Oct. 19, 2016

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BALANCING ACT

WELL WELL WELLS....

NETFLIX AND TREMBLE IN FEAR?

A student athlete view on balancing it all

TRU won't hold title to Wells Gray land

7 horror flicks to watch right now

WolfPack soccer player Katie Harding talks lifework-sports-school balance • Page 4

While it can't hold title to the land, it'll still be used as was originally intended • Page 6

Jon Malloy's film picks to give you an awful fright before Halloween • Page 8

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POLICY STEPS FORWARD Campus policy meetings continue, but are students paying attention? P. 4

A PLEBISCITE ON PEACE

VOLUME 26

ON RELIGION

Colombian students talk peace agreement

A campus perspective on Islamophobia

Students and faculty at TRU share their thoughts on how Colombia recently voted • Page 7

How are Muslim students treated on campus? In Kamloops? One student's perspective • Page 5

Divestment campaign returns with meetings and info sessions

Campaigners are once again calling on TRU to sell off its oil and gas holdings in response to continuing concerns over climate change. As of April 2015, energy-related holdings made up 2.9 per cent of TRU’s investments. The campaign was started last April by the TRUSU Socialists Club and an information session was organized by students and club members Kevin Pankewich and Tristan Muhr. They called on the university to sell off any oil and gas-related holdings it has. "We're saying it's not okay to have investments in the fossil fuel industry in the midst of a climate crisis," Pankewich said. However, TRU’s vice-president of administration and finance Matt Milovick stated in no uncertain terms that TRU will not consider divestment, no matter how many people support it. "Divestment, as a strategy in terms of oil and gas – it doesn't work. It's an ideal...our society is still fossil fuel dependent," Milovick said. "These campaigns tend to be very ideological." Pankewich and Muhr gave the example of divestment’s role in ending apartheid in South Africa to show how successful it can be. However, Milovick gave the same example to underscore a different message. He pointed out that our society and economy would collapse if oil and gas were cut off in the same way as South Africa was in the 1980s. CONTINUED page 4


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