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TRU to work with Tuition dependency for B.C. post-secondary rising fastest in country world’s largest university Devan C. Tasa

Micki Cowan

CUP B.C. Bureau Chief VANCOUVER (CUP) — When it comes to depending on tuition to fund universities, B.C. is now the third most tuition-reliant province in the country following Ontario and Nova Scotia.

Statistics Canada data shows that, in the past decade, tuition has come to account for 40.3 per cent of funding for B.C. universities, up from just over 25 per cent in 1999, according to the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ 2012-2013 Almanac of Post-Secondary Education.

This marks the largest increase in tuition dependency of any province in Canada during that timespan.

While B.C. is still the province with the fourth-lowest tuition in Canada, responsibility is increasingly being put on the student, rather than the government, to fund post-secondary education.

Minister of Advanced Education John Yap says, for the province of B.C., there isn’t yet enough government money available to reduce the dependence on tuition.

“In an ideal world, we’d find ways to increase affordability,” said Yap. “Maybe the timing is not right in terms of the funding available.”

The Canadian Federation of

Students (CFS), a group that lobbies for lower tuition, says that B.C. needs to take measures to ensure the trend doesn’t continue. They hope B.C. can instead follow the example set by other Canadian provinces that have reduced their dependence on tuition fees — some by nearly 50 per cent in the past 10 years.

“What we’re seeing is an off loading of a public service onto a student demographic,” said CFS B.C. chairperson Katie Marocchi. “Other provinces, such as Newfoundland, have been taking measures to make sure post-secondary education is affordable and we advocate for the province of B.C. to do so as well.”

Newfoundland decreased its dependency on tuition from 30 per cent in 1999 to 15.9 per cent in 2009. The prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba also reduced their dependency by about five per cent in the past 10 years.

Melanie Greene, a doctoral candidate studying post-secondary education at Memorial University of Newfoundland, said part of Newfoundland’s success story has to do with their unique position of only having a handful of publicly funded post-secondary institutions in the province.

But she also credits a provincial government push to increase access to higher education in

1999 that resulted in an ongoing tuition freeze.

As a result, Newfoundland remains the province with the lowest tuition in the country aside from Quebec, whose low tuition rates only apply to residents of the province.

Student support has played a part in the continuation of Newfoundland’s freeze as well, says Greene. “Every time there is a budget coming through, we’re always pushing for a continued tuition [freeze].”

But the example set by Newfoundland is not likely to be mimicked here in the near future, as Minister Yap said he plans to focus on offering grants, rather than reducing tuition, in order to make university more affordable.

Marocchi thinks drastic action, such as freezing tuition entirely, is required to reverse this trend, or else more people in B.C. may decide against pursuing higher education.

“One of the biggest restrictions of people choosing not to get a post-secondary degree is financial reasons. People aren’t in the position where they can pay up front or don’t want to put themselves in a position of massive amounts of debt,” said Marocchi.

“There is an entire demographic that will be less likely to acquire a post-secondar y education.”

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A delegation from the Open University of China (OUC) met with TRU officials on Sept. 21 to officially cut a ribbon symbolizing the expansion of joint research projects, as well as prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) training programs.

This means TRU has strengthened its ties with a university that has almost as many students as the entire province of Alberta has people.

Like TRU, OUC provides open and distance education. “[OUC] provides education to a huge number of students, over 3.5 million students,” said Li Linshu, a vice-president of OUC, via translator. “That’s a challenge for us, so we really want to work with TRU on how to provide better education for our students.”

OUC is headquartered in Beijing, but has semi-autonomous provinciallevel universities and county-level study centres under its umbrella.

“Think of it like UBCO (University of B.C. Okanagan) on steroids,” said Gordon Tarzwell, vice-provost of open learning. “UBC’s in Vancouver, the Open University, their headquarters is in Beijing and then they have all of these satellites and satellites of satellites. So that’s how they got to millions of students.”

Both universities operate PLAR “credit banks,” which means that people applying can, for a fee, get university credits from training programs provided by the company they worked for in their last career or from other courses.

“This means that you don’t have to start all over again,” said Alan Shaver, TRU’s president. “If you’ve taken Boxology 100 in another country or in another province, traditional schools say: ‘you’ve got to do our Boxology.’ We’re not doing that.”

It will take a few years for TRU students to notice any difference, said Tarzwell, as it takes a while to establish joint research programs, but he expects TRU to become more international as a result.

The delegation from OUC is the largest of several delegations coming to TRU over the next few weeks.

Deans from the Universidad la Sabana in Medellin, Colombia, arrived Sept. 22, a delegation from Jiaxing University in Zhejiana, China, came Sept. 25 and another delegation from the Tec de Monterrey in Cuernavaca, Mexico, arrives Sept. 26.

It takes a lot of field work to build relationships with other universities and forge agreements, said Shaver.

“It’s important that TRU actually go out to visit these universities and organizations in their country, in their city,” he said. “It means a lot to them, but it means more to us because we get a much better understanding of what their dreams are, what their needs are and how we can actually provide some partnerships.”

The academic and cultural benefits of such trips are immediate, but it takes a while for the university and the local community to see financial benefits, which are produced when students from other countries come to study at TRU, said Shaver.

That’s what you said Clubs day a success For this week’s issue, we patrolled the grounds looking for your answers to this question:

Did you join a club today?

Tanner Marshall

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“No. I’m just browsing. Perhaps the History Club.”

“No. I’m already part of TRU ECO.”

I did. I joined the Yoga Club. I have a back problem and was told yoga would work it out.

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Fourth-year sciences

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Watch for us around campus and come chime in on an isssue...or we’ll ambush you.

Courtney Dickson Ω Contributor

From ultimate Frisbee to seniors’ outreach and philosophy to dance, 47 groups took over the lawn in front of Old Main on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

Though not all clubs were in attendance, 42 TRUSU clubs and five off-campus groups took part in the event.

Students looking to build resumes, meet new people and even improve their back problems attended the event.

TRUSU puts on the event twice a year to encourage students to get involved with the students union and meet others with similar interests, academic or otherwise.

The Pan-Hellenic Sorority was out looking for enough pledges to colonize their organization in Winter 2013.

Should this work out, they plan to make the sorority official in Fall 2013. As of Sept. 18 the group had 15 pledges and was looking for 10 more.

TRUSU Eco Club set up a “bicycle blender,” a demonstration that taught students how to make a smoothie from pedalling a bicycle.

The club is always looking for members, but plans to do some

community service work this year that non-club members are allowed and encouraged to attend.

SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) also sparked some interest from wandering students. Preclubs day, SIFE held a meeting in which 150 students were in attendance, an increase of interest from last year.

Community organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Canadian Cancer Society also attended the event, looking for student volunteers.

Kamloops firefighters were in attendance selling calendars to raise money for the burn unit.

“It was one of the biggest clubs days so far,” said Dustin McIntyre, president of TRUSU. McIntyre said he received positive feedback from students during and following the afternoon.

TRUSU was a popular table itself, handing out free ice cream to passers-by.

For the first time, TRUSU will provide a club leaders program to assist and educate club leaders.

The first workshop for the fall will be held Oct. 19. Registration for this program is due Oct. 12.

If you would like to start a club, visit the students union office in the Independent Centre for more information.

ON THE COVER: Record numbers turned out at the Campus Commons on Sept. 19 for TRUSU’s annual outdoor movie night. This year’s features were Batman Begins and The Dark Night. PHOTO BY BRENDAN KERGIN

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Editor’s Note Mike Davies Ω Editor-in-Chief I was given an assignment already this semester that I didn’t understand.

This is rare for me. Usually I know as soon as the assignment description hits my desk (or more often nowadays, my Moodle account) exactly what the finished product will look like, how long it will likely take me to bring it to fruition and even estimate pretty closely what mark it will receive when it’s returned to me.

This time I had no idea.

I was torn — but in a way that, in retrospect, was surprisingly productive.

Because I didn’t know what the final piece would look like, I couldn’t possibly know how it would end and worse — I had no idea where to begin.

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even non-existent in another’s.

You see, my mother couldn’t remember me getting my finger caught in the car door at that rest stop.

I could see in my mind the colour of the dirt on the surrounding hills, exactly how far we were parked from the gas pumps and the smell of spilled juice on the seat of the car.

So I started looking into why that might be.

Why would I remember something so vividly that happened before I was old enough to form full sentences, while my mother couldn’t recollect the event whatsoever?

The question led me to all sorts of interesting studies and academic journal entries that in a normal circumstance, I’ll be honest, would have me wishing for a kick in the face with a golf shoe if it meant I didn’t have to read them.

But I was enthralled. I incorporated some of what I was finding into my assignment and left a whole lot more out, because it was interesting but irrelevant.

I can’t say that what I turned in was what my professor was looking for and that it turned out that I aced the assignment, but I can tell you it was a welcome experience to just start something having no idea how it would end.

Maybe try it the next time you don’t know how to approach an assignment or project.

Just start and see where it takes you. editor@truomega.ca

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So I just started.

It was a piece of writing about memory. That’s all I knew. I didn’t know what voice it would have — or rather what voice I should give it — or the structure I should be employing for it, the tone, reading level or audience it should be aimed at. I knew it should be between 700 and 1000 words and involve something about memory.

I didn’t know if it should be an academic examination, a summary of psychology studies, a personal essay, an internal exploration of my own psyche or some kind of strange hybrid combination of these things.

So I just started.

I sat in front of my keyboard and started typing a conversation I recently had with my mother about a particularly vivid memory I had of an event during a road trip we had taken when I was a child.

We’d taken lots of road trips when I was young (we lived in Saskatchewan, so doing anything fun as a family basically involved driving for a few hours) and it’s not that this one was to a remarkable event or gathering or anything. Well, maybe it was, but I don’t remember why we were on the trip — I just remember one thing that happened at a rest stop.

While I was transcribing that conversation with my mom, I found myself wondering about how memories work — in particular, why some memories are far more vivid than others and the same event can be so clear in one person’s memory yet hazy or

TRUe Thoughts Taylor Rocca Ω Copy/Web Editor Typically, I side with students who gripe with university administration over program changes or fee hikes. But there is one gripe I continually hear on TRU campus that I simply cannot bring myself to sympathize with.

Parking rates are too high.

Parking rates are too high?

Are you kidding me?

Let me put it to you this way, I understand increasing parking rates by anywhere from 66 to 250 per cent is a pretty steep hike all in one go. But let me give you a little bit of perspective here.

Prior to my two years at TRU, I spent five years in Edmonton at the University of Alberta (U of A).

During my last year purchas-

ing parking at that institution (2009-10), I was paying approximately $110 per month for a parking pass that didn’t even get me into the heart of campus.

I was left in an outlying lot that wasn’t covered from the blistering north breeze that sends wind chills into the minus-50 realm during the winter months. I was paying nearly $450 a semester and for all you mathematicians out there, $900 per academic year just to be able to have my car on campus.

This year at TRU, I purchased a semester pass for the fall and it ran me for $200.75 bang on.

Multiply that by two and what do you get? $401.50. In summary, I am paying less to park for an entire academic year at TRU than I paid to park for one semester at the U of A (back in 2009-10).

Let’s take a look at the daily parking rates of each campus.

Here at TRU, a student can park on campus for a paltry $4 a day.

The current average visitor (or daily) rate for a parking spot from 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the U of A is $13.81, with the highest single rate being $15 and the lowest single rate coming in at $10 depending on which lot you venture to.

Still feel like you are getting screwed by the university because you suddenly have to pay $4 a day instead of $2?

Try to sell that piece of pie to

a U of A student who is paying a minimum of $10 a day.

Even worse? There are “hourly” lots at the U of A that get away with charging one dollar for 15 minutes of parking. You want to park in one of those hourly lots for one full hour?

You’re paying the equivalent of an entire day’s parking at TRU camps. Still feel like you’re getting the shaft from TRU Facilities?

To go off of a university campus for a comparison, take a look at the parking situation in downtown Vancouver. The cheapest daily parking I have ever seen down there is $20, with most lots able to charge $25 for a full days park.

I’d like to make one thing clear -- I’m not trying to defend administration or the decision to hike parking rates by such an exorbitant amount.

What I am trying to say is that rates could have been hiked much, much higher.

The next time you walk up to plug the machine out in that old dusty dirt lot in behind the Clock Tower and are thinking to yourself, “I hate that parking rates are so damn high at TRU,” stop for a moment and think about the poor student at the U of A who is freezing in the middle of December, has to walk a mile to class from his parking spot and paid $14 to do it. copy@truomega.ca

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When tutoring becomes plagiarism Susan Currie The Peak (SFU)

BURNABY (CUP) — I’ve done a lot to sustain my addiction to higher education: I’ve been a student caller, a maid, a cat sitter, a waitress, and a security person in a big yellow coat. Hell, I’ve had someone offer me one hundred dollars to publicly kiss my feet and take me out for sushi, which I accepted (who wouldn’t?).

I’ve done tawdry things to get myself through my post secondary education — and still those yellow security jackets still haunt my dreams.

Yes, when it comes to tuition payments my morals drop, but as I scrolled through the “Part Time” section of Craigslist and decided to try my hand at Tutoring, I didn’t think I’d be risking all that much. Not like I did when I replied to those “Sexy foot photos, no nudity, HONEST” ads.

The ad was for a part-time tutoring service, so I put in my resume and had a reply within days. I sat down in the illustrious Bread Garden where the interviews were being held and was asked the standard questions.

When I got to the end of the interview I figured “Here’s another for the mediocre jobs list,” with no idea that the real interview was just beginning.

“You said you were able to tutor up to second-year university?”

“Absolutely.”

“That’s great.” My interviewer looked around and then back at me, “Sometimes our students, they’re really busy and they don’t always have time to do their homework — they don’t always prioritize English classes, and well sometimes they might ask if you’d be willing to. . . .”

“Oh, yeah, don’t worry, I’ve had friends who are TAs and I’m more than aware of how easy it is to catch someone who’s cheating. I’d inform the student of the risks, and tell them that those are not the services I offer.” I beamed, knowing I’d said the right thing.

I realized my folly when I saw how my interviewer’s eyes got wide and she looked side-to-side and then down — her mouth became smaller and thinner.

“Well. . . .” she said.

“Oh…” I said, getting it, “Oh. . . . well . . . I’d still tell them how easy it is to get caught, but . . . if you wanted me to do that you’d have to pay me a lot more.”

She smiled happily.

The moment I said it I felt dirty.

“We tell them it’s a reference, that they’re only to use it to reference off of.”

“Of course,” I agreed. “So when I write their papers for them I’m not really writing them to be handed in.” She didn’t like that I said it out loud.

I negotiated the cost of pimping my brains. I left the interview with a contract.

What was I getting myself into? As I watched candidate after candidate file in I realized that almost every one of these individuals was going to have the same request made of them. The implications were tremendous. I’d be out of school soon and not working in the education system, so what would be the actual harm to me?

I realized that this isn’t an obese man struggling in the streets to kiss my pedicured toes — this is plagiarism. And unlike toe guy, it wouldn’t be a one-off deal.

When you get that dirty feeling outside of the bedroom you know what to do. Yes, it’s costing me potential dollars, but let’s just say this: I’ll do a lot for cash, but I won’t do that.

In my opinion, it’s just not worth it.

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News Skagos: Nursing, femisism basis for TRUSU career Devan C. Tasa

Collective wasn’t really up and running and so I didn’t really like that,” she said. “There was no activity and there was nothing going on, so I wanted to take the initiative to get that back going again.”

Skagos decided to run for women’s representative in the 2011-12 TRUSU election – and won.

It was after being elected that work really started. After a year of being dormant, students had to be made aware the Women’s Collective existed and was active.

The collective held consistent, monthly movie nights about gender politics, as well as organizing a women’s vigil on Dec. 6, 2011, in order to get its name out there.

It worked. By the end of the year, in March, the collective had a showing of Miss Representation in the 212-seat Alumni Theatre.

“We got close to 200 people in attendance, which was huge,” Skagos said. “It was the biggest Women’s Collective event that had ever been put on by the student union in the last four years that I’ve been here. It made me feel good; it was really successful.”

One of the challenges Skagos had during her time as women’s representative is that many people have the wrong idea about what feminism is about.

“A lot of people, I think, have the idea that feminism is burning your bras and hating men and being radical,” she said.

“It’s not.

“For me, feminism is having all the equal opportunities of anybody else to empower myself as a person, because I don’t think feminism is just a women’s issue. I think that feminism is a [human] issue.”

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When Olivia Skagos got a job at the age of 16, her path forward was clear.

“I got a job at the hospital in Lillooet in housekeeping and food services when I was 16-years-old and I just really, really liked the environment,” she said.

“I liked how fast-paced it was, so it was just kind of an easy decision to decide to go into nursing.”

Also weighing into her decision was the fact there’s a large demand for nurses and a lot that could be done with that degree.

Skagos decided to come to TRU after also applying to the University of B.C. and Vancouver Island University. She’s now in her fourth year at TRU. It’s her nursing education that has also helped her be successful as a student politician elected to TRUSU, first as the women’s representative and now as the social work, nursing and trades representative.

“I think nursing has set me up to, first of all, find different ways to relate to people,” Skagos said, “because there’s a million different ways to relate to people and there’s a million different ways to approach them, so that’s been really helpful.”

Skagos first got involved in TRUSU when she joined the Women’s Collective, which is chaired by the women’s representative.

“Initially in 2009, there was a really strong group of women who showed excellent leadership skills,” she said.

“Being a feminist and having an outlet to express my political feelings, an outlet for my activism, [it] was really, really good.

“Then in 2010, the Women’s

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Skagos said a lot of people still approach her and ask: “haven’t you already won the fight? Why are you still bitching?” Her response is that while women can now vote and have careers, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

“To me, you can’t have gender equality if gender violence is still a normal part of society,” she said.

“Of course, it’s frowned upon, but it’s there all of the time. And it’s still happening, so I guess I keep bitching.”

This year, Skagos made the shift from women’s representative to TRUSU director after finding her nursing studies required her shifts working at the students union needed to be more f lexible. Working for the Women’s Collective tends to require energy be devoted to it at set times.

As a director, her goal for this year is to concentrate on the students union’s Vote Education campaign, where students are encouraged to register for May 14, 2013’s provincial election.

“I think that this is going to be a really crucial provincial election,” she said.

“I really want people to go out and vote.

“Even if they’re voting for other reasons because they really care about health care or whatever, the fact that they’re going out and voting is the important part.”

Skagos also said she wants to continue to educate people about the student movement and the political process by having substantial, five- to 10-minute conversations with students around TRU, rather than simply asking them to sign petitions.

“That’s what I feel my biggest success is: to just educate people,” she said.

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Networking and mentoring tips Larissa Pepper Ω Contributor

Networking is one of the most important skills to transition from post -secondary education to a career. The Career Mentoring Program offers networking opportunities throughout the year. This column will share networking tips to help enhance your understanding and confidence in professional networking.

Tip one: Remember your ‘Introduction,’ your name, major, program, year of study, and what career(s) you

are exploring.

Tip two: Keep an open mind.

Do not exclude potential mentors because they do not seem to fit with your career goals. You will be amazed how mentors from different industries may have insightful advice to offer, suggested individuals to contact, etc. Consider going to a table with no-one else there, chance and happenstance play a significant role in career development.

Networking and mentoring tips is presented by the TRU Career Mentoring & Ambassador Program.

It’s a great school year to be a woman infor med of how Canadians live. Ω Roving Editor Also a volunteer at the Elizabeth Fr y Societ y, A ndersone said she comes f rom st rong fe“Look around the room and male family members. see how powerful the collective The meeting was, “just what is so far,” said Alexandra MoultI expected it to be about,” she on to a group of 11 female TRU said. students.

The tone and tact of the g roup On Thursday, Sept. 20, these was also discussed. women made up the first meet“I’m not saying we can’t be ing of 2012-13 for TRUSU’s abrasive,” MoultWomen’s Collecon said. tive.

“We can totally Bringing a varibe abrasive on ety of topics, the cer tain issues.” students discussed Th rough her initiatives and conprog ram in ancerns they would th ropolog y, she like to focus on spent the last this year. year working on Most prominent a research project of all the ideas was about sexual safethe Dec. 6 memori —Alexandra Moulton t y on campus. al for the 14 female An impor tant fatalities at the subject for her, École Polytech“[Let’s] show how g reat Moulton encou raged the idea nique in 1989.

Also known as the Montréal women can be, not just what of a sexual safet y seminar, not Massacre, gunman Marc Lepine women can endu re, which is only for medical safet y but for murdered 14 women, claiming to also incredible,” Moulton said. emotional well-being and emVita A ndersone was the only power ment. “fight feminism.”

For those interested in joinThe TRUSU Women’s Collec- inter national st udent present at ing the TRUSU Women’s Coltive will be holding a vigil in re- the meeting.

Or iginally f rom Lat via, she lective, the next meeting will membrance on Nov. 29 (in order said it was impor tant to her for be held Thu rsday, Sept. 27 at 6 to avoid conf lict with exams).

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ing to obtain an education, the event is specifically relevant to students.

“Fighting for women’s rights can sometimes make others uncomfortable,” Moulton said, “but it’s an important discomfort for us to create.”

Respect for women on campus and showcasing women’s talents were other potential goals of the group.

“I’m not saying we can’t be abrasive. We can totally be abrasive on certain issues ”

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The buzz around campus Ω Contributor

Have you seen an abundance of honeybees buzzing around TRU as of late? If so, be assured this is not an infestation. Rather it is a small project run by Ron Rosentreter, a chef and instructor in the culinary arts program.

300,000 honeybees call TRU home, nesting in five different hives located on the top of the culinary arts building.

Rosentreter began this project two years ago. It all began when he took a backyard beekeeping course out of self-interest. “I’ve just always liked bugs,” he said.

Rosentreter then got permission from the school to keep bees on campus grounds.

There is no concern for safety, as honeybees do not attack unless provoked.

“I’ve only been stung four times in two years, each of which was my fault,” said Rosentreter. “Most of the time nobody knows the bees are there.”

Rosentreter does not feed these 300,000 honeybees at all. They take care of their own needs by searching out their own food such as the flowers around the campus.

No doubt the flowers on campus reap the benefits of pollination, but pollination is not the goal of this project; it’s honey.

Rosentreter uses the honey as a sugar substitute in the food in the cafeteria.

“We use it at night in the ice cream, we use it on the sauce in the ribs,” he said. The honey is also jarred and sold in the cafeteria.

“I’m quite excited about it,” said Tom Owen, TRU’s director of environment and sustainability. “Here what you’ve got is a sustainability initiative, taking what could be a wasted space and turning it into a producing part of campus. “[The culinary arts students] are using the honey in their Accolades presentations,” Owen said. “It lowers their costs and they get a return out of it.”

“Honey makes back the investment,” said Rosentreter. He couldn’t have begun the beehive project at a better time, considering honeybee populations are rapidly declining in various parts of the world.

According to a 2010 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, “Global honey bee colony disorder and other threats to insect pollinators,” indicates Europe, North America, Japan and the Middle East are all experiencing severe annual losses in honeybee colonies.

Losses in the Middle East are reported between 10-15 per cent annually, while in North America losses are in the range of 30 per cent and as high as 53 per cent in Europe.

This breakdown in honeybee population is called colony collapse disorder.

These declines are reported to be due to a parasitic mite species, Varroa destructor, which is no bigger than a pinhead.

Originating from Southeast Asia, it feeds on bees’ circulatory fluids, spreads viruses and bacteria and can kill an entire colony in three years.

According to Owen, the problem with invasive species is that “they have no known predators. The invasive [species] come in and run amuck.” The loss of honeybee populations may be farther reaching than once thought.

According to the UNEP, agriculture has become increasingly dependent on pollinators over the past 50 years.

The UNEP also states that honeybees are the most important pollina-

tors worldwide, contributing an estimated $153 billion to the production of global food crops. This contribution totals 9.5 per cent of the value of human food production worldwide.

“It’s going to [have an] effect on biodiversity. If all the plants that need to be pollinated are not being pollinated, they will die off,” Owen said.

“People are anthropomorphic in our views. It’s like a deck of cards, you only see the top card, but all the bottom cards are holding it in place.

It’s not well understood and these bees are a good example of that.”

According to the UNEP, the value of crops pollinated by bees in the United States was $14.6 billion in 2000.

Paralleling this is the fact that over the last 50 years in the United States bee colonies have declined from more than 5.5-million honeybee colonies to less than 2.5 million, a 50 per cent reduction. Honeybees find themselves in an important place both economically and environmentally.

“Pollination is not just a free service,” the UNEP states within its report, “but one that requires investment and stewardship to protect and sustain it.”

Ron Rosentreter shows off his bees.

— PHOTO BY LUKE HENDERSON

Tensions grow between China and Japan over disputed islands

Mark Hendricks Ω Contributor

Is your Apple device being tracked by the FBI? A hacker group claims it has obtained 12 million Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) for Apple devices from a FBI computer.

UDIDs are a string of numbers and letters that are specific to each individual device. While normally harmless, UDIDs can be misused to access personal information including location.

AntiSec, a “hacktivist” collective, has currently released one million of these UDIDs they claimed to have taken from a file labelled “NCFTA_iOS_devices_ intel.csv.”

These UDIDs were not just linked to American Apple products either.

Le Monde, a French daily newspaper, stated thousands of these UDIDs were linked to Apple devices belonging to French citizens.

Thenextweb.com has set up a site for people to see if their UDID was included in the list of one million that has been released.

There is no way to change your UDID. It’s important to remember this information is all based on the word of hacker group AntiSec. If your UDID is on the list that has been released be careful with how you use it because at the very least one group has your UDID. Discover your UDID at whatsmyudid.com To find if your UDID is on the list go to thenextweb.com and search for “Apple UDID leak.”

Where you can find out more: techland.time.com

China and Japan’s long history of conf lict and political tension threatens to erupt again after the Japanese government bought a chain of islands, also claimed by China, from private owners.

The purchase of the Senkaku Islands — known as the Diaoyu Islands in Beijing — by the Japanese government prompted a series of protests in China.

Three of the five Senkaku Islands were owned by the same individual. The Japanese government signed a ¥2.05-billion contract (roughly $25.5 million) with

this individual, which effectively gave them ownership over these three islands.

Japan claims this purchase was done to prevent a purchase from a Tokyo governor who planned to develop these islands commercially. The Japanese government was worried over the damage such a thing could cause to SinoJapanese relationships.

The Chinese government claims their ownership of the islands can be traced much farther back in time than Japan’s claim over the islands.

This is being seen as an attack

on Chinese sovereignty, even causing the Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi to comment to the China Daily that China would take “necessary measures to protect its territorial sovereignty.”

Chinese surveillance vessels, which are lightly armed, have been scouting the waters around the disputed islands. With neither side backing down or willing to compromise over ownership of the islands, tensions seem destined to grow.

Where you can find out more: www.guardian.co.uk Chimpanzee testing takes big step towards end

Sept. 21 marked a big day in animal testing — the largest research chimp colony in the United States released all of its test chimpanzees.

This decision was made last December by the National Institutes of Health to remove 110 chimpanzees from medical testing after a committee deemed research on chimpanzees ethically problematic and in most instances scientifically unnecessary.

This committee also saw a stop to further funding for chimpanzee research and a review of the chimpanzees under their care.

Chimp Haven, a sanctuary for the animals, will take in 10 of the primates while the others will go to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, which has facilities to care for them. They will not be eligible for further testing.

There are still roughly 475 government-owned chimpanzees that can be used for medical research in the United States, but the closure of the largest facility marks a big stepping-stone.

Where you can find out more: www.washingtonpost.com

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It’s getting Hoyt in here Lizzy Hoyt kicks off the Live at TRU! series Ω Roving Editor

Mainstream music was demoted for anyone lucky enough to catch the classical training of Lizzy Hoyt, who captured the vibrancy of indie-pop, but exceeded it with her depth and diversity.

Dynamic, talented, charming, and charismatic are just a few of the words to describe the total experience received by fans at the afternoon show on Thursday, Sept. 20, at the Alumni Theatre.

For more than an hour, Hoyt hooked fans, body and soul, through the forceful performance of violin, guitar, harp, singing and tap dancing.

Her performance at the TRU Alumni Theatre was made possible by the Live at TRU! event series.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity for people to go and see and hear things they wouldn’t otherwise touch,” said Susie Safford, the event’s planner and TRU’s associate vice-president of student affairs. She added that the cultural event series has been running for approximately 40 years.

“It’s an intimate setting where you can talk to the practitioner,” she said.

TRU supported the event with funding, as did the Faculty Association. The culinary arts department was responsible for snacks outside the Alumni Theatre where patrons had the opportunity to meet Hoyt and buy CDs. “It’s great to have these events at this fabulous ticket price,” Safford said.

The concert series has always been free.

Before mesmerizing crowds across Canada, Hoyt had professional musicians as parents and as a result began violin lessons at age four. She said she was dismayed to discover that upon first picking up the violin she did not have the skills of the professionals that were frequently practising in her home.

She admitted to mild teenage rebellion, temporarily resisting music, but in the end, “fiddling got me through,” she said.

After two finalist finishes and one nomination (USA Songwriting competition Finalist, John Lennon Songwriting Competition Finalist, Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee), she took top prize in 2012, winning Best Female Artist at the International Acoustic Music Awards.

All the while Hoyt’s career has been bubbling upwards, she also earned a degree in sociology at the University of Alberta, graduating in 2009 with distinction. Since then, she has worked full-time as a musician.

As the inaugural performer of Live at TRU!, Hoyt set the local audience’s expectations high.

The tunes began and with a toe-tapping rhythm laid down by Hoyt accompanied by guitarist and mandolinist, Chris Tabbert. The encouraged crowd erupted into timed clapping.

Throughout the upbeat tracks and traditional sets, Hoyt’s feet were never stagnant.

“I think we have an awesome crowd on our hands,” she declared to Tabbert after the first song.

She identified the types of songs she plays as either traditional, covers or originals. But the members of the crowd saw before their eyes immense diversity and from one song to the next, it could have been a different person performing to their delight.

Through the second song, “Star of County Down,” Hoyt easily transitioned from high-pitched, fast vocals, to even faster riffs on her violin. In fact it was a borrowed violin, she explained to the crowd, as her own had suffered some damage during a flight and she reached out frantically to a musical network in Calgary for a spare.

Each song ended with a bright smile

from Hoyt, where she made it obvious her joy of performing.

Her third song of the afternoon was the first original, “Picture on My Heart,” and like many of her own crafted songs, was inspired by her home in Alberta.

“One of my favourite things about going away, is coming home,” Hoyt said.

She followed that with “Home,” the title track off her latest album, which fans bought eagerly after the performance. It was here she switched to guitar, while Tabbert showed seasoned talent, picking up the mandolin.

“Jolene,” a Dolly Parton original was stamped with unique passion and intensity. The song was “Celti-fied” according to Hoyt, adding another element of urgency and panic.

The playful jostling between Hoyt and Tabbert was ever-present and natural. Hoyt entertained the crowd throughout with her dynamic proficiencies, but also with her easy-going humour and natural rapport.

Comparing the crowd to others across the country, Hoyt explained her shows in Nova Scotia were responded to with the most “yips” and hollers and she encouraged the Kamloops musiclovers to engage in the show however they saw fit.

The audience went silent in captivation when she sung in French, deeper, and strummed the gorgeous harp that had been teasing the crowd with anticipation since the show’s opening.

To truly establish herself as an overachiever, she tap-danced to close out the show, including the last song, another set of traditionals, wielding the violin in between stomping segments with masterful ease.

Hoyt is the first of six Live at TRU! performers this season. The next is Oct. 18 with Canadian bluesman J.W. Jones in the Alumni Theatre.

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Album review: ¡UNO! Taylor Rocca

Ω Copy/Web Editor Green Day is back. On Sept. 25, the band will release ¡UNO!, the first of three Green Day albums set to hit shelves by Jan. 15, 2013.

The band’s previous release, 21st Century Breakdown, was applauded by critics as it received the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2010, beating out rock gods AC/DC, U2, Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood, as well as Dave Matthews Band. ¡UNO! marks a return to the late-1990s/ early-2000s sound that Green Day became so well-known for with Nimrod (1997) and Warning (2000).

That being said, ¡UNO! doesn’t quite compare to 1994’s Dookie, widely regarded as Green Day’s crowning achievement.

“Oh Love” is the first single off of the album and it has stirred a bit of controversy with a racy, explicit version of its music video being released exclusively on Playboy.com.

The single isn’t the only thing stirring controversy leading up to the album’s release.

On Sept. 21, Green Day performed at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. As the band’s performance was winding to a close, lead singer Billie Joe

Armstrong stopped mid-song and spiralled out of control in a cursing tirade as he alleged Green Day’s set was being cut short.

“Gimme a f*ckin’ break! One minute left. One minute f*ckin’ left.

You’re gonna give me f*ckin’ one minute?” Armstrong spat into the mike. “Let me tell you something.

I’ve been around since f*ckin’ 1980-f*ckin’-eight and you’re gonna give me one f*ckin’ minute?

You gotta be f*ckin’ kidding me!

What the f*ck? I’m not f*ckin’ Justin Bieber you motherf*ckers. You gotta be f*ckin’ jokin’. This is a f*ckin’ joke.”

Armstrong proceeded to smash his guitar on stage before walking off.

On Sept. 23, the band’s website announced Armstrong was seeking treatment for substance abuse and subsequent promotional appearances for ¡UNO! had been postponed.

While Armstrong is battling substance abuse, the latest material being released by Green Day has not suffered as a result.

“Nuclear Family” opens the album with three minutes of energy and a short, but great bass solo courtesy of Mike Dirnt.

“Stay the Night” relieves “Nuclear Family” and truly hits home the return to that familiar sound from 2000’s Warning.

“Kill the DJ” is laid out mid-

album with a groovy guitar track courtesy of Armstrong, who sings, “We are the vultures, the dirtiest kind. We’ll cut you once in your heart and in your mind.”

It isn’t all doom and gloom on ¡UNO! as “Fell For You” is a bit of a throw-back to some of Green Day’s classic love-angst tracks from the mid- to late-90s.

“I had a dream that I kissed your lips and it felt so true,” Armstrong belts out. “Then I woke up as a nervous wreck and I fell for you.”

“Sweet 16” is the tune that most closely ties ¡UNO! to 2010’s 21st Century Breakdown as it resembles “21 Guns” in many ways, primarily Armstrong’s soft vocal track.

Finally “Oh Love” wraps up the 12-track effort by the East Bay, Calif. natives.

For the die-hard, lifelong Green Day fan, chances are you will be pleased by ¡UNO!.

For the Green Day fan who lost interest when “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” became a pop-smash on the Billboard chart, there might still be hope for you as ¡UNO! does rekindle some of the late-90s Green Day magic.

Just don’t expect the same glory that made you fall in love with Green Day back in 1994. ¡UNO! is no Dookie, but it is a respectable follow-up to 21st Century Breakdown.

Chixdiggit! isn’t exactly new to the Canadian music scene having been around since the early-1990s.

Their most recent release is 2011’s Safeways Here We Come, a seventrack EP released on Fat Wreck Chords.

The short release includes the tracks “Swedish Rat” and “Miso Ramen.”

The band comes from Calgary at the bottom of the beautiful foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains.

Despite being around the Canadian punk scene for more than 20 years, the foursome has only released four fulllength studio albums, as well as a reissue of their self-titled debut.

“Geocities Kitty,” found on 2005’s Pink Razors, is one of the most wellknown tracks from the band, with lead singer KJ Jensen sharing a story about heart-break and the cure available courtesy of the Internet.

Chixdiggit! wouldn’t be a relatable Canadian punk-racket without the inclusion of some well-known Canadiana within their songs. “I Drove the Coquihalla” is particularly notable and while not necessarily the deepest lyrical masterpiece, Jensen sings desperately about making the long and arduous drive down B.C.’s Coquihalla highway in order to be with the one he loves.

It goes without saying hockey will typically leak into the influence of Canadian punk acts and Chixdiggit! is no exception to the unwritten rule. “(I Feel Like) Gerry Cheevers (Stitch Marks on My Heart)” is all about the former Boston Bruins goaltender, a fantastic tribute to a great hockey player.

Also worthy listens out of the Chixdiggit! library: “Chupacabras,” “Spanish Fever,” and “My Dad vs. P.M.”

Anyone looking for an explosive duo playing 1970s-tinged rock with a seriously modern edge? Pack A.D. The Vancouverites bring power chords, slamming drums and smoky, melodic vocals. And they’re girls, rock ‘n’ roll patriarchy be damned.

Living on that edge of hipstercool and garage-rock griminess, they pump out tunes made for dingy places with erratic lighting and big speakers.

Also night — it just seems ideal for the night, with leather jackets, sunglasses and a pint.

The bluesy-ness of their style moves them into a unique position when compared to other garagerock duos like the Japandroids,

Death From Above 1979 and The Black Keys.

It’s not as fast paced or dirty. The guitar isn’t as much of a the center piece as it is in other duos, with Maya Miller’s drums more prominent.

That isn’t to say Becky Black’s guitar playing is subpar — it’s not — but with a really unique voice she relies more on her vocals. A white woman’s bluesy-sound, similar to Katie Stelmanis of Austra, but used and trained in a totally different way, raw and even visceral at times as opposed to controlled.

Also, according to their CBC Music profile, they like soup.

For a taster try “Sirens” off of Unpersons, their most recent release.

The Omega has an Ye Olde Canadian Music Corner exclusive review of last week’s Hey Ocean show at the Blue Grotto.

Check it out at www.theomega.ca Taylor Rocca

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Kergin and Rocca think they’re qualified to critique Canadian music because they have a radio show. Think you can do better? Contact Mike at editor@truomega.ca with a couple-hundred words on a lesser-known Canadian band and get in the Canadian Music Corner!

Puzzle of the Week #3 – More Marbles You have some marbles in six colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Given the clues following, how many of each colour do you have?

1. The number of green marbles plus the number of violet marbles equals the number of blue marbles.

2. Of all of the pairs of marble colours, only orange and green total ten marbles.

3. There are more orange marbles and more yellow marbles each than there are red marbles.

4. The number of each of the red, orange, and yellow marbles are all primes and the number of each of the green, blue, and violet marbles are all not primes, unless it is the other way around.

5. The number of red marbles can be evenly divided by the number of blue marbles.

6. There are from one to nine marbles of each colour, and each no two colours have the same number of marbles.

This puzzle is based on the form of capital letters. It is possible to argue the sets should be a bit different. If you come up with an alternative split that is close, if you explain the differences clearly, it will be counted as correct.

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.

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The Omega · Volume 22, Issue 4

Arts & Entertainment

Film review: Where Do We Go Now?

Kamloops Film Society opens with a dramatic comedy about Lebanon Brendan Kergin

Ω Arts & Entertainment Editor The Kamloops Film Society entered its 40th season with a drama/comedy (and at times musical) taking a very serious subject and humanizing it in a unique way.

Where Do We Go Now? has won multiple film festival awards, including the 2011 Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award and there’s a reason for the critical popularity.

It’s a charmer with a heart.

The film takes place in a small town and begins by showing a slice of life in the village. This is a village in Lebanon, a country which has known war and violence with a 15-year civil war ending in 1990.

The war and its repercussions are an important history to know going in, especially the divide between the followers of Christianity and Islam.

The small village is surrounded by mines, cut off from the rest of the 21st century by a partially broken bridge, which very few citizens dare cross, partly because they don’t really need to.

Two cousins make regular trips out to a larger town nearby for goods. They are also able to set up a TV and radio, which are the only sources of broadcast media for entertainment in the village.

The plot revolves around the moderately cut-off villagers as religious tensions rise in other parts of the country.

They live in relative peace, though families from both sides lost members in the civil war.

As rumour of violence begins in

other places, those old wounds open up and that’s where the story gains it’s heart.

While town life is going on it’s fun, with quick wit and character building.

The men and women react to the reports differently. The men start to eye those with a different religion as dangerous others.

The women, having gotten along famously with their counterparts and lost sons and husbands to the war, look to distract the men from the feud with a variety of more outrageous and hilarious schemes, from breaking the TV to hiring Russian belly dancers.

This is how the film takes a different look at war and religious violence.

The women are desperate to hide the outside conf lict from the men.

The villagers have lost many loved ones due to the civil war and don’t want to relive the pain.

The possible tragedy would be compounded by the fact the men who would be fighting grew up and live in the same village.

The film takes the audience into the war m hear t of a village, just about destroys ever ything with violence, fear and hate and pulls us out again with some hope.

Unfortunately, large-scale violence can’t be beaten back with good baking and hash, but it does give some hope that old fear and hate can be patched up if people look at it in a rational and more personal sense.

The ensemble cast works well together, from the squabbling group of women to the priest and imam (who regularly hang out together, side with the women

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and provide some of the best comedic scenes). At times there can be too many characters to keep track of, and, ironically, to a Canadian viewer, it can be difficult to tell who is Muslim and who is Christian until they explicitly say it or they get matched to a family member.

If you have any interest in life in the Middle East, Where Do We Go Now? probably captures a good glimpse of it in Lebanon.

Despite being from a culture on the other side of the world, characters are relatable and the messages conveyed are easily understood.

Album review: Mother Mother’s The Sticks

Taylor Rocca

Ω Copy/Web Editor Mother Mother continues its dominance of Canadian indie with Sept.

18’s The Sticks. Their fourth studio album follows 2011′s smash-success Eureka.

While the classic Mother Mothersound is present throughout, the mood is much darker than previous efforts from the Quadra Island, B.C. fivepiece group.

“Omen,” opens the album with lead singer Ryan Guldemond setting a gloomy mood in 66 seconds.

“Something about the world today makes a boy feel a bit insane,” Guldemond sings. “From daffodils to acid rain to anti-Christ on a tidal wave, but that’s all right, that’s OK. I can look the other way.”

The same dark path continues with a slow, plodding drum track and ominous guitar in the title track.

“Let’s Fall in Love,” the first single, is more reminiscent of danceable, upbeat Eureka.

While not an aggressive punk act, Mother Mother has incorporated more political flavour to The Sticks than previously, with “Businessman” exploring this new edge.

That said, there are strong indiepop cinnamon swirls within the dough of The Sticks. “Dread in my Heart” injects the classic Mother Mother acoustic-pop while juxtaposing it

with downers such as, “There’s a godawful, sh*tty feeling of dread in my heart and I can’t seem to change my attitude, but I can change my heart.”

“Infinitesimal” might be the grooviest track wedged in, momentarily taking a well-lit side-street from the dark path.

The romantic “Love It Dissipates” delivers calm as Guldemond professes to the listener that he would be “your anything” and “your everything” through interesting metaphors such as, “If you were a smoke, I’d be your drag. If you were a junkie, I’d be your fix.”

Between “The Cry Forum,” “Waiting for the World to End” and “To the Wild,” The Sticks comes to an emotional close.

Mother Mother’s female vocalists, powerful contributors to previous studio releases, are not as prominently featured as expected. “To The Wild” provides Ryan’s sister Molly Guldemond and Ali Siadat with their biggest role.

Fans of early Mother Mother will come to enjoy The Sticks, but be forewarned -- it may take a few thorough listens to warm up to the new material.

As a whole, The Sticks is darker than previous efforts by Mother Mother, but does not disappoint. The band is maturing and progressing, avoiding the tendency some bands have of burning into one consistent and regular sound.

Feist, with her newest effort Metals, reaped the rewards of her hard work at the Polaris Music Prize Gala on Sept. 24.

“This is my worst fear – oh my god,” Feist said as she got on stage.

“You’d think from a lifetime of terrible speeches I would remember at one point to write something down, but I never do because it seems presumptuous to prepare,” she continued, attesting to the humble nature of one of Canada’s music greats.

As tradition, the attending nominees performed for the live audience and those watching via webcast.

Feist was the last of Monday night’s seven attending nominees to perform before the designating of the accolades, closing the night out with the opening track from Metals, “The Bad in Each Other.” The infectious stomping percussion of Feist’s twosong set left fresh the reasoning for her winning of this year’s prize.

Last year’s winner, Arcade Fire, was called to the stage by hosts Grant Lawrence of CBC and Lauren Toyota of Much Music to present the prize. Upon being revealed as this year’s winner, Feist promptly hid under the table, stirring memories of moments earlier when she shyly declined to make a speech after her performance.

Before leaving the stage, Feist took time to acknowledge the speech given by fellow shortlist nominee Kathleen Edwards.

“Kathleen said everything I wish I could if I was smarter and prettier,” Feist said.

Edwards had expressed her gratitude for the Polaris Music Prize’s ability to start conversations about music. She concluded by thanking the executive director of the prize, Steve Jordan, for “creating a vehicle for those of us who don’t want to march in the sh*t parade.”

Leading into tonight’s awarding of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, Edwards’s Voyageur was the public favourite with 22.65 per cent of the response to a poll taken by CBC Music.

As outlined in its mission statement, the prize aims to award creativity and diversity in Canadianrecorded music. The winner of the Polaris Music Prize is selected by a panel of Canadian journalists, broadcasters, bloggers and programmers.

The Long List of nominees was whittled down to the Short List released on July 17. The final selection was made on Monday night during the Gala at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. Along with bragging rights, Feist was awarded $30,000.

The evening was dedicated to the contributions of Sam Sniderman, better known as Sam The Record Man, who passed away on Sept. 23.

Other notable mentions on the night included 2009 Polaris winner F*cked Up’s opening performance, which saw front-man Damian Abraham kiss his new-born and dedicate “Queen of Hearts” off the nominated album David Comes to Life to his three-year-old son Holden, who couldn’t be at the Gala because “he had other sh*t to do.” In typical fashion, Abraham was shirtless by the end of the set.

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don’t play. It’s a different importance.”

The WolfPack will continue their preparation for the regular season, The WolfPack men’s volleyball which opens on Nov. 2 in Brandon, team got a taste of international Man. competition Thursday, as they faced The team looked strong in the Argentina’s under-21 national team early going, but problems started to in an exhibition match. The ‘Pack emerge as the match progressed. lost in three straight sets - 25-21, 25As the third set came to a close 18 and 25-11 - never fully recovering the ‘Pack looked overpowered. They after falling behind in the first set. battled miscommunication and er“First set, I thought we had it,” rors throughout the match and saw said WolfPack head coach Pat Hentheir team attack nelly following the percentage fall from game. .294 in the first set to “We had a nice -.071 in the third. lead, came out and While those numsurprised them with bers may seem disour blocking. But Arconcerting, it’s imgentina made a great adjustment...I’m not

—James Gudjonson portant to look at them with some persurprised in that spective. sense, they’ve been “We’re two weeks in and we do training for a long time and this is team still has some kinks to work our first two weeks, but it’s a great out if they hope to medal next week- have new guys out here,” Hennelly said. end against world-class opponents. lesson now.”

“There’s definitely some commu“The attitude,” said Argentina’s The Argentinean team is on its way to Langley, B.C. in order to par- team manager Osvaldo Celia, when nication. I think you see us at points ticipate in the U23 Pan American asked why his team came out slow in and there’s no communication problems, so maybe just a little lack of the first set.

Men’s Volleyball Cup. “Ya know, the beginning, yester- confidence in those situations and It’s a group that has been training together for five months and day - good play. Today, they [begin] that always manifests in communifaced off against a number of teams thinking this match is easy, never cation.”

The WolfPack men’s volleyball in South America before coming to the match is easy. The thing that you North America, where they have play well and the opposite play so- team will play their first home game been playing exhibition matches on so. Today, the university play very Nov. 16 at the Tournament Capital well in the first set and our team Centre. their way to Langley.

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They are a strong group lead by captain Gonzalo Quiroga, who had 30 of Argentina’s 75 kills Thursday.

Quiroga is a powerful player that the WolfPack were unable to adjust to.

Argentina is one of the favourites heading into the Pan Am Volleyball Cup, ranked second in the world, even though their team is an under-21 squad that will be playing against under-23 opponents.

That said, their win against the WolfPack had some flaws and the

“...maybe just a little lack of confidence...”

A bright future ahead

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

Is Kelsey Martin the future of WolfPack women’s soccer?

“I was thrilled, I thought she thoroughly deserved it,” said head Ω Sports Editor coach Tom McManus.

“She had played so hard, scored It’s a little early to call her a a couple of great goals off the corphenom, but Kelsey Martin is cer- ner kicks. But even in the first tainly turning heads. The shock- game [of the year] I think I only played her a half, but she played so ing part? She’s only 17.

Martin is a rookie on the Wolf- strong. I was pulling everyone off Pack women’s soccer team. She’s to give the other players playing time anyway and in her first year not one comof post-secondplaint out of her. ary — studying She just came science — and off, understood. hopes to become Boom, she’s into a vet one day. it. She’s a good Her love of anteam player.” imals is obvious Soccer has alwhen she talks ways been Marabout her dog tin’s number-one Kiko, whom she focus. She’s an tries to spend avid skier — as much of her and a very good limited free time one according with as possible. to what team Outside of co-captain Abschool and socWolfPack rookie Kelsey bey McAuley cer, she deMartin (Photo courtesy of has heard — but scribes herself TRU Athletics) she’ll be givas a normal city ing up her seagirl who loves son pass to Sun spending time with her family and keeping in Peaks for the first time in order to better focus on her season with the touch with friends.

But above all else, she is a soc- Wolf Pack.

Martin began playing soccer cer player.

Martin was named the PAC- when she was just three years old WEST Player of the Week last and has played every year since. week and at the age of 17 she is Growing up in the Kamloops socone of the youngest athletes to cer system, she’s had her fair share of games against a lot of her curhave ever received the honour.

But it’s not just the PACWEST rent teammates, many of whom brass who have taken notice of her didn’t always enjoy the experience. outstanding play this month.

“I was definitely really competiMartin was recently named the Canadian Collegiate Athletic As- tive, especially in high school,” sociation female Athlete of the Martin said. “My [current] teamWeek. She is the first female TRU mate Courtney Daley hated me, athlete to receive the award in she admitted that a few years ago.”

Amidst all the hype and awards, more than three years.

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Martin has managed to keep her head on straight. She spoke at length about maintaining her play in order to keep her starting position, how “awesome” her coaches have been to play for and described her teammates as “almost like sisters, I guess.”

More than anything, Martin sees herself as having the power to be a role model for young girls in the community.

“We have the teams that come out at our home games that play for KYSA [Kamloops Youth Soccer Association],” Martin said.

“They love coming out and holding our hands at the start of the game. I hope that I would inspire them to keep playing soccer.”

Looking ahead Martin will continue to be a big part of the WolfPack women’s soccer program.

She will have four more seasons of eligibility after this year and if she continues to play at such a high level she will be a cornerstone of

the team for years to come.

Spending just a few hours with Kelsey and the people who know her well, it’s hard to comprehend that we’re talking about a girl who is still only 17.

“If I was to look ahead I can see her being one of our top goal-scorers of all time,” McManus said.

“I can see her being a captain of this team, without a doubt. She does it through words, because she doesn’t mince her words. She tells people exactly what they should be doing and I like that. And she will go out and be a leader on the field through the centre midfield for us...I think that’s pretty darn good for a rookie.”

If McManus sees Martin as a future captain of the Wolf Pack, she’s certainly in a good position to learn the role.

The Wolf Pack use a “buddy” system, which pairs a veteran player with a rookie, in order to help the young players adjust to

life as a student-athlete at TRU. Martin’s buddy? Current team cocaptain Abbey McAuley.

“To be able to come in as a rookie and play the way that she’s been playing already, it only looks like she can go forward,” McAuley said.

“I see her being a strong component of the team not only this year but in the future and I think that with the positions that he’s [coach McManus] playing her in, I think she has the ability to go out there and make a name for herself.”

The Wolf Pack will return to Hillside Stadium at the end of the month to face their provincial rivals University of B.C. Okanagan.

It’s a game that will have some special meaning for Martin, so she’s hoping for a lot of fan support.

“They should come out and support us at our next home game. It’s Sept. 29, which is also my birthday, so come support.”

WolfPack Scoreboard Women’s Soccer

Cross Country

4-0 over Capilano Saturday 2-0 over Vancouver Island University Sunday

Men’s Volleyball

Men’s (6 km)

25-21 L, 25-18 L, 25-11 L

Men’s Soccer

Women’s Volleyball

Chris Curl 21:31 (1st) Evan Hall 21:40 (2nd) Mark Carolan 22:31 (9th)

3-2 over Capilano Saturday 2-0 Loss to Vancouver Island University

7th Place Finish

Women’s (4 km) Melissa Ryeo 17.49 (7th) Jessie Paustian 18:19 (9th) Alannah Stewart 19:14 (13th)

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