Vol XXX Issue V - October 31 2016

UBCO’s Student Newspaper

October 31st 2016 | Vol 30, Issue 5

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UBCO Debates Cultural Appropriation p.3 Trudeau: Halting Electoral Reform? p.3

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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize p.6

Philippines Favouring China Over America p.4

A Casual Discussion About Africa p.7

Dr. Carl Hodge on the U.S. Election p.5

Photographer Profile: Hagar Wirba p.8

Food Survey Results p.4

Life

Sports

Opinions

UBCO Slutwalk 2016 p.9 5 Minutes with Health and Wellness p.11 Derailing the Double Standards of Dating p.12

Dear Blake, Can You Please Endorse Me? p.14

Women’s Soccer Post Season Appearance p.20-21

To Name a Terrorist p.16

Men’s Soccer Earn Playoffs Spot p.22

Swap Slut Shaming for Sex Positivity p.17

Josh Brown and NFL: Partners in Crime p.23

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TRUDEAU: HALTING ELECTORAL REFORM? Trudeau suggests that electoral reform is not as urgent now that he is in power Mark Dreger – Phoenix Columnist

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UBCO DEBATES CULTURAL APPROPRIATION Is cultural appropriation okay on Halloween?

Laurence Watt - News Editor

On Wednesday, the UBCO Debate Society and Skeptics Society hosted their second Debates and Drinks event of the year in The Well Student Pub. The motion was “Cultural Appropriation is Okay on Halloween.”

Debating in favour of the motion was Spiery MichaelMikhail and Okuku Spinoza.

Debating against the motion was Sarah Nunis and Jaclyn Salter. Ayla Lovell moderated the event.

The structure of the event was split into two segments: for the first segment each debater had five minutes to make their arguments, and for the second, the f loor was opened up to the audience so that those in attendance could pose their questions to the debaters.

Spiery started off the debate for the government side by presenting the idea of a spectrum with cultural appreciation on one end cultural mis-appreciation on the other. He then highlighted how intentionality is a major factor to consider when determining whether cultural appropriation is wrong or not. For example, if a person

were to receive a traditional sweater from one cultural group as a gift and wear it on Halloween, should that be allowed considering there is consent and no intention to harm?

Sarah opened for the opposition by defining what is meant by cultural appropriation.

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. Sarah then rebutted Spiery’s point by stating that his example ref lected cultural appreciation, not appropriation.

Spinoza spoke second for the government and focused on three points: economic power, education, and selfidentity. Spinoza also pointed out that whilst people argue about cultural appropriation they are distracted from the more serious issues: like the building of pipelines through aboriginal land for example, which breaks up communities and destroys ecosystems.

Closing for the opposition, Jaclyn highlighted a point that was raised earlier in the debate concerning historical contexts behind

cultural appropriation. She argued that it is not right for a person to dress up in a “poka-hotty” costume, as it misrepresents indigenous cultures that continues to face immense hardships.

Jaclyn also took aim at Spirit

“ Both sides agreed that it’s wrong to culturally appropriate with the intention to demean or mock elements of one’s culture.

” Halloween, lambasting them for continuing to sell demeaning costumes even after being asked by members of the cultural groups which are most effected not to.

Overall, the debate was a

massive success in the sense that it was one of the first occasions when both the government and opposition agreed with each other on some core issues. For example, both sides agreed that it is wrong to culturally appropriate with the intention to demean or mock elements of one’s culture.

Like most contentious debates, this debate was not cut and dry in the sense that neither side could be completely right or completely wrong. Both sides presented strong and thought-provoking arguments.

Ultimately, what was highlighted in this debate was that cultural appropriation is okay and even greatly beneficial in some cases but also wrong and even immensely detrimental in others.

Although the pub may not be the best place to host a debate on such a serious and delicate topic, it was much better than the debates hosted in the United States over the past month.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been accused of backing out of his campaign promise “that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system.”

In an interview with French newspaper Le Devoir, Trudeau suggested that Canadians are happier with the first-past-the-post system now that former conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is out of office.

“Under Mr. Harper, there were so many people dissatisfied with the government and its approach that they were saying, ‘We need an electoral reform so that we can no longer have a government we don’t like,’” Trudeau told Le Devoir, translated by CBC. “However, under the current system, they now have a government they are more satisfied with. And the motivation to want to change the electoral system is less urgent.”

Trudeau’s statements raised concern from the public and other MP’s like NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair.

“Instead of inventing excuses and backing away from his solemn promise to Canadians, will [Trudeau] work with us in good faith to deliver the fair, proportional electoral system that voters deserve?” Mulcair said during question period.

The government has since said they will not proceed with reform unless there is broad support, since roughly a third of Canadians are against reform and want a referendum. “[Trudeau is] going to take input from the [electoral reform] committee, he’s going to take input from the minister, he’s going to consider what Canadians want, and that will influence the way he approaches this issue,” said Francis Scarpaleggia, a Liberal MP who chairs the electoral reform committee.

On July 18, local Liberal candidate Stephan Fuhr and former Liberal MP Mark Holland held a town hall meeting at UBCO, where locals gave their concerns and opinions on electoral reform. There have been over 200 other town hall meetings across the country.

Due to first-past-the-post, the Liberals hold a 54% majority in Parliament from only 39.5% of the vote.

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PHILIPPINES FAVOURING CHINA OVER AMERICA Why Philippines President said he wanted to split from the US Riley Schlosser – Staff Writer

UBCO FOOD SURVEY RESULTS

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Students give their opinions on UBCO’s food outlets, customer service, prices and more Laurence Watt - News Editor

Last March, 1309 nonresidence students (roughly 22% of the overall student population at the time) participated in a food survey.

Among other things, the survey asked students to answer which food outlets they purchased from most occasionally and whether or not they were satisfied with the current hours of service, customer service, healthy food options, quality, variety and prices.

As well, the survey asked students to comment their thoughts on food prices and changes they’d like to see applied to food services.

Below are the results of the survey.

Most popular and Unpopular Food Outlets The survey showed that students most frequently purchased from Tim Hortons (53%), Starbucks (52%), and the Sunshine Café (49%). In contrast, students purchased the least from Taco-Del Mar (17%), with a whopping 81% stating they had never visit the food outlet. Scoring for second and third least popular amongst those surveyed were Koi Sushi (27%) and EMEats (29%).

Satisfaction with hours of service 37.9% of students surveyed said they were satisfied with overall hours of service compared to only 9.3% who were dissatisfied.

Satisfaction with Customer Service Overwhelmingly, students were satisfied with overall

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Students most frequently purchased from Tim Hortons (53%), Starbucks (52%), and the Sunshine café (49%).

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customer service. 54.2% of students said they were satisfied compared to 12.1% who were dissatisfied.

Satisfaction with Healthy Food Options There was only a 12% difference between those satisfied and those dissatisfied with healthy food options.

39.8% of students said they were satisfied with healthy food choices compared to 27.8% who were dissatisfied.

Satisfaction with Quality Just over half of those surveyed (50.6%) said they were satisfied with food quality compared to only 17.8% who were dissatisfied.

Satisfaction with Variety Just a little under 50 percent of those surveyed (45.9%) said they were satisfied with overall variety compared to 22% who were dissatisfied.

Satisfaction with food prices Students were overwhelmingly dissatisfied with food prices. 32.8% reported they were dissatisfied compared to only 16.8% who reported they were satisfied.

Comments Dissatisfaction with food prices was also highlighted in the comments, with students and staff frequently referencing Aramark and healthy food options as overpriced and the campus Starbucks being more expensive than in the city. In fact, the term “overpriced” appeared the most.

Two of the most common comments from students

regarding changes to the food services involved lowering food prices and greater healthier options. Many students also commented that they would like to see the addition of a grocery store, a food court, and a larger Tim Hortons. As well, some commented that they would like to see particular outlets provide a greater variety of food and extend their hours of operation.

Ultimately, what the results of the survey showed was that despite students being largely content with hours of service, customer service, food quality and variety, an overwhelming number of students were unhappy with high prices and almost split over healthy food options.

However, it is important to note that, because this survey was conducted in March 2015, some changes have already been made to the food services on campus.

Most notably, Taco-Del Mar has been removed from the UNC and is to be replaced

by Taj Cafe, which will offer students with a greater variety of healthy food options, and a Subway was opened in the Arts and Science building last year.

On October 20, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte announced his country’s “separation from the United States […] in military and economics,” during a visit to China to discuss negotiations over territory in the South China Sea. Since Duterte came into office in June, he has made multiple critical claims against the USA and President Barack Obama in particular, so these outrageous statements are becoming the norm for him.

The US government has expressed its disapproval of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, which has resulted in the deaths of around 2,300 people, and is stressing the importance of due process, which Duterte has not reacted to well.

The Filipino President’s statements were later clarified by the Philippines government to be false, and said that the Philippines is considering building ties with China but is not planning on cutting ties with the US. It is still unclear, however, just what the outcome of the situation will be.

If US military troops withdrew from the Philippines, it is very possible China could attempt to claim the disputed territory in the South China Sea, which is important for trade routes and crude oil drilling.

Due to the dispute over the important body of water, South East Asia is already in a tense situation, so the talks between China and the Philippines are definitely a step in the right direction.

The separation of the Philippines and the US could also mean the limitation of resource accessibility, more regulated entry requirements, or a number of other possibilities regarding the relations between the two countries.

Analysts have suggested, however, that no official separation is likely to occur, as the Philippines simply relies on the US too much. The investments of American firms support some of the country’s main industries, which are significant contributors to the Philippines’ annual GDP. Therefore, it stands that the United States’ current relationship with the Philippines needs some work, but it is probably not as hopeless as President Duterte makes it out to be.

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UBC PROFESSOR CARL HODGE WEIGHS IN ON THE US ELECTION The Republicans nominated the one candidate Hillary could beat Laurence Watt - News Editor

On Tuesday, The Phoenix interviewed the Head of the PPE department, Dr. Carl Hodge, to get his opinion on the United States election and its potential impact on US-Canada relations. Hodge teaches Political Science at UBCO and specializes in teaching American and European politics.

are dark times ahead for the United States no matter which one is elected?

CH: I think we’re already in dark times and that they’re going to get darker before they get better. I’m really worried about it. Clinton has immense problems to deal with and she starts with low popularity ratings. If the Republican party survives in congress Laurence Watt: Who would you vote it will obstruct most of what she tries to for and why? do, especially if Tea Party and Trumpite people survive and moderates get Carl Hodge: Hillary Clinton, because Donald Trump should be kept out of office. You can dodge around and look at third party candidates but you’re dodging the central issue, which is that the person who needs to be defeated is Donald Trump, and the I just think a responsible choice only person who can do that is Hillary Clinton. I just think a responsible is Hilary Clinton, whether or not choice is Hillary Clinton, whether or you like her - which I don’t. not you like her, which I don’t.

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LW: In the run up to Brexit, all the polls put the remain camp ahead. In the United States right now you have essentially every poll putting Hillary Clinton ahead. Do you trust the current polls in the US? CH: More than I ever trusted the polls in Brexit. They’re not as close and they’re pulling apart. Here we have Hillary Clinton getting into double digit percentage leads in some instances. So I’ll be surprised if the ultimate outcome is within three percentages. I think the potential Trump votes among independents is imploding. But, the fact is that, whether you liked the outcome for not, the arguments for Brexit were as paranoid as the Trump arguments but there were practical reasons at the same time. On top of that, there wasn’t a figure at the head of the Brexit vote as repugnant as Donald Trump. His cause has suffered mostly because of him. It’s become embarrassing to support him. He hasn’t flushed himself out into much of a coherent alternative to Clinton.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have to pose much in the way of coherence. She has profited by making fewer mistakes over the last month or so because she knows he’s going to make them.

LW: Whether it’s Trump or Clinton that gets elected, it’s clear that the President will be more unpopular than popular. So with that in mind, do you think it’s inevitable that there

” taken out. So it’s going to be a very difficult time for this administration and I don’t know how the Republican party without a coherent presidential alternative will recover from this.

Hillary Clinton getting everything she wants and at the same time you don’t want four years of obstruction and gridlock. So sometimes I think the republican party should get wiped out and the survivors rebuild it. I don’t think they can rebuild it in four years.

I find it bizarre that they assume that Clinton being unpopular will only be a four-year presidency. Four years is an eternity in politics.

LW: It’s crazy to think that the 2008 election was 8 years ago…

CH: Well in 2012, the republicans were pretty sure they were going to take down Obama. But this is the big criticism of the Republican Party, they’ve nominated the one republican that Hillary Clinton could beat. All of the others, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, they’d have demolished her.

LW: How could you see Canada’s relationship with the United States changing with whoever gets elected in the US? CH: It would be a terrible relationship almost immediately if Donald Trump were President, just as I think it would be terrible for most of America’s traditional friends because he’s done so much to slag them… oddly he hasn’t

gone out of his way to slag Canada but he hates NAFTA. Whereas I don’t think anything will change very radically under Clinton. You have to remember that Hillary Clinton’s husband ran against NAFTA and then extended it… and that same husband will be living in the White House. One of Hillary Clinton’s great virtues, among few, is that she’s cautious. She’s careful and calculating about what she does.

And I don’t expect her to undertake anything radical like NAFTA. Which is not the reason I support her. I think Trump is bad for the United States. He actually personifies for me, everything wrong about the United States and none of it’s virtues.

LW: Would you say it would be a waste of a vote for people to consider voting for third party candidates like Gary Johnson?

CH: I wouldn’t say it’d be a waste of a vote, I’d say in this election it’d be gutless. You’re trying to keep your virginity… and say neither one of these candidates is good enough for me. But you know who needs to go down, and you know how to put him down. It’s a rabbit that needs to be shot and Hillary’s the one to do it. I’d say plug your nose and vote Hillary.

LW: Let’s say the election goes the way the polls are predicting and Clinton becomes the next President. What happens to the Republican party?

CH: It wasn’t that long ago when people were saying can the Democratic party survive, when the republicans owned the presidency and the congress. A turn around like that seems unlikely because the Republican party has done so much damage to itself, not just in the election but before the election. I sometimes wonder whether the best to thing to happen to the republican party is for them to get completely demolished. They lose the congress and they burn the house down and then they have to build from the foundation up. Then they have to reconstitute themselves as a moderate centre-right party, which is what they were when they were successful for so long. But for the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan to have come to this is sad. It’s tragic. The body politic is dangerously lop-sided in the United States right now. You don’t want

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BOB DYLAN’S NOBEL PRIZE Why Dylan won the esteemed award

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lesser-known individual. Just as many positive responses to the announcement were given, though, and it is hard to deny the influence Dylan has had on North American culture as a whole. His songs, such as “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” are often thought of as anthems for the antiwar sentiment that grew in the 1960’s, and many prominent artists cite him as an inspiration, including Paul Simon, David Bowie, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, and even Eminem.

Dylan, who is 75, is

still touring, and was on a tour of America when he was announced as the winner.

For this reason, the Swedish Academy was having a hard time getting a hold of him.

On top of that, Bob Dylan refused to comment or even acknowledge the award until 5 days after it was announced, and then only with a small update on his website that listed him as a Nobel Prize Winner while promoting his new lyric book. That update was taken down promptly, and the musician still has yet to comment on the award at all. Throughout his

career he has avoided being influenced into becoming something he does not want to be, so this behaviour isn’t exactly surprising, but the Swedish Academy has deemed it “rude and arrogant.”

Another reason he may not be accepting the award is due to its history, being founded

by Alfred Nobel, a weapons and armaments dealer who is known for inventing dynamite. Many people hope that Dylan will stick to his guns in refusing the award, following in the footsteps of Jean-Paul Sartre and Alfred Einstein, who also did not

attend the award ceremonies.

The Swedish Academy does not accept refusals, however, so Dylan will always remain the winner of the award for 2016, but in order to receive the $900,000 in award money he must prepare and give a lecture or concert sometime in the next six months.

Whether he does or not, the Nobel Prize Committee’s decision is certainly a step in the direction of broader consideration for the award, and that is a step in the right direction.

HOW THE SINGULAR FORM OF “THEY” BECAME WORD OF THE YEAR

in place for centuries, making an appearance in works from Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Jane Austen. It wasn’t until 2015 that the singular “they” was included in the Washington Post style guide.

Bill Walsh, the Post’s copy editor, said that it was “the only sensible solution to English’s lack of a gender-neutral thirdperson singular personal pronoun.” Today, editors have gradually accepted the use of “they” to identify a person who identifies themselves as “non-binary.” The word is now increasingly more important in every day conversation.

The Word of the Year does not just have to be a vocabulary term but can also used to crown phrases as well. The words or phrases don’t have to be brand new, but has to be prominent by the past year. According to the American Dialect Society website, “they” led the tallies with 187 votes, with “thanks, Obama” running second with 76 votes, “ammosexual” with 42 votes, “ghost” (verb) with 25 votes, and “on fleek” with 4 votes.

The American Dialect Society is a 127-year-old organization composed of

linguists, lexicographers, e t y m o l o g i s t s , grammarians, historians, researchers, writers, editors, students, and independent scholars. The votes and tallies are done for fun, and highlight that changes in the English language is normal and entertaining.

If you haven’t heard by now, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this year for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

His selection, announced on October 13, was definitely a unique choice, as Dylan is the first true musician to win the award. The Swedish Academy’s decision was immediately met by some mixed feedback, however, with people claiming the award was undeserved as his work did not count as literature, and that the choice wasted the opportunity to celebrate a

And the controversy surrounding it Paula Tran – Arts Editor

For many years, the word “they” was taught as a plural pronoun used to describe a group of people. In recent years, however, “they” has also been used and recognized by society to refer to a known person who rejects traditional gender binary

of “he” and “she”. In January 8, the American Dialect Society voted the singular, genderneutral form of “they” to be titled the word of the year for 2015.

According to their official website, the American Dialect Society wrote that the use of the singular “they” has been

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A CASUAL DISCUSSION ABOUT AFRICA

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An alternative way to talk about important global and local issues Paula Tran – Arts Editor

The AlterKnowledge: Many Africas event was hosted on Friday, October 21 at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in downtown Kelowna. A series of monthly events organized by Associate Professor David Jefferess and Assistant Professor Allison Hargreaves, the events revolve around discussions of topics about important issues, and focuses more on conversation between the UBC Okanagan and the local Kelowna community as well. The AlterKnowledge event usually brings in a knowledgeable person or student to facilitate the

discussion. Trophy Ewila, an economics student from Uganda and the Phoenix’s Opinions Editor, was the facilitator this month and brought to the table representations of Africa in contemporary media.

The audience was not just composed of professors and older members of the community.

Numerous students were sprinkled here and there, and some even injected their own thoughts, experiences, and ideas into the conversation.

To kick off the event and set it on the right track, Dr. Jefferess plays a Youtube

video titled “How Not to Write About Africa” where Binyavanga Wainaina lists out the different harmful African stereotypes that are popular in literature, movies, TV shows, and other mediums dtoday. The audience was also shown a video filmed

by Aljazeera, where common misrepresentations of Africa (war, famine, corruption, etc.) are replaced by images of an African man and woman wearing business suits. “Sure, there are issues of poverty and inequality, but let’s not forget that 1 in 3 Africans are middle class,” says the host in the video.

Trophy pointed out that Africa is usually described as “underdeveloped”, but he would say that Africa is poor instead. Economic freedom is important in Africa, he says. It is incredibly expensive to do business in Africa due to competition, since Africa has 4 of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world. Africa has agency, Trophy says. Leaders who are seen as powerful and wonderful in Western terms are seen as corrupt in many parts of Africa, because the cultures and customs are vastly different.

Human resources, in retrospect, are

more important than mineral resources, even though Western political leaders would like to disagree. These were just some of many topics of discussion that circulated throughout the night.

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies is encouraging students to attend AlterKnowledge event because these topics usually pertain to the global as well as the local understanding of the Okanagan community. For more information, visit http:// fccs.ok.ubc.ca/news-events/ ongoing/alterknowledge.html or contact Dr. Jefferess or Dr. Hargreaves.

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PHOTOGRAPHER PROFILE: HAGAR WIRBA UBCO student Hagar Wirba and her passion for photography Hagar Wirba – Photo Contributor

My name is Hagar, I’m 19 years old, and a photographer.

I started taking photos when I was 14, though it was only something I did for fun without thinking much into it.

I am always that person who is missing from group pictures because I am the photographer.

By the age of 17, I realized that photography was something I actually wanted to pursue and see where it would take me.

I love traveling, not just because I love immersing myself in different cultures and being surrounded by unique kinds of people and trying different foods, but because each country has

“ I love capturing their little quirks and expressions that may be missed by the naked eye.

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their own beauty and I love taking photos of the places I travel to. I don’t just do travel photography, though; I don’t know what I would describe my photography as. I love capturing people in unusual situations and places. I love capturing their little quirks and expressions that may be missed by the naked eye. I believe that there is something beautiful about everyone and that’s what I try to portray with my photography. I also really love landscape and architectural photography.

I think It would be safe to describe my photography as a bit of everything.

I’m inspired by everything I hear, see, or read. I could be listening to music and imagine a whole music video for the song in my head, and decide to use that to come up with a theme for my next set of photos. I read poetry and write as well, and sometimes I try to recreate the emotions I feel whilst reading or writing through my photography.

I’ve been working on a series with a set of sub-series called “Revelry,” which means to take intense pleasure or satisfaction. I chose the word revelry as the name of my series, because that is what I do. I revel in the beauty of

creation. I am, and have always been, that one person who has always got a smile on her face. I am a morning person, I am an afternoon person, and I am a night person. Because there is beauty everywhere, in everything and everyone, I love to immerse myself in it.

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” Beauty is subjective and I’d like to share my view with the world.

Instagram: @hagar_ aesthetephotos Facebook: Aesthete Photography Website: aesthetephotos.com

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SLUTWALK 2016

The WRC and SARA collaborate on march to raise awareness about sexual assault and consent Brie Welton – Life Editor

The Women’s Resource Center and SARA collaborated to host the second annual Slutwalk at UBCO on October 26.

This transnational movement originally began in Toronto in April of 2011, when a police officer told a group of college women that they should “avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” The purpose of the march is to raise awareness about sexual assault and to protest the idea that what a woman wears determines her consent.

The UBCO Slutwalk is done around Halloween due to the spike in rates in sexual assault during this time of year.

“Sometimes [Halloween party culture] can cause people to get targeted for sexual assault,” explains Tamara Raine, co-coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center, “it can create an atmosphere where people are pressured to have sex.”

The march began in UNC and wound through CCS, the gym, Admin and finally through EME. Students

ONE-STEP PEACH SANGRIA RECIPE Brie Welton – Life Editor

watched as the demonstrators waved signs and shouted chants about victimization and ending rape culture.

“When people dress supposedly provocatively … there’s a lot of victim blaming,” explains SARA cocoordinator Varenka Kim. Often, women who wear revealing outfits are accused of “asking for it,” implying that what they wear indicates their consent. “That’s not the case and we want to make that clear,” insists Varenka.

Erika Cook, co-coordinator

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of the Women’s Resource Center explains the relevancy of the Slutwalk on campus, “Universities are often a place of impressionability. Students are learning who they are and what’s important to them… we want to make sure people exploring their identities are free to do so.” The WRC and SARA hope to create a campus atmosphere where students in need of a safe-space or assistance have people to turn to, and to feel able to stand up

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for themselves, which is the core sentiment embodied by the Slutwalk.

For students looking for more information on sexual assault and the support that is available to them, the SARA website has a list of resources for anyone in need at: https:// saraub co.wordpress.com/ resources/.

On-campus resources are also available in UNC 109 Thursdays 12:30 – 5PM through the Women’s Resource Center.

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HOW TO SUCCEED AT STUDYING

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Beat the blues of studying

Doortje Geelkerken - Contributor

With university back in full swing, I find myself tr ying to establish a routine that is best suited for me when I have to study. Do I lock myself in a room? Do I join a study group and discuss ideas with my fellow peers? Or do I just wait till 48 hours before the exam to cram? These are all different ways to study, but which one allows for the most success?

It all comes down to what kind of studier you are.

A lot of people prefer to study on their own away from distractions and noise, while others focus best with their music plugged in and a bowl of snacks.

I personally prefer to study alone in my room. I lock my devices up with the app Focus Lock. This app allows me to lock my cellphone for a certain amount of time

“ Do I lock myself in a room?

Do I join a study group and discuss ideas with my fellow peers?

Or do I just wait till 48 hours before the exam to cram?

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that I am studying. I don’t have to worr y about the buzzing of new messages and notifications. I always make sure I have plenty of water near by. Staying hydrated during studying is ver y important. It allows your brain to stay awake and you'll have an easier time fo-cusing on the material.

Tr y getting all of your textbooks in physical form. Nothing is worse for your eyes than staring at a computer screen all day.

Doing this can cause your eyes to strain and make you more exhausted.

When studying, tr y to highlight with different colors as much as possible.

When you do this the brain is more likely to remember what you are reading, since the brain is at-tracted to color. Taking notes while

alternating colors of pens can also have a great benefit to remembering the content.

Make sure you take breaks. Go for a 15-minute walk or just get up and walk around your house. Taking a break will give your brain some rest and it will allow you to relax. It gives you time to think of new ideas and when you approach your work again you might remember something you missed or jot down something important for the exam.

When exam season rolls around, I love making audio files for on my phone. I will rec-ord my voice saying different definitions or sentences for a language class. I also would repeat lists of vocabular y and different phrases.

This allowed me to study eve-

r ywhere I went. From waiting at the bus stop, to listening before I went to bed. It gave me a sense of comfort knowing I could review the material easily wherever I was. This, I think, drastically improved my marks and helped me remember the material.

As long as you have the motivation and the right study tools and techniques you are sure to succeed. If you need more help, the campus offers many places and mentors that can help you if your struggling to understand the material.

Happy Studying!

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5 MINUTES WITH HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Roger Wilson, Director of the UBCO Health and Wellness Centre, talks anxiety, academic stress, and stigmas Interview and Transcribing by Fran Carruthers - Staff Writer

illness and then we have a language to communicate about that, and then we can go from there to seeking out help.

FC: Stigmatized phrases like “I’m so OCD” or “this is so depressing”—what do you think of the impact of those kind of phrases being thrown around?

RW: I think… you know what, when I look at the history of psychology and mental health, the language has evolved, but I mean, “So OCD” [is] something that’s very modern, and we throw it out there, like, that’s OCD, that’s whatever. On one hand

“ “So OCD” [is] something that’s very modern, and we throw it out there, like, that’s OCD, that’s whatever.

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Fran Carruthers: Welcome, Roger. I’d like to start by asking about the stigma attached to mental health. So my question is how do we make it more acceptable perhaps, to speak up?

Roger Wilson: I think we start right in the school system, from day one, just [having] a healthy approach to identifying our feelings and thoughts and helping students develop coping skills right from an early age—that we develop those communication skills. And that can carry us to the next level, where we start to understand about mental

it makes less of the stigma, but on the other hand it trivializes something that’s very serious.

FC: What would you say are the biggest pressures facing students today, which are having bad effects on mental health?

RW: I know that the students we see at health and wellness tend to be about anxiety and stress, depression, and relationship issues. And those are all intertwined: if I’m anxious, and stressed, that will impact my mood so make me more depressed, and if I’m anxious and stressed I may go home and not be so nice to my

partner, my spouse, or my friends even. There’s a lot of financial stress, isolation from family, and students that are feeling like they’re not connecting with others. And academic stress. It’s a given. It’s like, everybody’s under academic stress, to complete assignments, to do midterms and prep for finals, and that pressure then feeds into how the university is structured.

FC: So everyone’s going to experience stress, but at what point does a normal level of stress become an anxiety disorder?

RW: I think when the symptoms are enduring, even though the actual trigger for the stress has gone away. Like preparing for an exam, and for finals, and I get really stressed—I’m not sleeping, I’m not eating, I’m having difficulty focusing on my work, and I write the exam and everything goes away, but my symptoms remain. And my symptoms interfere with my life, my personal life, my happiness, my social life, and they take root of my overall functioning. So affecting the impact on pleasure in my life.

FC: Moving away from the university level, I found that the Canadian Government, for every dollar they spend on healthcare only 7 cents goes to mental health.

Does that surprise you? Is that more or less than what you would expect?

RW: Less. I know that for every individual that goes to the family doctor, there’s about 60 per cent of those problems that are related to anxiety, stress, depression.

So I may go to the doctor with a migraine, or with a broken bone, or with high blood pressure.

But there’s often a mental health component to that that’s making the physical symptoms worse. So yes, we should be spending more on mental health.

DOG-OWEEN COSTUMES Is dressing up your dog for Halloween harmful to their ego?

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Describe your style: “Comfortable.”

Describe your style: “I’m kind of all over."

Style inspiration: “Amphibians."

Signature piece: “My new coat…"

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DERAILING THE DOUBLE STANDARDS OF DATING It’s 2016. Why are we still expecting the guy to pay when dating?

Fran Carruthers – Staff Writer

The idea of the man paying on a first date works on the antiquated notion that the male is the main breadwinner or higher earner, which, a) is often no longer true for many couples and, b) impairs the woman of her financial independence.

It is shackled to notions of male ownership, to the idea that men dominate the public and social spheres, and in 2016 these ideas are extinct in almost ever y other aspect of modern culture. So why shouldn’t they apply to dating?

A LearnVest poll found that 63% of women expect the guy to pay on a first date. The more I read, and the more people I ask, the general convention seems to be this: The woman is supposed to offer to pay half, out of politeness, but the guy should refuse and insist on paying the whole check—a bizarre system which is confirmed by the fact that 39% of women who offer to pay “secretly hoped

that the guy would pay the whole thing.”

Matthew Hussey, New York Times bestseller and relationship advice guru,

“ 63% of women expect the guy to pay on a first date.

” responded brilliantly to this problem, stating, “ The moment you say to a guy, you have to pay for my time, you’re saying, this relationship isn’t equal.” Yet our society is replete with opinions from both genders

that men should cover the cheque on a first date.

Scroll through the majority of dating and relationship sites, and a disheartening amount advocate this outmoded principle. eHarmony states that it is a man’s role to “protect and provide” for a woman, making her “feel safe” by paying for her.

These stereotypical roles do not align with any ideal, or modern experience of dating. They cr y back to a damaging, traditional set of preconceptions about heterosexual relationships, yielding the formula that man is should be the active “provider” and the woman merely a passive “receiver” in the equation.

Men insisting to pay is not romantic, it’s patronising, degrading and frustrating.

Even if you believe that the guy paying is only important on the first date— and that splitting the bill is commonplace on following dates—I’d argue that, on the first date, it is more

important than ever that the bill is split. When you open up that conversation, it sets the tone for the ensuing relationship, whether as friends or partners. By splitting the bill, you say, “I’m entering into this at the same level as you, we are economic and social equals.” How you pay on the first date ultimately reflects how you think male and female roles should work in the relationship.

Most problematically, in many of the articles, I found it was women who were insisting that men ought to pick up the bill on a first date, many of whom also insisted that they identified as feminists. The problem is: how exactly can you claim to support gender equality, if you expect to be financially provided for in any way when dating?

And this imbalance seems to extend to the rest of the dating period. According to the Lever-Frederick research, 84% of men and about 60% of women report

that men still pay more of the dating expenses.

Too many women who claim to support gender equality simultaneously think it is okay to expect a guy to pay the bill when dating. Where have our double standards come from? It is true that men typically earn higher than women, but in order to change that, we must start by implementing it in our thinking, and splitting the bill looks ahead to a more economically equal future, rather than looking back to the deluded, patriarchal norms that built these notions in the first place.

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UBCO STREETERS STYLE

Phoenix Life reporters interview some of UBCO’s most fashionable students

Brie Welton - Life Editor, Frances Carruthers - Staff Writer

Liyan Liu – Management Where is your outfit from: Most [pieces] are from Korea. I’m from China [which] is fueled with a lot of Korean Fashion.”

Describe your style in 3 words: Just casual style Is there anything you’d never wear: “I don’t like things too exaggerated, like too short dresses or super high heels.”

Logan Jacobs – Management Signature piece: My vans, they’re pretty beat up. I wear them every day.

I’ve got like three pairs” Favorite stores: “American apparel, I like really minimalistic clothing. I’m wearing three pieces from American apparel right now. But just anything I can get a good deal on, so pretty plain looking clothing, it’s kinda my style.”

Looking forward to wearing this winter: “I need a new pair of boots and I’m really excited to go look for new winter footwear. I love shopping for new seasons.”

Morgan Painchaud – Sciences Signature piece: “My black ripped jeans.”

Favorite store: “Aritzia is my fave… wish it was cheaper though.”

Describe your style in three words: “Comfortable, affordable (usually) and casual” Looking forward to wearing this winter: “My grey turtleneck, I’m so excited – it’s a little too hot right now.”

Mustapha Elfarse – Sciences Describe your style: “Casual, normal.”

Influences: “Brands – that’s what I’m influenced by a lot.”

Favorite Stores: “Dolce and Gabana. I love American Eagle… even Old Navy.”

Would never wear: “Jogging pants with classy shoes, or running shoes with classy pants. A lot of people do that and it drives me crazy.”

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DEAR BLAKE, CAN YOU PLEASE ENDORSE ME? Can a UBCSUO president endorse candidates?

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So our Students’ Union President, Blake Edwards, endorsed a candidate in the last by-election and some people didn’t think it was a good idea.

A very entertaining comment segment followed below Blake’s Facebook post. the motion in hand; should a sitting SUO president endorse a candidate?

The main arguments against Blake’s endorsement centered on inappropriateness, expression of personal bias (read intention to fix election), and unprofessional behavior among other things. Of all statements, the strongest argument, in my opinion, is best characterized in the comment “if your candidate does not win, then the person who is elected will know you did not want them in the position.

That will cause a tense relationship for the rest of your term.”

The best response to this argument was relayed in the comment “if a candidate is not strong enough to handle another candidate being endorsed, they probably shouldn’t go into student politics.” I agree with this statement. If you chose to run for a position in the Students’ Union, your goal is to offer service along with other

executives and directors to students.

It is expected that one should be able to work within a team professionally, withholding personal issues aside for the good of students. Fulfilling your job description is mandatory.

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If a candidate is not strong enough to handle another candidate being endorsed, they probably shouldn’t go into student politics.

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The current student union by laws are silent about a sitting president endorsing candidates running in a Students’ Union election. Therefore, under these guidelines, there was no rule broken.

Legally, Blake is absolved of his actions.

A sitting UBCSUO president is free

to chose if she/he wants to endorse a candidate.

Morally, I have no verdict. This is because people who disapprove of Blake’s endorsement are likely supporters of the other candidate (not endorsed by Blake). The interests here are biased in my opinion. I cannot perceive a moral yardstick to determine if this action was good or bad. So I leave this one open for the moralists to judge.

How effective is an endorsement from a sitting president? Last year, Blake was able to win despite not having Tom McCauley’s endorsement, which went to another candidate. Blake followed suit by endorsing a candidate for Vice President Internal and judging by the results, it did not lead to a victory. Evidence shows presidential bias towards a specific candidate does not guarantee success. The act, whether good or bad has been normalized through repetition. So why all the fuss?

With that being said, as an individual, a sitting president has the right to express her/his opinion, openly, on who they prefer as a candidate of their choice. At the end of the day each person,

including the president, carries one vote. An endorsement is just an open declaration and a vote of confidence.

Obama has openly endorsed Hillary.

That does not automatically mean that all Obama supporters will vote for her.

Though a sitting president endorsing a candidate may relay a bit of personal bias, I do not think its inappropriate or unprofessional especially if its within the rules and regulations stipulated.

Before I made any judgments, I imagined myself in the picture. I wondered, if I were a candidate, what my position on an endorsement from the president would be. I believe that I would welcome such with open arms.

Endorsements are testimony of faith in one’s ability to perform well in a specified position. I definitely would not be too jolly if my opponent received that endorsement. But that is just me being me.

So Blake, if I ever run and you are still president, feel free to endorse me. That is if you truly believe I am capable.

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THE US DEBATES: TRUMP’S PERFORMANCE

Trump manages through the debates, but was it enough?

Mark Dreger – Phoenix Columnist

With the three US presidential debates complete (thank God), it is now up to the voters. Clinton is the clear favourite, so unless a miracle happens (or the media attacks Clinton equally), that will likely be the result. Since the latter two debates had little impact on the polls, I wanted a reasonable critique of who did better, so after listening to writers and commentators critical of both candidates (so no New York Times, Huffington Post, CNN, Breitbart, or Drudge Report) I was able to reach a conclusion.

I believe it is disingenuous to say Trump or Clinton dominated all three debates; however, what is consistent is they are both liars and incredibly lucky. Either candidate would be destroyed if they opposed anyone else. If

Clinton was out, Trump would have no easy attacks; if Trump was out, Clinton’s lies would be easily highlighted, as Trump is not educated enough to notice.

Clinton is a more eloquent liar and can divert accusations (must have learned that from Bill), while Trump’s lies are clumsy

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Unless a sex tape of Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin’s girlfriend springs up, Clinton looks like the next President.

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ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST MEAT (SATIRE) It is a woman’s choice if she wants to eat meat; it is her body and only she can make that decision Mark Dreger – Phoenix Columnist

On their way to morning classes, students were shocked to see animal rights activists holding up graphic posters of slaughtered animals. Stationed near

the roundabout outside H Lot, an anti-meat group pushed their views on students as they entered campus.

“These pictures are outrageously offensive,” said one carnivore student. “It is a

and comparable to a child with cookie crumbs on their face.

Sorry Clinton, but fake laughing and grinning like The Joker does not mean the accusations against you are false; and no Trump, interrupting unnecessarily with “wrong” does not make it so.

For the first debate, Trump essentially had to not look like a crazy person and Clinton had to not look dead. For the first 30 minutes, Trump was very strong.

He attacked Clinton on NAFTA, the national debt, and for being a “typical politician,” to which she had weak responses; but after that, everything switched. Hillary got under Trump’s very thin skin and he took the bait, neglecting his attacks and resorting to defending his business records and his taxes. Lester Holt was

woman’s choice if she wants to eat meat; it is her body and only she can make that decision.”

When word spread that more protests were scheduled, students gathered together to protest the animal rights group, holding signs saying, “You made the choice for meat,” and “Your body, your choice, to eat meat.”

“Students should never be shown such graphic images,” said one protestor. “We respect every woman’s right to choose what is nutritious for her body and we are here today to

a terrible moderator and biased against Trump, but that is barely an excuse, as the biggest defeater of Trump was himself. Clinton succeeded and Trump failed.

For the second debate, Trump’s advisors must have told him to drop his ego because he was much more composed. Despite his lewd words about women surrounding his campaign, I consider Trump the winner (for his low standards), but only by very little and certainly not enough to propel him into any lead. He ungracefully avoided his “locker room” comments, but he recovered and managed to attack Hillary’s defence of a rapist, her emails, and to have a special prosecutor for her illegal activities.

The moderators, especially Martha Raddatz,

support them.”

“I support freedom of speech,” said another, “but not if I disagree with it and it questions my beliefs.”

The UBCSUO Facebook page uploaded an image with the text, “Our bodies, our choice, to eat meat,” and listed resource centres for those that were triggered by the graphic animal posters.

“This is not freedom of speech, because the imagery on the signs are definitely hate crimes,” wrote one student on the Facebook post, before

were atrocious, which is the only reason I defend Trump’s accusation of the debate being “one-on-three.” Trump managed to not completely collapse, but his lies about unconsensually kissing women followed him, as did his obliviousness on foreign policy.

In the third debate, I would again say Trump won, but it was still by very little and not enough to compensate for his collapse in the first debate. Clinton was defensive when Trump attacked her on immigration, open boarders, and taking money from Saudi Arabia, and although they were valid attacks, he was not informed enough to provide follow-up questions. His response to the sexual accusations was dishonest and his answer of not accepting the election result was poorly worded, where he should have addressed real examples of voter fraud instead of vaguely saying the polls are rigged, which makes him look like a sore loser. Chris Wallace was the best moderator and although one could argue that he was biased against Clinton and perhaps trying to help Trump, Trump was too clueless to see the clues.

Watching Trump is like a ticking time bomb where he can be great one minute but then explode and become the narcissist he is. Overall, Trump gets a C grade in the same way a C student can get A’s and B’s on assignments, but F’s on exams.

As of October 24, RealClearPolitics had an average Clinton lead of 5%, so it may be too little too late for Trump.

Unless a sex tape of Hillary Clinton and Vladimir Putin’s girlfriend springs up, Clinton looks like the next President.

2020 cannot come soon enough.

calling the anti-meat protestors “terrorists.”

“The graphic images that were displayed are naked animals,” posted another student, “which the animal rights movement believes are sentient. Doesn’t that make it zoophilia?”

Students have called for the animal rights group to be banned from campus, but the university said they will respect the group’s freedom of speech just as the pro-meat protestors have theirs.

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TO NAME A TERRORIST

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I have so much faith in humanity that I find extreme difficulty in believing that there is this group of humans who simply enjoy terrorizing people for no reason, whose religious calling is to kill and spread fear around the world.

If this is true, before making any judgment, I would like to hear their version of the story too. I feel like the dialogue on terrorism as a global issue is too shallow to allow for solutions. We often only hear one side of the story.

Its important that we determine what terrorism is in this piece.

For easy analysis, I will use the western mainstream media perspective, that is the use of violence and intimidation to achieve certain political aims.

These acts are Islamic-related, usually from a middle eastern country or individual and cannot be performed by a citizen of a “western country” because self defense is not a terrorist activity. I will then assume that on the other side, there is a mirrored view for the same reason. They too cannot

perform acts of terrorism by defending themselves. The global dynamic of terrorism manifests itself as a cross cultural conflict.

“ There was the Taliban, Al Qaeda and now ISIS which if we go by history, will be substituted immediately after it has been defeated.

” An us-versus-them type scenario.

With that in mind, cross cultural conflicts are often characterized with extensive misunderstandings

due to different perspectives of ‘what is’. A non-negotiated approach does not seem to solve anything.

Who determines what a terrorist attack is? When I look at Iraq, Libya and now Syria, I wonder who is the real terrorist really is? Sovereign states were invaded, attacked with intention of achieving certain political aims but for some reason, those were, and still are, not acts of terrorism.

If we compare the magnitude of air strikes in Aleppo, Syria that have destroyed a whole city to the suicide bombings in France that ravaged a few restaurants, which one gets the description of a terrorist attack? What category do the Christian-based attacks in Norway or the racially motivated shootings in church in Charleston fall under?

Unless convinced, I refuse to buy into the argument that these terrorist groups attack randomly in order to spark fear around the world. My assumption is that if these groups are comprised of

human beings, their attacks would be calculated to specific spaces and with intention. This will manifest itself in an action of revenge. I have yet to find a country that has been attacked without previous involvement in an area inhabited by so-called terrorists. Kenya was attacked by Al Shaabab militants after it decided to invade Somalia.

France and Belgium have been recent victims of terrorist attacks.

These two countries are NATO members and were involved in the early air strikes on Syria in an attempt to oust president Bashar al Assad. The United Kingdom was attacked after its involvement with the United States in invading Iraq and the United States of America starts its narrative post 9/11 by omitting prior involvements in the Gulf Ear and other conflicts in the Middle East.

I also have a difficulty understanding why so-called terrorist groups recur from the same place and in such timely order. There was the Taliban, Al Qaeda and now ISIS which if we

go by history, will be substituted immediately after it has been defeated. What is the motivation? I find it rather peculiar that a group that seems to lack the capacity to own a helicopter or a small navy boat is intimidating the richest and best equipped military forces and alliances on earth.

I realize that I have never adequately listened to the other side of the story. The perspective or argument of terrorists is never shared except through rumors.

We need a grander picture to have better context so discussion on solutions can be presented. Not negotiating with terrorists is not helping the case and is a .poor approach to dealing with cross cultural conflicts.

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SWAP SLUT SHAMING FOR SEX POSITIVITY A different perspective on “slutty” Halloween costumes and what they mean

Brie Welton – Life Editor

“Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it.” This Mean Girls quote seems to articulate the common sentiment regarding the sluttiness surrounding Halloween. However, this line is not entirely accurate.

Women who dress in costumes deemed to be revealing and therefore “slutty” are not safe from anyone’s judgement, whether women’s or men’s.

Those who wear short dresses, tops that show cleavage, tight body suits, or any costume that aims to sexualize the female body are labeled as slutty based not on their actions, but solely on their appearance.

With this label comes an array of negative, generalized connotations, notably sexual promiscuity and loose morals.

Both men and women are guilty of making these snap judgements, dismissing the slutty princess as just wanting to get laid or shaking their heads at the sexy cat who is using Halloween as an excuse to show off her breasts. However, only women suffer the effects of these judgements as a result of a problematic double standard: women are condemned for having numerous sexual partners whereas men are congratulated.

The slut stigma becomes especially problematic around Halloween, resulting in increased rates of sexual assault during this time of year. For this reason, Slut Walks take place around Halloween to protest the idea that the type or amount of clothing a woman wears determines her consent. This is an important point to keep in mind: if a woman dresses provocatively it does not mean that she wants sex or is a slut in any way. Rather than judging the sexy bar maid, let’s take a new perspective on provocative costumes.

Maybe wearing a slutty costume is a woman’s way

of celebrating her sexual freedom, a privilege women have fought hard for, and continue to fight for to this day. Maybe a woman wants to wear a short skirt, not because she wants you to ogle her legs all night, but because she just likes that skirt. Are these things a woman should be judged and ostracized for?

Absolutely not. The point is, no one should judge a woman

“ Instead of engaging in slut shaming, practice sex positivity and above all, remember: consent is not the clothes we wear, consent is a yes or a no.

” for her choice of dress, nor should they take advantage of her because of it. So, this Halloween, I invite you to keep an open mind. A slutty costume can just as easily be a celebration of sexuality and freedom of choice. A short skirt doesn’t equal an easy lay, and a low cut top doesn’t imply an automatic “yes.” Instead of engaging in slut shaming, practice sex positivity and above all, remember, consent is not the clothes we wear, consent is a yes or a no.

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ANTI-IMMIGRATION SENTIMENT ARRIVES AT OUR SHORES New Cultural Action Party registers as a threat to Canadian society

Eddie Tat - Contributor

Only a month ago, even I would have said that our province was substantially safe from the cancer of anti-immigration sentiment.

Boy, was I dead wrong. Amidst the hostility against immigration policies in Europe and the United States, I counted on a naïve notion that British Columbia was perhaps safe because we were all just wellmannered. So, when I heard that the extreme-right Cultural Action Party (CAP) registered this month for participation in next year’s election, I nearly dropped my pumpkin spiced cappuccino.

Their platform is based on the promise of adjusting immigration and refugee policy to promote English and French culture. Replace the term “English and French culture” with American culture, German culture, or Polish culture. You will find alarming similarities between those remarks made by the party’s founder, Brad Salzberg, and those remarks lost in the rants of someone like Donald Trump. To those who thought that a Donald Trump wannabe could not possibly find support in our backyard, I sympathize.

Although any CAP victory next year is a longshot, take note that it has already established itself across the country with thousands of supporters.

It speaks to a growing dissent over the current BC Liberal government’s

“ To those who thought that a wannabe of the Donald could not possibly find support in our backyard, I sympathize.

” aloofness to their own constituents as well as their failure to tackle serious local issues like housing affordability and unemployment. Also take note that everybody who had thought that figures like Trump or Britain’s Nigel Farage

would never be serious contenders in elections were proven wrong time and again. Immigration, embedded in our welcoming Canadian tradition, is now under threat.

In Kelowna and other urban areas of BC, it is no secret that real-estate investments made en masse by buyers of Chinese descent have spiked up housing prices and have inadvertently created a stigma for folks of Chinese descent who are not investors, such as myself. It is also no secret that refugees are entering Canada in droves just as unemployment and homelessness rates remain in an unfortunate state. It is unfair that immigration ends up as a scapegoat that is taken advantage by the CAP. But it is also important to stand up to ignorance and support immigration as a solution to the suffering of refugees and a path to peace and prosperity. We are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants and we owe our residence to open immigration policies.

Remember that almost one in five BC university students are international students, according to Statistics Canada, and every one of them would like to continue feeling welcomed

when they step foot on what we ought to consider as Aboriginal land.

Some of you might remember Salzberg as the guy who tried to get UBC history professor Henry Yu fired a few years ago. If you did, you might also remember that it took student initiative to demonstrate support for Yu and opposition for Salzberg’s ignorant beliefs. Thankfully, in the end, Yu kept his job. Now, it is our turn. In voting responsibly for next year’s election we have a duty to exclaim to Salzberg, in our best Gandalf impression, “you shall not pass.”

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specified time and location can be retrieved and used as evidence if a student was intoxicated passed a point of possible consent. If there are already cameras in these areas recording activity, students should be given knowledge of them both to serve as a deterrent for potential perpetrators and as comfort to our student population for the extra layer of protection should they need it.

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CONSENT TASTES SWEET MOVEMENT Stephanie Prentice details her goals with the Consent Tastes Sweet movement Stephanie Prentice - Contributor

Stephanie Prentice is a third year student in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences but this is her first year here at UBCO. She moved to Coldstream two weeks before this semester began with her husband and dogs where much of their family resides. Connect with Stephanie on Facebook or Instagram @steph_p_ubc or @ consenttastessweet.

Prentice weighs in on consent for The Phoenix News: About the Campaign: I was interested in running a campaign on consent because it is such a relevant issue right now, however, when I started looking into the types of visual branding that was available, I found that there were not many options. Many of the messages and visuals that market consent are either boring or very aggressive, accusatory, manhating, inferring promiscuous behavior.

I think that promoting comfortable conversations about consent is crucial to the health and well being of

our student population and unfortunately, while messages like “No Means No” and “My Body My Business” are valuable messages, I feel that they actually serve to shut down conversations rather than facilitate. So, I started thinking: what if we stopped hating rape and started loving consent? What if we stopped “fighting” patriarchy and we started playing with them?

Which led me to developing the concept of Consent Tastes Sweet, essentially a re-branding of consent.

I currently have round stickers for computers, cell phones, notebooks, etc and can be purchased by donation with 100% of proceeds benefiting the Peer Support Network and I have 3 more products coming out that I am very excited about. My intention is to create a brand for consent that is nonaggressive, gender neutral, communicates visually what a person’s values are in relation to the importance of consent, facilitates conversations and also belongs in the places where

the topic of consent is crucial such as parties, beer gardens and bedrooms etc.

I would love to connect with people on Facebook and Instagram and hear their feedback as I continue this initiative/experiment.

In looking over UBC’s Proposed

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Promoting comfortable conversations about consent is crucial to the health and well being of our student population.

” Policy 131 on Sexual Assault, I have 6 recommendations that I am sending for consideration (listed below). My overall impression of the policy is that it is very centered on supporting victims of assault—

which is great—but lacking in preventative measures, deterrents as well as definite and defined recourse for the individuals who sexually assault members of our community.

Recommendation 1: Implement a response protocol that is aimed towards the perpetrators. What level of threat do they pose to other students? What types of professional counselling or mandatory sexual health meetings should someone who sexually assaults another student have to go to? What responsibility does UBC have to the greater community to ensure perpetrators of sexual assault are given the resources and treatment they need before becoming society’s problem once they leave UBC? Recommendation 2: Cameras in the hallways of the dorms and other high risk areas that record activity but are not monitored unless a report is made, at which time the video surveillance of the

Recommendation 3: Implement some level of responsibility for UBC, after receiving disclosure, to assess the groups, clubs and associations of the accused to determine the level of risk for other students as well as what measure they should employ in order to keep our students safe, regardless of whether the survivor would like to proceed with a formal report or not.

At very least, this information should be documented and kept on file and/or reported to the RCMP as an information only file that could be used to help other victims who are sexually assaulted in the future if the accused turns out to be a repeat offender.

Recommendation 4: Define the various levels of sexual assault and determine the disciplinary action to be taken for each – ex: what recourse is there when someone repeatedly sends unsolicited nude photos of themselves, inappropriately touches someone or rapes someone who is unconscious? Without the knowledge of defined boundaries and consequences what awareness or deterrents do potential perpetrators currently have? I think we need to spell things out for them.

As Sexual Assault is to be dealt with under the process set out in the Student Code of Conduct, this policy should be expanded and amended at very least in that it currently does not even state the term ‘sexual assault’.

Recommendation 6: Record a permanent mark on the transcript of a student found guilty of sexual assault to serve as a deterrent and a method of holding them accountable for their actions – even after they leave UBC where the University no longer has jurisdiction over them.

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HEAT WOMEN’S SOCCER WILL MAKE FIRST CANADA WEST POSTSEASON APPEARANCE Grayson B. Leahy – Sports Editor (w/ contributions from Tia Sadler)

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In their third season of Canada West competition, the UBC Okanagan women’s soccer team have moved into the playoffs for the first time.

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The UB C Okanagan Heat will for the first time since 2013 see their women’s soccer team make an appearance in a postseason match. With a regular season conference record of 4-9-1, the Heat locked up the sixth and final playoff spot in Canada West’s Pacific division.

In Canada West’s women’s soccer league, the playoff schedule involves a six team divisional playoff round prior to the unified Canada West tournament. This means that the top six of the eight teams in each division move on to a single match playoff on the weekend following the conclusion of the regular season.

Prior to the final weekend of conference play, the Heat women had locked up their playoff spot. It is the first time since the program made the jump from PACWEST to Canada West competition, after the 2013 season, that they will play in the postseason. The last time that Heat women’s soccer was in a playoff, they earned a bronze medal at the 2013 PACWEST tournament.

Despite a pair of losses over their final weekend, first 2-0 to the University of Saskatchewan Huskies on Saturday, October 22 then 1-0 to the University of Regina Cougars on Sunday, October 23, the Heat are a playoff team in 2016.

The first match in UB C Okanagan’s Canada West playoff histor y will be played against the undefeated Trinity Western Spartans on Saturday, October 29. The divisional playoff round dictates that the lower-ranked team in each game travels to the higherranked team’s pitch, so the Heat and the Spartans will play at Chase Bank Field in Langley, B C. Kick-off is scheduled for 4PM PST. For Devon Fleming and Katie Smillie, a pair of Heat players who are in their last season with the women’s soccer program, the loss to Regina will be their final regular season match on home turf at Nonis Field. Prior to that match, the two fourth year athletes were recognized in UB C Okanagan’s annual Seniors Night ceremony.

Fleming, a fourth year midfielder, and Smillie, a fourth year fullback, were given portraits and beautiful bouquets of flowers during the ceremony, and heard speeches

given recognizing their contributions to and success with the Heat program. As both players were part of the program before the transition from PACWEST to Canada West, being a part of the team’s first postseason appearance played a big part in shaping their perspective on the day.

“I think it was an interesting time Devon and I joined the program because we were here for that transition,” said Katie Smillie in a postgame inter view with the Heat Information Desk’s Tia Sadler.

Smillie continued, “it’s been so great seeing us build from the college league to now going to the playoffs for the first time.

I think it’s been really amazing seeing what the program’s capable of and I fully expect that it will just continue to take off from here.”

That optimism about the future of the program was shared by Fleming, also a part of the post-game inter view. “I’m excited,” she started, “It’s nice to go out at the ver y least on a program first. It’s always nice to set the mark and hopefully in the years to come maybe playoffs won’t even be a second thought, they will be something that happens ever y year from

“ It’s been really amazing seeing what the program’s capable of and I fully expect that it will just continue to take off from here. – Katie Smillie

” here on out. Hopefully that’s something we set the precedent for. It’s just really nice to make that accomplishment, because that was one of our goals at the beginning of the year and it’s nice to have hit that goal and now obviously the next goal is gonna be to do well against Trinity – the death match.”

Also speaking about the

upcoming match against Trinity Western, Smillie said, “we are going into the lion’s den. We’re playing a team that’s been undefeated this season so I think it’s going to as of us stuff that we’ve never asked our teammates before. We’re really going to have to dig deep but anything’s possible in the playoffs.”

Their first playoff game will undoubtedly be one of the toughest match-ups of the team’s career together, as Trinity Western has long been a powerhouse in the conference.

The Spartans have only lost two matches over their last three seasons combined, finishing no lower than second in the Pacific division since UB C Okanagan joined Canada West.

In the head-to-head matchup between the Heat and the Spartan women’s sides, Trinity Western holds a 3-0-1 record against UB C Okanagan. The goals scored over those 4 matches are 14-4 in favour of the Spartans. This season, the only game between the two teams was a 3-0 victor y for Trinity Western on September 25.

B efore the team turned their attention to the difficult task facing them next Saturday, this past Sunday was about looking back at how far the program has come and at the success that Devon Fleming and Katie Smillie have had in their four years. B oth were made starters in their final match in Kelowna, as is tradition in any Seniors Night game, and after wards they were asked about that and reminisced about the past four years.

“I was pretty ner vous,” said Smillie of starting in Sunday’s game against Regina. “I haven’t played in a lot of games at home. This is actually my second game playing at home so I just kind of wanted to enjoy it and take it all in . . . really just live in the moment. It was a lot of fun and we’ve seen all our seniors before us do it so we know how the day goes and how precious it is. You only get so many seasons and so many games . . . I think we just wanted to make the most of it. We had our family and friends out here today. It was really nice.”

On that same topic of playing her final match at home,

Fleming said, “it’s kind of weird ‘cause, as Katie said, you’re used to seeing all the seniors go through it but it’s just a part of it you know? You prep for it like it’s a regular game and I guess now after the game it gets kind of sad. But before that I was just focused on results, you know, doing our best.”

Part of that sadness for Fleming comes from recognizing the upcoming end of life in Kelowna off the pitch as well. Asked about her memories with the team away

“ Maybe playoffs won’t even be a second thought, they will be something that happens every year from here on out. Hopefully that’s something we set the precedent for. – Devon Fleming

” from soccer, she said, “We have a lot! I live with three of the girls on the team . . . so pretty much ever y day is in itself an adventure.

We do pretty much ever ything together, like Thanksgiving we spend together, over Christmastime we will have Christmas parties and dinners . . . it’s really nice,

especially for me because this isn’t my hometown.” She continued that living with some of her teammates has given her “a family away from [her] family – someone to celebrate holidays with and all that good stuff.”

B oth Katie and Devon were asked to share a favourite memor y of playing as well.

Katie said, “I think that when we won the PACWEST bronze medal. That day, that was the first game I got to play in when we beat Langara in the bronze medal match. I think that was a really cool day at provincials.”

Devon, speaking about her favourite on-field memor y, said, “I know it sounds selfish but when I scored that game winning goal!” On October 13, 2013 Devon scored her first career goal with the Heat, that turned out to be the winner in a game that clinched her team a playoff berth in the season’s PACWEST postseason. They went on to earn the provincial bronze medal, in what would be their last postseason appearance until this year. “I know I need to say something about the team,” she continued, “but no, that was it! It was a lot of fun and it was really nice.”

As Devon was talking about t h at goal, Katie added, “when she scored that I just bawled my eyes out.”

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HEAT MEN’S SOCCER EARN PLAYOFF SPOT WITH LAST-MINUTE WIN IN VICTORIA Thanks to a Gilbert goal in extra time, the Heat men will make their first postseason appearance since their inaugural Canada West season Grayson B. Leahy - Sports Editor

Heading into the final weekend of regular season play, the UB C Okanagan Heat men’s soccer team needed a number of things to go their way. As it stood on Friday morning, as UB C Okanagan sat two points and one standings spot behind the TRU WolfPack, there were three different scenarios that would give the Heat men a playoff spot as both teams were set to play their final two matches against the UB C Thunderbirds and the University of Victoria Vikes: 1)The Heat win both games, the TRU WolfPack lose at least one or tie both, or, 2)The Heat win one and tie one, and TRU tie one and lose one, or, 3)The Heat win one, and TRU lose both.

In their first game of the weekend, the Heat and the Thunderbirds took a scoreless draw into the 90th minute. In what looked ready to end as a draw between the institutional rivals, stoppage time made all the difference. Seconds before the final whistle in Vancouver, second year T-Birds for ward Titouan Chopin scored his first goal of the season on a curling strike that

found its way just inside the left post. UB C won the game 1-0.

Despite the loss, the Heat still had hope thanks to a 3-1 Victoria win over TRU earlier on Friday.

With both teams losing, the Heat needed to beat Victoria and have UB C beat TRU on Sunday.

Against Victoria, the Heat were once again tied with mere moments to go in the match. Going

“ Sometimes karma works for you.

– head coach Dante Zanatta

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into stoppage time, the game was tied 2-2. In the 91st minute, the ball rolled the right way for the Heat, and Wyatt Gilbert received a perfect pass across the face of the Vikes goal from Nikhil Reddy, and buried it to put his team on the

right side of a last-second finish this time.

Gilbert’s last second gamewinner put the Heat into the postseason, as the score was made final in Vancouver just a few minutes before, 2-1 in favour of UB C over TRU. In a season that had a steady theme of late goals being the difference either way for the Heat, making the playoffs with seconds to spare just fits.

“We have kind of made a habit it of it this year,” said Heat head coach Dante Z anatta after the game. “We’ve won a few games late and it’s a testament to our players, their commitment, and their desire to keep on fighting.”

He also added, “We got a bit lucky, but sometimes karma works for you.”

Aside from the dramatic finish, the most impressive thing about this playoff team is its youth. Not only has the inexperience not hindered them in their hunt for a postseason spot, but the freshmen have driven the offence on the pitch throughout the season.

Of the 13 goals scored by the Heat men this season, nine came from first year players. Five of the

Heat’s six regular season wins had the winning goal scored in the 87th minute or later, and four of those late winners came from freshmen.

Spencer Young started his season off with a bang when he scored in the 88th minute against Victoria on August 27. Z ach R achynski earned back-to-back game winners, scoring in the 90th minute against Calgar y on September 17 then in the 87th minute against Lethbridge the next day. Now, in the last game of the season, Wyatt Gilbert joins that impressive list of first year players, having given his team their second late win against the Vikes this season.

Thanks in large part to that contribution from their youngest players, the Heat will play their first postseason game since 2014. They will travel to Edmonton to play the University of Alberta Golden B ears in a win-or-go-home Quarter Final match. The only game between the two teams this season finished 3-1 in favour of Alberta, whose record this season was 13-1-2.

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JOSH BROWN & THE NFL: PARTNERS IN CRIME Despite what they’d have you believe with their adoption of pink cleats and towels, the NFL is failing women, and is proving once again their hypocrisy and inadequacy in dealing with Giants Grayson B. Leahy – Sports Editor

To anyone who watches the NFL, Josh Brown has, for a long timem been barely a real football player. Now, to everyone who’s had the chance to learn the facts about his behaviour towards his ex-wife that have come out in the past few days, he is even less a man than he is an NFL player.

Earlier this year, Brown was arrested and charged with assault in the fourth degree / domestic violence after a call to 911 was placed to report his violent and abusive behaviour. The charges were dropped a few days after his arrest, but as a result he was suspended one game without pay for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. One game. At the time, it seemed appropriate to the NFL and the Giants organization that the kicker’s behaviour towards and abuse of his wife should cost him roughly $87.6k, which is what he was kept from earning in game one this season as a result of the suspension.

Earlier this week, documents and evidence from the police investigation were released, and in those documents Brown admits to having beaten and tormented his wife. In a journal that was taken into evidence, he refers to himself as a god and to his wife as his slave, writes about his being a sexual deviant, and claims to have little to no concern for the hurt that he causes women.

In short, the documents are enough to convince any sane and functional member of society that this walking piece of filth should never be allowed to play football again, let alone to make millions doing so.

Even now that the records and evidence from the investigation into Brown have been released, it has taken an excruciatingly long time for either the NFL or the Giants organization to take any sort of action against the mediocre kicker. Despite the strong statements made by the team and the league over the last year or so about their plans to take swift action against any players abusing their significant others, both seem disturbingly hesitant to punish Josh Brown.

Earlier this season, prior to the release of the documents, Giants owner John Mara said in a press conference, “When we made

the decision to re-sign Brown . . . we were certainly aware of the arrest. We were also aware of the allegations associated with that arrest, and the fact the charges were dropped within a couple of days after the arrest.” He continued, “Based on the facts and circumstances that we were aware of at that time, we were comfortable with our decision to re-sign him. Nothing that has happened in the meantime to make us question that decision . . . We attempted to make [an] informed decision here. We’ll live with the results of that decision.”

First off, that statement sounds incredibly insensitive. It also sounds like bullshit. Those “facts and circumstances” were apparently as few as the team could keep them. Saying that you’re comfortable with paying a ridiculous amount of money to someone who’s proven himself mentally unstable and violent towards women is also a terrible move. As well, Mara’s statement that they attempted to make an

“ In a journal that was taken into evidence, he refers to himself as a god and to his wife as his slave, writes about his being a sexual deviant, and claims to have little to no concern for the hurt that he causes women.

” informed decision has turned out to be a blatant lie.

The NFL, talking about what can hardly be called an “investigation” into the initial arrest, is quoted as saying “Each of [the] requests was denied and the Sherriff ’s Office declined to provide any of the requested information, which ultimately limited our ability to fully investigate this matter.”

A member of that Office, King County Sherriff John Urquhart said on a Seattle radio station that those requests were infrequent and never involved anyone claiming to be a representative of the NFL. He said on air, “’NFL, National Football League,’ he (the person requesting information) could have said any of that.”

Urquhart added about the request, that it came from “Robert Agnew, Comcast.net, post office box in Woodinville. We had no idea who this yokel is.”

Josh Brown’s now ex-wife also told police last year that the violence and abuse was a regular occurrence, with at least 20 separate instances, that began when she was pregnant with her daughter. Urquhart says that the NFL never tried to officially obtain any of this information, despite their numerous statements that it was his and his office’s unwillingness to cooperate that hindered their ability to hand out a longer suspension. He also said in the radio interview “since it’s the NFL, we probably would have told them orally a little bit more about what we had.” He then said about the NFL’s statements against his department, and consequently summarised perfectly what it must be like dealing with Roger Goodell’s NFL, “I don’t like to be pushed around by a bully.”

As it stands, roughly 48 hours after the documents were released, Josh Brown has still not seen any kind of appropriate response from team or league. This morning, the NFL announced that he would be played on the Commissioner’s exempt list. For those who don’t know what that means (and trust me, that’s most of us), that’s essentially Roger Goodell placing him in time-out. Being put on that list prohibits Brown from participating in practices or games, but little more. He is allowed full access to the Giants’ facilities and services, with the exception of practices and games.

He is also allowed to collect his base salary of over $1,000,000.

The league, keeping in the grand Goodell tradition of punishing violence as rarely as possible, say that they want to investigate further before taking any more action. If it’s anything like their previous investigations, we can

safely assume that they’re going to call Pizza Hut, confuse whoever answers the phone by asking for legal documents, then claim wholeheartedly that there has been a steady dialogue between the league offices and police, and the police have been utterly uncooperative.

“ We attempted to make [an] informed decision here. We’ll live with the results of that decision. - John Mara

” As to the Giants, we shouldn’t expect much. Head coach Ben McAdoo has said, “We’re not going to turn our back on Josh . . . He’s our teammate.” In my opinion, he sure as hell shouldn’t be. And no one in that organization should want him to be.

John Mara, in a radio interview Thursday, lowered the bar even further. “[Brown] admitted to us he’d abused his wife in the past,” he said, “What’s a little unclear is the extent of that.” Mara evidently believes that there is a certain amount of spousal abuse that is acceptable.

As I’m writing this, Josh Brown is still set to make more than a million dollars this year. He won’t be playing in the Giants game this weekend, but he has not been officially suspended, has not been officially cut from the roster, and has not seen any sort of proportional response to his now public admission. The conclusion that I draw from this is that Roger Goodell, the NFL, and the New York Giants have failed.

They have failed to act, they have failed to behave themselves with any sort of respect towards

their female fans, and they have failed to perform the role that they claim to aspire to within American society. All during the month of October, which they have accepted as Breast Cancer Awareness Month through their use of pink attire and accessories.

The failure to handle this Josh Brown situation is the latest example that Roger Goodell and the NFL care less about the substance of their product than they do about the optics surrounding it. Players can wear pink, but they’ll be fined if they make any other sort of statement with their on-field appearance.

Celebrations are increasingly considered to be detrimental to the game, yet players who commit atrocious crimes against the women in their lives rarely see any harsh language, let alone any severe action, from the sociopaths claiming to run the league.

Earlier this season, Josh Norman was fined immediately for pretending to shoot an invisible bow and arrow in a touchdown celebration, in what the NFL claimed was an action unfit for child audiences as it imitated violence. Yet “Grade ‘A’ Piece of Shit” Josh Brown, who is now proven beyond any reasonable doubt by his own hand to be a serial wife-beater, is sitting pretty and getting paid as far as the NFL is concerned.

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