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TRU’s inaugural town hall was regarded as “a good open discussion” and “very good first step” by the presidents of TRU and its faculty association.

The town hall, which was attended by approximately 100 people on Sept.

15, saw the audience, mainly TRU employees, ask questions and raise issues from course approvals and transparent governance to the new logo for the university.

Answering questions were four senior TRU administrators: President Alan Shaver, VP Academic Christine BovisCnossen, VP Administration & Finance Matt Milovick, and VP Advancement Chris Seguin.

TRUFA President Tom Friedman attended the town hall but did not take the mic, saying later in an interview that he decided that it was a good chance for individual faculty members to raise issues.

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Town hall hailed as success by admin and faculty TRU administration plans to address as many issues possible by next fall Martin McFarlane STAFF WRITER Ω CONTINUED (Cover) “I wanted them to be the ones to speak out,” Friedman said, adding that he felt that the town hall was a good step towards transparency and understanding the level of discontent felt by faculty.

“I salute the president and the three vice presidents for being available, being upfront and taking questions for 90 minutes.

I think that is a very important step to what we need to have to restore trust and have a collegial atmosphere at TRU.” At this point, Friedman believes that what faculty are now looking for is follow-through on the issues raised at the town hall.

Shaver formed a checklist at the town hall and is hoping to address as many issues as possible in the next 12 months.

“I committed to going down the checklist and trying to address as many as possible in the next 12 months. So that we can be accountable 12 months from now at the town hall meeting in the fall of 2017,” he said.

Shaver also noted that a report on the town hall is being prepared and will be presented to the three governing bodies of TRU.

VP Academic and Provost Christine Bovis-Cnossen seemed to handle the bulk of the questions, though both VP Advancement Christopher Seguin (left) and VP Admin and Finance Matt Milovick (middle) also took their turns answering questions from those in attendance. (Martin McFarlane/Ω) Going into the town hall, Shaver said he was completely open and tried not to have any preconceived notions on what would be brought up. He also felt that the dialogue was mostly positive.

“I thought that they were asking for changes in a very reasonable way and that they

were asking for very reasonable changes,” Shaver said.

When it comes to future cooperation between administration and faculty, Friedman hopes that administration can see the faculty association as partners rather than adversaries.

“Sometimes we won’t agree with administration, but at least

if there is a full discussion then there is the possibility of working together. That collegial approach is what we at the faculty association have been pushing for,” Friedman said.

When asked about the importance of working with employees and their unions and associations, Shaver said that those

groups “form a very important mosaic that runs the university.”

“We can’t function without them all. They are very important towards our mission, and that is to serve the students.”

While the next general town hall won’t be held until next fall, a second town hall will be held later this school year on the budget.

New home for nursing program awaits funding Project includes new campus facility and upgrades to Ken Lepin Building Martin McFarlane STAFF WRITER Ω Nursing students and faculty may finally have a shared home on campus as the university looks for funding to build a new nursing and population health building.

The proposed new building is now at the top of the list of building projects after TRU’s Industrial Training and Technology Centre received funding from the federal and provincial governments, which was announced last week. The nursing building has been on the list for six years.

The building would allow for new seats in the nursing program, which currently rejects 77 per cent of applications largely due to lack of space, according to TRU’s VP Advancement Chris Seguin.

The space issue is not just for student seats. The nursing faculty are currently split between offices in the Ken Lepin (science) building and the faculty annex. Dean of the Nursing Donna Murnaghan wants all nursing faculty to be in the same area, as is done with other programs.

“They don’t have a sense of togetherness based on where we are right now,” Murnaghan said.

The project will cost $31 million in total, but according to Seguin, $8 million is first needed to “get the greenlight.”

“We are actively looking to the province and applying for funding moving forward,” Seguin said.

If the government were to invest the $8 million needed to start the project, the university would fund the rest with its undesignated surplus, institutional funding and private fundraising.

Funding for the new building also has benefits for science students beyond having the space previously taken by the nursing program.

“When they move out to the new building we would be able to renovate the existing science building and make opportunities for science students as well,” Seguin said.

According to Murnaghan, the new building would feature rooms for simulation to better prepare students in a lower-stakes environment for a variety of scenarios in hospitals, community care and health care centres.

“Our students are very highly qualified when they graduate.

We’re very proud of them, and we just figure we can kick it up a notch higher if we have the proper resources for them,” Murnaghan

A rendering of what the new home of TRU nursing may look like. (Courtesy TRU) said.

The facility would also be suitable for students completing residencies in Kamloops and would allow TRU to introduce the masters of nursing program currently in development, widening nurses’ scope of practice.

“It would create leaders, teachers, nurses that can do more than they can in the [health care] system right now,” Seguin said.

“Creating new programming is challenging. But strengthening and expanding the programming that we already have empowers our

students, empowers our community, and there’s less risk in expanding an incredibly successful programming like nursing.”

No timeline has been set for construction, but the university hopes are to secure funding within 18 months.

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New $30-million trades building receives approval and funding from federal and provincial governments Sean Brady EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω TRU will have its proposed new trades building. The Industrial Training and Technology Centre is set to open in 2018, following $13.2 million from the federal government and $7 million from the provincial government. TRU and its donors will cover the remaining $9.7 million.

The new building will come in at just over 5,300 square metres and will afford the university an additional 550 full-time equivalent student spaces.

TRU says construction will begin in early 2017 and the building will be substantially completed by spring 2018 and occupied by fall 2018.

“Thompson Rivers University has worked closely with local industries and employers to determine the skills sets they need,” said TRU President Alan Shaver. “The new centre will co-locate trades and science programs together to provide unique benefits supporting TRU’s contribution of relevant and applicable research to various industry sectors in Canada and provide rewarding careers for our students.”

TRU submitted its case for funding back on February 26, earlier this year.

The new trades building will be the first new building on campus since the completion of the House of Learning in 2011.

The crowd on-hand at the announcement for funding and approval of the new Industrial Training and Technology Centre. (TRU)

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Visiting organization offers travel/volunteer opportunities An interesting volunteer opportunity to work and play while travelling the world Jennifer Will ARTS EDITOR Ω On Thursday, Sept. 22, Reach Out Volunteers held an information session at TRU in the Campus Activity Centre. Lexie Tintor, an Ohio native working as an international travelling ambassador for Reach Out, came to campus to talk about the different programs available and the opportunities available to students.

“There are three projects in Cambodia, one in Peru and three in South Africa. All of our projects are grassroots projects, so they are designed to have an immediate impact and improve the standard of living for either a family, a community or wildlife in need,” Tintor said.

Tintor is a recent college graduate who first found out about the organization through the info sessions she now runs.

“I found out about Reach Out the same way the students here are, which was about two years ago. Fall of my senior year they came to my school, just like this, and I went to an info session and I

was sold. I went to Cambodia two weeks after I graduated and it is by far the best thing I have ever done,” Tintor said.

Many students have concerns with the cost involved in volunteering with companies like this.

Reach Out’s programs can cost upwards of $1,300 plus the cost of flights. Tintor acknowledges that as a student money can be tight, but adds that Reach Out will help attendees fundraise their trip.

“College students are broke. I was a broke college student when I went. The fee goes to every single building material needed for your project. We bring that ourselves because obviously there are no Lowes or Home Depots.

It goes to jobs for the locals who work alongside us every single day, who keep us safe, who get us what we need and maintain everything after we go. It goes towards all of the accommodations we stay in. It goes to all of the food we eat, and we even eat out a lot at different family-owned restaurants in the city and things like that. Then it goes to all the fun stuff we do.

You don’t need your wallet the second you land – everything is

covered,” Tintor said.

Although volunteering is the core focus of these programs, it’s not all work and students get to indulge themselves in the culture and community.

“Like [in Cambodia] it goes towards your scuba diving licence that’s included in the program fee cost, in Peru we go zip lining through the mountains, and in Africa we go diving with dolphins.”

Anne Terwiel, chair of the tourism management department at TRU, said that these types of experiences can be amazing, but that students should proceed with caution.

“It can be a really great thing depending on the organization that you go with, depending on the experience that you have and where you go.”

“It can be life changing. There are some very reputable organizations out there doing some really great things in places that really need help,” Terwiel said.

“There are also some organizations that are basically charging a lot of money for students to go on half a volunteer experience

Reach Out Volunteers coordinator Lexie Tintor began working for Reach Out after she saw a similar presentation at her school. (Jenn Will/Ω)

and the other half might be considered more of a vacation.

My advice is that students check out the organization that they are going to be working with really carefully.”

Reach Out Volunteers has mostly positive reviews on the website GoOverseas.com, a website that lists and reviews similar abroad programs.It also has reviews on Facebook.

TechBrew highlights Kamloops tech industry Kamloops Innovation's latest event provides networking opportunity and showcases the industry Sarah Kirschmann STAFF WRITER Ω Last Wednesday, TechBrew, an event created and hosted by Kamloops Innovation, showcased Kamloops' growing tech industry along with providing drinks and live music.

On top of being an opportunity to network, TechBrew's purpose was to “highlight all the great things going on in the tech industry,” according to Amanda Chan, community builder for Kamloops Innovation.

The event featured craft beer from the Red Beard Cafe, local food trucks and a technology showcase.

Kamloops band Echo Beach, whose drummer works for iTel, provided live entertainment.

A diverse group of industry innovators at TechBrew came together to display their work. Among them was Kamloops Makerspace, a non-profit group focused on giving the creative community space and tools to experiment. Scorpion Technologies, an industrial electronics manufacturer, displayed a new 3D printer. Riversong Guitars showed off their innovative handmade instruments. Lightship, an app designed to bring worksite data together, also made an appearance.

The event was hosted by iTel, who just moved into a larger building to accommodate recent growth. iTel previously rented office space from Kamloops Innovation but moved into a larger building in Mission Flats. Scooter tours of the new space were offered

during TechBrew and the iTel grand opening that preceded the event.

Kamloops Innovation is a non-profit organization that describes itself as “a community of tech entrepreneurs that are passionate about helping each other succeed,” according to its website. Lincoln Smith, its executive director, splits his time between Kamloops Innovation and TRU as Director, Research Partnerships and Enterprise Creation. Around 40 per cent of the organization is made up of TRU students and alumni, Smith said.

The organization is also responsible for TRU Generator, which works with staff and students to commercialize their ideas and provide mentorship. According to Smith, people from across a diverse range of faculties benefit from the program.

Students can get a head start with groups like Kamloops Innovation by connecting with mentors, networking and becoming familiar with the industry even before graduation.

The TechBrew event, hosted by Kamloops Innovation, was preceded by the iTel Grand Opening at their new location in Mission Flats.

TOP: Kamloops band Echo Beach was on hand as entertainment.

BOTTOM: Red Beard Cafe provided some tasty beverages to those in attendance.

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Why not take up swing dancing this semster?

Crank up the jazz, do the lindy hop and get ready to be transported through time with dance Jennifer Will ARTS EDITOR Ω The Swing Dance Club is a new edition to TRUSU’s long list of clubs on campus. Justin Mufford is the president and founder of the club and started it up last fall.

Mufford says that he started the club because of his passion and pure love of the dance style, but also to cultivate a swing community in town.

“I really love the swing dance.

I really love the social aspect, the community, the music – everything about it. I learned in Grand Prairie last year, at a swing community there and fell in love with it. I came back to Kamloops and realised there is not much dancing in Kamloops at all, compared to big cities like Edmonton, Victoria and Vancouver. The dance, culture and community in Kamloops is very sparse and very stale, so I wanted to start this club and make it a big thing,” Mufford said.

He says that the club is really about community, getting to know new people and enjoying the art of swing dance.

“What I think is most important to the club is our values, our philosophy and why we dance.

Our vision is to have a community

Up for a dance? The TRUSU Swing Dance Club is a great opportunity to get involved this semester. (Marcela Arévalo/The Omega) that people who want to make friends and enjoy dance. Despite what age you are, despite what your background is, despite your experience or if you don’t have a partner, we value inclusivity, having fun, having a good community for people to meet each other and have a really good time,”

Mufford said.

Although Mufford is a fourthyear student and will soon be graduating from TRU, he hopes that the club will live on. However, he plans to stay involved in the community in other ways after grad.

“I’m planning to give the leadership responsibilities onto other

students that are involved now.

After I graduate, the university club will keep going, keep running its events. I plan on starting my own non-profit dance company that will hopefully work with the university club as a sister organization,” Mufford added.

The club hosts social dances

every Friday night, along with a variety of other events every month. The dances start with a one-hour beginner lesson then transition into a social dance. The event is open to all members of the community and admission is $5 for club members and $10 for non-members.

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Thompson Rivers University student, who was sexually assaulted this past December when she went home for the Christmas break, is speaking up about what happened to her in order to keep the dialogue on sexual assault open on campus.

The student, who wishes to be called Kehlani, wants to tell her story to open up the discussion on campus about sexual assault, with the hopes of letting others know that they are not alone.

This, as Kehlani told me, is what happened.

This past year, Kehlani had gone home over winter break and was at a house party with a group of friends from high school, including many who attended the local university. A boy she had known for a few years was sitting alone in a corner. To include him, she engaged him in small talk.

The two had a brief history, which included a single intoxicated encounter at a graduation party. The boy reminded her of their past and suggested that they go to an upstairs bedroom.

Although Kehlani was uncomfortable, she agreed to go upstairs on one condition.

“I said, 'I only want to kiss you, I don't want to do anything else.' I was very clear,” she told me.

As they reached the bedroom, the boy unexpectedly shut off the lights.

“He turned me around and pushed me onto the bed,” she recalled.

Kehlani’s previously matter-of-fact tone took on an edge I hadn’t heard from her before now.

“I was laying there, and I felt my dress being yanked up super aggressively.” As she squirmed on the bed, he undid his pants, and pretended to put on a condom. “Then, he started going away at it – and it hurt.”

She told him no. She told him to stop. “You didn't even kiss me.”

But he didn't until the door opened, and two of Kehlani's friends entered the room. They asked her if something was wrong. She had the opportunity, but she just couldn’t.

“I was so embarrassed. I just wanted them to leave,” she told me.

When her friends left, she turned to her assaulter and again asked him to stop. He suggested that she simply needed to change positions.

“He moved me and I was gripping the wall, and he just kept going. I had tears streaming down my face,” she said, voice steady.

She agreed to perform oral sex, thinking,

a reaction of terror. She had a nightmare in the summer which revisited the assault, and awoke terrified and crying.

Her party dress from that night still hangs unwashed in her closet.

Later, she discovered that another of her acquaintances had been assaulted by the same person, and had witnessed a third assault. “[The other girl] said, 'I didn't tell anyone either, because I thought I was the only one.'”

While Kehlani wants to prevent others from enduring the same ordeal, she still has no desire to officially report the man who assaulted her. She wants to deal with the emotional consequences and move forward. While she isn’t seeking any resolution to her own experience with assault, she would like to see sexual assault and consent discussed more frequently on campus to promote a culture where sexual assault is not acceptable.

Charlene Eden agrees that discussing rape culture needs to happen earlier and more frequently. She’s the agency coordinator at the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre.

“We teach women how to stay safe. What are we teaching our young men?” she asked.

It's all too common for women like Kehlani to avoid seeking help, Eden said. She believes this is partially due to the blame and shame that is often placed on the victim, and the negative, unsupportive reactions that can come from disclosure.

The process of going to court can also be daunting for victims.

Finally, as supported by Kehlani's story, Eden told me that victims are often unsure whether their ordeal even counts as assault.

“We need to start telling victims there's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not their fault,” Eden said.

As a member of TRU's sexual assault task force, Eden had an inside look at the university's new sexual assault policy.

“TRU is doing a better job than most [universities],” she said.

Eden sees the university’s willingness to consult with the community and their rapid appointment of a Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Manager as positive steps.

Options for a student who has been sexually assaulted include reporting to the university, or connecting with a community partner such as KSACC, both of which can include reporting the incident to the RCMP or simply counseling and support services.

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“anything to make the pain stop.” When he left, she cried herself to sleep.

In the morning, she found an unused condom on the floor. She recalled that her legs hurt from clenching, and it was this detail which finally caused her eyes to well up with tears.

“For someone else to make your body hurt like that is really sad,” she said.

Kehlani has not yet sought professional help.

In fact, it took time for her to label her ordeal as a sexual assault. “[I thought] 'it's a one-time thing, it's not a big

deal.' I wouldn't even call it rape for the first few months,” she said with a bitter laugh.

Kehlani wanted to avoid the stigma of being a “girl with issues,” and she tried to convince herself she was unaffected. But the longer she went without help, the more the assault affected her. Kehlani contracted an STI, leaving her feeling like she was, in her own words, “dirty” and deserved what had happened to her.

Her body also remembered. Months later, she found it difficult to be physical in a new relationship. Being in a similar position evoked

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Hundreds of students showed up for TRUSU's "Hungry for Choice" Food Truck Festival hosted on Wednesday, Sept. 21. (Marcela Arévalo/The Omega)

Students line up for TRUSU's Food Truck Festival TRUSU’s campaign launch seems to have had its desired effects and has students talking Jared MacArthur STAFF WRITER Ω As the sun went down over campus, the smell of deep-fried donuts, freshly grilled smokies and other delicious food kept the lineups long and the crowd large at TRUSU’s Food Truck Festival last week.

By about 7 p.m. the crowd had grown in numbers to a few hundred, and the lineups twisted through the grass and crowded around the food trucks.

Standing in the line for Cookshack Cravings, we spoke with first-year engineering student Annika Jane, who said the lines were “madness.” On the topic of the Hungry for Choice campaign she said, “it’s hard to know with the bureaucracy what works and what doesn’t, but it’s always

nice when petitions do work out – you feel like, as a people, you actually do have a voice.”

Members of the students’ union and student caucus were busy, up and down the lines and throughout the crowd taking signatures for their petition from willing students and curious bystanders. The Hungry for Choice campaign aims to change the university's approach to food service contracts by making the agreements more diverse and allowing more than one contractor on campus.

Sierra Rae, TRUSU’s women’s representative, said at the event that there are limitations to having just one contractor in charge of managing all of the food services on campus.

“That is one thing we find with an exclusive contract.

There’s a lot of times the quality

of food is lacking because there is no competition. Anyone going for a business degree can see that sometimes competition can be a good thing. It basically provides students with a lot more options.”

The petition is asking students, staff, faculty and members of the community to “call on Thompson Rivers University to take immediate action to introduce competition to campus food service.”

TRUSU chose to kick-off the campaign with a food-based event. Local food trucks from around B.C. were a symbol of the variety of choices being missed with a sole contract on food services around campus, Rae said.

The vendors serving food at the event were Eats Amoré, A&D Dogs, Cookshack Cravings,

Lakeside Concession & Mini-Donuts, and Legit Food. Five per cent of the vendor's profits will be donated to the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association in an effort to help support their work. The remaining profit from the event will go back to the vendors.

The food services management company Aramark Ltd. was awarded a sole contract to oversee all nine of the food service locations on campus.

Aramark also made donations to the university and is noted as a “Contributor,” having donated between $5,000 and $10,000 to TRU. Lino Caputo, a fourth-year arts student and president of the TRUSU Pride Club, spoke with The Omega about his personal frustration with the restrictions on food services when trying to

plan club events over the last four years.

He says the club has tried in the past to bring in alternative catering options but were told it was not an option that was available to them. “Even things like bringing in snacks, sometimes those are policed by Aramark as well, so it makes it difficult to supply our food at an efficient cost, especially being non-profit organizations,” Caputo said.

The TRUSU Pride Club has even opted to take events off-campus to venues around town for more options.

“It creates this toss-up where you wonder: are you going to attract more students by keeping it on campus but having to pay more… or do you take it off-campus and hope that people will still come?” Caputo said.

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KAG exhibit explores our inner workings Creators come together to explore parallels between the human body and human emotions Jennifer Will ARTS EDITOR Ω On Saturday Sept. 24, 2016 Kamloops Art Gallery hosted its curators tour and opening reception for “All membranes are porous.” Margaret Dragu, Pascal Grandmaison, Sarah Anne Johnson, Zoe Kreye, Luanne Martineau and Jeremy Shaw are all contributors to this new exhibit that dwells on the human body.

Curator Charo Neville brought together a collection of projects that separately focus on the inner and outer workings of the human body, but joined together make a statement about the human experience in its entirety.

Margaret Dragu, the artist behind “The Library Project/ Commodification of Touch,” uses video and repurposed objects to literally tell stories. Her projects take a deeper and meaningful look into memory, storytelling and the legacy that we inevitably leave behind.

“Both pieces are about memory and storytelling and investigating or questioning our notions about how we collect stories.

Which means what do we mean by history? Or what do we mean by libraries? And what do we mean by education? Because all three of those are really people’s stories. We should be asking who is collecting those stories, who is

creating history, who is creating what we believe to be education and learning,” Dragu said.

Zoe Kreye had two projects in the exhibit that had a general tone of loss and what loss actually means. “Futureloss” is about change and how it can often relate to the idea of loss. It looked at the effects of redevelopment in a Vancouver neighbourhood. Kreye interviewed shopkeepers and asked what area of the shop they felt carried the biggest feeling of loss for them and then asked the same questions about their body. Kreye used plaster to create a sculpture in an attempt to embody this emotion.

“Our Missing Body” is a more personal project about physical loss, looking into losing touch with our own bodies, the loss of intimacy or even death.

“One of them was a commission about this neighbourhood changing. One of them was just from my own personal experiences with loss of connection with one’s body, losing someone who had died and a lack of intimacy and touch in life. I felt that on my own, but also noticed that many other people in my life were also experiencing that. So the lack of embodiment seems to me like a loss,” Kreye added.

Other projects within the exhibit are composed of various materials and use different forms

Margaret Dragu welcomes attendees in to look at her contribution to the exhibit entitled “The Library Project.”

(Jennifer Will/The Omega) of media to portray life as a human, including Pascal Grandmaison’s two video installations “Dissolution” and “Nostalgie,” which tackle the idea of man’s futility against nature and the opposing force felt by the modern industrial world. Sarah Anne Johnson’s “Hospital Hallway” deals with mental illness and unbearable abuse

that can be felt and overcome.

Luanne Martineau has five felt sculptures that juxtapose the female body against societal expectations. Last but certainly not least, Jeremy Shaw’s “Introduction to the Memory Personality” is a journey that should be taken alone. It is a dark room with a single chair that explores the effect of a deteriorating body

and infused with works from self-help books.

The exhibit “All membranes are porous” is a unique experience that calls on spectators to be introspective about their own bodies and minds. It will run until Dec. 31 at the Kamloops Art Gallery.

Admission to the gallery is $3 for students with valid ID and free for everyone on Thursdays.

TRU names the neighbourhood it plans to build on campus Sean Brady EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω The TRU Community Trust announced last week the name and plans for TRU’s first neighbourhood on campus.

The Reach will be a series of urban residential, office and retails spaces built behind Old Main and on the corner of Summit and McGill, all built on 90 acres available for development.

The Community Trust has put out a request for proposals for contractors to submit bids on the first stage of development, which includes 90,000 sq. ft. of buildable space. The winners will build and market a new residential development behind Old Main.

Kamloops MLAs Todd Stone and Terry Lake were on hand to announce the development at the Sept. 19 media event.

Also announced was that the future plans include space for a hotel, an urban market and a pharmacy.

LEFT: An artist's rendering of The Reach, with the corner of Summit & McGill in the bottom left. (TRU)

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Brew Loops event set to return to Kamloops Merging two of Kamloops' favourite past-times, Brew Loops brings bikes and beers to the city Jared MacArthur STAFF WRITER Ω The second-annual Brew Loops event is being held in the Kamloops area between Harper Mountain, the Kamloops bike ranch, downtown Kamloops restaurants and breweries. The event touches on many different interests centered fundamentally around beer

and bicycles. Brew Loops runs this year from Sept. 28 until Oct. 2, blending two of the cities growing pastimes, mountain biking and craft-beer-drinking, into five days of celebration for both.

This year, event organizers include Western Canada Theatre, Tourism Kamloops, Red Beard Cafe, Kamloops Sports Council, the Rotary Club of Kamloops West and Kamloops Performance

Cycling. Brew Loops emphasizes the growing sports and food culture here in town. For those looking to even the odds between exercise and beer tasting, Brew Loops sponsors local watering hole the Noble Pig and will take beer-lovers through a crash course in craft beer tasting. Be prepared to pay $20 for this event.

Other events throughout the weekend will also have a cost

involved. Before heading to The Noble Pig, bring the mountain bikes out for a group ride at Kenna Cartwright Park. On Thursday, Oct. 2, bring the bikes out again, or just your appetite, for a ride up in the Pineview neighbourhood ending at the Kamloops Bike Ranch. Attendees can then head down to Romeo’s Kitchen and Spirits for a personal food experience in the form of a four-course

meal. The Brew Loops site totes the slogan, "stretch those quads and quaff those beers." On a Saturday night when there is an excuse to go out, Brew Loops allows you to do just that but this time, take your bike. The successful event in 2015 should bring in a lot of hype to the event this year.

Check www.brewloopsfest.ca for more details on event costs and scheduling.

Undergraduate Research Experience Award (UREAP) Receive a $4,500 scholarship to complete your own research project.

Deadline: Oct. 19, 2016 by 4 p.m. tru.ca/myresearch

Find your way with new road names on campus Thompson Rivers University has named and renamed several roads on campus. New road signs went up on Sept.

22.

Part of the intent behind naming the roads is to assist emergency personnel who may need them to identify areas of campus, according to TRU’s Safety and Emergency manager Stacey Jyrkkanen.

The road names now include:

– WolfPack Road – Sk’lep Trail – TRU Way – University Drive – University Drive North – College Drive (Image courtesy TRU)

COMICS & PUZZLES

10 Puzzle of the Week #3 — Fun Names

This puzzle is not so math-oriented. Instead, try thinking about things differently.

Can you have fun with company names and how the fun version might be marketed?

When I lived in Bellingham, I came up with a spoof version of Horizon Bank. “Tired of dealing with banks with their headquarters in huge skyscrapers? Deal with a bank that is down to earth. Come to Horizontal Bank. Member FDIC.” Give the correct (or known-by) name of a company, your fun name (one point), and marketing message (optional and also one point). Note that the fun version need not be in the same business. It just has to sound similar. Now, keep doing it.

How many points can you get out of Kamloops?

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 next 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/). Come visit the Math Centre (HL304): we are friendly.

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A tough weekend for the WolfPack, across all sports Sean Brady EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ω WolfPack teams had a tough weekend, to say the least. Across five sports and nine games (some exhibition), the best result a WolfPack team could muster was a tie.

Men’s soccer took to the field twice this past weekend, once against the MacEwan University Griffins on Saturday, Sept. 24, and against the University of Alberta Golden Bears the following day.

Against the Griffins, the WolfPack managed to lead the team 1-0 at the half with a goal from Justin Donaldson, who scored on a header for his fifth goal of the year.

MacEwan (now 0-5-2) hit back with a rebound goal from Jacob Schepian late in the game to tie it, however.

With that, the WolfPack men took their first tie of the season.

When the ‘Pack faced the Golden Bears the next day, a tie would have been preferable to the 4-2 loss they took on Sunday. The first 60 minutes of the game were rough on TRU, as all four Golden Bears goals found the back of the net in the first hour of play. Two late-in-the-game goals by WolfPack players Olamide Ajibike and Keenan Wallace were the early beginnings of a comeback, but the men ran out of time.

“I put lots of subs in the second half to give the young kids some experience. They were fantastic.

I think they acquitted themselves quite well against the second ranked team in the CIS. We held possession and were rewarded for our smart play,” said head coach John Antulov.

In women’s soccer, the WolfPack women managed to hold off the visiting Trinity Western Spartans for the first half, but the team unloaded on them in the second, putting four goals past the TRU keeper, all after the 45-minute mark. Scorers for Trinity Western were Danae Derksen, Isabella Di Trocchio, Danielle Thune and Taylor Bubnick.

In the Sunday segment of their homestand, the women fared no better, dropping a 3-0 loss against the visiting University of the Fraser Valley Cascades, who now sit 4-1-2 on the season.

“Lots of adversity today. We didn’t have a good day. I looked at our starting line up again and we had eight freshmen taking the field and playing 180 minutes this weekend against Trinity Western yesterday and Fraser Valley today.

I looked at the scoreline (3-0) and I am still pretty happy with the progress we made,” said TRU head coach Kelly Shantz after the game.

In baseball, the WolfPack team faced the UBC Thunderbirds in a doubleheader away in Vancouver.

In their first game, the Thunderbirds managed only one run, but the ‘Pack couldn’t manage one

UBCO's Kelsey Mitchell and TRU's Kindra Maricle fight for the ball in a weekend game. (TRU Athletics) back, leading to a 1-0 victory in Sunday’s opening bout.

In their second game, the ‘Pack fared no better, putting up another runless game, but this time against UBC’s 10 runs. WolfPack baseball drops to 1-10-0 for their season.

Exhibition play began this past weekend for women’s basketball.

The team was away in Calgary to face the University of Calgary Dinos. The ‘Pack was notably without third-year guard Michelle Bos, and to make matters worse lost third-year forward Emily Vilac in the third quarter of the team’s first

game. Guard Audrey Rankin was out with an injury.

On Friday, the team dropped its first game 57-49. It was the closest they’d come to a win against the Dinos, dropping their next game on Saturday 73-59.

Exhibition play continued in women’s volleyball on Friday, Sept. 23, when the WolfPack faced the visiting University of British Columbia Heat at the Tournament Capital Centre. It was the team’s home debut, which has now played five games in total.

The ‘Pack women won their first

set 25-20 but dropped the next three 25-18, 25-17 and 25-19, nearly keeping pace with UBCO. “We came out with a lot of energy. I thought we won the serve-receive game in the first set, which is always important,” said head coach Chad Grimm.

“Second set we had our moments. In the third, they dominated us from front to end. We had a good pushback in the fourth getting out to a pretty nice lead.

They put one server on the line and made a huge run which changed the potential of us winning the set.”

MEN’S SOCCER 3–6–1

WOMEN’S SOCCER 1–5–0

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL* 0–2–0

Next game: Oct. 6, Hillside Stadium

Next game: Sept. 30, Victoria, B.C.

Next game: Oct. 1, TRU Gym

WINS, LOSSES, TIES

WINS, LOSSES, TIES

WINS, LOSSES, TIES

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Starts Sept. 29

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL* 0–5–0

BASEBALL 1 – 10 – 0

WINS, LOSSES, TIES

WINS, LOSSES, TIES

Next game: Oct. 14, Langley, B.C.

Next game: Oct. 1, Norbrock Stadium

MEN’S BASKETBALL Starts Oct. 6

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