and past, Franklin is living the thug life (often accompanied by Lamar) and Trevor is all about going on a drug-fueled trip of mayhem.

There are a lot of things to do besides running people over, stealing cars or beating up prostitutes.

Rockstar Games added the Strangers and Freaks missions, which feature encounters with unstable individuals.

Ever wanted to know what a bad drug trip might feel like? Meet marijuana legalization advocate, Barry, who is giving out free samples of his best home-grown product which has interesting side effects, including killing aliens and clowns.

There are also the random events that take place all over the map that let the player decide what to do with a given situation.

For example, Trevor is minding

Rather than defending our health services, the federal Conservatives will cut another $137 million from health funding to Kamloops and the surrounding area.

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his own business out in the desert when he gets stun gunned and abducted. Hours pass and he finds himself on the train tracks with a train approaching, rocking stained tighty whities.

In case the player is unsure of what to do with all that money, GTA V has a working stock market, which can be inf luenced by certain actions, which can then lead to gunfire and blowing up the rest of Los Santos.

The makers of GTA V finally added customization options for weapons. If you feel the urge to go on a spree of violence in style, visit Ammu-Nation and get a pink shotgun with a silencer. Want to pimp your ride like a true Los Santos baller? Head over to Los Santos Customs and get some chrome rims and bulletproof tires for Franklin. No need to worry about losing your expensive ride; there are vehicle impounds now.

Put your vehicle into a garage and it’s yours forever.

Final verdict: buy this game.

It might affect your GPA in an unfortunate way, but it will help you develop skills in racketeering, petty theft and stock market trading.

GTA is back! Welcome to Los Santos!

GTA V was released for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on Sept. 17.

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Curtains part for film noir-inspired play The genre returns thanks to TRU’s performing arts department Courtney Dickson Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor George F. Walker is widely regarded as Canada’s most prolific playwright.

TRU’s Actors Workshop Theatre (TRU AWT) will be performing one of Walker’s film noir pieces on the stage beginning Oct. 10.

Gossip is the first play in the Power trilogy, introducing main character Tyrone Power as a powerless political journalist based out of a big city in Ontario.

In Gossip, Power’s boss asks him to write more entertainment news, or “real news” as he prefers to call it, to appeal more to readers. When scandal arises, it’s up to Power to use investigative journalism to find out whodunit.

“Everyone has something over him and is trying to control him in some way and he’s dealing with his frustrations over that,” said

Gossip star and fourth-year theatre student Brooke Ballam. “It’s a bit of a caricature and we emphasize things that wouldn’t happen in real life, but I’m sure in real life it’s a bit of what journalists might go through.”

Students were cast prior to the summer break so TRU AWT could fit two plays into the first semester of the 2013 academic year.

Students were asked to familiarize themselves with film noir, a genre of stylish drama that often revolves around crime and sex.

Since returning to school, they’ve been rehearsing nearly every day for more than three hours at a time.

Director and theatre professor Robin Nichol chose Gossip in part because of the opportunities it provided for student involvement; almost all of the cast and crew are students. Walker is also one of her favourite playwrights.

“He’s funny in a dark, sarcastic way,” Nichol said.

The revenue generated by box office sales is what the TRU AWT uses as a budget for their shows, so it’s important that theatre fans see the shows and support the program. Members of the community often come from offcampus to see these shows, but rarely do TRU students make it to see their fellow students perform.

Nichol said she hopes to see more university students support the performing arts this year.

Theatre student Andrew Cooper also wants to see the university crowd out at this particular production, as “the satire and clever humour are perfect for this age group.”

“And if you need more motivation than that,” Cooper teased, “At one point, one of the actors is dressed up in a full French maid outfit.”

There will be six performances from Oct. 10 to 12 and 17 to 19 in the Black Box Theatre in Old Main, all beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12.

Above and top right: Tyrone Power (Brooke Ballam) and Baxter (Kory Cudmore) argue about the state of the news in TRU’s upcoming production, Gossip, which follows Power as he investigates the death of Jane Nelson (right).

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Album review: Flying Colours

Shad’s new album is fresh, but is it fresh enough?

Carli Berry Ω Contributor

(Image courtesy Black Box Recordings)

Juno award winner Shad is back and set to release his fourth studio album, Flying Colours, on Oct. 15.

The album is catchy, delivering a blend of faster-paced raps and slow, soulful singing. Shad’s voice can be recognized as his own on the album, as he doesn’t sound like anyone else.

Flying Colours covers a variety of topics that deal with issues in Shad’s personal life, including immigration issues and coping with being raised as a minority, in the song “Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins),” and even marriage and relationships (without sounding cliché) in “He Say She Say.” “The most important thing is making songs that are going to mean something to people” Shad said in a YouTube video created during the making of this album.

Flying Colours also provides a mix of Canadian artists including rappers k-os and Saukrates. At times, this adds to the diversity of the album and keeps it from becoming boring.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, although containing a mixture of paces, no particular song stands out. Shad’s voice is unique, but his song rhythms sound similar to any other rapper in the hip-hop genre. The album delivers a sound that verges on generic.

While Shad’s lyrics are thought-provoking, the rhythms contain no memorable hooks that will keep a listener coming back to the album. “Remember to Remember” is repetitive and the background vocals

by Lights don’t make it any better. His main hit, “Fam Jam (Fe Sum Immigrins),” also remains unpopular on iTunes in comparison to his older works “Rose Garden” and “I Get Down.”

His final song is the most popular off the album, so one may recommend listeners to start with “Epilogue: Long Jawn” if they wish to sample the album before purchasing.

However, for listeners new to Shad, this album is not the right place to start. Flying Colours is not great, but it is good.

Overall, not a bad album for listeners who enjoy hip hop.

Diehard Shad fans will probably enjoy his attempt to go in a different direction.

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A role model for teaching

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Karla Karcioglu Ω Roving Editor

History professor Michael Gorman and history major Michelle Yavasgel explain the benefits of active learning.

and lecturing the class, Gorman told the audience.

Gorman said he is always surprised by how intensely interested students become and how motivated they are to achieve their character’s goals.

He also noted that the games force students to learn actively, which helps them retain information over longer periods of time.

“I never considered it my job to make learning fun for students,” Gorman said, “but it is fun.”

Michelle Yavasgel, a fourthyear TRU history major, brought a student perspective on Gorman’s class games.

“It’s a refreshing change to the typical seminar or lecture structure,” she said. “It’s such a great way to bring the material to life.”

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TRU history professor Michael Gorman has successfully integrated games into the learning environment, engaging students in active learning.

Gorman held a presentation about role playing’s role in experiential learning in front of a small room of 20 faculty and students on Friday, Oct. 4.

“I always thought the biggest downside to my job was doing seminars,” Gorman said.

He never thought there would be an alternative.

The talk focused on games Gorman has successfully integrated into his weekly class seminars for the past four or five years, as a way to engage students in learning.

The games, called Reacting to the Past, were developed by history professor Mark Carnes at Barnard College in the late 1990s.

“The reacting method entails elaborate role playing games, set in the past, when ideas and interests were colliding,” Gorman said.

Students are assigned characters and info packets that guide them through parts of history, requiring them to complete character goals.

Students have to master the course content more than they would if a teacher were standing

(Karla Karcioglu/ The Omega)

The biggest benefit to Yavasgel was the utilization of other skills that wouldn’t have been used in a normal seminar, such as public speaking and persuasive language.

The event is part of an ongoing series exploring how professors and faculty at TRU are using experiential learning. The series is presented by Ginny Ratsoy, associate professor of English and provost fellow of learning and teaching.

Upload your best photos of campus life to our Facebook page, and at the end of the semester (just in time for Christmas) we will award the winner a fantastic gift.

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Travis Baumgartner sentenced “Pariah of human life” receives life sentence without parole elligibility until 2052 Michelle Mark & Andrea Ross

decision, discussing all mitigating and aggravating factors involved. The character of the offender, the nature of the offence and the circumstances surrounding the offence all inf luenced the sentencing decision, he said.

Baumgartner’s lack of a criminal record prior to the shooting was a mitigating factor, according to Rooke, as well as his timely decision to plead guilty — a move that may have saved the justice system up to five years in court.

Rooke also said the prospect of eventually being approved for parole may act as an incentive for Baumgartner to display good behaviour during his prison time, and deter him from committing crimes against prison guards or other inmates.

When discussing aggravating factors, Rooke called Baumgartner a “pariah of human life” and quoted from the victim impact statements read to the courtroom on Monday, which Rooke said bore many commonalities, such as “shock, heartbreak, sorrow, grief (and) lifelong suffering.”

Although the agreed statement of facts read to Baumgartner on Monday revealed he had written a letter to the victims expressing

The Gateway (U of A) EDMONTON (CUP) — Convicted University of Alberta HUB Mall shooter Travis Baumgartner remained expressionless in court Wednesday, Sept.

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Rooke’s decision to accept the joint sentencing submission from the Crown and the defence means 22-year-old Baumgartner won’t be eligible for parole until 2052, when he’ll be 61 years old.

The sentence sets a precedent as the harshest to occur since Canada’s abolition of capital punishment in 1962. Under Bill C-48 — the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act — passed in 2011, justices may now impose consecutive, rather than concurrent, terms of parole ineligibility.

“The message that this sends out to families is that things have changed. It does matter. Modern Canadians do want to send out a message to the victims’ families that it does matter that more than one person died,” Chief Crown prosecutor Steven Bilodeau told media outside the courthouse.

In contrast to the quick pace of Monday’s court proceedings, Justice Rooke entered court after a 15-minute delay, warning the packed room to “get comfortable” for a lengthy sentencing.

Baumgartner slumped into his seat immediately after entering the courtroom, letting out a sigh. He lowered his eyes and crossed his arms, resuming the passive posture and indifferent expression he displayed on Monday.

Rooke then spent several hours delivering a thorough description of his sentencing

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Victor Shegelski, husband of one of the victims, leaves the courtroom.

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that Baumgartner’s only visible acknowledgments of the crime include the letter and the guilty plea.

Justice Rooke reiterated some of the victim impact statements, saying it requires a “strong stomach” to read them, but that he has read “each and every

Now I get to contribute my tax money to keep her killer alive,

so that’s extremely disappointing.”

—Victor Shegelski Husband of slain guard Michelle Shigelski

regret for his actions shortly after being arrested, Rooke said the letter was neither delivered to the families nor included in court documents. He added

word.” Rooke said the statements prove the “trust in the safety of the community is gone” for lone survivor Matthew Schuman, families of the victims and the

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Family and friends of the slain guards gathered outside the front doors of the courthouse after the sentencing to speak to a large assembly of media.

Joseph Rejano, the brother of slain guard Eddie Rejano said although the sentence hadn’t brought any of the victims back, it had given the family a small amount of closure — at least on behalf of Rejano’s young sons.

When asked for his thoughts on the historic sentence, he replied, “It’s the system.”

“We call it justice … My way of justice is back in the old days, (they’d) hang them. That’s justice for what he did.”

Michelle Shegelski’s uncle John Ernst proudly displayed his shirt emblazoned with a quote from his niece’s blog saying, “One day I want to be capable.

I want people to say, ‘That’s a woman.’”

Victor Shegelski, Michelle Shegelski’s husband, had sat upright and motionless in the courtroom alongside his the rest of her family throughout the court proceedings. He had stared ahead for most of the sentencing, a hollow look lingering in his deadened eyes.

Outside the courthouse, he quietly spoke of his disdain for Baumgartner.

“Now I get to contribute my tax money to keep her killer alive, so that’s extremely disappointing,” he said.

“I think he should just be taken out behind a shed and put down, personally. He’s a pretty pathetic specimen.”

On Monday morning, Baumgartner had pleaded guilty to two counts of seconddegree murder, one count of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

The 15-page agreed statement of facts outlining the details of the slayings were read to a silent courtroom. The statement included a confession to an undercover RCMP officer in his B.C. jail cell shortly after arrest, in which Baumgartner said, “I did it all. I killed those people and robbed their truck.”

Shortly after, victims’ family members had taken turns reading emotional victim impact statements for more than two hours, which outlined the extent by which Baumgartner’s actions have affected their lives.

“People say I am one of the lucky ones,” read the statement

by Matthew Schuman, the sole survivor of the shooting. “I can promise you, most days it doesn’t feel like that.

“I don’t feel lucky that I lived and they all died.”

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It would be a bad idea to select too obvious a combination, whatever that amounts to. We could make up all sorts of rules about what combinations are obvious. Limiting it to the following, how many supposedly unobvious combinations are left? It is too obvious if the combination: 1. has all the same digit or three of the same digit, 2. has two pairs of digits regardless of the order, 3. has the digits in ascending order or descending order, or 4. forms an obvious arithmetic equation. Examples of these are: 7815 (7 + 8 = 15), 1798 (17 - 9 = 8), 9654 (9 × 6 = 54), and lastly 8199 (81 ÷ 9 = 9). Consider leading zeroes so 2024 is out (2 + 02 = 4).

There are unobvious combinations, but how many?

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize. Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon the second-tonext Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>. Submissions by others are also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in my blog (http://genew.ca/) and in the Math Centre (HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

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8. Barely enough 13. Auld lang syne 14. Billy or night 15. Dungeon & Dragons creature 16. “Our Time in ___” (10,000 Maniacs album) 17. Mercury, for one 18. Absinthe flavoring 19. Fast airship 22. Egyptian fertility goddess 23. An end to sex?

24. Follower of Dionysus 27. “___ Loves You” (1964 hit) 29. Far from ruddy 33. Accused’s need 34. Civil rights org.

36. “MS. Found in a Bottle” writer 37. Devoted astrologers 40. Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.

41. ___ Pudding 42. Cotton fabric 43. “Buona ___” (Italian greeting) 45. Doris or Alice 46. Polish rolls 47. Hawaiian dish 49. 007 50. Energetic scientists 58. Give extreme unction to 59. Ace 60. “O Sanctissima,” e.g.

61. Conundrum 62. Phone connection 63. Circular course 64. Arrogant ones 65. Ground cover 66. Beach, basically Down 1. Court call 2. Birdbrain 3. Sundae topper, perhaps 4. Chinese currency 5. Gurgling sounds 6. Idiot 7. “O” in old radio lingo 8. Comes (to) 9. Auteur’s art 10. Angle between the stem and the leaf 11. Not yet final, at law 12. Stripling 14. Jackal, e.g.

20. “Four Essays on Liberty” author Berlin 21. Allotment 24. Confusing places 25. “___ in the Dark” 26. Downy duck 27. Off-color 28. Unclear 30. Pamper too much 31. With intensity 32. Pro votes 34. Discovery grp.

35. Applying tar 38. Spain’s Gulf of ___ 39. Millstones 44. Computer term 46. Aqua vitae, e.g.

48. Bond inspections 49. ___ Melon 50. Nukes 51. Knowing, as a secret 52. 100 centavos 53. Hooters 54. Its quarter says “Birthplace of Aviation Pioneers” 55. ___ bean 56. Beach bird 57. Coaster

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RANDOM JOKE! Jim and Steve, two handymen, were hired to paint a flag pole and were going to be paid by the inch. As they were standing at the base of the flagpole looking up, trying as they may to figure how much to charge, a young woman walked by and asked what they were doing.

“We are supposed to find the height of this flag pole” said Jim, “But we don’t have a ladder. The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts and laid the pole down. She then took a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement and announced, “Eighteen feet, six inches” and walked away.

Steve shook his head and laughed, “Ain’t that just like a woman! We asked for the height and she gives us the length!”

Soon after, Jim and Steve both got jobs with the Government of British Columbia.

Got a better joke? Got a comic? Send ‘em in and we might run ‘em.

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WolfPack Bites Adam Williams Ω Sports Editor The Wolf Pack women’s soccer team managed a win and a tie on the weekend, versus the UBCOkanagan Heat.

In their Oct. 5 match the women, who were ranked second in the nation heading into this week’s action, defeated the Heat 5-2 at Hillside Stadium. In their first home game in a month, Alanna Bekkering, Marlie Rittinger, Jaydene Radu, with two, and Kelsey Martin, with two, had the goals for the ‘Pack. Emily Edmundson went the distance in goal.

On Oct. 6, TRU played to a 1-1 draw against the same Heat, this time in Kelowna. Marlie Rittinger netted her second of the weekend but the Wolf Pack was unable to score another to take the lead.

The women will be home to the Douglas College Royals and the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Eagles on the weekend of Oct. 12.

The men’s soccer team, which again grabbed the second seed in the national rankings after defeating the Vancouver Island Mariners last week, also defeated UBC-Okanagan on Saturday Oct. 5, 4-2, at Hilliside Stadium.

Dion Gouldsborough led the men with two goals and Corey Wallis and Justin Wallace also scored.

Oct. 5 also marked the return to action for fifth year Sebastian Gardner, who missed the start of the season after undergoing chemotherapy to treat Hodgkins lymphoma for the second time.

The Wolf Pack was hit with its second loss of the season on Oct. 6 in a close match, falling 3-2 to the Heat; Justin Wallace had both of the Wolf Pack’s goals.

The men will face off against the Douglas College Royals and the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Eagles on the weekend.

On Oct. 1, Josh MacDonald was named the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League’s player of the week for the week ending Sept. 29.

MacDonald, 23, scored six goals for the Wolf Pack (2-1-0-0) in the team’s opening weekend against the Trinity Western University Spartans and added two assists on Oct. 4 during the Wolf Pack’s home-opener, also against Trinity Western.

Despite strong play from MacDonald and two goals from forward Duncan Schulz, the ’Pack fell 4-3 to the Spartans.

MacDonald and Schulz lead the BCIHL in scoring, MacDonald in first with eight points and Schulz in second with six, with

MacDonald leading the league in goals as well.

The men will head to Burnaby’s Bill Copeland Sports Centre on Saturday to face the Simon Fraser University Clan.

The Wolf Pack women’s volleyball team faced some of the best teams in the Canada West University Athletic Association in Langley this weekend and came home with four losses.

The ’Pack took part in the “Best in the West” tournament to wrap up its preseason, but lost all four matches.

TRU faced the University of Alberta and the University of Regina on Oct. 4 and fell in straight sets to both (25-14, 25-25, 25-23 against the U of A and 2518, 25-17, 25-16 against the U of R).

The women didn’t fare much better on Oct. 5, losing 3-0 to both the tournament host Trinity Western University Spartans and the Mount Royal University Cougars (25-19, 25-12, 25-12 against TWU and 25-19, 25-14, 25-20 against Mount Royal).

The women’s volleyball team has not won a match since Sept.

23, 2012, an exhibition match against the University of Regina.

Its last regular season victory came against UBC-Okanagan on Feb. 10, 2012.

Head coach Pat Hennelly and the men’s volleyball team are 2-21 on the season, following losses on Oct. 3 and 4 to the Trinity Western University Spartans.

The Spartans defeated the Wolf Pack 21-25, 25-23, 25-19 and 26-24 on Oct. 4 and followed up with a three set shut out on Saturday (25-23, 25-20, 25-21).

“We were playing catch up for a large percentage of the night,” Hennelly said in a press release, following Friday’s match. “I think it’s tough to be behind against a team which runs good systems and doesn’t give you a lot of points. I said to my guys that we were working so hard for our points and giving up too many easy ones.”

The men will play host to a tournament at the Tournament Capital Centre on the weekend, facing off against the Guelph Gryphons, the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and the UBC-Okanagan Heat.

Round-robin play begins on Thursday.

The Wolf Pack men’s baseball team picked up a win and a loss in

Kelowna on the weekend, falling 4-0 on Friday against Okanagan College but winning 2-1 in extra innings against the Okanagan Athletics of the Pacific Baseball League.

“We just couldn’t make an adjustment all day long,” head coach Ray Chadwick said in a press release. “We were out front a lot — roll-over ground balls and weak pop-ups. It wasn’t good today.”

The women’s basketball team had a tough weekend in Ontario, losing three matches to teams from Ontario University Athletics.

The Wolf Pack were defeated 65-55 on Oct. 4 in a match against the Wilfred Laurier Goldenhawks.

Though they led the Goldenhawks 30-24 at the half, TRU was outscored 42-25 in the second session.

On Oct. 5, a close match against the Western Mustangs ended in disappointment for the Wolf Pack as they fell 63-60.

“We were down as much as 11 with three or four minutes to go,” head coach Scott Reeves said in a press release. “But we had a chance to tie it at the end.”

The Wolf Pack fared much the same on Sunday, as they fell to the Brock Badgers. The game, which ended 84-60, was the team’s final match in Ontario.

Dropped three, but not “in the dumps” WolfPack women’s basketball has poor showing in Ontario, but is hopeful for home play next weekend Adam Williams Ω Sports Editor They didn’t count for anything, but the first three games of the Wolf Pack women’s basketball team’s preseason were certainly eye-openers.

The women travelled to Ontario on the weekend of Oct. 5 to play three games against teams from Ontario University Athletics (OUA). The ‘Pack lost all three of the matchups – 66-55 to the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks in Waterloo, Ont. on Friday, 63-60 to the Western Ontario Mustangs in London, Ont. on Saturday, and 84-60 to the Brock University Badgers in St. Catherines, Ont. on Sunday.

The weekend’s travel – about 8,000 kilometres – coupled with the physical nature of play in the OUA, was a dose of reality for some of the team’s players, Wolf Pack head coach Scott Reeves said.

“I think we showed our youth,” he said Monday. “I think the travel was tough on some of those freshmen who aren’t used to going that great of distance and having to play right away.”

Reeves added that he saw a lot of good things in the way the Wolf Pack played in its first three

exhibition games – the women are adjusting to the offensive system and adapting to a style of play that is new to many of them. On the defensive side of the ball however, there’s still work to be done.

“Defensively we still need to work on our rotations and keeping people in front of us,” Reeves said.

“It’s a much more physical game at the CIS level than a high school level and some of our young kids are realizing that sooner rather than later.”

game against Wilfred Laurier and didn’t play for the rest of the weekend.

“She hurt her knee in the Laurier game,” Reeves said, adding that he didn’t yet know the prognosis or if there was reason to be concerned.

Worsfold is expected to be a significant piece of the puzzle for the Wolf Pack this season and it would be a significant blow to the team should she be out for an extensive period.

Despite the setbacks and the three losses, Reeves said he’s cautiously optimistic heading into this week’s tournament at the Tournament Capital Centre, which the Wolf Pack will play host to.

“I’m not going to start celebrating too early and I’m not going to say we’re totally in —Scott Reeves the dumps,” he said.

“We definitely have Head coach, WolfPack women’s basketball room to improve and I think we can compete with all these teams here this weekend.”

The tournament will begin on Friday, Oct. He praised the play of freshmen 11, with the Wolf Pack facing off Ryan Kennedy and Sid Williams against the UBC-Okanagan Heat and said sophomore Kassie at 5 p.m. TRU will play Trinity Colonna put up some solid Western University on Saturday numbers, including a double- at 6 p.m., and the University double against Western. The of Northern British Columbia weekend’s news wasn’t all good Timberwolves at 11 a.m. on however, guard Taiysa Worsfold Sunday. All games will be held at was injured in the team’s opening the Tournament Capital Centre.

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I think we can compete

with all these teams here [next] weekend”

Taiysa Worsfold, guard for the WolfPack women’s basketball team, went down with a knee injury in Friday’s game against the Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks in Waterloo, Ont. Her status for this week’s tournament is not yet known.

(Courtesy TRU Athletics)

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