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Looking at financial aid at UBC

UBC A Cappella are Pitch Perfect

Arts language requirement, yay or nay?

Rugby players start training in bobsleigh

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WED 27 UBC ARTS & CULTURE NIGHT 5:30 P.M. @ MOA

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Karunaratne said he learns more from managing his company than academics at UBC.

First-year Sauderite Thenuka Karunaratne is already a CEO

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First-year Sauder student Thenuka Karunaratne lives in residence, attends five classes, participates in extracurriculars and is also the CEO and founder of AdMark Technologies, a company which he created in his last year of high school.

With his most publicized product, a Netflix search engine called Flixed that garnered the attention of Time, Business Insider and Mashable, Karunaratne was used to the spotlight when The Ubyssey sat down with him.

Flixed allows users to search for content on Netflix throughout different countries and regions.

In the past year, AdMark Technologies has had 2.5 million visitors excluding Flixed, which has 93,000 users in just the last 10 days.

“I think every step of my work is fulfilling because it’s all moving towards something,” said Karunaratne. “When something launches and you see people liking your website or giving you feedback, comments or statistics, it’s pretty cool because you made something and now people are using it because they find value in it.”

Being the CEO of your own company at the age of 19 can affect the way people treat you professionally, Karunaratne pointed out.

“One thing I’ve realized is that a lot of people look at age as a hindrance because they are

worried that a more experienced person will get their position. But being young is actually a huge advantage because it gives you a huge pushing point just by virtue of your age. If you’re pushing really hard and you show drive, everyone wants to help the young guy,” Karunaratne explained.

Besides running a company and managing five classes, Karunaratne is also involved in UBC Launch Pad, a campus club that gives student entrepreneurs and programmers the opportunity to collaborate with each other to implement business ideas. Instead of students paying for expensive professional developers to create an app or website, UBC Launch Pad will code their idea for them into a working prototype or a minimum viable product at a fraction of the cost. Karunaratne’s involvement with UBC Launch Pad is that of a pseudo-business advisor and analyst in terms of determining how viable a product is and identifying its potential customers.

“When I wanted to get some ideas built in the early stages, I couldn’t build them because I didn’t have the capital to do it,” said Karunaratne. “These people are willing to do it as a service and it also gives the programmers that they’ve recruited experience so that they can find jobs at the same time while helping a student entrepreneur. That’s special.”

Karunaratne prioritizes managing his company over his academics as he finds his work more fulfilling and educational than his courses.

“In terms of business classes, I’ve seen no relevance so far actually,” said Karunaratne. “When I’m debating upon the division between my grades or my projects, it comes down to what I learn the most from. Almost all of the time it’s [my work] because I get more out of actually doing something, falling and getting back up than at school. A lot of stuff [taught in class] becomes outdated or is too surface level.”

Despite his disconnection with academics, Karunaratne still sees educational benefit at UBC through networking with professors.

“I’ll talk to those professors after the course and realize that they have so much to offer, but you just have to go and make that one-on-one connection — that’s where you get the real value.”

Karunaratne is excited about many upcoming projects — none of which he can talk about yet.

However, he promises a lot of cool products and to keep pushing the boundaries of what he can create.

“Moving forward, I’m not intimidated at all because you learn that, in building, there are so many challenges. Once you get past them, you learn something,” said Karunaratne. “I honestly think that if I just keep building better, more useful projects, I don’t see myself as never being able to follow up with the greatest thing I have at the time because I’ll always be using what I learned from the last one to push even further on the next one.” U

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Domestic financial aid: money there, education not

Have you ever needed to access financial aid at UBC?

Moira Warburton News Editor

Last June, the Board of Governors was presented with a document on the current state of affairs for financial aid earmarked for domestic students at UBC. “UBC is losing students to other universities because of the perceived lack of availability of entrance awards and financial support at UBC,” read the report.

“A comparison of UBC’s financial information vis-à-vis University of Toronto and McGill University reveals that UBC’s spending on scholarships, fellowships and bursaries as a [percentage] of total university expenses lags behind the other two universities.”

As it turned out, the report was not entirely correct. The University of Toronto and McGill University used “creative accounting” in calculating how much they give to financial aid as a percentage of their operating budgets, said Darran Fernandez, associate director of enrolment services.

Fernandez told The Ubyssey that UBC’s contribution towards financial aid for domestic students is actually at comparable levels with McGill University and the University of Toronto when seen as a percentage of annual tuition revenues.

“We’ve opted to look at it more as money in tuition dollars that are coming in from students, as opposed to the operating funds because, in some of those cases, it’s [comparing] apples and oranges,” said Fernandez.

However, the report in part ignited a push for change to how financial aid for domestic students is allocated at UBC, a change which went through this past autumn.

“What we’ve now done is tied a percentage of tuition to go towards financial aid,” said Fernandez, explaining that domestic aid is now set aside in a similar manner to international student aid.

Five per cent of “base tuition”

— meaning the cost of tuition in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science, the two largest faculties on campus — is allocated to domestic financial aid. If a program’s tuition is higher than that — Commerce, for example — then 15 per cent of the monetary difference between Commerce’s tuition and base tuition is given to domestic aid.

Part of the reason for this proactive action in domestic financial aid, said AMS VP Academic and University Affairs Jenna Omassi, is Policy 72.

“Domestic students [should] know that the university, as per a Board of Governors’ policy, is mandated to ensure that students can continue on their studies at the institution,” said Omassi.

“That is the main difference that exists between domestic students and international students.”

Policy 72 states that no current domestic student at UBC should have to stop their studies due to financial constraints — a contingent that isn’t there for international students. According to Omassi, domestic financial aid at UBC is more efficiently allocated than financial aid for international students partly because the university is better able to assess a domestic student’s financial situation than they are an international student’s.

At UBC, a student must already be on government student loans before they become eligible for financial aid from the institution.

“The majority of our loans assessment is based on the provincial needs assessment, except, on our end, we do a combination of electronic and manual assessment,” said Fernandez.

While UBC looks at the electronic application a student completes to get provincial and federal student loans, they also take into account extenuating circumstances that might not be communicated on a computer screen.

“Every application is … assessed by a human being to make sure it fits the bill because, in some cases, there

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are things that the government can’t control that we can control for,” said Fernandez. “For example, parental income ... is taken into consideration, [but] not in the same sort of black and white approach that the province might take. [We recognize] that parents may not actually give the money to their student. We can be a bit more flexible.”

However, this does not necessarily mean that there aren’t issues with the way financial aid is given to domestic students.

“The biggest barrier is there is apprehension to take on debt, but it’s only once you have taken that on that you can seek financial aid from the institution,” said Omassi.

“There is emergency funding … from the institution. But if your situation does change again, it will change the way in which your whole financial situation is, taking on debt potentially and not necessarily allowing for part-time students to be a part of this.”

Part-time students are not eligible for government student loans, therefore making their access to financial aid at UBC extremely limited.

Another issue Omassi identified is the lack of education surrounding financial well-being at UBC as well as a limited awareness among domestic students about the options open to them. She cited a statistic pulled from the academic experience survey which showed that a large number of students don’t know what their debt will be when they leave UBC. “Which is really interesting because … that could mean a number of things, including that part of the reason they don’t know is because of how complicated the situation surrounding financial aid is [and] how complicated loans and grants are,” said Omassi.

Courtney Loftus graduated from UBC last year with a BA in international relations. Throughout her degree, she relied heavily on student loans from the government and she also saw issues with the lack of education around financial aid.

“I think that they could give first-year students a little bit more of an education about finances,” said

Loftus. “When I was graduating, UBC held a, ‘Oh, you have to repay your student loans. What’s next?’ sort of seminar, which is good, but I think that early on [in] first year, having a little bit more understanding of what I was getting myself into and what my next year would look like … would’ve been good.”

“In terms of communicating how to get financial aid, I don’t find that there’s been that much communication,” said Alexandra Dye, a third-year commerce student who has been on student loans since first year. “You really need to search on the websites and look pretty deep before you get a good answer.”

Dye and Loftus are by no means alone — the June 2015 report to the board noted that 60 per cent of UBC students have needed some kind of financial aid during their time here.

“Institutions need to be aware that [students’] pursuit of studies is also very closely tied to their financial wellness and well-being,” said Fernandez. “Should 60 per cent of students be using other resources to fund their studies? How does that impact their success at university?

I think that’s a very important question we need to ask.”

He too sees education as a crucial component of financial aid for domestic students at UBC. “We need to make sure that our students and families that support our students are well aware about what it means to take out a government student loan. I think we need to ask why and ask what can be done to better support a student to not take on that kind of loan.” U

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If selected, you will be expected to serve on the Development Permit Board for a minimum of one calendar year, starting May 2016. Members of the Development Permit Board are appointed by the Board of Governors.

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LAW//

AMS opposes Kinder Morgan Pipeline Pilot law clinic offers free

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The AMS agrees with the provincial goverment’s stance.

Sivan Spector Staff Writer

The AMS has released a statement supporting the BC government’s opposition of expanding the capacity of the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan Pipeline.

Currently, the pipeline runs from Edmonton to Burnaby, transporting 300,000 barrels of oil a day through 15 First Nations’ communities in BC and Alberta.

The expansion would allow it to carry 890,000 barrels a day and would run through currently untouched wilderness in northern Alberta.

The BC government opposes the pipeline because Kinder Morgan has not provided evidence of adequate protocol for preventing future oil spills. The pipeline is currently under the review of the National Energy Board.

“There are very serious environmental concerns ... from our

own students who have brought this up many times,” said Jude Crasta, AMS VP of External Affairs.

“We knew this was a very salient issue that students cared about.

As a student society, it was our responsibility to take a stand and say, ‘Yes, we’re not supporting this.’”

There has been a great deal of opposition — including protests against the pipeline at the Burnaby Mountain site — from people afraid of the potential damage from oil spills, the worst of which could cost up to $5 billion to clean up.

Other concerns include worry over increased pollution from increased tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet.

UBC political science Professor Kathryn Harrison has done research that heavily influenced the city of Vancouver’s opposition to the proposed pipeline. Her research indicates that the economic advantages Kinder Morgan claims will come from the pipeline are not realistic because many of the

countries — such as the United States, Japan, India and China — to whom he expects to export are actually reducing their demand for oil due to tighter environmental policies.

Factored into opposition against the pipeline is Canada’s promise at the COP21 summit in Paris to maintain climate change at a level lower than two degrees Celsius.

This does not create “a world where there is a market for many decades for Canada’s emission intensive oil,” said Harrison.

Burning fossil fuels is a major contributor to climate change.

“There’s a tremendous hypocrisy in Canada of committing to really, really deep emissions reductions globally. The kinds of targets we have signed onto require really urgent and dramatic action. If at the same time we are continuing with business as usual and expanding production of our very carbon intensive instruments, it is not clear how we can either meet our own targets nor how that is consistent with a world where climate change is limited to two degrees Celsius or less,” said Harrison.

According to Crasta, the AMS felt compelled to take vocal action against the proposed pipeline because the 50,000 students at UBC have a large voice in the wider community of people who would be affected by the pipeline.

He explained that it is important for UBC students to be involved in these issues because “we’re all dirtying the same environment ...

Climate change does not selectively affect people … it’s something we will have to pay for.” U

legal services to businesses

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The program is run out of the Peter A. Allard School of Law, seen above.

Adam Waitzer Staff Writer

The Peter A. Allard School of Law has launched the pilot Business Law Clinic program. The clinic pairs law students — who earn credit for participating — with members of the business community who have limited access to legal services.

This is not the first free legal advice program at the law school. Since 1969, the Law Students’ Legal Advice Program (LSLAP) has been providing free legal advice and representation for low-income individuals throughout the Lower Mainland.

This new initiative, however, deals specifically with business-related legal problems. According to Catherine Chow, one of the clinic’s two supervisors, the program’s focus is twofold — to provide legal services to business people in need and to create an experiential learning environment for law students.

The program is structured around the six participating students providing handson legal aid to clients. The program also includes a seminar component, allowing each student to present and discuss the different legal issues they are encountering.

“We’re not doing litigation matters,” said Chow. “Instead of the courtroom education, I call it the boardroom education — learning how to deal with business clients in a boardroom context.”

The clinic is geared towards emerging businesses and entrepreneurs. Working closely with their supervisors, students provide assistance with such

issues as incorporation and the development of shareholder agreements.

“Sometimes the question comes to mind, ‘Why do businesses need free legal advice? They’re entrepreneurial, they’re out to make money. Why would we, as a university ... provide free clinics?’” said Chow.

“What you have to recognize is that these clinics actually serve a desperate need to provide business legal services to those who couldn’t otherwise afford to access them.”

According to Garth Jones, a participating law student, there is a misguided notion that all the program’s clients are looking to launch for-profit ventures.

Some of the clinic’s clients, for example, are individuals aiming to establish non-profits who do not have the resources to go about receiving professional counsel. “[One of the program’s clients] has had this non-profit idea since he was 16 years old,” said Chow. “He’s got a concrete idea of what he wants to do and he needs help taking the steps towards getting incorporated.”

Jones found the program highly beneficial by allowing him to practically apply what he has learned in the classroom.

The clinic has received such a warm reception that Chow is optimistic about its continuation next year.

“I can’t turn left or right without a lawyer or member of the business community wanting to help out in some way,” said Chow. “We’re getting a huge sense that the under serviced target we’re looking at has been so traditionally underserved that this need is only going to grow.” U

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Second language requirments: the reasons and responses

Broadway line still a priority for AMS and government

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by the 99 B-line.

David Baldwin Contributor

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Do you appreciate the language requirment or find it a pain?

Rachel Lau Contributor

In theory, the idea of the 12 required credits of foreign languages for the Faculty of Arts is one supported by most students — but the realities of making them required are problematic to many.

Serina Spaingreene, a fourthyear psychology major, sees both the pros and cons of the language requirement, which has been in place since 1915 at UBC and is a common feature of degrees from many universities.

“I think that’s a very positive experience for people because nowadays we need language to get into jobs, but also because we’re becoming more international, global every single day,” said Spaingreene. “But I think to have it required is very difficult … I really feel like it’s a tuition grab sometimes.”

For international students like Spaingreene, achieving 12 credits for the language requirement at around $900 per credit equates to nearly $11,000 in tuition costs.

Other students view the language requirement as a positive opportunity for intercultural understanding.

“I personally think that everyone should go through

the effort to learn a foreign language,” said Kris Liu, a firstyear Arts student intending to major in linguistics. “I kind of like how UBC is pushing toward the fact that they want you to go out there and try to explore different cultures. I like how UBC is encouraging diversity in that sense.”

Stefania Burk, associate dean academic for the Faculty of Arts, believes that foreign languages are a fundamental knowledge base for students with an Arts degree to have, although she can see the disadvantages as well.

“It’s an incredible way of learning about a different culture,” said Burk. “It’s hard for me to argue that studying a foreign language is bad for you, but I can see how it might be an obstacle for some students, especially now since there are so many other opportunities being offered.”

Jenna Omassi, AMS VP academic and university affairs, agrees with Burk. “[The requirement] is meant to ensure that students are truly wellrounded ... and that they can come out of UBC with potentially a new language or even elementary proficiency in a new language,” she said. U

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The 99 B-Line being full to bursting most of the time is a fact of life for many UBC students. The bus route services the Broadway Corridor, which happens to be one of the busiest bus corridors in North America. Voting in favour to construct a metro system for the route, which Vancouver failed to do last year, would have alleviated some of these issues.

Kathleen Simpson, external advocacy commission vice-chair in the AMS VP External Office, believes that a solution must still be pursued.

With the failure of the recent transit referendum, the lobbying undertaken by the AMS VP External Office at both the provincial and federal levels of government has become even more critical. Simpson has a positive outlook on the transit project, which has become a key portfolio within the VP External Office.

“I just hear so often from students having been passed up by the 99 B-line,” said Simpson.

“All of us in the VP External Office are just looking forward to

a time when that is no longer the case.”

Joyce Murray, federal member of parliament for Vancouver-Quadra, agrees with Simpson’s sentiment and stressed the importance of more efficient public transportation in that area.

“The fact that the referendum to raise the municipality’s share of the cost failed does not mean that this project as outlined in the mayor’s plan won’t go ahead,” said Murray in an interview with The Ubyssey. “The federal government is really looking to facilitate this kind of investment and looking for solutions for moving forward with it.”

While most levels of government agree on the importance of the transit line, there hasn’t been much consensus on funding models or what a solution will look like.

However, Simpson said she believes the project is in a good place as relevant stakeholders are actively speaking about the project.

“In the public transit envelope, my understanding is that — province wide — this is one of two top priorities. It ties into the fact that it is the municipality’s priority,” said Murray. “The other approach that

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the Liberal government is taking is to work with the municipalities and fund their priorities as opposed to imposing some other priorities on the municipalities.”

The AMS is pushing for a “subgrade” solution or a subterranean metro line similar to the Canada Line, although they are open to other options including an above-ground Skytrain or light rail.

The length of the line is also under contention, although Simpson said her office will continue pushing for it to extend all the way to UBC. For large projects like the UBC Broadway line, timing can be hard to estimate as evident with the delays that plagued the Evergreen line that will eventually link Burnaby, Coquitlam and Port Moody to Metro Vancouver.

Consequently, Simpson’s office will not be setting a timeline.

However, Simpson remains hopeful about overall feasibility and likelihood of the project coming to fruition.

“Things only continue to heat up and get more and more active.

Everyday I feel more optimistic about the future of the project,” she said. U

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EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2016

HEALTH //

SCIENCE SECTION

Koby Michaels Science Editor

The Ubyssey’s science section has been thriving online since early October, but has only

shown its face in print once since its inception. That’s about to change.

In the last print issue of every month, the science section will have one page in print.

The Ubyssey is an online first publication because, to quote our prime minister, “It’s 2015.”

Ok, it’s not 2015 anymore, but you get the point. Chances are, if you read the science section, you aren’t reading this. Which begs the question why am I writing

this and why are we publishing in print at all?

Tackling the second question first — ­ it’s because print isn’t dead (yet). People still pick up the paper at lunch to read it. Newbies to UBC still learn that we exist (hi!) because they see a Ubyssey blowing in the wind down Main Mall. Writers, photographers and editors still decorate their bare dorm walls with cutouts of of their articles — but we don’t talk about that.

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To answer my other question, I’m writing this to tell you to pick up the last paper of the month (I mean pick up the other ones too — the sports section is always great) and to tell you to join this millenium. The below articles are just a few of the many the section has to offer.

Wet your appetite here and then fulfill all your binge-reading desires at ubyssey.ca/science.

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Sexual Medicine clinic finds funds

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Concrete Canoe gears up for competition Marissa Birnie Contributor

A floating concrete canoe might seem like a paradox, but members of the UBC Concrete Canoe team assure that, “yes, it floats!”

Now in its third year, the team is in the middle of constructing a sleek and lightweight concrete canoe that is less dense than water.

Their goal is to design a strong and maneuverable vessel that can hold its own as the team represents UBC in competition later this year.

So how do you get concrete to float on water?

The process spans the entire school year. The mix design team tests different concrete mixes throughout the year to achieve the perfect combination. Materials like fly ash and super plasticizer make the concrete soft, and recycled fibreglass makes it lighter.

The balancing act between these different properties can lead to the ideal canoe, said mix design lead Jamiu Abdsalami.

There is also the hull to consider as well as the race itself. Teams will be judged

on a combination of factors.

First, they must suit up for a formal presentation where they are critiqued on construction, sustainability, use of materials, cost and the time that went into the boat. Next, there is the submerge test where the canoe is filled with water and submerged beneath the water’s surface. If it resurfaces, the team is eligible to compete in men and women’s races from sprints, to marathons and obstacle courses.

The 45 person team has come far in the past three years. They placed third at the ASCE Pacific Northwest Competition in 2015 and their goal this year is a top five finish at the Canadian nationals.

The relatively small team is facing the challenge of prepping for races and raising money to cover travel costs. But for them, the benefits go beyond travel and competition.

“I think we built up a really nice community. We’re all pretty close,” said hull design lead Matthew Chung.

Team members cite the unique learning experience and diversity

Karen Wang Staff Writer

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The team will have their design and construction judged and will race their boat.

as important elements of the team.

“One of the good things about our team is that anybody can join and they are free to take on as much work as they want,” said team captain Tyler Mann.

Experience or an engineering major are not necessary to join the team.

“I’m just really happy that we’re keeping the tradition going and I hope this team goes on forever,” said sponsorship lead Flynn Murdock. “You get to watch these peers of yours learn and progress. It’s not about the canoe anymore. I’m at a place right now where I wouldn’t be if I didn’t have Concrete Canoe.” U

STUDIES//

Climate change threatens First Nations fisheries

Protesters at a anti-Kinder Morgan protests.

Andrea Gonzalez Staff Writer

According to recent study, First Nations’ fishery catches could collapse by almost 50 per cent by 2050 as a result of climate change, further endangering the food and economic security of indigenous communities along coastal British Columbia.

The study was conducted as part of an initiative to carry out research on global indigenous fisheries through the Nereus Program, a

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global interdisciplinary initiative between UBC and the Nippon Foundation in Japan.

The team had been studying the impacts of climate change on coastal communities at a wider scale and seeks to gain a better understanding of the possible impacts on the coastal First Nations of British Columbia where marine resources are crucial for both economic security as well as for social and ceremonial practices.

The researchers analyzed the habitats and population dynamics

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The clinic will use the funding to expand treatment of PVD.

of 98 fish and shellfish species of importance to First Nations communities in order to determine how these species’ ranges and abundances might shift under low-emission and a high-emission scenarios of climate change from 2000 to 2050.

They found that climate change is likely to reduce the availability of these important marine fish and shellfish. Most of the species are expected to decline in abundance by 2050. In addition, all species were predicted to shift away from their current habitats and towards cooler waters.

“Personally, I was surprised to discover that the majority of the 98 species included in the study are projected to decline under both low and high-emission scenarios of climate change,” said Lauren Weatherdon who helped conduct the study as a graduate student. “These findings highlight the considerable impact that climate change can have on coastal communities that depend on marine resources for food as well as economic security and have done so for millennia.”

Given that no substantial plans have yet been put in practice, Weatherdon hopes that the findings will help jump start a conversation

by local and regional decisionmakers to address how they can support First Nations communities in developing local strategies for mitigating and adapting to scenarios of climate change.

“It is my hope that this research can be used as a starting point to guide community-based discussions that focuses on proactive planning for different scenarios of climate change and how such impacts might be mitigated,” noted Weatherdon.

While the study focused on British Columbia, Weatherdon acknowledged that the impacts will differ drastically by location and by species, therefore suitable responses and priorities will differ for each First Nations community.

“There are certainly ways in which these impacts can be mitigated, but these strategies would need to be developed through a community-led process that identifies local priorities and draws from local knowledge,” said Weatherdon. “At the national and global levels, efforts to reduce carbon emissions can help to reduce impacts such as those outlined in this study, which are likely to be encountered in other coastal regions around the world.” U

Recent funding will allow UBC’s Sexual Medicine Program to treat more women who suffer from provoked vestibulodynia (PVD).

PVD is a common cause of pain during penetrative sex that affects around 15 per cent of premenopausal women. PVD is widely acknowledged as a chronic pain condition. Various treatment options are available, including pain-relieving medications, physiotherapy and cognitive therapy.

“Over the years, these treatments have changed as we have realized medical approaches for pain — giving medications — don’t work,” said Rosemary Basson, director of the Sexual Medicine Program at UBC. “Simple band-aid solutions like local anesthetics can help in the short term, but none of these are very clinically helpful in the longer term.”

“The focus of treatment these days is cognitive methods of treating pain,” said Basson.

Recently, the Sexual Medicine Program has received a grant from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, which will allow for increased staffing and a greater capacity to treat more women with PVD. The aim is to compare and contrast two similar treatment approaches for PVD — traditional cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy.

For several years, the Sexual Medicine Program has run treatment programs where women with a diagnosis of PVD are treated in small groups of 6-12. The women, with doctor’s referrals, attend eight weekly group sessions where they could discuss and learn more about their condition as well as practice methods of managing it.

“To acquire that skill [mindfulness], one needs to practice being mindful,” said Basson. “Mindfulness practices are really like meditation — they’re nothing to do with sex — they’re practices whereby one learns to be in the moment.”

Basson said that both methods have been shown to be beneficial and effective, but it is unclear as of now which is better suited for individual women based on factors such as different types of personalities and mental health issues. U

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EDITOR OLIVIA LAW

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How to be your own best kitchen resource

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Are adult colouring books beneficial for stress relief?

Olivia Law Culture Editor

“Get your shit together before you start cooking.”

Elysse Bell Food columnist

In an era where “life hacks” and “top 10 habits of successful people” lists proliferate, it seems as if there are almost endless ways to improve our lifestyles, skillsets and possessions. Don’t have a paper towel holder? Just pry an old clothes hanger apart with your desperate hands, slide the paper towel roll on there and hang it on the fancy ceiling-mounted pots and pans rack you somehow have even though you don’t own a paper towel holder. There. Instant fix.

Of course, life hacks and lists are popular by their very nature — they offer an easy, seemingly painless version of reality in which the rest of your lifestyle doesn’t have to change to accommodate whatever selfimprovement you’ve just vowed to commit to. Unfortunately, what they don’t show is the aftermath. Just buy a normal paper towel holder, okay?

Depressing DIYs aside, in my kitchen advice to you, I want to dismiss the life-hack focus in favour of a more honest approach. Instead of pretending like these ideas are going to change your culinary life immediately and without the context of your own habits and spaces, I want to share some things that I’ve found helpful in making the most out of my ingredients, time and limited counter space. Here’s how you can be more resourceful in the kitchen: Don’t be afraid to Google. Have some ingredients or meal portions left over and aren’t sure what to do with them? Type something along the lines of “what to do with leftover [x]” into Google and I guarantee there’s a genius food blogger or forum commenter who has thought of a solution. Similarly, if you have an ingredient and aren’t sure how long it will last in the fridge, direct your queries to the World Wide Web. If you’re proactive, you can plan your future meals this way and you won’t have to let things go to waste!

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Mise en place. The fancy French way to say “get your shit together before you start cooking.” You don’t have to get too intense with this.

Some people — myself included — like to have all constituent ingredients chopped, measured or otherwise prepared before anything goes on the stove, but you can also just make sure that everything you need for cooking is sitting on the counter in front of you. This is a great way to make sure you don’t forget to put anything in and avoid minor disasters. Not that I’m speaking from experience. Ahem.

Have a “waste” bowl on the counter. If your kitchen is like mine, your compost bin is sitting on the floor beside the garbage in relative squalor with mysterious juices collecting at the bottom. The last thing you probably want is to have it beside you on the counter when you’re cooking. If your compost is a lovely little countertop number that doesn’t knock you out when you open it, kudos. Put it beside your cutting board and throw out scraps as you prepare your ingredients. If your compost is a disgusting, rotting ecosystem, use a big bowl instead.

This will save both your back from the repetitive strain of stooping over and some valuable prep time as you’ll be more efficient if you don’t have to keep stopping to throw things out. It should also save your countertop from a little more mess.

Reflect on each cooking experience. I know, corny, but you’re supposed to end these lists with some vague inspirational motivation. So… you WILL gradually improve if you make a mental note of what worked well and not so well each time you cook.

It’ll be different depending on your strengths and depending on the day. This isn’t a one-fix solution — sorry, lifehackers — but identifying successes and areas for improvement is a pretty good way to actively resolve your knowledge gaps and build your skillsets. U

If you’ve been exploring the internet, bookstores or hipster coffee shops in the last little while, you’ll be familiar with the concept of the adult colouring book.

Traditionally following a theme of beautiful mandalas, but with a scope as wide-ranging as Drake, Ryan Gosling and alcohol, colouring books are no longer just for kids. Marketed as a stressrelieving wonder, adult colouring books are everywhere, even the UBC Bookstore.

UBC alumna Katie Matthews and her partner Geoff Matthews launched their first travel-themed adult colouring book just before Christmas. The Matthews’ have transformed their own travel photographs into 47 beautifully detailed cityscapes from 29 countries and 10 years worth of travel across Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The couple have been travelling since they met in Taiwan back in 2006. Describing themselves as “city people,” “Travel Between the Lines” is full of memories of the places the two have been with stories connected to each location.

“I had this romantic notion that I would sit in front of the Eiffel Tower all day and sketch it,” said Ms. Matthews. “When we got there, I found that it was too overwhelming to be able to draw and sketch the way that it looked in my mind.” This is how they came up with the idea of converting their travel photographs.

The couple are targeting “daydreamers and wanderlusts,” according to Mr. Matthews.

Moving from careers in sales and corporate recruiting respectively, the couple wanted to use their memories of places that they had visited and loved.

“We had these amazing photographs of all these places,” said Ms Matthews. “We didn’t take the photographs with the intention of making the book, but we used what we had as a way to share it.”

One reason colouring books are so popular in the lives of busy adults is the stress relief that is inherent to the meditative process of colouring. However, Dzung Vo, clinical assistant professor at the UBC hospital, suggests that mindless colouring is no more useful than any other mindless activities — what makes it a ruminative process is the act of meditating on the art itself.

“I think any activity can be done mindfully or unmindfully,” he said.

“It’s not so important what the activity is — whether it’s colouring or walking — what’s more important is the quality and the presence you bring to the activity.

If you’re colouring, pretending or suppressing what’s going on, then that’s not mindful.”

The intention of the colouring book was not, in fact, to provide a stress relief initially, but a

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The couple met travelling in Taiwan and have made colouring books a huge part of their lives.

byproduct of the publication.

“It’s amazing how quickly time passes when you’re colouring,” said Mr. Matthews. “I was new to the whole thing when we first started this, but I can sit in a cafe and suddenly an hour’s gone by. It is kind of stress relieving no matter how you do it.”

The 2,000 year-old tradition of mindfulness stems back to ancient Buddhist traditions in Taiwan and Japan, according to Vo. It is a perfect coincidence that “Travel Between the Lines” focuses on travel in all domains.

“Mindfulness is a very ancient thing and everyone has the capacity to be mindful,” said Vo. “It’s not exclusive to any particular group of people or religion – mindfulness is not exclusive to Buddhism and you don’t have to be a Buddhist to be mindful.”

Although not intentionally oriented towards the mindful, meditative state of other adult colouring books, Vo believes that

mindfulness can be incorporated in everyday life. Citing mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn, he defines mindfulness as “paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment and nonjudgmentally.”

Just as the process of creating the colouring book seemed a natural progression from their travel photos for the couple, Vo emphasised that mindfulness should begin to feel an ordinary part of everyday life with practice.

The couple have plans to keep traveling and taking pictures with the eventual aim to create books representing every place they visit.

“I want to become the Lonely Planet of colouring books,” said Ms. Matthews. “I want to have a book for every country.”

The book is available on Amazon.ca and in the UBC Bookstore. Geoff and Katie can be found at their blog, Wandertooth. U With files from Jennifer Hong.

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UBC A Cappella storms international stage

Joshua Oppenheimer educating his audience on his personal documentary.

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Academy award nominee answers students’ questions Miguel Santa Maria Senior Staff Writer

In 1965, the government of Indonesia — under a military dictatorship at the time — took part in the mass genocide of millions of accused communists and leftists throughout the country. Currently, the people directly involved in these executions largely remain untouched in Indonesia while the tragedy of the victims and their families are suppressed by the government.

However, the debate on these killings has been reignited in the past few years. This was mainly due to film director Joshua Oppenheimer’s efforts to reveal their reality through two widely renowned documentaries: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.

This past Tuesday, the UBC history department organized a seminar event in the Chan Centre that focused on both of these works and the historical context behind them. The event included a screening of The Look

of Silence, followed by a panel discussion by UBC professors of various related disciplines.

More importantly, Oppenheimer himself was in attendance and the event culminated in an hour long talk delivered by the director and a Q&A session.

The Look of Silence revolves around an Indonesian man named Adi, whose older brother was killed during the 1965 purge years before Adi was born. The documentary covers his personal meetings with his brother’s executioners, attempting to achieve some form of reconciliation or acknowledgment from their behalf. The film itself is a companion piece to Oppenheimer’s previous documentary, The Act of Killing, which alternatively covers the perspective of former executioners as they personally boast and re-enact the killings they delivered decades ago.

Both films were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary with the former

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film among this year’s nominees.

These accolades were the least of Oppenheimer’s concerns during his decade-long process of making these films and their aftermath. During the event at UBC, he discussed the origins of both projects, how he got to know both victims and perpetrators, as well as the cultural environment of Indonesia that goes through great lengths to justify the killings.

He also discussed the numerous difficulties these elements entailed, such as the emotional burdens or the numerous legitimate threats to his and his associates’ well-being.

One example Oppenheimer mentioned was that Adi’s family — in the event of the worst case scenario — was always stationed at the airport whenever he interacted with the perpetrators.

For Oppenheimer, it was essential to deliver an unflinching truth and authenticity to the subject.

A technique, he notes, is still lacking in mainstream documentaries or films that focus more on the expected “typical” than the unexpected “authentic.”

“If the cinema is to be more than escapist fantasy, [we should strive to] immerse the viewers in the particulars [and] to become more intimate so that the experience could grow and become universal,” said Oppenheimer in his talk.

“Therefore, [it’s] much bigger than it would ever be if it was just an overview of a political or historical story.”

Most important of all for Oppenheimer is that such specificity and bluntness properly represents the harsh reality of the topic and individuals in his work.

“If it’s to be an effective, meaningful and deep political film about the co-existence of powerful perpetrators and silenced survivors, it must deprive the viewer of reassuring fictions [such as whether] everything will work out,” said Oppenheimer.

“That means making a backwardlooking film — a film composed in memoriam of all that’s been destroyed. [It’s] not just for the dead, but for the lives broken from half a century of fear and silence.” U

The club is set to rock the ICCA stages.

Jessie Stirling Staff Writer

Big, Pitch Perfect-esque things are on the horizon for UBC A Cappella as they prepare to showcase their immense talent on, not one, but two international stages.

Since the club’s creation eight years ago, the talented members of UBC A Cappella have harmonized their hearts out, earning the club international recognition in the increasingly popular world of a cappella. Building on the momentum of their sold-out winter concert, the club will be taking centre stage in February as the sole Canadian team competing in the quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. To those that have seen Pitch Perfect, the ICCAs will sound familiar as the movie’s plot centres around this very competition.

Twenty talented UBC students drawn from all four of the UBC A Cappella groups (The Choral Reef, Fermata Nowhere, The Unaccompanied Minors and The Undeclared Majors) make up the team travelling to the quarterfinals held in Tacoma, Washington where they will compete against eight other teams.

With less than a month until the competition, UBC A Cappella is busy putting the finishing touches on their performance — a performance that Jessica Tam, UBC A Cappella secretary, describes as “a lot more than just singing.”

“In the ICCAs, teams both sing and dance — it really is just like Pitch Perfect,” said Tam. “Teams’ performance scores are based 50 per cent on singing and 50 per cent dancing, so it’s a very performanceheavy competition, which is a new experience for our club.”

The top two scoring teams at the quarterfinals move onto the semi-finals and the UBC A Cappella team is ready to make their time on stage count.

“We have 12 minutes for our set and we’re doing three full songs.

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Our set list starts with ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,’ followed by ‘If I Ain’t Got You’ and ‘Ain’t No Mountain.’ It’s a very feel-good kind of set list and we’re excited to perform it.”

From one international stage to another, UBC A Cappella will be performing at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in a show titled Total Vocal II this March. This show features contemporary a cappella music from The SingOff! and Pitch Perfect sung by 13 groups from throughout North America. If the Pitch Perfect-ness of UBC A Cappella’s upcoming performance wasn’t enough, Total Vocal II is composed and arranged by Deke Sharon, the man behind the music of the 2012 film.

UBC A Cappella was invited to perform in last year’s installment of this show, Total Vocal, and club President Katie Sanford is excited to be invited back.

“For a lot of us, this is a oncein-a-lifetime experience. We’re all really looking forward to the performance,” said Sanford. “It is a lot of work, though. We have had rehearsals twice a week for two months and once we get there, we will have rehearsals with all of the other groups.”

Sixteen of UBC A Cappella’s finest eagerly await their performance at the famed Carnegie Hall. However, one concern still remains — the cost.

“It’s a really expensive trip, which is the main barrier that people had to going,” Sanford said. “We’ve been trying to fundraise to alleviate that financial burden. We are going to be selling Singing Grams around Valentine’s Day, so that’s a fun thing to look out for and a great way to support our club.”

UBC A Cappella is a talented group of students who promise to shine on the international stage as they pitch-slap their competition at the ICCA quarterfinals and give the Carnegie Hall audience toners you can see through their jeans. U

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Review: Eurydice is both explosive and understated

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The performance was heartbreaking, thought-provoking and funny – a triumph.

Olivia Law Culture Editor

It’s rare, today, for an audience to visibly and audibly react to a

performance in the theatre. It’s even rarer for an audience to visibly and audibly react to a performance of an ancient Greek myth with which they are

immensely familiar.

Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, directed

by MFA candidate Keltie Forsyth, UBC Theatre had audiences stunned, moved and laughing. A

retelling of the myth of musician Orpheus (Daniel Curalli), the piece is as much about lost lovers as fathers and daughters. On her wedding night, Eurydice — played by radiantly open-hearted Kelsey Ranshaw — is met by a Nasty Interesting Man (Francis Winter) and encounters her death and the underworld. In this kingdom, she encounters her father (Michael Fera, UBC alumnus who last performed on campus in 1987) and a chorus of stones (Joylyn Secunda, Mariam Barry and Meegin Tahirih Pye) who reject all emotion, literature and song.

Winter’s role as the king of the underworld must be congratulated. He transforms from charming to menacing in an instant, whether appearing in a suave black tie or a child’s getup and a tricycle. Whether dancing shadow-like at his daughter’s wedding or reading a Lear-Cordelia scene with her in the underworld, Fera also stands out as a heartbreakingly sweet character whose relationship with Eurydice is strong from the beginning to the end of the play.

Rhul’s script is undoubtedly difficult to stage. Scenes are short and rely on a staggering amount of silence to tell their stories.

There is a sense of time passing endlessly, but also no time at all. Scenes alternate between

the underworld — endearing scenes between Eurydice and her father, comically juxtaposed with the stone chorus — and Orpheus’s letters to his wife.

One particularly moving scene involves Eurydice’s father building her a room out of string while she plays hopscotch. They share a moment of a smile, in which we see their whole blissful past recaptured in that instant.

Heipo Leung’s set design and Alix Miller’s costumes were wonderfully translated from earth to the underworld. A myriad of greys made up the backdrop and costumes to both worlds, the sole source of colour stemming from the adorably dorky, purposefully insecure Orpheus.

With such an explosive world beautifully realized by the actors and demonstrated through Rhul’s script, the understated set was a refreshing take on the rather overdone Hades. A raining elevator to Hell, soundscapes and music performed by the chorus were the most magical elements, contrasting to the mechanical, underground setting of pipes and buckets.

Staggering out of the theatre in a sort of sad-happy disorientation, Eurydice’s audiences were emotionally engaged in this whimsical, bittersweet performance. U

Cheer Up … For God’s Sake

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s you go through college, take comfort in the fact that there is nothing new under the sun.

While there is never going to be anyone with identical genes who will experience life exactly as you do, your feelings, good and bad, emotions, good and bad, are universal. Life as you know, comes in phases, getting a college education is one phase. This is around the time in which your prefrontal cortex is fully developed and when you become more aware, emotionally, that your behaviour affects others. It is a time of greater self-awareness, particularly awareness of a moral conscience. Up to this point your behaviour has been mostly shaped by fear of punishment, or what you can get away with.

With a moral appreciation of consequences, your behaviour should be shaped by a desire to pursue goodness, for goodness’ sake. This is a narrow road, but it brings peace of mind, success and happiness. It is also the surest road to wisdom. So try not to despair when the day seems dreary or the task seems impossible. Bad times never last, and you will adjust like you’ve always done. Don’t be hard on yourself, after all, you did not make yourself and you are not responsible for the factors that shaped you up to this point. Never forget that we live in our minds and so just as negative thoughts bring you down, positive thoughts will lift you up. And so it is important to control your thoughts.

This, by the way is one of the triumphs in life – the control of what we allow our mind to dwell on.

No one knows where thoughts come from, but thank God that we can shut out the bad ones and nurture the good ones. Work hard, and try to remain honest, so you can keep growing in your ability. You are capable of much more than you realize. Learn self-discipline and organisation so that work doesn’t spill into play, and your play is not spoiled by guilt from work left undone. Try never to panic. Better to seek help and buy yourself precious time to recover from trouble. Offer good advice and don’t hesitate to seek counsel. We are all in this together. Don’t be embarrassed to embrace faith but do not become self-righteous or a hypocrite. Your friends may not tell you so, but they will respect and admire you as a spiritual person. After all, true spirituality is about learning to love others. You will find that the more you pray, the better you know yourself and the less mistakes you make. Pray for those you don’t like and forgive others so that it is easier to forgive yourself.

Overcome your shyness, not by heavy drinking or by using drugs, but by reminding yourself that we are all shy more or less. In fact, shyness tends to be a function of self-awareness. You are about to come into your own so learn to pick up after yourself and hang in there. You have yet to taste the best that life has to offer.

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Point/counterpoint: The Arts language requirement

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FOR: moira warburton I could remind you that studying languages makes you smarter — studies show it’s a workout for your brain. I could also direct your attention to the fact that learning another language makes you richer, better able to focus on important information and allows you to stave off diseases like Alzheimer’s or dementia. Studies show that you don’t even need to be fluent to get the benefits of multilingualism.

But learning languages is more than that — it gives you intercultural understanding. It forces you to see the world from another point of view and isn’t that a fundamental part of going to university? To allow you, in a very small but significant way, to gain perspectives that your own upbringing didn’t give you?

Regardless of what you do with your degree — whether you intend to travel after you finish, find a job working abroad or if

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you stay in the English-speaking part of Canada and never leave — learning a language is only good for you in the long run.

Don’t want to slog your way through French verbs? Not a fan of the myriad conjugations of German nouns? You didn’t come to university because it was going to be easy. You came because you wanted a learning experience that would challenge you, frustrate you and make you want to drown yourself in the library water fountain at times — but would, in the end, benefit you. We have 12 required credits of foreign languages as part of our degrees for the same reason we have all other degree requirements — because a university degree in Canada and at UBC is designed to make you a more well-rounded, empathetic and intelligent person. If you don’t want to be that person, don’t do a degree here. U

A university degree at UBC is designed to make you a more well-rounded, empathetic and intelligent person.”

UBC wants to make you a more well-rounded person by treating you like a child.”

Against: Jack Hauen UBC wants to make you a more well-rounded person by treating you like a child and there are people who fully support them. Their arguments usually sound something like, “But learning a language is good for you!” as if that was a good enough reason for students to take time away from their actual degree focus and endure the tedium of something they will forget immediately upon finishing the course.

Why should UBC decide that you need to learn a language that has nothing to do with your degree focus, especially when there are concrete, obvious negative effects?

Let’s dive into specific arguments I’ve heard: It’ll enrich your worldview – True. You know what’ll do a way better job? A history course, but I don’t see anyone arguing for that to be made mandatory.

It’ll make you more employable – Maybe. For careers focused on interacting with the public, it’s a

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definite asset. For any other job, it’s a fringe benefit – it paints you as able to stick with learning something like knowing how to code or being a black belt.

It’ll make you smarter – So will crosswords. You know what won’t make you smarter? Taking hours out of your day to study something that, for many, many students, will ultimately get them nothing but a direct increase in stress and a slightly lower GPA. Undoubtedly, there are benefits to learning a second language. There are also benefits to doing yoga and eating your vegetables, but until those make the requirements list for an Arts degree, all arguments for the requirement are null.

For some, learning a language comes naturally. For others, it is a dangerous brick wall that can seriously harm their chances of earning a degree. The fact of the matter is that UBC is treating us like children and it needs to stop. U

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Ask Natalie: Friends, lovers and a bit of school too is a problem, but someone can earn that back. It would be a personal decision, one that stems from lots of discussion with my partner.

If your partner cheated on you, then you need to really think about what you want to do. You can decide your own path, but you shouldn’t base that decision on the response to a short letter from an advice columnist.

“Dear Natalie, What’s the point of university? I’m studying something that I’m not super passionate about, but I’m about to finish my third year so is it too late to change my major. Should I just keep going through my degree or should I drop out of school?”

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UBC, working with the UNA, has undertaken a process to develop an elaborated design vision for the Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood.

This public open house will present the draft design vision supplement for the Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood as well as a proposed amendment to the Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood Plan. The proposed changes will allow for a broader variety of housing types on the remaining building sites in Wesbrook Place.

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want to stay friends. You likely will. That’s normal. Take some time to reorganize your feelings.

Move this person from the “romantic” side of your mind to the “platonic” part. You can do it, but it will be difficult.

Can you treat your friend the same after all this? No hidden resentments that will come out after three drinks? Or when they find someone they actually do want to date? This person doesn’t deserve a shitty friend just because they don’t feel the same way as you. Really think on this.

Other than that, try to keep busy. Download a dumb app, binge watch a new series or become obsessed with a new hobby. Do anything to take your mind off feeling bad.

You can do it! You can do it well!

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I’m glad that you understand that this person was just being friendly and not looking for a relationship.

You’re dealing with this really well. So many people, when they find themselves in your situation, take it really poorly. Congrats on remembering that person doesn’t owe you a relationship! Yay! Sorry, I had to get that out of the way.

As for your feelings, I know it’s hard. You found out someone you liked wasn’t interested and worse, it was a few months in. You had your hopes up and your heart set on something that didn’t happen.

But know that, in all likelihood, their lack of attraction towards you has surprisingly little to do with you. I mean, think about one of your friends. Are you attracted to them? Well maybe, but then pick another friend you don’t like.

It has nothing to do with them, it’s just something that you can’t control. Keep this in mind. It will help.

It will be frustrating in this time ahead. Take a big breath and centre yourself. Ask yourself some questions that should make your path clearer.

Do you want to be friends with this person – knowing full well

Move this person from the “romantic” side of your mind to the “platonic” part. You can do it, but it will be difficult.”

Me personally? Probably not. But I’ve never been in that situation – that I know of.

But in theory, I’m sure there are situations where I would stay.

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After months of anticipating progress in a potential relationship, I finally realized that person was just being simply friendly and not more than that. It’s going to be a tough time ahead for me to neutralize those feelings. What suggestions do you have to speed up the process and minimize pain as much as possible?’

Is there ever a time when you would stay with a cheating partner?”

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that you’ll be nothing more? It seems harsh, but it is better to be honest now than drag yourself through months of trying and failing to come to terms with your feelings in order to be “nice.”

It’s okay if you can’t let go. We generally can’t choose who we like.

Ask yourself if you need space, regardless of whether or not you

For more information, contact: Gabrielle Armstrong, Senior Manager, Public Engagement, at gabrielle.armstrong@ubc.ca or 604-822-9984.

Workshop Location

Wesbrook Community Centre

Please note that no changes to the UBC Land Use Plan and no net change to planned overall residential floor space within the Neighbourhood Plan area are being considered.

Online consultation runs from February 4 – February 19 at planning.ubc.ca.

Wesbrook Mall

West 16th Avenue

NATALIE MORRIS

We’re all in university because we want a better future whether that future is doing something you love forever, getting a well-paying job or just not disappointing your parents.

Think about your future. What kind of future you would have for each of your options?

I’m not here to make your life choices for you, but I know a lot of people who are just running out of steam from their majors past second year. Take more courses outside your major that interest you. Look into pass/fail courses if you’re worried about your average. That’s why we have electives.

Don’t make a rash decision just because you’re bored. U

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PLACES TO BE

Getting lost at Joffre Lakes WORDS AND PHOTOS BY PHILIPPE ROBERGE

Cellular reception tends to disappear about 50 kilometres north of Pemberton, which was a shame because we were meant to be 30 kilometres east of Pemberton. But with a bit of luck and some help from a wayfaring stranger, we managed to find our way to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.

The park was named after a World War I general named Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre. The area was originally developed as a climbing school in the early ’70s and was declared a provincial park in 1988. Since then, the park has been the delight of weekend warriors from across BC. Situated next to Highway 99, access to the park is fairly simple, although winter tires are advised during the colder months.

Upon arriving, we were both relieved and annoyed to find the parking lot filled with cars. We were definitely in the right place and we were definitely not alone. Putting on the last of our winter gear, we made our way out onto the trail.

Pro tip — right at the start of the trail there are bathrooms, the last for a few hours. Nobody likes yellow snow. The lower lake — the first of three — appeared within five minutes or so of the start. Continuing higher, the trail wound through a majestic forest filled with towering trees.

The climb to the second lake was steep and navigating the icier sections can be a bit tricky in the middle of winter. There tends to be better footholds next to the iced-over steps. But if you have crampons, then there is nothing to worry about. Upon reaching middle lake, you will

see a bench and you will go and sit on it. It’s a well-deserved break, but you’ve got to carry on eventually and make it to the pièce de résistance — Upper Joffre Lake!

However, graciously do yourself a favour — trust me, it’s worth it — and continue along the edge of the middle lake, keeping to your right until you encounter this majestic natural wonder. Time for longexposures and selfies.

We then retraced our steps and found the trail which relentlessly continues higher and higher into the mountain. Just as you think you’re going to lose it, you catch a glimpse of it. No, not that squirrel — I’m talking about the Upper Joffre Lake. Being a glacial lake, the waters of Upper Joffre are almost milky blue. You could sit all day admiring them, but you have to keep going.

In terms of elevation, the trail levels off for the rest of the hike.

Trip and fall your way across the snow laden path that will bring you to the other side of the lake and the campgrounds that sit beneath the glacier.

Here you will find a tiny cabin — it’s a toilet really — and easier access to the water. Now you can rest, take pictures, look out across the lake and eat! Lastly, try to make it down before nightfall so that you don’t have to go down those icy steps in the dark. If the sky happens to be clear, make sure to stop by Porteau Cove, located between Squamish and Lions Bay on Highway 99, on the way back for some sweet stargazing! U

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NBA, Abdur-Rahim at UBC over the weekend The Ubyssey’s guide to skiing and boarding as a student

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Shareef Abdur-Rahim played with the Vancouver Grizzles from 1996 to 2001 and set multiple franchise records.

Prabhjot Grewal Staff Writer

This last Saturday, UBC hosted the NBA All-Star Challenge that has been travelling across the country. Returning to the city with the event is former Vancouver Grizzlies icon Shareef AbdurRahim.

For the first time in NBA history, Canada will play host to the All-Star weekend, which will take place in Toronto from February 12-14.

Participants in the event had the opportunity to enter and compete in the skills competition, three-point shootout and a slamdunk contest with the winner

taking home the top prize of an all-expense paid trip to Toronto for the All-Star weekend.

Abdur-Rahim returned to Vancouver with the All-Star Challenge this Saturday to cheer on the participants and our Thunderbirds men’s and women’s double-header.

Abdur-Rahim was thrilled to return to the city where he made his NBA debut in 1996.

“When we drove up here, we drove up through Kitsilano. When I played here, that’s kind of the area I lived in, so it brought back a lot of memories. As a young kid, I came here, so it’s kind of where things started for me,” said Abdur-Rahim.

The Grizzlies played in Vancouver

for six seasons before the franchise was moved.

“I think, for a lot of people, the Grizzlies at that time were like the introduction to basketball. I think a lot of people were inspired to play basketball,” said Abdur-Rahim. “If you look at the talent that’s coming up through Canada over the last five or six years, I think the Grizzlies organization had a part in that.”

He said his advice to young athletes just entering the sport is to “just relax, have fun, go out and compete.”

Abdur-Rahim is still undecided if he will be attending this year’s All-Star weekend, but is excited for Canada to host the event for the first time. U

Notice of Development Permit Application - DP 16003

Public Open House Wesbrook Place Lot 23

Join us on Tuesday, February 9 to view and comment on the proposed residential development proposal for Wesbrook Place Lot 23. Plans will be displayed for a new 6-storey 10,925m2 market residential building with 106 units.

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 Times: 4:30 - 6:00 PM Place: Wesbrook Welcome Centre, 3378 Wesbrook Mall Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be on hand to discuss and answer questions about this project.

The public is also invited to attend the upcoming Development Permit Board Meeting for this project.

Date/Time: February 24, 5:00 - 7:00PM Location: Wesbrook Community Centre 3335 Webber Lane

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager, Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586

Can’t attend in person? Online feedback will be accepted from Jan 15 to Feb 16.

To learn more or to comment on this project, please visit: planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/projects-consultations

Skiing as a student doesn’t have to bankrupt you.

Alex Fraser Contributor

It’s winter, the snow is falling, and it’s a good time to be a UBC student.

Skiing and snowboarding attracts thousands of snow stokedstudents year after year and rightfully so. Lucky for us, UBC is in close proximity to a Mecca of world ski terrain. If you haven’t hit the slopes yet this season, you are missing out on a world of fun.

THE NORTH SHORE See those distant snow-capped peaks when you look North outside your window, the ones looming over the city? That’s the North Shore, home to mountains Grouse, Cypress and Seymour.

These local hills have unmatchable views of our beautiful city constantly in sight while riding and are adored for their varying terrain and famous night skiing.

If you’re looking for a quick break from studies and have an appetite for adventure, these local favourites offer a wide range of beginner to expert terrain, satisfying the most diehard park rats to first timers.

The convenience is one of the best things about the North Shore mountains with Grouse taking approximately an hour and a half via bus from campus, while Cypress and Seymour take closer to two hours on transit. If you’re lucky enough to have access to a car, your travel time will be cut in half. Hint: make friends with vehicles.

Full equipment rentals will cost around $40 per day, while the day ticket prices for Grouse, Cypress and Seymour ring in at $58, $39 and $54, respectively. Night skiing tickets are slightly less and multiday ticket deals minimize the cost.

University students can grab a full pass at any of the ski areas for between $700-800.

WHISTLER The North Shore is great, but there’s simply no match for BC’s most popular resort destination

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— Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia’s legendary family resort.

It’s no secret as to why Whistler is often dubbed as the “best ski resort in the world.” It totes an impressive 8,171 acres of skiable terrain and the famous Peak2Peak Gondola. Whistler remains a timeless favourite.

There’s something for everyone in Whistler. In the wee hours of the morning, you might be getting unlimited fresh powder in the backcountry trees only to find yourself hitting some of BC’s biggest man-made jumps and rail features in the afternoon over in the terrain parks. Snowfall this season has surpassed six metres already. To put that into perspective, Whistler already has more snow this year than it received throughout the entirety of the year.

Equipment rental shops in Whistler are a dime a dozen and expect to pay somewhere around $60 for quality ski and snowboard packages. Lift tickets are not cheap either, going for over $100 per day. Tickets become cheaper for five, six and seven day passes, but the student pass costs only $600. It’s worth your money if you only go riding six times — a no brainer for the more dedicated.

Travel options to Whistler from the university are copious.

EpicRides bus service offers round trips for only $35, picking you up right outside Walter Gage Residence. Rideshares are also extremely popular for students for their cheapness and the camaraderie involved. There’s nothing better than sharing the stoke with fellow mountain goers crammed in the back of a 2002 Subura Outback. If you’re looking for a rideshare, check out HitchPlanet.com or the UBC Whistler Ride Share group on Facebook.

These are just four of the 20 locations in the province to go skiing or snowboarding, so stop reading this already and go explore. U

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Thunderbirds set to host men’s basketball CIS Final 8 in March

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Rubgy players training in bobsleigh with Olympic hopeful

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Arnott and Golding will compete in their first race in February in Utah with Johnson.

Koby Michaels Sports and Rec Editor

Thunderbird rugby players Elizabeth Theems-Golding and Annabel Arnott are training with Julie Johnson who competes with Bobsled Canada and is an Olympic hopeful.

The duo had never bobsledded before a few months ago when Johnson approached the team about players joining her in Whistler to learn to be brakemen. The team PHOTO JEREMY JOHNSON-SILVERS/THE UBYSSEY The men’s team are currently 10-4 in conference play and split the weekend against the Univeristy of Regina. has a history with the Canadian bobsledding scene as T-Bird head coach Maria Gallo was with the Olamide Olaniyan who scored a career-high of 45 well as assists. He is from across Canadian National Bobsleigh Team Senior Staff Writer points in a game against Trinity the border, a transfer from for two years from 2003 to 2004.

Western this time last year, and Bellevue Community College in Johnson races a two-man bobsled In the same year as UBC’s the team losing half of their Washington. and is looking for brakemen to join centennial celebration and for scoring offence from last season Will Ondrik, who played for the first time in 44 years, the to graduation, this year’s team the Thompson Rivers University her team. A brakeman helps run and launch the bobsled down the UBC men’s basketball team will already looks to be faring better Wolfpack, is averaging eight track before jumping in and ducking host the CIS Final 8 on a new than their 2014-2015 counterpart. points and Phil Jalalpour, their head. The brakeman is also wooden court at the Doug Mitchell The team has a conference transfer from Olds College responsible for pulling the brakes at Thunderbird Sports Centre. record of 10-4 as opposed to in Alberta and their player of the end of a run.

To put it into perspective, the last year’s at 8-5. The ’Birds are the year from last season, is Arnott has a just finished her last time the championships were currently second in the Pioneer averaging 9.3 points per game. courses in the Faculty of Science and hosted on the Point Grey campus Division of Canada West and These players are all relatively is a fullback on the ’Birds. Golding, a was 28 years before current head are obviously good enough to new additions to the team, but recent transfer, is in her first year of coach Kevin Hanson — who has contend with the dominant teams have each managed to adapt kinesiology and plays as a wing and since won five Canada West titles in Canada. It is not too wild of quickly and continue to get on fullback with the T-Birds.

— took the reins at the team. The an idea to see them wreak havoc the board with amazing play.

“She [Johnson] described it last time UBC hosted the event, a in the nationals this year. This Winning this year could initially, before we’d done it, like being general admission ticket to the finals might perhaps be the ’Birds’ best change everything for the in a dryer,” said Golding. What does was $1.50 (they now start at $10) and chance at taking the title. ’Birds. There is something about the women’s team was still known as The T-Birds have the formula winning the CIS Basketball Men’s that mean? I don’t know. But it was kind of like a cold dryer, I guess” the “Thunderettes.” down this year. Thunderbird Championships that seems to The Thunderbirds hosted the veterans — like third-year Conor encourage back-to-back title wins Final 8 tournament — then known Morgan, fourth-year guard as though winning once opens as the CIAU Championship Final Jordan Jensen-Whyte and sixthe floodgates. This phenomenon — in March 1972 for the first and foot-nine forward David Wagner is highlighted when looking only time. Seizing an opportunity, — are totalling 16.3, 14.5 and 11.4 at teams like the University of the team proceeded to defeat the points per game, respectively.

Victoria Vikes who went on Acadia University Axemen with a Interestingly, there has also a seven-title winning streak score of 87-80. This was perhaps been an influx of extremely good between 1979 and 1986, and the the Thunderbird’s grandest era as players into the team, especially University of Carleton Ravens, the women’s team was also in the from other schools. Port which have gone on five-title midst of a three-title winning streak.

Coquitlam native Patrick Simon, winning streaks twice including Unfortunately for the ’Birds, it was who scored 17 points in UBC’s a win just last year. also the last time the men’s team win on Friday against Regina, Not only will winning put hoisted the trophy. is a transfer from Simon Fraser this year’s Thunderbirds on the But that could all change University. Guard A. J. Holloway path to asserting dominance in this year. The Thunderbirds has repeatedly injected energy Canada, but it will also place are looking strong this season. into every game he has played them as one of greatest teams in Despite losing Tommy Nixon, in, constantly making steals as UBC’s history. U

“It’s such an adrenaline rush,” said Arnott.

Both women were surprised by the technicality of the sport.

“The first time, there was no technique to it. It was just run and get in,” explained Arnott. But since the first time, they have been working on their technique and power for the sport.

Golding and Arnott aren’t sure where bobsledding will take them.

Arnott has finished her degree and is training, in rugby and bobsledding, and working while Golding is just starting her degree and career as a Thunderbird.

The two have travelled up to Whistler several times to train with Johnson at the Whistler Sliding Centre and recently returned from a trip to Calgary to train at the Olympic park. They also trained with Johnson in a gym.

Both will be traveling to Utah in February to compete in part of the North America Cup Circuit. It will be Golding’s and Arnott’s first competition.

“There is nothing in my life — rides, rugby games — that can describe the first time being in [a bobseld] was like,” Golding’s explained.

Both might be new to the sport but have definitely caught the bobsledding bug. U

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