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Computer Science (CPSC) 110 is one of the largest and most popular courses at UBC. Without exception, the thousands of students who’ve completed the course are familiar with Dr. Gregor Kiczales, professor of computer science and NSERC software design chair who has built a mammoth reputation for himself since coming to UBC in 2000.

A wide range of programs in the faculties of science and arts list CPSC 110 as a pre-requisite.

And for good reason, according to Kiczales, as the course doesn’t just teach students how to code.

More importantly, the class lays the foundation for upper-year level courses to build upon.

“By the time people get to the end of their second year, you would like them to be able to write moderately complex programs and more importantly, be thinking about them the way experts think. Our approach is to immediately get people to understand how to think about programming the way experts do, and then later expand that out to complicated languages and more complex programs,” he said.

However, building a solid foundation in any subject is difficult and requires lots of work. Students enrolled in CPSC 110 have often voiced complaints about the strenuous workload that the course requires and how that disproportionately impacts those who are new to computer science.

Kiczales believes these complaints run contrary to the numbers. “[The grades distribution] is a perfect bell curve. The average is higher than people think — in the high 70s — and the tail is long. By comparison to other courses in science, it isn’t a brutally hard

course,” he said.

Furthermore, he argues that the approach 110 takes is equitable to students with different levels of experience with computer programming.

Focusing on the design principles of programming rather than the mechanics of coding, he believes, “avoids the people who know how to program running away from the rest of the room.”

But he did recognize the need for students to stay up-to-date with their coursework. As a course that introduces students to entirely new concepts, falling just one step behind could result in failing the course.

“Every day builds on every day that comes before it, [so] the consequences of falling behind are terrible. Every year, there are some people that fall behind and unfortunately end up failing the course. But we’ve talked to a lot of people and looked at a lot of data — people that put in the hours at least pass 110, if not better than that,” said Kiczales.

The real problem with 110, Kiczales contends, is that it has tried to serve two different audiences — computer science majors and non-majors who want to learn software engineering at the university level. According to Kiczales, CPSC 103 is now being offered to resolve this conflict.

“The solution is finally here and that’s 103. It takes the systematic design approach we take in 110, but doesn’t include quite as much upward growth,” he said. “It’s not trying to cover as much, but it is trying to be a course that teaches you how to program right.”

Letter grades aside, CPSC 110 is a project that Kiczales thoroughly enjoys leading. He is what some would call a natural educator. Even before coming to UBC, he worked in educationrelated laboratories, first at MIT and later at the Xerox Palo Alto

Research Centre. Coming to UBC and teaching the department’s introductory course is an experience that Kiczales refers to as a “privilege.”

“You teach people who have never seen a subject matter before, so it’s a great privilege and it’s also a huge responsibility.

Because if you blow it, then they go, ‘Well, that’s not interesting,’ and go the rest of their lives thinking that. One of my greatest sources of pride in [CPSC 110] is that I get a lot of students every year who say at the end, ‘You know, I didn’t think I would like this, and now I do.’ And that’s the greatest privilege you can have,” he said.

Currently, graduates from the computer science program are being hired by the world’s largest tech employers such as Facebook and Google. Vancouver also has a growing tech sector, with the likes of Hootsuite and Microsoft opening regional offices. And while Kiczales is happy to see his students finding success after graduation, he knows that they will have to adapt and re-learn to stay afloat in the computer science industry.

“Computer science, as a field, has always favoured people that can learn new things quickly. That’s always been true, and it’s going to continue to be more true as the fundamental underlying principles and tools of programming change.

Machine learning is going to be huge, and already in software engineering, data science plays a huge role,” he said.

In CPSC 110, Kiczales is preparing students for this future.

“I’m basically trying to say to people, ‘Do not get the idea that you can learn one specific language.’ The language you learn by yourself overnight. [At UBC,] you’ve got to learn the core of how software works. Otherwise, your career is going to be extremely short.” U

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UW and UBC explore possible collaboration Hana Golightly Contributor

An agreement between BC Premier Christy Clark and Washington Governor Jay Inslee means UBC will be collaborating with the University of Washington (UW) more in the future.

At last month’s Cascadia Conference, Clark and Inslee signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the goal of fostering the growth of the technology sector in both regions.

Officially referred to as the Cascadia Innovation Corridor, this partnership aims to reduce boundaries across the region — economic and otherwise.

While the memorandum provides broad goals and is not legally binding, it sets a precedent of collaboration between businesses, governments and universities, encouraging projects that span both jurisdictions.

Aiming to capitalize on the cultural commonalities of regional centres Seattle and Vancouver, the agreement prioritizes development in life sciences, clean technology, data analytics and high tech.

Metropolitan centres like Seattle and Vancouver have experienced a surge in growth that sees planners envisioning them as the next Silicon Valleys. Clark and Inslee want to strengthen the ability of their jurisdictions to compete in innovation on a global scale. Accordingly, the memorandum encourages the exploration of “opportunities to advance research programs in key areas of innovation and future technologies among the region’s

UBC is working toward further collaboration wth the University of Washington.

major universities and institutes.”

UBC Provost Angela Redish said that the these changes have “begun a more formal dialogue between the two universities.”

Over the past few weeks, both institutions have begun looking into where their common interests lie. In order to develop their partnership, UW and UBC must take stock of what cooperative projects are already in place. While relations between the universities have been historically positive, collaboration has been limited to individual faculty members.

“Institutionally, [UBC and UW] haven’t done very much in a coordinated fashion,” said Redish.

Mary Lidstrom, vice provost for research at the University of Washington, agreed.

“We have a lot of interactions

at the faculty level ... as faculty interact with many universities,” she said. “But this is now going to raise this more to an institutional level and I think we’ll have some very interesting joint-projects.”

UBC and UW have emphasized the importance of identifying the respective universities’ independent strengths and using them to their best advantage. For one, both institutions occupy similar positions of engagement within their urban communities.

“Both universities are [also] very interested in sustainability, both in the research in general on sustainability and climate change, but also on the campus itself,” said Redish.

“Right now we are just in the process of talking about where our joint goals can be realized and

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what areas make sense, because we would like to build on existing strengths in both institutions,” said Lidstrom.

“The other principle we have is to involve both research and students. We are very interested in opportunities that would have both an educational and a research component.”

As for when students will feel the impact of increased collaboration, that remains to be seen.

UBC and UW hope to define plans for research and educational interactions by the end of October. However, the timeline for implementing changes is less certain. According to Lidstrom, the universities aim to be ready to launch programs within the next academic year. U

Equity and Inclusion to hire director of conflict management

There will be a new face on campus come 2017.

The UBC Equity and Inclusion Office is hiring a “director of conflict management” to develop alternative and informal means of resolving conflict on campus.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of models of conflict management, experience in resolving conflicts in a variety of settings as well as justice institute training.

The director of conflict management position is part of a

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larger initiative currently being undertaken by the Equity and Inclusion Office as a step towards some concerns outlined in the Implementing Inclusion Report in 2013. That report highlighted the need for “informal conflict resolution that emphasizes interests” for all students, faculty and staff.

“It was always intended that there would be a much more strategic position in relation to conflict management,” said SaraJane Finlay, associate vice president of Equity and Inclusion.

“The successful incumbent will still do one-to-one mediation work because that is part of [the job].

[They] will also be responsible for building a strategy that gives the community in general more skills for managing conflict, for building up resiliency and for really putting in place the respect for environment that we want to see at UBC.” Finlay stated that conflict resolution across campus cannot be handled solely by one individual, and that there is a process underway to hire a “human rights advisor” who will be reporting to the director.

According to Finlay, the current director of conflict management has been catering to concerns regarding discrimination on campus, but not been able to dedicate time to developing the kinds of strategy for conflict management that need to be implemented at UBC. “There will be a human rights advisor … who will deal with the harassment and discrimination cases in relation to the protected grounds under the BC Human Rights Code. Then there will be … the director of conflict management, who will offer a

more strategic approach to conflict management,” said Finlay.

Linda McKnight, the director of human resources, continues to assert that the division of labor into the human rights advisor and director of conflict management is aimed at encouraging more informal ways of resolving conflicts.

“What we’ve heard over the years is [that] staff, faculty and students are intimidated if they think that by going to an office, they’re going to have some big formal investigation. We want them to think that if you have a conflict, you can call an office and identify what that conflict is, and talk about ways in which you might handle it yourself, or we might help you handle it,” said McKnight.

The director of conflict management position has been widely advertised to a broad pool of candidates — including graduates from the Peter A. Allard School of Law and the Canadian Association for the Prevention of Discrimination and Harassment in Higher Education.

It is expected that the position will be filled by early 2017. U

UBC’s Recreation and Athletic Facilities Strategy is undergoing public consultation until October 23. This strategy — known as the UBC “GamePlan” — addresses certain needs of the university such as aging facilities and recreational centers.

The preliminary strategy on which UBC is now seeking consultation was approved at the June Board of Governors meeting.

The university has now held four public consultation sessions about the UBC GamePlan.

“The Board wants to hear from the different communities, and to hear the needs and concerns in regards to strategy,” said Michael White, associate vice-president campus and community planning.

“This is a strategy that then informs future Board decisions on capital allocation, and it helps inform the typical decision-making process the Board goes through for spending and land use on campus.

“We’ve had a great showing both online and in the open houses so far,” said White. “People are coming out, [and they] are expressing a broad array of needs and interests in regards to the principles and options.”

UBC senior manager of public engagement Gabrielle Armstrong further emphasized the community input.

“We’ve had more responses than we’ve had for almost all our processes in the past. We’ve seen lots of engagement from faculty, staff, students and alumni,” said Armstrong.

A recent public consultation on October 17 took place on the first floor of the Nest. Students in attendance expressed general support of UBC’s proposed plan and for the need for better athletics facilities on campus, most prominently noting the crowdedness of UBC recreational facilities such as the BirdCoop.

“Having a new sports facility is going to be awesome because [the ones we have are] so busy,” said Rachel Leong, a second-year cognitive systems student. “I know that fitness really benefits your mental health and performance in school generally, so I think this is really vital for the university.”

Fourth-year faculty of arts student Peter Craigen also emphasized student need.

“I stopped going to the BirdCoop in my first year because it was way too crowded — I got a gym membership elsewhere, even though it was a lot more money,” he said. “I think this is long overdue and I look forward to seeing what they come up with. I’m excited to give some of my input into the final plan.”

The input received during this phase of consultation will be used to inform the proposed strategy that will be presented to the UBC Board of Governors for approval by spring 2017. U

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AMS to lobby province to legislate student housing rights Sophie Sutcliffe Senior Staff Writer

This year, the AMS will be running a campaign lobbying the provincial government to make changes to legislation that they feel will improve student housing rights.

“The project we’re working on is to address the fact that any housing run by universities in British Columbia are not subject to the Residential Tenancy Act (RTA), and for that reason, do not guarantee housing rights,” said AMS VP External Kathleen Simpson, who is heading the campaign.

An AMS housing rights lobby briefing acknowledges that the RTA isn’t suitable for housing run by post-secondary institutions, because the RTA would prevent the university from reserving housing for exclusively student use. It does, however, argue that the exemption of student housing from the RTA in 2002 has left thousands of student tenants without rental rights.

“Student housing contracts have become one-sided, without due attention to procedural fairness and often ignoring the rights of the tenant, in favour of the institution,” reads the brief. “These gaps are especially concerning in the context of the relationship between a postsecondary institution and their students, where significant power imbalances exist.”

In partnership with the University of Victoria Students’ Society and the Simon Fraser Student Society, the AMS have developed eight recommendations for changes to be made to provincial legislation.

Each recommendation is based on rights guaranteed by the RTA that the student organizations have adapted to fit student housing.

The UBC Residence Hall Association (RHA) has voted against supporting the AMS campaign, citing concerns of both the effect that it would have on their long-term autonomy moving forward and continued collaboration with UBC Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS).

The RHA, which is separate from SHHS and is made up of elected house presidents as well as an executive team, had been discussing whether to support the campaign since it was presented to them by Simpson at their September 12 meeting.

“Ultimately I was disappointed to hear what they had decided, but really, I attribute it to the structure that they have with student housing,” said Simpson when asked about the decision. “I’m really hoping that in the future, the RHA can move towards a better place to be able to advocate for students.”

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The AMS has partnered with other student societies to advocate for legislated tenancy rights for students living in university housing.

However, Avery Wong, president of the RHA, said that the decision to not officially support the campaign was less about their close ties with SHHS — an advisor of which sits in on every RHA meeting — and was more about giving residents a chance to form their own opinions on the matter.

“The RHA isn’t saying that the AMS should not proceed with what they are doing — we are simply just not signing on,” said Wong.

He did, however, mention concerns as to whether potential future legislation would provide

greater tenancy rights to those in student housing.

“A number of members of the [RHA Executive Council] feel that if we were to implement things into law, it could make it very difficult to change things afterwards,” said Wong. “We acknowledge that times change, and as such, there may be differences in ideal practices.”

They do still plan to aid the AMS’s campaign.

“We want to support the AMS under a different capacity in that we could perhaps educate

students and mobilize the student body by letting them know what’s going on.”

Wong said that the RHA is still looking at how they will run this campaign, but that it could be similar to the teach-ins that occurred during the housing fee increases in 2014. This is something Simpson is open to.

“I think that’s a great idea.

They haven’t really reached out to me specifically about it, but that would be great and I hope that I can talk to them about it,” said Simpson. U

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Horror play Hidden takes its audience into the woods

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The audience is taken into the Botanical Gardens for the reenactment of a murder.

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“Did you hear that?”

“Look over your shoulder. Turn on your flashlight — don’t you dare drop it.”

“Stop. Did you hear that?”

“It’s coming closer.”

An atmosphere of unease and anxiety permeates every facet of Hidden, an ITSAZOO production directed by Chelsea Haberlin and co-directed by playwright Sebastien Archibald. Hidden leads a small audience of 13 people around UBC Botanical Gardens, with only the light coming from their flashlights to guide them.

Inspired by classic horror films, Hidden begins at the Wolf and Hound Pub and shuttles the audience to the woods where a reenactment of a murder will take place. The play is performed in a promenade style in which the audience is led to different venues where the next part of the plot takes place.

Developing the show required a lot of preparation.

During development, director Haberlin said that the idea was for the production crew to gain experience in order to figure out what scared them, as well as what worked and what didn’t in those experiences. This involved everything from going to a cabin in the woods for several days and watching horror movies, to attending the different Halloween productions available in Vancouver — ghost tours, other Halloween promenade venues and the PNE Fright Night.

While the play does begin with the usual horror tropes — a killer in the woods, hunted university students, frightened young lovers — these tropes are quickly subverted as soon as the tour falls apart. “[The audience goes] from being the observer to being the observed — from being the one watching the people get hunted, to the one being hunted yourself,” said Haberlin.

With theatre being dominated by drama, comedy and musicals, horror plays are not typically a genre that is often produced.

Something that makes Hidden stand out from its peers as a unique experience is how integral the audience is to the entire production.

“We break down the fourth wall the entire time,” said Haberlin. “The audience is talked to directly for the entire play so they are a vital part of it. The way that they behave is part of the show.”

One of the difficulties of producing a horror play is the suspension of disbelief.

“I think it’s hard for you to be scared because there’s often a separation between audience and stage that makes the audience safe,” she said. “We wanted to take away that barrier and make the audience feel vulnerable. We wanted to make them feel that they were as much in danger as the actors around them that they are watching get murdered.”

Haberlin said that one of the challenges was the fight choreography. “We’re doing it outside, in the rain and in the fall, so there’s a lot of question of actor comfort and audience safety to be attended to because it needs to feel dangerous but actually be perfectly safe.”

In order to actually produce the play, Haberlin said that finding the Botanical Gardens was kind of lucky.

“We were looking at other [venue] options and when we realized that the Botanical Gardens has the tree walk — the GreenHeart TreeWalk. We thought that it would be such a cool experience for the audience to be up on that, watching the play go out.”

As one of her goals for Hidden, Haberlin hopes that audience will be scared, thrilled and excited by the experience.

“I hope they’ll want to see more theatre. I hope it makes them want to see more ITSAZOO Productions. I hope they have a really good scary time,” she said. “I hope it’s better than a great scary movie.” U The show runs from October 22 to November 13, 2016.

Laura Palombi Contributor

What’s that smell? Ah yes, it’s the strong blend of Tim Hortons coffee and McDonald’s burgers. The midterm season is in full swing and in the midst of it all, our normal routines can slip away. One of the first things to go is usually our sense of style. Tight jeans are left at the door and traded in for sweatpants — but it doesn’t have to be like this.

There are some easy ways to dress during midterm season which are just stylish enough to make it look and feel like you have your life together. That’s right — you can fool them all.

HOODLUMS AND HUES The key to dressing for midterms is to make use of items that you already have lying around which are both comfortable and chic. Let’s start with what is most important for Vancouver weather — a jacket. If you are like me, you don’t like to lug around a heavy raincoat — so I layerup instead. Pairing an oversized denim jacket with a cardigan will definitely add some depth and extra warmth to your look.

Super-sizing and layering items are all the rage right now. From Yeezy Season 4 to Justin Bieber rocking the dad style, layering keeps your look comfortable but notable.

I suggest mixing up colours and textures. You can match flannel with denim, a knit piece over dark jeans or even throw in a faux fur jacket if you’re feeling especially boho chic.

Neutral and darker tones will be pretty common during midterms because, well, ’tis the season. These are good because you will avoid colour clashing, but do not be afraid to go bold and let a pop of colour sneak through under those long layers. I suggest red or beige hues against blacks and greens.

Another easy item to throw over your shoulders is a scarf or shawl.

It works perfectly as a statement piece around your neck, but also keeps you warm on those late study nights. Wearing one with a bold pattern will make you stand out in any library on campus and all you have to do is wrap it around your body. Easy!

THE STEVE JOBS Of course, you’ll have to be wearing something under all of these

exciting layers and for that, I would recommend the ultimate go-to top — the turtleneck. In any situation, you really can never go wrong with a turtleneck. All you have to do is pull it over your body and you’ve got yourself a sophisticated look.

Turtlenecks work perfectly well on their own, but they can also balance out your over-sized hoodie with their form fitting structure.

Who knows? Maybe some of that Steve Jobs genius will rub off when you are studying.

LET YOUR LEGS BE FREE There are a couple of bottom items you can pair with this top.

Wearing culottes allow for a chic but movable look. When it’s late in the library, sometimes you will feel inclined to stretch out your legs or pose in weird positions. Culottes can let you do that in style and shame-free. Another easy pair of pants to wear are the “sweatpantpants.” Yes, I know sweatpants are not the most stylish thing, but I’m talking about the pants that are loose at the top and tighter around

the calves. There is something bold in wearing everything long and oversized from top to bottom, plus your comfort level will be at its max.

PICK A PAIR At the end of the day, looks all tie together with the shoes. Because it is midterm season, deciding what shoes to go with your outfit are the least of your worries, so it’s good to pick a few pairs that are versatile for the weeks ahead. Any kind of sneaker will add a slightly athletic vibe to your look and make it seem like you do more that just study all day. Converse or the classic striped Adidas will never let you down even in the rain.

However, if the sport shoe is not for you, any low-cut boot will do because it provides structure and can fit with any look.

After all, we all need a bit of structure during midterm season.

By playing with these key pieces in your look, you can still keep your fashion game going through the whole semester. U

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FROM CLASS TO STAGE: THE JOURNEY OF EIGHT UBC STUDENTS TO SUCCESS AT THE FRINGE FESTIVAL WORDS BRIDGET CHASE ILLUSTRATION YUKO FEDRAU

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he graduating class of UBC’s 2016 BFA acting program started off as a group of classmates, grew into friends and then transitioned into coworkers.

The eight members of the program studied in close quarters for three years, sometimes spending 10 hours a day, six days a week together in an effort to perfect their craft. The Ubyssey sat down with the group to talk about the process of surviving the BFA program, devising with their hit show, Love, Lust and Lace, taking it to the Fringe Festival, and — in the midst of it all —forming Gas Pedal Productions.

THE CAST OF CHARACTERS The maximum number of students for each BFA Acting class is 16. So, with only eight, the 2016 graduate class was particularly small. The group consisted of Francis Winter, Elizabeth Willow, Parmiss Sehat, Mariam Barry, Meegin Pye, Kelsey Ranshaw, Joylyn Secunda and Selene Rose.

To be surrounded all day, every day by such a small group of people for three years makes the program very tight knit. Sehat — like every honest reality TV star — laughingly admitted that she “wasn’t here to make friends.” But by the second year, the class had become like a family. “I think it was magic. I don’t know how it happened with us, but it’s unique,” Secunda said.

They soon began— alongside director Chris McGregor — devising their Commedia dell’arte clown show, Love, Lust and Lace.

“Clowning is such an intense experience ... and being able to have that kind of sense of play with one another was just a testament of how well we worked together and enjoyed one another’s company,” said Sehat.

Unlike a traditional production, there was no writing process. Love, Lust and Lace was the product of almost entirely improvisation.

“We spent a long time playing around with masks and finding different characters within [them], because every clown is very different,” said Barry. “It is said that every clown is motivated by one of the Four F’s — fleeing, fucking, fighting or feeding.”

Winter called their process “reactionary writing.” “We took a look at the classic scenarios and asked ‘Okay, what kind of story do we want to tell?’ and we created this dramatic structure around our class.”

What started as a class project ended up being run not once, but three times. “I was very surprised ... just at how much people enjoyed it,” said Pye. After their first successful performance at UBC and some prompting from the group’s movement teacher, the cast

re-mounted the show for a second time. Then, with another successful run under their belt and some money in the bank, the group decided that the next step was to take the show to the Fringe Festival, here in Vancouver.

The application into the Fringe is a lottery system and while the group didn’t get into the initial round, they applied for the “Bring Your Own Venue” (BYOV) category and aimed for a spot at the Firehall Arts Centre. They didn’t get it at first, till another production dropped out. “We were all set to say ‘Okay, we’ll try again next year and see where we’re at’ and then nope, we’re in!” said Winter.

The group had a show, they had a stage and now all they needed was an umbrella company under which they could run the production. “None of us have any money or the resources [or experience] to put on a show ... but maybe if we have a company, those things will show up!” said Winter.

And thus, Gas Pedal Productions was formed.

GAS PEDAL PRODUCTIONS IS BORN “We formed the company mainly as a platform for which we could take Love, Lust and Lace to the Fringe.

We were unanimous on the name — we liked the alliteration,” said Ranshaw.

Willow explained that the first time they did a run of the show, “Mariam played ‘Gas Pedal,’ by Sage the Gemini, and we would all sing it together and do the dance and so Gas Pedal Productions kind of came out of that.”

“Yes, it’s an inside joke, but it’s also the idea that we want to push the envelope,” Barry added, “We’re hitting the gas pedal with the kind of theatre that we’re creating.”

The Vancouver Fringe Festival was a different ballgame than performing at UBC. “[We quickly learned] how hard it is to self-produce,” said Willow.

“The amount of time and effort and money and logistics ... That is something I feel theatre school does not prepare you for, because you are kind of in this safe little bubble where all you have to do is act — everything else is taken care of. So it was definitely a wake-up call in terms of this is how much work it is to do everything.”

Ranshaw said that they could not have done it without the help UBC provided through set materials and costumes, allowing them to produce their show with less worry within the group concerning the making of money.

Of course, it is no longer just a UBC audience filling the seats, and there was a risk that some of the raunchier jokes might not translate too well. “Some of the stuff that we do is a bit … well, let’s just say that at one point I flat out pull somebody from the audience onto

stage and spank them,” said Pye. “I was initially very concerned about that, because when we did it at UBC, it was a safe environment. We knew pretty much everyone that was there in the audience. But in a public environment, if you have a person that you don’t know, you have to adapt it.”

Willow added that “there [were] some lines that stayed the same and the shape of the show stayed the same, but within it, little things have changed over time. Especially when we started playing to a diverse audience.”

AFTER THE LACE COMES OFF The show was an overall success and what started as a class project, ended as a profitable company – something that is a rarity at Fringe.

“When you’re going into a show, write down a list of absolutely everything you need to make [it] work,” said Winter. “Realize that every single one of those things is going to cost a lot of money. If we didn’t do a lot of fundraising, we wouldn’t even be close to breaking even right now. We’d probably be $1,000 in the hole.”

“It was amazing to me how many little details there are when it comes to putting on a show,” said Rose.

Willow added that, “people end up in debt by the end of the Fringe because they don’t make enough to pay themselves back. A really huge thing at the Fringe is getting a good review early in your run. That makes or breaks the rest of your run.”

So what is up next for everyone’s individual careers? Both Willow and Winter are acting with United Players in a production called Ghosts, which runs from November 4 to 27, at the Jericho Arts Centre.

Barry is assistant directing Ghosts — the same show that Winter and Willow are in — as well as starring as Jory in Disgraced with the UBC Players Club and as Judith in The Belfast Girls with Peninsula Productions.

Pye says that she has recently discovered that she’s interesting in writing and creating her own work.

Sehat just wrapped up an indie film, as well as an As You Like It adaption workshop with Bard on the Beach. She will also be featured in an upcoming show with Carousel Theatre called Sultans of the Street.

Rose is now a part of Shakespeare After Dark, a Shakespearian tragedy improv group with Instant Theatre Company, and Sin Peaks, a soap opera improv group.

Ranshaw is in the process of doing her 12-month Bachelor

of Education, hoping to find the balance between teaching and acting, as well as working on a podcast by playwright Andy Garland called Duggan Hill.

Secunda is taking the last two (unrelated) classes of her degree and working on writing a piece that may be the beginnings of a one-woman Fringe show.

As for what’s next for Gas Pedal Productions? Pye suggested publishing the script and Barry mentioned remounting the play again. “Some people have ideas of doing a cabaret-type performance, doing little bits of solo pieces or even having smaller groups working together,” said Secunda.

“I’m really excited to try new things, but I always have this family here and so whenever we reconnect, it’s like this beautiful familial bliss,” said Secunda.

For some, the idea of devising and producing your own show might seem daunting. But to this, Barry disagrees. “Everyone started like this. A group of friends got together, one person wrote a little piece ... and they got up on stage and they did it.

You start whenever you decide to start. You don’t have to wait for someone to give you permission — you just have to begin.” U

OPINIONS

OCTOBER 25, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR BAILEY RAMSAY

RELATIONSHIPS //

Ask Natalie: Love, love and just all of the love

Natalie Morris Advice Columnist

“Dear Natalie, What is the best way to forget someone when you know that you won’t be able to see him again?

Even though the memories are short and brief, they seem to pop up at the slightest association.

It’s tough to get by every single day without hoping for a second chance. Sure, you can use some schoolwork, but they can’t occupy your mind 24/7.”

I’ve gotten quite a lot of similar letters to this and while I promise I’ve read the others, I’m only going to respond to one.

Time. Time is the only way to get over a relationship. Sure you can try to cut corners here and there, but it’s not until time has passed and you’ve processed everything accordingly does anyone truly move on from a relationship.

One day, hopefully soon, you’ll be walking down the street and see this fellow and think to yourself, “Oh man, that guy looks familiar,” and then you’ll laugh and laugh because you’ll remember today and how hard it was.

As far as now, you can only try to distract yourself — try to keep him out of your mind and thoughts as much as possible. School work is great for this and even if you think it only goes so far, it’s a pretty decent way to keep your thoughts focused

“Sustainability at UBC isn’t just a word to define — it’s a term that defines us and how we interact with the world.”

This is the first line of UBC’s “commitment” to a sustainable future.

“UBC’s strategic plan, Place and Promise, commits all aspects of the university — its infrastructure, research, teaching and learning elements — to exploring and exemplifying social, economic and environmental sustainability.”

This is the second line of that statement.

I’m sure people have noticed that, despite the discourse which UBC presents to us and the world, this institution is incredibly conservative. You would have

Their Campus: Feeling like a first-year again in Edinburgh

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Let yourself be happy — because your happiness is not dependent on anyone.

while upping your GPA. But you shouldn’t just do school work — you can look into new hobbies, meeting up with friends, trying new brunch places or coming to the Ubyssey office to start bitching about school and textbook prices. We will listen and we will bitch with you. Anything that you can try, you can do.

Past romances can fill every corner and cranny of your brain. But if you cut it off and don’t feed it, it will die off. Don’t feed it. Let it binge for a quick minute then force it to move on.

Let yourself be happy — because your happiness is not dependent on any man.

“I may or may not have hooked up with my housemate. We were a little drunk and it was all very consensual, but it won’t happen again. How do I make things… not awkward?”

I mean, if it’s weird, you might have to bite the bullet and actually talk to them. If they’re acting off too, then it probably means they know it wasn’t in the cards for the two of you.

If the idea of looking them in the face makes you horribly uncomfortable, then you have to deal with your own emotions.

What were you expecting? What did you want to happen? What

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would you do if you could do it all over again?

When you’ve sorted that fun bit out and are ready to friendzone the complete shit out of each other, do it. Have small talk, complain about your job, class or friends, and make jokes with each other. Make sure neither of you stray into anything sexual with each other again.

The mutual friend zone. It’s a wonderful thing. U Need advice? Contact Natalie anonymously at asknatalie@ ubyssey.ca or at ubyssey.ca/advice and have your questions answered!

Letter: Let us become knowledge activists

Lucas Worsdell Contributor

NOT VANCOUVER //

The amazing moments here have totally outshined the moments of weakness.

MORE THAN JUST POSTERS //

Students protest tuition hikes in 2014.

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thought that the establishment here at UBC would heed the call of their students, staff and faculty and divest, respecting the basic principles of democracy. Alas, it is not so and we, the students who voted in favour of divestment in a referendum, now sit quietly as we observe or simply discuss in class the fact that our institution of higher education completely disregards the very principles which our society values as the cornerstone of civilization — the democratic process.

So what can we learn from this?

Deep ecology believes that the root cause of our environmental issues are the very principles which underpin our social and cultural systems that inform our lives. In other words, there is something fundamentally flawed with our institution called UBC

and there is also something fundamentally flawed with ourselves.

Above all, what we can take out of the philosophy of deep ecology is an idea presented to us by its founder, Arne Naess, as “deep questioning” — a questioning which requires a reimagining of our entire systems of being.

This reimagining travels deep into our social, economic and cultural systems as opposed to being a shallow critic, doing little to disrupt our cozy lives as consumers, colonizers, capitalists and as university students.

We can take these ideas, which are part of the deep ecology program but by no means created by it, and begin to explore ourselves from this perspective.

What does it mean to be a student?

What responsibilities do we have as knowledge seekers to be knowledge activists? Does that responsibility begin once we get our “pink slip,” so to speak, or now within and without the classroom?

As students of environment and sustainability here at UBC with the knowledge which we have been exploring in class, we can easily come to the conclusion that the issues that we are looking to address in today’s world and here at UBC are not only environmental, but also social issues. With this knowledge, we have a responsibility to be engaged in disrupting the processes that are damaging our ecology.

How do we move forward?

Before we will be able to save the planet, we must be able to save ourselves — that involves an

evolution of the campus community.

We need to be able to challenge and question the fundamental purpose of UBC and its actions, to be able to stand up for what we learn and what we believe in. We need to act, to confront our inertia and hold those in power accountable because if we can’t do that here at a university, how will we ever be able to transform our cities, governments and societies?

We should be exploring an activism that seeks to heal both social and environmental divides.

An activism that heals people first, institutions second and then our environment is a consequence of such an action. This activism starts here at home.

As students, we can demand change. It has happened on the streets of Paris in ’68 and more recently in Montréal — that is a fact. But as long as we believe that sustainability is something abstract that happens in a set of policies disconnected from our personal and collective actions, we will not be able to bring on the changes that are necessary.

I refuse to come to the conclusion that we are all apathetic and I invite you all to participate in an activism that transforms how we interact with each other — to engage with these issues full time, as a collective, in order to seek “deep answers.” This will be our real education. The future is now, for the revolution will not be televised — it will be live. U Lucas Worsdell is a fourth-year environment and sustainability major.

Hannah Scott Contributor

At the time of writing this, I’ve been in Edinburgh for just over a week and in Scotland for just over two. The first few days were difficult in terms of homesickness.

I’m lucky enough to have family living just outside Edinburgh, so my aunt picked me up from the airport and I stayed with them for a week before my uncle and cousins drove me back to move into residence.

Even that quick brush with family was the perfect start to this experience. My tactic when I was first here was just to not think about my family — and it was totally working until about a week ago, when I first Skyped with my mom and 14-year-old sister. I immediately started crying and couldn’t say exactly why.

I’m going to be honest — I miss my family a lot. I have so much admiration for people who leave home at 17 or 18 for their entire undergraduate degree. But being out of my comfort zone is definitely a good thing and the amazing moments here have totally outshone the moments of weakness and sadness.

Unfortunately, I’ve also had the unsettling realization that I have no idea what I’m doing. As a fourthyear student, I feel like I should have it all together, but the system here is so different from what I’m used to at home that I feel like a first-year all over again!

In the UK, every student is assigned a “personal tutor” — a faculty member in your department who is the point of connection between you and the university. I was led to believe that they might not be all that useful, but my personal tutor was both helpful and understanding.

I worried a lot about making friends, but I shouldn’t have been so panicked. Roommates (“flatmates” here) have great friend potential, particularly since there are a lot of international students and exchange students (not firstyears), and no one knows anyone else. We’re all in the same boat.

My flatmates and I have quickly become close, and I’m grateful for their support.

So the bottom line is that going on exchange can be scary and unsettling. But it can also be amazing — there’s nothing quite like having a laugh with your flatmates at 1 a.m. about a classical art meme. U

SCIENCE

OCTOBER 25, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

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MEDICINE //

Doctors part of cause and solution of opioid epidemic Jenny Gu Contributor

Dr. Ian Scott is the director of UBC’s Centre for Health Education Scholarship and a practicing family physician.

Ubyssey Science sat down with him and discussed his views which focused on the role of physicians in the opioid crisis, and where he sees the future of the management of the epidemic heading.

WHAT ARE OPIOIDS? Opioids are a class of drug [that include prescription drugs like morphine or Vicodin and illegal drugs like heroin]. These drugs have different potencies and slightly different mechanisms of action, but they all essentially work on receptors in the brain and the spinal cord, and cause the effect of reducing pain.

WHAT IS THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC AND HOW HAS IT DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST YEARS? The opioid epidemic is the increased use of opioids both in clinical [with a doctor] and non-clinical [without a doctor] settings.

In clinical settings, originally, opioids were used primarily in patients who had cancer or were in palliative care. They have recently been used in settings where the person does not have a terminal illness and has a chronic condition.

Illicit use has also increased. The challenge with the opioid crisis is that drugs have become much more available and easier to acquire now.

People can go on the dark web and buy a kilogram of fentanyl, and get it delivered to their home.

I’m a practicing family physician, so my concern about the opioid crisis is how to address the challenges of patients coming to see me who are on long-term opioids, and how to either reduce or control their use.

WHAT ARE SOME SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS EPIDEMIC? Addiction is a disease and it impairs people’s ability to gain employment, to have quality relationships and to be good members of society. Often, because of the way opioids work, people require increasing doses to maintain their addiction. In order to attain the drug, they engage in behaviour which may be detrimental to their well-being and to their families.

One of the big parts of the opioid crisis is the fact that people are accidentally overdosing now. If opioids are not cut appropriately by the people who are mixing them illicitly and there is a little bit more opioid than expected, the potency is so great that the implications are depression of the respiratory system and your brain dies from a lack of oxygen.

WHAT ROLE HAVE PHYSICIANS HAD IN THE CAUSE OF THE OPIOID CRISIS? In around 2000, there was a great deal of activity promoting the use of opioids for non-cancerous chronic pains, which up until that point, might have been treated with aspirin, Tylenol or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory. In the profession, there was a feeling that we were not providing appropriate or adequate care, and we should be using opioids

for these people.

There were a number of guidelines written, promoting the use of opioids in that situation, and many physicians were reluctant to prescribe them, but felt that there was evidence there supporting them doing it. We probably both appropriately and inappropriately treated patients with opioids. It generally made opioids a more common and accepted treatment modality in medicine, and people became more comfortable and less hesitant about using opioids.

That was not the only cause — nor the major cause — of the opioid crisis, but it was a deliberate act in that physicians were advised that it was appropriate to use opioids to treat chronic pain. There’s a whole pile of other societal factors that I think have led to the opioid crisis — the availability, poverty, lack of stable housing. All of those things have encouraged the opioid crisis, so the physician’s role is one piece of a multi-factorial piece.

HOW IS THE DECISION TO PRESCRIBE OPIOIDS MADE? There are some guidelines from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC. They’ve set what they feel are appropriate levels of opioid use in patients and our objective is to try to slowly reduce people’s doses.

When we see new patients, we ask them to consent to us doing a PharmaNet search, which allows us to see if other providers are prescribing opioids to them. We can then have a conversation with them and ask them to agree that they will only come to us to get their opioids, and not see multiple physicians.

We’ll do an intake interview with the patient to find out what their opioid history has been, what they are on now and if they’re using any illicit street drugs. Then we’ll happily agree to work with them to reduce their opioid use slowly over time so that they don’t suffer any withdrawal symptoms.

DID THIS CHANGE TO GUIDELINES IMPACT HOW OPIOIDS ARE PRESCRIBED? Yes, it has. Most physicians would feel uncomfortable about having patients on high-dose opioids, and generally, we try to reduce people’s doses. The College guidelines have, in some ways, helped in that they’ve given us a bit of a target. Again, one needs to be careful about recommendations from experts, evidence and where the evidence comes from, but people have become a bit more comfortable about the fact that there are some guidelines that we can hold up to ourselves and hold up to our patients.

Physiologically, if you stop high doses right away, the increased number of opioid receptors are essentially hungry for the drug and the patient will have significant withdrawal symptoms, so it needs to be done slowly. There are regimes out there for tapering people which we look up and say, “Okay, we can do it at this level,” and we can talk to the patients about it and explain it to them, and have them come back every week, or every two weeks where they’re on a tapering regime to reduce dose.

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Opioids affect everyone in an addict’s life and have far reachng consequences in society, Dr. Scott argues.

WHAT MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OPIOIDS DO PATIENTS HAVE? At times, these patients have missed their opioids before and have suffered withdrawal symptoms, so they are nervous and often don’t want to have their dose reduced. They don’t see the problem because they’ve been stable on opioids for a while. We have to make an alliance with the patient and explain to them that we aren’t going to abandon them and we aren’t going to fire them if they don’t succeed, but that we’re going to work together to slowly reduce their opioid use.

The other concern that patients have is that in our healthcare system, drugs are often funded either through the government or through people’s private plans, but other effective pain treatment modalities such as physiotherapy and counselling aren’t as readily funded. So if we had easier access to those things, it might also be easier for us to reduce people’s opioid use.

Drugs are also relatively easy for the patient, whereas physiotherapy and counselling would require some work on the patient, in which they would have to go see a provider regularly. Drugs are easier for the healthcare system, and easier for patients than it is to engage in some of those other things. If we had easier access to physiotherapy and counselling, it might also be easier for us to reduce people’s opioid use.

HOW CAN PATIENTS, PHYSICIANS AND REGULATORS IN THE GOVERNMENT TAKE THE NEXT STEP IN DEALING WITH THIS? It would be helpful to have an integrated approach. It’s not for lack of concern. I think people are very concerned. It’s just a matter of lining a whole lot of pieces that deal with a lot of different parts of the problem, and getting them to somehow work together and coordinate the approach to this. Many people in the system recognize that. It’s a matter of

how to do it and it’s a matter of money as well.

IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD? As a society, we need to figure out how we’re going to address pain and suffering that people have, because many of these people who have been drawn to opioids — and have become tolerant or addicted — have had some level of trauma in their lives. Opioids have allowed them, in some ways, the ability to tolerate their pain and suffering better, but in the end, those opioids have probably led to greater pain and suffering.

I think we need to figure out a multifactorial approach related to the events which drive people towards using illicit substances to help make their intolerable lives more tolerable, at least at the beginning, before the opioid addiction makes it intolerable.

We need to think about this as more than just stopping people from taking opioids. We need to consider more integrated approaches, supporting people and families, and reducing the trauma that people experience in their lives.

It’s going to take some time.

We aren’t going to, just by having some guidelines, fix this in the next year. It’s going to take time for physicians to feel more comfortable in reducing people’s opioid use, for patients to understand that there’s some rationale for not putting them on opioids or reducing their opioid use, and to figure out how to integrate treatment across the province to support people who want to quit or end their opioid use.

It’s going to take some time and we need to be ready for the long game on this. U This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

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A D A’S AT L A N T IC A D V EN T UR E HOW A UBC ENGINEERING TEAM’S PRIDE AND JOY ENDED UP LOST IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BUT UNITED A COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD

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da, the little robot, is in trouble.

Waves crash over her bow and lines cry out in the wind. A wave rises up behind Ada and she is carried up with it. For a moment, she sits at the peak of the wave, motionless in the heart of the violent Atlantic. The moment ends and she careens down its face, moving faster than she was ever designed to. The wave yanks at her rudder, straining it further and further to the side. Just as Ada is about to bottom out, there is a loud snap.

The rudder has failed.

Ada can’t steer.

She’s 8,500 kilometres from home, 14 days away from Europe, stranded and no one is coming to help her.

She’s on her own.

TAKING THE ATLANTIC The UBC SailBot team designed and built Ada, a fully autonomous sailboat, known as a “sailbot.”

Ada is named after Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program in the 1800s. The team is made up of about 60 UBC undergraduate students who work on Ada as volunteers.

In 2004, several UBC students, led by Erik Berzins, didn’t want to build the humanpowered submarine they were tasked with for their capstone project. They convinced their professor to let them start a design time and built a sailboat instead. The club competed in its first competition in 2006.

Several years later, a group of young engineers — known as the Original Team — picked up the mantle of UBC SailBot. The Original Team, composed of Kristoffer Vik Hansen, Neil Dobie, Karry Ocean and Josh Anders, among others, designed a boat to compete in the International Robotic Sailing Competition in 2012 — a competition that was inspired by the success of the capstone project.

The UBC team won the event in 2012 and in 2013, when they became the first team to earn a perfect score. The team released most of their design so that other teams could learn from it to improve their boats and level the playing field. They returned to the competition in 2014 with the same boat they had used in 2013 and won the competition with another perfect score.

“That was our signal that we are in a league of our own and this competition was too small for us,” said Youssef Basha, a graduating electrical engineer who has spent the last four years with UBC SailBot. “So we decided we were going to take the Atlantic.”

Don Martin, a Vancouver based yacht designer and advisor to the SailBot team, helped the team design Ada’s hull — but he played a much larger role in Ada’s life than just the design.

In 2013, Martin and Hansen had a conversation after winning their second competition in a row with a perfect score — they needed a bigger challenge. The two came up with the idea to cross the Atlantic and the idea for Ada was born.

By late 2013, UBC SailBot had been throwing around the idea of ditching competitions to focus

on the Atlantic for a while. An email thread solidified the idea and the team got back to work.

The competition boat — TB2013 — was only two metres long. The team would need a bigger boat. While the team could use what they learned from competing and apply it to Ada, the boat needed a massive upgrade if it was going to make a transatlantic journey.

GETTING TO WORK It’s the fall semester of 2013 and SailBot has just committed to crossing the Atlantic — 100 per cent autonomously.

No one on the team has ever sailed across the Atlantic — the journey is a black hole. The challenges that face them remain a mystery. With no idea of the hardships their boat will face crossing the ocean, the engineers are at a loss of where to start.

The leaves have just started to fall on campus and the winter rains have yet to set in. The sun is setting behind the Engineering Design Centre as 70 undergraduate engineers file into the building after their last Monday lecture. The team piles into the centre, grabbing a seat in front of a projector. Hansen, the team captain at the time, starts a presentation on the team’s progress and what needs to be done next.

Over the next three years, the team will spend every Monday evening at team meetings and every Saturday at the Rusty Hut, the engineering workshop, at subteam work parties. They will be meeting with and interviewing sailors, engineers, boat designers, teachers and adventurers to learn everything they can about sailing, sailboats and the the open ocean.

THE TASK AT HAND UBC SailBot, which fluctuates between 60 and 70 undergrad members depending on the year, is broken up into three subteams. Each of the three subteams — mechanical, electrical and software — has a lead and tackled one aspect of Ada. The team captain oversees all three subteams. The mechanical team was tasked with, among other things, designing and building the hull and sail. The electrical team is responsible for sensors and power. The software team write Ada’s brain — coding her how to steer, navigate and sail.

The teams work independently much of the time, but are in constant communication. Ada isn’t a hull, a sensor and some code — three stacks of technology. She is one integrated, intelligent and sophisticated robotic sailbot with a life of her own.

She needs to be 100 per cent autonomous. The team puts her in the water, tells her where to sail and lets her go — no remote control, instructions or humans on board.

I KISSED A GIRL AND I LIKED IT On Saturdays, the team arrives at Rusty Hut at 9 a.m., trudging through the cold autumn rain to meet with their subteams. About 15 to 20 team members fill the workspace until 1 p.m., when the second crew comes to replace them. The second team will work until 5 p.m. — sometimes working late into the night.

The first few months see members gathering around tables, laptops illuminating their faces. Before the team can build anything, they must first research and design the vessel.

By early 2014, the Rusty Hut is bustling with the sounds of construction, forcing the software team to flee and find refuge in the quieter Design Centre.

The mechanical team starts with the hull. Not only must the hull be completed first so that the rest of Ada can be built onto it, they will only have one shot at building it. Since electronics, sensors, batteries and the rest of the mechanical parts will be placed in and on the hull, once it’s done, it’s done. The software team is busy at work, researching and coding Ada’s brain.

While five or so engineers huddle around the hull, sanding its edges to perfection, a team of five electrical members cluster over a table at the side of the workshop — fiddling with a sensor or battery. The team is tasked with providing power to Ada, the hardware of her brain and all of the sensors to guide her on the 3,300 kilometre crossing.

A few members of the team work in the office in the Rusty Hut, continuing to research and design for the adventure ahead.

Down the street, the software subteam has pushed together a group of tables and are all typing, building Ada’s intelligence one line of code at a time. The subteam is dependent on the hardware the mechanical and electrical teams install on the boat, and must work on code for functions Ada may never have. Members of the team devote thousands of hours into code that could get cut hours before launch.

The team is still over a year and a half away from launch, but they are hard at work to the ritualistic soundtrack of movie scores, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Imagine Dragons. The music floats out of the Rusty Hut and into the Vancouver drizzle.

When Youssef Basha says, “The hull was built half to war music and half to ‘I Kissed A Girl,’” it’s no joke.

LITERALLY OUR LIFE The team that built Ada spent a lot of time together.

Weekly group meetings, all-day Saturday work parties and a summer of near-constant labour has built the team into a family.

“SailBot was literally our life this summer,” said Madie Melcer, a 3.5 year (yes, that’s a thing) mechanical engineer. “You can’t not make friends.”

“The only time I had to myself was when I was sleeping,” said Vivian Cheung, a recent UBC graduate who spent the last two and a half years with SailBot. Cheung is described as team “mother” and this summer — while the team was making their final push to finish Ada — organized the testing, the trip to Newfoundland and team lunches and dinners.

While the team is very much a family, they also have a boat to build. Josh Baker, a fifth-year computer engineer and a core member of Ada’s software team, remembers when shortly after joining the team, he’d pitch ideas to Josh Anders, the software lead at the time, only to have Anders explain how “crazy the idea was.”

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Anders stressed to the software team how they needed to keep Ada as simple as possible. The team is composed of students — complicated design would lead to poor execution. Baker said the idea stuck and runs through much of Ada’s design.

“We’d throw out ideas, and we’d go back and try and tear down every assumption we had,” said Basha, the team’s ‘hardware hero.’ “Reductio ad absurdum.”

But the constant, constructive criticism only brought the team closer together — Josh Baker is going to Josh Anders’ wedding later this year.

OVERDRIVE With only a few months left to finish Ada before the Atlantic crossing, SailBot went into overdrive this summer. Some team members, like Cheung, worked full-time on Ada. They would show up at the Kitsilano Yacht Club at 9 a.m., test Ada on the water for four or five hours, do the required adjustments and corrections back on land, and head home to do more work or catch some sleep when the yacht club closed for the night.

Other team members, like Baker and Melcer, were working full-time jobs or on co-op during the summer, and would use their lunch breaks and after work hours to sink 20 to 40 hours of work into Ada. It’s July 20 when the team disassembles Ada, packs her into a trailer with all of their tools from the Rusty Hut and starts the engine on Elliot — an old suburban — and a second car, Millie (seriously, what’s with all the names?). Ten members of the team will spend the next 10 days driving across Canada to Newfoundland, camping along the way.

Cheung is in Elliot, with five other guys from the team. Elliot is old and has no AC — “It was awful,” said Cheung. When the team leaves Vancouver for their 7,500 kilometre road trip, the high for the day was 24ºC. The team works their way across the country, spending their days listening to music (not the Rusty Hut playlists) and podcasts, and their nights in campgrounds — dreaming of Ada sailing the Atlantic.

The team arrives in St. John’s, Newfoundland on July 29 and get to work. Ada is set to launch on August 24 and the team has a lot of work to do. First, in a workshop at Memorial University, the team must rebuild Ada — she was gutted for the cross-country trip. Then they will return to testing — this time, they’re not limited by a yacht club’s hours. Working off of a private dock in the Atlantic Ocean, the team tests Ada for 14 to 16 hours a day. Some nights they are on the dock until the early morning.

The team, which has grown since members have been flying in, work for as long as they can before grabbing a few hours of sleep in an Airbnb they’ve taken over and covered in sleeping bags. When the Newfoundland team sleeps, the team in Vancouver — including Baker — get to work writing code for the Newfoundland team to test the next morning. Arek Sredzki, the software lead who has been spending his summer in Montreal, is sleeping in his office — unwilling to give up precious time commuting, working every moment he has.

ROBOT NIGHTMARES The team has Slack, a work messaging app, with a channel called #nosleep. The rules of the channel are simple. One, you may only post “not sleeping” in the channel. Two, it must be after 1 a.m. Messages are regularly posted in the channel early into the morning — sometimes as early as 7 or 8 a.m. — when team members have yet to sleep.

The clock is ticking, and the pressure is on and it’s getting to the team. The sailbot nightmares have begun.

Basha remembers waking up to beeps of a warning system of Ada, thinking he had fallen asleep on the dock and something was wrong. Ian Kellough-Pollock, whose sleeping bag was next to Basha’s, had nightmares about the same system — which had been giving them problems all summer

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— muttering “No, the… it’s just not… I can’t…” in his sleep.

The night before launch, the team hit one final roadblock — the infrared obstacle avoidance system had failed, causing a critical problem onboard. With four hours to go, the team decided to cut the system, saving the boat. Several members were integral to the system but one, Denis Trailin, had worked almost exclusively on the system for

the last two and a half years. There was no time to mourn.

After averting that crisis, the team — which only had eight members left in Newfoundland, as the rest had flown home or started the drive back to campus as to not miss the first day of class — boarded The Inquisitor (definitely the best name yet), a tugboat they were given access to to pull Ada out to sea.

Then Ada was off.

The team cried, Facetimed team members across the country and headed to shore.

THE HARDEST 20 MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE For the next four days, the team was glued to Slack, which received a heartbeat — data on Ada’s location and health — every 20 minutes. Then the team received a heartbeat that Ada was headed south — the wrong direction. It wasn’t a big deal — sometimes Ada did funny things. Then they received a second heartbeat — Ada was still moving south. Then a third.

“It’s the hardest 20 minutes of your life,” said Basha.

On the other side of the Atlantic — in London — Cheung and team member Cody Smith had received the same message. It was 4 a.m. and the two decided they needed to sleep — Ada was probably just acting funny like she sometimes did.

The next morning they woke up and Ada was still moving south. The team called it — Ada was done.

SailBot speculates that it was a mechanical failure in the rudder that left Ada stranded. It may be the linkage or the rudder itself — there is no way to know.

Cheung and Smith opened a bottle of red wine, first thing in the morning, and poured themselves a glass.

It is impossible to know exactly what, or how, Ada broke until the team recovers the boat but they believe the rudder — or the linkage to the rudder — broke. Without a rudder, Ada can’t steer and can only float with the wind and ocean currents.

“We never felt like we failed. Getting this far is a huge feat on its own. We built something so many people had personally connected with,” said Basha.

“We say Ada, we refer to her as a she, people refer to her as a she. She’s not a robot anymore…”

“She’s a person,” said Melcer, finishing his sentence.

“She’s part of the team as much as we are — she’s our baby,” said Basha.

The team is going to take everything they learned from Ada 1.0 and apply it to Ada 2.0, or Babbage (after Charles Babbage, a mathematician) – the name is a work in progress. SailBot isn’t going to try to cross the Atlantic again — at least, not yet.

But that doesn’t mean they are shooting for an easier goal. The plan is to enter the Vic Maui Race — a manned sailboat race from Victoria, BC to Maui, Hawaii. The new boat will race 4,000 kilometres across the Pacific against human teams.

The next Vic Maui is in July 2018, giving the team just over 600 days to finish the new boat.

They’ll take design elements and ideas from Ada 1.0, but the new boat will have to be built from scratch “The fact that so many people had such a genuine, emotional connection with a machine is our biggest accomplishment,” said Basha.

Since the team received the devastating news of Ada’s injury, she has slowly floated across the Atlantic, inching closer to Europe. If you are a ship captain in Portugal, hit SailBot up — they want their baby back. U

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Dhanda was the most valuable player at 2015 National Championship.

Lucy Fox Staff Writer

At the top of the women’s soccer team’s formation, wearing highlighter-yellow cleats, Jasmin Dhanda waits for the ball patiently.

She isn’t loud or demanding, but quiet and composed as the point woman of UBC’s offence.

Monitoring along the University of Victoria Vikes’ defensive line, she is constantly watching — waiting for her moment.

It’s midway through the first half and UBC is up 1-0 against the University of Victoria. Dhanda has yet to strike, but she doesn’t doubt herself. She has a point in all but three matches so far this season.

As has come to be expected, she capitalizes in the 30th minute. As third-year midfielder Reetu Johal looks up for an open teammate, Dhanda circles around into position between the Vikes’ defence. Johal sends the ball into the empty space behind Victoria’s back line and

Dhanda strides into its path, just ahead of a defender coming to challenge her.

Inside the box, Dhanda tips the ball over the sprawling Victoria keeper — it’s a tough shot to make, but Dhanda sinks it effortlessly.

The ball ripples the back netting and Dhanda calmly celebrates with the wave of teammates flooding in her direction.

She isn’t attention seeking. She doesn’t embellish anything. Just another shot, another goal and another 60 minutes left to play.

Now in her fourth year with the women’s soccer team, Jasmin Dhanda is an essential part of the ’Birds offence. With two games left in regular season, she sits on nine goals and seven assists, and leads the team in goals, assists and shots.

Dhanda’s success with UBC doesn’t come as a surprise when you look at her soccer history. Her career so far includes stints with the national training centre, the U-17 national team and time with the Whitecaps residency program.

But it’s her collected, calm demeanor that puts her in a league of her own and it doesn’t come unwarranted given her history with the game.

Her love for soccer started in her childhood, as it usually does.

Playing soccer with her brother and sister at a young age, Dhanda said her parents spotted her talent early. Though she played other sports like field hockey, by 14 she had realized soccer was the sport for her. Since then, she has continued to gain recognition for her skill, highlighted most recently by a Gunn Baldursson Memorial Award for being the most valuable player at the 2015 National Championship.

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With that kind of a history, Dhanda says she’s gained an unfaltering level of confidence.

“I’ve been playing soccer for so long, so I know I have the skills and the ability to be the best that I can be every day and help my team,” she said. “I just stay positive and even if things aren’t going my way, I just forget about it and keep going.”

But that confidence doesn’t come without knowing there is some expectation to perform as well.

“There’s always some pressure there because I feel like if I’m not doing my best, I’m letting my team down,” said Dhanda. “I rely on myself to finish my chances and get my team on the scoreboard.”

Head coach Jesse Symons has seen this confidence grow first hand, having coached Dhanda not only here at UBC, but with the Whitecaps residency program as well.

“I think the one thing that all great players have is that they aren’t cocky or flamboyant … they are just within themselves and they are quietly confident,” said Symons.

“Jasmin’s always been like that — she’s never been a player that has needed attention or needed that arm around her to say you’re good.

She’s just confident.

“I think she is constantly looking to get on the ball. She’s a player that wants to go forward, [but] sort of has a calmness about herself too. If she misses a chance, she’s going to keep going and try to score … her confidence never really waivers too much,” he continued. “She’s comfortable with understanding that if she misses a chance, she will get another one.”

As for what he’s seen change in Dhanda over the years, Symons honed in on her maturity as a leader and its parallel with her surety on the field.

“She doesn’t lead like a rah-rah type player — she’s more of a player that leads by example,” he said. “If you watch her in games, she’s sort of a player that gets on the ball and makes things happen.”

So she can score and she does that on a consistent basis. But she also knows when to give that space to another player, or to set up someone else up going forward. She is a game changer, but a playmaker too — an essential piece of the puzzle as it stands today for the Thunderbirds team.

She has the skills, the determination, the certainty and the demeanor to lead and succeed, and she’s been doing that.

What’s more, UBC gets another season with her in their uniform.

“You look at all the attention she’s gotten this year, to know that she’s got another year at this school is really exciting to see what she’s going to be able to bring,” said Symons.

“I think a player that has got a lot of accolades after winning the national championships last year and [being] the MVP of the playoffs, to come in this year with so much on her in terms of expectations, I think she’s really hit it ... To see this going into next year is really exciting.”

Calm, collected, and confident — Dhanda is triple threat up front for the women’s soccer team and she has another season left to impress.

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The team completely beat out Calgary over the weekend.

Salomon Micko Benrimoh Staff Writer

What’s better than sweeping your rivals in a two-game weekend series?

Shutting them out in both games and winning by a combined score of 8-0.

This is what the UBC women’s field hockey team was able to accomplish, beating the University of Calgary Dinos 5-0 on Saturday and then again on Sunday with 3-0.

Both games saw the T-Birds assert total dominance over the Dinos, keeping play almost exclusively in the Dinos’ defensive end. Three different T-Birds scored in Sunday’s game and goal-tending was split down the middle between Gabriella Switzer and Rowan Harris.

The wins were a bonus for the ’Birds, as they’ve already clinched their 26th Canada West title after beating the University of Victoria Vikes twice two weeks ago.

UBC midfielder Rachel Donohoe was also named as the 2016 Canada West MVP shortly after the match ended. Donohoe is in her fourth year at UBC and with the Thunderbirds.

The wins were a bonus for the ’Birds, as they’ve already clinched their 26th Canada West title after beating the University of Victoria Vikes twice two weeks ago. They won the first game 1-0, and scored late in the second to win 2-1 and clinch the title in dramatic fashion.

Overall, the T-Birds finished the 2016 season undefeated with a final record of 6-0-2. The draws came from the first two games of the season, both of which were against the Vikes and had a final score of 1-1.

The ’Birds have also only conceded a total of three goals over the course of the entire eight-game season.

The T-Birds now have two weeks to prepare for the CIS national championships that will be held at the University of Toronto starting on Thursday, November 3. They’ll be hoping to continue their success on the East Coast as they try to capture their sixth straight CIS national title. U

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The team swept their weekend games, beating UBC Okanagan 1-0 and Thomson Rivers University 2-1.

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The Thunderbirds blew a 3-1 lead on Saturday.

Salomon Micko Benrimoh Staff Writer

Going in with a 0-4 record in conference play, the Thunderbird men’s hockey team was betting on taking both of their games against the University of Alberta Golden Bears. They were able to take Friday’s game with a commanding 5-2 win.

They started the second game strong, storming out to a 3-1 lead at just past the midpoint of the first period. The third goal came in the form of a shorthanded goal by second-year forward Chase Clayton. But the Golden Bears answered less than 20 seconds after with a goal of their own to bring the deficit back to one.

The T-Birds held their own for the rest of the period, with their defence stopping a flurry of shots by the Golden Bears.

T-Birds goalie Matt Hewitt made an amazing stop with just over a minute left in the first, foiling an Alberta two-on-one by stopping the puck with his left pad at the last second.

The tension between the two teams had most definitely been building throughout the period, with the hits getting more violent and loud as it drew to a close. The ’Birds still had the lead, but they were outshot by the Golden Bears 13-5.

The second period started with the Golden Bears scoring on the first shot on goal, as Alberta

tied the game by beating Hewitt with a sharp five-hole shot. The Golden Bears used the momentum from the first goal to propel them to score two more before the 10 minute mark as things really began to fall apart for the T-Birds.

The Thunderbirds tried to mount a comeback in the second half of the period. Their biggest chance came when they went on a power play with just over two minutes left in the second, but they ultimately came up short and were unable to get past Alberta’s defence.

The third period opened with a T-Bird penalty that the Golden Bears quickly took advantage of, scoring to make it 6-3. By the 15-minute mark, the Golden Bears had outshot the Thunderbirds by more than double of a margin, with the total being 31-15 in favour of Alberta.

The T-Birds would take two more penalties, both of which the Golden Bears would capitalize on, bringing the score all the way up to 8-4. After the eighth goal, Hewitt was pulled in favour of former Michigan Wolverine goalie Derek Dun, who would let in one goal before the end of the game.

The T-Birds would score one consolation goal in the dying minutes of the game as they fell 9-4 to Alberta.

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With two games remaining in the regular season, the stage was set for the Thunderbirds men’s soccer team to clinch the top spot in the Pacific Division. Needing just one win to achieve the feat, the ’Birds hosted a desperate UBC Okanagan Heat (UBCO) on Friday evening.

After a grueling 90 minutes, it was UBC who walked off the field with the three points and first place in the division.

“It was a thrilling way to finish it, wasn’t it? With the last kick of the game,” said UBC head coach Mike Mosher after a last-minute win for UBC. “Credit to our guys — they persevered and kept pushing.”

Both teams seemed eager to create chances early on in the match, as the plays went back and forth across the length of the pitch.

After playing a third of the first half, the Thunderbirds were beginning to gain control of the game, creating chances on a regular basis. In the 26th minute, UBC’s Chris Damian showed a bit of flair to pass the ball to Manpal Brar, who missed the target on a good opportunity. Eight minutes later, Jules Chopin created some space for himself to fire a shot from outside the box, which was just wide of the net.

There were many shots from the T-Birds, but most of them were off-target. Despite a scoreless first half, the intensity between the two teams was clearly visible.

The Thunderbirds remained defensively sound in the entire half.

The second half showed a bit more intensity as players were beginning to execute their passes and shots accurately. It is safe to say that UBC got on the right foot early in the second half and did not lose any momentum.

Some early pressure in the second half from the Thunderbirds was highlighted by a 57th minute free-kick taken by T-Bird midfielder Karn Phagura from 40 yards, which dropped right into the feet of Bryan Fong, who drove the ball straight into UBCO keeper Mitch McCaw’s path.

There was only one dangerous moment for the Thunderbirds’ defense in the second half, which came in the 76th minute. Heat forward Luke Warkentin tipped the ball over Thunderbirds’ keeper Chad Bush, but his attempt was cleared by UBC defender Manraj Bains.

Time was running out for UBC to score a goal, and they made one last substitution with 12 minutes remaining. Jules Chopin was replaced by Ryan Arthur in hopes to salvage a win in the late stages of the game.

Finally, after 90 minutes, the Thunderbirds were rewarded for their efforts in the added time of the second half. Titouan Chopin lured the Heat’s defense in the dying seconds of the game and passed the ball onto the feet of Arthur. Arthur took a gamble with his left foot from the top of the 18yard box, and saw the ball glide past

the goalie and into the top left shelf.

“It’s a big one — it clinched us first place ... Everything came together nicely,” said Arthur of his first goal of the season.

When asked about what the team can improve on upon reflecting on Friday’s match, Mosher said, “It’s a matter of scoring … We created enough, but we need a player who’s going to step up and start scoring for us on a regular basis. That’s the million dollar question right now.”

The celebrations did not stop after Friday night’s game, as the Thunderbirds went on to beat the Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack the next day. Ryan Arthur scored the opening goal of the match for the second straight day and the Thunderbirds went on to win the match 2-1.

UBC will walk into the playoffs in style, finishing the regular season as Pacific Division leaders. U

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