Issue 15

WHERE DID UBCO’s PARTIES GO? P2 NIGHTLIFE IN KELOWNA P13 A GRAD PARTY FOR THE HEAT ATHLETES P19

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First years at UBCO are still being regaled by tales of the ghosts of party past by the older studentson campus.

“When I was starting school, the party came to you, you’d walk out of your dorm and the hallways were full - or you’d step out onto the street and you’d be immersed in a crowd of hundreds of students, mingling, drink in hand.” Sound familiar?

Then a sigh, and either an expression of optimism or pessimism at the changes since then. Some are happy those parties don’t rule the weekends at UBCO anymore, some are disappointed, but almost everyone else is curious about their notoriety.

So what did happen to that culture at UBCO? Where did it go, and how did it change? This issue’s feature is an in-depth look at the old days of partying at UBCO. If you never witnessed it, then it’s a glimpse at how things used to be. If you were around for it, then it’s a way to reminisce.

We’re publishing it now because partying is on our minds. The end of the academic year is soon, and the largest sanctioned party UBCSUO has ever attempted to throw is on its way: Recess. The UBCSUO has partnered with the DJ Club and Flipside Entertainment to have a 3,000 person capacity concert, preceded by a beer garden and followed by an after-party at The Well. All of Issue 15 is dedicated to party culture, specifically party culture and alcohol. Each article tackles a related topic. Partying certainly isn’t dead at UBCO - it has changed, yes, and is still changing. As an eight-year-old school, UBCO is culture-envious of other universities, and this is an important time for discovering what that culture will be and what kind of traditions will develop here.

Enjoy the issue, and hey, if you have a party story you want to share, or an opinion about this issue or the history of UBCO’s party culture, then send it to eic@thephoenixnews.com. Or, if you want us to look into something that you feel we left untold, send us a tip. Your stories can be anonymous; we will be actively collecting material for party-related online stories for the next week or so.

You can also find the usual news and section content being published regularly online at www.thephoenixnews.com.

WHERE DID UBCO’s PARTIES GO? P2 NIGHTLIFE IN KELOWNA P13 A GRAD PARTY FOR THE HEAT ATHLETES P19

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“When we needed something for the party cover shot We decided to turn it up a notch You fill a bath tub full of liquor and then diiiiiive in it” Cover model: Maranda Wilson Photos by Kelsi Barkved

CORRECTIONS In last issue’s Sports sections the school names were missing from the graph about age of eligibility. The proper graph is up online

UBCO’s HISTORY OF PARTIES 3-5

Chaos on campus (and in the woods, and in the quarry)

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Students versus security and police

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Changes after the stabbbing

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Looking forward

Editor-in-chief

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GOING OUT 13

The types of people you always see at the club

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The clubs and pubs UBCO students go to

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Fear of Missing Out on “College Thursday”

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My lipstick brings all the boys tto the bar?

Interim News Editor

David Nixon news@thephoenixnews.com

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PARTY CULTURE 9

High school parties on film: the 90s vs now

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A history of alcohol

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Our party experience roundtable

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How gender affects your beverage choice

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Party photo contest Opinions Editor

SPORTS GRAD PARTY 19-21

We hold a mini grad party in the gym for the Heat’s senior winter sport athletes

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Volleyball captain Nate Speijer

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Men’s volleyball and Women’s basketball

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Men’s basketball and Women’s Volleyball

Kayti Barkved opinions@thephoenixnews.com

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Staff Writers/Reporters

Union Okanagan (UBCSUO) and from the

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Staff Illustrator Asher Klassen

Staff Photographers Ali Young

Production Assistants

Lindsay Smith, Lynnette Oon

Contributors

Chynna Howard, Mirella Cullen

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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. legalising marijuana).

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WHERE DID THE PARTIES GO? David Nixon Editor-in-chief

For a 19 year old in my second year of university, the Cascade street parties were surreal – they were a college movie come to life. On any weekend (the warm ones at least) you could walk out of a rez room and immediately be swept up in a swarm of woo-girls and fist-pumping-beer-shotgunning-bros, who all milled about the buildings meeting new people. They jumped off ledges and balconies, climbed gazebos; and navigated the police, security, and RAs who all posed a threat to their freedom of underage and/or public drinking.

If you build it, they will party “UBCO was massive for parties in my frist two years,” said Ian Lauzon, a graduate of UBCO, “the roads of phase two and three were like Mardi Gras on the weekends and you were free pretty much to drink outside. Most RA's were

pretty relaxed with it as long as you weren’t causing trouble. The Cascades dorm parties were always quite hilarious and drew in huge amounts of people.”

Those street parties were the first thing you’d see, but they weren’t the only game in town. “People seemed to care nothing about school in the first month of school,” said Lauzon, “it was all about the beach and having huge campfires up on the hill above campus.

Lauzon was referring to the parties above R lot at the top of the university, past where the Upper Cascades are perched. They would

often get busted (smoke in the Okanagan doesn’t go unreported for long) but students could easily scatter like ants down a hill into dorms and find their next adventure for the night.

“There were keggers being thrown by engineering or HKIN [students] in the woods,” said Lauzon, “the Redbull party at Postill Lake Road was also out of this world. I mean, school buses taking kids to the party is ridiculous.”

The Postill Road party was organized by students and sponsored

by Redbull - they bussed ticket the party continues on p. 4...

Photo by Kelsi Barkved

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Kegstands in rez.

Photo by Ian Lauzon

Open alcohol in Cascades. Photo by Ali Young

In a mass on the grass.

Photo by Ali Young

holders up there and let them loose on what seemed like unlimited beer while the Redbull car blasted music and a bonfire raged.

I remember spending most of that night wandering the outskirts of the crowd in disbelief that the whole thing was happening. As if they’d read my mind, half the conversations I had there, and overheard, were just about the party itself.

Another regular event was the beer pong tournaments above the university. Lauzon was one of the students who organized them.

“We started by making a FB event, then just signing up teams on a first come first serve basis.

32 teams [usually], one year we managed 36…the place where we played was literally a hundred meters away from UBC property so it would have never been the school’s issue had we been caught…”

He said they were always responsible with garbage and didn’t leave a mess, but “the only thing I regret is not having a better way of getting people home that lived off campus.

Lots of them drove intoxicated after the tournament was done.”yside.

Fortunately nothing bad happened as a result, but a heavy party culture leads to complacency over some of the more dangerous sides of drinking. Another dangerous event were the quarry parties, also held out back of the university.

“Used to be a lot of bush parties, back during the old Well,” said Mike Ouellette, Well Pub Manager.

“They used to go up to the quarry and have a bush party. They used to have something they called ‘yukkaflux’. They would fill a cooler of vodka and stick a bunch of fruit in

The annual beer pong tournament, hosted above UBCO.

“You come here to learn first, but back then it definitely didn’t seem like that.”

-Jeremy, Fourth Year

“The only thing comparable to the chaos was a music festival —it was like students had come to residence with the same attitude concert goers bring to festivals.”

there, and marinate it and inject it, and they would eat the fruit that night. And people would just get so drunk. It was really dangerous actually.”

There was lots of variety in the outdoor parties, but you could find a ton to do in dorms too.

“Someone hired a DJ in Upper Cascades and cleared out all the furniture. They just had the DJ spinning in one of the units,” said Jeremy, a current fourth year student (name changed at student’s request). Picture a mass of sweaty students boxed in so tight they can barely dance to the music.

“People were on the steps outside, it spilled out onto the parking lot, it was packed. That was probably the best Rez party I ever went to.”

I admit I loved the whole thing the sheer number of people, opportunities, and the independence of it —it was like a series of caves to explore, each with their own unique opportunities.

Usually it was the student-run, unsanctioned events that drew you in with the promise of the most fun, so that’s where I would be. But even some of the legitimate parties became notorious.

The UNC Ballroom’s white-tshirt party in 2010 is one of those.

“SOME...(long pause) events occurred,” said Jeremy. “There was the chick that had sex with some guy out on the grass… One on the dance floor… The couple above in the bay window of the second floor.” Yeah, you read that correctly.

A couple of rules-be-damned teenagers did the deed in full view of the people below them in the UNC.

That’s the stuff of legend, whether or not you find it funny or repulsive. {Editor’s note: the UNC’s windows were used for simialr exhibitionism again in September 2012 during an all-ages outdoor party] Jeremy paused in thought after sharing all his residence experiences. “You come here to learn first but back then it definitely didn’t seem like that.”

Campus Chaos Because of the mix of sanctioned parties, dorm parties, and unsanctioned street/bush parties, you could just wander campus aimlessly on the weekend and end up at a raging party without any effort.

The only thing comparable to the chaos is a music festival - it was like students had come to residence with the same attitude concert goers bring to festivals.

“You could just walk out of the UNC and there would be 700-800 people on the street going here, there, or wherever,” recalled Phoenix Creative Director Cam Welch, “there would usually be an all-age party in the UNC ballroom, so people would be there and could float around to dorm, street, or bush parties. As much as it was, y’know,

Photo by Ian Lauzon unsafe, it was very fun to be able to just go out there, especially when I was starting first year, and you could meet hundreds of people you’re going to school with at once, in the evening, in a casual setting.”

Another residence DJ that got attention was some dude who took to wearing a Deadmau5 helmet while he spun in residence.

“This was right when Deadmau5 was getting big, when ‘Ghosts n Stuff’ was everywhere” said Welch, “and somehow it didn’t even seem that far fetched that it would be the real Deadmau5, because UBCO on an big party night seemed like it could conceivably be the biggest party between Vancouver and Calgary.”

It was some mix of the middleof-nowhere feel created by the unfinished, construction-heavy campus on the outskirts of town, the mentality of students there, and the lack of alternatives such as other on-campus activities or access to downtown (think transit was bad now? Try a few years ago).

Noise from a dorm room on a weekend seemed to be widely accepted as an open invititation.

My roommates and I hosted a few parties that year where we saw that firsthand: We’d invite ten friends but in an hour the damn place would be packed with strangers who didn’t even know where they were or who was hosting the party. Eventually we just embraced it — one night we hosted a fort party with a Texas mickey of rum.

Blankets covered the staircase of our third floor Lower Cascades

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Star guy was everywhere

Students on the streets left no construct unscaled, no gazebo unconquered.

“I remember security being much more laid back, we used to drink beers with some of them if they caught us drinking.”

-Ian Lauzon, UBCO Graduate

Halloween was the largest of the Cascade street parties, often drawing upwards of 1,200 students. Oh, and to the guy in center frame: nice wheels dude.

quad and wound about in a maze-like pattern before spitting out those who braved it into the living room. Then we’d all cheer and offer them a drink. Some kids were too ‘grown up’ for it though, and the closest I ever got to a fight on residence was when one guy just stood up in the fort and stepped out of it, knocking over one of the walls. I was so offended that I shoved my way through the entire crowd to physically block him.. I wouldn’t let him stay unless he went back and started over.

“No, I don’t want to do your dumb fort.”

“How DARE you. My house my rules.” I kept repeating the second part, louder and louder, no matter what he said. The guy fumed. He was probably innocent enough, he just couldn’t believe, grown man to grown man, that I was being so adamant about him crawling through a crudely-constructed blanket fort on his hands and knees. Eventually he relented, fixed the fort wall, and crawled through. I’d won. I didn’t offer him a drink.

It wasn’t all in good fun though —one time my roommate’s cash savings were stolen during a party, along with a few smaller personal items. Another night, three of us left campus and the fourth went to go visit a friend in another residence.

Our fourth roomate was only gone a couple hours, but he left the door unlocked and someone wandered in, stole my laptop and my roommate’s laptop, and wandered out.

We never caught the jerk. The god of UBCO parties was fickle, and the chaos could swing away from your favor at a moment’s notice.

Want to study?

Too bad The party culture was great for anyone looking for a good time, but it wasn’t good for anyone wanting to study. I remember in the blur of finals studying, a group of guys ran into my quad with a T.V..

“We’re friends of your roommate Steve!”

I just stared at them.

“What?”

“You guys ready?”

“Woo!” “John, get the door. Okay go!”

Together the six of these ‘friends’ were carrying a TV, and not one of the light flatscreens. One of those big, hulking giants. You know the ones.

After yelling ‘go!’ they tossed their dinosaur onto the street below, missing a car by mere feet. It was like a bomb went off.

All I could do was look on in horror—I was there alone at the time. I didn’t know these guys at all (turns out neither did my roommate). Of course, the RAs picked up on this, and then amidst finals I had prove I had no connection to the TV so I wouldn’t be evicted and have permanent marks on my file.

Lynnette Oon, a current third year student, had some trouble both with studying and with racism in her first semester (fall 2011).

“My parents dropped me off the first night, and I remember looking out the door that night and there were parties everywhere,” said Oon, “there was open liquor all over the place, people peeing on windows, my window specifically.

I didn’t know what to do, it was kind of terrifying. One time a guy peered in my window and squinted until he saw me, then yelled “Oh my god, there’s an Asian in there!” Another time, while studying, I think it was Saint Paddy’s Day, I’d left my windows were half up. Some guys ran and called “have fun studying, Asian!”

“So I yelled back, ‘Have fun failing!’”

Security & police versus students Out of all the stories we collected, the street parties still came across as

All photos by Ali Young

the peak of party culture at UBCO. And woe to those poor security guards who were tasked with the job of patrolling the throngs of us mind-altered students. I always felt bad for them—mostly it was a respectful relationship, but people have a surprising capacity for being downright awful. And alcohol multiplies that capacity, like heat accelerating atoms.

I still have the image of one guy from the basketball team, beer in hand, yelling taunts over his shoulder and gleefully bounding away from a woman in her yellow security coat. Maybe she got her way in the end, since the beer was spilling as he ran, but this was a common sight. The chases were the least of it too, I heard that same woman being verbally abused by another student when she told him to pour out open alcohol. I’m talking jawdropping, tear inducing, verbal abuse. I’d also heard that kind of attack directed towards an RA. Witnessing this kind of irresponsible cruelty, and experiencing the loss of my laptop, soured the positive school spirit side of the parties for me.

It wasn’t all awful though—some students flew against the grain of ‘us versus them’ with a more creative and collaborative approach to being caught. “I remember security being much more laid back,” said Lauzon, “we used to drink beers with some of them if they caught us drinking.”

No matter how students reacted, the end result was that security and RAs were largely impotent. The

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Even Mario and Luigi enjoyed the nightlife here. Photo by Ian Lauzon.

A Cascades quad room filled to bursting with students. decision must have been made that more help was needed, because cops soon became a staple of weekends on residence. The prospect of being fined or arrested raised the stakes, but there is strength in numbers, so it didn’t change too much.

The police were more of a presence than anything. They followed security’s suit and asked students to pour out obvious drinks, while often turning a blind eye to the more demure, subtle drinker with an opaque water bottle. They monitored the perimeter of crowds and made sure no one was being too stupid, and they used road blocks on the only exit out to mitigate risks of campus drinking,

The crackdown One such gathering was a white t-shirt party that occured near G lot in 2008. That night the parking lots above Simi were filled with students jumping from person to person, writing inappropriate and embarassing things on each others’ $5 poorly fitting Wal-Mart t-shirts.

It seemed like a relatively innocent party though—nothing was being damaged.

This time, the cops weren’t content to monitor. They came in full throttle with at least five squad cars and three vans. They flew in without stopping and scattered students by almost hitting them.

It devolved from there—kids were running scared from the young clean-cut cops, chests puffed up like peacocks, who left their cars at a run.

I didn’t have any drinks with me so I wasn’t breaking any laws - I’m not sure if there was anything they could have done, but that didn’t stop me from running all the same.

I remember sprinting by a cop who had just violently knocked a girl to the ground. The girl was screaming angry nonsense at him as she struggled in shock over what was happening. I had no idea if the girl had tried to resist arrest or not, but I remember feeling that the whole thing seemed like an organized crackdown to dissuade students from ever doing this again.

Thirty seconds later I was down the grass hill in the Simi parking lot, not arrested.

I looked up and saw students being led to the drunk vans. The vans were packed with students looking out at the scene of their ‘crime’, resigned, and probably wondering how they would explain this to their parents.

The tactic worked. That was the last parking lot party, though the Cascade street parties still survived a couple years more, with varying degrees of success.

Photos above and bottom right: by Ali Young

Saving the reputation of UBCO This kind of fast enforcement began to occur more frequently.

The white t-shirt party was just a climactic point in a growing trend.

It became near-impossible to find a large-scale on-campus dorm party for the rest of that year since cops or security would shut things down by 11 p.m. at the latest. You’d be on your way over, your phone would ring, and you’d be listening to the dejected voice of a friend telling you to turn around.

The party scene wasn’t to be broken so easily though, it took a few last gasps over the next two years as dorm and street parties held their ground. After the stabbing in September 2011, though, things changed more permanently. Administration took a closer interest.

“With the understanding of the SU and others we’ve enhanced our video coverage and patrols; all of that was reviewed in the discus-

A rez table covered in...beer!

sion with the RCMP, Security, and the SU,” said Doug Owram, the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the time of the violent event. The people involved turned out to be from off campus, but it was still a big blow to the reputation of UBCO, demanding a response.

Students realized it quickly enough. “The school cracked down on [parties] since the stabbing...

That’s the general consensus,” said Nate Speijer, a sixth year student and captain of the Men’s Heat Volleyball.

With UBCV peering over its shoulder, UBCO was already on thin ice, so any incident aggravated that dynamic.

That underdog status was recently reinforced by a post on the Ubyssey’s social club blog, responding to the sticker war UBCO seems to be waging at UBCV. CJ Pentland wrote that “after constantly living in the shadow of their Point Grey sibling, repeatedly losing in sporting events and living with the reputation as being a home for UBC-Vancouver rejects, it appears they’re finally going after us.”

Although it’s a ridiculous notion todraw a direct parallel between the two campuses (UBCO is only 8 years old, compared to UBCV’s 106 years, not to mention the size difference), Pentland is crudely correct about the reject mentality—in order to fill seats at UBCO, secondary offers were given to students who were turned away from UBCV, which connotes UBCO as a second-rate alternative. In that context, it’s easy to see why UBCO would be even more eager to crack down hard and fast.

“There is nothing ever happening on campus anymore…I almost feel bad for first and second years around here.”

-Nate Speijer

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G lot in 2014 - where the 2008 parking lot party happened. At that time Upper Cascades were not complete.

This year, coinciding with the drop in partying, seats have been filling up, so there will no longer be any domestic ‘Vancouver rejects’ offered.

“This year for the first [time] we aren’t going to make what we call ‘third choice offers’ to domestic students,” said Ian Cull, AVP Students at UBCO. He explained that it had been done in the past because the Provincial Government paid money for each seat filled, so they were in a rush to do so. Those third choice offers will still be made to international students who are turned down from Vancouver, however.

UBCO is sorry for party rocking As Jeremy put it: “You could definitely see the decline in my second year, [the parties] definitely weren’t as strong.

I think that was largely due to increase in admissions standards in a lot of faculties. The upper years were the ones who had come here and established that party school. You could tell there was a new wave of people that were

more focused on school than the social aspect.”

“There is nothing ever happening on campus anymore,” said Speijer, “there are no invitations for rez parties…I almost feel bad for first and second years around here.

There are more planned events now, but as far as number of people in attendance, giant rez parties, Cascade street parties, those don’t happen anymore.”

The organized parties may be the future of partying at UBCO— as student-run, unsanctioned parties die off, Frosh week is only now gaining momentum.

“The concert at the beginning of the year was awesome,” said Speijer, “The event parties are better than they used to be but there are no student oriented parties going on anymore from what I hear...Admin is locking down on people… [students are] more afraid of getting in trouble, and of more consequences.”

Those consequences become clear by looking at the non-academic disciplinary reports. Seven of UBCO’s eight non-academic disciplinary reports for 2012/2013 were regarding alcohol. In comparison, UBCV’s non-academic disciplinary reports included just three: one assault, one laptop theft, and one sexual assault. Keep in mind the relative size of the campuses: approximately 8,500 students compared to 50,000. And yet UBCO has almost three times as many non-academic discplinary cases.

Security and facilities did not have any figures or yearly reports on hand to show us, but both departments agreed with the anec-

“There are still get togethers for pre-drinking, but people are leaving campus for the wilder parties… it quiets down around 10 or 11 p.m. most of the time.

There are also noticeably [fewer] noise complaints. “ -Anonymous RA

“We have a better reputation, I think that it’s been a good improvement, it’s been a good stabilization for us at the campus.”

-Roger Bizzotto, Associate Director of Facilities Management

dotal testimony of students as to party culture. “Some unsanctioned events do still happen, maybe around Halloween…but it has definitely gone down,” said Roger Bizzotto, Associate Director of Facilities Management. “We have a better reputation, I think that it’s been a good improvement, it’s been a good stabilization for us at the campus.”

Director of Parking and Security, Gary Appleton, added that the bush parties just don’t happen like they used to. Appleton attributed any success from security to their integration into the community and education of students, as the department did not even keep up with the campus growth, relative to student body. According to Appleton, security has gone from two guards on shift to three in the time that the school has gone from 3,500 students to 8,500.

RAs also confirm the trend.

“There are still get togethers for pre-drinking,” said one RA, “but people are leaving campus for the wilder parties…it quiets down around 10 or 11 p.m. most of the time. There are also noticeably [fewer] noise complaints. The only time there ever is is when they are pre-drinking but they are usually very cooperative.”

In the 2010/2011 academic year, there were 487 incident reports filed by RAs. In 2011/2012, that went down to 484, while the beds on campus increased by 214 from 1,462 to 1,676. Then in 2012/2013, incident reports plummeted to 263.

According to Shannon Dunn, Director of Housing at the time of those reports, there was no change in the

Photo by David Nixon housing rules or how RAs give out incident reports to help explain the drop either. So while student beds on campus increase, incidents reports are heading the other way.

As for the police, they conveyed to us at the beginning of this year that the September parties were tame compared to previous years.

The service calls from residence mirror the firsthand accounts of students: From September to March of 2008, there were 96 calls from campus to the Kelowna RCMP detachment. The next year it increased to 129; and then again in 2010/2011 to 193. The last increase was in 2011/2012, when it peaked at 231.

After that crackdown in 2011/2012, the calls dropped by 40.3% to 138 in the same period, and stayed steady at 144 for 2013/2014.

Onwards and upwards Alcohol and partying will remain a staple of university campuses.

“Meeting new people is always difficult,” said Jeremy, “alcohol was a great way to break down those barriers.” That innocuous use of alcohol snowballed at UBCO, and in its attempt to correct a problem and save its fragile reputation, the school may have swung the pendulum

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further towards conservatism.

“There was definitely a negative stance from the school on these parties,” continued Jeremy, “[but] we had a good balance between fun and respect. It was really a good way to meet everyone, and it was good for school spirit.”

That school spirit seems to be the difficult balance to reach. How is it achieved, like at Queens University (homecoming anyone?) without letting the partying get out of hand and hurting the school’s reputation? UBCO lacks a strong campus culture - it’s a serious problem for a campus on the outskirts of town without enough non-academic commons space for students. The new Well has picked up in its day business which has helped, but there is still very little for students to do here except, well, leave.

University is an odd beast. It’s a live-action social experiment of ‘hey let’s put all these young hormonal kids in an adult environment and see what happens. They’re doing a ton for the first time: feeding themselves, dealing with classes that are ten times harder than what they’re used to, and managing unlimited access to co-ed opportunities and various intoxicants. Oh, then add in the minimal infrastructure, fringe campus, and explosive student growth, of UBCO and it’s no wonder the party culture developped.

In his last town hall, President Toope spoke to the problems specific to UBCO, and how far the campus has come: “I remember well coming for my first visit here, and thinking that this was a fragile place…it doesn’t feel fragile at all now.” He conveyed that there had also been a sense of worry about how UBCO would fit into the UBC umbrella. But he says that’s coming to an end.

UBCO is getting its academic feet under it, and it’s beginning to live up to the esteemed UBC name. The problem remains of a poor campus culture, however. The sun may have set on UBCO’s party empire, but from its ashes a middle ground may emerge that allows a culture to develop that students and administration alike can be proud of.

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Kinky bedroom action in Easy A.

Exciting ways to drink beer in The To Do List.

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As a 90s kid, I have seen teen movies evolve over the years, with parachute pants and Smashmouth slowly disappearing and product placement becoming more common. In the 90s there were both high school and college house party films, the American Pie and Val Wilder movies being the most college and therefore the raunchiest. Lately, however, we’ve seen a merging of the respective genres into one supergenre.

The 90s house party films were mostly of the high school variety, they had a sort of silly innocence to them. Sure these kids got hammered and had sex, but after effects were never as extreme. The Phoenix took a look at how house party films have changed since the 90s.

A Superbad bonding moment.

Laura Scarpelletti Arts Editor

Staples in 90s house party scenes 1. Choreographed dancing. Someone gets the spotlight and does an intense breakdance or flail dance (think Kat on the table in 10 Things I Hate About You), and ] it’s always in sync with the music.

2. Girls are dolled up, guys dressed like slobs.

3. Non-drink related games. Like “suck and blow” in Clueless.

Staples in 2000s house party scenes 1. The houses get way more trashed. Project X anyone? Nevermind, I know that’s an extreme example. How about 21 Jump Street then?

2. Drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs. The more drugs, the crazier the party, and the more likely boobs will make an appearance (see below).

Spring Breakers gave us a lot of that.

3. People actually get hurt. Jonah Hill literally gets stabbed in the back in 21 JumpStreet.

4. Fighting, of a comedic nature. No injuries.

5. Somehow there is always room in the driveway. No matter how late the main character arrives or how packed it is. Never Been Kissed featured a slew up teenagers occupying Drew Barrymore’s childhood home, and yet the driveway was free.

6. The cops always show up. This happens is modern films too, sure, but not as much.

7. Someone always has an instrument. Note: 90s films really enjoyed brass instruments. Let’s get down with the trumpet…and so on and so forth.

8. The geeks are doing something geeky. Like playing chess, or looking for UFOs on the roof.

9. Red solo cups.

4. BOOBS. From ones that are technically covered but just barely (thanks Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls) to full out naked boobage like in The To Do List. The worst 90s house party girls did was wear neon crop tops, and that wasn’t the most common thing.

5. Blue solo cups. Easy A, Superbad, The To Do List. I don’t quite get it as I’ve never been to a party with blue solo cups. This may just be a commercial thing that I do not understand.

6. Strobe lights. The music is more electronic, and we still hear a lot of dubstsep. This is especially most common at house parties with drugs involved.

Similarities 1. Sex in the bathroom. Can’t Hardly Wait showed us that romance can happen in a bathroom while the party is going on downstairs.

But no matter the party movie, bathrooms always seem to be prime locations for sexy times.

2. The house is always HUGE. Rich parents.

They seem to be everywhere.

3. There is always a pool. Always. Partygoers puke, screw, dance, eat, and obviously drink in them. More like “cesspool”.

What’s next?

House parties have been around forever, but Hollywood has felt the need to take the shenanigans up much more than a notch or two. Things got trashed in Sixteen Candles sure, but it was for silliness. Project X? That’s now every high school boy’s wet dream. My younger brother obsessed about it before, during, and after the film’s release. As far as Hollywood goes, dancing on tables and “rollin’ with the homies” isn’t enough anymore. It’s a shift from parties to megaparties. How much further can Hollywood go? Maybe we’ll see more swag and wealthobsessed house parties like in The Bling Ring. All things considered, I miss Seth Green try to pick up girls with the “angel from heaven” routine.

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It’s It’s been been aa blur blur Matt Lauzon Features Editor

Surprisingly, when we discovered alcohol, we didn’t get so shitfaced that we forgot it.

If you’re a student and haven’t tried alcohol in any form, you’re an outlier. This isn’t to say you’re “not cool” or “boring” or anything like that–you’re free to do or not do whatever you want–but according to the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA), nearly 80% of adults in Canada report drinking alcohol in the past year. It gets the people goin’.

But where did alcohol come from? Why is it such a staple in our culture? How long has it been around, and did it serve to impact more than just your mental state and have an effect on the creation of modernity? The answer is yes (to that last question, at least).

Alcohol is one of the most important organic compounds humanity has toyed with. How important you ask? Well we have to go a little ways back–back before we had Google–to get this information for ourselves.

With the discovery that beer jugs were used in the Stone Age came the discovery, this may indicate

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that beer preceded bread as a diet staple. Whether or not you want to change the saying from “the best thing since sliced bread” to “the best thing since beer” is entirely up to you–the point is, beer has been around for a long, long time. You wouldn’t recognize it though, then it was thick, something along the lines of porridge/oatmeal, and was

“The desire for beer spurred the rise of intensive farming in the Near East 10,00012,000 years ago.”

-ROBERT BRAIDWOOD,

ARCHAEOLOGIST / ANTHROPOLOGIST drank through a straw (which was invented by the Sumerians or the Babylonians). Some may say, depending on who you talk to, that the straw itself was invented FOR BEER. Just wait, it gets better.

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Robert Braidwood, an American archaeologist and anthropologist said: “The desire for beer spurred the rise of intensive farming in the Near East 10,000-12,000 years ago.” That’s right. What he’s saying is that farming (you know that whole thing that gets us our food and sustains cities?) started not for food, but for BEER. Imagine that: the convenience of growing food took a back seat to getting a couple brews (of course back then beer was also a necessity for living but that’s beside the point). Thanks, beer. I’m eating my next meal because of you.

Let’s fast forward to about 2,500 B.C. and to Greece. Mead, a fermented honey/water drink, gained popularity, but due to a minimal supply of honey they couldn’t make too much of it. So what did they do? They made wine of course.

And wine had a lot of value. It was used as medicine, a part of daily meals, and was even being consumed in a greater quantity than water in 1,800 B.C. Israel. Wine had such an impact on society back then that it was said Noah planted a vineyard on Mt. Ararat, and the

reasoning the prophet Hosea told his followers to return to God was so they could “blossom as the vine, their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.” Sorry cleanliness, it’s wine that’s next to godliness.

So after that, as the types of alcohols spread, people really took to liking it. It was so loved, actually, that in the Greco-Roman world of antiquity it was an insult to call someone a “water-drinker”. Dude, you think its an insult when your peers pressure you to have a drink?

Imagine living in a society where if you didn’t drink wine, you were thought to exude a noxious odour.

I’d much rather be seen as cool for drinking than to be shunned by society for not drinking.

What can we learn from beer and alcohol then? That it makes people confident, sloppy, mean, and hard to get directions from? Of course.

But the next time you finish off a delicious pint or toast with a nice oaky red, think about where that drink came from. You’re drinking history, the saviour of our species, the creator of farming and modernity: you’re getting drunk you’re drinking alcohol.

4th year grad show: Ellipsis Ellipsis is the graduate exhibition; a collective effort of 27 students at UBC. Okanagan’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19 at 7 p.m.

Free admission; refreshments and entertainment Exhibition: April 17-26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily Closed April 18 and 20 for Good Friday and Easter Sunday

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WORST DRUNK PARTY EXPERIENCE Sasha’s story Sasha: Worst was when I was probably 16, I was at this party and there were a bunch of older guys there, and they saw me with a 2/6 of raspberry Smirnoff that I was sharing with my friend. I had been boasting that I had never thrown up from drinking before and that I was invincible and these guys were calling me out on it. So they dared me to chug my 2/6 and I thought, ok, no big deal. Literally grabbed the botte without stopping to think, with all these people watching and swallowed about five shots worth, after having had quite a bit of it already.

Kayti: HARDCORE! Sasha: At first, I was fine. But about five or ten mintues later, and I don’t even remember what happened in those five or ten minutes, apparently I was okay seeming, but mentally I was just GONE. So I felt sick and I went to the bathroom, closed the door, locked it, and I just remember thinking “Oh crap, I’m going to throw up.” I puked once and then fell on the ground and held onto the toilet because the whole room was spinning. I was just holding onto the toilet for dear life, because I thought if I let go, I was going to slip off the floor.

Meanwhile my best friend was looking for me, and she called me, really mad, and told me to come downstairs and I just kept saying “you don’t understand, I can’t move!” So she came upstairs and made a big scene banging on the door, but it was locked so she couldn’t get in and I was still on the floor because I just…I just couldn’t let go of the toilet. Then a crowd gathered outside the door because I wouldn’t open it and my friend was worried about me.

One of the guys broke open the door finally – I should probably point out now that I was weaing hoop earrings- and as I was leaning over the toilet, with this huge crowd watching me, suddenly one of my nice hoop earrings fell into the toilet. And my guy friend is shouting “NO DON’T DO IT SASHA!” But I did. I just remember hearing this collective “EW!” Then somehow I was peeled off the ground and taken downstairs.

Kelsi: What about the toilet though? Were you okay without the toilet?

Sasha: I was not okay, they had to carry me away and then they put me outside the house with my friends. I was mortified.

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DISCUSSION HIGHLIGHT

How old were you when you first got drunk?

Lauren: I would have been 16 or 17.

Alex: Probably as a baby, I mean my dad used to give me sips of his beer when I was 2.

Kayti: That doesn’t count! We’ve all done that!

Kelsi: “Hey daddy, what does beer taste like?”

Kayti: “Here, find out!”

Kelsi: “I don’t like it!”

Alex: Okay, then I was 18.

Sasha:…I was 14.

Kayti and Kelsi: YEAH! Alex: Can we get retroactively arrested for underaged drinking?

Kelsi: I’m going to say I was 15.

Alex: Again, are we positive that we can’t be retroactively arrested or reprimanded for this?

Kayti: First time for me was 15.

Maranda: 15, at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Alex: Can I redact mine and say that I think I was 17 when I first started recreationally drinking, like having a beer with my dad after hockey.

Lauren: See I wouldn’t count that.

Alex: Are we counting drinking or getting drunk?

Kayti: I’m saying, you had to have the idea in mind to go out and get drunk. All the kids were talking about it and you wanted to do it to.

Alex: Okay, then yeah, I was 18.

BEST DRUNK PARTY EXPERIENCE Kelsi’s story Kelsi: My best drunk party experience just happened this year – it was in Edmonton.

Maranda: I have videos!

Kelsi: It was the second night of CUP national conference, and all I had been eating for three days was potatoes and bread because I’m lactose intolerant and the hotel wasn’t serving food I could eat. I decided that I needed to go get something into my tummy if I was going to show folks how to party.

I had seen a Boston Pizza down the street earlier - turns out it was actually 13 blocks away. In an Edmonton winter. But I got in, got myself two shots of rum and some chicken strips. Then Maranda started calling me, asking me where I was.

Maranda: Yeah because out of nowhere, you left and everyone was wondering where you had gone! You said you were going to get drinks for everybody!

ious – I started running around my floor screaming for Maranda because I didn’t have a key to the room. So, poor Maranda let me in and I ran into the bathroom to get ready to go out, just started throwing make-up on my face and then ran over and borrowed rum from Alex – Alex: You sure did.

Kelsi: - Thanks Alex! So I drank that with some warm Pepsi and got myself downstairs and onto the shuttle to the bar. We finally got to the bar and Alex got shots for everybody – and this was my seventh shot of the night, and I ended up running around like an idiot.

There were these partitions in the bar and I kept being creepy, just popping up and staring at people.

Deadpan staring at people.

Maranda: You really freaked out this group of older guys, just trying to enjoy a drink.

Kelsi: Right, I left originally to go buy beer for people!

Kelsi: But there was a group of girls cheering me on though! I made a lot friends that night.

Maranda: And you didn’t even bring back any alcohol!

Maranda: “Friends” like those creepy guys?

Kelsi: Anyways, so I’m eating my chicken strips really fast, took my shots, and walked back as quickly as I could. I hadn’t been drunk in over a year so I was pretty obnox-

Kelsi: Yeah, there were these guys that said they were all strippers and I turned to them and said “uh… you wouldn’t make very good strippers.”

NIGHTLIFE guys an d gals The main Maranda Wilson Life Editor

The girl crying in the bathroom Mascara streams down her face as she sobs uncontrollably. A boy is 98% likely involved.

The guy who thinks he can dance, but really can’t He has a circle of space around him... for all the wrong reasons.

That b*tch She doesn’t hold back when telling you to back off, or when shoving in front of you in line. Watch it, or else her drink will end up in your face.

The guy who actually can dance He has a circle of space around him... for all the right reasons.

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The super hot girl (a.k.a blonde bombshell) Everyone notices her. She is surrounded by her group of attractive girlfriends, thus making her untouchable.

The freakishly tall guy You can spot him from anywhere in the club. He wanders the dance floor and can be spotted in almost every club photo.

The couple making out Starts with the dance floor, ends with the walk of shame.

If there is no face eating involved, this type of couple can also be known as “the freaks on the dance floor”.

Give them a wide berth.

The guy who is clearly too old to be there...

Usually wearing a button down shirt, he isn’t shy about where he’s looking.

Every girl mentions “that creep at the bar” in conversations the next day.

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“It’s my 19th Birthdaaaaaaaay” Complete with birthday sash and tiara.

The fighter Wants to throw punches at everything and everyone over anything. It’s almost admirable how he can turn any interaction into a confrontation.

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Sasha Curry Life Editor I hate “College Thursdays” at Level nightclub. The entire club is completely sloshed, every week. You are constantly bumped into, stepped on, and getting your shirt splashed with beer. The floor is always extremely slippery, which makes falling once a night pretty much inevitable for me. Also, to get into the club four months out of the year, you must brave subzero temperatures, and more often than not, snow. Despite all of this insanity, I pretty much go to “College Thursdays”, every second week – which is a decrease from when I went every week last year. The fact of the matter is that beers are $2.00 and cover is free – this is something unheard of in my home city of Vancouver.

Oh, and another thing that I almost forgot to mention - free hotdogs. Like a pack of ravenous wolves that have spotted meat, the drunken nineteen year olds of Level Thursdays scramble by the masses to get their free hot dog before they all get snatched up. Not to say that I haven’t been a part of this pack once or twice before.

Something that I notice when I go to Level on Thursdays is that I see the same people each time. I asked a few of them here and there around campus why they continue to fuel the craziness (and economy) of this drunken shebang. “A familiar crowd” is what I heard from most students, and more specifically, some described Level as being similar to a friend’s house party – with a bar.

“The weekend starts Thursday” one student told me. When I asked around, and reflected on my own reasons for going to this event, I realized the dominant factor as being the dreaded FOMO. FOMO is the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you log into Facebook, in your pajamas, on a sober Sunday morning, and see all of the pictures taken the night before of your friends doing fun activities without you. It is the “Fear Of Missing Out” that drives you to get up off your comfy living room couch, pour your cup of tea down the drain and fill it up with vodka to catch up to your roommates.

FOMO is the reason why we brave hooligan-filled club nights, as well as the ounce of fun that occurs, of course. Personally, I suppose that I will continue to brave compromising circumstances for cheap drinks – and a familiar crowd. This is the beauty of a small university, located in a small city.

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Does red lipstick really attract suitors?

Maranda Wilson Life Editor Marilyn Monroe wore it, and so did Elizabeth Taylor. Now Dita Von Teese is the latest icon known to rock it.

What am I referring to? Red lipstick, of course. Synonymous with timeless elegance and confidence, red lipstick is a universally flattering colour (given you find the right shade for your skin tone) that is just as trendy now as it was fifty years ago. A study from the University of Manchester even found that red lipstick noticeably grabs the attention of males. The eye movements

“A study from the University of Manchester even found that red lipstick noticeably grabs the attention of males.” of 50 men were tracked while they viewed a variety of photos of women, and the study found that the men spent more time fixated on the images of women with red lipstick on. Roughly 7.3 seconds was spent looking at red lips, 6.7 seconds on women wearing pink lipstick, and

only 2.2 seconds on those who had on no lipstick. According to popsci.com, the colour is so appealing because “red is a sign of sexual readiness in humans”.

With that being said, how do the facts fare outside of a research lab, in a real life situation?

More specifically, a situation familiar to most young adults?

Will a slick of fire-truck red on my lips help me if I’m all up to get lucky?

My curiosity prompted me to conduct my own mini social experiment to test the supposed effects of red lipstick at a club. With guys purposely there scouting out ladies to bring home, it shouldn’t be difficult... right?

In preparation, I searched “the perfect red lips” on Youtube and followed along while slamming back a Smirnoff Ice. I packed my trusty Nars “Jungle Red” lipstick into my purse and set out for the night.

It’s Saturday night at Flashbacks, and the place is packed. Sitting by the dance floor with my girlfriends, I check my teeth in my phone to make sure they are still lipstick-free. Next thing I know, a heavily intoxicated guy with the remnants of tequila on his breath leans into my face and whispers, “you’re beautiful”. I look at him, and in his drunken stupor, I instantly doubt his capability to have noticed the colour of my lips. He pro-

ceeds to absentmindedly mumble on about his confusion as to where he was, as I thank him and walk away.

Feeling a little discouraged, I made my way over to the bar. I approached a guy friend and snapped him out, mid-checkout of the girl nearby.

“My lipstick. Does it compel you to pay for my vodka cran?”.

“I noticed it, that’s for sure.

They’re definitely bright... but I’m honestly too drunk to think about it”.

His answer didn’t surprise me.

The conclusion of my experiment:

“My lipstick.

Does it compel you to pay for my vodka cran?” there isn’t any way to prove that lipstick was the sole reason for guys’ interest. There was no staggering difference between wearing red lipstick versus not wearing anything at all. Of course, most of the guys at the club were barely able to speak, so to expect them to notice and consciously think about lipstick is unlikely. I say to save the red lipstick for that special date. As for clubbing, a tight, low-cut shirt is a better bet, if you aim to be an eye catcher.

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Ten 20-something men walk into a bar. They gravitate to a table near the dance-floor and take their seats. An eleventh man enters with his date. His date appears to be plastic. His date is a blow up doll. This confirms it. Bachelor Party.

I’m predicting five pitchers of draft. Something lightish. Lager? Shots can be ruled out until next round.

“Hey guys. Pretty doll.” I introduce myself and go over the specials. “What can I get started for you?”

There’s some debate. The one in the football jersey asks me for a wine list. He’s shut down immediately by the others. “I didn’t know the bride had joined us,” they chaff. After four or five minutes of negotiation they settle on five pitchers of Canadian. I’m one for one. I return with eleven frosty glasses, five pitchers, and one wine list.

As a server at a popular Okanagan bar, I often find myself questioning the ridiculous constructions that hinge on the gendering of consumer beverage selections. These constructions, I admit, I have been guilty of accepting as truths. Not for the fact that I uphold them as accurate reflections of identity, but for the fact that I consider them to represent the norm, even though that’s certainly not the case. A child who has been exposed to any strain of Western media will maintain that men drink beer and women drink wine. In my experience, men enjoy sipping Malbec just as much as women do, and plenty of women come in for a pint and basket of wings. Regardless of what is practiced in reality, certain expectations remain stagnant.

There is often a subtle element of shame or awkwardness when a patron orders a drink which, according to societal constructions, is considered to clash with their masculine or feminine identities. A middle-age man might make an excuse when he orders a Pina Colada in the summertime: “I just want something cold.” With few exceptions, all of our drinks come cold. Why do we consider these choices as damaging to our character?

According to a popular blog in Mixology 101, here are a few examples of the identity that supposedly correlates to your drink of choice. #1. Scotch: An overtly masculine drink. “You wear tweed, ugly Christmas sweaters and have once disheveled a cooked Thanksgiving turkey with nothing but your bare hands and of course, a glass of aged scotch. You are . . distinguished.” #5. Margarita: Typically female. “You may or may not have an obsession with drinking that’s

not your main attribute. When it comes to your overall character, you just want to travel, party and sleep, even if that involves singing Top 40 hits at the top of your lungs and in the middle of a public swimming pool. In five words: you’re a lot of fun!” #11. Domestic Light Beer: Self Explanatory.

“As it’s ‘a simple man’s drink,’ you’re a youthful and impulsive homosapien that’s more likely to binge on pizza for two weeks than take a trip to a Whole Foods store. You focus on what’s comfortable and at times, that can pilot an incredible pursuit of happiness.”

I find it painfully difficult to critique these claims with a straight face, but they only strengthen my point. We know that we live in a consumer society which encourages us to build our identities not on what we are, but what we have. We know that gender is a performance which has been determined by a set of binary societal constructions. We know that the spheres of consumerism and gender collide to determine what boys are expected to wear and what girls are expected to smell like. We have been conditioned to fulfill these artificial demands by convincing ourselves that they are natural. These constructions, in all forms, are evident at the bar, right down to our choice of poison. We are convinced that these choices are a visible extension of ourselves, and will ultimately act as a window into our masculine or feminine identities.

Whether this identity is reflective of the authentic you; the you you’re looking to be tonight; or the you your buddies insist you be is essentially up to, well, you. You’re expected to say it all with that container of liquid you’re walking around with and, the reality is, the majority of people will believe you.

Of course, there’s the brave soul who proudly orders a Cosmopolitan despite the sneers of his buddies, or the woman who confidently sips her Guinness and places it down on a table full of vodka waters. I won’t deny that many people simply enjoy certain drinks for the taste and do not consider them a refection of an authentic or constructed identity. But, if you happen to find yourself leaning over a buzzing bar on a Friday or Saturday night, take a moment to reflect on your position in society. Has your identity been taken ransom by a gendered set of constructions?

Will this neat Glenlivet actually make you more distinguished? Is the dim lighting really masking your massive tweed sweat stains? Just some booze for thought to take with you on your next night out. Cheers.

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UPCOMING March 28 Rejoice: Cultural Fashion Show

7:00 - 10:00 p.m. / UNC 200 Amplitheatre The International ILC (Integrated Learning Community) of UBCO is proud to announce the return of the third annual cultural fashion show “Rejoice.” Featuring designer clohing from Dare to Wear Love

YOUNG Art Exhibition showcasing upcoming artists from UBCO The UBCSUO, Flipside, Substance, and the UBCO DJ Club are presenting UBCO’s first allages year-end outdoor bash, Recess.

Want to get yourself and a friend on the guest list for the biggest party of the year?

Get on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook and post a photo of your favorite party moment of the year with the hastag #RECESS2014. Make sure to also tag us @ubcophoenix AND whoever threw the party your photo depicts.

Winner will be annouced Wednesday April 2nd via social media.

5:00 - 9:00 p.m. / Centre Culturel Francophone de l’Okanagan

Curated by Shayla Ritchie and Kolton Procter, this student organized show features upcoming UBCO artists from the FCCS program. Admission by donation.

March 29 KBAAD presents: Devon Coyote + Friends

7:00 p.m. / Mary Irwin Theatre Check out seasoned kelowna musician Devon Coyote. Tickets $15

April 3 Be A Star: Make a Wish Coffee House

6:00 - 10:00 p.m. / UNC 200 (UNC BallRoom) Help the KULA club make a wish come true! Come out for a night of music, performances, food, a stacked silent auction, photo booth and amazing guest speakers! Tickets $10

April 4 RECESS 2014 w/ Down With Webster + Action Brosnson + Will Sparks + M Machine 4:00 - 11:00 p.m. / UBCO Common Field UBCSUO, Flipside, Substenace and the UBCO Dj Club proudly present an all ages year end bash. With licensed beer gardens at The Well. UBCO Student price $25, General Admission $35

HEAT ATHLETE SENIOR YEARBOOK August 29th, 2013

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We held a grad party in the gym for the graduating athletes from the Heat’s winter sports teams.

Left to right: Lenai Schmidt, Nate Speijer, Davis Proch, Laura Marcolin, Mike Zayonc, Krystal Schouten.

We will be missing the “heat” from these three amazing players - Laura Marcolin, Lenai Schmidt, Krystal Schouten

Graduating Volleyball atheletes take their last stand in front of the volleyball net.

Left to right: Nate Speijer, Lenai Schmidt, Davis Proch

Toegther once more!

Left to right: Mike Zayonc, Nate Speijer, Davis Proch, Ed Dane Medi.

“WELCOME TO THE GOOD LIFE, LET’S GO ON A LIVING SPREE”

Above: Celebrating five years of basketball, three well-deserving graduates toast to their futures.

These seven Senior Heat athletes graduate this year, heading on to dominate the world as they have commanded the court at UBCO. World, get ready for Eddiefranchize, Laura Marcolin, Mike “Zaycrunk”, Lenai Schmidt, Davis Proch, Krystal Schouten and last but defintely not least, Nate Speijer.

Kaeleigh Phillips- Sports Editor Photos by Lynette Oon

Round 1: Volleyball vs.

Basketball Take a break from the ohso-serious work place and tune in to who will take the crown between the two senior teams. FEEL THE HEAT?!

Things are getting serious, the girls battle from above, Schouten fears for her life from below and Proch prepares the artillery. And Eddie...well Eddiefranchize “handles” his basketball...

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Above: Just another day at the workplace, grabbing life by the balls. With Senior Men’s and Women’s Basketball players, Krystal Shouten, Mike Zayonc on the hoop, Eddiefranchize and Laura Marcolin.

Three of the volleyball graduates toast their farewell to UBCO Heat. They will carry on into fulfilling careers, but will never stop Davis, Lenai and Nate pose in the UBCO gym playing the sport they love: volleyball. that they have spent the last five years of their lives in.

To the left: Laura, Eddie, Lenai, Davis, Krystal and Nate cheers to their future. We wish them all the best.

Showing some serious team love between seniors.

The war is over.

Time to PARTY!!!

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THE PASSION OF AN ATHLETE

“Just remember that no matter what the other teams’ jerseys say, it is only six guys on the court playing the same game you love”.

-NATE SPEIJER

“Nate is one of those players that is irreplaceable. Players like him don’t come around very often.”

-COACH GREG POITRAS

Left: Speijer going for a kill, one of many he got in the UBCO gym in the past five years. Photo by UBCO Heat.

Above: Speijer toasts to his graduation while hanging on the hoop.

Photo by Lynnette Oon. Below: Nate discussing serious matters with his team. Photo by Lynnette Oon.

“It seems like every time I see him on campus, he’s having a conversation with a different person and he always has a smile on his face. He’s been a big part of this campus over his time here — campus will be different with him gone. He’s one of the old breed.”

-HEAT WRITER JESSE SHOPA Kaeleigh Phillips Sports Editor Nate Speijer is one of the most valuable athletes to have donned a Heat jersey in the past five years.

He started his volleyball career in the 2008-2009 season, before The Heat became a CIS league team. In BCCAA, Nate excelled as a rookie, landing himself in second place overall for aces in the league in his rookie year. The following year he climbed to the top of the competing bracket and obtained the BCCAA Team All-Star and Player of the Year, and winning the UBC Okanagan Athlete of the Year award in the 2009-10 season.

Playing with an incredibly talented team helped Nate perfect his playing strategy in his early years of play: “The younger players look up to you as a senior. When I came to the school, I took a lot of strategy from third, fourth, and fifth-year players”.

It was his third year of play in the 2010-11 season, when he obtained Heat MVP, and was named to the BC-

CAA All-Star team.

UBCO Heat’s entrance into CIS didn’t daunt Nate Speijer, he proved his worth at this elevated level of play and earned himself a spot on the All-Star team for Canada West. Nate was the first UBCO athlete to obtain this honour. He also obtained the UBC Okanagan Athlete of the Year award for the second time. The following year, Nate unfortunately red-shirted due to an emergency appendectomy.

In this past season, Nate has carried his young team through the season, being one of the last original seniors from the BCCAA team that had achieved medals at the provincial and national levels.

“Nate is one of those players that is irreplaceable. Players like him don’t come around very often”, said Coach Greg Poitras. Needless to say, the Heat will be hard pressed to find an athlete with so much raw talent and humble dedication to his sport again in the coming years.

Considering his incredible repertoire of accomplishments, upon meet-

ing Nate Speijer I had expected a fairly cocky captain who would be annoyed to take time with the likes of The Phoenix’s Sports Editor (let’s be honest, this does happen with some athletes). Instead, the athlete and man that I got to know throughout this past season has made my job worthwhile. One does not truly succeed at their sport if they do not love it. If it is a calculated profession rather than a heartfelt passion, there is only so far any individual can go. Speijer exemplifies the reason sports exist in the first place: to play with other people.

When asked what advice Speijer wanted to leave behind for his teammates, he responded, “Just remember that no matter what the other team’s jerseys say, it is only six guys on the court playing the same game you love.”

Playing under the pressure of the CIS league, athletes tend to forget this simple truth.

Furthermore, Nate helps myself, teammates, coaches, and fans alike to remember the true meaning of a team.

Though excited to graduate, Nate is bittersweet about leaving. “How do you just walk away from friends and family that have supported you for so long? I feel like I have known my coaches and teammates for 20 years from them being there for me.”

The level of dedication this player has to his team, when he could have easily chosen to lord his accomplishments over others, is a good lesson for future Heat athletes to remember. Part of Nate’s profound understanding of a team arises from the loss of his teammate Jordan Young in his 2011 season - only days before provincials. Nate’s commitment to his teammates, past and present, reminds us of life and how important it is to treat each other with respect and regard because we never know when we will be taken away. A parting quote from Speijer, Heat Men’s Volleyball Captain and a true friend: “Whether your team is celebrating with you or going through tragedy with you, they will be there to catch you when you fall”.

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“Enjoy yourself no matter what. One day it will be over and you will wish you stopped to smell the roses (or the locker room, whatever floats your boat).”

- Laura Marcolin Laura Marcolin Women’s Basketball- #9 Point-Guard

Davis Proch Men’s Volleyball #5 Setter Graduating in his fourth year, setter Davis Proch is one of two Men’s Volleyball seniors to be leaving the team this year. Proch did not spend his entire post secondary career at UBCO, however. He was part of the volleyball program at Camosun College before returning to his hometown of Kelowna to join the Heat for their 2012-2013 season.

This was the season where Proch saw the most action, and tallied a career high of 29 assists in a match against Brandon. Proch took a a more minor role in his position as setter in the 2013-2014 season, but he managed to have nearly an error free season, with only two service errors. Fans may notice Proch around campus next year to see his younger sister Chandler, also a setter, who will be on the Women’s Volleyball team putting up a serious fight in the CIS West.

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Laura Marcolin will be graduating this year after joining the Heat for the 2013-2014 season and playing previously at UPEI for two years. Laura played a strong supportive role for her team as a senior on a relatively young team and provided her teammates with a fun team-building atmosphere.

“Laura made the biggest impact on the team as a resilient and caring leader,” said Krystal Schouten,”She faced a lot of adversities throughout the season that would cause a lot of athletes to quit, but she didn’t”. Marcolin’s post-grad gameplan is to become a coach and simultaneously obtain a neuropysch masters degree. Needless to say, Marcolin is one of the brainy gals on the team.

Marcolin’s advice for future unviersity athletes is “to enjoy yourself no matter what.. one day it’ll all be over and you’ll wish you stopped the smell the roses (or the locker room, whatever floats your boat) more often. And value your teammates. Life’s about the relationships you build, not who played two more minutes than someone else”.

Though Marcolin has serious future goals, she has a very fun and hilarious side to her that helped spice things up for her teammates after a tough season.

When asked a funny memory from her time with UBCO, Laura responded, “when I gave everyone on the team ruthless, anonymous Valentine’s Day cards.

That was pretty funny and I had more fun than I should have making them”. Marcolin’s sincerity and dedication to her teammates will be well missed yet Laura has a very bright future. Future players who get Laura as a coach one day will be lucky to have her.

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“I’m honored to end my Heat career with the people I ended it with. The fans, trainers, teammates and people surrounding us have been supportive and are awesome.” - Krystal Schouten Krystal Schouten Women’s Basketball- #6 Post-Guard

Krystal Schouten graduates this year after three years of phenomenal play for the Heat. Krystal began her basketball career at Quest University and was named to the BCCAA rookie team in her first year. She was also second all-star and obtained athlete of the week at Quest. Schouten then moved to the Heat and became a cornerstone of her team due to her dedication, strength and no-nonsense attitude for strategic basketball play. This past 2013-14 season, Krystal played 20 out of 22 games and was a consistent and reliable starter for the Heat. Her season best was on November 7th, 2013 against Mt. Royal where she scored 13 points.

Krystal is a true athlete. She is strong, determined, consistent, and does not back down on the court. I sincerely enjoyed getting to know Krystal as she is an incredibly intelligent and self-aware woman and her ability to state her mind and tell the truth is inspiring. Krystal wants to be a coach and talks passionately of what she would do as one, “I want to be a coach and pass on knowledge that I have acquired to younger girls, such as developing mental strategies and overcoming nerves on the court”.

Schouten will no-doubt serve as an incredible role model to her future players. She will miss her team, yet fondly recalls the people in her life this past season, “I’m honored to end my Heat career with the people I ended it with. The fans, trainers, teammates and people surrounding us have been supportive and are awesome”. Your insightful honesty and inspiring strength will be missed Krystal but I am excited to see you coach in future years and have a positive impact on female basketball in the Okanagan region.

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“A piece of advice I would like to give future athletes is that perseverance will be big in your life and nothing will be easy. I went from being last man off the bench to a starter and I wasn’t as skilled as most of the other players but I worked on my craft and got better with the years. If I can do it then anyone can”.

-Ed Dane Medi

“I plan on exploring the world and building my empire.” -Mike Zayonc Mike Zayonc Men’s Basketball - #13 Post-Guard

Ed Dane Medi Men’s Basketball - #5 Wing Heat player, Ed Dane Medi will be graduating this April and leaving the Men’s Basketball team after five years.

Eddiefranchize, as he likes to be called, is the only senior player to graduate this year that played his full five years of eligibility on the Heat. Hailing from Rome, Italy, Medi was not a recruit initially but tried out for the team nonetheless. He recounts this trial as one of his favourite memories with the Heat, “I remember the day I found out I had made the team. I had just left home and moved into a new place completely alone so making the team was a moment I will always cherish”. Eddie climbed the ranks to become one of the strongest players on the team and arguably, the best defenseman. He received defensive player of the year in 2011-12. He has offensive strengths as well though, with a 47.8 shooting percentage this past season, the best out of the Senior players.

I once told a co-worker that on a bad day, Eddie is one of the few people that can genuinely change my mood and make me

happy. I am proud to call him a friend. Eddiefranchize is one of the most charismatic, hilarious, and sincere players that I have worked with and he will be greatly missed by myself, his teammates, coaches, the gym staff and fans. Eddie will miss being at UBCO: “It is definitely bittersweet to graduate because UBCO gave me the best 5 years of my life and I have made a lot friends and met a lot of people who play a major role in my life but I think it time to move on into the real world and also, I am tired of going to school”. Eddie plans to stay in the Okanagan and start his professional career in banking while still playing a supportive role for the Heat. Ever the jokester with his teammates, Eddie responds to Mike’s jib (see right) by stating, “Well I just want to let Mike know that the block squad shot him down a few times and he knows it”. We will let you two sort that out on the court. Good luck in the real world Eddie, I know you will succeed wherever you go.

Mike Zayonc or as he is known by teammates, “Zaycrunk”, will be graduating this April and leaving the UBCO Men’s Basketball team. The Heat will be sad to see him go; Mike’s positive demeanor and consistent support to his teammates when times were tough will be missed. For those fans who don’t know Zaycrunk personally, he was one of the kindest and most approachable players and always had an uplifting word for those around him. No matter which way the game went, he was a media goto, always putting on a smile and taking the time to handle us occasionally relentless but well-meaning reporters. Mike’s advice for future athletes shows his honesty and commitment to Basketball these past five years.

“Time will fly by quickly. It is important to take advantage of every moment. University basketball is a huge commitment, and if you want to succeed you have to play smart and be willing to push yourself to work hard every day.

Also, it is important to have your

priorities in line, and that school is really important and can open and close doors for you”.

Zayonc played his first three years eligibility at Capilano University where fans would chant “Zaycrunk” from the stands. He had a game high of 25 points in his third year of play at Capilano and came to the Heat fired up.

Unfortunately, he red-shirted in his fourth year from a broken ankle but came back ready to play hard in this past 2013-2014 season. Post-graduation, Mike plans to “teach private swimming lessons and lifeguard the Vancouver beaches. After that I plan on exploring the world and building my empire”.

When asked about a funny moment with the Heat, he said “The funniest story I have is that Eddie Franchize Medi thinks he can block me”. I look forward to Eddie’s response to the jib. Overall, Zayonc will be missed but I have no doubt he will be very successful with his future empire and Zaycrunk was a honour to work with this past season.

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“It’s going to be really hard to leave my teammates and coaches here in Kelowna but I know that I will be back to support Megan and the program as much as I can.”

- Jill Festival Jill Festival Women’s Volleyball- #2 Outside Hitter

Outside Hitter Jillian Festival departs from the Women’s Volleyball team this season after registering a total of 354 kills and a hitting percentage of .311 over the course of five years.

She leaves the team with plenty of awards and recognitions under her belt. Among them is BCCAA Rookie of the Year in the Heat’s championship season in the CCAA in 2010-2011, and received the Coach’s Award for the Women’s Volleyball team in 2011-2012.

Over the past five years, Festival has been there for big changes in the program like the inaugural season of the CIS, and their national championship in the CCAA. She played a major role in propelling the ladies to where they are now.

“It’s going to be really hard to leave my teammates and coaches here in Kelowna but I know that I will be back to support Megan (her sister) and the program as much as I can.” She’s headed to Calgary after graduation and hopes to continue both her education and involvement with volleyball. Jill leaves behind advice to future athletes: “It’s so hard to give enough time and energy to school, volleyball, friends and family. Don’t let one area of your life take over everything...

This is university and it’s supposed to be fun.”

Festival will be sorely missed by teammates, coaches and fans.

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“I learned that in the end, it’s the relationships that are the most important and memorable part of being on a team so be a supportive teammate and have fun with the people around you” -Kendra Wayling Kendra Wayling Women’s Volleyball- #9 Middle Kendra Wayling had been playing at North Idaho College prior to returning to native British Columbia for the Heat’s 2010-2011 BCCAA and CCAA championship season, which she said was her favourite moment on the UBCO Heat team. She also won the Coach’s Award for the Women’s Volleyball team, and in her second year, was named the UBCO Female Student Athlete of the Year. The Outside Hitter competed in every match in both the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 season, putting up a career high ten kills against the University of Saskatchewan in 2012.

A remarkable hitting percentage of .313 is what her four years have amounted to, being a vital factor in first putting up big numbers. A compilation of solid statistics is not what her time with the Heat will be remembered for.

Rather, the intense, positive energy that Wayling brought with her into games is the real impact that will be missed.

For Wayling, graduation is bittersweet, she will “miss competing at such a high level and I’ll miss my coaches and teammates. However, my body has been telling me this year that it’s had enough and I’m excited about starting a new phase of my life”. We wish you the best with that endeavor Kendra.

S C H M I D “I have been really lucky have got to T see our team be on top of the college

league and be a part of our growing team in the CIS. I couldn’t have picked a better 5 years to play for the Heat!”

- Lenai Schmidt Lenai Schmidt Women’s Volleyball- #11 Libero

Since the 2011-2012 season, Lenai Schmidt has been the Heat’s starting Libero. She has not missed a match in the three years that followed, making her active for all of the Heat’s games since joining the Canadian Interuniversity Sports league (CIS). During this time she provided a great sense of leadership during the games, and her consistent play has contributed immensely to the ladies’ success over recent seasons.

Before their jump to the CIS, Schmidt was a part of the 2010-2011 British Columbia Colleges Athletics Association (BCCAA) provincial gold medal and the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) National Championship team, along with fellow fifth years Jill Festival and Kendra Wayling. This was reportedly a favourite moment for Schmidt, as it gave her an opportunity in her first year to compete on a National level.

Ending her CIS career this 2013-2014 season with a personal best of 271 digs, Schmidt finished eleventh in the league for total digs. Her fifth and final year was a personal best, and raises questions if the Heat will be able to replace such a reliable libero.

Luckily, Lenai will be staying on at UBCO to play a supportive role for the Heat Volleyball team.

“I am not quite ready to be done with volleyball yet, so it will be nice for me to still be at school first semester next year so I will still be able to see the girls and help at practice! I think that will make it an easier adjustment for me because I will still be able to have a connection with the girls and coaching staff!” We are very glad you will be sticking around Lenai as you represent what a strong female athlete should be: dedication, poise, intelligence and incredibly kind to boot!

The Future of the UBCSUO

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES Nick Dodds- Services Coordinator and Executive Chair

What’s happening to the UBCSUO?!?!?

You may have noticed that a lot of changes are being made to the UBCSUO. A new mission statement has been approved, the bylaws have been completely revised, a new staff structure has been proposed, and an entirely new set of policies is on the way. But all of this just sounds like bureaucratic policymaking for bureaucratic policymaking’s sake. So why are any of these changes actually helpful? Because our Students’ Union has ENORMOUS potential.

As our mission statement now says: “The purposes of the Student Union shall be to address

the needs and interests of current and future students through a democratically elected group of peers that serve on behalf of the collective student body.” Meeting the needs and interests of current and future students is not an easy task.

First there are the things that students want, but simply don’t have the money or time to create on their own. It might be as simple as money to participate in a shared interest with other students like our clubs, or it might be creating food services that offer a variety of food that wasn’t otherwise available, or

it could be providing cheap rental equipment for out door recreation to foster students interests. All these initiatives require some finances and time that students likely

In terms of Services that can be offered to students (the things that require finances and time students don’t have), the UBCSUO is only limited by the quality of ideas and planning that is put into the services. We are in a financially stable position, with the potential to improve our revenues through business initiatives, meaning we have more money to work with and fund services. What could some of these services be? We could have Chartered Busses from Kelowna to major destination like Vancouver or Calgary for major holidays at a fraction of the cost of grey hound or a plane ticket; We could have an outdoor recreation facility that provides cheap rentals to students who want to go snowboarding, skiing, climbing, camping, kayaking, etc… and it could even include lessons or planned and guided trips; we could organize faculty wide student associations, similar to the Management student association, that could

host conferences and put UBCO on the map for that particular field; or it could be as simple as hosting epic events that rival our sister school and other major universities.

In terms of being of advocacy (being a political force) the UBCSUO has a lot of room to grow. Advocacy is not usually as expensive as Services, but it does require time. Advocacy requires detailed research to support the positions that we advocate for to other bodies; it requires an understanding the forces at play and how they operate; and most important it requires strategic planning awareness of the right time to act. There is more development of the UBCSUO with regard to our resources that is required before the UBCSUO will be able to meet this potential, but that is only a matter of deciding to invest. For example, an advocacy analyst on staff would be an enormous asset. But what could that advocacy actually achieve? At a minimum that advocacy would

make the students’ voice heard and considered in relevant decisions being made. More impressively, however, if that voice had the resources and the personnel to make it effective, it could be responsible for advancing positive change to Universities in British Columba.

This is no small accomplishment.

UBC is already performing on the global stage, and as a result any improvements made will be an example for other universities globally.

If you want a metric for whether or not your needs are being met as a university student, seeing other universities take direction from your institution would be a good one.

This may seem farfetched, but leaders an innovators did not achieve those titles by trying to be ok. For both our services and advocacy, the primary functions of a Students Union, there does not seem to be any obstacles in our way that we are not ale to overcome.

First the UBCSUO needs a clear mechanism for making sound decisions. Executive and board members, as a result of being young university students, likely do not individually have the kind of skill or experience necessary to effectively govern an organization of this size. This can be overcome, however, by collectively making decisions. Taking the time to collectively make decisions is, however, a pain. It’s easy to believe that the idea you have and have dedicated some time to forming is without flaw. But we all know that this is likely not the case. So there must be policy in place that makes collective decision making compulsory.

UBCSUO’s lack of infrastructure, specifically staff, prevents the organization from developing. The Staff we currently have are excellent at what they do, and the issue is not the people that are in the roles.

The issue is that not all the roles that are needed exist. We have a structure right now that makes us

functional. But it does not allow for development. When the board and executive implement a new initiative, perhaps a new service like the Karma Bowl, those board members work with other groups and get volunteers to execute the initiative.

But, the following year if there is no board member who is interested, or they have other interests that take priority, that initiative no longer has any support. What the UBCSUO needs is projects staff, that will stay on year after year, that can help develop and maintain the board’s initiatives. This is not a novel idea; many other Student Unions have Services that operate nearly autonomously. The role of the Board of directors then shifts from being glorified volunteers, to making decisions about the existing and supporting ideas for new ones.

The role board and executive members is focused on decision making on behalf of students, rather than project management that they don’t have the experience or expertise for.

And lastly, the UBCSUO needs long term strategic planning. In creating initiatives that will be sustainable over a longer period of time, board and executive members must consider the long term consequences of their decisions. Services will cost money that needs to exist in the future and still leave room for growth, initiatives need to have planning and communication channels to ensure that as new boards or new staff take them on they are executed effectively, and the long term need needs to be considered to ensure that we don’t invest in something that students will not use in a year or two. To be able to consider these things in a useful way, the UBCSUO must have longterm goals to achieve. By developing a long-term strategic plan, the Board and Executive can make decisions on issues based on whether or not they are in line with the long-term plan. To ensure that this

do not have on their own. But by pooling finances through student fees, electing members to make decisions, and hiring professional staff to plan and implement those initiatives, collectively students can have their needs and interests met.

The other important role the Students’ Union is responsible for is acting against other forces that

What does that potential look like?

So what does the UBCSUO Need???

shape the student experience. These forces are not small or straightforward. For example, the multiple municipal governments in the Okanagan impact the quality of public transportation that students use to get to campus. They also play a critical role in the infrastructure, like road and bike access to campus, which can have significant impacts on our students. The Provincial government is responsible for the legislation that our University must abide by; things like how much tuition can be charged, where the university is allowed to spend

its money, and to some degree, how the university must govern itself.

And the University Administration itself may have interests that could either negatively impact students, through decisions to make certain budgetary cuts, implement certain programs at the cost of eliminating others, and so on. In order to achieve their mission the Students’ Union has a responsibility to be a strong voice, and a force in itself, acting in the interest of students.

One of the obstacles to over come is the structure and organization of the UBCSUO. It was built for a regional university of 3000 students, that primarily took direction from the Canadian Federation of Students, rather than its own strategic planning. We’ve since grown out of that; our population has nearly tripled, we’re part of a globally recognized institution, and the type of students we attract has changed. With all these changes, decision-making becomes much more complicated, and priorities are harder to set and maintain.

The previous policies left a huge amount of room for flexibility, which is an asset when the quantities of money you’re dealing with are small, your organization is straightforward, and priorities of the students are clear. But with a larger, more complex, organization with much larger sums of money, that flexibility allows for a much larger margin of error with more detrimental consequences.

The complexity of our student union also makes it difficult to see a clear direction. Part of the prob-

lem is that issues that arise and need to be dealt with cannot be predicted currently, and so much time is spent just solving problems at the expense of developing the organization. Another part is that goals are not clear. Often action is mistaken with accomplishment when a board member can see tangible results, but those results do not actually further the needs or interests of students. And lastly, even when we are able to make real progress, that will in fact address the needs and interests of students, the infrastructure does not exist to support that development after the lead board or executive member leaves.

It is clear to see how this is a problem with services, but it is an even greater issue with advocacy. The complexities that exist in advocacy are even greater than the UBCSUO, and because it is not ease to see what can be done advocacy also receives less resources than it needs. The net result is that the Board and Executives have enormous challenges in making real progress to achieve their mission. .

Changes! It is our hope that the changes we make this year will make a significant contribution to overcoming these obstacles.

It should be that you will return next fall to see a totally different machine in the Students’ Union.

The problems won’t be completely solved, but the momentum will have been shifted in a direction of growth and achievement.

What you need to do is KEEP AN EYE ON IT. Being in these offices and in the board meetings can sometimes create blind spots.

Often there’s not a lot those members in the offices and meetings can do to get rid of the blind spots, so they need students to call attention to issues they don’t see and hold them up to the standard of development and achievement they the UBCSUO is capable of. Attend the Annual General meeting, reading articles about the UBCSUO in the phoenix, if you don’t see any tell them to write some, and when you have a concern send an email.

The UBCSUO will only be as good as you ask it to be, SO ASK.

But why all the changes???

So What’s Next?

Application deadline 2014-15 Academic year April 7th, 2014

August 29th, 2013

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