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Blessing Olukemi Falayi is the president of the Women’s Centre, involved in UBC’s chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and a Pokémon Go aficionado.

Falayi — who is entering her fourth year at UBC with a double major in political science and gender, race, sexuality and social justice — has been involved with the Women’s Centre since her second year. When she first began, she never saw herself as president.

Since joining, however, the space has impacted her life deeply.

The UBC Women’s Centre is an AMS resource group that is run by students and has existed at the university for the last 40 years. It is a space open to all female identifying students and provides programming such as free self-defence workshops, film screenings with panel discussions and peer support groups. The centre itself is located in the Nest and offers feminine hygiene products, pregnancy tests and a library of feminist literature, among other things.

“I want to make it the place women want to be when they are looking for support and community,” she said. “Looking back, I never thought the centre would turn into such a meaningful space for me. I want everyone to know about it.”

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For the upcoming school year, she hopes that the centre will have a bigger presence on campus. She plans to make it the most inclusive and accessible space it ever has been so that as many women as possible are aware of it and are able to use the resources it provides.

There are distinct moments that

“Looking back, I never thought the centre would turn into such a meaningful space for me.” stick out to her when looking back on her involvement.

“After the Michael Brown grand jury verdict, a few of us were in the Women’s Centre waiting for the decision. It was so heartbreaking that a few of us decided to put on a vigil for Mike Brown [to foster] a place of healing,” she said. “I know it may not seem related, but any issue pertaining to black lives cannot be divorced from my understandings of feminism.

The women at the centre were so supportive of it and we just threw a really kind of last minute event together.”

“It was such a beautiful and memorable event. I think it will

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stay with me forever.”

Falayi’s most cherished memory from the centre was an open house art day.

“So many women came out,” she said. “It was way more than I had even hoped. They all made awesome radical art. We played Drake and had good times.

“I got to know a lot of the girls on a much more personal and intimate basis. Now the centre is decorated with amazing art by all these wonderful women who came out.”

Her involvement on campus didn’t end there. She also took on a coordinator position with Colour Connected Against Racism and has an ongoing involvement with the Vancouver chapter of Black Lives Matter — something she balances with academics and work.

“When Mike Brown’s murder happened in August 2014, I got swept up in the immense political influence that BLM activists in the United States had made. It honestly brought out a bunch of mixed emotions in me,” said Falayi. “It was both gruelling and exhausting to hear about these murders and the injustice that continued to persist following each one, but it was also immensely healing to be connected to all these other people who felt the same way. It made me hopeful — it was and is so radical.” U Editor’s note: the writer of this article has previously worked with the Women’s Centre.

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finances //

Block Party lost over $200,000 last year — this year, the AMS plans to improve

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Last year’s Block Party lost $154,000 more than the AMS planned for.

Jack Hauen Coordinating Editor

The 2016 AMS Block Party, after months-long battles between the AMS, UBC and the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), lost $207,295, according to the AMS’s 2016/17 budget presentation to Council — about $154,000 more than the $53,000 deficit the AMS was planning for.

Outlining the budget for last year’s Block Party was “quite the guessing game,” according to AMS VP Finance Louis Retief, partially because of the uncertainty about where it would be held.

Major contributing factors to the deficit include a lack of tickets being sold — 6,800 out of a potential 10,000 — and lower beverage sales than in previous years.

Also contributing to low ticket sales, said AMS President Ava Nasiri, was the lengthy negotiation that took place between the AMS, UNA and UBC over whether Block Party could be hosted at Thunderbird Arena. The budget was finally approved in January 2016 — this year, it was finalized before September.

As for the beer sales, that “probably had to do with the amount of ‘celebration’ that students did prior to coming to the event. Particularly given the location of the venue and the walk,” said Nasiri.

The abnormally large deficit was also partially caused by the cost of the flooring that was laid down to protect Thunderbird Stadium’s turf, which had to be driven in from out-of-province.

All told, including gas, labour and the flooring itself, that cost was somewhere around $100,000.

The stadium plan This year, in order to keep Block Party at the stadium, the AMS is looking into partnering with a community member to secure flooring for free or at a much cheaper cost.

“Obviously, we would like to be able to accommodate more students [at Block Party]. So steps moving forward will include two major factors,” said Nasiri.

“First one being our ability to secure reasonable flooring for the stadium. If we get the flooring, then we are able to have this larger-scale Block Party at the stadium.”

Ticket prices at Thunderbird Stadium, which will have gone up an average of 41 per cent for this year, would be $33 for early bird, $42 for general tier and $57 for final tier. Last year prices were $20 for early bird, $25 for late bird, $30 for general tier and $48 for final tier.

In 2015, when Block Party was held in a parking lot, ticket prices ranged from $15-30.

If the AMS is unable to buy, rent or borrow flooring for a reasonable price, the wheels are already in motion to host the party in University Commons — the open space in front of the Nest.

The Commons plan The budget passed in Council to hold Block Party in the Commons includes a planned deficit of $62,000 — $9,000 more than last year’s planned amount.

The AMS were able to begin the budgeting process much earlier this year, allowing them to put together what they believe is a more accurate idea of what it’ll cost.

“We’d rather budget for a higher deficit than go over budget,” said Retief.

Without free flooring for Thunderbird Stadium, the Commons is definitely the cheaper option. The space has a capacity of 6,500, or just under the amount of tickets sold last year.

“The spirit is always to continue expanding Block Party.

However, we have to be financially responsible with the fees that students are paying us, obviously,” said Nasiri.

Early-bird ticket prices here would go for $17, general tier for $25 and final tier for $30.

Though the ticket prices would be cheaper in the Commons than if Block Party were held in the stadium, Nasiri noted that the bigger venue would be able to attract better talent.

“Even if you’re paying $57, you’re paying [that amount] for a concert that you probably would’ve paid $80 or $90 for if it was at Rogers Arena,” she said.

Moving forward Nasiri said that her campaign promise to turn Block Party into a charitable event still has no specific time frame for becoming a reality, noting that she is “still putting together a longer-term plan on how to get this from where it is and where it was last year to a financially sustainable and eventually philanthropic event.”

“The first step is to have it be a break-even event, because there’s no artist you could convince to come play a charity concert if there’s no money at the end of the day being given to charity,” she said.

Though the AMS’s long-term vision for Block Party is to keep expanding, Retief isn’t opposed to dialing it back for a year.

“Just to be fiscally responsible this year, we’d rather take a step back and plan what we want Block Party to look like three, five years from now. It’s not like we’re forever moving away from the stadium. It’s like we’re taking a step back now that we know what the stadium requires and we’re going to work towards getting Block Party back there,” he said. U

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Digital Tattoo project aims to increase awareness of online privacy issues Hussein Hatim Contributor

As technology advances, the world has become a more convenient and far less secretive place. Services like Facebook, Google and Instagram have created and replaced avenues of communication in a way that allows everyone to share more information with more people.

UBC’s Digital Tattoo project aims to increase awareness of online security and privacy issues. Created with grant funding from UBC’s teaching and learning enhancement fund and from BCcampus, the project brings students and university community members together to discuss ways in which they can help students make thoughtful decisions about their online presence. The project also works with other universities including Thompson Rivers University, the University of Victoria and the University of Toronto.

“We don’t advocate [for a specific way of acting online]. We’re really just trying to do some research on the tools, approaches and the things that students are thinking and people are saying with regard to their digital lives, and provide them with some information so that,” said Cindy Underhill, the strategic co-lead of the project. “As they’re making decisions about how they’re interacting online, they’re more informed.”

One focus of the project is making people more aware of free sharing services. When the service comes without a material cost, the service must be getting something out of it,

making the people using the service the product.

“Applications and tools online are not neutral — there are people behind them. There are people that create them, there are people who market based on the data that they’re gathering when people are using those tools,” said Underhill.

“Sometimes students will download apps or use things because it’s a quick, easy way to connect with others, but we’re not really thinking about how our digital footprint is making its way to others who are using that data for other purposes that we don’t have any knowledge of.”

By increasing awareness, the project hopes to indirectly change behaviour.

“People are going to act differently and will, for example, say I don’t agree with these terms of service because these are a little invasive and they don’t download that app. They’re voting via Pocketbook and making a choice, so they’ll affect change,” said Bryan Short, a UBC student coordinator.

“These app developers will react, ‘okay, maybe we don’t need to make all these requests. Maybe we don’t need access to the camera or we don’t need to know where this person is.’”

They also want to help students question the way their information is being used around them. One of Short’s projects this year was a blog series titled “Connect Exposed” which examined Blackboard Connect and the information it stored — which included seemingly small things like your clicks, login info and time spent on pages.

The Digital Tattoo Project aims to help students make informed decisions about their online presence.

“Why is this relevant? Is this being used to assess a grade for a student? If it is, shouldn’t a student be aware that this kind of information is being recorded?” said Short.

Beyond social media and learning platforms like Connect, the Digital Tattoo project also wishes to remind students that just because a multimillion dollar company isn’t using your data, doesn’t mean it’s safe.

Citing a study done at the University of Indiana, Underhill explained that up to 23 per cent of people that receive “sext photos” report then sharing them with others. She also described the presentation the project is giving to UBC students at

the faculty of education, transitioning from being student to teachers regarding their online presence.

“From seemingly innocuous photos of someone drinking or on holiday or whatever, depending on [the photos’] context and the context of their teaching they can have serious consequences.”

Don Thompson, the deputy chief information officer with UBC’s information security, agrees with the need for programs and initiatives like the Digital Tattoo project.

“I think the biggest thing is that because we’re using our devices so much and using them for so many things we’ve become a little bit numb

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to the dangers involved,” he said.

UBC itself will be launching an campaign in October that will aim at helping “folks better understand how they can protect their information and how they can better protect the information of others that they have been entrusted.”

“Maybe students that have lists of other student names and phone numbers for a campus club, for example, or professors that have a student list with student numbers and grades,” said Thompson. “It’s not necessarily just our own information that we hold on our devices, but the information of others around us.” U —with files from Sruthi Tadepalli.

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Students still struggle to get into their required courses

Mandatory courses fill up fast — leaving many students in a tight spot.

Rachel Ong Contributor

With the 2016/17 school year only a week away, courses and wait lists are almost fully registered.

Students from all faculties struggle with this dilemma every year as important 100-level classes and higher-level, pre-requisite classes fill up far quicker than the high number of students that need to enroll can get a spot. Some notable examples include ENGL 100, BIOL 112, CPSC 110, PHYS 101, CHEM 121 and even more in upper-level classes.

Each faculty has released statements on their respective webpages with “What do I do?” or “What to do if your course is full” tips to ease the transitional periods in these times of waiting for spaces to open up.

But there is no guarantee students will get into their courses through checking the SSC, as these “particular [strategies] will not work for many courses especially multi-section courses; they have coordinators in departmental offices who control space so even if it looks like there is an opening,

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you likely won’t be able to register in it,” according to the UBC Science website.

These rules are only applicable to first- and second-year courses, however. In an interview with The Ubyssey, the acting director of arts academic advising, Susanne Goodison, spoke regarding graduating students who are facing the same hardships in registration, but have a better chance.

“There is a policy in the calendar that says no student can be denied access to a course they need for graduation,” said Goodison. This

is also listed on the UBC arts undergraduate website.

“We work quite closely with that student … then often with the department and sometimes the instructor to ensure that we come to a solution,” she said. “The process begins with looking and seeing what are the options in terms of what kinds of courses are available, and from there, then we start to see what we can fit into the schedule.”

As for students not in their graduating year, Goodison said arts academic advising will work with those students as well, but cannot absolutely guarantee them a seat. “[We will] work with them as much as we can to make sure that their schedule is working in such a way so that it’s not going to … cause a delay in their graduation over the long term.”

Although the university offers support in these types of situations, many students have been taking matters into their own hands.

Established in 2009, a website called myUBCcourseisfull.com is filling the gap. For five dollars, students can sign up for personalized e-mail and text notifications if spots become available in a class.

The service does not actually register students into their classes but instead gives them a chance to register on their own.

“We were filling a need,” said Jay Zhang, UBC alumni and co-founder behind the site. “My

partner was having trouble getting into one of his courses at UBC when we were students at the time and we were both 4th-year computer science students so he wrote the code that would check for spots available and it kind of just went from there.”

Getting into the course is not 100 per cent guaranteed, but the service promises that they “won’t stop trying until you get into the course you want” — and if you miss a spot, there are no additional fees to get more notifications.

Zhang estimates that “since 2011, we’ve had about 5,700 users, or 5,700 courses that we’ve notified people about.”

Another popular service is Slacknotes’ Eyeout. The Eyeout system is free and also sends students notifications about courses when they become available. One major benefit — besides the price — is that Eyeout also runs a type of live chat stream, where UBC students post the courses they need and also attempt to buy, sell and swap their seats in fully-registered classes with classmates via text and e-mail.

One UBC student last year also created a Reddit (/r/UBC) thread with a script that automatically registers students into their courses, though it has not gained as much traction as other methods. U —with files from Samantha McCabe.

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Brooklyn Fink was charged with burning the UBC Pride flag

While the rainbow flag (flying for OUTweek) burning happened in February, a charge — for mischief causing damage of property with a value of under five thousand dollars — was not laid against Fink until late April by the Richmond Crown Counsel. After several appearances in court, Fink’s next court dates are set for April of 2017. As explained by Fink, her reasoning for burning down the flag was motivated by her own transsexual viewpoint, describing the LGBT label that the flag conveys as non-inclusive and imposing sexual politics onto the identities of transgender individuals.

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RCMP arrested two men on campus, investigating allegations of sexual assault

The RCMP arrested two men — David Singh Tucker and Yan Zhi Gao — involved in a suspected break-and-enter and sexual assault just after 2:15 a.m. on Saturday, April 30. The men were apprehended after the RCMP received a report that an apartment building located on the 5700 block of Birney Avenue had been broken into. The men were taken into custody outside the residence. Tucker was charged with break-and-enter, sexual assault and causing bodily harm (three counts), forcible confinement (three counts), robbery (three counts) and wearing a mask with intent to commit an indictable offence. Gao was charged with breaking-and-entering to commit robbery. Tucker was later found dead in a Surrey pre-trial facility.

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UBC student discovered four new planets that NASA missed

Working in astronomy professor Jaymie Matthews’ lab, UBC grad Michelle Kunimoto found four exoplanets that NASA’s Kepler mission failed to find. One of Kunimoto’s discoveries, KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 408.05, is in what’s called the “habitable zone” — an area close enough to a nearby star that it could theoretically support liquid water and, potentially, life. At 3,200 light years away (that’s really far), we won’t be visiting anytime soon, but it’s still an important discovery.

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AMS was found guilty of unfair labour practices, told employee to vote no to unionization

The BC Labour Relations Board found the AMS guilty of unfair labour practices after a manager in their Catering and Conference department texted an employee to vote against the unionization process. It was also found to be likely that they paid two employees to increase incentive and reward to vote “no” to unionization.

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First draft of new UBC sexual assault policy was released

In the wake of a string of widely reported sexual assaults over the last few years and a human rights complaint filed against the university in 2014, UBC has been drafting a sexual assault policy. Since Bill 23 — which mandates all universities in the province to have a sexual assault policy — received royal assent and was passed in May, UBC has one year to complete a finalized policy. The consultation period has lasted all summer and will end in early fall to allow the UBC community time to respond.

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Santa (Ono) came to town

After almost a year of interim president Martha Piper and a presidential search that dated back to January of 2016, Santa Ono was chosen as the 15th president of UBC. Students and faculty alike responded enthusiastically, eagerly hanging on to Ono trivia like his penchant for bow-ties, his Vancouver heritage and his booming Twitter presence. While Ono only started August 15, he’s already working on heightened student engagement and accessibility and some people are obsessed.

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Steven Galloway was fired after “irreparable breach of trust”

Steven Galloway was fired by the University of British Columbia after facing “serious allegations of misconduct.” He was first suspended with pay in November of 2015 after UBC received serious allegations of misconduct against Galloway.

However, Mark MacLean, the president of the faculty association, issued a statement citing serious concerns with the “university administration’s misleading public and private comments regarding Professor Galloway.”

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There were 29 Thunderbirds at the Rio 2016 Olympics this summer

The summer Olympics happen once every four years. For the 29 UBC athletes that made it to Rio de Janeiro, it was the opportunity of a lifetime. Incoming UBC swimmer Emily Overholt won bronze in the 4x200 freestyle relay, stepping in for teammate Brittany MacLean who had fallen ill during the games, and alumnus Evan Dunfee won the bronze in racewalking (for a few hours). The Olympics are a great showcase of incredible athleticism and the human spirit, and the ’Birds definitely showed both.

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AMS Security employees were laid off, Nest building patrols eliminated

As of August 1, all AMS Security employees have been laid off and placed on recall — effectively eliminating security patrols around the AMS Student Nest. The changes were made because patrols were thought to be less relevant due to live stream cameras and the open concept of the Nest. Eliminating patrols will save the AMS $300,000 annually. MoveUp, the union representing AMS Security, met the change with resistance.

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The Campus Security external review came out

Complaints about UBC’s campus security model were partially confirmed when the external review, ordered by UBC and conducted by three external experts, pointed out many drawbacks of the current system and made 31 recommendations to change it. The review touched on a lack of clarity for the role of Campus Security, a poor distribution of finances towards different departments and even the disarray of the implementation of blue phones (one of three that UBC actually disagreed with). In response, UBC is going to first focus on establishing a clear vision for the department and then tackle the other recommendations.

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Tea //

How to buy, brew and enjoy good tea

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Tea comes in countless varieties and has many uses which can help a student make it through exams.

Samuel Du Bois Culture Editor

Welcome to student life and the inevitable mass of stress, work and late nights that come with it. By the time you leave your first round of midterms, most of you will have settled into a solid modus operandi to get you through the day.

Comfortable habits can sometimes be the only aspects of a day which keep you sane, such as waking up at a certain time or getting an Uppercase cookie before class.

When it comes to drinks though, students tend to default to the two preferences of tea or coffee. They are the perfect study drinks — warm, soothing and thoroughly satisfying. Coffee often gets preference over tea because it is more convenient to buy on campus and usually of better quality. Although it is probably true that in all the history of its existence, the words “quality,”

“satisfying,” or “tasty” have never been synonymous with UBC Food Services, most people can probably agree that their coffee far outstrips their tea for enjoyment. You could soak one of their Earl Grey teabags in water for hours and you would never get anything remotely close to a strong or enjoyable brew — just a sad, lukewarm cup of off-coloured water with all the flavour of a plain wafer cracker. If done right, tea drinking can be an immensely rewarding experience and the cornerstone of your getting-through-examsalive routine. Tea comes in more varieties and combinations than you can comprehend and many of them have unique benefits which can be put to use when writing papers, getting to sleep or waking up in the morning.

Bag versus loose leaf Tea bags are convenient and can be of a good enough quality that they

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seem like a good option. Over the past few years, however, several studies have emerged citing health risks posed by prolonged usage.

This is down to the materials used to make the bags and prevent them from deteriorating when they are submerged in water. These materials range from the largely innocuous bamboo or paper, to ones like PVC, rayon, nylon, thermoplastic and polypropylene. The reasoning is that when you submerge your teabag and let the flavours leach into the water, you are also letting all of those wonderful chemicals also leach in.

It is always best to go with loose leaf tea. No only can you avoid the potentially harmful chemicals in tea bags, but you can also ensure a higher quality tea with better flavour and enjoyment.

As a replacement for your teabag, there are a large variety of metal or silicone tea strainers to brew your tea with and lots of thermoses come with built in strainers.

Buying tea Finding tea is never that difficult.

Every grocery store will have at least a few boxes and tins on its shelf, and on-campus places such as Starbucks, Boulevard and Murchie’s offer a reasonable selection in a pinch.

Boulevard is fine with a handful of types in stock — each very different from the next and of a pretty high standard of quality. A standout would be their Lily tea, which is a herbal blend comprising of hibiscus flowers, apples, lemon liqueur, cardamom and rose petals.

It is immensely satisfying. Brews with a strong flavour can be rebrewed a second time to make an almost equally as good cup of tea. Their main issue is that they do not have straight Earl Greys, peppermints or others. If you go in looking for something specific, the odds are you will not find exactly that.

Starbucks’ tea is generally hit or miss. Being sourced from Teavana, it occupies an uneasy place, being better than the stuff UBC Food Services sells and mildly sanitary rainwater that just rolled off your roof, but it is nowhere near good.

Sure it tastes fine and the variety

is not bad, but Teavana teas are inevitably over-processed and sometimes sweetened with artificial flavours, virtually eliminating any health benefits. With places like this or a DavidsTea, it is a good idea to stick to simple teas with few if any added ingredients and no flavour additives. Drinking DavidsTea’s cupcake brew is about as far as you can get from a serene drinking experience.

Your best bet, without going too far, is Murchie’s in Westbrook Village, which offers an impressive variety of offerings in both the high and low price ranges. They also stock a fine range of tea cups and pots if you fancy classing up your tea game.

Going further afield, Granville Island Tea is pretty solid and even has some organic options, though they fail to meet the general quality of Victoria-based Silk Road Teas, which has a new location on West 4th near Arbutus. Their products are all organic and as fresh as possible, without increasing drastically in price. In addition to the usual selection of products, they have a wellness section whose blends are especially designed to combat things like the flu or stress.

If you want to order online, Tea Farm is a perfect supplier to choose.

Based in Vancouver Island, they have honed a reputation for quality products to even rival Silk Road.

They are also the first actual tea farm in Canada whose first batch of island-grown leaves sold out before they were even harvested, at a price upwards of $50 per 10 grams.

Brewing tea Everyone has their own special way of making tea. The British will furiously debate whether you put the milk in before the tea or vice-versa, even questioning the superiority of ceramic teapots versus metal ones and metal ones versus glass. George Orwell even devoted countless hours and pots of tea in the attempt of making a definitive guide to brewing the best cup.

Really, at a certain point, you just have to throw your hands in the air and say, “fuck it!” We are students with busy lives and responsibilities.

Who cares about whether or not the milk will evenly warm better if it

goes in the cup first? As an amateur tea brewer, there is only one thing that matters in the process and that is time.

Time makes all of the difference and will dictate the enjoyment of your brew. Too much time in the water and the drink gets bitter. Too little time and the tea is bland. The rule is one minute for green tea, three minutes for black tea and five for herbal. Whether or not you add milk to black tea is down to you.

Rooibos teas can also have milk, but otherwise it is generally good to drink it as is so that you can better appreciate the ingredients on their own.

types and their uses For studying, not all teas are created equal. Caffeine has been shown in studies to improve focus, making stronger black teas like assam and Irish breakfast excellent candidates for your drink of choice when studying. If you want something that will not keep you wired late into the night, peppermint teas are immensely beneficial.

If you are staring down the barrel of an impending exam, feeling that knot of anxiety in your chest as hours creep by and panic sets in, then a lavender tea will bring some relief. Similarly, camomile teas have also been shown to be a useful aid in coping with anxiety, depression and sleeping disorders. Although there has not been conclusive, scientific evidence to support this claim, both ingredients are commonly prescribed in natural medicine as a supplement or aid to more conventional treatment.

Although it is harder to find, blends containing St. John’s wort is also a useful ingredient to use for such purposes.

Tea is a remarkably forgiving drink which can be as involving and rewarding as you want it to be.

It can become a ritual, a pastime and even a benefit to your overall health, which can make all the difference in carrying you through the best and worst times of the semester. Just, for the love of god, don’t buy the stuff that UBC Food Services brew. You would be better off drinking from a stagnant pond. U

september 6, 2016 TUESDAY | culture | 9 Clubs //

Gears and Queers seeks to make engineering more accepting

UBC Gears and Queers is relatively new club on campus.

How was it started?

The founding story is not as interesting as it sounds. I went to a conference on diversity in engineering [in Waterloo], which used to be the National Conference on Women in Engineering, but they just expanded the scope this year, and

What’s the organization about?

What does it do?

At the moment, the interest seems to be in just having a social and support group for queer students in engineering because [it] isn’t a particularly minority-heavy subject to begin with. We’re not really an advocacy club — [UBC] Pride has that covered. When we initially talked about it, a lot of people were just interested in meeting other people and they kind of felt like advocacy was something that should just be left to [UBC] Pride.

With another organization like UBC Pride, what deficit do you think UBC Gears and Queers solves?

Well, we’re not the only club like this on-campus. They have OutLaws for the law department.

Engineering is really like a ‘boys club’ kind of faculty and it’s

Do you feel like there is any unaddressed homophobia in the faculty or industry that you’re trying to mitigate through your club? Do you think a queer engineering student, as you transition into a professional role, would feel more inclined to stay in the closet?

It’s funny you should say that. One of the first criticisms I heard was from a student with a conservative background and a Muslim country who said he didn’t like the idea of us having a club like this because it might make conservative employers less likely to come and recruit at UBC. I thought was a bit of a silly criticism and kind of the point [of the club]. We want employers to come and see that there are queer students and it’s cool. There was a study on queer people in STEM industries and the rate of being out is much higher in softer fields [while] engineering had the lowest rate of all.

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Trying to find our feet and figure out what our vision is will probably be one of our biggest challenges because we do have a lot of people who are interested, not necessarily in queer advocacy, but mental health advocacy. Trying to positively contribute and figure out where our focus should be, and I guess trying to get the word out and make sure that people find us!

Do you have anything else you’d like me to know about the club or you’d like to say?

It’s totally open to people who are not queer engineers — it’s open to everyone. Anyone can join.

Everyone on the planning team is really keen to get going on this and we’re really excited to see everyone at Imagine Day. U

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Check out the club’s Facebook page for more information about the club as well as their social events. They will also have a booth at Imagine Day and representation during the Engineering frosh week.

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I guess I want us to have a presence in campus life and be like, “Oh yeah, the queer kids! They’re having a party this weekend. Let’s go chill with them.” Or we’re having a hike and people who aren’t even queer will be like, “Yeah, those guys look fun. Let’s go hang out with them.” Just to build a community where one doesn’t

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We are planning a professional development event on the theme of [inclusiveness] and diversity in the workplace, and bring in some queer graduates as speakers.

Was it just that one individual?

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positive from the engineering students I have talked to. When we put out the survey, there were only three people who said they didn’t want this club to exist but only one of them gave a reason, and the person who said that was a gay man. It wasn’t such a huge part of their identity [and they felt] that they didn’t need a club like this and I thought there are a lot of people who would disagree. Besides that, I haven’t really heard much in the way of hatred or anything like that.

It’s been pretty positive.

getting better, but there are still a lot of remnants like drinking culture, which is fairly prominent even though we’re trying to move away from that.

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Cropping up on Facebook after reading week in March and maintaining a rather understated presence since then, UBC Gears and Queers has emerged as an exciting new social club with great potential to affect change on campus and the engineering faculty. On their Facebook page, they state their goals [are] “to beneficially impact the broader engineering community and create a more accepting environment for all people, regardless of romantic and/ or sexual orientation or gender identity, through thoughtful diversity programming, advocacy and social opportunities.”

We sat down with the founder and leader of the club, Jessica Hohner, to ask her a few questions.

met somebody from [McMaster University] who had started Enginqueers there, and a couple of schools in Ontario who had clubs like this and it just seemed like a really cool idea. It seemed like something that people here would be interested in. So I put out a survey to see if there was interest and there really was, so we started the club!

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UBC library acquires rare edition of Chaucer’s complete works

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“It’s not simply a repository of information. It’s the book as a work of art — a sort of supreme work of art.”

Mischa Milne Contributor

UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collections has acquired a 116-yearold copy of the Kelmscott Press’ Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. As part of a two year joint fundraising effort on the part of the library and the faculty of arts, funds were donated by a variety of community partners including UBC faculty, the Centennial Initiatives Fund, and B.H. Brausler Foundation of New York.

According to Gregory Mackie, an assistant professor in the department of English whose teaching and research focuses on book history and print culture, producing this work was a four year effort on the part of William

Morris, the founder of Kelmscott Press. Published in 1896, the book was his life’s masterpiece. He passed away a few months after its completion.

“It’s not simply a repository of information. It’s the book as a work of art — a sort of supreme work of art. Everything about it has been designed [and] executed in a very thoughtful way, even down to the clasps, the binding and the gilding on the sides of the page,” said Mackie.

Morris was fascinated by medieval culture and he developed the Kelmscott Press to revive printings of texts from the Middle Ages in the style they were originally designed. The book itself is surprisingly large — a Folio volume intricately designed with

medieval-style bindings, typeface and detailed illustrations. Morris planned the book himself and the woodblock illustrations were done by pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne Jones.

“What it does is it gives us a sense of the Victorian era’s really intense engagement with the culture of the Middle Ages. This book is particularly interesting because it gives us access to the past in two ways. We see the Middle Ages through the prism of the 19th century, so we’re looking back into the ways that the past is imagined and reimagined,” said Mackie.

The edition will be added to the Colbeck Collection of 19th century literature at UBC, which is comprised of 13, 000 volumes

and has been at the university for 49 years. Mackie is planning a celebration for the 50th anniversary of the collection in 2017.

The book would have cost 20 pounds in the year it was printed, or almost a year’s wages for the average working class person in Victorian society. In 2016, UBC’s library acquired it for $202, 000 USD. The difference? The book will be accessible to the public — something that was not the case in Victorian society.

“Ironically ... Morris was a socialist who believed in obliterating class distinctions and that beauty should be available to everyone. But because he was so interested in reviving ancient production methods such as

weaving, stained glass making, furniture making and making things by hand to sort of push back against industrialization, that actually made the goods that his firm, Morris and Co., produced really expensive and only available to people of great privilege and wealth, of which he was himself,” noted Mackie.

As teaching is one of the primarily intended purposes for the book, Mackie hopes that it will help engage undergraduate students with the beauty and wonder of the text.

“I certainly hope students realize that rare books is a branch of the library that is there for them, even though it seems a little forbidding. This is for all of us.

Tuum est — it’s yours.” U

OPINIONS

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Letter: Residence Hall Association needs to speak up for students Jake Mullan Contributor

I want the Residence Hall Association (RHA) to actually do something this year.

Last year, I saw the RHA idly watch the rumblings of UBC’s governance issues pass them by without comment, without inquiry and without action. International tuition increases? No comment.

A call for affordable housing on campus? Nope. Continuing issues in residence? Best not make a stink about it and just get on with planning an ice cream social. Last year was disappointing to watch, to say the least.

During my tenure in the RHA, we did a lot more than previous councils. RHA’s advocacy work had dwindled in past years and when issues in Ponderosa Commons arose, I led the charge in making sure residents’ concerns were addressed. The RHA as a whole made a further push in advocating for UBC residents when news about rent increases arose. In some pursuits, we made headway — in others, we at least tried despite not getting anywhere. Let’s break down a few of those acts of advocacy: In an individual and Ponderosa council capacity, I often sat in meetings with UBC Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS) executives, putting them on blast for their lack of

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communication or lack of action to improve residence life overall.

Did it sit well with all housing executives? Nope. Some of them won’t provide me with a reference letter for my actions as they were not used to being confronted — yet, I’m honestly better off without them. Standing up for residents got me meetings with the higherups in the SHHS, who pushed my own supervisors to improve their communication with our council and pushed for greater action.

One tangible example is that I simply asked Andrew Parr, managing director of SHHS, at RHA training if residents renewing contracts in year-round housing could be given more notice than a week’s time to pay a non-refundable deposit to secure their spot in residence for the following year. It wasn’t something you’d typically ask upon first meeting the very person who could cancel your contract at a moment’s notice — but something amazing happened. During the first week of March, a notice went out saying that deposits would have to be made by the end of the month.

SHHS listened, simply because we asked. Whad’ya know?

On an executive council level, when SHHS announced that winter session housing prices were going to increase, we held teach-ins, we had meetings with committees in the VP Students office, we had various Q&A sessions with various

parties involved in the decision and we attended AMS council meetings until late in the night for the first time in who knows how long. Heck, we even posted an open letter on UBC SHHS servers criticizing their moves. It might have gone unnoticed, but it was the start of something amazing at the RHA — we were sticking up for our residents on a level we hadn’t done in years.

We stood up to the very people that paid our honorariums and held our housing contracts. We were not “fired,” we were not asked to step aside, we were not evicted — nothing bad happened to us because SHHS realized we were doing our job as elected representatives. I agree that the working relationship between SHHS and the RHA should not be deconstructed, but I think that the relationship can be contested and the status quo of SHHS and past councils can be challenged.

As the RHA currently stands, it is one of the largest student-run groups on campus and represents a massive amount of residents across eight residences – soon to be nine with Orchard Commons coming online. Yet for some reason, it has decided to not have a seat at the table with AMS Council. The RHA has kept quiet on many policies and happenings at UBC and beyond that affect residents. Whether it be Vancouver’s housing crisis or the rising cost of tuition for its many

The cost of student housing continuous to rise.

international students, staying mum and conversing about what colour this year’s RHA hoodies should be seem to take higher priority.

Enough is enough, RHA. It’s time to stop being a social club obsessed with patting each other on the back and it’s time to make a difference on your campus. You hold so much power and you do not even know it – nor do you exercise it in the slightest. I know many of you are perhaps looking for a solid reference on your résumés and you may not want to ruffle anyone’s feathers, but you know what’s come handy in many of my job interviews? Stories of how I made a significant difference in

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my residence community. How I resolved a problem that wasn’t about not having enough juice boxes at an ice cream social I organized.

How I stood up and chose to speak my mind rather than sit idly by and twiddle my thumbs.

It comes down to this — do something in the RHA and it’ll be a rewarding experience. Stay idle and you’ll get nothing more than a viable reference from your Residence Life Manager that will mean nothing in a year’s time. The choice is yours. U Jake Mullan is a recent UBC graduate and former president of the Ponderosa Commons Residence Association.

SCIENCE

september 6, 2016 Tuesday

Editor koby michaels

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Med school is teaching anatomy on a giant Swedish “iPad” Koby Michaels Science Editor

Deep in the basement of the Life Science Centre, in the first-year medical school lab that is full of body bags and cadavers, lives the anatomy visualization table — a giant iPad like device stuffed full of medical data.

“It’s like a giant iPad that you can load CT data on,” explained Claudia Krebs, a professor teaching in the department of cellular and physiological sciences who is using the device to teach her students.

“It does 3D reconstructions of [CT scans] that you can then rotate and manipulate. You can cut through them, change the opacity to see different structures like bones or go all the way to the skin level.”

The UBC medical school, which revamped its entire curriculum two years ago, sees the 500 pound device as an important teaching tool in anatomy and radiology — the branch of medicine that deals with medical imaging. The “giant iPad” (it’s playful name even

though it runs windows and isn’t made by Apple) will be used in conjunction with cadavers.

The new curriculum is “casebased,” according to Krebs. That means each week, medical students are introduced to a case which they work through in lectures, presentations, small-group work, dissections and now the anatomy visualization table.

“The strength of it is that we can use real patient data that we can reconstruct and work with. You can put three dimensional labels on there, so a lot of dynamics we can do,” said Krebs. She envisions students working cooperatively on the table, quizzing themselves on it and even, one day, practicing procedures on it.

The device also marks a new stage in cooperation between anatomy and radiology, which have had a historically close relationship. Krebs thinks the “giant iPad” will better teach students how to translate imaging from radiology to real life —

something she said they usually struggle with.

“The translation from the real to the digital and back again will just become intuitive,” Krebs explained.

Why not just use normal-sized iPads? “You can have the anatomy life-sized, you can have it larger than life and more importantly, you can collaborate on it,” said Krebs.

The device, made by the Swedish company Sectra, cost around $190,000, according to Krebs. The London Drugs Foundations bought the device for the med school and will pay for the first year of the service contract which is a whopping $19,000 a year. And you thought your cellphone bill was expensive.

“We want to see if this investment has an impact on student learning,” said Krebs. She explained that the med school will do the first rigorous research on how the device affects learning to see if — and how — it improves learning.

When they get the results from the

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The device can be used flat or upright, allowing it to be used by multiple students or as a lecturing tool.

study, the school may purchase more to use in other settings and to teach other health care professionals.

“I was the biggest skeptic of this project before we started it,” said Krebs. It was talking to students in Sweden, she explained, and seeing

how they benefited from it, that changed her mind.

Unfortunately, the device will only be used to teach first year medical students. You’ll just have to deal with your giant iPhone for now. U

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Math could make your toilet paper softer and stronger

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Koby Michaels Science Editor

What is the right way to roll your toilet paper — in front or behind?

Science has yet to answer that question (or has it) but new research out of UBC’s department of mechanical engineering does wipe away some of the mystery behind the science of toilet paper.

Kui Pan, a PhD student at UBC along with Srikantha Phani, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, and Sheldon Green, a professor and department head of mechanical engineering — developed a mathematical model for a process known as creping, the process that gives toilet paper, tissues and paper towel their characteristic softness, absorbency and stretchability.

Have you ever tried wiping up a spill with lined paper? How about blowing your nose with a newspaper? Or wiping your…?

Well you get the idea — toilet paper, tissue paper, and paper towels aren’t like other paper. They are softer, way better at absorbing fluids and stretch much better than the paper you use in class or the paper the The Ubyssey is printed on. All of those qualities have one process to thank — creping.

And creping is a surprisingly simple process. Wet paper (Phani said it can be up to 90 per cent water) is attached to a heated, rotating metal cylinder with a light adhesive coat, along with other chemicals. The spinning, heated cylinder dries the paper before it runs into the creping blade, also known as the doctor blade. The blade

removes the paper from the spinning metal cylinder (which is spinning at around 80 kph) and causes the paper to crinkle (see the video below).

Pan, Phani and Green built a two-dimensional mathematical model of the creping blade — the first math model for making toilet paper. At a glance, it may seem like a strange thing to build a model for but, as Phani explained, no one has ever studied the process from an academic perspective and even though the process isn’t new, it isn’t well understood.

“Most of the expertise is in-house and is obtained by a lot of trial and error,” explained Phani. “[But] if you have a fundamental understanding, the hope is you could optimize the process, you could see which parameters to vary — which are significant parameters and which aren’t significant parameters.”

Math could build softer, more absorbent and stronger poo-paper.

Who wouldn’t want that?

Their model also exposed the physics of creping. The team found that the angle of the creping blade — the blade that removes the paper from the metal cylinder — is very important in determining the the microscopic structure of the paper.

The pulp used in the paper, as well as the heat of the cylinder and the chemical used, also affect the paper’s properties.

The model predicts the microscopic structure of the paper depending on parameters like the angle of the blade, but the team isn’t sure how these microscopic properties relate to macroscopic ones like softness. They hope that building the model into a third dimension could answer some of those questions.

A question that is central to the debate on toilet paper (at least in the mind of an underpaid, student newspaper science editor) is why softer and more absorbent paper is always so expensive.

“It’s absolutely more expensive to make more absorbent paper. It will typically require more valuable furnishes and possibly a slower process,” explained Green.

“And more energy is consumed,” added Phani. Softer paper requires the metal cylinder to be heated to a higher temperature. But your scorn for high super-soft-andabsorbent toilet paper prices may not be completely unwarranted.

“It is [more] expensive, but it may not be as expensive as they are charging,” Phani joked.

The softest and “finest quality” tissue grades, according to Green, are a result of something called “explosive bulk.” Green explained explosive bulk with his Persian cat (which was, sadly, not in attendance at The Ubyssey’s

interview). Persian cats have long hair that tends to form mats.

Ideally, to remove the mats, you are able to pull apart the hair without pulling the hair out of the cat.

“The paper is sort of like a matted cat if you can separate out the individual strands but without ripping the hair out,” said Green.

Explosive bulk is like an unmatted cat — the paper fibres are pulled apart from each other but not to the point that the paper falls apart.

This highlights a limitation that the model shows. You can’t have “infinitely soft” paper, as Phani puts it, as paper gets softer it gets weaker. Phani and Green hope the model will expose ways of making paper stronger and softer, with less of a trade-off.

“This is a wonderful example of engineering,” explained Green.

“You asked ‘does this model allow us to produce the ideal sheet?’ and in engineering there is no such thing as an ideal. For each application, there is better and worse but there is never an ideal.”

The work was originally funded

by NSERC but Kruger Products, a tissue manufacturer, and Solenis, a creping chemicals manufacturer, have since become involved as well. The team is also working with FPInnovations, an industrial research organization. U

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Tech: Back to school apps you need this term at UBC

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Make sure to experience the real world too.

Stephanie Wu and Koby Michaels Contributor and Science Editor

You are on your phone all of the time, so you might as well be doing something productive with your screen time (and no, Tinder doesn’t count). We are kicking off the school year with our recommendations for the apps you need this term. These are the ones you need to organize your life, pass your classes and not go broke while at UBC. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it’s a good start. Let us know what we missed and what your favourites are.

school The UBC app The UBC app helps students stay on top of events and safety alerts, and offers a direct portal to the SSC. Be sure to check food service hours and look up which campus eateries take meal or flex dollars. Chances are you may only use this app for the campus map. Check your ego and look up which Buchanan building your class is actually in. It’s okay, we’ve all been there.

Rate My Professors Yeah, you’ve probably heard of this one, but that’s because it’s a classic. If you haven’t heard of it, the app allows students to give their profs number ratings and written reviews. Find out whom to avoid, whose classes to take and who has a chili pepper. If you

don’t want the app, do yourself a favour and at least get the chrome extension so you can see ratemyprof.com on the SSC iStudiez Keep track of your assignments, grades, course schedule and all of your club meetings all in one place. For $2.99, upgrade to the pro version and have the app remind you to start assignments, hand in papers and when all your exams are.

Google Drive Drive is great for writing essays as well as creating spreadsheets and presentations.

It’s a staple of group work, so most people have an account and know how to use it. Plus, everything is saved automatically and stored online. That means you won’t have to worry if your computer dies and deletes your term paper four hours before it’s due.

ORGANIZATION Any.do Perfect for the list-making, overcommitted student, this app helps you organize and rank tasks while letting you break them down into smaller steps. Sync it across devices, set reminders and automatically set recurring tasks.

You’ll never forget to call your mom again! You can upgrade to one of the paid premium services for the whole experience. It’s $2.08 per month for one device or

$2.24 per month for all of your devices if you pay for a full year.

Evernote/Penultimate Evernote is the ultimate note taking app. Organize everything from class notes, essays, group projects and more in one place.

You can also annotate documents, use it as a word processor, chat with group members and build flashcards. If you download its accompanying app, Penultimate, to write notes on a tablet, Evernote will store and organize them for you. Plus, the whole database is searchable, so you won’t have to flip through notebooks for half an hour while studying.

Finish Then 16-year-olds Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen were just trying to make a checklist app to help students with procrastination.

What they ended up with exploded in popularity, featuring coverage

by TechCrunch, Fox, CNET, the Huffington Post and more. The app is a checklist for procrastinators and allows you to organize your life by when things are due, how urgent they are and how important they are.

MONEY Mint Anyone moving out for the first time could do with some budgeting help. Tracking your purchases and sorting them by categories like entertainment and groceries, Mint lets you add multiple accounts to keep your

spending in check — because we all know that drawer full of receipts won’t help you.

Wally Like Mint, Wally helps you make sure you avoid getting broke. You can track expenses by categories or day of the week. The app has a long list of pre-made expense categories and allows you to add your own.

Plus, the app can keep track of your income. Set yourself a monthly budget and Wally will show you how much of it you have already used. The app even shows you how much money you’ll save if you keep on your spending trajectory.

It can also scan receipts and use your location to help keep track of expenses for free.

Splittable Living with roommates? Do your frienwds always owe you money?

Splittable allows you to track who owes who what in a house or friend group. Don’t let your roommate rip you off by not paying for the 100 rolls of toilet paper you bought or let your friend who will “pay you back next time” get away with never paying you back.

Vendchat (aka Spocket) Developed by UBC students last year, Vendchat simplifies the process of buying or selling secondhand textbooks, bikes, clothing, plants, coffee makers — you name it. Snap a pic, post it and chat with other users within the app. Maybe you’ll get to avoid all those messy buy/sell Facebook groups.

VANCOUVER Transit App Whether you’re Vancouver born and bred, or it’s your first time in the Pacific Northwest, the aptly named Transit App will save you time and confusion navigating the city. Whatever your preferred mode of transportation — train, bus, or car2go — this app will simplify your explorations, giving you departure times for nearby transit lines, offering alternate routes and notifying you of disruptions.

Google Maps is also pretty reliable and Apple Maps recently added Vancouver transit info and routing.

Street Food Vancouver Now that you’ve figured out how to get around Vancouver, go get some food. This app tracks food trucks around the city, tells you when they are open and gives you the truck’s schedules so you can find them tomorrow. It is pretty downtowncentric, but if you are ever in the area and hungry, it’s a game-changer.

Vancouver Travel Guide Whether you are new to the city, bored on a Saturday afternoon or trying to impress your Tinder date, this app can help you out. We know it sounds super lame, but the app has a pretty impressive list of things to do in and around the city. It’s a good way to get to know the city or fall back in love with it. Build an itinerary and work your way through Vancouver.

—with files from Jack Hauen. U

SPORTS+REC

september 6, 2016 Tuesday

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Adam Shell leaves UBC

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After a disappointing season, Adam Shell is moving on from UBC hockey.

Matt Langmuir Contributor

Last season, the Thunderbirds finished undefeated in the regular season and comfortably advanced to the national championship.

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Season primer: For men’s soccer, “the bar is set high.”

Marcus Yun Contributor

Although the Thunderbirds missed out on the CIS national championship finals due to their 5-4 penalty shootout loss in the semi-finals, last season was anything but a failure.

Now entering the 2016 season, expectations remain elevated.

“I’m not sure if you can come much closer to achieving the ultimate goal,” said head coach Mike Mosher.

The Thunderbirds finished undefeated in the regular season and comfortably advanced to the national championships. A big contributor to the success was the team’s solid defence. “Last year we had a pretty experienced team ... most notably our goalkeeper, Chad Bush, and central defender, Bryan Fong, and that team conceded the

lowest goals in the country,” said Mosher, who was also 2015 Canada West Coach of the Year.

Mosher also believes that by focusing on the defence, the team will have a very good chance to repeat the success that they had in previous years.

Following a very solid season in which the only time the team was behind in a game was in the penalty shootout of the national championship semi-finals, Mosher stated that “it’s pretty tough to improve upon that.”

The challenge will then emerge from the fact that every year is different, with many new players in need of forming team chemistry. When asked about the current situation of the squad, Mosher said, “I like where we’re at.”

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record and with the standards set in last season’s performance, many would consider this a slow start. However, Mosher corrected that “preseason is just that … to prepare you for the season.

We could play a bunch of weak teams and win five games by lots of goals, but that does not necessarily prepare us for the season.”

“We took an opportunity to go and play two very good NCAA Division 1 teams… and that was an awesome process to go through because we found a lot about areas we have to get better at.”

Last season, the team consisted of top-class goal scorers such as Sean Einarsson and Gagan Dosanjh. Both are now part of the group of experienced players who have graduated and moved on from the program.

It is difficult to pick out

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which player will be the biggest threat to opposing sides as there are several promising ones.

Mosher believes that the loss of experienced players will not be a problem for the coming season because he has many players with potential. Some players mentioned by the head coach were creative attacking player Kerman Pannu, and center forwards Liam McManaman and Manpal Brar.

Every season includes tight and competitive matches. When asked which teams would be the biggest threat to UBC this season, Mosher picked out two teams: the University of Fraser Valley Cascades and the University of Victoria Vikes. “I think UFV will be a difficult opponent … they’re always well organized … and they don’t lose many players at all …

UVic always presents problems,” Mosher said.

Mosher also stated that, with the reputation of the Thunderbirds, “teams will be gunning for you every single time,” so every game should be entered with the highest preparations.

Despite the fact that 75 per cent of the roster consists of relatively new players, the objective for the season for Mosher remains high.

“The bar is set high and we want to win a lot of soccer games.

We want to win the Canada West Championship and be in a position to enter the national tournament. That’s where the bar is set.” U

UBC Athletics announced on Tuesday that Adam Shell is moving on from his position as head coach of the men’s ice hockey team. Shell, who previously coached Royal Military College and the Serbian men’s national team, spent just one season at the helm for the Thunderbirds.

Shell’s departure leaves the future of the hockey team uncertain.

For now Sven Butenschon — who served as assistant coach under Shell — will take over as interim coach.

In his lone season, Shell started off in the right direction, leading the ’Birds to a 6-1-3 record through the first ten games. That was offset by a dismal second half, plagued by injuries to players like captain Neil Manning.

Inconsistent play from players such as Nick Buonassisi also factored into UBC’s misfortunes after Christmas.

The team ended up finishing the regular season with a mediocre 11-13-4 record, but still enough to clinch the sixth and final spot in the Canada West playoffs. In the playoffs, Shell’s team ended their disappointing season in Calgary after being defeated two games to none at the hands of Mount Royal.

Shell’s departure leaves the future of the hockey team uncertain. For now Sven Butenschon — who served as assistant coach under Shell — will take over as interim coach. U

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David Sidoo talks football, charity work and BoG

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’Birds open season with a win and a tie

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Men’s soccer came from behind twice to earn a win and a draw to open the season.

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David Sidoo was a professional football player and successful businessman before joining the UBC Board of Governors.

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If you’re a fan of UBC football, David Sidoo is a name that you will probably come across at some point.

A native of New Westminster, BC, Sidoo is one of the founding members of the 13th Man Foundation — an organization that has provided off-field support for UBC football since 2014. In 1978, Sidoo came to UBC and played for the varsity football team where he was a record-breaking kick

returner and three-time All-Star and All-Canadian defensive back.

He also helped the T-Birds capture their first Vanier Cup title in 1982.

A lesson that Sidoo took away from his time as a T-Bird was the importance of helping the community, which gave him the motivation to establish the 13th Man Foundation.

“Our coaches back then instilled in us to be good community leaders and give back when you have a chance. A lot of us that went on to become successful in business never forgot that,” said Sidoo.

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“We’re giving back to UBC because UBC gave a lot to us.”

Sidoo’s belief in aiding the community goes beyond the UBC football team. Another organization that Sidoo established is Sidoo Family Givings (SFG), which he and his family founded in 2006 to support families of underprivileged and at-risk youths. While growing up, Sidoo experienced first-hand the many difficulties that such families go through. “[My family wasn’t] wealthy at all by any stretch of imagination and I went to school sometimes without breakfast in the morning,” said Sidoo.

His inspiration to become a football player came at the age of eight, when he was in a hospital recovering from tonsil removal surgery. “It was the first time I was away from my family and I was crying so badly that I wanted to leave the hospital. My dad got me a TV in the room, so I’d scroll through the television and then I started watching NFL football,” said Sidoo.

Sidoo began playing flag football competitively after leaving the hospital and it was from there that he developed his passion for the sport. After his varsity career at UBC, Sidoo went on to play five years of professional football with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League (CFL).

He retired from football in 1988 and became a partner at Yorkton Securities before entering a career in investment banking in 1999.

Seventeen years later, Sidoo is the president and CEO of East West Petroleum, and has previously sat on the board of other oil and gas companies.

Many concepts that Sidoo learnt from being a football player

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continue to be applicable to his current career in business, especially in the area of team dynamics.

“I think the skills of leadership, being a team player and going through tough times on the field happen in business and life all the time,” said Sidoo.

Sidoo is also a UBC Board of Governors member (BoG), which he also describes as having many of the same characteristics of a football team. “There’s some good times, there’s some bad times and there’s some tough times. But primarily, they’re a great group of people.

They’re all volunteers,” said Sidoo.

Even with the many issues that the BoG came across over the past year, Sidoo said that it is all part of a “learning curve” and that the members ultimately do strive to work in the interest of the university.

From his talent as a football player to his successes in business and contributions to the local community, Sidoo has earned numerous awards and recognitions.

He is an inductee in the UBC Sports Hall of Fame and the BC Football Hall of Fame. The David Sidoo Field at Thunderbird Stadium is also named after him. Sidoo’s most prestigious recognition to date is his appointment to the Order of British Columbia — the highest honour in the province.

For Sidoo, the most memorable part of the 1982 Vanier Cup Championship was “the pride [the T-Birds] had and the pride the university had.” This year, he hopes that UBC will set a new record for attendance at Homecoming with over 10,000 spectators.

“I think that pride is starting to come back to UBC now and athletics is a great way of engaging the community [and] the students at UBC,” said Sidoo. U

Their pre-season was not the best, but the Thunderbird men’s soccer team opened their Canada West regular season with a satisfactory win against the Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Wolfpack and a draw against the UBC Okanagan (UBCO) Heat.

On Friday, the team went to Kamloops, BC to play against TRU. Going into the game, the ’Birds were expected to shake the dirt off their feathers and cruise to victory in the first game of the conference. They had shut out the Wolfpack both times the two teams faced each other last season.

Despite this fact, Wolfpack midfielder Justin Donaldson scored in the 13th minute to put TRU ahead.

After the goal, the ’Birds improved their game, dominating more in the later parts of the first half.

The game carried on for a while with neither side gaining any significant advantage until the 56th minute, when T-Bird forward Titouan Chopin scored a goal to make the game level.

UBC made 16 shots on goal during the game while TRU made five shots. It was only a matter of time before the ’Birds came back.

UBC rookie Manpal Brar — who came unto the field in the second half — scored the Birds’ second and final goal in the 73rd minute. The T-Birds then maintained the score to finish their first game of the season as a victory.

The next day, the ’Birds went to Kelowna to battle UBC’s sister school team, the UBC Okanagan Heat.

Once again, the first goal went to the opposition. Luke Warkentin scored a goal in the 21st minute to put the Heat on top of the Thunderbirds.

The ’Birds tried to recover and they eventually retaliated in the second half, a little after the 57th minute of play.

They would outshoot the Heat 13-6 the entire game, but were unable to create a different outcome from a tie. They pressed hard, pushing the Heat goalkeeper Mitch McCaw to make six saves in the game as opposed to the comfortable time T-Bird goalie Chad Bush had with his one save.

The team did well in turning their preseason woes into a regular season win. Although they were down against the Heat, they reacted well and fought to make it a tie. The second halves of both games showed a glimpse of the Thunderbird powerhouse seen in previous seasons and what we can expect in the weeks to come. U

The Thunderbirds will continue their season campaign with two games against the University of Northern BC Timberwolves (UNBC) next weekend. They will play the first game at Thunderbird stadium on Saturday, September 3 at 1 p.m. and the second on Sunday, September 4, also at 1 p.m.

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