Issue 5 2014-15

UBCO’s Student Newspaper

November 3rd, 2014 | Vol 27, Issue 5

Out of candy since 1989

LIBRARY REFERENDUM PASSES HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS PAGE 12

Breaking down the raise in intERNATIONAl tuition fees 4 Visual Arts Course Union Prez & VP take over Arts Section 6

Looking at Heat Soccer’s Debut in the Big Leagues 20 the difference between bisexuality and pansexuality 22

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IN THIS ISSUE

This issue’s feature; the library referendum was passed on Thursday October 30th, but what does this mean for the students of UBCO and their study space? News Editor Alex Barberis gives the background on #BuildUBC and #MORELibrary, and explains the factors that led to the referendum on page 12.

NEWS

LIFE

UBCO wears red for Canada - 3

Pizza lasagna for ten Review: Bahamas in Kelowna - 10 students - 16

Queensway to be complete Feb ‘15 - 5

Get rid of your fruit fly infestation - 16

Int’l Student fee increase - 4 Co-ordinating Editor Kelsi Barkved

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“Straight outta Rutland” Phone: 250-807-9296 thephoenixnews.com Cover Photo by Lynnette Oon Cover Image by Sarah James

Operations Manager Alex Eastman

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News Editor Alex Barberis

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ARTS

SPORTS

OPINIONS

Heat men’s and women’s soccer seasons in review 18/20

The difference between bi- and pansexuality - 22

Home is where the art is - 6

Heat women’s volleyball this season so far - 21

No scents is good sense - 23

Arts Editor Jeff Bulmer

Creative Director Cameron Welch

Building community through art - 8

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Sports Editor Hingle McCringleberry

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Opinions Editor Kayti Barkved

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Life Editor Maranda Wilson

Photo Editor Lynnette Oon

Features Editor Sasha Curry

Web Editor Justin Kroeker

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Visuals Editor Sarah James

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Copy Editor Lauren Wintle

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Contributors

Kolton Procter, Lauren Marshall, Baina Muema, Christin O’Brien, and Kevin Ilomin

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The Phoenix is the UBCO students’ free press. Editorial content is separate from the University of British Columbia Students’ Union Okanagan (UBCSUO) and from the UBC institution at large.

The editorial staff encourages everyone to submit material to the Phoenix but reserves the right to withdraw submissions from publication for any reason.

“Any reason” could be material deemed to be sexist, racist, homophobic, or of poor taste or quality. The Phoenix will not publish materials which condone, promote, or express actions which are illegal under current laws. This does not include articles which provide an in-depth examination of both sides of a controversial subject (e.g. legalizing marijuana).

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

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NEWS Left: A Wear Red Supporter on campus Photo from Wear Red for Canada/Facebook Right: Shaman McLean and Tom McCauley Photo by Lynnette Oon

AFTER OTTAWA SHOOTING, Ubc OKANAGAN wears red for canada UBCO students wore red on October 24th to show support and solidarity in respect of those affected by the shootings in Ottawa The event had participants from all over Britis Columbia Alex Barberis News Editor On the morning of Wednesday October 22nd, an armed gunman attacked Parliament Hill, killing one Canadian Forces member at the National War Memorial before being shot dead in Parliament’s Centre Block. Moments after Corporal Nathan Cirillo

was shot, witnesses reported hearing 30 to 50 shots fired inside the Parliament buildings.

“I was in a safe location, but my heart was with the brave soldier, his loved ones, and all the heroic women and men risking their lives to stop the shooter and end the violence”, said Tim Krupa, UBCO alumni and Parliament Hill staffer. “Canada remains resolved, and we remain Canadian.”

In response to these tragic events, the UBC Students’ Union Okanagan urged students and the Kelowna community to wear red. The Facebook event, created by Tom Macauley and UBCSUO President Rocky Kim, had a total of over 2,500 participants just in the Kelowna and Okanagan area, the numbers steadily increasing in the days after the incident.

“I created the event because [the morning of Thursday October 23rd]

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in the Kelowna Municipal Election Alex Barberis News Editor

“Hearing about [the attack] put a weight on my heart...I decided that I couldn’t sit back and not have our campus acknowledge in some way what has happened.”

Tom MAcauley

I was leaving my place and I couldn’t help but think about how lucky I am to live in this country”, said Macauley. “Hearing about [the attack] put a weight on my heart for this country.

And so when I got to school [on Thursday October 23rd] I decided that I couldn’t sit back and not have our campus acknowledge in some way what has happened.”

We took to the streets to ask students why they were wearing red.

“I’m wearing red just because I put on the shirt. I didn’t know [about the event],” said Sarah, an unsuspecting student we found in the UNC. “I’m a little saddened about the events that took place in Ottawa. I think it’s something that we need to be aware of because usually we think that Canada is such a happy place and nothing bad will happen here but sometimes it does.”

Listen up kids!

An election’s on the horizon.

You probably noticed by the excessive number of glazed over, ‘trust me’ faces popping up all over people’s lawns, and infringing on public space. If you check your snail mail, the City of Kelowna has sent y’all a voting card providing details on the dates, times, and locations for general and advance Kelowna voting stations.

Confused? Perfect.

Turn the page over to find out what you need to know for November 15th

“I’m wearing red just to show awareness about the events in Ottawa”, said another student, Alisa.

“I’m shocked about what happened in Ottawa. No one was expecting it I’m sure and I think it was shocking for Canada as a nation and for everyone living here. I think we’re all—well I have no words.”

The overall message from McCauley and UBCO students alike is the importance of showing support for all those affected by the tragedy.

“There are varying opinions on what has happened and what it means, but before we debate, I think it’s important for us to recognize our most basic common links and join each other in solidarity”, said McCauley. “I hope that this serves as somewhat of an outlet for people to easily engage in and show their support for those affected.”

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ubc’s 2015 International student tuition increase explained The Phoenix sat down with Ian Cull and discussed the international student tuition increase Increasing the prestige of the university while fostering diversity is the challenge for UBC Sasha Curry Features Editor “It’s not good to be seen as a bargain all of the time.” says Ian Cull, UBC Okanagan’s Associate Vice President, as he compares our own tuition rates to those of our competitor universities, such as McGill and Queens.

In response to the questions arising around our school’s international stu-

dent tuition increase of 10%, he points to a number of different reasons for the increase. International students aid the reputation of a university, he explains, so protecting diversity on our campus is important to attract students from places that aren’t necessarily affluent.

This is why some of the tuition increase will go towards mitigating financial aid packages in a way that could accommodate for attracting students from a variety of different places worldwide.

The tuition increase will help to fund those international students, who will contribute to our campus’ diversity and reputation in the future, but who do not necessarily have the financial means to pursue the education that they deserve.

“But has UBCO really increased the value of our education enough to increase the tuition? We already pay practically five times as much as domestic

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in the Kelowna Municipal Election Alex Barberis News Editor

“If the market is willing to pay that much, why wouldn’t we charge it?”

Ian Cull AVP Students

students”, complained one UBCO fourth year international student.

Rankings are important, in accordance to our AVP, and comparing ourselves to institutions of common value reveal the relative value of a UBC degree. More and more people are spending large amounts of money on their education (or often times rather, their children’s’ education) and the value of an education is priced competitively.

“If the market is willing to pay that much, why wouldn’t we charge it?” asks Cull. He says that our tuition costs are simply growing at the same rate that our university is continuing to grow.

The UBC brand is sufficient enough to increase its costs, so why wouldn’t it?

Increasing the revenue that international students bring in means that the faculties hosting these international students will grow. 50% of tuition fees go towards the faculty of the student,

therefore faculties with more international students inevitably grow more than those with less international students.

As for the remaining amount of tuition, it is distributed into the central budget to pay off things such as mortgages on UBC’s infrastructures.

Also partially a response to a “financial sustainability issue”, Cull says that the 10% increase is also due to the fact that UBC is receiving less money from the province.

Furthermore, Cull says that they wanted “a significant change but not outrageous”—the reason for the 10% specifically. Lastly, it won’t be until the Board of Governors, and then the province, ratifies the increase that it will pass. It will not be approved (or disapproved) until the November Board of Governors meeting.

1) Are you eligible?

You are eligible to vote in the Kelowna Municipal Election as long as you have been resident of Kelowna for at least the last 30 days, are 18 years or older, have lived in B.C. for at least six months, and are a Canadian Citizen. You do not need to own property to vote.

2) Are you informed?

There’s nothing worse than uninformed voters, so read up people! You’re voting for 1 Mayor, 8 Councillors, and 4 School Trustees. Find a candidate that seems competent and best represents your ideals. Full candidate profiles are listed on the City of Kelowna website. Don’t just vote Colin Basran for Mayor because you think he’s hot (here’s looking at you Rocky Kim).

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EVENTS November 3rd Thrive 2014 Healthy Kickoff Breakfast

8:00-10:00AM / FREE / Upper Courtyard Free healthy breakfast for all faculty, staff, and students.

November 5th Global Fest

11:00AM-3:00PM / FREE / Fipke Centre Celebrate over 80 countries represented on campus. Enjoy aromatic and flavourful dishes from around the world. Experience traditional, global, and Aboriginal music and dance.

November 6th Free Flu Shots

Image from Queensway Exchange Public Open House presentation

Queensway construction to finish feb 2015 After delays, Queensway’s transit loop upgrade is expected to open fully in about four months Remaining component of the project is the large canopy structure on the central concrete island.

Cam Welch Creative Director The Queensway transit upgrade is expected to open fully in February, according to Kelowna Transit’s Community Engagement Advisor Kelly Kay. Back in March, the upgrade’s end date was projected to be the start of the fall, but Kay explains that the timeline changed when the project was split into three components (the Rapidbus stops & roundabout, the central island struc-

ture, and the security office), and each was contracted separately. “[The project] was essentially broken down into three smaller projects, each project requiring specialized types of disciplines to deliver that type of work,” she explained, “and that’s why separate tenders were issued.”

Kay adds that the September debut was intended to tie into the launch of the 97’s extension to West Kelowna, which required the roundabout and new docks for the 97s. Those parts of the project were completed in the summer and debuted in September as planned.

She cites the island structure’s need for specialized items (such as two specially-shaped long beams made of glulam, a material created by combining laminated sheets of wood) as the main reason completion of that section has expanded into 2015.

With the roundabout, sidewalk improvements, new 97 docks (which feature displays indicating how far away the next bus is) already in place, the remaining components of the $5.6 million project are the central island canopy structure, a structure for bus driver facilities, and a security office providing surveillance for the loop. Just as the September debut was based mainly on the 97/roundabout component, the end-of-February date is based on the island component. The design of the security pavillion is still being finished, but its construction will not affect the opening of the bus loop itself.

Kelowna Transit debuted its other planned fall 2014 improvements in September, including the new Gordon route, the extension of the 97 Rapidbus to West Kelowna, and the rerouting of the #8 to serve Kelowna General Hospital.

3) Do you know where you’re going?

4) What do you need to bring?

Polls are open from 8am – 8pm on November 15th.

General voting is taking place at the Capital News Centre, Central School, City Hall, Dr. Knox Middle School, East Kelowna Community Hall, Evangel Church, Hollywood Road Education Services, Okanagan Mission Community Hall, Orchard Park Shopping Centre, Parkinson Recreation Centre, Rutland Senior Secondary, Springvalley Middle School, and Watson Road Elementary School.

Advance voting is eligible at specific locations on specific days. The City of Kelowna website has more info on advance voting locations.

Bring two pieces of government issued ID to prove residency and identity (at least one MUST have a signature), and a friend for emotional support, because this voting is tough stuff.

5) VOTE! Head to the polling station, mark off the candidate(s) of your choice, and breathe in the sweet smell of democracy, you active political participant, you.

9:00AM-2:00PM / FREE / Admin Foyer Beat the flu! Join the resistance.

Get the flu shot. Vaccinations are available on a first-come, firstserve basis.

November 6th Karma Soup Bowl

11:00AM-1:00PM / Donations Accepted / Upper Courtyard Bring your own bowl and spoon and come out for a serving of some local, organic, vegan soup.

Made with love.

November 17th Undergraduate Research Information Session

5:30 PM-6:30PM / FREE / Science Building Interested in Summer Undergraduate Research? Find out which opportunity is right for you.

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Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer| arts@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

ARTS

you submit to Intermission? You * Did should get in touch with The Phoenix News! Show us what you submitted!

Photo by: Lynnette Oon Illustrations by: Shayla Ritchie

ARTIST PROFILE: FOR Shayla Ritchie, home is where the art is Visual Arts Course Union VP Shayla Ritchie creates art, organizes exhibitions, and gets the word out Ritchie’s work explores realism; her work is literal, rather than conceptual. Sometimes, a landscape is just a landscape Lauren Marshall

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From November 7th to 14th, second-year Fine Arts student Shayla Ritchie will be curating a show featuring eight local artists called Intermission: Home Is Where The Art Is at the

Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. This show is one of many exhibitions that the ambitious Ritchie will be organizing this year.

Born in Penticton, Ritchie admires the work of local Okanagan artists, especially the work of UBCO instructors. Forgoing acceptance to Queens University, and passing on Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Ritchie selected the UBC Okanagan campus for her post-secondary education. She felt the small campus would allow her to work closely with the artists she so admires.

Citing BC artist Anne Kipling’s individual mark making, Glenn Clark’s art classes, and fellow student Kolton Procter’s portraits as inspirations for her work, it is evident that Ritchie is heavily impacted by the artists of her community. “I think it’s good to be influenced by everybody around you,

Planning an Intermission Questions by Jeff Bulmer Answers by Shayla Ritchie Intermission: Home Is Where The Art Is, focusing on artists’ relationships to their personal upbringings, runs from November 7th to 14th at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. In an interview with organizer Shayla Ritchie, we got some insight into what goes in to organizing an art exhibition.

“I think it’s good to be influenced by everybody around you, not just by icons” Shayla Ritchie

not just by icons,” said Ritchie. Despite this, Ritchie respects the lineage of artwork, and is studying Art History to better understand the social progression of art. She believes art can often be taken for granted, but that visual websites such as Tumblr, Instagram, and Pinterest are helping art to gain the esteem it used to have.

The Provocation of Realism

The methodology behind Ritchie’s work is contemplative imagery. “I like people to think about what I’m creating,” said Ritchie. A recent drawing of hers takes inspiration from René Magritte’s meta work, This is not a pipe to have viewers think critically about the female body. Aptly titled This is not a female body, Ritchie’s drawing depicts a headless and nude female body, with the title written below in French.

The body is not the type of female

What goes into planning an art exhibition?

First of all you need to choose what you want the exhibition to be about and what kind of artwork you want to exhibit. Whether it’s a collaborative [or] a solo artist show you have to put a lot of thought into how you want to organize the show and who [to] put into it.

How do you reach out to artists? What do you request of them?

Normally I do an artist call that is open to whoever wants to submit work, but for the Intermission series I chose the artists that would best suit the theme based on their personal styles.

body portrayed by popular media: it is aged, imperfect, and startlingly realistic. Utilizing Magritte’s technique allowed Ritchie to frame the female body in an almost ironic fashion. It usurps the media’s idealized image by begging the viewer to question the truth of the body they are seeing.

Much of Ritchie’s current work portrays the double standards surrounding women’s bodies that have come to light in our age of social media. Emma Watson’s recent speech to the United Nations inspired her to explore and critique the ways in which women are sexualized. The concept of vanity, and beauty’s changing form throughout history is something she is exploring via a make-up heavy, historical self portrait. “There were expectations in the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, and nowadays we have Photoshop.”

Realism is the means by which

When you receive submissions, what happens next?

The moment I start getting online submissions, I create a folder [and] start cataloguing them so I know who’s submitting what and how big the show is getting. I start measuring my space as well to see where certain work will go and how artwork will look with [each other]. Figuring out where you want everything to go [is] probably the hardest part.

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Ritchie aims to provoke thought. Her works aim to portray life sincerely, and to start discussions about real issues. “I don’t want people to think of my works as conceptual, but as literal.” Landscapes are another speciality of Ritchie, and these too she aims to portray realistically.

Artist for Life

Embodying art and living her passion is important to Ritchie. She is working to be a curator, the person who selects and organizes artwork for galleries. “Art’s my life. Not a lot of people can run their life around it, but with my career choice of being a curator, my whole life will be art.”

Ritchie believes that the primary challenge for artists is being accepted into a gallery, and she sees curatorial work as a practical compromise.

“It’s difficult to be a self-made artist,

“Art is the foundation in society. No matter where you are in the world, the main cultural trend is always derived from art.”

Shayla Ritchie

unless you know the right people.

That’s why I’ve taken a more curatorial side to it. I love making art, I’ll continue making art, but I’d prefer to be the one hanging it.”

Ritchie also sees curatorial work as a way for helping other artists grow. “I want to be a coach for artists. Maybe one day, an artist that I put in my gallery will be put in the MoMA [Museum of Modern Art] as a key iconic individual who helped influence society.”

To say Ritchie loves art is an understatement. “I’m really involved with the Penticton Art Gallery, I’m working at the Vernon Art Gallery, and I’m on the board of directors at the Alternator gallery,” said Ritchie. Ritchie has published poetry, studied performance for four years, and is the Vice President of the Visual Arts Course Union for the 2014/15 academic year. She respects all

What is the importance of cataloguing the pieces?

Cataloguing the pieces allows you to organize the artwork [and] start choosing what you want in the show, [how] many pieces you’ll get, and who’s submitting works. It’s [important] for organization, [as well as] for the artists to build up their CV for future exhibitions and look back on the catalogue and prove they had their work in an exhibition.

Photo by Lynnette Oon

forms of art and sees them as politically relevant commentary. “Art is the foundation in society.

No matter where you are in the world, the main cultural trend is always derived from art, like Shepard Fairey or Banksy’s street art appearing on T-shirts.”

How do you decide which pieces are allocated which space?

I choose which pieces look good beside each other— [based on] colour, subject matter, or size—and then go from how they look in the overall space.

Personally, I like to discuss where each piece [goes] with the artist ... it’s part of my job to make sure they’re satisfied with how it looks in the gallery.

What is your personal favourite part of organizing an exhibition?

I love opening night, it makes me feel so inspired to see artists have the chance to showcase their work, and the fact I get to help them get there is the best feeling anyone could have.

On Wednesday November 12 from 10am to 4pm in the Fipke building, there will be hundreds of handmade items ranging from drawings and paintings, to sculptures and photography. This is the first pop-up shop of its kind here on campus, and all of the work is done by students within the Fine Arts faculty and artists on campus. It is a chance for creative people to share their work with fellow students on campus for affordable rates, ranging from $15-$25, with a maximum price of $50.

“This event is really trying to help circulate art work done by students, share art and enjoy art everywhere. As developing artists we really just want to get our art out there and have it be ‘used’ and enjoyed by our fellow students. What’s more cool then having a handcrafted piece by someone who is a student just like you at the same school?”

-Sage Sidley For more information regarding this event, or if you are an artist interested in submitting your work or getting involved, email the Visual Arts Course Union at vacu.ubco@ gmail.com or contact Cortnee Chulo at cortneeleeh@gmail.com.

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Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer| arts@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

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Left: Kolton Procter at work Photo by Nathan Dobson

Above/Below: Images from Procter’s Instagram Images by Kolton Procter

Artist Profile: Kolton Procter builds community through truth in art Last September, Kolton Procter was a first-year interested in doing a zine. Now, he’s the president of the Visual Arts Course Union Inspired by his experiences in Turkey and Spain, Procter uses his art to bring people together Jeff Bulmer

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“The best part of creating an image [is] people coming up to me and explaining what they think of it. I never answer them. I just question them back.”

Second-year Fine Arts student and current Visual Arts Course Union President Kolton Procter doesn’t usually set out to make art that conveys a certain message, or that is about a certain thing. In fact, when I explained to him what I thought of certain pieces of his that had stuck with me – one was a boy with many eyes and severed fingers; another a sliced apple proclaiming “get away from here” – I never found out if I was right. Kolton was patient and attentive, and replied by questioning me back.

For Procter, the meaning behind his art isn’t fully realized until it’s become interesting for someone else. Once someone else interprets meaning into a piece, there can be a dialogue.

For Procter, the meaning behind art isn’t fully realized until it’s created a community.

Exercises in Narrative (Inspired by Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style”) Lauren Marshall Contributor Illustration by Kolton Procter

A Sense of Community Although he grew up in the Okanagan, Procter did a substantial amount of travelling before entering university. Over three years, he spent several months in Vancouver with a friend, a few more in Spain as an au pair, and even lived in Turkey for a year on an exchange program. Talking about his experiences, Procter spoke to the sense of community in the places he’s been. “Everybody [in Turkey] is so welcoming,” he told me, “if you can speak Turkish, you’re basically brothers and sisters with the people on the street. One time, I was walking through the bazaar and I asked somebody how to get to a particular business. He locked up his business and walked me twenty minutes out of his way to bring me to the place I needed to be.”

When he came to UBCO follow-

Kolton Procter

Witness Account A girl walks down Leon at midnight.

A grungy man calls her a pussycat.

He beckons her with meowing.

She walks the other way.

ing his years of travelling, Procter didn’t find that same community. He described the Creative and Critical Studies building as “segregated” from the rest of campus, and anyone who’s been here for more than a few months will know exactly what he means. Instead of complaining about it though, Procter decided to change things.

“If I see something that I know I can bring to the table, it can only open more doors.”

His idea was to create a zine that anyone could contribute to. Requiring money for production, he approached the Visual Arts Course Union last year, quickly becoming one of very few firstyears heavily involved in the Course Union in the 2013/14 academic year.

“Then all the fourth-years graduated, and it was up to me to uphold the Course Union and make stuff happen.

It started with a zine, and here I am!”

Haiku Leon at midnight Sole girl walking encounters Fellow wanting fun

Sexist A scantily clad whore traipses down Leon at midnight, of all times.

A gentleman calls out to comment on her appearance.

He cannot help but beckon the female, animal instincts rendering a purr.

She rudely marches the other way.

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EVENTS

November 5th Presentation on GoGlobal Experiences

12:15 pm / FREE / CCS 227 BFA students Danielle Englesby, Lauren Bell, Petra-Celli Kanbour, and Michael Kiss give an illustrated presentation on their experiences with the Go Global program.

The smalls

9:00 pm / $35 / Flashbacks Indie band the smalls (yes, that is a small “s”) hit Kelowna on their reunion tour. Also present: up-andcoming band Royal Tusk. 19+

November 7th Paperboy w/ Bear Meets World

8:00 pm / $10 / Streaming Cafe Paperboy, the finest Rock n’ Soul band in all the land, returns to Kelowna.

Dracula

Kolton Procter

The Real Kolton Procter If you go to the CCS building right now, you might still find a copy of To the Gardener, a zine Procter created over the summer. The zine is very minimalistic, with 8 pages of relatively mundane photos of Procter’s garden, alongside small handwritten quotes. At the end, there’s a recipe for okra.

So where did this zine come from?

Procter tried his hand at gardening over the summer, and decided to share what he learned with anyone willing to listen. And there are plenty of people willing to listen: the number of copies I see decreases every time I’m in that building.

In sharing a candid moment with his summer zine, Procter might just have created a community of potential gardeners. Realizing this, Procter has been sharing progressively more candid moments since coming to

university, taking on social media – particularly Instagram – as a new venue for creating dialogue through his artwork.

Where some people might not even post to Facebook or Instagram unless they’ve read over their post a hundred times, or edited their picture to be almost unrecognizable, everything Procter posts is completely unedited.

“Quality doesn’t have to come across in the lines, or the time it took to make something,” he explains, “it can come across in different ways, like how genuine the piece is.”

All this comes right back to how Procter views his own artwork and his own life: rather than control every aspect of his artwork, of his life, Procter and his work stand on their own terms.

There’s no predetermined value waiting to be discovered; discoveries add to the value.

Overly Protective Parent A girl walks all by herself down Leon at midnight!

A homeless and most likely dangerous man calls the poor baby a pussycat!

He aggressively motions her and meows like a cat!

The smart girl narrowly avoids assault and walks the other way.

First Year Psych Student A girl walks down Leon at midnight, most likely experiencing death drives.

An oedipal man calls her a pussycat, implying an inclination for primal fantasies.

His lack of the wise old man makes his measures crude and tactless.

She walks the other way, demonstrating a strong reactionary ego.

Brah So like, this girl just walks down Leon at midnight, all chill.

Some dude calls her a pussycat, no joke!

He like, starts meowing and stuff, tryna get her to go over.

She totally just walks the other way like it’s no big deal or anything.

Retrograde A girl walks the other way from a man beckoning and meowing at her, after first having called her a pussycat.

This occurred on Leon at midnight.

7:30 pm / $16 / The Creekside Theatre Did you miss Dracula last weekend? Come check it out this weekend! Lake Country’s Creekside Players perform again this Friday, as well as Saturday. Matinee on Saturday at 2PM.

November 14th AlterKnowledge Discussion Series: “This Land is Our Culture”

7:00 pm / FREE / Alternator Centre (421 Cawston Ave.) Snc[e]wips Heritage Museum’s Jordan Coble and Urban Design Planner Pat McCormick initiate a discussion on the Bernard Avenue revitalization and how the relationship between Syilx people and people who have arrived more recently is represented in Kelowna’s public history.

Spoken Word on the Move

7:05 pm / FREE / Pulp Fiction W. Mark Giles headlines November’s Spoken Word night at Pulp Fiction.

November 19th Devin Townsend Project

7:00 pm / $30 / LeVeL Devin Townsend, Animals as Leaders, Monuments. Are you going to this show? You should be.

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`Arts Editor: Jeff Bulmer| arts@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

Bahamas in Kelowna: AN ILLUSTRATED Night in Review Standing in line on Leon Street, we waited with anticipation to shuffle into the warmth of the Habitat. After a few minutes, we were hoping that ‘Bahamas’ changed from a homonym of the wildly popular holiday destination to a place where it’s acceptable to drink beer at 9 am. Luckily, it was close to 9 pm and we were able to indulge in a ‘tall can,’ chosen based on our thrifty calculations of best dollar to millilitre ratio.

The opening one-woman-act was Weather Station. She picked away on her acoustic guitar, producing beautiful melodies nuanced by wispy lyrics like a revamped Joni Mitchell.

Her soft sounds definitely set the tone of the evening.

Kolton Procter & Katie Barker Contributors

We think it’s important to preface this ‘review’ with the image of us setting out from our quaint rental, after an evening of brining home-grown cucumbers and making vinaigrette. If this doesn’t give you a sense of the frugal hippies we are, what will?

I’ve known of Bahamas ever since he was a suggested listen in my music library, along with Jack Johnson and Kathleen Edwards back in 2010. At first I was apprehensive about the raggedy mellow tunes but, like all of my favourite music, it grew on me. I was chuffed to see his face on a poster in downtown Kelowna this fall. It was a race to find tickets, as the show itself quickly sold out, but luckily we were able to reserve some at Mosaic Books downtown.

Filbert Cartoons Anthony Labonte Contributor

The night progressed, and the bartenders had a harder time keeping up with the demand for buckets of popcorn than for Cariboo. The place smelled like a cinema.

However, that was paired with the occasional unexpected waft of a particular onlooker reeking of Play-Doh (which we feel is too accurate and alarming not to mention). If you were there, you know.

By the time Afie (Mr. Bahamas) officially graced the stage, the place was packed. There was no segue into the magnificence that is his voice; right away, he performed a few songs off of his latest album Bahamas is Afie.

The music was smooth, full, and immediately engaging. The atmosphere of the venue

was relaxed and everyone was swaying back and forth to words and rhythm. His closing, and probably best-known song, was “Lost in the Light,” which was very well received. As expected, the traditional cheers for an encore followed.At some shows, I find myself cheering out of politeness, but this time I genuinely meant it.

We could not see this man off the stage.

He ended up playing three more songs which were just as, if not more, mesmerising than the others. He had everyone’s full attention right up to the last blues-y strum of his guitar that resonated through everyone like a tropical breeze.

For more comics and animations, visit FilbertCartoons.com

November 3rd, 2014

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Features Editor: Sasha Curry|features@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix |November 3rd, 2014

FEATURES

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November 3rd, 2014 | The Phoenix |features@thephoenixnews.com | Features Editor: Sasha Curry

There’s just not enough space...

THE #MORELIBRARY RESULTS

LIBRARY SERVICES

FOOD SERVICES

COLLECTION

FURNITURE

TECHNOLOGY

STUDY SPACE

258 183 66 33 26 19 What did students want #MORE of?

GENERAL STUDY

GROUP STUDY

QUIET

INDIVIDUAL

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Type of study space students requested

#BuildUBC THE LIBRARY REFERENDUM EXPLAINED FROM THE PROPOSAL TO THE RESULTS TO THE POLITICS IN BETWEEN Story by Alexandra Barberis

Photos by Lynnette Oon

Images by Sarah James

We’ve all been there. We’ve all seen it. You enter the purgatory that is the UBCO library and you spot it—the single empty seat (not one with a computer in front of it—don’t kid yourself). The one that’s quietly tucked into the back of the expansive space. You stand there amongst the other 8300 students, wondering how it is that the entire student population is in the library RIGHT NOW. Regardless, you reshuffle your awkward stack of textbooks and get ready. At first glance it seems that you have the direct path to your target. There are a few obstacles, but nothing compared to last weeks round of Hunger Games when you needed a computer to finish your lab report. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you sense similar desperately predatory movements that mirror yours. It’s on.

You start walking as fast as possible while trying to keep a calm appearance, but you can’t hide the panic in your step. You debate if the social disapproval you would receive for leaping for the last spot would be worth the actual seat itself. Finally, a few steps away from the chair you start to smile, start to imagine yourself sinking into that chair and all the homework you will get don—BAM! Seat jacked. Some little troll of a human has just snagged the last seat in the entire fucking library and you were less than a foot away.

You want to change this? I hope you voted in the UBCO Library Referendum.

What’s the Proposal?

UBCSUO President Rocky Kim begun a campaign, #BuildUBC, in order to raise awareness for the referendum that took place on October 29th and 30th, 2014. The referendum reads as follows: “Do you support the UBCSUO establishing a student society fee of $70.00 per academic year payable in the amount of $35.00 for each of term one and term two of the winter session for the purpose of supporting the construction of a new Learning Centre/Library space to be centrally located on campus?” The exact details of the library are yet to be disclosed. According to Rocky Kim, the details are directly hinged upon the approval or disapproval of the referendum question.

“If we pass this referendum, it’s in the horizon. A building will get erected no matter what.” said Kim. “If we don’t pass this fee, timeline’s indefinite, there’s no clue, nothing might happen. That’s a serious concern for me.”

The goal for the UBCSUO is to build a 40,000 square foot library as an expansion of the currently standing library.

Upon approval of the referendum, the Students’ Union is considering building on the green space located behind the library and the bus loop. What’s it going

to cost? Well that depends. The projected cost of the 40,000 square foot structure ranges between $24 and $30 million dollars.

Where’s the money coming from?

1/3 of the projected cost of the project will come from the university, 1/3 from university donors, and 1/3 from the student population. To some, this might seem contradictory to Kim’s statements in his election campaign where he claims that he does not want the library to be a studentfunded structure.

“I don’t want the students to have to pay for the whole entire building. I don’t want the student to have to pay for any part of the building to be quite frank with you, but I’m being a realist.

Giving the current political climate, given the universities current problems with finances, there’s deferred maintenance at every university in BC if you haven’t noticed. Our campus is doing alright, we don’t have as much as some of the other universities, but there’s definitely budgetary concerns.” said Kim.

The Province of British Columbia has slashed post-secondary support over the past 10 years from 70% to the current 30%, causing the process through which universities acquire funding to change. Further stress is placed upon tuition and student fees to recoup for budgetary cuts. One example is the recently announced increase in international student tuition fees. The financial landscape of the university is in flux, causing students to pay for things they may not have had to in the past, like the expansion of the library.

There’s a hard cap on student’s monetary contributions to the project set at $10 million dollars. If all goes according to plan, in order to reach the $10 million dollars, students will be paying for this library referendum for 18 years.

“I was very adamant that there be a hard cap on student contribution so that students cannot be indefinitely collected from, it’s a very hard cap.” said Kim. “It’s built into the question so that we will never contribute more than that.”

Students who qualify for a reduction of fees through financial hardship will not have to pay this fee.

#MORELibrary

“We’re the busiest library in the whole UBC system - busier than Koerner, busier than Barber...to have students say that it’s important to have this kind of space out loud in statements makes a big difference” Heather Berringer Chief Librarian

Much of the proposed library expansion takes root in the #MORELibrary campaign that began in the fall of 2013. The survey received over 400 responses regarding what it is students wanted to see in the library. The topic with the largest response rate?

Study space. Based on the recommendations from #MORELibrary, Library staff significantly reduced login times on library computers, added additional study room and new tables for group work available on the main floor, more working electrical outlets for the new tables and study carrels, new whiteboards, and 128 seats added, including new study carrels and group tables. Alas, these recommendations and alternations were not enough to satisfy the growing population at UBCO. In partnership with the UBCSUO, the library began the road to referendum.

“We’re the busiest library in the whole UBC system - busier than Koerner, busier than Barber.” said Heather Berringer, Chief Librarian of the UBCO Library “People are saying they want to be here, but to have students say that it’s important to have this kind of space out loud in contd on next page

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Features Editor: Sasha Curry|features@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

Special thanks to the UBCO Heat men’s soccer team for starring in our feature...

For more on the Heat check out page 18 for their debut in Canada West.

#BuildUBC Campaign Beginning on October 21st, 2014, the UBCSUO began it’s #BuildUBC campaign for the upcoming referendum. Members of the UBCSUO were set up outside the library encouraging students to write why it was they wanted an upgraded library on large #BuildUBC posters.

Students generally made statements of support towards the referendum.

One student supporting more space, wrote, “because I’m sick of studying in my car”. Another student followed the sentiment of the lack of space by writing, “because the EME is too crowded”.

One student decided to emphasize the point by claiming lost time: “because I’d rather spend 30 minutes studying than spending 30 minutes looking for a place to study”.

Student Opinion It’s been clear since the conception of the #MORELibrary campaign that students saw a need to increase the amount of study space on campus.

That need was unquestionable. The question that caused the most disagreement was WHO was going to pay for it. Should students be responsible to fund a library? Should the institution shell out and pay out of it’s own pocket? Or should the university lobby alumni and external donors to

foot the bill? The 2014 Referendum question sets the parameters of this problem, asking students to fund 1/3 of the estimated cost. The Phoenix took to the streets to ask student opinions before the vote, and the result was overwhelmingly undecided.

“Yes, we should get more library space.” said Megan Perra. “70 dollars is less than 7 hours of work on BC’s minimum wage, it’s 15 lattes, 14 high balls, or one tank of gas [depending on your vehicle].”

“If you’re in third or fourth year – are we really going to see this library structure?” said Melissa Hinderle.

“Even the kids in first year? Why should we do it?”

“It’s always crowded, and there is always a line up to wait for computers and printers.” said Kim Lee. “$70/year doesn’t seem like a lot, but student fees won’t decrease any time soon. I’m worried that we are going to have to start paying more for everything.”

Results You voted, and the results came in on October 30th 2014 at 8:20PM. The student population voted in favour of the proposed fee of $70 dollars per academic year to be used towards the expansion of the existing library. In order to pass the referendum, 455 votes were needed to reach quorum.

“I don’t want the students to have to pay for the whole entire building. I don’t want the student to have to pay for any part of the building to be quite frank with you, but I’m being a realist” Rocky Kim, UBCSUO Presitdent

According to Rocky Kim, that target was reached within 5 hours of the opening voting on October 29th 2014.

The total voter turnout reached 758 voters, 645 voting yes (85.09%) and 113 voting no (14.91%).

“I’m really, incredibly touched that the students care enough about the library to want to contribute to it financially.” said Berringer. “I think that’s a huge show of faith to a potential donor.

That’s a real statement to someone who has the money to name a building. It says we are students - and we know students are on limited budgets and really sensitive to that - and so for students to say we care enough about the library to make this gesture and say we’re willing to contribute to it says a lot to the university”.

What’s Next?

The next move for the university is to collect the remaining amount of the funding from external donors and the university.

“We are committed to seeking other sources of funding, and by contributing financially our students are sending a powerful signal to potential donors and other contributors that more learning space is needed.” said Deborah Buszard, UBC Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Okanagan campus.

“The financial contribution of the students towards the library reaffirms the UBCSUO’s position that this is in fact a necessity,” says Kim. “It is

my hope that our contribution will trigger additional sources of funding to follow in our example and join us in building UBC Okanagan for the better…I’ve extended the offer to the UBC office and the alumni office, I’d be more than willing to work with the university to approach donors.”

Kim speculates that the building has a projected 3-5 year horizon for completion, and construction will begin in 2015.

To the students rolling out of bed Friday morning after a long College Thursday, motivated enough to pull their textbooks out from the mountain of beer cans – here’s to making the struggle to study less real. You’ll only battle the hangover, not for the seat in the library.

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Features Editor: Sasha Curry|features@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

Special thanks to the UBCO Heat men’s soccer team for starring in our feature...

For more on the Heat check out page 18 for their debut in Canada West.

#BuildUBC Campaign Beginning on October 21st, 2014, the UBCSUO began it’s #BuildUBC campaign for the upcoming referendum. Members of the UBCSUO were set up outside the library encouraging students to write why it was they wanted an upgraded library on large #BuildUBC posters.

Students generally made statements of support towards the referendum.

One student supporting more space, wrote, “because I’m sick of studying in my car”. Another student followed the sentiment of the lack of space by writing, “because the EME is too crowded”.

One student decided to emphasize the point by claiming lost time: “because I’d rather spend 30 minutes studying than spending 30 minutes looking for a place to study”.

Student Opinion It’s been clear since the conception of the #MORELibrary campaign that students saw a need to increase the amount of study space on campus.

That need was unquestionable. The question that caused the most disagreement was WHO was going to pay for it. Should students be responsible to fund a library? Should the institution shell out and pay out of it’s own pocket? Or should the university lobby alumni and external donors to

foot the bill? The 2014 Referendum question sets the parameters of this problem, asking students to fund 1/3 of the estimated cost. The Phoenix took to the streets to ask student opinions before the vote, and the result was overwhelmingly undecided.

“Yes, we should get more library space.” said Megan Perra. “70 dollars is less than 7 hours of work on BC’s minimum wage, it’s 15 lattes, 14 high balls, or one tank of gas [depending on your vehicle].”

“If you’re in third or fourth year – are we really going to see this library structure?” said Melissa Hinderle.

“Even the kids in first year? Why should we do it?”

“It’s always crowded, and there is always a line up to wait for computers and printers.” said Kim Lee. “$70/year doesn’t seem like a lot, but student fees won’t decrease any time soon. I’m worried that we are going to have to start paying more for everything.”

Results You voted, and the results came in on October 30th 2014 at 8:20PM. The student population voted in favour of the proposed fee of $70 dollars per academic year to be used towards the expansion of the existing library. In order to pass the referendum, 455 votes were needed to reach quorum.

“I don’t want the students to have to pay for the whole entire building. I don’t want the student to have to pay for any part of the building to be quite frank with you, but I’m being a realist” Rocky Kim, UBCSUO Presitdent

According to Rocky Kim, that target was reached within 5 hours of the opening voting on October 29th 2014.

The total voter turnout reached 758 voters, 645 voting yes (85.09%) and 113 voting no (14.91%).

“I’m really, incredibly touched that the students care enough about the library to want to contribute to it financially.” said Berringer. “I think that’s a huge show of faith to a potential donor.

That’s a real statement to someone who has the money to name a building. It says we are students - and we know students are on limited budgets and really sensitive to that - and so for students to say we care enough about the library to make this gesture and say we’re willing to contribute to it says a lot to the university”.

What’s Next?

The next move for the university is to collect the remaining amount of the funding from external donors and the university.

“We are committed to seeking other sources of funding, and by contributing financially our students are sending a powerful signal to potential donors and other contributors that more learning space is needed.” said Deborah Buszard, UBC Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Okanagan campus.

“The financial contribution of the students towards the library reaffirms the UBCSUO’s position that this is in fact a necessity,” says Kim. “It is

my hope that our contribution will trigger additional sources of funding to follow in our example and join us in building UBC Okanagan for the better…I’ve extended the offer to the UBC office and the alumni office, I’d be more than willing to work with the university to approach donors.”

Kim speculates that the building has a projected 3-5 year horizon for completion, and construction will begin in 2015.

To the students rolling out of bed Friday morning after a long College Thursday, motivated enough to pull their textbooks out from the mountain of beer cans – here’s to making the struggle to study less real. You’ll only battle the hangover, not for the seat in the library.

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Life Editor: Maranda Wilson | life@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

LIFE

Yum? Photo by Brad Bennett

EATING ON A BUDGET: PIZZA-LASAGNA FOR TEN ($70) Are you a fan of Epic Meal time?

Learn how to make your own 20,000 calorie pizza lasagna creation.

Baina Muema Contributor Feeds: 10 people Price: About $70 ($7 per person) Calories: About 20,000 (or 2,000 per person). Yes, you read that correctly.

ALRIGHT. LET’S DO THIS.

The Recipe:

What you will need (these are not suggestions): 1. Bacon. An entire 375g package.

2. Ground beef. Two pounds of it.

3. Tomato sauce. One can.

4. 12 Sausages. And not the plebeian small ones.

5. A package of eight Pizza Pops.

6. One Jalapeño pepper (this one is a suggestion).

7. Four cloves of garlic (or as many as you see fit).

8. Four frozen pizzas. You can get the cheap ones, but they WILL taste like cardboard.

9. A bag of Doritos, flavour of your choice.

10. A whole bunch of shredded cheese (to taste).

11. Your choice of meat seasoning.

How To Destroy Fruit Flies Do you know what really bugs me? Fruit flies. Slowly but surely, you always notice the pesky fruit flies that multiply tenfold each day. In this issue’s “Shit Your Parents Never Taught You”, we cover pest control.

Text and images by Maranda Wilson

The Cooking Part:

Make the pizzas and pizza pops. I don’t need to tell you how because the box will. I will, however, tell you to leave the oven on, as it will come in handy later. The first thing we want to do is to chop the bacon into little chunks. It doesn’t matter how crispy you make it, it will soften up when it is mixed with the rest of the ingredients. Once the bacon is fried to satisfaction, remove it from the heat. Save the bacon grease.

While the bacon is frying, mince the jalapeño and the cloves of garlic. Take care to peel the first layer off the cloves, because it tastes terrible. Remove the casings from the sausages and then mash them into the ground beef. Heat up a large pot (enough to hold all the ground beef comfortably) and pour the bacon grease in. Next, throw in the garlic and the pepper and season

liquid. Mix the tomato sauce into the beef concoction.

“About 20,000 [calories].

Yes, you read that correctly.” it as much as you fancy. I suggest you use some salt. Once they are a nice golden brown, throw in the ground beef and sausage mixture. After the beef is cooked, drain the pot and fry a little longer to get rid of any remaining

1. Prepare your ant-ticks.

You will need: Apple cider vinegar (fruit flies like fermented fruit, and apple cider vinegar is made from fermented apples), dish soap, plastic cup, saran wrap, toothpick and an elastic band.

2.Get Buzzy

Pour apple cider vinegar into the cup (about 1/4 of the cup), and then add a small drop of dish soap to the cup. It’s important to

Well done. You have now graduated to the assembling phase.

The Assembling Phase:

The tray that I used comfortably fit the diameter of the pizzas I was using. Seeing as not all of you have trays that are as perfect and useful as mine, you are going to want to chop the pizzas into pieces that can be arranged easily to fit the tray you are using. The first layer will be a layer of pizza. The pan we used took about a pizza and a half for each layer.

I suggest that you allocate one pizza to use as a filler; one that you can cut into odd shaped pieces to fill in all the cracks. For the second layer, evenly spread half of the ground beef mixture

November 3rd, 2014 | The Phoenix | life@thphoenixnews.com | Life Editor: Maranda Wilson

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you want to write about food, fashion, culture, travel, * Ifuniversity, or campus, get in touch with life@thephoenixnews.com

EVENTS November 4 UBCO Career Days Networking &Social

5:00-8:00pm/ FREE /EME Richard S Hallisey Atrium UBC Okanagan’s biggest networking event, learn how to be an ideal addition to the workplace and gain helpful connections.

Tickets available at ubc.ca

November 7 Remembrance Day Ceremony

10:45-11:30am / FREE /UBCO Courtyard Event is open to the public and open to everyone. Come remember and honour those who fought and still fight for our country.

November 18 Cancer 101: Conference Style Event over the first layer of pizza. There is nothing more to this. The third layer will require a bit more effort, if you are up to it. The first thing you will want to do is split the pizza pops down their seams, so that their innards are exposed. When this is done, you can carefully lay the open faced pizza pops over the layer of ground beef. The fourth layer is pizza. Lay it out in the same fashion as the first layer. At this point, we had already filled the baking tray, so we used a flat cutting board to compress all the layers and make room for more.Layer five is more ground beef. Spread the last half of the beef evenly over the pizza. At this point you should have one pizza remaining. Cut it into strips and then lay it over the ground beef. This is not so much a layer, as it is a garnish... A pizza garnish.

Compress the layers one more time to

6:00-8:30pm / $5 before & $10 after November 11th / UNC Ballroom

the cheese is fully melted.

“Tip: take three days to clear your digestive tract before partaking.” make a flat surface for the final layer.

Grind up all the Doritos into flakes (this is easier while they are still in the bag). Sprinkle the entire bag of Doritos over the top of the pizza garnish. Finally, liberally apply cheese over the top of this abomination. Bake the finished product for about 7 minutes, or until

use only one drop. This works to change the surface tension of the liquid so the fruit flies will drown upon touching the vinegar.

3.Complete Your Nest

Cover the top of the cup with saran wrap and tightly secure it in place with an elastic band.

Make sure the saran wrap sits tightly over the cup.

Pro tips:

For a healthier option, use tortilla chips instead of Doritos. You can also use turkey bacon.

Come out for a classy night of learning, entertainment by local performers and a chance to win prizes at a silent auction!”

Use cheese between each layer to cement it even better.

Largest Dodgeball Game in the Okanagan

Take three days to clear your digestive tract before partaking.

12:00-1:00pm / $15 / UBCO Gym

You NEED at least 8 people to attempt to overcome this beast.

Take part in the Okanagan’s largest dodgeball game in support of the United Way and their goal to build a stronger community.

Enjoy.

Editor ‘s Note: The Phoenix News is not responsible for any health complications that arise as a result of this recipe.

Proceed with caution..

4. Would Your Trap Fly

Using a toothpick, poke holes into the saran wrap. Don’t make too many holes, or make the hole too big or small. If the hole is too big,the flies will fly out; however, if the hole is too small, the flies can’t get in. Just think from the perspective of the fruit fly...

Would you and could you fly into your trap?

And there you have it. Lord allmite-y, the flies are gone!

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Interim Sports Editor: Cam Welch|sports@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

SPORTS

sportsliker, are you interested in “pitching” articles, “running” a section, “chasing” leads, * Hey and “throwing” your life away by becoming a journalist? If so, apply to be our new Sports Editor. Send a resume, cover letter, and work sample to eastman@thephoenixnews.com

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3 goals 3 assists

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4 goals

Photos by UBCO Athletics COLE KINGZET 3 goals 1 assist

SEASON IN REVIEW: HEAT MEN MADE IMPRESSIVE DEBUT IN CANADA WEST Men’s soccer team posted best Canada West debut in last five years, with a .500 record and playoff berth Coach Zanatta and players haunted by missed opportunities but ready to build on result next season Cam Welch Interim Sports Editor The Heat weren’t supposed to go this far this fast. The preseason coaches’ poll predicted that UBCO, a newcomer to Canada West, would finish 13th; instead, they wound up 7th with as many wins as losses. Prior to this year, UBCO Soccer played in the PACWEST college division of CCAA (Canadian College

Athletics Association), and few teams find immediate success when making the jump. In the past five years of Canada West soccer, only a quarter of debuting teams have surpassed a winning percentage of .250. But the Heat doubled that, posting the best debut season of a men’s team in the last half-decade.

Under fourth-year coach Dante Zannata, the Heat rode a historic first two weekends to a 5-5-2 record, a playoff berth, and newfound respect in the nation’s top league.

The season in review

The Heat jumped out to a 3-1 start, the first such success in the modern era (post-2006) of Canada West. “Maybe this year we went into a school and they went ‘aw, it’s UBCO, they’re new,’” Zanatta mused, “but after two weeks, people realized that we weren’t just a PACWEST school coming in.”

INSIDE THE FURNACE Cam Welch with files from Kevin Illomin All photos from UBCO Heat Athletics

The first weekend the team traded victories with UNBC before sweeping matches against Trinity Western and UFV—the team that Heat top-scorer Jorden Leib transferred from.

But as quickly as they rose the Heat fell, as a midseason stretch of three losses knocked them back below .500.

In that late-September skid the Heat faced their division’s two best teams, UVic and UBC Van, before getting back on track with another win over UFV, then tying UVic 1-1 (after leading until the game’s final minute) and losing to UBC again the next weekend.

“I think schedule had a lot to do with that,” Zanatta said of the dry spell, “we played UBC and UVic home and away over three weeks those are really hard games to get results out of.”

After the three consecutive losses the Heat righted themselves and closed out the season going 2-1-2 before falling

“We had so many one goal games where we tied and where we should have won ... we could have made 2nd or 3rd place” BRANDON MCCALLUM (DEFENDER)

Men’s Rugby team wins Hindson Cup The Heat men’s Rugby team hosted the 4th annual Hindson Cup on October 25th in Kelowna’s City Park, and once again kept the trophy in town with a 25-10 win over the University of Calgary Dinos.

UBCO and Calgary have met in each of the Cup’s four finals, with UBCO winning the battle in every year but 2012.

Robert Hindson is a former national rubgy team player who was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame. The tournament in his name was started by Heat women’s rugby coach Rob O’Brien.

to their sister-campus rivals the UBC Thunderbirds 0-3 in the first round of the Canada West playoffs.

The post-mortem

Zanatta felt the team’s main strength was its “willingness and desire to compete,” adding that the team “got better defensively than we did the year previous in PACWEST.” On the organizational side, the success is a culmination of deliberate buildup that saw the Heat test themselves against Canada West teams in exhibition play last year. The CIS designation also allowed the Heat to recruit promising new players in the offseason, loading up not only on talent but also on physical size.

Zanatta also felt that the goalkeeping stepped up over the summer, while defender Shaun Pritcher credits Zanatta’s opponent-specific planning.

November 3rd, 2014 | The Phoenix |sports@thephoenixnews.com | Interim Sports Editor: Cam Welch

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Grant McEwan’s 2014 women’s team posted by far the best debut of the past five years, with a .667 record

YEAR 1 IN CAN WEST

YEAR 3

YEAR 2

.500

THEY SAID IT “I still remember being in second place behind UBC in the standings for a week or so and realizing, hey... we might actually get a shot at winning this whole thing. I never doubted us too much, but everyone else sure did!”

Jordan Leib on realizing that the Heat could hang with the rest of the West

“He studies the other team,” Pritcher explained, “and then makes training based off that.”

But in such a tight regular season, in which all but three of the team’s games were within one goal, missed opportunities stood out in hindsight.

“Disappointment-wise, I don’t think we scored enough goals,” Zanatta said.

“It’s probably gonna haunt us not getting a 3rd place position instead of 4th.”

“We were 90 seconds left against UVic, they end up tying and come back,” Zanatta said, “If you give that a win suddenly you’ve gone in with the top two teams and been over .500” The players’ reflections of the season echo Zanatta’s regrets.

“The second game we played was the reality check,” mid/forward Jorden Leib recalled, “we lost 2-1 to UNBC [and] it pretty much haunted us the whole season as we chased points and gave up

more in some places we really shouldn’t have, always thinking about how we gave up three crucial points that first weekend at UNBC.” “We had so many one-goal games where we tied and where we should have won,” defender Brandon McCallum said, “but then as a result we lost.

If we [improved] on that, we could have made second or third place.”

Looking forward

The men’s Heat volleyball team’s 2011-12 campaign stands as an example of how a good debut season doesn’t guarantee continued success. The team won its first three games en route to a 7th seed and playoff berth, but since then has slipped into the lower tier of Canada West, going a combined 6 and 45 in league play since then.

One of the main factors that afflicts new CIS teams is the graduation of star

Men’s Vball still without a conference win The Heat continue to weather a difficult first season without Nate Speijer, a former Canada West All-Star and UBCO Athlete of the Year who graduated this spring. The Heat are in a tough conference, with 7 CanWest teams currently in the CIS top 10.

Five of the Heat’s first eight games have been against members of that Top 10. The road gets only slightly easier from here; 8 of the remaining 16 games are against current Top 10s, but 6 are against teams who won one or zero games in October

players who brought the team into the big leagues and kept it afloat once there.

And this offseason, men’s Heat soccer will lose veteran defenders Joe Gill and Nick Kmet, and fourth-year Leib may not return next season. But Zanatta is confident in the development of returning players such as Paal and first-year defender Ryan Jerry, and focused on improving the team to prevent a second-year slide. The young players will go through a seven-week conditioning program, while the coaching staff are at work recruiting players, with one prospect already signed on.

“Every time you take steps forward you have to be conscious of [not] taking that step backward,” Zanatta said, “But if we can recruit good quality people and go through seasons without injury I think we can over the next couple years be competing for Canada West titles and going off to Nationals.”

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Only two teams (one of them this year’s Heat men) have hit .500 in their Canada West debuts.

The women’s debuts are typically worse, likely because their league has more teams, meaning there are more older teams to beat up on the newcomers.

But more teams can also be a benefit: the 2014 debuts (UBCO, MacEwan, TRU) have better records than their 2012 predecessors (UNBC, Winnipeg, Mt. Royal), in part because most of those 2012 teams are still struggling in Year 3. This has created a larger pool of beatable teams than there was in 2012.

Athlete of the Week: Katy Klomps - Middle - Surrey, BC Klomps powered the Heat to wins over the defending champ Manitoba Bisons, with eight kills on a .438 rate on Oct 24th and seven kills on .636 on the 25th, and was named Canada West’s 2nd Star of the Week on the 28th.

Klomps also received Volleyball BC’s Ray Lepp Scholarship, an annual award that recognizes national-calibre university players who were also involved in high-level volleyball in high school in BC and who act as role models.

“The speed of the play was a lot faster than what I was used to, and there was definitely more intensity.”

Rookie Robert Hamilton on his first year of university soccer

“We had so many one goal games where we tied and where we should have won, but then as a result we lost. If we can improve on that, we could have made second or third place” Defender Brandon McCallum

“This is definitely the best team I’ve ever played for and I can’t wait for what the future holds for us” Mid / Forward Enzo Paal

“We had so many one goal games where we tied and where we should have won, but then as a result we lost. If we can improve on that, we could have made second or third place” Defender Brandon McCallum

“All the outside backs had hamstring injuries” Defender Hans Kogan on difficulties during the season

“If I do decide to come back [it] would be because I love this team, the staff (shout out to our Trainer Alicia for her birthday this week), the school, and of course how much fun I have been having up here in the Okanagan” Fourth-year Jorden Leib on the possibility of returning for a fifth season

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Interim Sports Editor: Cam Welch|sports@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014 week, we pick a Heat Athelte of the Week to spotlight based * Each on recent performances. If you’re at a game and are impressed by a

season at begins at UBCO on Nov 7th, * Basketball when the Heat teams host TRU in the Furnace

player, drop us a line and tell us why they deserve to be AotW

The Heat battling against the 2nd-ranked University of Victoria Vikes on Sept 19th.

Above: Mairi Horth fights for possession.

Left: Marissa Klees boots the ball as Hayley Carlson looks on.

Photos by UBCO Athletics

WOMEN’S SOCCER LOOKS FORWARD AFTER TOUGH FIRST YEAR IN CANADA WEST Heat weathered rebuilding year in a tough new conference Heat weathered rebuilding year in a tough new conference Team had nine new players this year Christin O’brien Contributor Following a 3rd-place finish last season in PACWEST, the Women’s soccer team faced tougher rivals this year in the Canada West division of Canadian University Sport (CIS). While the team took on many new faces, they still pulled together to fight hard over the course of the season, placing 5th in

B Y THE NUMBERS Kevin Ilomin Sports Editor

their division—just one spot out of the playoffs.

Nine new faces joined the team this season after losing a few integral players last spring. First-year Courtney Hemmerling and team captain Hayley Carlson led the team in scoring with two regular season goals each. Veteran Christine Tallon started in goal most games, saving 82 shots in total and producing three shutouts. Newcomer Francesca Balletta tended goal most of the preseason and started in her first regular season game against UFV. “We were a young team this year,” head coach Claire Paterson noted, “Although we had so many new faces, the team came together really well as we all worked hard for each other—to work towards the goals we set out for ourselves. Our veteran players were instrumental at setting the tone of how our team operates.”

“Our veteran players were instrumental at setting the tone of how our team operates” COACH CLAIRE PATERSON Even though they came out of the season with a 3-10-4 record, the team did well on maintaining possession and created numerous goal-scoring opportunities. Forward Kirsten Dodds provided 13 of the Heat’s 81 shots on goal, while first-year midfielder Susan

Traynor and veteran forward Mairi Horth made the season’s two assists.

Although the Heat were unable to take down many of the powerful Can West teams, they show signs of closing the gap. Against top team Trinity Western, they lost 1-5 in their first game and 2-5 in their second; a year ago they played Trinity and lost 0-7.

During their 12 regular season games, the team played six other CanWest teams. In their first two games, the Heat out-shot UNBC but emerged with ties. Over their next three the Heat weathered a string of losses to UFV, Trinity, and 2nd-ranked Victoria.

Their first showing against UBC Van broke the streak with a tie (1-1). The next four away games ended in losses, but the Heat finished their season on a high note, winning one and tying one against their rival TRU. Midfielder Michelle Smith scored the goal for the

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Number of seasons that Heather Semeniuk has been the Heat women’s basketball coach.

Seminuik has announced she will retire after this season

Total number of points the Heat women’s volleyball team outscored the defending champion Manitoba Bisons by on the weekend of the 25th.

first game, securing the Heat’s only regular season win. The final game ended in a draw after neither side proved willing to let any shots in. The Heat made 20 shots on goal, forcing TRU’s keeper to make the most saves in a single game for Canada West this season.

This offseason the team will be losing seniors Dodds, Klees, Tallon, Carlson, and Paige Howes, veterans who provided direction for the incoming players this year after playing for the Heat in past years. The challenge now will be to not only replace those outgoing players, but to build on the foundation they laid in the ultra-competitive Canada West.

“I am very proud of how we came together this year and worked diligently at improving each time we stepped on the field,” Paterson praised. “I felt that we competed well over the season and that the future is definitely bright as we continue to build at the CIS level.”

11

Number of players on last year’s Canada West Final Four Heat women’s volleyball team returning to the locker room for the 2014-15 season.

There are twelve roster spots in total.

November 3rd, 2014 | The Phoenix |sports@thephoenixnews.com | Interim Sports Editor: Cam Welch

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Heat men’s and women’s crosscountry teams both finished * The the regular season ranked in the Top 5, and will now compete in

you know someone outside the varsity sport system who is * Do dedicated to their sport? Contact sports@thephoenixnews.com

the Nov 9th CCAA championship in Calgary

and tell us to feature them in For Love of the Game

THEY SAID IT “Being a first year on a team —I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. The coaching staff was amazing, everyone was so open and friendly, the vets couldn’t have been better role models for us.”

1st-year fullback Jasmine Cooper on the Women’s Soccer season

“I’m sad to be leaving this amazing program but I’m so proud of where it is heading. Paterson alongside our assistant coaches have put a lot of work in over the past seven years to get us to where we are today 4th-year forward Kirsten Dodds on the Women’s Soccer season

Katy Klomps goes for a kill.

Photo by UBCO Athletics

HEAT AMONG CANADA’S BEST V-BALL TEAMS THIS YEAR Women’s volleyball team has beaten multiple current and former best-in-Canada teams en route to #3 rank The deep Canada West conference is in flux this year, giving the Heat their best chance yet to make Nationals Cam Welch Creative Director The UBCO Heat women’s volleyball team spent October climbing the charts, finishing the month in third place in the national rankings. The Universities of Alberta and Montreal stand ahead of them, but the Heat have surpassed conference rivals Brandon, Winnipeg, and Trinity Western.

Last season the Heat only just missed a trip to Nationals, falling in the third-

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The national ranking of the Heat women’s volleyball team as of October 28th. The Heat have won against #1 seed U of A, former #1 seed Trinity Western, and 2013-14 national champion Manitoba

place game to Trinity Western. The teams in the Canada West final, UBC and Manitoba, were also the last two standing in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship game—indicating just how stacked the odds were against the Heat last season.

Canada West in a powerful conference in flux. Of the top five teams in Canada West, only Brandon and Trinity lost any of their six best players from last season. But the Manitoba Bisons and UBC Thunderbirds, despite returning most of their main players, have both dropped out of the national Top 10. Yet while The Heat bullied the Bisons, winning both games , they fell to the Thunderbirds on the last weekend of the month, losing both games.

Those UBC games proved none of Canada West’s traditional powerhouses can be counted out yet, meaning the Heat will have to rely on internal im-

provement to make it out of the conference alive. The team lost libero Lenai Schmidt and outside hitter Jillian Festival to graduation in the spring but the return of libero / middle Kailin Jones after a redshirt year has helped offset that. And UBCO’s top players are clustered in their third and fourth years, meaning they will likely get another shot with this roster next year before having to rebuild or at least reload.

The road gets easier in November for the Heat, with no matches against Top 10 opponents for the rest of 2014.

This schedule could conceivably allow the team to comfortably hold onto that third-place spot until January, although the ease of the schedule also reduces the margin of error for the Heat and they will be expected to win every game against these lesser opponents.

With files from Kaeleigh Phillips and Mirella Cullen

17 to 13

For and against votes by the NBA’s owners on draft lottery reform. Despite being a majority, 17 was not enough votes to implement the changes. The new system would have reduced the worst three teams’ odds to win the lottery, giving the bottom five equal odds.

“What makes our team different from other teams in CIS is our team dynamic. It is such a positive environment, where we work not only on the development of each individual player, but work to improve together as a team.”

1st-year midfielder Susan Traynor on the Women’s Soccer season

“We were a young team this year.

Although we had so many new faces, the team came together really well as we all worked hard for each other” Heat Women’s Soccer head coach Claire Paterson

“There’s a lot of great players in the province. To be recognized at that level for so many different things … It’s definitely an honour.”

Fourth-year Heat setter Katy Klomps, on receiving the presitigious Ray Lepp Scholarship, an annual award by Volleyball BC recognizing a student-athlete of the highest caliber on & off the court

“Even late in the game I was very happy and impressed that they continued to try and play and go forward … they could have packed it in, but they had better scoring chances later in the game.”

Heat men’s soccer coach Dante Zanatta, on his team’s first-round loss to No. 3 UBC, in which the Heat were down 0-3 early in the second half but continued to push.

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Opinions Editor: Kayti Barkved|opinions@thephoenixnews.com | The Phoenix | November 3rd, 2014

OPINIONS

nitions taken from transwellness.org * Defi and radicalbi.wordpress.com.

GLOSSARY CISGENDER

1) A person whose gender identity is aligned to what they were designated at birth on the basis of their physical sex.

2) A non-trans* person.

GENDERQUEER

1) An umbrella term for people whose gender identity is outside of, not included within, or beyond the binary of female and male.

2) Gender non-conformity through expression, behavior, social roles, and/or identity.

3) People who identify as both transgender and queer who see gender identity and sexual orientation as overlapping and interconnected.

MONOSEXUAL Photos by Kelsi Barkved

A person attracted to people of no more than one gender and who indentifiy as such (includes heterosexuals, gays, & lesbians).

BISEXUALITY AND PANSEXUALITY ARE TWO DIFFERENT IDENTITIES...

Your bisexual Opinions Editor “straightens” out the definitions, similarities, and differences between bisexuals and pansexuals Kayti Barkved Opinions Editor Tackling the ol’ nitpickery of the English language

Yes, we’ve all been taught that ‘bi’ as a prefix in Latin means two, but ask any bisexual and their personal definition of what two means and you’ll find it’s extremely variable and flexible. For instance, it can mean attraction to one, your own gender and two, to other genders. Similarly, the ‘pan’ in pansexuality does not mean that one has an attraction to

UBCOCIAL MEDIA Kayti Barkved Opinions Editor A recap of what UBCO students are saying on Twitter

pans, or is narrowly attracted to ‘all’ as the Latin infers. While pansexuality can be defined as attraction to any gender, it is preferably referred to as attraction despite gender.

Sometimes, pansexuality is even expressed as an attraction to personalities over gender expressions.

So what’s the difference here really?

Understandably, there is quite a bit of intersecting turf between the two terms, but the major differences rest in the histories of the community. Bisexuality has been, historically, more political in nature.

A year after the Stonewall Riots of 1969 (which bisexuals participated in), Brenda Howard, a bisexual activist, helped organize one of the very first pride parades.

Meanwhile, pansexuality is a newer

“bisexuality was initially defined in an 1892 translation of Psychopathia Sexualis as attraction to cisgender men and cisgender women”

Appropriate reactions to Oct. 30th stabbing on #8 bus: Nessa Rose @janessaarosee

Bomb threat last week, stabbing this week...

Kelowna’s a great place to live [sad face emojji]

QueenSassyPants @MeganBuers

I took the number 8 home at 5:30 yesterday. Just think about that.

Not so appropriate reactions: cassidy @catssidy

Today I got on the 8 because yolo

term with a newer community and is thus often thought to be the less political of the two. Pansexuality is often considered, by monosexuals, to have stemmed off of bisexuality.

Bottom line, the distinction between the two identities, if one must be made (and many insist that there should be), is that bisexuals frequently believe gender to be a factor in their attraction to people while pansexuals believe gender has nothing to do with attraction.

It is also of importance to note that another difference of bisexuality actually comes from within the LGBTQIAP* community’s regards towards bisexuality. It has come about in more recent years that many trans and genderqueer individuals believe bisexuality to be an outdated mode of identifying one’s sexuality because of its

Halloween at UBCO: halloweenshine @queenjammyjam

sometimes I forget i have underwear over my pants

Cianna Nicklin @CiannaNicklin

I keep forgetting its halloween and then I see random people on campus like why is there a fake dick hanging out of your pants friend [grinning face emoji]

maria @mariamccliggott

happy halloweenie [kissy face emoji, dog emoji]

essentialized gender binary history (bisexuality was initially defined in an 1892 translation of Psychopathia Sexualis as attraction to cisgender men and cisgender women). Consequently, the LGBTQIAP* community often reasons that in order to remain inclusive, pansexuality should be the chosen moniker. Nevertheless, bisexuals insist that gender expression, not an individual’s genitalia, is how they decide their attraction to people. Further, the community maintains, that as our understanding of the spectrum of gender identities has evolved and multiplied how we can present our genders, equally our interpretations of bisexuality have grown.

What the communities share

Erasure. Bisexual and pansexual folk don’t find much common

November 3rd, 2014 | The Phoenix |opinions@thephoenixnews.com | Opinions Editor: Kayti Barkved of the differences between bi and pan in action: trans and non binary * one pansexual data has not been “offically” researched and recorded, as inter-

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any nasty manners on campus for * Seen Ms Wintle to tackle? Send your ideas to

est in these fields has only just come to public awareness

opinions@thephoenixnews.com.

VIOLENCE AGAINST BISEXUALS From 2010 CDC report

61%

of bisexual cisgender women experience violence, compared to 44% of lesbians and 35% of hetero sexual cisgender women

MS WINTLE’S CAMPUS MANNERS

“No scents is good sense”

37%

of bisexual cisgender men experience violence compared to 29% of gays and 26% of heterosexual cisgender men

Bisexual and pansexual flags Photo by Kelsi Barkved Left: Image by Kayti Barkved

MUCH TO THE BEWILDERMENT OF MONOSEXUALS ground with heterosexuals or with homosexuals, and this leads to sense of invisibility. Erasure happens frequently in our societies, when our identities are simplified or misrepresented, or reduced to a single faceted monosexuality. For instance, when a bisexual or pansexual person dates someone of the same gender, their peers will often attribute their sexuality as a stepping-stone to becoming ‘fully’ gay. Whereas if a bisexual or pansexual person dates someone of an ‘opposing’ gender, their peers will insist that their sexuality was just a phase before they turned straight.

Violence. The popularized belief about these two identities is that bisexual and pansexual people are (to put it lightly) greedy, or (to put it bluntly) sluts. These wrongful attitudes promote and perpetuate vio-

“their peers will often attribute their sexuality as a stepping-stone to becoming ‘fully’ gay [or] just a phase before they turned straight”

Movie critics: Ashin’ Kusher @JamalHammoud

lence from monosexual partners. A 2010 study from the National Center for Injury Prevention and the Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that bisexual women at 61% and men at 37% have the highest prevalence of intimate partner violence, compared to their heterosexual, lesbian, and gay counterparts.

Got it straight?

Whether you know someone who is bi or pan, you identify as bi or pan, or you’re just reading about these sexual identities for the very first time, the most important thing to take away from this article is that yes: we are definitely here and we (usually) do identify strongly with either one of the two. We are two distinct parts of a community, which do share, at the very least, our attraction to (gasp!) more than one gender.

Lauren Wintle Head Copy Editor Some of you might know this already, or some of you may not know – Although many tend to ignore it, the UBCO campus is a dedicated scent-free zone! That means not wearing excessive perfumes, scented hair products, or aftershave on campus. But this also includes the use of chemicals like aerosol sprays or alcohol-based products.

Anything with a poignant smell to it, no matter how mild the smell might seem to you, shouldn’t be used or worn indoors on campus for health and safety reasons.

For some, this might seem silly or perhaps overindulging some individuals.

Here’s the thing though, some people don’t deal well with scents; they can cause migraines or nausea, or even extreme allergic reactions (as in anaphylactic shock), or a whole host of other unpleasant symptoms in some of your fellow students.

For most of the products that cause issues, there are unscented versions available. For perfumes and aftershave, mild scents, applied in a reasonable amount, are tolerable. If you are in a program of study that uses chemicals regularly, you should be checking with your professor whether or not it is safe to use them indoors, and always err on the side of caution. Using any smelly chemical indoors can potentially harm you or other students!

Please, students of UBCO, watch what you’re spraying or splashing around out there.

A discussion on #allmen: bnprime @bnprime

Alasdair Cookie @AlasdairStuart

@msbarrios @PhysicistLisa The clothes have nothing to do with it. I’m criticizing men who harass women because they are women.

Folükè O* @Piepricia

and another tweet for the ladies:

why TF are they still making fast movies [no question mark] Helen Mirren with a heavy machine gun. All other arguments are invalid. #RED If you want to get me mad talk to me about the Harry Potter movies.

Grayson Leahy @GraysonLeahy You’re not pro-life, you’re anti-woman. Asshole.

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