Issue 9

2013 year INRE VIEW UBCO’s Student Newspaper

January 6, 2013 | Vol. 25 Issue 9

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UBCO’s annual transit woes

The highs and lows of the SU

AUBCO professor in Egypt during turmoil

The year in party photos

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Welcome back, UBCO. It’s a new year, and we wanted to greet you with a reflection on some of the top stories from 2013. Time flies so quickly that it’s easy to forget some of the events that shaped our year, and what they meant to us.

You’ll also find stories that analyze the successes and failures of our sports teams and our students’ union.

The Phoenix will not publish materials which

We’ve also had some exciting changes to our staff and plans for 2014. Our feature on the HEAT basketball league changes (CIS) will be followed up by a look at the HEAT soccer teams and their upcoming entry into the CIS league, and how the higher level of competition will affect them. We’re going to profile the lovable pups used in the B.A.R.K. study, and we’re looking forward to publishing our party issue soon to show you the shape of the party scene in Kelowna and UBCO, and how its changed over UBCO’s eight years.

are illegal under current laws. This does not include articles which provide an in-depth examination of both sides of a controversial subject (e.g. legalising marijuana).

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

From our team at The Phoenix, thanks for reading, and if one of your new years resolutions is to get any job experience through writing, illustration, design or the business side of a paper, we’ve got jobs open and would love to welcome you to the team. Stop by the office or shoot us an email. Have an awesome 2014.

THE YEAR in local ARTS

ARTS

spring 2013

By Laura Sciarpelletti & Hanss Lujan

JAN 18

UBCO’s first -ever Drag Show event 2013 was a year of glamour and glitz here at UBCO. Early in January, The Well was taken over by drag queens for UBCO’s first ever Drag Queen show: Embodiment.

Organized by MFA student Shannon Lester and Dustin Dufault featuring their alter egos, Sasha Zamolodchikova and Ella Lamoreux as well as Angel Di Avolo, Cissy Avarice and Sparkle. The show was a massive success, becoming the biggest turn out event in The Well’s history and receiving support from UBCO students, organizations and faculty.

The show was followed up by a second event in March and eventually migrated to the downtown core establishing Kelowna’s Drag scene.

You can check out Kelowna’s Drag at the Habitat’s #2MUFFS1COLLAR featuring Ella Lamoureux.

Above, bottom: A quick photoshoot with Sasha and Ella before they take the stage at S.W.A.G. Last year, Events Editor Laura Sciarpeleti and Photo Editor Hanss Lujan were invited to follow the queens for their full day as they got ready to go out on a Saturday night at their headlining event.

Photo by Hanss Lujan

Right: Ella Lamoreux dances the night away at UBCO’s first ever drag even at The Well.

Photo by Ali Young Above, top: Ella Lamoreux channels Florence Welch as she performs Sweet Nothing at the S.W.A.G. party hosted by the Okanagan Pride Society.

Photo by Hanss Lujan.

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ECOTONE music & arts festival February’s 6th annual Ecotone Festival started off the year with a bang. Organized by the CONDUIT collective in partnership with the Okanagan Greens Society and featuring art installations, eco-activism, and music & spoken word performances, Ecotone is a gathering of local emerging artists coming together to celebrate the budding arts community here in the Okanagan.

It has served as a platform for young UBCO art students to showcase their work to the greater arts community in

the Okanagan, and the interdisciplinary performance students’ acts are amongst the highlights of the event.

While there is no word on the event returning in 2014, Ecotone will be remembered as one of the best arts events of 2013.

Left: A toddler takes center stage during perfromances.

Right: Scott Mendonca as “The Red Bastard” Photos by Hanss Lujan

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Left: The Keloha pyramids, created by UBCO Fine Arts students / graduates Dylan Ranney, Brit Bachmann, Liz Dumontet, and Lucas Glenn.

Below: Hula girls on the Sandbar Stage with The Boom Booms

Photos by Laura Sciarpelletti

Keloha Waterfront Festival On July 5th to 7th the Keloha Music and Arts Festival returned to waterfront park for a second year. The festival drew several thousand entrants per day and featured sets from The Trews, Cults, The Arkells, Shad, Matt & Kim, Current Swell, Capital Cities, and MGMT (see left), although the best performance may have come from the 3-year-old girl we saw at the karaoke tent aimlessly wailing “I love youuuuu I love youuuuuu I looove youuuuuu I love youuu I loooove song I love youuuuuuuu” as the beat of Selena Gomez’s “Love you Like a Love Song” and a small crowd clapped along for encouragement.

Headliners MGMT perform in front of psychedelic screensavers At Keloha the crowd and the band had very different ideas of what an MGMT show should involve. For the crowd, it was “Time To “Pretend” and “Kids.” For MGMT, it was everything but their radio hits. When the band ended without playing “Kids,” the crowd chanted until they returned for an encore. The encore was not “Kids.” As the show ended the caudience continued to shriek “Kids!” and pelted Power 104 host Tim Allen with bottles as he came onstage and tried to end the festival. In May MGMT had announced they would no longer play “Kids,” although the Keloha radio ads had continued to use the song prominently.

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Art and Controversy Habitat introduces Booyah Thursdays It’s no secret that the Kelowna music scene is very close-knit. Many artists and bands that we have spoken with this year say that they have found their Kelowna peers to be very supportive and collaborative, which makes for some great music. The Habitat venue on Leon Avenue—in partnership with Cariboo beer—launched its Booyah Thursdays series in the fall, a weekly event that showcases local talent. There have been big local names like Van Damsel, Wild Son, Honest Woods, and My Kind of Karma, as well as smaller up and coming acts like Erika Jane Nielson, Nils Loewen, and Darian Soulsamurai Saunders performing on the Habitat stage.

While the series has yet to have a sold out night— with competition across the street in the form of Level College Night—it has given artists collaboration and networking opportunities, many of which have lead to bigger shows at popular venues like Fernando’s and Doc Willoughby’s. the Habitat is currently preparing to go through renovations, but hopes to continue the series, or something similar to it, after The changes to the venue have been made.

In the meantime, open-mic nights like the one at O’Flannigan’s Pub continue to draw in many of the Booyah artists.

Above: Honest Woods performing at Booyah Thursdays at The Habitat

Photos by Laura Sciarpelletti

Above: At the Georgie Girly speakeasy.

Right: The Trips at heART school Photos by Laura Sciarpelletti Below: Culture Crawl performances at the Streaming Cafe

Acclaimed Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin visited UBCO on November 4th as part of the Art and Controversy event on campus, a Tuum Est Student Initiative Fund event organized by Fine Arts student Kelsie Balehowsky. Hobin’s work has been deemed controversial by many — his photos are of children acting out traumatic news stories such as the 9/11 twin tower attacks and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The event was a response to the controversy surrounding some artwork on display around campus last year by the UBC Public Art Collection. The intention of this event was to create a conversation between viewers and artists in order to determine what is tasteful, what is not, and how we as a society go about discussing serious issues through art.

Kassy Davis’s “Pageant” series, which was removed from the EME after complaints.

Photo by Laura Sciarpelletti

“Art is not always aesthetically pleasing or comfortable,” said FCCS Dean Wisdom Tettey. “It can also be about the uncomfortable, the bizarre, the grotesque, the troubling or the unpalatable. Art allows us to access where we need to be based on an assessment of our current reality.”

The event’s panel discussion had a great turnout, with audience members on both sides of the argument. The organizers hope that students will continue to question and discuss controversy brought up by art, and take action to include others in those discussions.

“I’m hoping this has brought to light how attainable and realistic this is to do,” said Balehowsky. “Anybody can apply for this fund, bring an artist in, and make something like this happen.”

NOV 22

KELOWNA JOINS NATIONAL CULTURE DAYS October marked Kelowna’s first official involvement in Culture Days, a nation-wide weekend of shared culture and art that was originally founded in 2009. Organizer Jolene Mackie, a resident artist at the downtown heART School, launched the non-profit event in hopes that it would help to build culture and art in the community. Participating businesses for the first Culture Crawl included the Alternator Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery, and Studio 113, which premiered exhibit sneak peaks and artist greetings. Downtown coffee shops like the Bean Scene and Blenz, to name a few, displayed art pieces, and local vintage consignment store Georgie Girl held a speakeasy prohibition party night.

“I think that [the crawl] makes things more accessible, which has really been lacking in Kelowna,” said Mackie. “In the cultural district, it’s easy to see the big buildings and be a little intimidated. I think it’s an idea that’s been brewing in the community for a while and

it hasn’t taken root yet. But I think once the space has been created, people will become more comfortable with getting involved with artists and the events.”

While Mackie stated that she hoped the crawl would be a monthly event, a follow up crawl has yet to be organized. The October evening had a modest crowd, but did not spawn a second event to build the hype. The heART School continues to generate success as it serves as a gathering space for artists to pursue their craft and mentor others in the process. It is an environment for art, learning and collaboration and always fills Bernard Ave. with the sound of music. Making Culture Crawl a regular community event will require continued efforts from the people at heART School, as well as local artists and businesses.

UBCO Art Party The fourth annual UBCO Art Party, a fundraising event for and hosted by the theatre department, was held in November. The art collective—originally the brainchild of interdisciplinary performance alumnus Kevin Jesuino—has drawn in large attendances in the past, but generated less than impressive numbers in 2013. The evening featured visual art, spoken word, theatre performances and musical performances.

Despite having popular local acts like Windmills and Honest Woods at the event, the Art Party’s initial lack of advertising and promotion brought in a disappointing attendance.

In 2012 the halls of the Fine Arts building were filled with

Photos by Cam Welch dancing attendants and music up until the very end. The Art Party, while primarily functioning as a fundraiser for the theatre department, has also been great for artists to network with each other. As an art collective, it encourages writers, visual artists, actors and musicians to meet each other, and has spawned collaborations. As a result of lower attendance and a shorter duration, those possible collaborations may show to have suffered as a result. The theatre department has a lot to improve on for next year, but in the meantime art enthusiasts can look forward to the annual Art on the Line event in February.

Thesen Retires 2013 saw the end of Creative Writing professor Sharon Thesen’s time at UBCO. The Canadian poet was a charter member of the first Creative Writing cohort in 2005 during UBCO’s birth, and has played a large hand in the growth of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies department.

Along with her impressive teaching career, Thesen is also an accomplished author, having published nine books of poetry, most recently The Good Bacteria and Oyama Pink Shale. As an editor she has published The Vision Tree—the Governor-General’s Award-winning edition of Phyllis Webb’s poetry—two editions of The New Long Poem Anthology and numerous other reputable publications. Along with fellow Creative Writing professor Nancy Holmes, Sharon co-edits Lake: a journal of arts and environment.

Thesen emerged as a poet during the first days of the Canadian literature movement, along with peers like bill bissett and bpnicol. Her experience with poetics, teaching, and publishing has been invaluable to her students, and her presence will be missed on campus.

“I’m going to really miss interactions with young people, colleagues, [and] companionship in thought and in writing,” said Thesen. “When you are interacting with young people you tend to stay a little younger yourself. What’s being reflected back at you in your work is youth; a newness. What is really exciting is getting to nurture new writers. That’s so rewarding; you feel deeply privileged and humbled to have been in a position to help someone enter the world of writing in a very serious way. I think that’s a very exquisitely privileged thing to be able to do.”

Photo by Kelsi Barkved

NEWS

the year in UBCO student and student union

provincial, national, & international issues come to ubco

Enbridge panel

Left to right: Alejandra Garcia, Nick Dodds, Shaman McLean, Tim Krupa, Sara Wahedi

Photo by Hanss Lujan

2013 UBCSUO elections and ensuing turmoil

The 2013 election results came in after 13 hours of counting 860 ballots total. The election was historic in that it was the first of UBCSUO’s history after slates were banned (slates are a team of individuals running a campaign together).

Tim Krupa was elected Financial Coordinator, Nick Dodds was re-elected Services Coordinator, Shaman McLean was elected Internal Coordinator, and Alex Gula was elected External Coordinator.

On the board, Sara Wahedi, Sarah Trudeau, Alejandra Garcia, and Layne Richardson were elected to the Directors at Large.

Curtis Tse was elected to Board of Governors and no

one was elected to Advocacy Representatives (yikes).

Since then, Tim Krupa has resigned and Rocky Kim was appointed to take his place. Both Sara(h)s have stepped down, replaced in December by appointments of Simon Bullock and Jagmeet Khabra. Sarah Reilander and Olver Eberle were appointed to Advocacy Representative earlier in the year and Kelly Panchyshyn was just appointed in December.

Positions are now filled, but there has been a lot of turnover and appointments in lieu of elections, which has affected the momentum and success of the UBCSUO. And that isn’t even taking into account the staff changes like the GM and Organizer (see below).

Elizabeth May and a panel of involved parties discuss the Northern Gateway Pipeline at a summit in Kelowna before the Joint Review Panel visited to allow citizens to speak their mind on the topic.

The Joint Review Panel transcripts showed that no one spoke in the project’s favor, and the speakers ranged from students to professional engineers, one of which submitted a full report on why the pipeline should not go through.

Trudeau!!! was here

If anyone doubted Trudeau’s near celebrity status they only had to stop by the UNC ballroom on January 24 to see it packed with 300 people and him negotiating his way through line ups of people hoping to speak and get a picture on his way out when the event ended.

Trudeau was eventually successful in winning the Liberal Party Leadership

Former GM Claude Guerette working at his computer

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Former GM sues UBCSUO Claude Guerette, the previous General Manager (GM) for the UBCSUO, has filed a civil suit against the UBCSUO after they fired him at the end of March 2013.

In response, the UBCSUO responded with court documents that alleged an investigation had been conducted upon receiving complaints of Guerette’s behavior towards staff and students. Guerette was informed of these allegations at the time, which included calling students “fags”, throwing a pride flag in the garbage while saying

“this is fucking bullshit”, called asian students “chinks”, and remarked that the UBCSUO was out of yellow toner “because it’s the toner for all our Chinese students” and Asian students are “cheap.” There were many more, and if they are true it paints a very uncomfortable working environment within the UBCSUO. There have not been any days in court yet, but mediation is ongoing. Extra student money has been budgeted in case court fees take a toll on the UBCSUO as a result.

UBCO Prof in Egypt Dr. Ashraf Farahat, Ph.D. is a former physics instructor here, and we interviewed him to get his insight into the political strife around the Morsi presidency. He explained that Morsi’s campaign had seemed promising, but after the election he had given the Muslim Brotherhood the upper hand in everything, which he says was a betrayal.

He also explained the army “coup” as the people’s will.

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The year in Toope

Club Day in EME, held in October, a month after school began

Photo by Ali Young

UBC’s president, Stephen Toope, cut his five year term short when he announced his resignation in April.

Toope will stay on until June 2014. He has been president since 2006, and this was his second five year term. The notice was given to allow a committee to conduct a search for UBC’s new president.

CLUB & COURSE UNION DEBACLE Clubs went through the ringer this year with a series of problems throughout the year. First, they came back to a brand new club policy that required changes such as mandatory membership fees, 15 members to start a club instead of 4, and high level accountability such as minutes, transition plans, and more.

Many felt overwhelmed and blindsided, since this wasn’t run through a committee, and only 6 out of 90 clubs were consulted. There were problems everywhere. Some clubs left the UBCSUO.

And then club day was pushed back a month, making it harder for start-ups to find interested students to sign up for their club. A group of clubs protested and held their own club day.

The Services Coordinator, Nick Dodds, then tried to consult course unions for a similar policy. They all said no. He also faced impeachment this year, and part of that definitely had to do with clubs. Things have settled now, but the policy still exists and clubs are expected to deal with it. The long term effects will begin to show in 2014.

UBCSUO execs answer questions at an open Town Hall

Photo by Ali Young

impeachment motion fizzles The second impeachment in two years hit the UBCSUO this year, and it targeted three executives instead of one: Nick Dodds, Alex Gula, and Shaman McLean.

The impeachment was spearheaded by Blake Edwards, a heavily involved student, who had lost the Services Coordinator election to Dodds in the election. He said it was not personal, nor would he run for any of the positions that became available were the motion successful.

The impeachment motion claimed these executives were at fault for an overall lack of progress and organi-

Toope’s final year was marred with controversy: the Sauder frosh rape chant, the campus assaults, and the “Pochahantas” chants all garnered negative media attention.

In his last town hall at UBCO, Toope fielded questions from bike access to MOOCs and the animal testing center here, which has not opened yet. He also admitted ‘mea culpa’ to the failure on administration’s part to have a tuition consultation at UBCO, like there was at UBCV. They promised a “robust student consultation” moving forward.

zation thus far in the semester. Parts of it rang true: the UBCSUO had lost meeting minutes over the summer, there weren’t any clear campaigns being pursued, and the board seemed even more disorganized than previous years. Many were upset over a variety of things, but the overall consensus seemed to be that impeachment would do more harm than good at this point.

Edwards repealed the motion before it was voted on at the Annual General Meeting. His reasoning was that he had seen it do its job: provoking student interest and lighting a fire under the executives.

Toope is leaving to pursue his passion of international law. Some of his fans recently dubbed him “Toope Lion” in celebration of his rebirth of positive energy (above), as reported by the Syrup Trap.

At UBCO this marks another significant administration change, as Deborah Buszard only recently replaced Doug Owram as Deputy Vice Chancellor, and Wesley Pue stepped down this year as Provost, replaced by current Acting Provost Dr. Cynthia Mathieson.

Town Hall photos by Ali Young

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Major changes coming to UBCO is at a turning point. It is undergoing a massive re-evaluation of its strategic plan - you may have seen the whiteboards around campus collecting student input for a week or so last semester. A ton of significant decisions are being made, but two of the ones on students’ minds however, are cycle access and food.

Campus cycle access

The table set up in Claire’s memory for the candelight vigil on November 16

Photo by David Nixon

Claire jones candelight vigil This year we lost Claire Jones, a second-year human kinetics student, to a tragic car accident on her return from visiting family in Hinton Alberta over the November break. The school organized a candlelight vigil for her on November 16.

Jones’s favorite quote was shared during the vigil: “All I’m after is a life full of laughter,” which is from a Chris Daughtry song. “Claire loved quotes,” said Me-

lissa Federson, who said she’d had them plastered all over her room.

Throughout the vigil, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers stood up to share stories and condolences with the crowd. One of Claire’s roommates laughed about how Claire would drive them crazy with her post-it-note reminders of chores, and that “[Claire] immediately brought us together as a family

UBCO’s campus has been without safe cycle access since its founding, and the issue continues to be unsolved.

Curtis Road, which accesses the campus from Glenmore, is illegal to use for most of the campus as a result of a recent legal ruling. The other option is the highway overpass, but there is no cycle lane and anyone who uses it rides inches away from 80km/hour traffic. Previously this year, a pedestrian overpass on Highway 97 that was supposed to solve hte problem, was delayed indefinitely.

Paul Shipley, a chemistry professor from UBCO and avid cyclist, began a petition on October 4 2013 to have the school implement a route to the north of Robert Lake Road. It now has 874 signatures. The administration has said they are working on a solution, but this proposal has a lot of parties involved that need to sign off on the route before it can begin.

Changing food services

Three positions on the UBCSUO vacant since the beginning of the year are now appointed

Photo by David Nixon

Theater improvements of $49k go through After a long and often comical crusade by Rocky Kim, Financial Coordinator, the UBCSUO board was convinced that the $49k of theater improvements would be money well spent.

According to the General Manager Bob Drunkemolle, the new theater is supposed to have quality that equals the Grand 10 on McCurdy Road, and will be used for events ranging from thesis presentations, to

video games, to movies. Some of the problems with the theater were demonstrated by accident during the AGM when it was impossible to read the budget presentation that was up on the screen.

Improvements were promised by the start of January, but no word on if they were successful on their timeline yet.

Aramark is the business students love to hate. The food services giant provides food for over 400,000 university and high-school students in Canada, and is also known for its prison catering side of the business.

The contract that UBCO inherited from OUC is now up for renewal as of June 2014, however. UBCO is now looking for different options and they’ve hired an external consultant to survey the current state of food services on campus, which is now complete and bids are out.

On the university’s wish list are 7 a.m. 11 p.m. operating hours, renovation suggestions, a Subway, a Mongolian grillstyle restaurant and a degree more control than their last contract. We’ll know soon if food services are to improve.

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ROCKY KIM

Kim took office near the end of the summer when Tim Krupa resigned to head to UBC Vancouver. Kim took over at a difficult time – the summer is the best time to pursue big projects since executives don’t have the same day-to-day work they have when the university is full of students. And his previous arrest from participating in the Vancouver riots sent up red flags. But he has proven to be a strong member of the executive, and has been spearheading initiatives such as the $40k in theatre improvements, campus food services consultation, and the library consultation. Like McLean, he has taken on a bigger role in external advocacy. When we talked to Rocky after his apointment about whether his riot conviction would raise doubts

NICK DODDS

Dodds is in his second term as Services Coordinator, having been appointed to replace Jesse Baxter in late 2012, and is the most experienced out of this year’s executive. Dodds identified the incumbent UBCSUO policies and bylaws as outdated, meant for a pre-UBCO campus. He has used his second term to try to make significant changes to these, such as the club policy earlier this year. And that’s the least of his aspired changes. But execution of his new club policy was a PR disaster.

Dodds also continues to demonstrate confusion around policy and bylaw when he’s in board meetings, which becomes less amusing when it’s during a second term.

He has also been in the crosshairs of two impeachment motions. The first was voted down in the SGM when the speaker’s list couldn’t fill up fast enough with people either decrying the impeachment motion or speaking in support of Dodds. The second was withdrawn when the motivators felt that it had done its job to provoke interest from students and action from executives.

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among students, he asserted that he would prove that he was the right man for the job, and his passion and competence for the position has shown that.

Kim’s talking points during the appointment process in the summer were about using student money for real, tangible change. And he’s conducted himself as such since then by pursuing those types of projects: library expansion, theatre improvement, and food services. He was also the only executive to escape the crosshairs of the proposed impeachment motion this year.

Kim already has things he can point to as his own, despite having many months less than the other executives. He’s been a competent leader and has represented the student voice well.

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Dodds evidently ruffles a lot of feathers. He seems to have a need to respond to all of his critics in depth, in person or on Facebook.

As far as his platform goes, he has had some successes. The executive has accomplished positive changes in the Well such as more outlets, lower food prices, and being involved in the process for selecting a new food services contract. He’s had some interesting Well parties and has increased flexibility for club funding. But he’s fallen down on most of the other promises, such as lists of study locations on campus, turning city homes into collegia spaces, increased communication, monthly newsletters, “Profs in the Pub” and many others.

Dodds’s big ideas come from somewhere though – he really does want to make a positive change in the UBCSUO. He has tons of enthusiasm, energy, and hope for the UBCSUO. He has now been tasked by council, by his own prompting, to design an entirely new constitution and by-laws. If Dodds pays attention to the image, organization, and detail needed for such a big job, we might see him finish his second term on a stronger note.

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SHAMAN MCLEAN

McLean hasn’t done anything bad or anything too noteworthy either. There seemed to be some lack of direction in September, but that also appears to have been quickly fixed, especially under the heat of an impeachment motion. McLean was a proponent for cutting funding to the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) when he learned that they had thousands in their account and no one was actually using that money. We don’t agree that cutting the funding was the right route given that it’s the only WRC in Kelowna, and perhaps focusing on it and proactively using the WRC with the help of the UBCSUO would have been a better strategy. He brought to attention a serious issue though: we still haven’t seen or heard anything from the WRC

ALEX GULA

Gula’s heart is in the right place and he has admirable goals for the year. He’s helped support programs like the food kitchen, and has helped raise awareness for a variety of sustainability issues on campus. But we haven’t seen much at all from him as far as his own initiatives, campaigns, or external advocacy go. We’ve also heard reports about him being absent at important times and events such as office hours and key external advocacy dinners.

Gula has taken on part of the Services Coordinator role. And the executive is working as a team to make sure external advocacy happens. Great. So Gula’s time is taken up helping organize events, and yet we still haven’t seen a proportionate benefit from Dodds having the free time to pursue other projects. The Phoenix still sees all of this as a serious problem. But we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Gula ran on a campaign

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despite it now having people in key positions who seem keen on doing good things with it. We hope to see some movement there this semester.

McLean has spent a lot of time working on the Peer Support Center for the first semester, and pushing through a variety of small policy changes through the policy committee.

McLean is the youngest and least experienced member of the executive, and he’s had a lot to learn. He’s interested in politics and with the Financial Coordinator Rocky Kim has appeared to take on a bigger role of external advocacy. He hasn’t done particularly badly given his circumstances.

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of issues that he had no control over, such as the bike overpass (which is now stalled indefinitely, by the way), the elimination of bottled water on campus, reducing pollution by improving the transit system, and reducing student fees at recreation facilities (gym fees went up this year after construction of the Hangar).

And he was elected on that. So, a big part of this is the fault of the electorate for voting for that platform.

Gula is a welcoming person who is easily approachable and he’s excellent at going out and talking to students. He’s active in event organization and he has big hopes for various sustainability issues on campus. The UBCSUO has also received $1,000 more from external sponsorship than previous years, which is part of his portfolio.

Overall Gula is a very strong and passionate UBCSUO board member, but not a strong External Coor-

September 9th, 2013

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LIFE

Recaps by Cam Welch and Dave Nixon

In March the Minsct crew of UBCO grad Justin Pellettier and current student Yaw Obrenu Yamoah brought their brand back to campus for a Well party launching their spring collection. In this shot by Hanss Lujan the pair act out their line’s motto of “finely chopped threads” in a butcher-shop-themed photoshoot.

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FROSH WEEK CONCERTS The Back to Business bash put on by the Management Student’s Association (MSA) was the most successful party over Frosh week, and the largest structured party to date on campus.

“We couldn’t have done it without the volunteers,” said Simon Bullock, the VP Finance.

The crowd was also respectful, in contrast to what you might expect from a Frosh concert. There was a point that the fences almost fell over but instead of pushing it further the people involved helped security keep it up.

The MSA doubled up on security in comparison to last year’s concert, and they got at least 2,000 people in out

of a possible capacity of 2,700. Twitter exploded with enthusiastic first years who conveyed their excitement throughout this huge party.

These concerts provide a more structured party atmosphere than UBCO used to have as it was starting out.

Street parties in the lower cascades used to be huge, but they have withered under more security and police presence. The Back to Business Bash may have been the largest official party in UBCO history.

After the party wound down, the Jane Doze tweeted about noise complaints (see p18 for the tweet), and the MSA later confirmed that one police

officer had told them there were noise complaints. But other officers had said the opposite, and none of the student groups had been notified of citations.

We’re not sure what the Doze were talking about when they said “500 noise complaints, $1,000 fine.” But that may only help to increase the reputation of this party were it true.

The other big night time event, UBC WOAH!, had its triumph too, but it paled in comparison to turnout of the B2B. Since the population of UBCO will likely stay relatively stable for the next few years, these parties will have to grow in organization, outreach, and frequency, rather than in size.

The Jane Doze put on a great set for the 2,000+ students in attendance at the MSA Back 2 Business Bash, with Management Student Association Reps running across stage and popping bottles of fake champagne at the edge of the crowd. The Jane Doze later tweeted about getting noise complaints, but we checked with every organization and agency in Kelowna that would take noise complaints, and none of them could confirm. Photo by Hanss Lujan

One student drank too much and had to be evacuated by paramedics, but she was okay and no others were seriously injured.

Above photo and lineup photo [far right] by Dave Nixon

To get our issue 2 cover photo we cut out giant “FROSH” letters and gave them to the crowd during the final concert of the week. The crowd quickly destroyed the letter H Photos by Hanss Lujan

The lines were enormous in first week. Lines for the parties, lines for student cards and tuition, lines for barbecues, lines for the bookstore. The Phoenix gives lines a score of 0/10.

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THE PHOENIX AT NASH

Last January, The Phoenix 2013-2013 staff journeyed to Toronto (a city in Eastern Canada that you may recognize from this year’s Rob Ford saga) for the Canadian University Press’s 75th annual NASH conference. NASH brings together student journalists from across the country for five days of seminars, guest speakers, and turning up. This week we head to NASH 76 in Edmonton Left: The staff pose at the JHM award gala.

Photo by Alex Saumier Demers Right: [clockwise from top left] Jesse Shopa, Aidan Whiteley, Laura Siarpelletti, Cam Welch, and Janelle Sheppard have fun with friends. Photo by Hanss Lujan

UBCO ADDS second MASCOT

The Heat unveiled their new mascot January of 2013 and launched a contest to name the new addition. Some suggestions included Heatwave, Torchy, The Burninator, and Sparky (and of course... Scorch). The Phoenix suggested Okanaga Flocka Flame, Burnt Reynolds, Gymferno and Burnie Madoff.

We’re still not sure why they didn’t pick one of ours. Scorch is already a staple of the campus, making the rounds at important events and waving to students.

Right: Scorch, then Ogi Ogopogo, wave hi

UBCO’s harlem shake

On Thursday February 14th, UBCO jumped on the Harlem Shake bandwagon with a massive dance session in the EME building. Hundreds of people came out to the calling that Layne Richardson and his friends sent out via Facebook. Richardson was elected as a UBCSUO Director-At-Large shortly after organizing the Shake.

The video got over 42,000 views total, and a separate shake filmed in the UNC cafeteria received another 17,000.

Photo by Ali Young

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UBCO GOES TO Tofino

UBCO students Alex Gula, Aaron McKinney, and Aiden Docherty organized a Tofino trip over the Remembrance Day Weekend. Our photographer Ali went, along with 80 other students. She surfed for the first time and managed to stand once. She summed the trip up by: bon fires, running on the beach, dancing in the pouring rain, corn rows, Tofino brewery growlers, jam sessions, greasy food, bears, and senior citizens doing keg stands.

Engineers honor int’l day for eradication of violence against women Beer fest

Local bands My Kind of Karma and Wild Son played at the UBCSUO’s “Beer Fest” in September. Above, External Coordinator Alex Gula sings with them on stage.

Photos by Ali Young

The day, November 25, was honored by our engineering faculty when they painted the E outside of EME white and painted messages of love and support on it.

Photo by David Nixon

18 News Jan 10 Alterknowledge Discussion Series: Global Citizen 7-8:30 p.m. / Alternator Centre

Undergraduate students from UBCO will present their primary findings of a collaborative reserach project analyzing the events associated with Global Citizen Kelowna’s “Global Citizen Week” How is the Global South represented in these events? Who can be a global citizen? Discussion of the research report, as well as the larger issue of global citizenship, facilitated by David Jefferess.

Jan 15 Change of degree deadline

End of day / No location Deadline for current UBC students to apply for a change of degree program.

Jan 20 Last day to drop courses with a W

End of day / No location Last day to drop without a W standing - Term 2

UPCOMING EVENTS arts

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Jan 9

Opening Exhibitions: GONE and COMPELLED TOWARDS LIGHT 6-8 p.m./ Lake Country Art Gallery

Two companion exhibitions: Gone - a collaboration between artist Jane Everett and poet Anne Simpson Compelled Toward Light by Pippa Dean-Veerman Both run from January 8th - February 14th, 2014 and contemplate transition – mirroring our transition from 2013 into a brand new year.

Jan 14 The Literature Review: From Research to Writing 5-7 p.m. / LIB 111

Working on your lit review?

This workshop will get you started, beginning with advice on serach strategies, then an introduction to RefWorks, and concluding with information on the writing process.

Jan 15 FCCS Research Series| Emerging Visions: Digital Media and Culture 2-3:30 p.m. / CCS 142

Future Delta is an immersive and interactive virtual environment that makes climate change science more understandable to the public by by combining climate change modeling, socioeconomic scenario analysis, and 3D image modeling of real places.

FCCS Visiting Artist | Helen Haig-Brown 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. / Theatre26

This talk explores the power of meida to regenerate Indigenous knowledge, truths and language through storytelling.

SoTL Workshop Series #5: Writing a Research Proposal 5-7 p.m. / SCI 331

This session will focus on applications for the innovations in Teaching and Research grant.

Graduate studies colloquium 5-7 p.m. / EME112

Current grad students are invited to meet faculty and discuss the graduate program. A cross section of grad students will be sharing their research/capstone projects in 3-minute presentations.

RSVP to lindsaycox@ubc.ca

Jan 13 Starting a scholarly research project 5-6 p.m. / LIB 125

Research, analytical and rhetorical modes, scolarly writing conventions, and strategies for beginning a research project and organizing your writing process will be discussed. Suitable for grad students from all disciplines.

Register at csc.okanagan@ ubc.ca

Jan 14 Breast Cancer Prevention Workshop

12 - 1 p.m./ UNC 334

No Cost. Wondering about your breast cancer risk?

Join the Cancer Prevention Centre to learn how to prevent breast cancer through healthy life changes. Pre-registration is required: debbie. deorksen@ubc.ca

MD Admissions Info Session

12 - 1 p.m. / RHS 129 Interested in Medicine?

Check out their montly MD Admissions Info Sessions.

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Bunnies and doggies oh my

Frosh week and create DAY 2013 lated the be the biggest Frosh S week in UBCO’s eight-year history, this year’s Week of Welcome, while successful, was weakened by some setbacks. The MSA concert, main concert, and Blacklight Party did well, some of the main secondary events either ell through or fell flat.

The foam party underwhelmed by being under-foamed, while weather conditions caused the cancellation of Carnivale, the all-ages companion to the Blacklight party.

UBCSUO Services Coordinator and Executive Chair Nick Dodds explained to us how it went down: “The event was actually Campus Life’s, but the SU was helping to support it by providing equipment. On the morning of, there were thunder shower warnings for that evening and I was informed by Greg, from the Campus life office, that Facilities would not provide power if there were to be thunderstorms.

Campus Life was unwilling to risk the financial losses of pay-

ing for equipment and services that they would not use, so they cancelled security (a component that had been delegated to them) that morning. Without security the UBCSUO couldn’t host the event, so we canceled all of our equipment as well.”

Dodds went on to say that while it would have been a strong addition to the week’s event roster, he doesn’t think Carnivale’s “absence was an enormous detriment to the development of strong student community.”

This year’s Frosh was expanded from last year’s, but even with larger events the hit-andmiss success rate prevented it from surpassing WOW 2012. On one hand, many of these issues were due to unexpected circumstances. But on the other hand, Frosh seemed to have difficulty absorbing the setbacks, and the uneventfulness of Create and the first few nights seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of several first-years we talked to.

That said, we also saw and

heard other first years singing the praises of UBCO by the time the weekend was underway.

And when we were up on stage taking the cover photo during Saturday’s concert, the crowd was turned up as all heck and seemed to be living the ideal frosh experience.

So going forward, what will UBCO’s first week become?

Are these one-time setbacks, or growing pains, or indicators that UBCO doesn’t yet have the infrastructure and tradition to carry a full-scale Frosh the way larger universities can? Since our student population is going to be static for years now, leaders on campus will have to work harder at outreach and organization in order to continue growing a successful Frosh. We may also be seeing some changes coming down from UBC Van, as a result of the Sauder rape chant, that may affect UBCO as well. UBC President Stephen Toope speculated that Frosh would have to change as they move forward

We all need a little more cute in our lives. Sarah Vanpeteghan, a third year fine arts student, did so with a relational aesthetics exhibit on October 9 for her Advanced Sculpture class. Think bunnies can’t be part of a sculpture? Think again. Additionally, Dr. Ty Binfet of the education faculty is working on the B.A.R.K. study to see the effect of trained dogs on stress. He also opened it up last semester every Friday to students for a drop-in.

Photos by Kelsi Barkved

ANOTHER ONE RIDES THE BUS The winning photos from our #firstweekUBCO photo contest

From left: Scorch, Simon Bullock, Nick Dodds, and Ogi Photot by Dave Nixon

Jackson Stoski wears the scorpion Drive jacket and carries a duffel bag full of bus schedules for “Ride,” our Issue 3 feature on students and transit.

Photo by Hanss Lujan

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Semester-end well parties

The Well played host to both the MSA Movember Wrap Party and the usual Semester Ended Bender during the last week of school. This year’s Bender / Full Moon Party featured face-painting, blacklight, glowsticks, a DJ tourney, & a Minsct pop-up shop.

Left: Nick Dodds unleashes the animal within, removing his shirt and biting down on a can of the popular energy drink “Red Bull” Right: Take a wild guess which event this was Photos by Ali Young

The heat balls caMpaign

UBCO students Miriam Hazhir and Emily Braun paired with the mens HEAT teams to create the “Have You Played with your Balls?” campaign. It’s a comical angle designed to open up conversation about the uncomfortable topic of testicular cancer.

Left: Yassine Ghomari poses lying down Right: Ed Dane Medi poses equally seductivly Photos by Ali Young

Big white gets some serious snow

Jake Sherman began doing some regular reporting on Big White and its conditions this year. But in the big picture, Big White has been very successful early on in the season. Other mountains like Mount Baldy and Apex have struggled to get enough snow to stay open.

Left: Jake Sherman rides the Powder Chair on its first day open Photo by Jake Sherman

SPORTS HEAT TEAM REPORT CARDS WoMen’s Soccer B+

The Heat Women’s Soccer team leaves the BCCAA as a dominant team, but one that had a few cracksin their armor exposed in 2013. Their record fell from 8-1-2 and 7-1-6 in previous seasons to just 7-3-4 in 2013, finishing 3rd in PACWEST of the BCCAA. They also didn’t achieve the post-season success Claire Paterson’s team had long been chasing, missing the gold medal once again and finishing with bronze. It will be interesting to see how the team transitions from BCCAA to Canada West play.

Marissa Klees goes for the ball. All photos courtesy of UBCO Heat

Men’s Soccer C Logan Ellis dives to make a save.

Context is important when evaluating the Men’s Soccer team and how they performed. It’d be easy to give a team that is moving into CIS next year a failing grade for missing the playoffs in BCCAA competition, but that judgment would be missing crucial information, like how young the team’s average age is compared to their competition, their winning record against the best teams in PACWEST, and how poor they had been in previous years, showing a steady improvement every season. They should be in tough next year, but could be a surprise sleeper pick if recruiting goes well and the young core of the team takes a step forward in their development as student athletes.

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MEN’s BASKETBALL

On Fire

C+ “We have younger guys on the team that needed to gain some experience [...]

The first half of season helped to establish the roles of each of the players and we should each be able to contribute more effectively in the upcoming second half of season.”

Landry Ndayitwayeko

Looking Back

Looking Forward

While their start to the 2013-14 season hasn’t been great, the Heat Men’s Basketball team gets bonus points for picking up four wins in league play to end the 2012-13 season, two each against UFV and TRU. The Men’s Basketball team had a rough go the first half of their season, ending up second from the bottom in the Canada West division of CIS. Winning their last two games before Christmas against UNBC placed them above Manitoba, sitting at 2-8 in the conference. Their opponents in the November and the beginning of December did include some of the best teams in the conference, namely Alberta and Saskatchewan who crushed UBCO Men’s Heat in the first two games of the 2013-2014 season. Like the other basketball team and the Men’s Volleyball team, Pete Guarasci’s group shouldn’t be judged too harshly because of their relative newcomer status to Canada West. With an easier schedule set to open up 2014, things are looking bright for the team on the court.

The UBCO Men’s Heat Basketball team faces more compatible opponents in the 2014 season, beginning with two away games against Regina and Brandon consecutively.

Both teams are sitting at 2-8 also and if these bballers are all warmed up from their tournament in California, they could score a couple more wins in chilly mid-western Canada. The following weekend, UBCO will be hosting Trinity Western who is sitting at 5-5 from the first half of the season. Trinity will be a challenge for the Heat, yet nowhere near the level of competition Men’s basketball had to face in the first half of the season.. The following home games include Winnipeg and Manitoba, the latter being an easy win to gain for the Heat. The season will end with a home game against TRU which is a toss-up as UBCO will have the advantage of homeground yet TRU is in second place going into 2014 in the pacific division. It is also rumoured that Brad Quevillon, a senior player for the Heat, will return to play which will provide more senior leadership for the younger players to learn from. The biggest challenges for this team will be working together, defensive strategy, and not breaking down against stronger teams such as TRU.

landry ndayitwayeko “On Fire” designates a veteran player who helped the Heat a lot in 2013. Landry Ndayitwayeko averages 28 minutes a game for the Heat. Landry scored a game-high of 26 points against Leithbridge in the first half of the 13-14 semester and helped the Heat obtain their first win against UNBC with 22 points.

Temperature Rising cam friesen “Temperature Rising” indicates a young palyer who is rapidly improving. Cam Friesen is a rookie player for the Heat but demonstrated early on that he is a force to be reckoned with. Friesen left the court on November 29th, scoring seven points for UBCO vs UNBC; two free throws, a jump shot, and a three-point jump shot to top it off.

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Looking Back

“playing the stronger teams is where you learn the most in basketball.”

KRYSTAL SCHOUTEN

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The Women’s Basketball team picked up four wins in 2013, two to end off their 6-16 record in the 12-13 season, and two more in what has been a disappointing 2-8 start for a team hoping to take the next step in its development. With the new divisional system coming up in 2014, the Heat faced some of their Canada West opponents, such as Alberta and Calgary, for the last time in regular season play for what could be a very long time. UBCO Women’s Basketball struggled throughout their first ten games of the season, leaving the court with two wins, one against Mt. Royal in Calgary and again against UNBC their last weekend of play in December. The Women’s team obtained their first win prior to the Heat Men’s team which set hopes high for the gals but the level of competition they were placed against in the fall was tough to beat.

Saskatchewan, Alberta, Calgary, Victoria, and Lethbridge are the best teams in Canada West and unfortunately, the schedule pushed all of these teams into the first half of season. Much like the Men’s teams, the Women’s Basketball team is suffering from being in a bit over their heads at the Canada West level, expected of a newcomer team. The winning ways should become more of a reality as the team enters its 4th season coming up in 2014.

Looking Forward UBCO Women’s basketball is sitting at 2-8 mirroring the stats of the Men’s team yet they are third from the bottom in the pacific division, placing them in a slightly better position in the upcoming second half of the season.

Mt. Royal and Trinity Western are following the UBCO Women’s team, tied at 1-9. The first home games in the third weekend of January look hopeful for the ladies as they play Trinity in Kelowna after they blasted them in pre-season, 73-66. Unfortunately though, prior to these games UBCO will ring in the New Year with an away game against Regina and this will be a difficult win to obtain for UBCO. Regina is sitting at 8-2 and is the fourth team in Canada West at this moment. Brandon will be a better match for UBCO as they are also sitting at 2-8, similar to the Heat. TRU will be the last game for the Women’s team on homeground and they will be a challenge for the gals as they are sitting at 6-4 currently, but TRU is moderately leveled competition and this final game will be a toss-up on who takes the win. Overall, the second half of the season will showcase the UBCO Women’s Basketball teams skills and we should see more wins for these gals than in the first half of the 20132014 season.

Krystal schouten Krystal Schouten is an essential player to the UBCO Women’s Heat Basketball team. She is in her last year of play and consistently demonstrates her strong playing abilities on the court. Schouten obtained a game high of 13 points last semester against Mt. Royal and averages 24 minutes of play.

Temperature Rising jessica jazhadarehee Jessica Jazdarehee is a second year rookie and demonstrated strong playing abilities in the first half of the 13-14 season when she earned the opportunity to start when one of the key players, Angela White, sprained her ankle. Jessica played well as a starter against Mt. Royal and Victoria, scoring 11 and 12 points respectively.

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Men’s Volleyball

C“Well obviously our record isn’t where we want it but we have taken steps in the right directioN... challenges haven’t changed; every game is important and every team is very talented...so in response we have to train hard and prepare for whoever steps on the court.”

NATE SPEIJER

Looking Back Most teams new to CIS take about three years to find their competitive legs, so it’sunderstandable to an extent that the Men’s Volleyball team has struggled. After making the playoffs in their first season of play, the team has careened back to earth, 2013 being evidence of that.

Finishing the back half of last season without a win in 2013, the men have picked up just two wins in play so far this season.

The Men’s Volleyball team have had a rough fall 2013, coming out with two wins and eight losses. They won one game against Mt. Royal and scored another win against Winnipeg, interestingly both home games.

This Volleyball Heat team sits second from the bottom with Regina behind them having no wins thus far in their season. Importantly, the influx of young players on the team contributes to their relative lack of success thus far in the season. Expectations will certainly pick up in 2014, where Greg Poitras and co look to rediscover the success they had very early in Canada West play.

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Looking Forward The good news is that the Men’s Volleyball team will be playing their final two games against Regina in the UBCO gym which will most likely result in some wellneeded wins. Now time for the bad news, prior to these final games, the boys will have to play against Trinity Western, UBC and Alberta, the three top-ranked teams in Canada West. Manitoba should be a more compatible team with UBCO as they are ranked at 5-7 currently. It will interesting to see how UBCO responds to these difficult teams in the New Year.

Nate Speijer Nate Speijer is definitely deserved of the title of team captain for the Men’s Volleyball team.Nate scores double the amount of points from any other player on his team and was essential to the two wins that this Heat team earned against Mt. Royal and Winnipeg. He obtained his career best of kills the past semester with 31 kills against Calgary on November 30th.

Temperature Rising Jim Bell Jim Bell is a second year player who consistently contributes to the UBCO Heat Men’s Volleyball.

He had a game high of 17 points against Winnipeg and his stellar performance in this game helped the team gain a win. Bell is in 9th place for block assists in CIS and demonstrates strong defensive strategy alongside consistent scoring ability. Bell will be an effective player in the second half of season.

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A “It’s always such a great opportunity to play UBC, they’re a strong team with some great players but I think we have the team to beat them this year.

We definitely have a tougher second semester but we’ve only gotten better since the beginning of the year.”

Jill Festival

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On Fire

Looking Back “Exceeded expectations” would be putting it lightly for the Heat Women’s Volleyball team, as they spent the first half of 2013 surging to 4th place in CIS’ Canada West conference. They’ve picked right up where they left off, too, keeping warm during the winter months by singing their opposition to the tune of a 10-2 record in the 2013 section of the 13-14 season. UBCO Women’s Volleyball has done an outstanding job in their first twelve games of the 13-14 season. Volleyball Heat fought their way to the top and are currently sitting in second place in Canada West. They are currently sitting 10-2, only losing to Brandon, November 8-9th, sitting in third place just behind UBCO. The only thing keeping this grade from an A+ is the relative lack of success in the post-season, as their 2013 playoff run came to a short end with a first-round upset loss. Steve Manuel took home coach of the year, and for good reason.

Looking Forward Heat Women’s Volleyball is coming into some intense competition in the last ten games of their season in 2014. They begin the season on home court in Kelowna against UBC, currently undefeated in Canada West at 12-0. This will be a difficult win for the women’s team as UBC won against UBCO in the West Coast Classic Tournament in October 2013. The games against UBC are followed by Trinity Western, Alberta, and Manitoba who are currently in the 4th, 5th, and 6th spots in Canada West respectively. This is followed by the final two games on home court against Regina, who occupies the 2nd last spot in the league with 3-9. The Heat are coming up against some difficult competition though, and it remains to be seen if the girls can get past these equally strong teams. Overall though, it must be stated that the UBCO Women’s Volleyball team is the pride and joy of Varsity athletics, and currently sitting at 8-2 is an amazing accomplishment for such an early CIS team to join this league.

brianna beamish Brianna Beamish is a senior level player who has proven herself to the UBCO athletic community.

Beamish is consistently one of the top players for UBCO Heat alongside her teammates, Given and Klomps. She has a game score high of 14 points in the 13-14 season against Winnipeg.

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kaitlynn given Kaitlynn Given is a rookie who will help carry the team to playoffs. She is an amazing offensive player, scoring 18thfor Team Canada’s 2013 games along with Beamish and two other players on the Women’s team due to her exemplary skills in her second year of play.

Men C+

Rugby

Women A+

This is the first year for both men’s and women’s rugby teams to register as independent clubs vs. through the Kelowna Crows. The Men’s Heat Rugby team are in Okanagan Springs 1st Division in a 15’s team that plays until February. They also have a division two team that plays with the Kelowna Crows and several university players compete on that team as well. The 1st division team competed to the best of their ability this past semester as they are a new team and are competing at a higher level of play as an independent club. The Men’s Rugby team will take part in the National Invitational University Sevens Championship in early March and will play exhibition games to prepare for this CIS tournament in March. Many players on the Men’s rugby team will also play on the Kelowna Crows Division 1 and 2 teams in the spring. These opportunities in 15’s and 7’s will be helpful to this team as it gives the athletes the experience needed to contribute effectively to the new rugby club in next year’s season.

The Heat Women’s Rugby team played last semester as a 15’s team in the Fraser Valley Rugby Union, 2nd division. They had six wins and one loss, gaining them a silver medal in Delta, B.C. This is the first year that the Heat has had a fully UBC Okanagan women’s team, rather than being combined with the Kelowna Crows, and they did amazingly well considering how fresh this team is.

The only defeat they suffered was against the Gold Medal game against Abbostford who had been playing together for several years.The UBCO Women’s Rugby team have high hopes in the National Invitational University Sevens Championship in early March 2014. They will train for these 7’s games with exhibition games prior to playing in Langford B.C. This will be an exciting opportunity for the women to exemplify their extraordinary skills as a fresh and talented team in a CIS sanctioned event.

Cross Country The Women’s Cross-Country team dominated this past season, winning 1st place at CCAA National Championships! Sandra Kilmartin and Michelle Blackburne both took home Team All-Star medals from the championships also. This medal was a first for the cross country team and represents a stellar performance on a part of these ladies. The Men’s cross-country team placed 10th in the National championships yet placed 1st in the pre-qualifiers, the 2013 Provincial BC Championships alongside the women’s team.

A+ Golf b-

The Men’s Golf Team obtained 3rd place in PACWEST out of seven teams in the league. Will Decker obtained first place in Men’s Individuals in the PACWEST league. The Women’s Golf team also obtained 3rd place in PACWEST with leaders Carolynn Lee and Kelsey Mcgillis. Carolyn Lee placed 4th in PACWEST Women’s individuals. Overall, the Golf team was fairly successful in PACWEST and has talented players that will help this team hopefully be very successful in future years.

UBCSUO pages

Proposed Bylaw Changes Nick Dodds- Services Coordinator and Executive Chair

Current Structure

The current structure of the UBCSUO Board of Directors was designed when our school was a regional university/ college with just over 3000 students,.

The primary objective of this structure is to implement campaigns and services developed by the CFS. Directors at large would be managed by the services coordinator to implement campaigns and services, Advocacy Representatives would address the needs of minority groups under the direction of the Internal Coordinator and the Grad rep would be the voice for graduate students. The External Coordinator would liaise with external parties, usually by lobbying using the CFS rhetoric and tactics. The Financial coordinator would oversee all finances. And lastly the meeting chair would oversee meetings. This structure was highly effective for its purpose, but it has been made clear that the students of UBC-O are no longer interested in the specific aims of the CFS, and as a result this structure is ill suited to meet our students needs.

Board of Directors is meant to have power over the executives, but if more than half the members are influenced by executives (even when it is not intentional), the effectiveness of the Board is diminished.

Next, the board does not necessarily represent the entire student body equally. Minority groups are theoretically over represented, while at the same time some faculties may have no representation at all. Not only does this mean that important issues may not be taken into consideration, but it also results in our members feel disenfranchised with their Union if they don’t believe their voice has a place.

The most Significant issues, and the most significant changes, are to the executive. The old structure did not have a central authority to maintain and oversee the direction of the Union.

This is because that responsibility was fulfilled by the CFS. However, now that we are parting from that direction it is becoming necessary that a The Board of Directors is affective central leadership position is created. at making decisions because it incorporates diverse views. With the So what is being Proposed to fix these current system however, Directors at issues: First, to prevent the executive large and advocacy representatives members from having such a strong are in power relationships under ex- influence over the board of directors ecutive members that inevitably af- , the Board of directors duties will fect how they perform their duties no longer include tasks outside of in Board of Directors meetings. The Board or committee meetings. Board

Proposed Structure

members may choose to volunteer, the Bylaws and changes being made but it will not be a requirement. to address them, keep an eye on our facebook page (UBCSUO) for updates Second, to represent the diversity of and links to more info on our website. students on campus the membership Before these proposed Bylaws are of the board will be changed. It will passed they must be recommended include a representative from each by the UBCSUO Policy Commitfaculty, as well as 4 directors at large tee and by the UBCSUO Board of who will voice the concerns of mi- Directors, before going to a SPEnority groups on campus. IN addition CIAL GENERAL MEETING a place is being made for a Senate where YOU, the members, vote representative to sit on the board in to adopt the new Bylaws or not. order to keep the board informed on academic issues the universities ad- SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING ministration is currently addressing in an effort to make the board work Wednesday more cohesively with the institution.

January 29th And the most significant change; the introduction of a president. This change will allow the other executive members to focus on their specific areas, while still maintaining a cohesive and effective executive team. Many of the issues raised during the withdrawn impeachment will be prevented due to having a position that oversees the big picture of the Students’ Union. The change in language, to VP’s instead of coordinators, is to make a distinction between staff and elected positions.

The changes discussed here are not a complete list of amendments made in the proposed bylaws. To get a more full understanding of all the issues with

5pm UNC 105 (UBCSUO THEATRE) Food and Drinks will be provided

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mountain Shuttle muSt pre-book online

For departures and bookings:

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only $10

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