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After four years at the helm of the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), Ashley Bentley is “joining the dark side.” She leaves behind a legacy of positivity, success, hard work and above all, compassion.

On September 30, 2016, Bentley left her role at SASC to take on a new role as the sexual assault intervention and prevention advisor for UBC through the VP Students portfolio. “I think the new role will be a really good opportunity to continue some of the work I’ve been doing at the SASC and advocate from within the system for change.”

Since graduating from Southampton Solent University with a bachelor’s degree in media and cultural studies, Bentley has constructed a career in the field of social justice. “I’ve worked with organizations such as [Women Against Violence Against Women], Wish Drop-in Society and Open Door Group. Really, most of my work has been about working with marginalized communities which have been affected by trauma to look at creating cultural change of some kind.”

Her work brought her to Vancouver in 2009 — in 2011, Bentley found a new home at SASC. “I love working with post-secondary campuses. I love connecting with students and being a part of this vibrant community, where you get to do a lot of learning and also a lot of unlearning.”

Bentley has been extremely successful in her role as SASC manager. “When I first came to the SASC as assistant manager almost four years ago, we were an incredibly small team. We had two full time staff members and one part time student staff member.”

Bentley sought additional funding through partnerships and grants,

and “now, for the first year ever, we have nine staff here at the SASC and 35 volunteers.”

The level of client engagement at SASC has also skyrocketed. “In terms of what we were seeing last year from 2015 to now, our numbers are doubling. A part of that is the reality that not more people are being sexually assaulted, being harassed or experiencing violence on campus, but that people feel that this is a safe place to come. They can be heard and we can support them.”

While SASC will miss her sorely, Bentley’s promotion comes at a critical time, as UBC’s new sexual assault policy is currently under final review. “Currently on campus, the existing policy doesn’t specially address sexual assault.

The way it currently stands is more applicable to situations of harassment or discrimination. My hope is that we will be looking at alternative approaches to reporting, [and also] at education for folks who are causing harm … that is beyond just discipline.”

While Bentley has prioritized support for victims of sexual assault, she believes that the education of perpetrators is just as important. “The research that currently exists suggests that folks that cause harm do so on a repeated basis and it’s intentional.

Through my experiences at the SASC and what I’ve beared witness to, that’s not always the case.

Because of the lack of consent education that takes place at the high school level, folks that are causing harm might not recognize that they [are] and that’s a part of rape culture.”

While Bentley believes it is important “to recognize that anyone can be a survivor and anybody can also cause harm,” she notes that violence is committed “predominantly against [marginalized] women.”

The research certainly backs Bentley’s claim. “When we look at

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the statistics, one in five women will experience violence during their campus experience. It’s not just affecting women, but in terms of who we see accessing our services at the SASC, it is predominantly female identified folks.”

Bentley went as far as to say, “I think there are certain traditions, certain groups on campus that promote that type of culture as well.” While Bentley declined to name these campus groups, she highlighted the research of Rachel E. Sullivan, equity facilitator at the Equity and Inclusion Office.

“Looking at that research, I would say that some of those hubs that were indicated within that research are pretty indicative of what we see and hear at the SASC as well.”

Sullivan’s research calls out on-campus residences, the Pit Pub, as well as fraternities and sororities as locations where members of marginalized communities face the highest factors of risk with regards to sexual assault and violence.

While good work is being done through organizations like SASC, Bentley feels that more resources need to be directed at addressing the problem of on-campus sexual assault. “When I say that sexual assault is an epidemic, I don’t say that lightly. We’re seeing an increase in the number of people accessing [SASC’s] services. In terms of creating that cultural change and making sure that survivors and people who have caused harm are getting the support they need — we do need more.”

SASC welcomes all members of the UBC community with open arms. “We provide support services to folks who have experienced violence on campus and our services are available for people of all genders.”

Bentley encourages survivors of traumatic experiences and their loved ones to contact SASC for support. U

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New scholarships offer increased financial support to Indigenous students Lilian Odera Contributor

The new school year has ushered in advances in financial support for Aboriginal students, with the Senate approving both a new Centennial Scholars Major Entrance Award and the Musqueam First Nation Scholarship.

The Centennial Award is valued at an annually renewable $40,000 over four years and is given to outstanding students from under-represented communities in Canada. The Musqueam First Nation Scholarship acknowledges outstanding Aboriginal students from the Musqueam Nation and is valued at up to $5,500 annually — it is also renewable for up to four years.

UBC hopes to support approximately 100 students a year through these scholarships, which are largely funded by anonymous donors to the university.

“What we were trying to do is support students from underrepresented student populations and Aboriginal students are one of those groups of students,” said Kate Ross, the associate vice-president of enrollment services and registrar.

There are 1,388 Aboriginal students

(up 0.5 per cent from 2014/15) out of a total 61,113 students at both UBC campuses.

“That was the idea — to reimagine our entrance awards and take the opportunity to rename them.”

Ross is also a member of the Centennial Scholars Award Committee, which decided upon and recommended the scholarships to the UBC Senate.

According to Ross, the approval of these scholarships was not an enactment of the government’s promise to make the post-secondary education of Indigenous students possible, but an independent decision by UBC. According to the official Liberal campaign site, Trudeau’s administration promises to invest $50 million in funding for Aboriginal students that are currently attending post-secondary institutions or are intending to attend but do not have the means.

The government has yet to fully implement this plan.

“We certainly were having the conversation before the election.

It’s about bringing the right people together and starting to have these conversations,” said Ross. “That combination allows us to actually make a case for why we should be doing it.”

Linc Kesler, director of the First Nations House of Learning and senior advisor to the president on Aboriginal affairs, noted that since 2009, the university has worked on an “Aboriginal strategic plan” to provide adequate support to current and prospective Indigenous students.

“In the first 100 years of the university, it wasn’t a very welcoming place for Aboriginal people. I think there is a recognition that the university as a whole is in a different place [now] and thinking about those issues,” said Kesler. “It’s an important development and it’s not in any way trivial.”

Kesler also noted that the Centennial scholarships are an extension of the support systems already in place.

Financial support was already available to Aboriginal students prior to the introduction of the Centennial scholarship, albeit not specifically focused on Aboriginal students and often solely based on merit.

“An entrance award that is both need and merit based, and having a dedicated award for Aboriginal students, helps to make UBC a more attractive place to study,” said Kristen Harvey, the associate director of strategic Aboriginal

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Since 2009, the university has worked on an “Aboriginal strategic plan” to provide support for current and propspective indigenous students.

involvement initiatives.

UBC intends to keep supporting Indigenous students not only through financial support, but also by providing academic support through advisors as well as numerous other programs.

“I’m very happy with the increase in applications, so I’d say that’s an indicator that it’s been well received so far,” said Harvey.

“I think we’ll continue to receive an increase in applications.”

The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, due to be completed in the 2017/2018 academic year, is also intended to provide Aboriginal students — and the larger Indigenous community of the West Coast — access to records and other historical material. U

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UBC, AMS, GSS approach sexual assault policy consultation differently

The sexual assault policy Information Session.

Diana Oproescu Staff Writer

The university held its first sexual assault olicy Information Session on September 20 in order to educate the community about the proposed Policy 131 on sexual assault.

The information session was led by Sara-Jane Finlay, associate vice-president of Equity & Inclusion, as well as Kimberly Beck, legal counsel from the Office of the University Counsel.

Finlay explained that at the

end of the consultation period, the Sexual Assault Policy Committee will regroup in order to “consider the feedback that has been given and work on redrafting the policy in order to submit it again to the Board (UBC’s Board of Governors) for approval.”

Student attendance at the event was minimal, but there are two more chances to get involved and attend UBC’s last information sessions on October 12 and 13, which will be held in the Great Hall in the Nest.

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Apart from events held by UBC, there are other sessions and initiatives taking place that provide the UBC community with opportunities to be informed on matters surrounding sexual violence on campus.

THE AMS The AMS is holding a free two-day conference with The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR), and the Ending Violence Association of British Columbia (EVA BC). The

conference began on September 30 and concluded October 1.

The event page for the AMS conference states that the intention is to “provide tools to better respond to campus sexual violence, and inform and discuss the development and implementation of postsecondary policies, protocols, prevention strategies, and community collaboration, while providing a safe space to understand and incorporate the lived experience of survivors.”

“What was noted by a couple of students that attended was that UBC’s session was more informative, and not quite consultative, and we wanted a more consultative one,” said AMS VP Academic Samantha So. “[Our sessions are] asking students about an ideal approach to them, from the university, in terms of responding to sexual assault, and then applying it to existing structures,” she said.

“It really ties back to how our approach has been to keep in mind accessibility in terms of students being able to understand and access this kind of information.”

The AMS has also decided to extend their consultation campaign to October 21.

THE GSS In regards to the GSS’s engagement in the consultation process, Gen Cruz, GSS President, explained that their approach is to

“promote the [UBC] information sessions and to make ourselves available individually. As to having an event similar to the AMS, it’s not really realistic for the culture of graduate students, because a lot of graduate students aren’t actively doing research at the university right now.

“For those that are, our consults are open and the people are invited to give feedback — but as to making an event, it’s not realistic given the narrow timeline we have.”

Despite the GSS’s less explicit approach to consultation regarding the sexual assault policy, Cruz states that there are also ways in which graduate students can get involved.

Cruz noted that the GSS has assembled a focus group of councillors who are most interested in working on the sexual assault policy draft. That group has been meeting and going through the policy, and will eventually release their own recommendations.

“We’re trying to be as strategic as possible with a response, but it’s taking some time. We didn’t join the campaign with SASC and the AMS because we wanted our own process, and to find our own findings based on graduate students,” said Cruz.

The AMS’s consultation period ends at the end of October, and the wider university consultation period will end on October 31. U

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International student emergency bursary fund increasing

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The bursary fund is increasing due to international tuition hikes.

Sophie Sutcliffe Staff Writer

Due to recent tuition increases, UBC’s emergency bursary fund for international students will be increasing.

Last year, it was announced that international student tuition fees will increase by 46.8 per cent over the next three years.

Given that 7.47 per cent of undergraduate student tuition is dedicated to international student financial assistance, the tuition increase means the amount contributed to this fund will increase as well. The percentage of this fund that will go towards the emergency bursary fund will not increase.

In parallel to this positive side-effect, Darran Fernandez, the associate registrar and director of the student support

and advising unit in Enrolment Services, mentioned that the university is looking at how to better help international students facing financial distress due to what may be happening in their home country.

“What we’ve also done is we’ve looked at [this fund] and decided to think about changes that have occurred in the world since we started that program,’’ said Fernandez. “Currencies have changed and fluctuated greatly [and] political situations have caused students great stress and anxiety, and [students may] have trouble getting funds out of the country.”

According to Samantha So, AMS VP Academic and University Affairs, this emergency funding is greatly needed, especially for international students. The AMS’s Academic Experience Survey noted that 26 per cent of international students indicated that they might not be able to come back to UBC at some point in the future due to financial reasons — something the AMS is also hoping to help remedy.

The AMS collects a student aid bursary fund — the majority of which they give to UBC to administer through bursaries and some of which they administer themselves to students through their financial hardship subsidies.

“Over the last year, we’ve been talking to UBC and asking if we can have those funds apply to bursaries for both domestic and international students,” said So. “We see the need there.’’

UBC responded to this request over the summer and will now have a percentage of those funds allocated to international students based on international student enrolment.

Since the 7.47 per cent UBC allocates goes only towards undergraduate students, the AMS wants to work on getting some of the money from the student aid bursary fund to go towards emergency funding for graduate students.

So is happy to see progress, but remains concerned that many students do not know about the support available to them if they are facing one of these situations.

One of the AMS’s surveys found that in emergency financial situations, 52.8 per cent of international students do not know where to find help. ‘‘Our greatest goal is that students know where to turn at UBC when they need access to emergency funding, since [UBC is] well equipped to help and because we are channeling funds to be administered through them,’’ said So in an emailed statement to The

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Public Consultation: October 3 – 23 UBC GAMEPLAN: visioning the future of recreation and athletics facilities on the Vancouver campus.

To provide high quality recreation and sport experiences for students, faculty, staff, and residents, UBC is developing a long-range recreation and athletics facilities strategy.

The purpose of the strategy is to meet a growing need for recreational fitness and gymnasium

space on campus, as well as address aging athletics facilities, like War Memorial Gym and Thunderbird Stadium.

We want to hear your thoughts on a range of proposed recreation and athletics facilities options.

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October 3 to 23, 2016 WHERE?

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Sustainable Futures Fund parameters approved “[Full] divestment was not a viable option”: UBC VP Finance Andrew Simpson Sophie Sutcliffe Staff Writer

The Sustainable Futures Fund’s statement of investment policies and procedures was approved at the last UBC Board of Governors meeting — which took place September 21 — in the Okanagan.

An investment manager is slated to be selected at the October meetings of the Endowment Responsible Investment Policy Committee.

The Sustainable Futures Fund (SFF), put simply, is intended to be an investment fund slated specifically for investments in sustainable initiatives — which differentiates it from UBC’s other investment portfolios. The definition of sustainability in question may vary.

In 2013 and 2015, votes passed with the majority of students and faculty in favour in favour of divestment, prompting the board to develop a new ecologicallyfriendly endowment — the SFF. The fund will be managed and invested by the UBC Investment Management Trust (IMANT). It will be invested 30 per cent in bonds and 70 per cent in global equities with materially lower carbon dioxide emissions and higher ESG (environmental, social and governance) ratings than a passive equity portfolio.

The SFF will be established with $10 million from the Trek endowment — that is, land lease revenues endowed by the board — and donors.

The performance of the SFF portfolio will be evaluated against investment Policy Portfolio benchmarks in accordance with four criteria, with the two sustainability-based criteria being that the CO2 emissions for the SFF portfolio having materially lower CO2 emissions than the Investment Policy Portfolio and that the ESG scores must be higher for the SFF than the Investment Policy Portfolio.

The long campaign pushing UBC to divest from fossil fuels was widely supported.

“The campaign started off with holding a student referendum [on whether] to support fossil fuel divestment over a five-year period and that referendum was won with a 77 per cent majority, so we then presented that and the divestment policy to the Board of Governors,” said Steph Glanzmann, student coordinator for the group.

They were told that in order for the proposal to be considered, UBCC350 would have to show that they had the support of two major voting groups. Given that they had proven student support, UBCC350 went on to hold a faculty referendum asking the same question, which also passed with a winning majority of 62 per cent.

The Board of Governors, after seeking a third-party review and on the recommendation

of the Finance Committee, decided not to divest. This was — according to Andrew Simpson, the vice president of finance and operations at UBC — because of the nature of the endowment fund.

“We’ve got an endowment which is [around] 1.6 billion dollars and the bulk of that is invested with a large range of managers. They invest in pool funds and those pool funds have a huge number and huge range of different companies and different products included in them. Once we go into a fund, we’re not able to tell a fund manager [to invest in certain companies].”

Instead, it was decided that the Board would start a second endowment fund — the Sustainable Futures Fund.

Simpson says the fund was a more feasible alternative to full divestment, allowing the university to put money into low-carbon emission and high ESG equity funds, without acting against the best interests of donor’s money. “[Full] divestment was not a viable option,” said Simpson.

Glanzmann, however, questioned this explanation, saying that “if the pressure is there, if an institution asks for something to be created or is looking for a business opportunity, clearly the [investors] will make adjustments to that client’s needs.’’

As to when the fund will begin to be used, Simpson said they are waiting to consult with UBCC350.

“We would be ready to go today, but 350.org asked to speak to the responsible investment subcommittee and so we’re holding off making any [investment decisions] pending that conversation.”

In terms of how the fund will be used, Simpson explained that the returns — not the whole endowment — will be used to meet the needs of the individual endowments.

When it comes to the usage of this fund, UBCC350 has one major concern. They think that the fund’s low-carbon based approach could leave room for the university to invest in fossil fuel and pipeline companies because such companies need not necessarily have a large carbon footprint.

This is something that Simpson does not deny. “[The] fund takes a broader approach in looking at both carbon emissions as well as fossil fuel, so it’s not going to fully divest from fossil fuels.’’

Despite their reservations as to its usage, Glanzmann says UBCC350 still hopes that the SFF will lead the university in the right direction.

“We left the room really trying to see the silver lining on this new proposal ... At the end of the day — if they are trying to take this step, as small as it is — the least they can [do] is for it to be successful.’’ U

CULTURE

OCTOBER 4, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR SAMUEL DU BOIS

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A Good Way Out is deep but Review: Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue instrumentation and a lively beat. sonorous solo was also the sort of A few years ago when Wynton thing no one knew they needed needs stronger dialogue Marsalis came to the Chan Centre, ’til it happened. It was by far a Samuel Du Bois Culture Editor

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Carla and Joey are played by Evelyn Chew (left) and Carl Kennedy (right) respectively.

Katharina Friege Contributor

Trigger warnings taped to the theatre door announce that Cara Norrish’s new play, A Good Way Out, contains strong language and a scene that involves sexual coercion. Before the opening scene begins, it is already clear that this will not always be an easy performance to watch. The play focuses on Joey, a hardworking mechanic, family man and long-time member in a motorcycle gang.

Joey can’t afford to pay the rent, his girlfriend Carla is overwhelmed juggling motherhood and her job as a nurse and the couple has family services on their backs to boot.

Meanwhile, gang leader Larry refuses to give Joey the independence he longs for and his religious sister, Lynette, is meddling in his affairs as well, judging and praying for him in equal measure. When Sean, a young member of the biker gang, shows up at the bike repair shop asking for help selling weed on the side, Joey is reluctant. He eventually lets the extra money — which will pay the bills and care for his family — convince him against his better judgement. What follows is the gradual disintegration of his relationships and the loss of control over his own life.

The characters are well developed and the actors’ performances display their complexity and vulnerability. Joey and Carla, played

by Carl Kennedy and Evelyn Chew respectively, portray the difficulty of taking responsibility for your actions and prove that loving your children is very much not synonymous with good parenting. Andrew Wheeler’s raspy voice, threatening tattoos and bulky leather jacket capture the despicable motorcycle gang leader’s essence, and the performance is nuanced enough to stop Larry from turning into the caricature he could easily have

become. Chad Ellis’ buoyant optimism and cheerful stupidity as Sean provide for comic relief and elicit genuine empathy from the audience. While Lynette and her conflicted moral compass initially feels a little forced, Corina Akeson is truly formidable by the play’s most powerful scene towards the end .

Where the play occasionally falls short is in the dialogue, which can seem artificial and constructed.

Playwright Norrish addresses a host of interesting issues, the central question being what constitutes family and these issues are worth exploring.

However, the way they function in the script is sometimes so explicit as to make the surrounding events feel both unrealistic and predictable. Joey’s explanation of why he wants no part in Sean’s drug deal proposition is one example. As a result, lines tilt towards clichés at times such as when Larry tells Lynette not to worry in the final scene. For the most part however, the raw and brutal challenge Joey faces trying to balance his dreams for a better future with his family in the here and now makes for an engaging and provocative piece of theatre.

The Pacific Theatre, where the play will be running until October 15, has a traverse stage where audience is seated on two sides of the action instead of predominantly in front of it. The actors use this space very effectively in their physical movement across the stage, manipulating perspective and character dynamics to add to the performance’s depth.

The set and props, notably an elegant green motorcycle, similarly contribute to making the events unfolding on stage more tangible for the audience.

All in all, A Good Way Out is worth seeing for anybody who is interested in the tension between family responsibility and individual freedom, enjoys dramatic plays about motorcycle gangs, or both. U

Last Sunday, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue took to the Chan Centre’s Shun Concert Hall stage for a performance that was best encapsulated as “fucking awesome.”

The concert was fantastic and by far one of the most entertaining shows to come to the Chan Centre in some time.

Calling this a jazz concert might convey the wrong idea about what experiencing this concert was like.

The lights flashed, sound shook the walls at an amazing pitch and old, rich, white people were dancing in the aisles like it was still the 1960s.

The vibe was a rock concert through and through, with insane solos from all of the band members and that frenetic feeling which seemed almost out of place in the rather proper aesthetic of the Chan Centre.

For most students, who have only been there to see the dean speak or watch the symphony perform, it was an amusing contrast of sound and setting.

Trombone Shorty and his band are meant to be seen live. The difference between listening to their music online and watching them perform live is striking. That is not to say that their recordings are bad, because they are not. But there is something about their onstage presence — seeing them and hearing them that makes the experience all the more vivid. The banter between band members, the fullness of sound, the audience all up on their feet dancing and Shorty’s strong presence as both musician and frontman make them an ideal live-act.

The band got straight into it from the moment they walked on stage, filling the room with complex

he gave a performance that was carefully considered and paced.

Between songs, he would tell stories about the musicians whose works they were playing and talk about jazz much like Jonathan Girard might introduce Beethoven or Stravinsky. There is that sort of jazz performance, which is a concert in the traditional sense, and then there is Trombone Shorty, who barreled through song after song with hardly enough space for a breath and a drink of water. It was a solid, intermission-free, freestyle performance straight out of the clubs where jazz first began.

In spite of how it is presented, this show was not just Trombone Shorty with a selection of replaceable musicians to back him up. The members of Orleans Avenue were each given a hefty share of the spotlight, which they all commanded with impressive talent.

Pete Murano, who was on the guitar, breezed through insane solos with ease and made his presence know, engaging in some fantastic musical banter with his fellow musicians.

Michael Ballard, on the bass, was not the sort to be content with the anonymity typically assigned to his instrument and laid down some mean rhythms throughout.

At the right side of the stage, the two saxophonists were a reliable presence both for entertainment and amazing orchestration. Dan Oestreicher, on baritone sax, maintained a hilariously dry persona on stage, swinging in time with his fellows and belting out notes with a casual sort of air. Oestreicher’s complicated,

highlight of the show. He and the tenor saxophonist, BK Jackson, were great to watch as well as listen to.

Joey Peebles did a fantastic job on drums but felt slightly underutilized, mainly because there was no drum solo. Maybe Whiplash has conditioned audiences to expect these, but especially since there were so many solos flying around that night, the absence of one from the drums was a bit sad.

The concert, true to the form of Trombone Shorty, dived through song after song and genre after genre with ease. There were times where the music was much more rap than anything else and others where the sound became infused with deep, bluesy sentiments.

The band left the stage, on the dot, after a solid hour and a half of performing and, much to everyone’s pleasure, retook it for two more traditional sounding jazz songs, the latter of which was a solid 10 minute rendition of “When the Saints Go Marching In,” which was the perfect way to send off the night. For this, they took their instruments on the move and paraded around the seats, stopping at the heart of the audience for a while before continuing on. It was the perfect way to end the night and was made all the better when they brought a little boy from the audience up on stage, who had come with his very own trombone.

It was his solo that brought a truly memorable concert to a triumphant close.

The Chan Centre’s 2016/17 season has started with a bang and everyone should be excited for what is to follow. U

6 | culture | TUESDAY OCTOBER 4, 2016 SOCIAL //

Best Buddies club forms meaningful friendships Tisha Dasgupta Contributor

A chapter of the international organization, Best Buddies UBC has been around for quite a while now. The biggest organization in the world for the cause, Best Buddies helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) to form meaningful friendships, secure jobs, improve self-advocacy and feel valued by the society they live in.

The Ubyssey sat down with a student buddy and one of the copresidents, Shauntel Batchelor, and this is what she had to say.

What’s the organization about?

How did it all start?

Best Buddies was started because the founders felt that there wasn’t a huge diverse community for people with IDDs outside of their own circle. Working by the same guidelines and for the same

mission, we seek to enable them to form significant friendships, interact with lots of different people and just provide a place where they feel loved and appreciated. Diversity within friendships is important to us.

Who can volunteer? How does the recruitment process work?

Anyone! Really! We start with Clubs Day, where interested people are invited to attend an info session. There we provide them with a lot more information about what we do, our programs and goals. Interested volunteers would need to fill out an online application form and submit a criminal record check. Following that, they come in for an interview session and they’re good to go. We also have a few executive positions open for those who want to get involved with the club, but not as a student buddy.

What kind of activities do you do with your buddies?

Anything of your choosing, really.

We go on walks, go to movies with them, go shopping or anything else that would interest them. My buddy likes to walk, so we do a lot of that.

We try and match pairs up who have commonalities and shared interests, so the friendship isn’t forced. My buddy, like me, loves the Discovery Channel, so we talk a lot about recent cool documentaries we’ve seen. We also set up a few social and fundraising events through the year, where all the students and buddies get together. The first one coming up is a Halloween ice breaker event — the first platform where all the students meet their buddies for the first time and get to know each other.

What are your visions for the club in the upcoming year?

We hope to really increase awareness about our club and our

cause. So far, I feel like not a lot of students know about us. We also hope to collaborate with some other clubs to execute our events this year. We are really excited for the March fundraiser.

It’s called “Hooping It Up” and it’s a basketball fundraiser in collaboration with the UBC Basketball team.

well.

What would you say is special about Best Buddies?

I think it’s that feeling you get when you see the look of pure unadulterated joy and happiness on a buddy’s face — the look that they belong and are loved. That makes it worth the effort and time [and] makes this club really special.

Who do you think benefits from Best Buddies?

I would say everyone! As student buddies, we definitely learn so much, get to meet these interesting people and form really diverse friendships. I’ve been doing this for six years now, having started in high school. It has definitely enriched my life, made me a much nicer and more patient human being. The people we work with are very diverse in their functioning levels, but regardless, they benefit from the program as

Three quick words to describe Best Buddies.

Diverse, Cathartic, Fun. Anything else you’d like to add?

Our info session is happening Tuesday, somewhere in the nest.

Exact location [is to be announced].

We can provide a lot more information then and you will have an opportunity to sign up as well. U Shauntel Batchelor can be contacted on Facebook for more information.

THEATRE //

Review: Edward II is a powerful and well-acted play

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Riley Bugaresti, who plays Edward, greatly succeeds in making the audience pity his character.

Samuel Du Bois Culture Editor

Edward II is an audacious play to begin a theatre season with.

At the end of a notorious rivalry, history showed Christopher Marlowe — the play’s author — to have lost to Shakespeare by becoming something of an obscure playwright, known more for his name and relationship to the aforementioned Bard than he is for his work. So why begin with this and not any one of the almost countless works of Shakespeare, more likely to be known and recognized by students? Because Edward II — also known as The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer — is a remarkable gem of theatre, with complex, nuanced and forwardthinking ideas that distinguish it as something truly special, and it is very well done by the UBC Film

and Theatre Department.

The play wastes no time in getting straight into the meat of the plot. Edward II is crowned king and then the somewhat shady character of Gaveston takes the stage for a commanding monologue, dealt with great physicality by Daniel Curalli.

It is fitting that the audience should be properly introduced to Gaveston before the eponymous Edward, since he seems to be at the centre of the play’s turmoil.

He is not of noble birth, but has somehow come into great favour with the King — a favour that he benefits from greatly. After a time of banishment — thanks to the Archbishop of Canterbury (Bronwyn Henderson) — he has returned to Edward’s side and a place of immense influence.

Unfortunately for Edward and him, Gaveston’s return brings up a previously dormant problem in the court — Edward and Gaveston are blatantly in love and do not attempt

to hide it. Their very public displays of affection swiftly stir up resentment and anger amongst the scheming noblemen — as well as Edward’s wife — and this anger leads to very open aggression towards the King.

Riley Bugaresti, who plays Edward, greatly succeeds in making the audience pity his character. Edward is clearly not cut out to be King. He is meek and afraid to assert his power over those who challenge him. All that he really wants is Gaveston, regardless of the complications that their relationship might cause. Bugaresti captures this state marvelously, especially in moments where the King is being verbally attacked. His body movements, expressions and voice subtly convey the whole tempest of emotions going through his head, in a way that inspires great empathy. However, his performance falls a bit short in the moments of desperation

and suffering. Especially when in the context of Gaveston, there were moments where Edward’s prostrate monologues became overly hyperbolic to the point of comedic. There was one case in particular towards the end of the play where he effectively “gollumed” while trying to decide whether or not to give up the crown. It came across as funny, but the way that it was written and the context seemed as though they were intended to be tragic.

These moments were few and only somewhat marred an otherwise solid performance.

Daniel Curalli impressively commanded every scene that he was in. His looming presence and somewhat slippery manner made him an enigmatic and wholly fascinating character to witness come alive onstage. Curalli really captured the dark, complex and maturer nature of his character — one who understands the nefarious natures of his adversaries much

better than his lover does. Whereas a lot of the characters came across as somewhat simple in their motivations, Galveston is always concealing a few layers in a past that is never fully spelled out. It is this that makes him so captivating.

The set is minimalist, but never feels lacking, with only two benches and a throne for furniture, and a few other props when necessary. As a result, it falls squarely on the shoulders of the costume department to carry the desired setting and it unfortunately doesn’t really succeed. The program tells the audience that Edward II has been supplanted into the 1930s because of the connection it draws to Edward XIII as well as the inevitable rise of fascism that it draws connections to.

The latter is by far the more compelling connection drawn between the two eras, but beyond that, the only traces of this setting can be found in the pistols being brandished and the odd dress with the distinct flapper style.

Otherwise, the clothes only slightly resemble their intended aim and instead, they go for more of an abstract quality. The extent of this is patterns sewn onto the jackets and dresses of characters, some of which seem to carry meaning, while others do not. If the play had made its intentions to fit within a certain timeframe so clear, these would not have felt so out of place and could be appreciated as the often impressive works that they are, but in this context, they just do not quite fit.

Edward II is a fantastic play and in spite of a few flaws, it is an impressive performance. This is the chance to see a forgotten work that deals with themes of homosexuality in a more mature way than many contemporary narratives, put on by a talented cast and crew. It is an epic and entertaining story which is certainly worth great attention. U Edward II will be performing at the Chan Centre until October 15.

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FEATURES

OCTOBER 4, 2016 TUESDAY

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STUDENT UNION SALARIES ACROSS CANADA WORDS BY JACK HAUEN, HAMZA TARIQ AND ALEX MCKEEN PHOTOS JOSH MEDICOFF

UBC

Execs: five Salary: $32,500 Undergrads: 42,986 Alma Mater Society Benefits: $4,250

U of A Students’ union

Execs: six Salary: $36,811 Undergrads: 31,161

U of M U of C Students’ union

Execs: five Salary: $38,481 Undergrads: 24,387

U of S Students’ union

Students’ union

Execs: four Salary: $37,700* Undergrads: 24,723

Execs: four Salary: $35,747 Undergrads: 16,871 Benefits: cell reimbursement

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Highest paid:

Sweetest benefits: Ryerson president

Waterloo execs — $46,532

$6,000 for “benefits,” a $1,000 transportation allowance, a $1,000 expense account and $2,000 for “special projects.”

Most execs:

Most students:

U of T — seven

U of T — 57,670

Western Students’ council

Execs: five Salary: $43,729-$44,632 Students: 30,000 Benefits: $6,000

Execs: four

Waterloo Salary: $46,532

Undergrads: 29,912 Benefits: $4,467

Federation of students

U of T Students’ union

Execs: seven Salary: $30,061** Undergrads: 57,670 Benefits: cell reimbursement

York Federation of students

Ryerson Students’ union

Execs: five “Stipends”: $33,700 Undergrads: 46,400

Execs: five Salary: $36,000 Students: 38,000 Benefits: $8,000

*Including value of benefits.

Execs: three Salary: $31,000 Alma Mater Society Students: 17,413

Queen’s

**Figure is calculated from salary of $25,000 in 2005 dollars and excludes the vice-president, professional faculties, who is paid $10,000 in 2005 dollars.

The Students’ Society of McGill did not respond to our requests for comment by press time.

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Student governments in Canada vary in terms of structure, populations they represent, platform goals and expectations from the student body. Over the past few months, The Ubyssey, Western University’s Gazette and the University of Toronto’s Varsity newspapers researched not only how much executives at different schools are paid, but their varying responsibilities and the sizes of the undergraduate populations they represent — and where that money comes from in the first place.

A CLOSER LOOK UBC In recent years, the executive salary was $27,500, and included a Performance Accountability Incentive (PAI) of up to $5,000 for the completion of campaign goals. Recently, PAI was lumped in with the base salary as Council dissolved the committee responsible for overseeing the distribution of the bonus.

The AMS collected $18,413,946 — or $428 per undergrad — in student fees in 2015/16. The majority of that total is passed on to clubs and student initiatives, while $45.19 per student per year goes to the AMS itself.

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY The union takes pride in financing itself in large part from the businesses it runs, concerts and booking fees. Last year, they were in the black by $1,589,475 in that area. They also collected $5,269,577 in student fees in 2015 — about $216 per undergraduate student. Sixty-five dollars of that $216 goes directly to maintaining the student union, including executive salaries.

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA In 2015, the union collected $9,935,376 in student fees — or

$319 per student — and made $8,543,078 in other revenues, including business activities and programming and event activities.

Of that $319, full-time students each pay $42.73 per year toward the student union itself.

In their 2015/16 budget, they lost $95,684 on entertainment and events, but made $322,977 from their businesses, with every retail and food service outlet except Undergrind in the black.

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN

The University of Saskatchewan Student Union (USSU) collected $1,223,459 in student fees in 2015/16 and made $343,562 in facility rental fees. They lost $93,471 running Louis’, their signature pub. All told, the USSU exited 2015 with a $103,717 surplus. Full-time undergraduates each pay $79.08 per year toward the union itself.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA Full-time students pay $465.39 in fees (minus health and dental plans) to U of M’s student union each year, according to their Finances page. Of that total, $54.70 goes to the union itself.

WESTERN UNIVERSITY A recent restructuring of the

executive portfolios merged the two vice-president positions into one, bringing the total number of executives to five. “[The president] Eddy Avila is the CEO of a $27 million organization and oversees over 55 full-time employees. Our salaries are based on our accountability and responsibility, and we believe they are reasonable for the amount of work that we do on students’ behalf,” said Emily Ross, USC communications officer.

WATERLOO In 2015/16, the union posted a net surplus of $6,157.53. The union’s commercial services such as the Bombshelter Pub, Campus Bubble and the on-campus I-News store are all not funded through student fees.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO U of T’s student union collects a levy from its members that totals $2,561,300 for the 2016/17 school year, according to their budget.

The union has often come under fire for issues of money management in recent years.

Putting together the funds for the much-anticipated Student Commons project has been a particular struggle for the union

in recent years — one that current Vice-President, Internal and Services Mathias Memmel said was “a dumpster fire, but one that we’re putting out.”

YORK UNIVERSITY The union levied $1,869,640 from students in that year, meaning each student paid $40.29.

RYERSON UNIVERSITY The RSU collects a levy totalling $2 million from a student population of approximately 38,000. As reported in The Eyeopener, each RSU executive got a $5,000 salary increase this year. Union staff are paid hourly and their rate of pay was increased by $2.50 to $15 per hour in this year’s budget.

QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Major Queen’s AMS services include the clothing store Tricolour Outlet, AMS Pub Services and the Common Ground Coffee House. At the end of the 2016 consolidated year in April, “services” saw a deficit of $31,969, “government” saw a $1 surplus and “other corporate” — which includes the AMS general office and the board of directors — had a $19,019 surplus. The overall AMS 2015/16 budget had a $12,949 deficit. U

OPINIONS

OCTOBER 4, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR BAILEY RAMSAY

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RAPE CULTURE //

Letter: Men of UBC, sexual assault policy consultation is your time to step up Moira Wyton Contributor

Dear male allies, Looking around the Great Hall of the Nest filled with roughly 40 organizers and attendees at Tuesday afternoon’s sexual assault policy information session, you could have counted the number of men in attendance on one hand.

But it would have taken you more than your 10 fingers and 10 toes to count all the women in each of your lives who have been sexually assaulted. You probably know male survivors of sexual assault too.

While this letter focuses on the most common scenario in which a woman is assaulted by a man, it should be noted that the conversations and actions being suggested would serve to foster an environment of discussion where victims of all genders — including male victims — will feel more supported when disclosing their experiences and seeking help, which is a key goal of Policy 131.

Sexual assault has been a hot topic on campus in recent months — and rightfully so, in light of recent reports and policy discussions. But from attending the first information session, this seems only to be the case among the female population of our campus. If five men attended, where were the rest of you?

I get it, we’re all busy. But please also understand that the terms “ally” and “feminist” are recognitions you gain through repeated actions such as supporting survivors of sexual assault — not labels you can give yourself to make yourself feel better. The change UBC needs can only happen when we all recognize and fulfill the role we have in ending sexual violence on campus.

Perhaps you don’t feel like you have a role to play in making campus a safer space for survivors of sexual assault. The recent highly publicized incidents of sexual assaults on campus have involved anonymous strangers attacking women along secluded paths at night and have enabled the attacks to be labelled as a sensationalized freak situation.

The truth is that the vast majority of university sexual assaults occur between people who know each other and in familiar settings like dorm rooms and house parties. You might assume that the men who rape and assault women must be recluses — they must not get out very much and they must not be normal.

Telling this to ourselves makes sexual assault seem like a “notour-problem.”

But it is your problem because you know these men. They are your friends, your co-workers and

your classmates. They hold the door for you when you are running back to your room, and they hand you the rag and spray bottle at the gym. They have significant others, families, interests and ambitions.

And they will listen when their peers — men like you — stand up for survivors by telling them that their rape jokes and stories of grey-area, they-were-drunk hookups aren’t okay.

These consultations are offering you the chance to engage in an issue that disproportionately affects half of UBC’s student body and they are giving you the tools to do it. Instead of continuing to think about sexual assault in the abstract and anonymous form we imagine it takes, you can help change individual attitudes towards sex and consent, and begin to rip apart the fabric of rape culture on our campus in the process.

Cutting this fabric isn’t just a woman’s job anymore. Just as survivors are standing up and speaking out about their own experiences with sexual violence at UBC, we need you out there to create dialogue about sexual assault in your own communities and call out behaviour among your peers that perpetrates rape culture.

Without you, dudes of UBC, this policy and its program will not reach the very demographic

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Step up against sexual assult by showing your support.

that our campus so desperately needs to listen. We need you to engage in this process, and we will welcome your questions and contributions. You’re a valuable connection that the university has regarding conversations that can change harmful attitudes towards sexual violence.

Hey man, maybe you didn’t come on Tuesday, but you haven’t missed your last chance to step up. Speak to the Equity and Inclusion Office or Sexual Assault Support Centre. Read the draft

policy online, and check out The Ubyssey’s previous coverage to learn more about why we need a policy on sexual assault and how you can help. And then talk to people about it.

The next sexual assault policy information session is October 12 at 12:30 p.m. in the First Nations Longhouse. Will you be there? U Moira Wyton is a third-year student in the dual degree program between Sciences Po Paris and the Sauder School of Business.

MASTURBATION //

Positively Sex: UBC psych instructor debunks anti-porn myths

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Porn is good for you — ­ in moderation.

Katya Downey Contributor

The state of Utah recently passed a resolution that identifies pornography as a public health crisis — a full-blown porn epidemic. Internet Ebola. Antimasturbation rhetoric is far from uncommon. While we can talk about the dream-haunting, Victorian-era devices created to kill the urge, the debate is still very relevant today.

In recent years, several countries have attempted

to pass anti-porn laws with varying degrees of success and enforcement. What’s more, there’s a clear surge of self-motivated interest in quitting porn as evidenced by Google Trends graphs — there are 10 times more searches for “no fap” than there were in 2011.

Gary Wilson is a prominent figure in the anti-porn movement.

He’s the author of the book Your Brain On Porn and his TedX talk, entitled “The Great Porn Experiment,” has nearly seven million views. His take, in short,

is that porn is bad. The repeated hits of dopamine from excessive masturbation cause DeltaFosB, a “molecular switch for addiction,” to be over expressed in the brain. This in turn causes brain changes that lead to bingeing and dependence, not to mention social anxiety, depression and loss of interest in other facets of life.

He paints us a grim picture of an isolated, shambling porn monster.

He cites the Coolidge effect, in which an animal — whether it’s a rat, a bull or a human — can bang to exhaustion with one partner,

but get a second or third wind when a new, receptive sexual partner is presented. With porn, this happens when a masturbater loses sexual interest in the stuff they’re used to watching and has to reach for weirder stuff to get off. If taken to extremes, this could completely mess with a real-life sexual relationship.

If your partner is comfortably vanilla and you can only get off to German dungeon orgies, you’re gonna have some problems.

However, Jason Winters, a sex therapist and sessional lecturer in the UBC psychology department, disagrees. A text post that has the same text as one of his blog posts circulates occasionally around the pages of reddit.com/r/nofap, a steadily growing community of almost 200,000 members who choose to abstain from porn or masturbation. The post stomps on a lot of what Wilson says in his book, talk and website.

Winters claims that the whole anti-porn movement stems from the work of Gary Wilson and his partner, Marnia Robinson.

Neither of them has a strong background in psychology and many of their claims have to do with the effects of addiction upon the brain. While it’s pretty undeniable that a physical addiction like meth will change how your brain functions, the claim that a behavioural addiction like porn or food is less substantiated.

What’s more, Winters points out that the idea of mental illness being caused by porn addiction does a huge disservice to the

many mentally ill people who self-medicate with rewarding actions such as taking drugs, having sex or using porn.

Confusing the symptom with the cause is dangerous when it could prevent somebody from getting treatment they need.

In a Reddit post, Gary Wilson confronts Winter’s arguments directly. He points out that the DSM-5 designates behavioural addiction as a valid form of addiction — a moot point, considering Winters never denied that porn addiction existed — and cites all the reports he’s read of people quitting porn and immediately finding their lives improved.

Bottom line — plenty of forums and sites exist for people whose goal is to quit porn. Many of them say that quitting has resulted in more time, higher self-esteem, better relationships and more satisfying sex. And power to those people! Controlling compulsive dependence on anything is an accomplishment whether it’s porn, food or video games.

Like in all things, balance is important to maintain. To close with a quote from Winters’s blog post, “Internet porn is like fast food. It’s full of fatty, salty, artificial deliciousness, but it has no nutritional value whatsoever.

Having a real sex partner(s), and assuming you’re doing sex right, is like eating a well-balanced diet. This might mean a little fast food now and again, especially if your fridge is empty. But if you eat nothing but fast food, you’re going to be unhealthy.” U

SCIENCE

OCTOBER 4, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

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TECH //

Art or garbage? PhD student turns chopsticks into decor

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Your prof is right — you should put your laptop away.

The best note taking apps for students Rachel Ong Staff Writer

In 2014, a study titled, “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard,” said that typing notes verbatim is not helpful in the quest to remember things. Students who were stripped of their laptops and devices “were forced to be more selective — because [they] can’t write as fast as [they] can type,” and therefore retained more information through the process of actually processing what they were hearing.

Now, in theory this seems like a great idea — swapping the keyboard for a ballpoint pen and all — but we know you’re addicted to tech (and a total badass) and that changing habits is hard. But just because you’re working on a computer, doesn’t mean you can’t still handwrite your notes. Don’t worry, we’ve included some keyboardbased apps for everyone who wants to ignore the science, although we don’t encourage it.

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EVERNOTE With 200 million users, this is probably the most popular note taking software ever and for a good reason — Evernote has it all. You can take notes and format them as you please — incorporate audio, video and pictures, and then organize them into notebooks. Its best feature though? Its ability to create clippings of websites with a simple browser extension, so you don’t have to Google everything from class all over again PENULTIMATE Rated 4+ and called “essential” by the Apple App Store, Penultimate is the “best digital handwriting on iPad.” This app lets you handwrite, draw diagrams and cartoon all over your notes just like old times.

With a natural feel, the app makes your stylus write like a real pen would, minus the bulk of actual physical paper. Also, because

it’s part of the Evernote family, your handwritten notes are easily organized, stored and are searchable. Maybe handwriting ain’t so bad after all.

SCANNABLE Scannable, yet another member of the Evernote family, is a free app that turns your mobile device into a scanner, letting you organize your life, paper free. Turn that syllabus you’re going to lose in a week into a PDF document, keep that cheat sheet you wrote on a Subway napkin safe or add your handwritten scrawls to your existing notes — Scannable does it all. You could even handwrite your notes and scan them in so that you never lose them, forget them at home or be able to use the excuse, “my dog ate my homework,” again. You’ll thank us — eventually. U Check out the full list of apps at ubyssey.ca/science

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PHOTO COURTESY FELIX BÖCK

450 kilograms of single-use chopsticks are used every day in Vancouver.

Nivretta Thatra Contributor

At Vancouver’s annual Interior Design Show, UBC PhD student Felix Böck stood in front of a slab of 100,000 chopsticks, which collectively weighs 450 kilograms.

Shockingly, this is a conservative estimate for how many chopsticks the Vancouver metro area discards daily.

But a bright future awaits the rather dystopian display of human waste thanks to Böck’s innovative chopstick recycling company, ChopValue.

“I think we have the responsibility to redefine the phrase ‘waste’ to ‘a new resource,’” said Böck of ChopValue’s ultimate goal.

On the other side of the chopstick slab, ChopValue’s first line of bamboo products were ready to launch. Sleek hexagonal shelves were aligned together with tiles in a beehive-like pattern, alongside a stack of pragmatic square coasters.

ChopValue’s raw product is a composite material made by pressing discarded, whole chopsticks together under high pressure along with a water-based resin.

“At the beginning, I really processed the chopsticks into fibers and pressed them into panels,” said Böck, but he had a feeling that the initial prototype was too smooth and perfect for a consumer to truly see that they were getting a chopstick based product. Now, the chopsticks lend a uniquely pleasing vertical grain to the composite material.

When asked about the inspiration behind ChopValue, Böck spoke of his first dinners as a student in Vancouver, which — as we all know — can involve a lot of sushi.

“I’m a cabinet maker and carpenter by trade, and I went to school to study wood engineering,”

said Böck. “My expertise is bamboo. I’ve found this little niche that tries to transform bamboo from this trendy material into a more sustainable building material. Looking at the chopsticks I was holding in my hands, I thought, ‘why bring a research material to Vancouver if I have it in front of me?’”

So far, ChopValue has piloted chopstick collection from locations in Kitsilano. A map of participating businesses can be found on the ChopValue website.

Böck and his colleagues found that restaurants were eager to recycle their used chopsticks if ChopValue provided them specific recycle bins and certificates to show the decrease in businesses’ carbon footprints after joining the recycling program.

The company also collects beyond restaurants via collaborations with other green companies such as ChopSwap.

ChopSwap encourages Vancouver residents to bring their disposable chopsticks to one of their depots, where they can then receive a reusable pair. ChopSwap now donates the disposable chopsticks they receive to ChopValue. It’s a trustworthy, local trade that benefits the companies and our community.

The 450-kilogram chopstick slab was an impressive sight indeed at the Interior Design Show, but perhaps more inspiring was the excitement on the faces of those who learned that their own discarded utensils could become a source of ChopValue’s bamboo.

Böck invited the UBC community specifically to join his endeavors.

“ChopValue is interested in receiving not only feedback, but also applicants for co-op terms and internships from all over the faculties. I don’t want to restrict people [by] what they are studying!” U

SPORTS+REC

OCTOBER 4, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR OLAMIDE OLANIYAN

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Women’s soccer blows out Thompson Rivers 8-0 Lucy Fox Staff Writer

The Thunderbird women’s soccer team solidified their first back-toback wins of the season on Saturday evening with a dominant 8-0 win over Thompson River University Wolfpack.

On Friday, the team also defeated UBC Okanagan Heat 2-0.

“Overall, the team’s in a great space, and we’ve focused on October as the month when we want to keep building and get to that next level,” said UBC head coach Jesse Symons. “I think we showed that this weekend in both matches.”

Canada West’s first star of the week, Jasmin Dhanda, put on another impressive show for the home crowd, scoring four goals and providing two assists in the match against the Wolfpack.

“It’s a great feeling,” said Dhanda of her four-goal game. “It’s nice having more than a few goals and I’ve been struggling for … the first few games trying to finish, but it’s nice and hopefully I can keep it going for next week.”

UBC took command of the match early, netting their first of three first-half goals in the 12th minute.

Full-back Meagan Pasternak sent a short pass up to fellow team veteran Madison Guy from the touch line, who sent a steep-angled shot over Thompson Rivers keeper Deanna Brady.

Just over 15 minutes later, the ’Birds doubled their lead when Shayla Chorney headed a cross from central midfielder Rachel Jones into the back of the net.

Dhanda had the next big chance, latching onto a breakaway pass from Meghan Douglas. It was Brady who won the one-on-one battle with

With five games to go, the team is heading into the final stretch of the Canada West regular season.

UBC’s striker though, successfully sliding in and grabbing the ball just feet from the goal line.

It didn’t take long for Dhanda to get her redemption, as she blasted a shot past Brady in the 41st minute, after getting on the end of a blocked rebound deep in Thompson River’s box. Assist credit went to Jones, who initiated the first attempt on net just seconds earlier.

Dhanda continued her attacking domination as the second half got underway, turning her way through

the Wolfpack’s defence and placing the ball in the back of the net in the 51st minute.

Six minutes later, centre-backturned-second-half-striker Aman Shergill scored her third goal of the season, as her low shot slipped through Brady’s hands and into the bottom left corner. Dhanda was credited with the assist after a smooth pass across the top of the box to Shergill.

Shergill returned the assist favour just one minute later, sending a pass

into Dhanda who placed the ball into the bottom right corner this time. In the 66th, the two combined again as Shergill floated a shot past Brady off a pass from Dhanda yet again.

Dhanda’s final contribution to the match came in the 74th as she once again placed the ball in the bottom corner of the net, just out of reach of the Wolfpack keeper.

With that, the T-Birds capped off their biggest win of the season at 8-0. With five games to go, the team heads into the final stretch of the

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regular season coming off a huge win at Thunderbird Stadium and with a confidence boost to boot.

“We’re a team that’s really firing on all cylinders right now,” said Symons. “We’re excited to see what October will bring for us.” U The ’Birds will continue their Canada West campaign next week as they play at home against the University of Victoria Vikes at 5 p.m. on Saturday, October 8.

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‘Birds squeeze past Manitoba with Pinto touchdown

The ‘Birds scored their final touchdown in the fourth overtime.

Bill Situ Staff Writer

Coming off of the biggest win in team history, the UBC football team defeated the Manitoba Bisons 53-50 in an intense game that ended after four overtimes.

“I’ve never been in a game like this before. I’ve probably been in

overtime once or twice, but … this is crazy,” said UBC receiver Trivel Pinto.

Five minutes into the game, the ’Birds were first to put points on the board on a team safety. As they went back on offence, they extended their lead to 3-0 with a 26-yard touchback field goal by Greg Hutchins.

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The remainder of the first frame went into a stalemate as stingy defences from both sides kept the teams in check. This stalemate included a forced fumble by Manitoba and an interception by T-Bird defensive back Stavros Katsantonis.

Two minutes into the second quarter, the Bisons evened

things up with a 36-yard field goal before scoring the first touchdown of the game to take a 10-3 lead.

UBC then led a strong drive on the next possession, but ran into a third-and-goal situation just 12 yards shy of the touchdown zone.

Still, Hutchins picked up the field goal for to narrow Manitoba’s lead to 10-6.

“There were a lot of mistakes, but a lot of big plays and on this night, we just made more big plays than [the Bisons] did,” said Blake Nill, the UBC head coach.

In the final five minutes before halftime, Pinto caught UBC’s first touchdown of the game to retake the lead for the ’Birds, which quickly vanished as the Bisons scored another touchdown with two minutes remaining. UBC also conceded a safety, which gave Manitoba a 19-13 lead by halftime.

With UBC trailing by six points going into the second half, running back Ben Cummins had his moment to shine when he racked up 89 rushing yards on four successive plays to score the ’Bird’s second touchdown, pulling UBC ahead 20-19. Cummins would rush an impressive 246 yards by the end of the game.

“Ben [Cummins] played a great

game today. I’m actually really proud of him,” said Pinto.

In the final two minutes of the third frame, another Bison field goal put Manitoba back in the lead before Hutchins answered with one of his own to start the fourth. Additional touchdowns

by Manitoba’s Ethan Diakow and UBC’s Cummins tied the game at 30-30 by the end of regulation time.

The four overtime periods was again a tight contest between the ’Birds and Bisons, where both teams took the lead at different times. In the end, it was UBC that came out on the winning side after two field goals from Hutchins and touchdowns by Pinto and Will Watson.

Quarterback Michael O’Connor finished the night with a total of 465 passing yards, 245 of which were caught by Pinto.

“We need [the offensive line] to stay on the field and there were times today when they didn’t help us, but in the end they scored enough points to get it done,” said Nill. U UBC now has a 3-2 record and will go on the road to play the Saskatchewan Huskies in their next game on Friday, October 14.

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Thunderbirds defeat Ottawa 51-43 for first win since last season

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Women’s basketball could be contenders in the 2016/17 season.

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The team’s season record worsens to 0-3.

Women’s rugby falls to Alberta 41-19 Salomon Micko Benrimoh Contributor

Saturday’s clouds cleared away just in time for the women’s rugby showdown between UBC and the University of Alberta Pandas on Sunday, October 2.

The Thunderbirds went into the game hoping for a win so that they could improve on their

0-2 start to the season, while the Pandas had a 1-1 record after a win against Lethbridge and a loss to Victoria The game initially looked to be in the ’Birds’ favour, as UBC winger and fullback Elizabeth Theemes-Golding ran the ball past Alberta’s defence before getting tackled just before the goal line.

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However, a botched pass led to an interception and Alberta took the game in a different direction.

The Pandas managed to push through within metres of the goal line but were held back by UBC’s defence.

Alberta eventually scored the opening try and took a 7-0 lead just under the 20 minute mark. UBC answered with an interception that later allowed them to score a try to tie the game just three minutes later.

This would be the last time that the game was tied and Alberta stormed out to score another two tries, taking a 19-7 lead.

The ’Birds gained possession of the ball just before the end of the half, but another turnover led the Pandas to regain the ball until the end of stoppage time.

The crowd present at the game — although small — stayed with the home team the entire game and cheered on the T-Birds through every play.

The second half opened with another try by Alberta. UBC answered by taking the ball deep into the Alberta defensive zone, ultimately scoring a try to bring the score up to 24-14.

Alberta continued their dominance of the match, scoring a total of three more tries. Howeber, they lost the extra point on two occasions, both times resulting from too short of a kick.

UBC was only able to answer with one more try and the final score after 80 minutes was 41-19. U

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The T-Birds are now 0-3 in the season, with one game left against Lethbridge on Friday, October 14.

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On Friday night, the Thunderbirds beat the visiting University of Ottawa Gee-Gees 51-43 at home in the War Memorial Gym, showing that they could be a force to be reckoned with in the upcoming 2016/17 season.

For the first 10 minutes of the first quarter, the ’Birds had been leading the game until the Gee-Gee’s tied it at 11 a piece.

Both teams came out with a lot of intensity — especially on defence — each wanting to prove that they were better than the other. Getting the opportunity to play a team from a different conference does not come very often and both teams were equally hungry for a win.

However, the same energy was missing in the next quarter of the match.

“I think the second quarter was a poor offensive quarter for both teams,” said UBC head coach Deb Huband, who is entering her 22nd season with the Thunderbirds.

The ’Birds scored only six points while the Gee-Gee’s scored eleven in those 10 minutes. This resulted in the Gee-Gee’s leading 26-21 at halftime.

But the T-Birds were not going down without a fight. At the start of the third, the ’Birds looked like a completely different team which allowed them to go on a 20-6 run.

This was the turning point in the game and provided the edge that UBC needed to win.

“In the third quarter, we put a different lineup in. We went with a smaller lineup and that just spurred us on, allowed us to get some quick scores, then we built a little bit of a lead,” said Huband.

The end of the game was decided after that, but one should never take one’s foot off the gas with the Gee-Gees’ defence. They refused to give up until the end of

the game. Despite being behind, the team still had more bench points at 18 compared to the ’Birds at 13. Another area in which the Gee-Gees led the T-Birds was at the free throw line, shooting 92.3 per cent, while the T-Birds shot 85.7 per cent.

Both teams did not shoot the ball extremely well, but the T-Birds had a slightly higher field goal percentage at 28.3 per cent, while the Gee-Gees’ were at 24.6 per cent. Additionally, the T-Birds were slightly better from the three-point line than the GeeGees, having made 3-19 while the Gee-Gees made 3-23 from downtown.

It was a closely fought game, but the T-Birds’ third-quarter run was too big of a hurdle for the Gee-Gees to overcome.

It was rookie Ali Norris — in only her second game as a Thunderbird — and veteran Kara Spotton, who stood out for UBC in the match. Norris ran some wonderful plays which got the team into a rhythm, while Spotton protected the paint the entire game. But altogether, the win came down to the entire team’s effort.

According to Huband, the team does not have a set starting lineup yet, as they have a lot of new players — including six rookies.

“We’re all getting to know each other a little bit, so there’ll be lots of opportunities to try bigger lineups, smaller lineups, more defensive-minded lineups,” said Huband. “We’re still in the early stages of determining roles.”

Once the T-Birds do figure out their regular rotations, this team definitely should not be taken lightly. U The ’Birds will be battling the University of Fraser Valley Cascades at 6 p.m. on Friday, October 14 for their next preseason game.

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