Issue 12 2014-15

UBCO’s Student Newspaper

April 7th 2015 | Vol 27, Issue 12

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IN THIS ISSUE

In this issue we we delve into the relationship between nature and technology when it comes to Instagramming that perfect shot. We check out local hotspots for UBCO students to explore the Okanagan, and take their Instagram-worthy selfies. Page 12

NEWS

LIFE

ARTS

Deborah Buszard discusses UBCO at the annual DVC Townhall Page 3

Watching Language: the Local musician myths surrounding sign interviews language Page 6 & 7 Page 14 Artist Profile: Lauren Bell UBCO welcomes The illustrated fashions of Page 8 & 9 Heatwave Radio UBCO Page 4 & 5 Page 15 Artist Profile: Connor Charlesworth Page 10 & 11

University Centre 3333 University Way Kelowna, BC, Canada V1Y 5N3 Office: UNC 132B Phone: 250-807-9296 thephoenixnews.com Cover and Feature images by Sarah James

SPORTS

OPINIONS

UBCO’s newest sports club sets sail Page 17

UBCO faculty wars Page 20

Athlete profiles - get to know the Heat Page 18

News Editor Alex Barberis

Opinions Editor Brittni MacKenzie-Dale

Web Editor Justin Kroeker

Life Editor Maranda Wilson

Creative Director Cameron Welch

Current Affairs Editor Alex Sadlowski

Features Editor Sasha Curry

Art Director Sarah James

Copy Editor Reba Ouimet

Arts Editor Jeff Bulmer

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Interim Sports Editor Cameron Welch

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copy@thephoenixnews.com Laura Johnston, Maggie Willson, Tom Haslam, Brodie Mackenzie-Dale, Juwana Grant, Sam Woods, Jeff Krupa, Haleh Barmaki, Torie Church, Varenka Kim, David Vassiliev, and Easton Doran

Say no...to animal disection Page 21 Free will: The ship without a captain Page 22 The Phoenix is the UBCO students’ free press.

Editorial content is separate from the University of British Columbia Student’s Union Okanagan (UBCSUO) and from the UBC institution at large.

The editorial staff encourages everyone to submit material to The Phoenix but reserves the right to withdraw submissions from publication for any reason. “Any reason” could be material deemed to be sexist, racist, homophobic, or of poor taste or quality.

The Phoenix will not publish materials which condone, promote, or express actions which are illegal under current laws. This does not include articles which provide an in-depth examination of both sides of a controversial subject (e.g. legalizing marijuana).

The Phoenix is published, in part, by the UBCSUO and is an active member of the Canadian University Press.

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April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix |news@thephoenixnews.com | News Editor: Alexandra Barberis

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do you feel about the DVC Townhall and the * How future of the UBCO campus? We want to know! Send

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Events April 9th

Blue Drinks Kelowna

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM/FREE/ EME 2202 An informal networking event for anyone interested in water issues. Organized by UBCO students and the Canadian Water Network. Presentations until 4:30 PM, at which point the event will move to The Well Pub for a networking session.

April 10th

Athletics Scholarship Breakfast

7:15 AM/$125 ticket, $1250 table/Coast Capri Hotel Ballroom All funds raised go directly to UBCO’s Athletics Scholarship Endowment. Online Registration now open.

April 13th

Photo from Creative Commons/Accelerate Okanagan

DVC TOWNHALL TALKS ABOUT UBCO’S PRIORITIES IN 2015 What you need to know about the campus master plan and UBCO’s future Jeff Krupa Contributor On Monday, March 30th, 2015, Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) and Principal Professor Deborah Buszard hosted an open-mic Town Hall. Students, faculty, and staff were given the opportunity to ask senior administrators about the future of the Okanagan campus. Here’s a rundown of what you need to know.

The campus master plan process was recently unveiled, and the DVC pointed out exciting infrastructure updates coming to UBCO. First, the second UNC will be located beside the

NEWS BRIEFS Alex Sadlowski Current Affairs Editor

current UNC, and it will create a new (and hopefully very vibrant) courtyard centre between the two buildings. The second highlight was the library extension into the A lot area. The DVC recognized the need for increased student-focused study areas.

The DVC also fielded questions regarding the future of the internationalization of the Okanagan campus. She shared the University’s plan to increase the international student population from its current 10% to 20%-25%, and emphasized the benefits that internationalization of this campus represents in terms of cultural, educational, and financial enhancements. UBC envisions a dramatic increase in international student recruitment, and the DVC pre-emptively quelled concerns about a perceived lack of resources for international students by stating that

significant resources would be devoted to international students (such as the continuation of the Jump Start program, as well as extended integration resources).

The DVC expressed frustration about the Curtis Road situation, stating that UBC is doing everything it can outside and inside the courts to resolve it. The prognosis, however, is not positive for a short-term solution, and Professor Buszard felt that the city has been reluctant to engage in the affair. She mentioned that a possible long-term solution lies in John Hindle Road, but that won’t be completed until around 2017.

While the DVC touched on many significant concerns currently facing the Okanagan campus (including financial pressures), the overall tone of the Town Hall message was hopeful.

She emphasized the significance of this campus’ growth on its 10-year anniversary, including the large increase in student performance and faculty research productivity and how the Okanagan campus has meaningfully integrated into the Okanagan community.

Needless to say, the coming months and years will be critical for the Okanagan campus’ leadership. Decisions will be made that will fundamentally alter the way that this campus is seen. Will we continue to be informally referred to as the “younger sister” of UBC in Vancouver, or will we emerge as an equal to Vancouver in every right?

Only time, student advocacy efforts, and strategic administration will tell.

Exam Jam

Time TBD/UBCO Campus One last opportunity to work with tutors, professors, and supplemental leaders to better prepare for final exams. Ask your professor to contact Cindy Bourne to book a session .

April 17th

Alterknowledge: Nsyilxcen Language Revitalization in the Okanagan

7 PM - 8 PM at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art Nsyilxcen is the language of the Syilx (Okanagan) people. Join Michele Johnson and Hailey Causton for a discussion about language learning, revitalization, and activism in the Okanagan and beyond.

International

Facebook tracking breaks European Union law Research from the Belgian Data Protection Authorities reveals that Facebook tracks the web browsing of anyone who visits a page on the site, regardless of whether or not the user has an account and even if they have opted out of tracking in the EU. The tracking, which is done in order to better target advertisements towards the user, places cookies—files put on a computer to store information—on a user’s computer if they visit any page on Facebook, including pages that do not require an account to visit. Even third-party sites that uti-

lize one of Facebook’s social plug-ins—for example, a “Like” button—will detect and send tracking cookies to Facebook regardless of whether or not a user interacts with any plugins. Such tracking breaks EU privacy law, which states that consent must be given before enabling cookies or tracking the user.

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News Editor: Alexandra Barberis|news@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | April 7th 2015 you planning a campus intiative that you think * Are The Phoenix should know about? We want to know!

Email us at news@thephoenixnews.com!

Clockwise from Top Left: Sam Hunt, Chidi Agbo, Trophy Ewila, Jeff Bulmer, Reece Blake, Jacob Fitzgerald, Easton Doran, Jesse Huang, Slava Shevchuk, and Kevin Morrison (not pictured: Ahmed Dirar, Ozzy Corr) Photos by Jacob Fitzgerald

MEET HEATWAVE RADIO, THE NEWEST ADDITION TO THE MEDIA SCENE AT UBCO The Phoenix sits down with Heatwave radio We’ll tell you all you need to know about the newest form of media at UBCO: what they do, and how you can get involved.

Plus: A timeline of the history of Heatwave radio at UBCO Alex Barberis News Editor UBCO welcomes Heatwave Radio!

Beginning in September 2015, the first operational Heatwave Radio will begin streaming out of UNC 132B.

NEWS BRIEFS Alex Sadlowski Current Affairs Editor

With a committed team of executives, Heatwave Radio is set to add another dimension to the media scene around UBCO, but it’s been a bit of a process to get them where they are now.

The history of Heatwave Talks of a radio club have been circling around the Okanagan campus since 1993—when this campus was better known as Okanagan University College. Since then, the more promising beginnings of a radio club came to fruition in 2010 as a dream by student Stefan Mesaros.

“In one random evening of October 2010, two of my friends, Logan Schunk and Lucas Chataigner visited my dorm unit but unlike with every other visit when we just played Xbox, they told me about their idea of starting a campus radio,” detailed Mesaros in the last post on the Heatwave.fm website logged

September 29th, 2013.

“Very passionate and enthusiastic, we started meeting and planning our next steps. We called ourselves a “UBCO Radio Club” and registered as a club under the Students’ Union,” said Mesaros.

In the true fashion of establishing a club on campus, Heatwave was required to perform a series of bureaucratic hoop jumping. “It became very, very clear, very soon that we needed two things. A room for our studio and funding,” said Mesaros. “We were granted a club status… and turned to the Students’ Union and asked them for help with searching for rooms for our studio…[but] the Students’ Union always treated us as any other club.”

Regardless of how strongly Mesaros felt about the integral nature of a radio club to a student campus, a reoccurring problem at UBCO is the amount of vi-

“Radio stations have been here since freedom of speech helped to define democratic countries, so why can’t we have one here?”

STEFAN MESAROS / UBCO ALUMNUS

able space for students and student resources, and that was one of the major obstacles for the radio club.

In order to produce the content they wanted, not only would they require a space on campus large enough to house a sound booth, but the funds in order to acquire such a sound booth and pay its staff, licenses, and rent.

The business plan proposal was brought before the 2013 Students’ Union executive in their last meeting of the year. Unfortunately, because it was so late in the year the Students’ Union couldn’t feasibly make any commitments and encouraged them to apply for a portion of the media fee in the following academic year—although this did not immediately solve the problem of space.

In the summer of the 2014, The Phoenix was evicted from its space in UNC 109 as a result of a massive space real-

National

Air Canada flight crash lands in Halifax Early in the morning on March 29th, Air Canada Flight 624 made a hard landing at Halifax International Airport and skidded off the runway. Of the 133 passengers and five crew members on board the plane, 23 were sent to the hospital with minor injuries. Officials suspect the plane hit a power line before skidding, causing a mass power outage at the airport. However, a direct link between the two incidents has not been confirmed. The crash occurred during a snowstorm,

but it’s undetermined whether the cause of the crash was pilot error or the inclement weather. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be conducting an investigation reported to take several months and involve interviews with crew members and other company members.

Photo: Patrick Cardinal/Creative Commons

April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix |news@thephoenixnews.com | News Editor: Alexandra Barberis there anything you wanted to read * sabout this year that we missed? Apply

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2014

When the latest incarnation of Heatwave Radio was founded

$10,000

Sum of the media fee acquired to make the magic happen.

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The number of people on the Heatwave team

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Professional Sound Booth Inside the sound booth Photo by Alexandra Barberis

location in the UNC. However, hard work was put in place the previous year and the Students’ Union allocated a new space on campus that would house both the latest incarnation of the campus radio club and The Phoenix.

So why now? How did this latest incarnation of the radio club come to be?

Jeff Bulmer, Arts Editor at The Phoenix and Program Manager at Heatwave Radio details to us how he got started in radio and teamwork made the dream work.

“Back in 2013 I was looking for ways to get involved on campus and some of the things I wanted to do were maybe write for a newspaper or control what people get to listen to on the radio,” said Bulmer. “So I looked around and I found The Phoenix easily enough, and I also found, after some intense searching, that there was a radio club…

I show up at the first meeting, there’s

“the most exciting thing is that we actually have a tangible radio booth...the radio is actually happening.”

JEFF BULMER PROGRAM MANAGER, HEATWAVE RADIO

a single guy sitting at the table and I’m like ‘ok it looks like the meetings over,’ so I go in and he’s like ‘Naw you’re the only person that showed up’…so the radio right?”

Jeff joined Heatwave radio in the hopes of becoming a DJ for the UBCO campus, and with the help of fellow students Sam Hunt, Ahmed Dirar, and the other executives of the radio club have made Heatwave Radio a functional student service.

Heatwave was awarded funds from the media fee at the beginning of the 2014 academic year to fund their sound booth, in addition to the promise of space on campus. Since that time, the sound booth as been ordered and set up in their new shared office (UNC 132B), and the boys have been getting administratively established, prepping student musicians and radio hosts to stream online beginning in 2015.

The new and improved Heatwave The latest iteration of Heatwave radio was made possible by the hard work of students Sam Hunt, Jeff Bulmer, and Ahmed Dirar, with help from a team of 9 additional executives and Rosemary Jean-Thompson from the UBCO media center.

The main mission statement of Heatwave radio is promoting and getting exposure for local, on campus musicians, and even expanding to local talent (not just musicians). Club President, Sam Hunt, boasts his goals of a community based broadcasting system, which includes faculty announcements, radio shows produced my studets, and showcasing student musical talent.

“We have a lot of people coming in to record, music, talk shows…but the most exciting thing is that we actually have a tangible radio booth,” said Bulmer. “The booth means that the radio

National

Future Shop employees shocked by layoffs Canadians were surprised on March 28th when Future Shop locations across the country closed their doors and announced plans to permanently shut 66 stores while rebranding 65 others as Best Buy locations. However, it looks like workers within the company were just as surprised as anyone: Future Shop employees state they learned they were being let go the same morning that the general public learned about the shutdown. In total, 500 full-time and 1000 part-time jobs were terminated, with Best Buy Canada assuring employees

that they would receive severance, employee assistance, and outplacement support. Best Buy Co., Inc.—which owns Best Buy Canada as well as Future Shop—took a markedly different approach to employee termination in comparison to Target Canada, which provided employees with far more advanced warning.

Photo: Kempton/Creative Commons

is actually happening….and it’s too late to go back.”

From the sound booth, the radio club will be conducting online broadcasting available for anyone with an Internet connection to access their content.

“Right now we’re still working out how we want to broadcast, things like the server, the programs, but we’re always looking for more people to get involved and produce content,” said Bulmer.

Currently, the sound booth is free for students to use to record music, talk shows and interviews.

“We want to unlock the hidden potential of university talent, and foster a community around radio on campus.”

Said Hunt.

Want to find out more about the radio club? Come to the office or email heatwave.ubco@gmail.com

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Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer | arts@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | April 7th 2015

any good albums lately? You * Heard should review them for us!

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you have a SoundCloud? Let us know! * Do Check out some awesome student SoundCloud and YouTube channels below and on the next page.

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CHLOE ELLIOT EASTON DORAN JACKY DENG NOSA PAATH

Jeff Bulmer Arts Editor Easton Doran Contributor

So what’s the local music scene like? We reached out to some local musicians and discovered that the Kelowna, the Okanagan, even UBCO is thriving with musicians! Here are just some of the great local and on-campus music acts you should check out

Originally from Toronto, Chloe Elliot has been singing from a young age.

Currently, Chloe is the External Events Manager for UBCO Beats, and will be performing in Vancouver at UBC Van’s Game of Tones spring concert on April 12th, 2015.

Easton Doran has been avidly making music since he got his first guitar at age nine. Currently, Easton spends much of his time jamming with anyone he can, and regularly playing open mic events around town.

Jacky Deng was raised in “a very stereotypical Asian household where academics superseded everything else in [his] life.” Jacky’s SoundCloud is now host to several instrumental tracks, which he hopes listeners can use to recall past experiences.

Originally from West Java, Indonesia, Nosa Paath attended an international school in Oman before coming to UBCO in 2012. Nosa is currently working on his YouTube channel, which he hopes to have up and running this summer.

How did you get involved in music?

I got involved in music through my mother, a highly trained blues and jazz singer. She sang around me all the time, and inspired me to follow suit.

Where do you draw influence?

Generally I write about whatever is bugging me just to use music as an outlet. My favourite musicians include: Hey Rosetta, Billy Talent, Alexisonfire, The Trews, Rage Against The Machine (among sooo many more)

Where are you from/how did you grow up?

I grew up in Surrey, BC. Growing up, music was very much a hobby I did on the side, and something I never really had time for because of my commitments to school sports.

How did you get involved in music?

After three months of piano lessons, which I hated, I quit and I just picked up my dad’s guitar and I started playing and practicing on my own.

What are you doing now?

I’ve been writing and recording a bunch of new songs lately and playing open mics and jamming with whomever I can, when I can.

How did you get involved in music?

I started piano lessons when I was seven years old and quit lessons at about 18. Once I came to Kelowna and reconnected with my creative freedom, I fell in love with it.

Where do you draw influence?

I draw influence from modern soul divas. My first idol was Beyoncé—she taught me attitude and runs; Christina Aguilera taught me control; from Adele, I draw emotion.

What are you doing now?

Now, I am the External Events Manager of the UBCO Beats [an a cappella club].

What was your most memorable performance?

Most memorable performance was probably at Night Beat, where Amber Bayani and I got to sing Cater 2 U by Destiny’s Child with Nosa Paath on guitar. It sounded soo good.

Where can we listen to/see you next?

Next, the Beats are performing in Vancouver at UBC Van’s Game of Tones (spring concert) on April 12th!!

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Is there anything else you’d like to add that I haven’t asked?

I’d like to say that Kelowna has a wicked music scene and a unique sound, which is something most people would only attribute to Seattle or the like.

What do you hope to achieve with your music?

My music is instrumental, the listening experience is entirely subjective. I hope they can recall something that they have experienced where my songs fit perfectly, and sit, listen, and relive that journey.

What does success look like to you?

Success to me is when I can use my talent/ skill to help make the community around me more welcoming.

What was your most memorable performance?

My first ever gig was when I was invited to sing alone for 30+mins for a Psychology Course Union Student Faculty Dinner. 30 minutes was very intimidating and I was so nervous, so I made my girlfriend Sarah come to flip the music for me and she made it memorable.

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April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix | arts@thephoenixnews.com | Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer Czarina Franco has been uploading covers to YouTube twice monthly.

Scan the QR code on the left to check out her channel, and stay tuned to thephoenixnews.com for an interview with Czarina later this week.

Liew Tze hopes to pick up the guitar this summer to better compose her own pieces.

In the meantime, scan the QR code on the left to listen to some covers on her YouTube channel.

Concerts April 10th Recess

6 pm / $40 / UBCO Common Field Zed’s Dead and Waka Flocka Flame headline the biggest on-campus concert of the year! Also in attendance: Oneway, Stereohype, and Funktion Photo by Taylor Hamm

Photo provided by Victoria Ritchie

Photo by Gloria Fulljames

DEREK WHITE C@$H MONAY SANTANA CABRAL As long as he can recall, Maple Ridge’s Derek White has been listening and singing along to music. Since 2012, he’s also been actively making music as part of the bands Within the Hours, Cordyceps, and Vacant Eyes, and filling the role of producer.

Inspired by her love of fried chicken and “personal experiences with basic bitches,” Penticton’s C@$h Monay has been making music since last summer. Currently, C@$h is finishing her album Crying for the Basics, for release via SoundCloud this summer.

Where do you draw influence?

I draw a lot of influence from my own life and emotions. I also draw inspiration from musical forerunners that change their genres, such as Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Deftones, and Periphery

Where are you from/how did you grow up?

Born in Penticton BC. Raised by Val and Shane Ritchie in a small three bedroom with my older sister Shayla and younger brother James.

What are you doing now?

Currently ... I am in the middle of two projects with my co-producer Edin Hajdarovac: creating an album for Surrey native Juvus Pearl$, and an album of our own.

What do you hope to achieve with your music, if anything?

My musical dream is to make enough profit from perfomances/digital copies/merchandise to be able to only do music without any other sort of financial support.

AOL: Arts On-Line These are some of the things you can read online at thephoenixnews.com!

Jeff Bulmer Arts Editor

How has that affected your art?

My art has been inspired by my love for fried chicken and personal experiences with basic bitches.

How did you get involved in music?

I started creating my music last summer, influenced by da booty and my local burger joint.

Inspired by the likes of Julia Stone, Mazzy Star, and Chet Faker, Santana Cabral started performing at open mic events in October 2013. Since then, Cabral has brought her specific brand of “free spirit” music on guitar and ukulele to various pub open mics, Pulp Fiction, and Songwriters’ Stewdio.

Recently, Santana has begun performing original compositions. “I’m ... finally starting to feel comfortable playing my own stuff,” she says. “[I’m] feeling like a true singer-songwriter.”

Santana’s musical goals are first and foremost to have fun, make herself happy, and make soul connections with anyone listening.

You can hear Santana at Pulp Fiction or at open mics around town, or check out her YouTube channel for some covers.

What are you doing now?

I am currently working on finishing my album Crying for the Basics that will be coming to SoundCloud and Twitter feeds near you this summer.

Photo provided by Darian Saunders

D. SOUL THE SOULSAMURAI Darian D.W. Saunders has been working as a music producer for the past 10 years. In the past, Saunders composed music for vocal talent at the record labels Dejine rec (Japan) & Savage Recordings (Scotland). While living and working in Scotland he stumbled across the ukulele and everything changed. Four years later D.Soul has been etching his name as a folk/funk/ alt singer songwriter in the Okanagan.

“I first started performing live at a local pub’s open mic,” he says. “Coming originally from punk music, I had no problem rocking the drunks lovely.”

Recently D.Soul has moved on to the coffee house and house concerts scene, with over four hours of original music that has never been written down. D. Soul plays live frequently but prefers to focus on songwriting and assisting in the growth and development of young artists. “I know I will always be creating, but the idea of any artist young or old being passed over and forgotten or dejected is unbearable for me,” he says.

April 11th Wild Son

10 pm / $10 / Doc Willoughby’s Local heroes Wild Son returns for a show at Doc Willoughby’s. The chance to see Wild Son in Kelowna is truly once in a lifetime; don’t miss out!

April 17th Windmills & Mark Mills

8 pm / $10 / Streaming Cafe Ambient indie-pop artist Windmills joins electronic/indie musician Mark Mills for a special performance at the Streaming Cafe. The concert will be live-streamed on streamingcafe.net

April 18th Sam Weber

8 pm / $5 / Streaming Cafe “Guitar slinger and record maker” Sam Weber comes to Kelowna for a night at the Streaming Cafe. . Rumour has it he’s booked to play Fernando’s the same night...

April 23rd Band of Rascals

9 pm / $10 / Doc Willoughby’s Victoria quartet Band of Rascals bring their own brand of hard-hitting modern rock to Kelowna for a performance alongside Jesse Roper & Hot Knox

Musician Interviews

Inside the Underground

Album Reviews Nightwish and Three Days Grace just brought out new albums.

Are they any good? find out on thephoenixnews.com

Concerts on Campus Wild Son was on campus last week! Were you there? We were!

Also stay tuned for our upcoming Recess coverage!

Wanna learn more about Kelowna’s musicians? Keep checking thephoenixnews.com throughout the week for full interviews with local and on-campus musicians.

In the latest installment of our series on local music acts, Keera Cabrias sat down with post-hardcore band Shreddy Krueger

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Featured Artist: Lauren Bell | Website: laurensbell.com | Instagram: laurennasloan The Phoenix | April 7th 2015

you involved with the upcoming fourth year show? * Are Have you been featured by The Phoenix yet? If not,

wore some of her wearable art into town a few weeks ago, and * Lauren documented the whole experience! Check out thephoenixnews.com in

contact arts@thephoenixnews.com!

the coming weeks for the full story!

Left to Right: “Music Crazed” (1), Lauren Bell displays (2) and wears (3) an outfit covered in fluorescent-painted Q-Tips Photos provided by Lauren Bell

ARTIST PROFILE: LAUREN BELL ON HER WEARABLE ART AND ITS IMPACT Fourth year Visual Arts major Lauren Bell uses unusual materials to explore social paradigms Bell examines our interaction with art and each other with outifts made from hot glue, water bottles, CDs, and more Jeff Bulmer - Arts Editor From April 22nd-26th, UBCO’s fourth-year visual artists will hold their year-end exhibition. While you’re there you may notice some people dressed very unconventionally, perhaps wearing a black spiky suit or clothes made out of melted water bottles. This is the wearable art of Lauren Bell.

Artist Profiles We look at some of the different artists that will be featured in the fourth-year Fine Arts grad show Shelf Life this April

Sarah James Art Director

Bell originally came to the Okanagan from Calgary in pursuit of a Psychology degree, but soon switched to Visual Arts after realizing her need to create. “I kind of started going crazy, because I came here … and I wasn’t creating,” she says. “I need to be in a program where I’m creating.”

Bell describes her first year in the Visual Arts program as an eye-opening experience that taught her as much about herself as it did about art.

Entering with a love to create but little understanding of art beyond aesthetics, Lauren found herself in a program that catered to her artistic interests while challenging her to think about the concepts behind art in new and exciting ways. “[I was] having to think about concepts behind why we do things, why we create things, what we feel passionate about, what bothers us,” said Bell.

“When I got into my more sculptural projects, I realized that some of them turned into my life.”

LAUREN BELL

“When I realized there’s … a deeper level [to] art, it didn’t just explore me as an artist; it explored me as a person.”

The challenge of 3D art During her first year as a Fine Arts major, Bell quickly took to her 3D Art courses, finding them more compelling than painting or drawing. “Having an idea in my head and turning it into an object, that idea is fascinating to me,” Bell explained.

Bell acknowledges that 3D art can be extremely challenging. “[The process] takes a turn of ‘is it going to work?’ and there’s a timeframe,” she says. “If your experimentation doesn’t work, your entire idea can be squashed.” It’s this challenge that draws Bell to 3D Art in the first place. “It completely expands your repertoire,” she states. “After successes, it’s exciting to do more

Danielle Engelsby Danielle Engelsby was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and she works with various types of media. She combines eclectic stylization with a love of organic markmaking. Engelsby’s current work is an investigation of the combination of man-made and organic material. She uses industrial paint, spray paint, oil, sawdust, marble, and chalk as materials to create her desired aesthetic. These elements are used to capture and convey mood and intensity through mark-making, which connects the viewer to the raw material of the work.

Photos provided by Danielle Engelsby

and more and push the boundaries.

Learning to do woodshop work, how to weld...”

By pushing the boundaries Bell isn’t just exploring new media or ways of creating art. She explores the very elements that make up her artwork. Materials, themes, even herself: “When I got into my more sculptural projects, I realized that some of them turned into my life. That really started with wearable art.”

The wearable art of Lauren Bell As part of her coursework, Bell was encouraged to participate in 2012’s Wearable Art Gala, a competition between UBCO’s first-year 3D Art students and members of the Centre for Art and Technology.

“I took this project on, and I just got crazy,” she said. “Morning, noon, and

April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix | arts@thephoenixnews.com | Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer you like to be featured in The Phoenix News? Contact * Would arts@thephoenixnews.com for more information on being a Phoenix Featured Artist!

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you looking for more ways to get involved on campus? Would you like to help give a voice to lo* Are cal artists and entertainers? You should apply to be Arts Editor for the 2015/2016 academic year!

Send a resume and platform to news@thephoenixnews.com

Left to Right: Bell wearing the Q-tip outfit with the lights on (1), Q-tips (2) and plastic water bottles (3) are both materials used in Bell’s work, Wearing a headpiece made from melted water bottles, a suit covered in melted acrylic beads, and a glove covered with Q-tips, Bell displays a body double made from double-sided tape Photos provided by Lauren Bell and Sarah James

night, I worked on it all day. I didn’t know what was going to come out of it, I just wanted this piece to be done and to see my vision.” The result was “Music Crazed,” an outfit made of crushed CDs that won her the Peoples’ Choice Award.

Encouraged by her success at the Gala, Bell has since completed many wearable art projects, including a fullbody suit covered in hot-glue spikes and a blazer doused in melted acrylic beads. “I thought ‘is there a divide between sculpture, art, and fashion?’” she says.

“[Once] we learn the defining trait of an object, ... we lose all sense of other exploration for what it could be”

Themes in Bell’s artwork In all three areas, Bell uses her work to explore social paradigms and the problems she sees with society.

To her, these problems are best exemplified by the North American

LAUREN BELL

educational system. “It doesn’t cater to the person as an individual … [it’s] a regimented system that we put everyone into, and the small percentage of people it actually works for come out on top,” she explains. “I find it very limiting.”

“I come across people all the time who are in the wrong program; people who are never going to use their degree,” Bell elaborated. “We all go through the same education system knowing that engineers, lawyers, doctors are at the [top of the] hierarchy of jobs … [other occupations can] be just as important, but you don’t know that as you’re growing because we’re so defined.”

Social themes and unconventional materials are two constants in Bell’s work, but she readily admits she hasn’t always understood how the two fit together.

Catriona Blair Originally from Vancouver, Cat Blair’s work focuses on the interactions between man and nature. Blair highlights the relationship between the urban city and its inhabitants, who have become obsessed with their surroundings. She works with a variety of different media, including photography and sculpture. In her sculptural works Blair uses geometric shapes to convey the urban landscape and address urbanization.

These geometric shapes are also evident in her photographic works. These photos and geometric designs depict the natural landscape which show its relationship and her study of the urban landscape.

Photos provided by Cat Blair

While she’s always been drawn to unconventional materials, it wasn’t until this semester that she realized how materials relate to social issues.

Bell was recently visited by Assistant Professor of Drawing Aleksandra Dulic, who was intrigued by her current work—specifically a piece made of melted water bottles—and inquired about her concept.

Prompted by Dulic’s question, Bell pondered and finally realized how her use of materials ties in to her social paradigm themes.

“We learn the defining trait [of an object], and once we have that definition attributed to the material, we lose all sense of other exploration for what it could be,” she explains.

In leaving herself open to the exploration of everyday materials, Bell sees a parallel to society. In her work, materials transcend their conventional pur-

poses and become just as important for different purposes. With unique, functional, and thought-provoking pieces, Lauren forces audiences to look at the individual components in a completely new light.

What does an outfit made out of recycled water bottles say about sustainability? What is so important about CDs that this model is wearing a suit made out of them? How can a wig be made of nothing but hot glue?

Through her artwork, Lauren Bell uses unique materials to parallel each individual’s uniqueness. “People all have different upbringings, they all know different things,” she tells me, driving the point home. At the same time, she doesn’t hesitate to admit, “in general, you never know how they’re going to react to things.”

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Above and Below: “The first piece (and in the second install photo) is a painting looking into our front bay window from the outside at night.

It was the piece I based my show titled “Nocturne” around.”

Left: Photo by Sarah James

ARTIST PROFILE: CONNOR CHARLESWORTH, LARGE-SCALE LANDSCAPES...

Connor Charlesworth’s landscape paintings focus on specifics, rather than the large-scale Charlesworth draws inspiration from his neighbourhood, as well as horror films Brittni MacKenzie-Dale Opinions Editor Fourth-year visual arts student Connor Charlesworth wasn’t always set on the artist route. In fact, he was considering going into Biology. After viewing his pieces, this might come as a surprise. He confesses that although his painting focuses have changed slightly over his degree, he has always been drawn to landscape in some capacity. “I’ve become more interested in how we experience the landscape and the ways in which we interact with it,”

he says. “Over this year in particular, I’ve been looking right around my own home.”

From March 9th-13th 2015, Charlesworth hosted an art show at UBCO, one that revolved around his home and how he interacted with it. One of his feature pieces was of a tall plant in his living room; Charlesworth’s painting captures the dark exterior in juxtaposition to the interior light.

“I was pulling in to [the driveway] and I was mesmerized by it,” he explains. “[It’s] one of those things that you wouldn’t normally stop and look at for so long.” During his show, Charlesworth brought in the physical plant that his painting is based on.

Discovering the local in the grandiose Charlesworth spent a lot of his time in his father’s studio, watching and

“In my paintings, I’ve been interested in my home, but as soon as other people look at it, it becomes ... about their homes.”

CONNOR CHARLESWORTH

Melissa Demale Melissa Demale’s work combines text and painting, and through these mediums she explores the connection between landscape and the mundane. Using text, Demale opens herself up as an artist to the viewer, so they can catch a glimpse of who she is and what her paintings portray. The text that Demale incorporates asks the viewer to draw connections in her work and form their own conclusions about what she is depicting.

Photos provided by Melissa Demale

learning from the older painter. While he uses the Okanagan as inspiration, Charlesworth prefers to focus on specifics rather than the large-scale, such as his own neighborhood rather than a wide view of Kelowna.

“When artists tackle the Okanagan, it’s so often the typical Okanagan landscape, the sweeping views of the valley and the lake,” he says. “I think that’s why I’ve turned to something a bit more intimate and local.”

Charlesworth spent a lot of time with his father and brothers at a rented cabin on Dee Lake up Beaver Lake Road and, as a result, his paintings are also frequently based on positive childhood memories like these. While his artwork is based on familiar surroundings and personal memories, he strives to keep his paintings open for interpretation.

“I suppose in my paintings I’ve been

interested in my home, but as soon as other people look at it, it becomes more so about their homes,” he explains. “I’m interested in that relationship between artist and viewer.”

Charlesworth does not just stick to conventional paintings though.

“Professors were really pushing for me to approach painting from a different viewpoint,” he admits. Art prof Gary Pearson asked him a question that took Charlesworth by surprise: why, exactly, was the sky in his painting blue? In answer to the question, Charlesworth did something decidedly unconventional: he colored the sky bright red.

Although he typically sticks with representationalism, Charlesworth acknowledges that his interests are drifting towards abstraction, at least in small doses. “[Pearson] pointed out to me that paintings exist within their own borders,” says Charlesworth. “You

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Events April 11th Paper Shell X Book Launch

6 pm / W&A Bistro (315 Lawrence Ave) UBCO’s annual Creative Writing anthology launches this Saturday with food, drinks, and readings

April 12th Clown Cabaret

8 pm / Free Admission / University Theatre (ADM026) Theatre 301 students explore the mad world of clowning

Above: This was based on a photo I took from Dee Lake of people canoeing.

Right: This one is based loosely on a still from the original Last House on the Left movie.

Artwork and photos provided by Connor Charlesworth

April 14th HeART Fit

9:30 am -12:30 am/ Free Admission / Rotary Centre for the Arts The HeART School hosts a free drop-in spontaneous painting session.

April 21st - 26th Shelf Life

... SMALL-SCALE PAINTINGS can take creative liberties with them.”

According to Charlesworth, how you show a scene or a landscape can change the meaning from purely literal to more figurative and metaphoric.

This also depends on the viewer and what psychological nuances they bring to what Charlesworth is representing.

The psychological narrative Apollonian and Dionysian themes—essentially, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde effect—are evident in both Charlesworth’s pieces and his interests.

In terms of his tangible paintings, he is interested in the tension between night and day. For his year-end show, Charlesworth is videotaping the same location at different times. “I’m interested in how different the atmosphere of that place is, depending on light and dark,” he says.

Another trope that comes naturally to Charlesworth is that of the uncanny: the unfamiliar in the familiar.

He likes allowing viewers to make up their own narratives in relation to his work. “I’m interested in creating and making a more ambiguous imagery,” he explains. In order to maintain this ambiguity, Charlesworth leaves his titles open. “We never really talk about it, but a lot of [interpretation] comes from titling your work,” he says. “The words you choose have a lot to do with the way people see it.”

Last year, Charlesworth drew inspiration from his love of horror and psychological films. He cites Friday the 13th, The Last House on the Left, The Shining, and Rear View as inspirations. “I did paintings off of movie stills,” he says. “I started looking at Peter Doig’s work [specifically], who also did a bunch of paintings based

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off of Friday the 13th.” Charlesworth’s Dionysian upbringing sees opposition in these works; whereas Charlesworth cites his childhood as largely happy and positive, his work with horror movies explores the unstable, the malleable, and the often negative.

The overarching psychological narrative hovering in all of his work, however, is the dynamic between artist and viewer. “Everyone perceives their surroundings differently,” he notes.

“It’s that act of looking that intrigues me—the relationship associated with the gaze.” The local, he contends, is different for everyone in a way that perhaps broader landscapes are not. The question Charlesworth sees himself as trying to answer is: how can I make the local matter?

Charlesworth’s pieces for UBCO’s year-end grad show are going to be different than anything he’s worked

on this year. He will have a couple of paintings including the aforementioned window piece of his home, but he is also working on a series of ink and watercolor drawings of objects in his home. Said objects will include items that his father collects, travel souvenirs, artwork in his house, and even things like his bed and plants.

“The [most vulnerable] piece of work I’ve done is a self-portrait,” reflects Charlesworth. And this is exactly what his year-end show is aiming to confront. “[The grad show] will be sort of like an indirect self-portrait,” he explains. There will also be video incorporated into the year-end show. The camera will be attached to Charlesworth as he interacts with and moves through his home and neighbourhood, exemplifying the concept of surveillance that he’s curious about.

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CCS Building An exhibition of UBCO’s fourthyear BFA Visual Arts students.

Reception will take place on April 25th from 7 to 9:30 pm

May 22nd - 24th 3-Day Plein Air Workshop with Jerry Markham

“We will be painting various locations and scenery in the Kelowna area.

Receive group and personal instruction while enjoying painting outdoors (a different location each day). For all levels of oil and acrylic painters. Maximum of 10 - only a few spots left.”

Further details can be found online at jerrymarkham.com

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A FILTERED WILDERNESS

EXPLORING THE BEST #LANDSCAPE PHOTO OPS OF #KELOWNAFORNIA Summer in the Okanagan is one of the most picturesque and enjoyable times of the year, and there are countless opportunities to take a selfie in the great outdoors. These days, a stroll through nature doesn’t seem entirely legitimized without impressive photographs tweaked by the appropriate filters.

Perhaps our obsession with capturing nature in the perfect light helps us legitimize its beauty in our 21st-century minds.

Highlighting the exploration opportunities in your backyard, The Phoenix has collected an impressive array of perfect spaces to clear your head and fill up that Instagram gallery. Let us fuel your obsession with nature photography and use our tips to fully explore the beauty of Okanagan nature in light of that social media account.

Some of these most popular selfie spots are: Big White, Kelowna Mountain, Knox Mountain, Crawford/Canyon Falls, and Bear Creek.

The filtration of nature through Instagram is an interesting trend popular among UBCO students.. How could it not be?

Instagram perpetuates the filtration of the boring bits of life — a fact that should not be disregarded. The most precious moments are remembered, not watched through a recording.

When you broadcast your personal photo archive and focus it on public appeal and “likes,” you risk a backwards shift in mentality. Suddenly, hikes for the sake of clarity of mind turn into Insta-minded hikes for the sake of getting a good picture.

Get low: Capture what’s above you from a crouching position in order to emphasize its grandness Filtration: Use a filter app like VSCO Cam to enrich your colors Take advantage of your panorama option: Trying to capture vast spaces is easier if you use your pano button Chose your hours wisely: Sunset and sunrise shed their light on some of the greatest nature photos. Try to frame your photos during these times of the day Hike to the top: Taking a snap from the greatest vantage point allows you to pull everything beautiful below into your frame Look for symmetry: Using the rule of thirds in your photos increases visual appeal and the chance that your photo will gain a second look on a scroll through Making nature photography more accessible is a cinch when you’re living in #beautifulbc. As a large number of twentysomethings holding smartphones in their hands, so many of us are capable of taking backyard beautiful nature photography all on our own—or rather, with the help of smartphone framing. Use the tips above for your own smartphone photography with discretion. Don’t forget when you’re trying to perfect nature through filters and thoughtful framing that it’s still important to lower the smartphones once in a while and look at the landscape—filter free.

Each one of these locations can get you that perfect backdrop to your selfie and adding the right filter can help get rid of all that facial redness from climbing to the top. We have a few helpful insta #nature photography tips to get you that Photos provided by Sarah James, Maggie Wilson, Laura Johnston, Tom Haslam and David Vassiliev perfect picture.

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A FILTERED WILDERNESS

EXPLORING THE BEST #LANDSCAPE PHOTO OPS OF #KELOWNAFORNIA Summer in the Okanagan is one of the most picturesque and enjoyable times of the year, and there are countless opportunities to take a selfie in the great outdoors. These days, a stroll through nature doesn’t seem entirely legitimized without impressive photographs tweaked by the appropriate filters.

Perhaps our obsession with capturing nature in the perfect light helps us legitimize its beauty in our 21st-century minds.

Highlighting the exploration opportunities in your backyard, The Phoenix has collected an impressive array of perfect spaces to clear your head and fill up that Instagram gallery. Let us fuel your obsession with nature photography and use our tips to fully explore the beauty of Okanagan nature in light of that social media account.

Some of these most popular selfie spots are: Big White, Kelowna Mountain, Knox Mountain, Crawford/Canyon Falls, and Bear Creek.

The filtration of nature through Instagram is an interesting trend popular among UBCO students.. How could it not be?

Instagram perpetuates the filtration of the boring bits of life — a fact that should not be disregarded. The most precious moments are remembered, not watched through a recording.

When you broadcast your personal photo archive and focus it on public appeal and “likes,” you risk a backwards shift in mentality. Suddenly, hikes for the sake of clarity of mind turn into Insta-minded hikes for the sake of getting a good picture.

Get low: Capture what’s above you from a crouching position in order to emphasize its grandness Filtration: Use a filter app like VSCO Cam to enrich your colors Take advantage of your panorama option: Trying to capture vast spaces is easier if you use your pano button Chose your hours wisely: Sunset and sunrise shed their light on some of the greatest nature photos. Try to frame your photos during these times of the day Hike to the top: Taking a snap from the greatest vantage point allows you to pull everything beautiful below into your frame Look for symmetry: Using the rule of thirds in your photos increases visual appeal and the chance that your photo will gain a second look on a scroll through Making nature photography more accessible is a cinch when you’re living in #beautifulbc. As a large number of twentysomethings holding smartphones in their hands, so many of us are capable of taking backyard beautiful nature photography all on our own—or rather, with the help of smartphone framing. Use the tips above for your own smartphone photography with discretion. Don’t forget when you’re trying to perfect nature through filters and thoughtful framing that it’s still important to lower the smartphones once in a while and look at the landscape—filter free.

Each one of these locations can get you that perfect backdrop to your selfie and adding the right filter can help get rid of all that facial redness from climbing to the top. We have a few helpful insta #nature photography tips to get you that Photos provided by Sarah James, Maggie Wilson, Laura Johnston, Tom Haslam and David Vassiliev perfect picture.

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Life Editor: Maranda Wilson | life@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | April 7th 2015

LIFE

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WATCHING LANGUAGE: DISPELLING MYTHS ABOUT SIGN LANGUAGE Sign language is a form of communication that is often misunderstood Torie will dispel some of the myths in this issue’s Watching Language Torie Church Contributor Are sign languages just a signed version of a spoken language?

Generally, the answer is no. Most sign languages are not related to any oral language. However, the name of a sign language usually describes where it originated, not which oral language it is related to. If you were to compare the grammar of French Sign Language with the grammar of French, you would find very little in common. The situation gets a bit more complicated when consider-

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ing manually coded English (MCE).

MCE is a form of communication that attempts to represent English through sign. There are a number of different types of MCE, such as Fingerspelling and Signing Exact English, but all of them are derived from spoken English, making them quite different than most of the world’s sign languages.

How many people use sign languages?

Approximately 70 million people around the world use a sign language as their native language.

Some sign languages (such as British Sign Language) are national sign languages and are used by many Deaf people in a certain country. Many other sign languages are used by a smaller group of people—for example, only by students in a particular Deaf school, or only by members of a certain village.

How many sign languages are there?

The Ethnologue, a publication that attempts to list all the world’s languages, lists 138 sign languages. That number, however, is likely underestimated; there are probably a great deal of sign languages that have never been documented. At least one sign language is used in almost every country in the world, and in many countries, there is more than one sign language. In Vietnam, for example, there are three indigenous sign languages.

How many sign languages are used in Canada?

One of the many sign languages used in Canada is Maritime Sign Language, which is used in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Today it is nearly extinct, being used mainly by older Deaf people.

Around 50,000 people in Quebec and surrounding areas use Quebec Sign Lan-

Congrats to our winner, Adnan Akiel Ahmad Bhat.

He took home a ticket to TEDxUBCO for this selfie.

guage. American Sign Language is the national sign language of Canada and is used by deaf people in most Anglophone regions. Plains Indian sign languages are a group of sign languages used by many First Nations people from the Great Plains. Each nation typically has its own sign language. The exception is Plains Standard Sign Language, which is used for trade between groups.

Where did sign languages come from?

No one knows for sure how oral language began, so it should come as no surprise that the origins of sign language are equally, if not more, unclear.

What is known, however, is that sign languages evolve naturally, in much the same way oral languages do. In the past 75 years, a new sign language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, has developed in a southern Israeli village with a high incidence of genetic deafness.

Are sign languages real languages?

Yes, they are! Sign languages can do everything oral languages do; the only real difference is the mode of transmission (manual vs. oral). For example, sign languages have syntax, just like oral languages do. This means that each sign language has its own rules regarding how sentences can be formed. Sign languages can also convey complex ideas with as much nuance as any oral language. People who use a sign language are able to communicate with as much depth as anyone who speaks an oral language.

Sign languages are different from oral languages, but they are not lesser. Sign languages are valid communication systems because they enable people to do what they need to do—communicate.

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April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix | life@thphoenixnews.com | Life Editor: Maranda Wilson you know of a person or group doing interesting * Do things on campus? Let us know about them via email and they may be featured right here next issue

SPOTTED: THE (ILLUSTRATED) FASHIONS OF UBCO Do you recognize yourself in one of these illustrations?

Haleh, a UBCO PhD student, sketches student fashion around campus Maranda Wilson Life Editor Haleh Barmaki Contributor When she isn’t busy with juggling her research, Haleh loves to sketch the latest fashions. Noticing that UBCO has a unique fashion culture despite its small size, she recently started up an Instagram page called @ubcillustration, where she sketches student fashion from the sidelines in places like the library or Starbucks. Check it out, and also check out her personal page @refashion.

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Interim Sports Editor: Cameron Welch|sports@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | April 7th 2015

26,966 POINTS

scored by retiring coach Heather Semeniuk’s basketball teams at OC/ OUC/UBCO

57 WINS

wins so far by the WHL’s 2ndseeded Kelowna Rockets, who swept their first round and now face the Victoria Royals

23 KILLS

in one game put up by Graduate of the Year Myrte Schön on Nov11, 2011 in UBCO’s first CIS season

Snapshots of the March 21st opening day for the Sailing Club. Photos provided by Sacha Roberts.

UBCO’S NEWEST SPORTS CLUB SETS SAIL UBCO Sailing Club has launched and offers lessons every Sunday Club aims to put together a racing team for the 2015/16 season Cam Welch Creative Director

UBCO has long been known as a destination campus–students come here to take advantage of the ski hills, the woods, and the beaches. But now, with the launch of the UBCO Sailing Club, they can finally enjoy the lake itself.

The club made its official debut on March 21st at the Kelowna Yacht Club (KYC) downtown in a day packed full of events, with boats, kayaks, a barbeque, and a pub crawl in the evening.

The grand opening brought out a crowd

Hayley Carlson “Biggie” Carlson has been team captain and was voted team MVP in 2013.

This season she scored 2 goals on only 4 shots--the 2ndbest shooting percentage in the conference

of 70, but only about a semester ago the club was just an idea in the heads of a couple students.

Matt Henry and Andrew Loeppky ran a sailing event in October through VOCO, and there they were introduced to Sacha Roberts by KYC’s Valerie Cloutier. With half a dozen founding members, the club got its paperwork together and became official in December with Roberts as President, and secured funding to host that first event and subsidize sailing lessons. The club was also able to send members to compete in a regatta hosted by UBC Sailing.

As a member of the Canadian Intercollegiate Sailing Assocation, the club didn’t have to pay to enter the regatta, and didn’t have to find accommodations either thanks to the generosity of the UBC team.

“A girl on the team actually let us stay at her house,” Roberts says, emphasizing

Marissa Klees Former team captain Klees ends her career with 4 provincial medals (2 bronze, 2 silver) and multiple provincial and national awards for academics.

“Seeing them grasp the concept and learn how to move their boat through the wind is just mind-opening” SACHA ROBERTS UBCO SAILING CLUB PRESIDENT

Christine Tallon 2-time provincial all-star, Tallon has played 2760 total minutes over 3 seasons at UBCO. In that time she posted 15 shutouts, allowing only 2 goals in 7 games in 2012

the tightness of the sailing community.

“She didn’t even know us.”

Although that regatta was UBCO’s only competitive event this year, the club hopes to participate in a full season as soon as next fall. If enough members are interested, they would create a racing team within the club that would pay a different membership fee.

Roberts, who has competed at World Championships twice, is a big proponent of establishing a racing team.

“I think that would open the school up to a lot more people that would want to come here,” she says, citing the draw of Queens and York’s sailing programs.

While there is a possibility of getting competitive club status and eventually even varsity, the club hasn’t discussed the future with Heat Athletics yet.

Renting boats will be the club’s largest forseeable cost, and so the club hopes to buy a boat of their own within five

Kristen Dodds A provincial all star in multiple years in the PacWest, Dodds was Player of the Game in both the Heat’s playoff games in their final year of college league

years. But that’s easier said than done.

Although the executives’ contacts in the sailing community can get them boats fairly cheaply, the problem is getting a boat to Kelowna, and, once it’s here, storing it. On top of that, the club would actually need to have two boats so instructors could join learners out on the water to teach them and ensure safety.

The club’s focus for the time being is growing membership and teaching people the basics, although the executives are trained enough that they can help the more ambitious members gain new CanSail certifications.

UBCO Sailing will be holding $20 sailing lessons for the rest of April for 3 hours every Sunday. After that, Roberts and several other execs will graduate, but other senior members of the club will be in town over the summer continuing to work with the new sailors that will steer the club into the future.

Paige Howes Howes played 3 years for U of A before returning to Kelowna to finish her career Her season ended early with an injury on opening weekend

April 7th 2015 | The Phoenix |sports@thephoenixnews.com | Interim Sports Editor: Cameron Welch

192 TO 64

points scored by the Heat women’s rugby team versus points scored against them in their 6-0 fall season

135 BLOCKS

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in total last season for WVB’s Katy Klomps, tying the all-time Canada West record for total blocks

2 WEEKS

the Heat women’s v-ball team was ranked #1 overall in Canada for two weeks in January

Main picture: Smith (right) with her national trampoline teammates.

Above: Smith receiving gold medals with her team at the Pan Am trials Below: Smith soars through the air at the world semifinals Photos all provided by Samantha Smith

LADY ON THE TRAMP: UBCO’S OLYMPIC GYMNAST SAMANTHA SMITH H-Kin student Smith was the national trampoline team’s alternate in London After classes end she’ll take the next year to train to make the Rio 2016 team Cam Welch Creative Director

In London, England, UBCO Human Kinetics student Samantha Smith watched her teammate Rosannagh MacLennan win Canada’s only gold medal of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Once she finishes her final undergrad classes this month, she’ll spend the next year making sure she’s the one on the podium at Rio 2016.

In her bright-coloured jacket and hiking backpack, Smith looks at first glance like any other member of the Varsity

Nick Kmet Kmet has played every different (non-goalie) position on the field over the course of his time with the Heat.

Outdoor Club, or any other Human Kinetics student. But she is one of three trampoline athletes Canada brought to the last Olympics. She served as the team’s alternate in London, getting to travel but not compete.

Since then, Smith’s goal has been getting back to the Games and her recent finishes include 2nd at the 2015 Canada Cup and 8th at World Championships.

From jungle gym to world stage “My mum told me she put me in gymnnastics because she caught me way too high up on a playground and all the other mums yelled at her,” Smith says of how her career began, “I had, and still do have, way too much energy.”

Smith was planning to quit her trampoline career after high shool and enrol at McMaster. She medaled at the world championships, though, and the opportunity for travel and funding

Joe Gill After playing for UFV his first year, Gill joined the Heat in 2011 and helped them to a provincial medal.

“My mum put me in gymnastics because she caught me way too high up on a playground and the other mums yelled at her” SAMANTHA SMITH OLYMPIC TRAMPOLINE ATHELTE

made her change courses and continue with her sport. Smith chose UBCO for its proximity to the training facility-and ski hills--and its H-Kin program, and has balanced school with her sport all through her degree. Even when she took last semester off to stay in Ontario and focus on the competition season, she was working as a researcher for the Krembil Neuroscience Centre.

On top of her frequent VOCO trips, Smith trains six days a week, focusing on strength and cardio Monday through Friday and then doing equipment-specific training on Sunday at the Okanagan Gymnastics Club.

The goal she’s building toward this year is a top-8 finish at November’s World Champs. Placement that high would earn Canada an extra Olympic spot, increasing the odds Smith will get to go. Even with an extra spot, competition will be tight. Not only is 2012 gold-

Austin Jones One of the Heat’s top players in their breakout Canada West year, Jones had 1 goal and 3 assists. In PacWest, he scored 13 goals for the Heat and was a 2-time All-Star.

winner MacLennan in the mix, but also former medalist Karen Cockburn.

For Smith, Canada’s strength is a mixed blessing. “It increases the chances we’ll do well as a country,” she says, “but it’s also hard because even our third through fifth members of the team are really strong and could do well at the Olympics potentially--but only the top one or two will have a chance to go.”

Still, Smith says that the national-level trampolinists are a supportive group that help each other become better.

Soon Smith will join that team and spend her next year focusing on making the Olympics. After that, she’s planning to pursue a grad degree in rehab sciences. Down the line, Smith says she’d love to return to BC as a practitioner or become a team’s traveling physiotherapist, helping athletes succeed at international competitions. But first, she has medals of her own to win.

Dylan Abbott Abbott scored 7 goals over his UBCO career, including 3 in 2013 that netted him the team’s MVP award. His brother Logan will continue the Abbott soccer legacy for UBCO next year

RUGBY GRADUATES Grady Krohman Jordan Pittman Maddy Reeves Angie WIlliams

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CONFESSIONS FROM A FORMER ARTS STUDENT: I partly chose Arts, not because they are easy (that is a common and problematic misconception), but because the people are so cool. I always thought that the EME looked cold, scary, and a little detached. Plus, all those people walking in and out of it in suits… how did they have time to look that good?

Now I’m in Business Management and I see things completely different. Dressing up makes me feel powerful and organized; my entire life has been rearranged in a more productive manner; I’ve met some of my greatest and most intelligent and compassionate friends; and I can now see the perks of both sides. (Although, yeah, going to school with messy hair definitely improved my sleep. You win that round, Arts students.)

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UBCO FACULTY WARS HAVE GOT TO STOP Every faculty tends to think their own subject is the most important, the most time-consuming, and the hardest.

But is this true? Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of all the faculties instead of focusing on the differences.

Sam Woods – Contributor

Lately I have noticed a recurring trend here at UBCO. People are choosing to discriminate against those that do not share the same interests, faculty, or lifestyle. Students are using the UBCO Confessions page as a platform to downplay peoples’ ways of living, disparage what they’re studying, and to straight-up bully fellow students. The

SHORTCHANGED AT THE PARKING METERS? YOU’RE NOT ALONE

entrancing appeal that UBCO held for students their first time stepping onto campus grounds is fading fast due to this unnecessary faculty feud. Many students are proud of their faculties and what they are doing, yet often they only understand their own area and bash others in different faculties. The one thing that makes the human population so interesting and so important is that we are all different. There is diversity and variety, and although we may not understand why others are doing what they are doing, we need to at least create an atmosphere of acceptance.

First off, the Management kids wear a lot of suits and fancy clothes—they seem inexplicably stunning. They garner this essence of being well put together, which can put people on edge.

You can sit back and judge them for what they are doing, or you can take a moment to appreciate it and maybe just learn something. The majority

of these students are go-getters. They believe that as a person, they are their greatest asset. They own themselves and work hard to govern their own internal desires and to promote the best person they can be. They don’t sit back and wait for things to happen. They get out in the world and make change.

Those Fine Arts kids, they work extremely hard too… but maybe in a way not understood by a lot of people. They may not be doing quadratic equations and working endlessly to unravel the complexities of mathematics, but these students do what they love simply because they love it and want to make inspiring art. They produce entertainment, art, and inspiration for the public and for fellow students. They work long hours to construct elaborate and deeply explored pieces of pure expression.

There is an inconceivable amount of effort and passion that goes into what they do.

Now for the Science students. This

includes general science as well as science-related majors like Engineering, Human Kinetics, and Nursing. These students work day and night to become experts in a field that makes a tangible difference to the community and the world. They are the experts that make life-altering change. These students are subjected to immense strain and constant work to understand extreme academic pressure. They juggle courses, labs, and constant assignments that barrage them with immense stress and worry. Still, these students are able to push through and show a great deal of strength while doing so.

Lastly, there are the Arts students.

These kids take a look at real world issues and deeply examine life and society. Do you know how many papers these students have to write? It’s ridiculous. They are looking at things that affect each one of us on a daily basis. To do what the Arts students do involves a great deal of analysis. These students

don’t always work within precise and specific fields because they use diversity to their advantage. These kids look at understanding the human population, society, and the world intertwined with it.

The overarching purpose of this article is to stress the idea that diversity is a good thing. With our increasingly globalized world and degrading environment, biodiversity is becoming a huge issue. We may all have different passions, different dreams, different statuses—however, in the end, we are all working towards accomplishing something important. Each faculty just has a different way of doing it.

So next time you think about bashing those different from you, and judging others based on what their major is… take a moment to understand that just because you don’t share their passion, doesn’t mean you should disregard it. Let’s learn something from our differences.

UBCO students might have noticed an alarming trend.

Feeding the parking meters around campus isn’t always predictable. That is, some students are noticing that they’re getting shortchanged—no matter how much money they thought they put into the meter, that robotic parking attendant is conveniently flashing zero by the time they get back to their cars. Graduate student Dianna Schneider

has noticed this happening the past few weeks. “The first time, I thought it was me,” she said. “But by the second and third [incident], I realized that the problem was with the meters.”

I was given a $30 ticket last year for a meter that I carefully paid for. I knew I would be in a lecture for an hour and a half, so I paid for two hours. I got out early and yet, there was my meter saying

I was out of time and one of those stomach-dropping white tickets poking out of my windshield wipers. Irritating, to say the least.

No, you’re not crazy. Yes, this is happening to other students. So what’s the deal and what do we do about it?

Whether this is intentional or not, one thing is clear: UBCO isn’t bending over backwards to help students out of the situation. When I called the

parking office to complain, they said they couldn’t do anything about it. I brushed it off as an annoying one-time incident, but now that more students are coming forth and confessing that they are experiencing the same thing, it’s time to take action.

Don’t doubt yourself. Take a photo of your meter if you have to (with a time-stamp) and demand answers if you receive a ticket.

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VEGAN ON THE STUDENT DIME! DUDES. Yes, there are a lot of expensive vegan specialty foods like organic, non GMO, allergenfree wheat paste or whatever.

What better to spend your money on then the energy you need to live and breathe and think and love? C’mon! Get it together!

Here are some tips to help you: 1. BULK BINS. Seriously, do not buy things in boxes when you can buy them from Bulk Bins. Get rice. Get beans. Get lentils. Get oats. These foods are cheap and all you need to add is greens and a delicious sauce and you have comforting, nutritious brain foods for pennies a serving!

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JUST SAY NO… TO ANIMAL DISSECTION Animal dissection is accepted as the biology status quo.

Biology majors and non-biology majors alike can opt out of this harmful practice and engage in non-invasive dissection methods instead.

Juwana Grant – Contributor

In a seventh grade life sciences class I dissected a frog. It is one of only two memories I hold from that class. I can still recall the smell of formaldehyde, the rubbery stiffness of the frog’s skin, and the giant fly in its belly. I never asked where the frogs came from or how they died.

One girl in my class did opt out of the dissection, but apathetic pre-teen that I was, I never asked her why she might be opposed to what I considered at the time, by far, the most engaging lesson of the entire course.

Luckily, I grew out of my brooding apathy and did start to question the status quo. If I were faced with a dissection assignment today, I would enthusiastically opt out. Here’s why: 1. Animal welfare. Currently, students dissect three vertebrates in biology courses at UBCO: a cat, a rat, and a perch, in addition to invertebrates such as clams, mussels and squid. Euthanized cats from shelters are acquired by Carolina Biological Supply Company and are sold to UBC (although, CBSC refuses to disclose exactly where the cats come

from). Due to the sheer number of cats and dogs that are euthanized every year (SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR PETS, Y’ALL), many shelters use inhumane gas chambers which prolong death and suffering.

In some instances, multiple cats and small dogs are crammed into a small space and gassed together causing severe stress, pain, and suffering.

Rats and perches are “cultured” by the supply companies themselves, which is a euphemism for breeding animals specifically to be killed and preserved for classroom dissection.

These animals are raised in warehouses in abysmal conditions while they wait to be killed and dipped in formaldehyde until dissection day.

These conditions are not exceptions, but standard practice.

2. Speaking of formaldehyde, that shit is disgusting. Formaldehyde is used to preserve the animals after their death. It is linked to several types of cancer and classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (you can read a fact sheet of the studies at www.cancer.gov). Carolina Biological Supply (where UBCO obtains their preserved animals) uses a “perfect solution” which claims to be nontoxic, but still contains formaldehyde. The health risks are linked to long-term exposure, but by participating in a practice that relies on the use of harmful chemicals, you are perpetuating the use of those chemicals and contributing to their circulation—putting others at risk.

3. Alternatives are available. Several studies show that computer simulations and life-like 3D models are as effective at teaching curricular learning outcomes. They are also more cost-effective for the university since they are reusable. Furthermore, there are many dissection alternative loan programs such as those hosted

by Ethical Science Education Coalition and the International Network for Humane Education. Even Carolina Biological Supply Company sells several alternatives such as BioLab computer simulators and 3D models.

THE FUTURE IS HERE! “But, Juawana! Nothing replaces the experience of dissecting a onceliving animal.” Dudes, I know. Alas, some folks just don’t wanna take the lives of others for the “sense of discovery and wonder” that comes with handling a real dead cat. Should those folks avoid biology altogether because they aren’t interested in participating in that one assignment?

Nope! Biology is important and is so much more than seeing what that frog had for dinner before it made it to your dissection table.

Currently, there is no official policy requiring alternatives to dissection at UBC, but there should be! Ask your profs for alternative assignments and make a fuss. Taking an ethical stance against the use of nonhuman animals when there are good alternatives available should not come with sanctions or cause students to avoid a subject altogether.

2. MAKE THINGS FROM SCRATCH. This sounds hard and timeconsuming. But let me tell you, as someone who just learned as an adult that you can make french fries at home from JUST POTATOES. You can seriously make bulk bin oatmeal in like two minutes for four pennies when Quaker Oats costs $6. You’re paying for that weird wig-wearing white guy on the box! It’s a trick!

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THE CONTROVERSY OF FREE WILL Why is free will so hotly contested? Think about this: do you want to be a robot?

“I’m not a robot!” is the common retort to being told free will is an illusion. Others feel uneasy about the concept because of religious ideology or simply the feeling that there is a “ghost in the machine” (or a spirit, or a self that exists outside our brain’s biology).

Fortunately, robot-ness is a gross oversimplification of determinism.

However, many philosophers and scientists (and yourself, perhaps) do believe we have at least some form of free will. Here are just a few: Rene Descartes, Daniel Dennett, William James, Michio Kaku, Noam Chomsky, David Hume, Thomas Hobbes Photo by Tommy Tsutsui

FREE WILL: THE SHIP WITHOUT A CAPTAIN We admit that individuals who are good-looking didn’t do anything to deserve that.

What about intelligence? Bravery?

Abstract thinking? Are these really in our control like we think?

Brodie Mackenzie-Dale – Contributor

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.” – Alan Watts When we look at an individual possessing stunning good looks, we may say “they won the genetic lottery.” We recognize that the individual really has no say in their appearance, ranging from eye colour to height. We are even willing to admit that there are certain facets to a person’s character that they

The Ethical Shopper: Caffine Buzz There are only a few weeks left of classes before finals hit, and it’s getting pretty obvious around campus, too.

The numbers are dwindling, most likely because people are skipping class to catch

cannot help—say, their sexual orientation, their introversion, or their explosive anger. But how far does it go?

Our individual personality and consciousness is utterly dependent on a vast array of biological underpinnings, all of which we had no say in shaping.

If we rewind the tape back far enough, we eventually have to acknowledge that why we were been born the way we were is entirely a matter of luck.

Why our subjective experience is of being a human in the first place, and not a cat or a grizzly bear, is also due to chance. The human brain, being the incredibly complex organ that it is, is tremendously difficult to study and to understand fully. When scientists observe the brain, they come to understand that there is no “ghost in the machine.” The brain operates on its own accord without an operator and it must obey the laws of physics. It feels like we are the operators but that is not so, rather it is the brain that is guiding

up on all the readings they said they’d “get to tomorrow”—which means weeks’ worth of articles, chapters, and worksheets. Everyone’s appearance is looking slightly more haggard: more breakouts, more under-eye bags, sloppier clothes, and less smiles. But one thing is consistent between universities everywhere; that is, caffeine

our behaviour, emotions, and thought.

This has been demonstrated in various experiments, in which we see that brain activity precedes the conscious experi-

ence of making a decision; therefore, the choice was illusory because it had been determined by endless causal factors.

What differentiates us from a chair or a tube of toothpaste is consciousness.

That is to say, we have subjective inner lives. With that comes the feeling of being an actor who participates in the world; it is also the very thing that gives our life richness and meaning. We can recognize the beauty and uniqueness of our situation and the importance of our actions, while not excluding ourselves from the reality of cause and effect. We can be productive and caring, while understanding our actions in the context of cause and effect. We still can (and do) feel personal responsibility because being the social human animals that we are has a unique circumstance: our behaviour has an important effect on those around us. However, on the view of the universe as a set of causes and effects (thereby doing away with

the common conception of free will), actions that don’t serve a productive function make little sense, such as retribution instead of helpful reformation.

When understanding the world this way, a certain humility dawns on us. It allows pride and arrogance to subside because there is nothing, really, to be proud or arrogant about. It is also harder to feel righteous hatred and moral superiority. We don’t have to hate even the worst among us, rather we can regard it as unfortunate that the physical conditions are the way they are. It removes the biting cynicism from the statement “that’s just life” and turns it into a profound insight.

Perhaps instead of blame, we can feel compassion. Determinism and fatalism are not identical, however, and it is vital to remember this: yes, our choices are predetermined but life is not unchangeable. For the universe is in perpetual flow, and we are not (and cannot be) separate from this.

consumption goes up around this time and peaks until right after final exams and papers (and then it’s time for the alcohol).

But even though you’re feeling swamped, we shouldn’t write off coffee and tea as unimportant choices on a global scale. A cup of Joe from unethical roots can be harming the environment and produc-

ing awful working conditions.

It’s easier for us to recognize this on a local level, but we should also focus on the invisible life behind our coffee beans; we should be aware that coffee production can result in habitual destruction and biodiversity loss in South American rain forests, and pesticide runoff in Asia. This is the bad news. The good

news is we’ve created for you a list of ethically-sourced coffee and tea. Remember that there are three main approaches: organic, Fair Trade, and shade-grown.

What’s the difference? Fair Trade is purchased directly from cooperatives of small farmers that are guaranteed a minimum contract price.

Organic coffee is produced

“When understanding the world this way, a certain humility dawns on us. It allows pride and arrogance to subside because there is nothing, really, to be proud or arrogant about.”

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HOW DO OTHER FEMINISTS FEEL ABOUT EATING MEAT?

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Animal rights activist Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, sheds some insight on the feminism-veganism debate.

“We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture’s approval of this activity.”

“Just as feminists proclaimed that ‘rape is violence, not sex,’ vegetarians wish to name the violence of meat eating.”

Alice Walker, perhaps best known for The Color Purple, speaks of violence towards animals. (Walker eats meat.)

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

THE DRIVE-BY DEBATE SERIES: THE MEAT-EATING FEMINIST Feminism is gaining momentum and attention in mainstream media as a movement that strives to see all genders as equal.

If feminism strives for gender equality, should species be a factor for exclusion or does veganism follow from feminism?

Brittni Mackenzie-Dale - Opinions Editor

The most recent topic in Jodey Castricano’s Drive-By Debate series was about feminism and veganism. On the day of debates, the class is split into thirds. Randomly, students are split into either the “agree” or “disagree” side. the remaining students are the judges. The question asked: “can you be a feminist and continue consuming animal foods?” Here’s how the debate went down.

with methods that preserve the soil and prohibit use of chemical pesticides/fertilizers. And shade-grown means that it is grown in shaded forest settings that are good for biodiversity and birds. This even helps preserve quality of life for indigenous peoples, helping to ensure that their livelihoods are not exploited and eroded out of existence.

The Agree side You can be a feminist and continue to consume animal foods.

•The concern of feminism is not an interspecies concern, but rather between human men and human women. To say that a person is not a feminist because they eat animal foods is an insult to women who have made great strides in the name of feminism. Are we prepared to undermine their victories because they also ate meat? The “you can’t be a feminist if you’re not vegan” argument is elitism, pure and simple.

This argument takes away from the empowerment of feminism because it attempts to grossly define who is/ is not a feminist.

•Feminists think that there should be equality between all genders, but do not necessarily believe that nonhuman animals are deserving of the same types of equality and moral concern. Their fight is for human

women and to conflate the ideas does feminism a disservice. Feminism deserves to stand on its own and fight its own battle, without being forced to be responsible for all the evils of the world.

•While we should do our best to limit unnecessary and cruel nonhuman animal practices, it does not follow that feminists must go vegan. Surely, we can focus on specific atrocities (such as the detriments of factory farming), while still continuing traditional meat-eating practices.

But this is not a solely feminist fight.

Not all coffee and teas are going to be all three at once— sometimes you’re going to have to pick your battles, and use your critical thinking skills to decide which detriment(s) you want to rule out (and which one you are inadvertently supporting).

Where to buy caffeine that is ethically-sourced:

The Disagree side You cannot be a feminist and continue to eat animal foods.

• As is evident through a brief historical jaunt through the 20th century, feminism has had three major and distinct waves. The point is this: feminism is an evolving ideology,

Tea: • Green Bean Coffee House – on campus!

• Pukka herbs tea • Yogi • Dragonfly • Numi • David’s Tea—be careful, because not all of their teas are fair-trade. However, lots are!

• Formosa Tea Café—this

not a stagnant definition of one type of view and one type of person. Approaching feminism with the idea to include nonhuman animals as points of moral concern is not an attack on previous feminists, nor meant to strip those ground-breaking women of their “title.” Instead, it should be seen as a challenge to broaden what feminism means.

•Feminism and veganism are inherently linked. Their goals and values are similar if not identical: to expand our moral concern to those who are unnecessarily oppressed and exploited on arbitrary grounds.

Why would feminists only want to help female humans? Many women are unfairly treated based on their reproductive systems, as are all female animals used for dairy production.

We must acknowledge our commonalities instead of continuously reaching for our differences. If we do not support sexual violence among

humans, we cannot tolerate sexual violence and rape among nonhumans either. Veganism follows from feminism because both seek to question the oppressive status quo and to disturb power relations between all beings.

•We should strive to see feminism and veganism as working within the same compassionate framework, one that sees veganism as a relationship between humans and nonhumans.

Not just about nonhuman animals, but involving them. Women know all too well what it means to be segmented in similar manners, their flesh and bodies consumed or commodified, and their personhoods stripped from them. We should challenge all violent systems, not just ones that affect humans. Feminists should strive to abolish oppressive frameworks, not work within them.

one’s local! It’s located behind Arby’s off of highway 97. All of their teas are organic and fair trade; they have a huge selection of delicious loose-leaf teas, including matcha.

• The Granville Island Tea Company • Bohemian Café & Catering Co.—local café. (*Twinings, while popular and cheap, ranks very low on the ethical scale. Stay away from that brand if you can.)

Coffee: • Ethical Bean Coffee • Earth Friendly Coffee Company • Green Mountain coffee • Mad Mango Café – another local café that offers organic coffee (and tea).

• Giobean—local café.

• Bean Scene Coffee House— local café.

• Van Houtte Mexico Fair Trade Coffee

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