September 5, 2013

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PRIDE IN THE GAME The experiences of out athletes at UBC

SUB BUDGET BOOSTED AMS finds an additional $3.5 million to fund New Student Union Building construction

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IMAGINE DAY A little rain wasn’t enough to dampen new students’ spirits

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LAST WELCOME BACK BBQ AT MACINNES P8 BELKIN GALLERY EXAMINES RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS P9 WOMEN’S SOCCER AIMS FOR PLAYOFFS P5 FRINGE FEST PREVIEW P9 DID TOOPE PASS OR FAIL? P10

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Last hurrah for MacInnes field. featuring food, drinks and performances from felix cartal and more, this barbecue boasts everything you need for a great friday afternoon. $20 The Imagine Day “brain room,” where the staff are on top of all social media channels.

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Behind the scenes with the people who make Imagine Day

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The final collaborative event between firstweek and Shinerama.

Wander down to this event at the SuB Ballroom to help raise money to combat cystic fibrosis in canada.

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Ming Wong managing editor, print

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ON THE COVER Finding rainbow-coloured hockey tape is far more difficult than we initially thought, and in the end we had to se le on duct tape. In an eff ort not to ruin the player’s hockey sticks, we improvised this photo by folding the tape in half and wrapping it around the blade, eliminating the risk of ge ing adhesive all over their tape jobs.

A colourful look with none of the gooey mess.

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It would be raining on Imagine Day. It’s somewhat fitting that firstyears would experience UBC Vancouver in its full glorious wetness.

But when you look back at the 16 previous Imagine Days, this is the first time that the backup rain plan had to be implemented.

“This is the 17th imagine UBC that we’ve had and this is the first time it’s rained. We had a run of 16 years of sun but we’re lucky because we have a rain plan,” says Kim Kiloh, director for the Center for Student Involvement (CSI).

Kiloh explained that much of the Imagine Day staff were on campus by 6 a.m. to do check-ins. Grogginess was not an issue for the bright and early start. “They’re usually in pretty good spirits because they’ve been preparing for this day all summer,” says Kiloh.

Planning for this year’s Imagine Day took place more than a year ago. They already have some of the bookings for Imagine Day 2014 ready.

CSI is the headquarters for Imagine Day. Volunteers and staff come and go to grab breakfast or snacks to refuel.

The “brain room” has many staffers on laptops monitoring social media channels to let students know of the rain plan.

10:35 A.M. Woo Kim walks down Main Mall armed with a walkietalkie radio and a turquoise backpack filled with maps and snacks to refuel the troops.

Earlier this morning, Kim was at the Doug Mitchell Sports Arena to direct lost students.

Now, she is on Main Mall to make sure the Main Event happens smoothly. Over 250 clubs will be setting up booths,

looking to attract new members. “[We] kind of live for the first day of school,” Kim says. “We just know to expect it. I wouldn’t say stressed — I would say excitement. Like, you know there’s a different energy [on campus.]”

12:35 P.M. The lunch table in front of Irving K. Barber is empty. Irene Navarro is waiting on the sandwich truck to feed hungry first-years. The truck should’ve been here an hour ago, she’s keeping her cool.

“You keep an open mind. It doesn’t stress you out,” says Navarro, program coordinator for Work Learn.

The Buchanan courtyard is a different story. Students and MUG (My Undergraduate Group) leaders surround the tables. On top of the tables are piles of Subway sandwiches.

“Only vegetable, meat on that side,” says Joyce Fu, a second-year Arts student and MUG leader.

She’s trying to direct confused meat-loving students. She herself holds a half-eaten sandwich in her hand. She’s not too concerned with waiting a little longer to eat her lunch. “It’s doesn’t matter because I have time,” she says — as opposed to the first-years who are on a tight schedule to get to the pep rally on time. (continued on page 11)

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EDITORS WILL Mcdonald + Sarah Bigam

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SFU sues former financial manager for alleged fraud Leah Bjornson The Peak

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The New SUB is still expected to be completed somewhere between September 2014 and January 2015.

$3.5 million added to New SUB budget

Will McDonald News Editor

The AMS has approved increasing the budget of the New SUB by $3.5 million.

Council approved the new budget at their Sept. 4 meeting.

The budget is being funded by fees all students pay for the New SUB project.

Since student enrolment has exceeded the numbers originally projected in the New SUB agreement, VP Admin Derek Moore said both the AMS and UBC are on board with the plan to increase the budget.

“The money will be coming in faster because we have more students. It’s like we’re taking stuff that we didn’t expect to have and applying it into this. And UBC is comfortable doing it,” Moore told

NEWS BRIEFS BC students campaign for grants program The Alliance of BC Students is pressing the B.C. provincial government to institute a needsbased grants program.

“B.C. is the only province in Canada without a provincial needs-based grants program,” said Rachel Barr, UVSS director of external relations. “Establishing a robust grants program is the key to making education affordable in this province.”

UBC opens new hospice A hospice was opened on UBC campus on Stadium Road on Tuesday. Part of the facility will be used for researchers investigating best practices for end-of-life care.

“Our hopes are that any new research conclusions would be published and distributed throughout British Columbia, and indeed around the world,” said Communications Spokesman Peter Hebb.

UBC creative writing teams up with Scotiabank Giller Prize On Sept. 16, UBC’s creative writing department will co-host this year’s announcement of the Scotiabank Giller Prize nominees.

This is the first Giller event staged outside of Toronto.

“We’re tremendously excited about the coming year,” said Steven Galloway, acting chair of the department. “It’s a chance to connect with 50 years of alumni and celebrate their success.” U

The Ubyssey . The new budget will allocate an extra $1.9 million in student fees to fund the project.

Moore said the extra $3.5 million should be more than enough to complete the New SUB. “The model that we’re suggesting is very conservative, given the way that the UBC student population is growing. And we feel good that we’ll be able to stick to this plan,” said Moore.

The $3.5 million will be used to refill the project’s contingency fund and provide improvements to the building such as better food and beverage equipment, an entrepreneurship centre, art projects, club improvements, vermicomposting and some mechanical improvements to the building.

“Though they are not absolutely essential, we do think that they would add a ton of value to <em>

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the building,” said Moore. “We thought long and hard about this.

We reduced our list as much as we could and these are the things that we want and we think they’re well worth the $3.5 million.

“As the years have gone on, we’ve found things that we want to change and this list encapsulates the highest of those.”

Moore said the predicted date for completion of the New SUB — anywhere from Sept. 22, 2014 to Jan 1. 2015 — still stands.

“There hasn’t been much of a taste in the New SUB committee to throw money towards things getting manufactured faster. We don’t think that’s the most valuable use of money,” he said.

Of the $3.5 million added to the project, $800,000 is being put into the contingency fund for the project. Moore suspected a lot of that

money may be used for renovations to the lower floor of the old SUB. “We imagine there’s going to be a bunch of asbestos down there [in the old SUB]. So that $800,000, the expectation is that a lot of that will be eaten up in environmental remediation,” said Moore.

Moore said the plan has been approved by both the AMS’s finance office as well as the UBC treasury.

The plan still needs to be approved by UBC Board of Governors.

Moore said it is expected to be at a Board Committee meeting on Sept.

9, then presented to the Board of Governors on Sept. 16.

“This will be the last round of changes as VP admin. I’m promising that we are going to cap off the changes here. Should anything else come up as things sometimes do, we have an AMS contingency line here.” U

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Collegium to Open in Ponderosa Commons

Brandon Chow Senior News Writer

BC will be opening its first Vancouver-campus collegium service in Ponderosa Commons early next week.

The collegium will be a place for commuter students to eat, study and relax before making the journey home. “[The collegium is] a way for students to relax, get to know others, and feel a sense of belonging and ownership of space on campus,” said AMS VP Academic Kiran Mahal.

She added that commuter students face unique challenges, and that the university hopes to replicate a space similar to residence common areas for travelling students.

Collegium use is restricted to 250 students, who have to apply for membership. Applications are currently open. Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-firstserved basis with preference given to first-years, and will be charged $75 per term to use the facility.

The collegium space will be open Monday to Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and monitored full time by student staff members.

It will have lounge chairs, a kitchen facility, refrigerators, board games, television, a study area and a print centre. In addition, mem-

SFU — Simon Fraser University is seeking to reclaim over $800,000 from its former director of finance for the science faculty, Siamak Saidi, who allegedly used the funds to purchase three properties in the lower mainland.

According to the university’s statement, which was released on Aug. 20, discrepancies involving invoices were noted last year by the Faculty of Science.

“Upon further examination, [SFU’s] internal auditor discovered information in 2012 that led the university to contact the RCMP,” read the statement.

These discoveries followed Saidi’s termination after his position became redundant in January 2012 as a result of restructuring.

During his employment at SFU from June 2010 to January 2012, Saidi allegedly submitted more than 500 invoices to SFU from companies in which he was a director. According to the affidavit filed by Gary Chan, director of internal audit for SFU, “All of these invoices were approved by Saidi and submitted by SFU’s accounts payable department so as to cause cheques to be issued to the vendors in question at the addresses set out in their invoices.”

Concerns over the invoices were raised after SFU noticed that the various supplies and equipment had been bought from vendors with whom the university was not familiar, as well as the fact that the registered office for the companies in which Saidi was a director was Saidi’s residential address.

Saidi, who is currently a chartered accountant with offices on West Pender Street, is accused of using the money from these payments to purchase three properties in Burnaby, Belcarra and Abbotsford. These properties were purchased during the time that the false invoices were charged to SFU or were subject to mortgage financing for which he was responsible, says the suit.

Although the university has stated that it is not in a place to comment, Claire Cupples, dean of the Faculty of Science, assured The Peak that SFU is taking steps to prevent this from happening again.

“I understand that the university is taking a serious look at its financial processes in light of this case, and certainly we in the Faculty of Science have worked hard with our eight departments over the last year to update all of our financial procedures,” said Cupples.

Saidi has been charged with fraud over $5,000, theft over $5,000, forgery and using forged documents.

The university is seeking to reclaim a total of $846,926 from Saidi, as well as to enforce an order that he be disallowed from disposing of the properties in any fashion.

Saidi has been in RCMP custody since Tuesday, Aug. 21 and will remain there until Sept. 5, when he is scheduled to appear in court.

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The new collegium will be in the Ponderosa Commons.

bers will have access to Ponderosa Commons’ fitness facility, showers and lockers.

UBCO also has a collegium program. They have three collegia: one for first and second years, one for upper year students and one for international students.

Greg Matthers, commuter student programing coordinator at UBCO, said that while multiple spaces exist, all students, including non-commuters, are welcome in any of the centers.

Woo Kim, a student development officer who has worked on the Ponderosa collegium, said that it is limited to first-year students because it is the most difficult for them to fit in, so the program is a way for them to meet new friends and establish a sense of belonging.

“If you’re going to be a part of this program, we want you to have a spot, and we thought 250 was

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the right number for the space we have,” Kim said.

She also said that fees were necessary to support the cost of having students monitor the facility, and that unlike the collegium program at UBCO, only students with access to the collegium will be charged. At UBCO, the cost of the collegium is included in student fees. This is a flat fee for all students, including those not using it.

Kim says there are plans to expand the program to older students at a later time, but that they are still looking for suitable space. One possibility that’s been considered is within the second phase of the Ponderosa Commons development.

“We’re going to see how this one goes first, and make sure we know how to meet the needs of commuter students to make this successful for years to come.” U

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Imagine Day not hindered by rain Will McDonald News Editor

UBC hosted its 17th Imagine Day on Tuesday.

The day-long first-year orientation event culminated in a pep rally at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre. Despite facing rain on Imagine Day for the first time in 16 years, most of the 6,159-person class packed the area to cheer for their faculties at the afternoon rally.

VP Students Louise Cowin opened the ceremony with stats on the class of 2017: the youngest student is 16, while the oldest is 51.

“You are in a unique and privileged place because you have a choice. You have a choice to shape your experience at UBC,” said Cowin.

UBC President Stephen Toope gave his annual address to the incoming class of firstyears. This was his last Imagine Day speech, as he is stepping down from his position at the end of the school year.

“My senior advisor warned me not to use any Latin today..., but I’ve got this outfit on and I’ve got the microphone and I’m going to use some Latin,” said Toope. “Momento mori. Remember that you will die.”

Toope then encouraged students to make a bucket list, of which he has two: one for UBC and one for himself. Toope said he planned to make sure UBC takes the lead on flexible learning initiatives. For himself, he wants to make a contribution to human rights law. And take a walk on Wreck Beach.

“Today’s theme is ‘I am UBC,’” said Toope. “The thing is, I’m not UBC, and you are not UBC. It’s the other way round. UBC is us.”

“It’s yours and what you make of it and of yourself is truly up to you. Momento mori, tempus fugit, carpe diem, minima maxima sunt. Remember that your time here is short and make every moment count,” said Toope.

AMS President Caroline Wong gave the final speech at the rally. She encouraged students to get involved in extracurricular activities like she did.

“I didn’t have a master plan, just an open mind — and in the words of Ms. Frizzle and a past AMS president, a willingness to take chances, make mistakes and get messy,” said Wong.

The speeches were followed by performances from beatboxer Rup Sidhu and slam poet Johnny MacRae. The event had over 800 MUG (My Undergraduate Group) group leaders and hundreds of volunteers. Although many of the expected volunteers didn’t show up to the event, Kim Kiloh, director of the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers, said the event was a success.

“What happened is extra people pitched in on the spot and some people extended their shifts for a little bit,” said Kiloh. “Overall, really satisfied with the day.” U

From top. left to right: students cheer at the pep rally; engineers get a tour of campus; Thunder pumps up students; rain doesn’t hold up the day; Toope gives his annual speech.

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Women’s soccer ’Birds shoot for nationals UBC wants back in after two season-ending shootout losses in Canada West playoffs Natalie Scadden sports + rec editor

When Andrea Neil took over as head coach of the UBC women’s soccer team in January, the message to her players was simple: “You’re either in or you’re out.”

Having worn the maple leaf for 132 games and in four Women’s World Cups, few people have had a greater impact on women’s soccer in this country than Neil. She has now returned to her alma mater with visions of strengthening the game at the Canadian university level, and that starts with getting UBC back to nationals — somewhere they have fallen short of for the past two seasons.

“A coach needs commitment for the program,” Neil said. “This is a journey that’s going to take a lot of time. Any coach coming in has their own methodology, and I’ve asked the players to change a lot.”

Neil’s coaching style involves a higher intensity not just in the way that the players prepare for the game, but how they go about their daily lives. On the field, repetition will be the key. Away from it, Neil has coordinated several team bonding trips and trust-building activities, as well as community partnerships and volunteering initiatives.

So far, the team is all in. Fifthyear midfielder Christina Donnelly believes that Neil has brought a positive impact “both on the field,

in the locker room and in all offfield aspects.” She thinks that after working with three different head coaches in five years, “it’s impossible to not be able to change and adapt.”

Donnelly also pointed to the fact that Neil has brought in a large staff of assistant coaches. “We’re not used to having so many people helping out, so that’s been incredible to have the support,” she said.

Neil noted that Donnelly and fellow seniors Taryn Lim and Jordan Kitagawa are the “leadership core,” but that she has not chosen a single player who will take over captain’s duties for Kelly Cook, who graduated in the spring. She also insisted that in a short season like the CIS’s, where teams play back-to-back games, a team cannot succeed with just a small group of key players. “[I] need [my] entire roster. I need everybody to step up. It’s going to take 25 players to win games, to bounce back,” Neil said.

In the past couple of years, UBC has relied heavily on a tight defense and the impressive scoring abilities of striker Janine Frazao.

They allowed just nine goals last season while scoring 46 themselves and recording seven clean sheets in 12 regular season games. Individually, Frazao has won two-straight Canada West Player of the Year awards, and her 47 goals over the past four seasons already make her

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Above: the women’s team runs through drills during practice on Tuesday, Sept 3.

Below: midfielder christina Donnelly is entering her fifth year at uBc and will be part of coach Andrea Neil’s “leadership core.”

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the conference’s all-time leading scorer.

While there’s no doubt Frazao will add more finishing touches to that tally in her final year as a Thunderbird, Neil is looking for other players to take on bigger roles as well, including six new rookies.

“You can choose a system of play, but ultimately you have to have a characteristic as a team,” Neil said. “On the attacking phase, you have to build the game in multiple ways. This is the ultimate team sport that we play. The entire rhythm is [not] dependent on [just] one player. We have to have a whole team sense of cohesiveness both on and off the field.”

After a couple of tough losses in the Canada West semifinals the past two seasons, Donnelly said she and her teammates are looking to draw from those experiences.

“It’s definitely motivating for our team to get back to nationals this year, after missing out in shootouts the past two years. Although we definitely have [the] CanWest final four circled on our calendars, we’re trying to take it one game at a time.”

The first game may prove to be one of the biggest challenges for the ‘Birds. They will be put to the test right away by the visiting Trinity Western Spartans, the reigning Canada West and CIS champions, on Saturday night at Thunderbird Stadium. U

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fifth-year Janine frazao holds the all-time record for goals scored in the canada West.

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By Reyhana Heatherington

or most people, a trip to Hawaii is synonymous with relaxation and the absence of confrontation. For Matthew Hawes, the journey had a sour sendoff several years ago.

While swimming for the Canadian national team, Hawes faced a challenge when the squad prepared to leave for training camp on the tropical island. His 10 teammates were invited to bring their significant others, but a coach discreetly told Hawes, who is openly gay, that bringing his boyfriend would be a problem.

“The coach came to me separately and said, ‘No, it’s gonna make everyone uncomfortable,’” Hawes said.

“I experienced [situations like that] monthly.”

It took some pushing, but Hawes was eventually allowed to bring his boyfriend.

As the Winter Olympics in Russia approach, recent anti-gay legislation passed in that country has raised questions about athletes’ freedom to be open about their sexuality.

The diversity of reactions to gay athletes is what makes this story persist. Regardless of the sport, the topic brings up questions around team dynamics and the factors that contribute to a successful and welcoming locker room.

Hawes, who is also a former UBC varsity swimmer, experienced homophobic slurs from fellow competitors at swim meets. Though seeing openly gay Olympic champion swimmer Mark Tewksbury made things easier for him, Hawes told The Ubyssey that he often felt the need to conceal his true self. He said it was easy for his opponents to “hit below the belt” and use his sexuality as an insult. But that name-calling also fuelled his competitive spirit.

“If they’d call me a faggot I would make sure that I would beat them. It would just drive me to be better.”

Traditional gender norms also affected Hawes’ interactions with certain coaches throughout his swimming career. The stereotype of the aggressive male athlete conflicted with his demeanour and seemed to make some coaches uncomfortable.

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If they’d call me a faggot I would make sure that I would beat them. It would just drive me to be better.

Matthew Hawes, former UBC swimmer “I was an athlete that had a lot of emotions and really wanted to talk things out,” he said, “and I think that a lot of my male coaches would get uncomfortable when I would go to them for advice or be really emotional about something.”

It wasn’t the words that stung.

Instead, Hawes said it was more troubling when childish innuendos about his sexuality were merely met with “a wag of the finger.”

“What I was most hurt about with the coaches was that it wasn’t acknowledged,” he said. “If they saw I was upset in any way, they would avoid it.”

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Simone Longpre, a UBC sports sociologist, said the general social climate places more importance on male-dominated realms, and the most popular sports in North America are grounded in heterosexual “macho male images.”

“Sport is one of the last male bastions,” she said. “Men still professionally earn more, they still get more resources as amateurs — it’s still a profoundly male environment and with that comes a real gendered nature to it.”

Despite the progress that has been made regarding homophobia in sports, Longpre says the battle is far from over.

“People think that we have sort of reached utopia and that it’s not even an issue anymore, and that really isn’t the case,” she said.

“There’s still lots of homophobia in locker rooms. [But people will say,] ‘Oh, it’s just talk, we don’t mean anything by it.’”

Battling under pressure Still, Hawes said the positive experiences in competitive swimming outweighed the negative ones. He credits former UBC swim coach Derrick Schoof with creating a safe and open environment so he could focus on the sport, but also be heard.

“He doesn’t see the sexual preference first, he just sees the athlete,” Hawes said of Schoof.

Now the head coach of the Edmonton Keyano Swim Club, Schoof said his coaching philosophy involves a holistic approach.

“Getting to know the person is imperative to being able to know what makes them tick,” he said. “If they can see that I care about them rather than just about their swimming, they will respond better to what I’m asking them to do and they’ll have a greater sense of trust and a greater sense of belief in themselves.”

This fundamental coach-athlete trust was put to the test at the 2009 Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) swim championships at UBC. When an assistant coach forgot to scratch Hawes from two events, he was forced to race in three individual events in the morning and again at night along with team relays. Since swimmers usually only compete in four individual events over a three day meet, this was an extremely gruelling undertaking.

But Hawes stepped up, hit the starting blocks and went on to place highly in all of his events. He scored valuable points for UBC, and the men’s team went on to win the national championship for the 11th time in 12 years.

“It really showed me the strength of his character because I had expected him to blow a fuse and get very upset,” Schoof said. “I always remembered that.”

When Schoof took a job at the University of Ottawa, Hawes followed him there. He then spent a year swimming in Australia before retiring from the sport in May 2012.

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Dayle Poulin and her girlfriend charissa church met while playing varsity hockey at uBc.

The gender divide

The difference in reactions to gay male and female athletes has been used as a way to separate the experiences of “out” athletes.

From the varsity athlete’s perspective however, the core values of trust and safety are the same.

Dayle Poulin graduated from UBC with a kinesiology degree last year and played on the UBC women’s varsity hockey team for four years. As a young girl growing up in northern B.C., the self-described “outsider tomboy” was bullied by girls in her class for always hanging out with the boys.

“I didn’t know a lot of gay people who lived in Prince George,” she said. “When I was still in high school, I just kind of thought it was a phase, or that this can’t really happen to me. I just thought it was not a very common thing.”

Once at UBC, she didn’t have any hesitation coming out to her teammates. In fact, it was the university hockey team environment that allowed her to be open about her

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sexuality. It was also where she met her current girlfriend of two years, teammate Charissa Church.

“There [were] already a lot of openly gay females on our team so it was just another day. No one really blinked an eye at it. ‘Oh yeah, Dayle likes girls. That’s cool.’ And everyone just kind of moved on.”

After opening up to friends and teammates, it took Poulin another year before she felt comfortable coming out to her parents.

“That was a bigger issue because your parents have expectations of you, and there’s conversations all the time when you’re growing up like, ‘Oh, you’re going to get married, you’re going to have kids,’” she explained.

Poulin’s family was very accepting and she continued to focus on her game. In her last season with the team, the UBC Thunderbirds won the Canada West championship and she was honoured with the coach’s leadership award.

Poulin plans to return to school to study diagnostic medical sonography and said she will continue to play hockey. She reflected on the powerful impact that her supportive team had on her life in an email to The Ubyssey.

“Playing on the women’s varsity hockey team has helped me realize who I am and feel comfortable in my own skin,” she wrote. “I have been surrounded with a great support group and other gay athletes who have been role models for me. The positive experiences I have faced as a varsity athlete at UBC have helped define me.”

Top: Dayle Poulin (centre) celebrates with her teammates after winning their final game and coming in fifth at cIS nationals in Toronto last year.

Bottom: Matt Hawes celebrates after a race as part of the senior men’s national team.

Moving forward Louise Cowin, UBC vice-president, students, acknowledges that while there has been some encouraging work to support the broader LGBTQ community at UBC, there is still work yet to be done for LGBTQ student athletes. She has tangible plans for making change in the upcoming school year.

“We’ll need to revisit the student athlete code of conduct to make sure that the policies there are robust enough,” she said. “But I think that we have not being doing enough in terms of proactive education for student athletes, and that will be one of the major steps forward.”

Once student athletes feel secure in their environment they will be more likely to express their true selves and achieve success. UBC athletes shared the notion that a supportive team environment is at the cornerstone of acceptance. This idea can be extended to any area — work, school and recreation.

Rather than focusing on gay athletes as a novelty, professional athletes like Jason Collins, Brittney Griner and Robbie Rogers have brought attention to the value of living an authentic life. Whether someone’s workplace is a basketball court, swimming pool, ice rink

or office, the pressure of hiding can prevent people from reaching their full potential.

Cowin said the goal is to build on the momentum of this discussion so that tolerance is replaced with openness and acceptance. “[Then] every student could feel proud and comfortable being who they are, expressed in the public space among their peers [and] with their professors so that they can really live their full self at university,” she said.

“And that’s just not student athletes, that’s all students.”

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I think that we have not been doing enough in terms of proactive education.

Louise Cowin, VP students

Hawes has a clear outlook on qualifying a person’s work with their sexual orientation.

“Sexual preference should never be [a preface to] what you do. Gay athlete, gay lawyer, gay doctor — that doesn’t make sense.”

Though various sports carry their own stereotypes and challenges, a supportive and encouraging team atmosphere remains at the heart of success. As is the case for effectively combating any type of discrimination, Hawes believes in the power of shared experiences.

“In terms of coming out, visibility is probably the greatest antidote for ignorance.” U

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FIELD OF GLORY

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Welcome Back BBQ marks the end of 30 years of music and debauchery at MacInnes Field

courtesy shane deringer

Current Swell are an excellent band for a student music fesival — just like their adoring fans, they too spend countless hours in libraries staring into space.

Catherine Guan Contributor

MacInnes Field will soon be no more.

Three decades have passed since it hosted the inaug ural Welcome Back BBQ. The field has witnessed moments both unforgettable and best left forgotten. And as the site for the future Aquatic Centre, MacInnes’ days are now numbered.

It is only right to bid adieu in the proper manner at the 30th Welcome Back BBQ: drink, make merry and drink some more. Between lineups for beer, barbecue and port-a-johns, the stage will feature a diverse lineup of musical acts.

One of the headliners this year has come full circle since his days as an English major at UBC. Taelor Deitcher, better known by his beatmaking moniker Felix Cartal, is excited to return to his alma mater. “Welcome Back BBQs were always a lot of fun for me,” he recalled.

“I saw k-os perform one year and it was awesome.”

The electro producer had a fairly unconventional beginning in music, getting his start with local punk bands. “The DIY aesthetic of punk rock has definitely carried over to the music I make,” he said. “It’s always been ‘make what you can with what you have.’”

Cartal likes to play with his crowd, and he remembers one of his first reaction tracks, “The Joker.” “I made it in 60 minutes before a show at Celebrities in Vancouver, purely to see if I could shock the crowd with a weird drop.”

Over the years, his sound has evolved from the steely distortions with which he first broke into the scene.

“Lately I’ve found myself

moving into things that are more pop-oriented,” he said.

The barbecue will mark the beginning of Cartal’s North American tour and the crowd will be treated to the first listen of new material.

Sharing the bill with the DJ is Victoria-based quartet, Current Swell. The indie

rockers have built up a devout following through social media, cultivating fans in some pretty far-f lung places.

“Having thousands of Brazilians sing our songs back to us was astonishing and incredible,” said singer-guitarist David Lang.

Scott Scanton, who also

serves as a singer-guitarist for the band, said, “[social media] allows a listener to find great music hiding everywhere ... instead of labels or industry telling the listener who they should listen to.” He sees the Internet as a great democratizer in music, turning “every artist with a song into somebody with

potential.”

The four-piece likes to interact with their audience, but there were times they got more than they bargained for. Getting tear-gassed in San Paolo was one of those instances.

“The home soccer team won the South American cup for the first time in its history and we got directly involved in a mass soccer riot with a million people in the street,” Lang explained.

AMS President Caroline Wong is thrilled with the acts rounding out the lineup. “Chali 2na, of Jurassic 5, rocks massive crowds and he is coming with his full band,” she said. “He has a great baritone voice and we are very excited to see him play.”

Musical duo the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer brings inf luences as diverse as Jack Johnson and Jack White.

Perennial local favourite My! Gay! Husband! will be playing between sets.

Madame President herself can be easily located during the barbecue. “My favourite moments are in the mosh pit, because you get to connect with new people ... and I always crowd surf,” Wong said.

For many, this year’s Welcome Back BBQ will be drenched in equal measures with alcohol and nostalgia. The annual bacchanal will be hosted at its original venue for the 30th and final time. Be there to give MacInnes Field the send off it deserves. U The AMS Welcome Back BBQ is on Friday, Sept. 6 from 2:30 p.m.-9 p.m. at MacInnes Field. Advance tickets are $20 online and at the Outpost, or free with a Firstweek Wristband. The event is all ages. <em>

Felix Cartal makes waiting for the bus an exercise in sex appeal.

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Art for the posterity of pain Belkin Art Gallery explores the dark history of the residential school system

which they describe on their website as an opportunity to “engage the public and provide education about the history of residential schools, ... celebrate regional diversity and honour those touched by residential school.” UBC is also commemorating the event; the academic calendar states that, on Sept. 18, “classes are suspended for students in most programs to permit UBC faculty, staff and students to direct attention to this event and its significance.”

Belkin curatorial intern Tarah Hogue explained that the team “wanted the exhibition to coincide with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but at the same time we have recognized that not everyone agrees with [its] mandate.”

The unusually large curatorial staff of Witnesses , consisting of six different people, was organized by the Belkin in response to logistical needs, the sensitive subject matter, and to “bring together a group of people that had different viewpoints,” said Hogue, who added that the exhibit organizers “wanted to involve as many interested parties as possible to go about [this process] as respectfully as possible.”

Hogue also mentioned the timeliness of the exhibit. “We’ve had a lot of momentum in our aboriginal communities with Idle No More,” she said. “It feels like the right time to be doing something like this, even though it’s been something people have been dealing with for a long time on their own.”

Along with community support, Hogue emphasized the importance of public education.

“We think that it is important for people, a lot of whom don’t have a good background of what the residential history is ... to see the hardship of reconciliation is something we can achieve.” U <em>

courtesy helen And morris belkin art gallery

Cardinal Schubert’s installation “The Lesson” is one of a multitude of works that examine the residential school system. Witnesses is the first show of its kind in Canada.

Emma Warford Contributor

today, but those effects are rarely discussed in the public sphere.

Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools , on show at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery from Sept. 6 to Dec. 1, is the first art exhibit in Canada to explore this history.

The exhibit will display both aboriginal and non-aboriginal contemporary and historical art, as well as pieces by first and second generation survivors of residential schools. Planned programming for the exhibit includes <em>

The residential school system is an infamous part of Canada’s history of racism and prejudice. The schools, which operated in B.C. between 1862 and 1991, sought to implement the cultural erasure of aboriginal life in exchange for social ideals that the government of British Columbia believed to be “superior.”

They are part of a history of injustice that still affects people

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artist talks, a live performance and a symposium based on issues of reconciliation and questions stemming from the exhibit.

In the exhibition catalogue’s introduction, Scott Watson, head of the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, explains how the exhibit came about in response to a request from Gwawaenuk Chief Robert Joseph, a survivor of the residential school system himself. According to Watson, Witnesses aims to “raise awareness of the history <em>

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and legacy of the residential schools.” Watson further explains that exhibition organizers “wanted to honour this request to show works that might point to healing and the future while still telling some of the stories that needed telling about the schools.”

September marks a month in which many aboriginal awareness events are taking place throughout Vancouver. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is holding a public event in Vancouver from Sept. 18-21,

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FRINGE FEST >>

Theatre and nature in harmony on Granville Island Aurora Tejeida Senior Culture Writer

Meanwhile is one of only a few outdoor shows at this year’s Fringe Festival. It also happens to be the first “one audience member at a time” show to have ever been staged at the festival.

That’s a mouthful, so let’s break it down: one audience member at a time means that only one person sees the show per performance.

Jessica Nelson, a UBC theatre alumni, is the writer and director of Meanwhile . She describes the show as an intimate experience that will allow the audience member to reconnect with nature.

“I want the audience to walk away with a renewed appreciation of the nature that there is here in Vancouver, and to try to set an hour apart for themselves relaxing and enjoying nature,” said Nelson, who works three jobs in order to support her theatre work.

The outdoor show, which is being put on behind the False Creek Community Centre along Alder Bay, is also meant to be an interactive piece of experimental theatre. “It’s kind of like a choose your own adventure, depending on who they choose to go to first.

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alter the way the story goes,” Nelson added.

The experimental nature of Meanwhile has also meant ticket sales are difficult. Since only one person can see the 20-minute show at a time, tickets can’t be bought in advance. There are seven shows a night, so if more than seven people arrive, they’ll be asked to come back the next night.

But there’s still hope you can make it to one of the shows, as Meanwhile will be playing for 10 straight nights — a feat that will test the endurance of the cast.

Kayleigh Sandomirsky, one of the performers, is doing seven shows a night with a 10-minute break between shows. This means she will be performing from 7:30 to 11 p.m. each night for 10 nights in a row.

Even though she also works a full-time job, Sandomirsky thinks people should come to the show so they’ll learn how to relax.

“People need to take a time out. I don’t think enough about taking one and when I do, I’m on my computer. It’s really nice to stop and do nothing, because we never do it and it feels so good,” said Sandomirsky.

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childhood and the importance of taking time to admire nature. Like other shows in the Fringe’s Onsite program, the performance was inspired by the setting itself.

“In our society we’re very much in the mindset of ‘if I’m not busy something is wrong with my life,’” said Nelson.

Meanwhile is about taking a moment to be with yourself — something people seem to forget to do in a busy city like Vancouver.

“It’s nice to have a moment of peace. We live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, one of the greenest cities, and I think we take that for granted. It’s nice to remember how beautiful it is,” said Sandomirsky.

Right now, the show is going through final rehearsals and some last-minute adjustments, like laminating posters. Being an outdoor performance, the cast is wary of the possibility of rain.

“If it rains, the show will go on.

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Tickets for Meanwhile go on sale at 6:45 p.m. behind the False Creek Community Centre on the night of the performance. The first show is at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 6.

courtesy jessica nelson

Only one person at a time can attend Meanwhile, making for a highly personalized encounter with nature.

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POINT/COUNTERPOINT: TOOPE @ IMAGINE DAY

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PARTING SHoTS AND SNAP JuDGEMENTS fRoM THE uBYSSEY EDIToRIAL BoARD

INSIDE TELUS HQ

EQUALITY FOR ALL ATHLETES

“Great news, gentlemen. We’ll be offering $50 in pre-paid credit cards to students who sign up for Telus internet this fall.”

“Excellent work, Johnson! But how will we advertise it? How can we make it seem substantially different from the bullshit student-poaching new customer deals we offer every fall?”

“Well, I’ve been thinking about that, sir. And you know what the kids are really into these days?”

“What’s that, Johnson?”

“Reddit, sir.”

“Reddit? You mean that website for cat photos and men’s rights activists?”

“Well, it’s more than that, sir — they also have these things called ‘memes.’”

“Memes?”

“Memes, sir. Large, blocky text expressing a trite sentiment over an incongruous stock photo. They’re everywhere.”

The fact that the media still make a big deal of professional athletes such as Jason Collins coming out publicly shows that sport is an area where homophobia still exists.

It shouldn’t even be newsworthy.

We showcased two former UBC varsity athletes in this issue who are out and proud. However, there are others who surely have both positive and negative experiences to share. There are many athletes who are still hiding their true selves from teammates they spend several hours a day with. We at The Ubyssey are happy to be a part of a larger conversation that many in the sporting realm have been reluctant to talk about until recently.

We hope that soon it will be an issue that does not need to be written about. Because let’s face it: sexuality has nothing to do with athletic ability.

“Stock photography? Minimal creative effort and technical skill? Why, that’s perfect, Johnson — right up our alley! And the kids will love it! I want 10 concepts on my desk by tomorrow.”

“Right away, sir!”

“Excellent work, gentlemen. Promotions all around!”

NOTA UT PRAESES TOOPE In linguam Latinam linguam tuam deprecandi ipsum primis annis debebat. Quis freshmen abhorrent, ex usu linguae in Academia sua introductio Universitas aptior commercia schola ad attende. Autem praeses academiae non requiritur quod conformetur expectationem, et hortamur Praeses Stephanus Toope ad futurum orietur in orationibus.

Cur non loquentur Esperanto? Vel magis conveniens ad University alumni ad loqui in Galli, Hispani, Mandarin aut unum ex pluribus aliis linguis diversis UBC scriptor discipulo corpus loquitur?

Stephan Toupe, uBc president, needs a new speech adviser that doesn’t write cliché Latin quotes that all revolve around the same old theme of how uBc is a an opportunistic place where we all just need to buck up and make our own university experience happen in a speech that climaxes with a really long sentence strung together in a dead language because it starts to make it really difficult to get the point of why he’s being talking for 15 minutes. or maybe Toope just needs to start listening to that adviser.

Step your game up, man.

RIcHARD KIM/ THE uBYSSEY

UBC President Stephen Toope gives his order to a waiter.

BE NICE, SAUDER Every year, a few Ubyssey editors and writers sit in on the Imagine day pep rally. And every year, the Sauder School of Business freshmen start their university experience by alienating themselves from the other 7,000 first-years.

Without fail, they always manage to shout their cheers over the president’s speech, an important announcement or, as happened this year, a slam poetry performance.

Commerce has a bad reputation because many Sauder students give off an air of arrogance that is more annoying than a mosquito buzzing next to your ear.

And if first-year students didn’t know this about Sauder students before the pep rally, they do now.

The only people who it pisses off more than those in the other faculties are the Commerce students who understand their piece of paper is only as useful as an Arts degree, and that any success they hope to have in life will come from hard work. So, Sauder kids, for the sake of your “colleagues,” please stop being assholes.

A PLAN TO HELP LOW-INCOME STUDENTS Getting more money for students is always an admirable goal.

The Alliance of BC Students is pressuring the provincial government to establish a needs-based grants program, as B.C. is the only province in Canada without one. This alliance includes UBC, UVic, SFU and other universities in the area. The Alliance is also pushing for the elimination of interest rates on student loans and an increase to funding for colleges and universities.

If they’re looking to model theirs after what other provinces are offering, the options aren’t stellar. The Alberta Low-Income Grant only offers $120 a month — less than the cost of a single class — and that’s for fulltime students. The Ontario Access Grant covers 25-50 per cent of tuition (to a maximum of $3,000 per year), but that only lasts for the first and second year of study.

Still, it’s better than nothing, which is what we appear to have at the provincial level when it comes to low-income students paying for school.

As for eliminating interest on student loans: good luck. U

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LETTERS Re: “fear and loathing at the canadian border”, 9/3/13 So basically, you got let into the country without a proper visa, you are complaining about it, and you are comparing your treatment to the atrocities being committed in the Middle East? You, sir, are a fool.

You asked “what actions?” I’ll tell you — you attempted to cross the border of a sovereign country without proper documentation, in accordance with laws passed by a democratically elected government. That is an action!

U.S. customs would have turned a Canadian in your shoes back and put their name on a watch list. Yet you complain about how the CBSA agent exercised judgement, advised you of your errors, and gave you an opportunity to rectify them without adversely affecting your ability to earn income or attend classes? Gee, if that’s not fascism, I don’t know what is!

Eomer Hadrigan , posted to Ubyssey.ca on Sept. 1, 2013

Note to readers: The Ubyssey has left CUP, formed NUW <em>

The Ubyssey has left the Canadian University Press (CUP), the student press cooperative for university newspapers in Canada.

Our editorial board voted over the summer to leave the organization, of which our paper was a founding member in 1938. CUP fees for large student papers are more than 20 times that of small papers and cost The Ubyssey more than $7,000 last year. After analyzing our budget and carefully considering the benefits of CUP, the editorial board decided that the organization no longer provided significant value, especially since many other large student newspapers have left over the past five years.

CUP provides a newswire compiling content from all its member papers, as well as offering some institutional support such as legal </em>

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Re: “Last Words” 9/1/13 An editorial in last issue’s Last Words responding to the comple-

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first of all, learn to spell. And use periods. Toope’s speech was well executed and had a good message. The only thing worse than a boring speech from an old man is an old man pretending that he’s cool. Toope did neither.

He’s a highly educated human rights lawyer. It would almost feel wrong if he didn’t use Latin in his speech. Toope’s speech was inspiring, but our photo editor got too hung up on his use of Latin to appreciate it. Infinitus est numerus stultorum. Ex mea sentia, Toope’s speech was a resounding success.

A very profound article — it touches on a very basic right, your right to human dignity, and protection from the arbitrary decisions of petty tyrants.

[The only people who] would really understand it [are those] who have been threatened by someone with a gun, someone who ... was in a mood to cause someone a bad day — and despite your every right to be there, your good intentions, innocence of any wrong-doing and whatever intelligence or “good karma” you have at that moment, you realize your powerlessness.

It’s not a comfortable feeling, and should be one that everyone should be free of the fear of, no matter their religion or nationality. Even a single instance is one instance too many, whether it happens on the U.S./Canadian border, at an IDF checkpoint in occupied Palestine, in the ghettos of Warsaw during World War II or anywhere else.

Shahzad Khan , posted to Ubyssey.ca on Sept. 2, 2013

help and mentorship programs.

Due to The Ubyssey’s comparatively large size, many of CUP’s offerings were redundant. For example, The Ubyssey has its own attorney on retainer, and our robust alumni network offers ample mentorship for our staff.

The Ubyssey has joined a content sharing service with six other student newspapers that have exited CUP, including The McGill Daily in Montreal and The Varsity in Toronto.

We formed this relationship — the National University Wire (NUW) — with other student newspapers to share information that is important to students across Canada.

The Ubyssey plans to continue sending staff to CUP conferences, an element of the organization we have always been happy with and are comfortable paying the higher non-member fee to attend, and hope to work with CUP and NUW papers to move forward in a productive manner.

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tion of the AMS’ first full service review in 19 years, recommended that the report suggest the AMS conduct such reviews more frequently. The report did, in fact, make that suggestion.

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The people who imagine Imagine Day (continued from page 2) The scramble for lunch isn’t getting to Fu. “I pretty much expected this, the way this is going,” she says.

2:28 P.M. Beneath the noise and excitement of the pep rally, in the basement where athletes typically dress for games, UBC administration and others part of the academic procession are all gowned up and ready take the stage.

Janet Teasdale, managing director of student development, watches from the side. “People were highly skeptical [of Imagine Day] when we first started this,” says Teesdale, but now she says alumni and students tell her they can’t imagine first week without it.

With 14 Imagine Days under her belt, she’s noticed some differences. There’s “100 per cent more people,” she says.

VP Communications Pascal Spothelfer rounds out the end of the procession. This is his second Imagine Day. He isn’t

nervous about going on stage in front of thousands of revved up first-years. “I just enjoy it,” he says.

John Williams’ Star Wars score written for Darth Vader’s entrance begins to play as the dignitaries enter the arena. “Another thing that hasn’t changed is the Imperial March,” says Teasdale before she goes up to watch the rally.

7:15 P.M. The sun is beginning to set.

Main Mall is mostly cleared of booths and tables. Kim and other blue-shirted staff members sit around Martha Piper Plaza. Having worked an almost 12-hour day, the orientations team has reservations at Mahony and Son’s at 7:30 to celebrate for a job well done.

“I think the day went really well,” says Kim. “I think we’re pretty happy with how it turned out. We saw some pretty happy students. We’re feeling good.”

Imagine Day 2013 is in the bag. Now, the planning starts for 2014. U

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ACROSS 1- fortitude 5- Destiny 8- Drew on 12- Western pact 13- Jazzy chick 15- ___ breve 16- Quickly, quickly 17- Without a break; 18- Repose 19- Squirt gun 22- PBS benefactor 23- Lock opener 24- Not fearful 26- Attitude 29- More strange 31- Where It.’s at 32- Second king of Israel 34- Violinist Zimbalist 36- Hula hoops?

38- Garr and Hatcher 40- Ike’s ex 41- Ran without moving 43- Label anew 45- Microwave 46- Restaurant 48- Whine 50- Biblical pronoun 51- Lilt syllable

52- Beer 54- Rogue 61- Distinctive quality 63- Like a ___ bricks 64- Actress Turner 65- Lukas of “Witness” 66- Make ___ for oneself 67- Islamic chieftain 68- Remain sullen 69- feeling of self-importance 70- Pull abruptly

DOWN 1- chew on 2- Tabula ___ 3- Let’s just leave ___ that 4- capital of Kansas 5- Actress Anderson 6- Mine finds 7- camp sight 8- Nasser’s org.

9- Make slender 10- otherwise 11- Group of individual facts

13- Mimic 14- Pueblo material 20- Tear 21- Anecdotal knowledge 25- Hoist 26- Kid leather 27- Having three sides 28- Each partner 29- Prepares for publication 30- Kidney-related 31- New Haven collegian 33- Strong feeling of anger 35- chart 37- clockmaker Thomas 39- capital of New Mexico 42- Antlered animal 44- female child 47- Gaucho’s rope 49- Depression between hills 52- contented sighs 53- Hawaiian outdoor feast 55- corn bread 56- Glitch 57- Singer Perry 58- ___ camera 59- Getting ___ years 60- Stool pigeon: var.

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