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NEWS

CULTURE

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Campus reacts to fentanyl crisis in BC

Trombone Shorty is coming to the Chan Centre

Consent is pretty fucking essential

How UBC student Climate change could cost fisheries Yuri Kisil became an Olympian $10 billion

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 TUESDAY

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Allard professor Benjamin Perrin is fixing Canada’s criminal justice system TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20 SEXUAL ASSAULT POLICY INFO SESSION 4 P.M. @ AMS STUDENT NEST, GREAT HALL SECOND FLOOR Learn about the policy’s key principles and give feedback.

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Perrin has established himself as one of Allard Hall’s most industrious professors, publishing several books on criminal law.

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University students with ambitions of becoming critical figures in Canadian law have much to learn from Benjamin Perrin, associate professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Throughout his academic and legal career, Perrin has combined talent and hard work to establish himself as one of the country’s foremost experts in criminal law.

Perrin birthed his interest in law decades ago, at high school debates and Model United Nations conferences. “I had a real interest in international issues and thought that the law could be a way to help.”

Although he enrolled in the bachelor of commerce program at the University of Calgary, Perrin never lost sight of his main passion.

So when his summer internship at a Bay Street consulting firm led to a lucrative full-time job offer, Perrin decided to tackle a global issue during the last summer of his undergraduate career.

“What I really wanted to do was to use that time to try to have some sort of positive impact in the world.”

In August of 2000, during a weekend getaway with friends, Perrin keyed in on a humanitarian issue that would become the focus of his career.

“We looked for organizations we could volunteer with and have an impact, and we couldn’t find any on the issue of human trafficking, which was what we really gravitated to.” Perrin and his group of friends established a not-for-profit organization, and began planning for their project in earnest.

“From that point, in September when we decided that human

trafficking in Southeast Asia was the issue we wanted to make an impact on, to May when we were actually on the ground in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was a complete whirlwind.” Through a variety of fundraising campaigns, the organization raised nearly $40,000.

In Cambodia, Perrin was able to help victims of human trafficking transition into normal lives and educate tens of thousands of families in rural areas to combat risk factors in their villages.

At the end of his time in Cambodia, Perrin received an unexpected call. “Back in 2001 was when the dot-com bubble burst.

The management of the consulting company called me and said ‘We can’t hire you. We’ll give you a little bit of money because you’re supposed to start in a week and, you know, sorry.’”

With limited options, Perrin spent the next year applying to law school and raising funds for the notfor-profit organization. Fortunately, he was accepted to the JD Program at the University of Toronto. It was during this time that Perrin rose to prominence in Canadian law circles.

“I was in my second year of law school at U of T and I got a call from The Calgary Herald [asking for me to comment]. I thought that it was some alleged sex offender who had been caught in Cambodia, but they said it was in Calgary. And that was surprising, because I had never heard of human trafficking cases in Canada.” So Perrin investigated human trafficking in Canada further and was horrified by what he found.

“We started up a research project looking at what Canada is doing about human trafficking and it turned out back then, in 2004, little

to nothing [was being done] even though we signed [a UN] treaty in 2000.” The treaty committed Canada to developing ways to combat trafficking and support victims. “We put out a pretty scathing report, which came out while I was doing my LL.M [February 2006], which essentially gave Canada a failing grade compared to other countries and what they had done, like the US, UK and Australia.”

The consolation in failure is that the only way is up, and this certainly held true in this case. Monte Solberg, the newly appointed minister of citizenship and immigration at the time, called Perrin and asked him to work with him in Ottawa to combat human trafficking in Canada.

Perrin took up his offer and “within just a couple of months, the department had prepared a directive, which the minister then signed [in 2006], that gives temporary residence permits, emergency health care and counseling services to foreign victims of human trafficking.

Now over a decade later, there are hundreds of people — victims of trafficking in Canada — who were able to get support because of that action.”

During this period, Perrin worked evenings to finish his Master’s thesis and pass his bar exam. After receiving his LL.M from McGill University in 2007 and completing a clerkship at the Supreme Court, Perrin found himself with a choice to make, with legal and academic career options diverging on his career path.

Perrin ended up choosing academia “because of the professors I have had and seen, who weren’t just teaching in the classroom and writing articles for journals. They were actually doing things to make an impact on the world. They were active, and changing laws and policies.

In 2007, Perrin moved back to western Canada, to the Allard School of Law. “At least half of my students were older than I was — people couldn’t tell that I was a professor. It was very awkward for me at first.”

He quickly settled in. Perrin’s first publication, Invisible Chains (2010), was named one of the top books of the year by The Globe and Mail and has further impacted Canadian policies on human trafficking.

Since then, Perrin has established himself as one of Allard Hall’s most industrious professors, publishing several books on criminal law and completing other projects, such as a report card on the Canadian “justice deficit” — “a large gap between what the justice system is supposed to do and what it actually does.”

Reflecting upon his experiences, Perrin urges students to take action.

“Don’t wait until you graduate. You have abilities and passion right now — use them. There’s a lot of energy, skill and ability that students have — you don’t need to graduate, get a job and wait for someone to give you permission to start trying to have an impact. Instead, you really just have to do it on your own.” U

NEWS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITORS SRUTHI TADEPALLI + SAMANTHA MCCABE

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FROSH //

First week through the ages: hazing to harmless Malcolm Wilkins Contributor

Serving as an introduction to university life, the first week at UBC is an important part of every student experience. With this year’s orientation festivities coming to an end last Friday, now seems like a good time to see how first week use to look for students. After a review of the library archives and some help from AMS Archivist Sheldon Goldfarb, AMS President Ava Nasiri and First-Year Experience Coordinator Teri Grant, this is what we found.

THE EARLY YEARS “Last year being the first term of the University of B.C.,” said an editorial in the student publication Anonymous quoted in documents provided by Goldfarb, “every student was, in one sense of the word, a Freshman. So it was only natural that no initiation for the Freshman was suggested. But this year, the same objection would not hold good, so the three other years decided to initiate the fine new batch of Freshmen on November 3rd.”

During these early decades, practices such as freshman initiation took place — referred to as hazing by those who disapproved of them — which usually involved incoming students taking part in bizarre activities.

This first initiation ceremony took place somewhere that was called the “House of Torture.”

“Presumably, this was just a joke, but in later years there was increasing controversy over

initiation ceremonies,” read Goldfarb’s documents. “[The first week experience] was different much earlier on,” said Nasiri. “There used to be all sorts of things. There used to be fights.

There used to be people throwing other people into the fountain, and lily pond dunkings. It was different.”

Controversial hazing exercises were commonplace during these early decades. In the year of 1919-1920, The Ubyssey titled it a “barbaric ordeal.”

“It included what the paper described as ‘electrocution’ as well as blindfolding, ‘branding’ and hair cutting,” said Goldfarb.

But when a special general meeting of students was called to discuss these practices, students voted against milder forms of initiation.

In 1924, The Ubyssey declared the end of physically dangerous initiation rites. However, Goldfarb’s documents made clear that this was not true.

“The first-year students were now to wear green ribbons and caps and to be instructed in the college yells. Those who refused to wear their ribbons were showing ‘disrespect for the great majority’ and ‘a deplorable lack of pride in [the] university.’ ” In 1927, plans for a less dangerous initiation went wrong when a planned sports event led to a fight between mobs of over 400 students. Two students ended up in the hospital.

Things seemed to have calmed down in the decades that followed the 1930s, however. In the 1943-44

academic year, for instance, hazing had suddenly reached a new low with freshmen initiation remaining quiet, according to the UBC archives. Some hazing practices continued, notable examples being “ink bottle” fights between boys in the early 1940s — that resulted in what The Province called “black eyes, torn shirts and watery destruction” — and some freshmen having to wear “green dunce caps.”

There was an apparent resurgence of hazing in the years between 1955-1957, primarily due to the engineers.

“The engineers especially had it in for the frosh, especially the female frosh (the “freshettes”), whom they hoisted into trees and sprayed with perfume,” noted Goldfarb’s documents.

“Meanwhile, about a hundred of the male frosh got dunked in a special tank the engineers created.”

This time, however, the frosh retaliated and marched the engineering building — flooding the place with fire hoses.

FROM 1960 TO TODAY By the onset of the 1960s, hazing had died down in its intensity — replacing this trend was frosh week, which started in the 1960-61 academic year. However, archival sources confirm that the newly introduced frosh activities also led to a “riot” between various groups of first-year engineers the following year (the incident involved a car being pushed through glass doors in one of the engineering buildings).

From that point on, through the 1970s and up until about 1990,

First week today is a far cry from what it used to be.

organizational changes began to take place under tamer social conditions. The AMS began to establish student-led programs such as the First Year Students Committee, established in 1982, which aimed to ease the transition for incoming freshmen. This committee was abolished in 1993 in favour of summertime introductory programs such as tours, information providers and committees aimed at freshmen to essentially help fulfill the same purpose — assisting them in their integration into university life.

Then, in the 1997-98 academic year, what is arguably the most advertised orientations event today began — Imagine Day. In 2000, the AMS introduced Firstweek, which has remained a staple to this day.

And now, having moved past the 2000s and into the 2010s, one could ask the question — what can we expect of first week events in the future?

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“Change” is the best answer, according to Nasiri. “The first week experience I remember was back in 2011, when it was my first year,” she said.

“Undergraduate societies like the Arts Undergraduate Society and the Science Undergraduate Society would come together and host large-scale events like first-year dances, fifth-year dances [much like in the 1930s] … but those things just don’t happen anymore. And that’s because there is a decreased interest from the student body regarding activities like that, and therefore, the demand for things has changed with the times.”

“It’s certainly become much more refined than it was before,” said Terri Grant. “Things have changed greatly due to the times, in large part due to the volunteer positions that people fill in and the excellent training that they get from people who are there to help.

It’s wonderful.” U

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New Aquatic Centre consults community on change rooms Sophie Sutcliffe Contributor

The Aquatic Centre and the Equity and Inclusion Office have released a survey on change room signage in the new Aquatic Centre. The centre, set to open in January 2017, will have a universal change room in addition to both male and female change rooms.

According to the survey, the universal change room is meant to be an area that all genders can access, and will include an open space with private change rooms, shower stalls and private accessible washrooms with change tables.

The goal of the survey and the subsequent implementation of new signage is “to ensure the Centre is welcoming, respectful and inclusive to all its patrons,”

according to the survey’s website.

“I think what [having the three different change rooms] does is that it allows people to choose whatever space they feel most comfortable with,” explained Rachael Sullivan, an equity facilitator for Equity and Inclusion who has been working on this project. “I think that having that level of choice ... if every kind of centre or facility could offer that, that would be wonderful.”

Sullivan also emphasized that the proposed signs, which will denote what purpose each room serves rather than relying on traditional gendered signs, could be a good way to do this.

“I think that we’re trying to move away from who can use that space and [are instead] coming back to this idea of choice that

people are going to select the space that they feel most comfortable with. Sometimes it’s helpful to know what’s in the room in order to do that,” explained Sullivan.

Stéphane Delisle, the senior manager for programs and operations at the Aquatic Centre, said that the efforts being put into the signage at the new centre builds on their commitment to creating a more inclusive space.

“The language [and] the symbols that we use to denote the space are as important as the space itself,” said Delisle.

As Delisle explained, the efforts to make the new aquatic centre more inclusive will not stop with the universal change rooms and inclusive signage.

“We reached out to Equity and Inclusion because we wanted

The current Aquatic Centre washrooms.

to improve our practices in the current pool,” said Delisle.

“What we’re doing with Equity and Inclusion is we’re having a conversation with them about — as we move into the new pool — training our staff to make sure they

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understand the right words we use, how we can be the most inclusive staff and how we can up our game a bit to be doing the right thing by our patrons, especially in light of the new space [and] the universal change room.” U

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Campus addresses dangers of drug overdosing amid fentanyl crisis

Vassilena Sharlandjieva Contributor

Along with the parties and events in the first two weeks of classes came a warning about fentanyl on campus.

Fentanyl, an opioid pain medication, has caused hundreds of overdose deaths and has sparked a public health emergency in BC. The RCMP told Brian Spencer, president of the Inter-fraternity Council (IFC), that they were alerted of fentanyl-laced drugs coming to campus, said IFC VicePresident Nick Echeverria. The IFC, which is the governing body of UBC fraternities, spread the word to its members and throughout social media, and took extra safety precautions at its events.

“We hired extra security guards.

We made it very clear to them that they have to be very thorough in checking backpacks and making sure no UBC students get in bringing open liquor,” said Echeverria.

Guards hired by the IFC also ensure no one without a UBC ID enters the village during parties, in addition to prohibiting open-drink containers and checking backpacks.

One fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), went a step further in response to the warning.

“In an effort to be prepared in case something does go wrong, our risk manager Dixon Scott went to St. Michael’s Hospital and trained in the use of the Naloxone kit, an antiopioid overdose kit, in the case that someone was in need,” said DKE President Zachary Starko. “We have not needed to use it, thankfully.”

The anti-opioid overdose kit Starko refers to contains Naloxone, a medicine which reverses an overdose by temporarily blocking an opioid’s action when injected.

Opioids such as fentanyl, as well as heroin, morphine and oxycodone, can cause one’s breathing to become

dangerously slow or stop altogether in the case of an overdose.

Since the spring of this year, UBC Student Health Services (SHS) has been offering these opioid overdose prevention kits to students for free on both campuses. Any UBC student who uses intravenous drugs and believes that they are at risk for overdosing can pick up an antidote kit without a prescription and get trained on how to use it, said Patricia Mirwaldt, director of SHS. The training provided by SHS involves a 20-minute video explaining how Naloxone works as well as its benefits and potential side effects. After that, a nurse would train the student in how to inject themselves. If the students who use drugs are accompanied by another person who may give the antidote, they are trained as well, said Mirwaldt.

So far, no students have picked up the antidote kits from Student Health Service.

“There are various places that one can get this from,” said Mirwaldt on the lack of demand, referring to the multiple sites throughout BC that offer the kits. However, apart from some media coverage, UBC has not actively promoted the service. With regard to whether this will change, Mirwaldt said, “We certainly have an open door policy about it and we’ll watch over the term and see how it’s being used before we make that decision.”

The distribution of antidote kits is a provincial program that has been in place since 2012 in British Columbia. UBC began offering the kits on campus after the provincial government asked people who see young adults to get involved, Mirwaldt explained.

“I wouldn’t anticipate it being a popular program at UBC,” said Mark Haden, a professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public

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Health, noting that university students are not typically considered a population at risk for opioid overdose. “Nevertheless, I think it’s important to have it there to make a statement that we care about you. It’s basically saying, ‘This is something that we have and we understand opioid addiction.’ It’s sending the right message.”

“University students are not immune to opioid addiction,” he added. “It can happen anywhere at any time.”

“It would be silly to think that students aren’t exposed to these things,” said Lina Castro, coordinator of VICE, the new AMS service aiming to bring education, mentorship and peer support for student substance use. “A lot of people think it’s just in the general public, but it’s right here as well.”

Castro said that the SHS and VICE will refer students to each other based on the student’s particular needs, and what help they could use for managing drug and alcohol consumption. U

THE SCIENCE OF OPIOID ANTIDOTE KITS Qadeem Salehmohamed Contributor

Opioids are an addictive class of pain-relief drugs which includes morphine, heroin and fentanyl. Opioids work by interacting with proteins called opioid receptors on the surface of cells. When opioids interact with receptors in the brainstem, they cause a decrease in a person’s unconscious drive to breathe.

Large enough doses of opioids can cause someone to stop breathing completely, known as an overdose.

Adam Lund, an emergency physician and professor at UBC, said the main concern with opioids are a decrease in consciousness and breathing.

Naloxone is an antidote to opioids. It strongly binds to opioid receptors, without exerting the effect of opioids on the body. It essentially works to push opioids off their receptors, blocking them from activation.

“Within a couple of minutes, [users’] level of consciousness increases

and their respiratory rate improves,” explained Lund.

“You’ll also see people get their pain back, vomit [and become] aggressive because you’ve now pushed them into withdrawal.”

“We’ve had over 2,000 reports of Naloxone being used from our [BC-wide] program. We know we’ve saved lives,” said Jane Buxton, a professor at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health.

While some people are concerned that take-home Naloxone may enable addicts, Buxton said that those concerns are not reflected in the evidence.

“It often has the opposite effect. Often when somebody has been trained, they may reduce their use and make sure they are not using at the same time as their friends,” said Buxton. They are like a designated driver.

It is important to keep in mind that takehome Naloxone is not a comprehensive solution to the opioid crisis — it’s not a magic bullet. U

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On-campus forensic exams now available for sexual assault survivors Samantha McCabe News Editor

The BC Women’s Centre’s Sexual Assault Service will soon be extending their region of care to include UBC Hospital, allowing sexual assault survivors access to an extended range of hours and resources. Namely, survivors of sexual assault will now be able to have a forensic examination on campus for up to seven days after the occurrence of sexual assault.

“The team from the sexual assault service at BC Women’s will come and do the sexual assault examination and the forensic evaluation if the victim chooses,” said Caitlin Johnston, program manager of the Women’s Centre. She oversees several of the centre’s outpatient programs, including the sexual assault service.

Previously, services like the Student Health Service (SHS) and the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at UBC Hospital have administered sexual assault examinations, which include a thorough physical examination as well as an extensive psychosocial examination of the survivor. The Women’s Centre will not only provide these sexual assault examinations, but will also be able to administer forensic examinations at all hours, seven days a week.

If a sexual assault survivor decides that they wish to report their assault to the authorities, forensic examinations are a crucial part of the evidence gathering process. Previously, people who wished to receive a forensic exam would have had to

go to Vancouver General Hospital (VGH).

“If somebody decides that they want to report to the police in the future [and] want evidence gathered, our team is specially trained to collect forensic evidence,” said Johnston.

A team from the Women’s Centre will be called to either the emergency department or the UCC — the reason being that having an emergency department nearby is extremely valuable in case the survivor has extensive injuries.

As for why the Women’s Centre is expanding their service to include the UBC and Point Grey region, Johnston attributes it to many factors — but not an increase in funding as the centre did not receive any.

“There were a number of contemporaneous issues that happened. First of all, there were a lot of reports in the media around sexual assault or sexual violence happening on postsecondary campuses. There was a particular focus on UBC, but it wasn’t exclusive to UBC,” said Johnston.

She also noted contributing factors like the solidification of Bill 23 (the Sexual Violence and Misconduct Policy Act) — which doesn’t directly affect the Women’s Centre’s operations, but they took it into consideration nonetheless — as well as the many high-profile cases in the media lately, like that of Brock Turner.

Paired with all of these factors, Johnston also said that, “We realized we were only seeing a very small segment of the population of persons that are

being sexually assaulted and so with all things happening at the same time, it made sense at that time to expand our services.”

The Women’s Centre will be working in conjunction with the other sexual assault and health services on and around campus to provide a patient-centred approach to care “aimed at minimizing barriers” for anyone in the area and beyond.

“It’s about working together to provide a more holistic, comprehensive opportunity for victims to get support and service,” said Johnston.

One such service is the Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) — they will be key in providing accompaniment to anyone who wants additional emotional support when accessing the Women’s Centre’s services. SASC is also expanding their service and extending their hours to match those of the UCC — seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

“With this coming to the UCC … we’ve had to hire on a couple of new support workers and the funding for that came from the AMS SAIF Fund — Sexual Assault Initiative Fund,” said Narae Namkung, the support and advocacy coordinator for SASC. “It is a limited funding, so right now the funding goes until the end of this fiscal year.

We’re working on further funding so that it can be a permanent service.”

The Women’s Centre will begin coming to UBC to administer forensic examinations and other forms of support starting next month. U

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CULTURE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR SAMUEL DU BOIS

MUSIC //

POETRY CONTEST WINNER

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

PHOTO COURTESY CHAN CENTRE

Trombone Shorty seems poised to become one of jazz’s greats.

Samuel Du Bois Culture Editor

This Sunday at 7 p.m., the Chan Centre will play host to an artist whose talent and style consistently defies genre and convention.

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue are neither jazz nor pop, rap nor hip hop, but rather everything in between. They are a wild and thoroughly unpredictable bunch with a rich, entertaining sound that will fill the concert hall.

The performance is worth seeing, if only to witness Trombone Shorty on what seems to be an unfettered upward trajectory to greatness.

Trombone Shorty, born Troy Andrews, took to music from a very early age. By the time he was six, he was already a bandleader and he later attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

In 2005, Andrews became a featured member of the horn section in a tour with Lenny Kravitz, the first of countless high-profile involvements and collaborations with some of the best contemporary musicians in rock, jazz and practically every other genre. In 2006, he began working with U2 at Abbey Road Studios, which eventually led him to perform on stage with both them and Green Day. Andrews’ album, Backatown, remained on the Billboard magazine’s jazz chart’s No. 1 spot for nine consecutive weeks and soon after, under the act Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, he began touring across North America, Europe, Japan, Brazil and Australia. This tour included performances on Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel. In addition, he recorded on the CDs of Galactic, Eric Clapton and Lenny Kravitz, as well as the song “Down In New Orleans” with Dr. John, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Andrews performed at the White House in 2012 as part of the Black History Month celebrations,

alongside B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Keb’ Mo’, Mick Jagger, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Last year, he also performed twice for President Obama.

It is quite apparent that Trombone Shorty has, for most of his career, occupied a place just outside the spotlight. His collaborations and connections run beyond count — from a strong friendship with the Foo Fighters, to lending his trombone in voicing the adults in The Peanuts Movie. But now, there seems to be a definite move towards the sort of celebrity and attention which he has, until now, only ever brushed against.

Watch any of his music videos or his NPR Tiny Desk Concert and you will see a man who is angling up for stardom — to headlining shows instead of collaboratimg on them and becoming known for the music he plays rather than who he plays it with.

It is undoubtedly achievable.

His talent is on point and his style is original while also being true to its influences. The characteristics of jazz, funk and blues run through every note of his songs and imbue the lyrics that occasionally pepper his discography with a strong sense of their genres’ past. But Andrews, unlike many, seems unafraid to experiment and innovate. His music is thoroughly modern in how it embraces new styles and unexpected approaches to sounds that otherwise often alienate listeners for being too stuck in their traditions.

In this way, Trombone Shorty is thoroughly one of a kind and has placed himself on the frontier of experimentation in seeing just what a trombone can do in the modern world of music. As the people at the Chan Centre have put it, “Trombones are cool again, thanks to Trombone Shorty.”

The performance will mark the beginning of an exciting season at the Chan Centre, which features an impressively diverse and thoroughly eclectic array of performances. U

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A Simple Divulgence

BY JAMIE QUIAMBAO Should heaven grant me enough time to write a poem for you, To no sonnet, epic, nor yet the infinite set of global canon could such words be subdued So let this pen take pains in the confession I’ve contrived For you, whose love is Queen of our universe from whom you yourself derived, Mathematics, whose divine right shall be subversive of itself To serve me scantly and dust my sinful ardor off your shelf.

Let this proof stand witness to my girlish propensity:

If a to b contains infinity Then I shall be point c: Point c who wishes not to stand alone Should be granted any u as an unknown.

Let u not be far from me If thou be u then c be (u-15).

In human years that may be far apart But in Math such trivial obstacles should be embarked.

As Queen she’ll arbitrarily bring us close As integers in a sequence, side by side, to a difference of one at most.

If by the laws of man we cannot be together in this span of life, Then I’d rather exist in your math as that point on a line Since my only purpose in writing this modest divulgence Is for you, tutor, to read this, and my silence made recompensed Such that as you sip your coffee and read the paper You’d perhaps consider being u that letter.

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And Bella Sang With Us features strong performances, but a cluttered plot Maayan Cohen Contributor

Sally Stubbs’ And Bella Sang With Us sets itself up to be the voice for a piece of Vancouver’s forgotten female history. It centres around the struggles of Vancouver’s first two female constables as they grapple with the societal and personal pressures of being a woman in a male occupation. The expectations that come with successfully telling this story can lead an audience to become disappointed by the overly cramped plot, fiddly set design and sometimes confusing character changes. Through the use of humour and song, directors Sarah Rodgers and Ian Harmon lead their audience through a shaky exploration of the ways in which stories are told as they figure out how to tell this one.

What was incredibly interesting about the production was how it engaged the audience into the discussion of gender. Sarah Roa’s mesmerizing song and dance as child prostitute Mai Ji left the audience to question their own complicity in her sexualization as they were invited to “take a drink” and enjoy her performance. It was also a welcoming sight to have a predominantly female cast despite the play having a similar number of male and female characters.

However, this also caused some confusion as the only male actor, Simon Webb, was left to play three characters. One of these characters was Connor O’Rourke, a sleazy hustler who added little to the story as a whole and could have easily been cut from the script. This is not to say that Webb’s performance was bad. In fact, his portrayal of all three characters was exciting and engaging. That being said, his struggle to seamlessly move between the three allowed for some misinterpretation and the play, lasting only 90 minutes, was left feeling cramped.

This was a continuous issue as far too many backstories and characters were introduced superficially without a clear reason as to why or enough time to fully develop them.

Sarah May Redmond stole the show with her profoundly emotional performance as Bella Boychuk, yet was still limited by the script.

The audience was left wondering why Bella was so volatile and what happened to her child as neither question is ever answered.

The set was also a distraction — wooden blocks which screwed into different positions felt awkward to rearrange during scene changes.

On top of this, there was a creative decision to have one actor in the background make the sounds

Too many subplots and secondary characters were introduced with too little purpose given to them.

of the props in the foreground.

For example, if Constable Fields was pouring imaginary tea, then someone else, dimly lit in the background, would be actually performing the action and making the sound. This raised interesting questions about the process of telling a story and who gets to tell it. But once again, it felt like an unnecessary and distracting flourish.

The play was mostly successful in its depiction of Harris’ and

Miller’s character arcs. Both Brodie and Turner were able to establish two fully-rounded characters whose chalk and cheese personas bounced off of each other with an endearing humour. By the end, the two learn from each other as Harris begins to express her emotional interior and Miller toughens up against the injustice she witnesses.

These sincere moments were complimented by Matt Grinke’s live piano and the excellent songs which united all the women in the

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show and acted as an indicator of female camaraderie.

However, when the show ended, there was a distinct feeling that things weren’t properly resolved. Audience members looked around confused as if to question if this was the ending or simply an intermission. Overall, the play is worth a watch for the actors’ honest performances and the use of music, but lower your expectations for a crisp and clear plot. U

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The Antagonist looks at the everyday life of a supervillain

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Puerile jokes, like ones about communal masturbation, might alienate some viewers, though the play makes no pretense about being high-brow.

Maayan Cohen Contributor

Ever wondered where Dr. Doom buys his groceries? What kind of music the Scarecrow’s into?

If Lex Luthor ever gets lonely?

In The Antagonist, which is debuting at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, director Matt Clarke has uncovered these unsolved mysteries with a brilliantly witty account of a day in the life of a comic book villain. Being

performed at a time in which superhero movies are in excess, fixated on violence and as bloated as their budgets, it was a breath of fresh air to see a play trade in an action packed plot for a low-key story with a very human heart.

The play centres around Eugenius, a self-centred and bitter supervillain whose main aim is, of course, world domination.

However, what seems to concern him more than his evil plan is his desire to be accepted just like the rest of us — to be invited to the pub after work, to get laid and to have friends.

Sean Amsing navigates his character perfectly — constructing Eugenius into the class-A asshole that the audience grows to know and love. His effortless natural shifts in tone — from evil mastermind to the genuine “Eugene” — pokes fun at the comic book world, cleverly integrating superheroes and villains into “real life,” where people still hold up queues at the grocery and go on terrible online dates. Placed against a hum-drum backdrop like this, Eugenius becomes a sympathetic character. The audience not only laughs out loud at his comic timing, but also murmurs a resounding, “Aww” when he admits to hating himself.

The integration of the everyday life does not, by any account, undermine the comic book feel of the production. The campy costumes and classic archetypes — from the characterization of the terrifically named “Dr. Sick,” to the over bearing and always knitting “Ma” — do more than simply laugh at recognizable tropes. They construct a world for The Antagonist itself to exist in.

This is complimented by a set that

uses minimal props and brilliant backdrops. Samantha Taylor’s painted flats, pinned up against moveable white boards, establishes an on-stage representation of the comic book format. Each flat is also detailed to further the comedy in the background, with things like a book on how to succeed in Warcraft and a calendar which reads, “Hang on in there,” on Eugenius’ bedroom wall. In the comic book world, the space between scenes is commonly referred to as “the gutter,” where no action occurs. Clarke cleverly utilizes this space to further the “behind-the-scenes” feel of the production by transitioning each scene change with some great down-tempo MF Doom beats as the lights dim and Eugenius navigates his way from one endearingly simple set piece to the next.

The show is male-centred, but so is the superhero genre to begin with. Its jokes are at points adolescent. Laughing about communal masturbation is unlikely to suit everyone’s tastes, but the play does not really set itself up to be highbrow. Instead, for a lighthearted, easy-to-watch, feel-good production. The Antagonist hits the nail on the head. Whether you’re a comic book zealot or have only seen The Dark Knight once because your friend told you to, this play is sure to make you smile, cringe and laugh at the misgivings of a villain who just wants to fit in. U

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 TUESDAY

EDITOR BAILEY RAMSAY

ESSENTIAL //

Positively Sex: Consent will make you better in bed

AMS //

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Isn’t the Nest too new to be haunted?

Everything from BDSM to rejection — consent is pretty fucking essential.

Katya Downey Contributor

If you’ve had your eyes on the ground on campus, you may have noticed UBC’s blatant attempts to make you better in bed. They may have euphemised it with their clever use of emojis and you may not even realize you’re getting the single, end-all, absolute best sex tip you’ll ever get. And what might that be, you ask?

CONSENT. Bottom line: Consent is the permission a partner gives you to do sexy things. It’s a definite yes, freely given, revocable at any time and comes from a place of mutual respect.

If you do not have permission, you cannot do sexy things.

So if that’s the bottom line, why isn’t this article over already?

Consent isn’t about checking a box that says, “asked if it was okay,” or about your moral standing as a person. It’s about understanding how you affect the people around you and making sure that you do so in a way that accommodates people other than yourself.

There are two reasons you should live, breathe and dream consent.

The first? Well, 80 per cent of sexual assailants hurt acquaintances, partners or spouses. Many of them say they don’t think they did anything wrong. One of the letters Brock Turner’s friends wrote in his defence includes the question, “Where do we draw the line and stop worrying about being politically correct every second of the day and see that rape on campuses isn’t always because people are rapists.” Which is incredible. Kind of like saying, “It’s not like all floods are caused by water. #notallwater.”

It’s never the job of the victim to not get hurt. It’s the responsibility of everyone to not hurt people. The better you are at reading when something’s off, the better you are at stopping people from getting hurt.

The second? That’s literally all it takes to be good in bed. You can master all the techniques you

like, but even that one you have to really stretch before trying isn’t going to do anyone any good if your partner’s not into it. Somebody in a consent-happy mindset asks their partner how to please them better, helps them feel safe and relaxed, and doesn’t focus solely on their own pleasure.

So what does this look like?

Look for positive signs that they’re into it. If they’re participating enthusiastically and giving you positive verbal feedback (“Yes!” is a pretty great example) and physical feedback — kissing you, trying to touch you, pulling you closer — you’ve got good signs! Affirmative consent means you’ve got a definite goahead — yes means yes. Silence is not affirmative and the the idea that, “you didn’t tell me I couldn’t, so I did,” is a pretty terrible excuse for anything after the age of two.

Check in. If I gave you consent in the past — whether it’s 15 minutes ago or 15 years ago — you can’t assume that still holds. It also doesn’t matter whether you met 15 minutes ago or got married 50 years ago — your partner will always want respect the thousandth time just as much as the first.

Be prepared to stop, slow or not start at all. Never expect sex 100 per cent because it’s not just your choice that matters.

Communicate a whole lot. Do this for every new thing you try, about what you’re doing right now, about what you want to do and definitely about how your partner feels about all of the above. And don’t forget to look at each others’ faces!

Every partner you have will be a unique individual with their own preferences, fears, anatomy and ways of communicating.

Intimacy means bringing all your baggage to the table, being accepted and accepting your partner’s baggage. You can’t do that if you don’t talk.

Reddit and Yahoo answers are full of people asking what to do about partners who get upset when turned down for sex.

I’m not saying those aren’t valid feelings — it’s normal to feel hurt by rejection. But my feelings don’t

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overwrite my partner’s and they don’t stop me from controlling my actions. Coercion can take a lot of forms, but remember — you can never feel bad enough to justify raping somebody.

Maybe you’ll have a partner who wants to tie you up or get held down. These links should help you have some conversations to keep your kinky ass a safe one.

Do you like the idea of asking your mom to cut you out of bondage ties because something went wrong and you forgot the scissors? Yeah, me neither.

Power imbalances normally make consent impossible, whether you’re talking a CEO/ secretary imbalance or a drunk/ sober imbalance. When they’re agreed-on — like in a dominantsubmissive scenario — they still make everything more vulnerable.

Be very sure you’ve talked about boundaries. Pushing one could leave somebody feeling really hurt or violated, and you don’t want to find out you did something they didn’t want because you didn’t understand when they wanted you to stop.

Asking for consent — checking in, showing respect and making sure sex is a mutual act — is sexy as hell. Half the time, it’s basically dirty talk and if you need some ideas, check out any of these links. Try whispering, “how do you want me?” in somebody’s ear when things start getting heavy.

Is there really anything hotter than somebody invested in your pleasure?

Never forget — you do not owe sex to anyone and you are not entitled to sex from anyone. Sex is a privilege, and it comes with the responsibility to respect and look after the people you’re intimate with. On a very basic level, this means looking for a clear answer to a simple question — “Do you want to have sex with me?” On a different level, it means being attentive to your partner’s needs and paying attention to what’s working and what’s not, which is the heart of being good in bed.

Rape culture can and will be defeated by radical respect — one enthusiastic, sweaty, “Oh, yes!” at a time. U

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Last words: Nest washrooms sinks — broken or haunted?

Ubyssey Staff

Have you ever tried to wash your hands in the Nest? It’s nearly impossible. And it’s not because the water pipes are broken or the building doesn’t have enough sinks — it’s because the sinks, which are supposed to turn on when you put your hand under them, never do!

Yes, the washrooms in the Nest are new and pretty — like they’re straight out of Pulp Fiction, but with much less cocaine. However, the sinks only seem to mysteriously turn on when you’re using the toilet and no one else is around, which is pretty creepy. But as soon as you exit the stall, the sinks play hardball again.

An informal Ubyssey investigation found that only one of sinks in each of the first-floor and second-floor men’s bathrooms regularly turn on. The women’s

washroom on the second floor faces a similar issue where only two of the six are functional.

Waving of hands, hitting the sinks, removing your hands, screaming and trying all these steps over again are all useless in getting the sinks to cooperate.

The soap dispensers flaunt that they are eco-friendly, but that’s easy to say when they never have any soap inside. It’s a good thing too that the water saved by the faucets compensate for the numerous phantom flushes of the toilets. Isn’t the Nest too new to be haunted? Faulty motion sensors or ghosts — who’s to say?

A brand new, multi-million dollar building finished in 2015 should have functional sinks. Up your game, Nest — if we’re paying a $100 annual SUB renewal fee, the least that we ask is for a decent place to pee. U

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BOOK REVIEW //

Let Them Eat Dirt: UBC prof say wash your hands less Alexandra Nordstrom Contributor

Everyone is taught that washing your hands to get rid of germs will keep you healthy. What if that’s not the case at all? What if our constant obsession with sanitation may actually have a negative impact on our health?

UBC microbiology professor Brett Finlay and University of Calgary professor Marie-Claire Arrieta have come out with a new book titled Let Them Eat Dirt, describing the negative impacts of our overly sanitized world.

“In our quest to rid this world of infectious disease in the past 100 years, we have done everything we can to get rid of microbes,” said Finlay. “When you look at the rates of infectious diseases, we have done a great job — they have gone way down.”

However, Finlay also went on to state that western diseases like asthma, obesity and gastrointestinal disorders have been going the opposite direction, rapidly increasing in occurrence. The book argues that a child should be a child and be exposed to the microbes which over-sanitation has been depriving our bodies of.

This exposure is already known to be vital for the development of the immune system, but has recently also been linked to western diseases.

One night while having dinner, Finlay’s wife, a pediatrician who researches on forms of altering microbes with antibiotics, had an idea — “You know Brett, kids who get antibiotics in the first year of life have higher rates of asthma.”

Finlay’s interest in this topic peaked and he started to think about this concept. After reading up on what his wife had told him, he found that there were “correlations with increased asthma with antibiotics early in life.” However, no experimentation had been done at the time. From there, Finlay and his lab began to experiment.

Their experiments consisted of ministering young mice with antibiotics and then later giving them asthma. After this, Finlay discovered that the antibiotics made the mice highly vulnerable to the disease. This confirmed that mice that were young in life were susceptible to asthma after being treated with antibiotics.

Following this, Finlay moved on to his next experiment with Arrieta, who studied under him.

They went from studying mice to studying children and began to look at the microbes in young children that later developed asthma. Both discovered that it was unlikely for children who had four specific types of microbes to develop the disease and conversely,

The book is part science, part parenting advice.

the chances were very high that children with few of these microbes would develop asthma.

For the next part of this process, Arrieta took a mouse sans

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microbes and gave it the feces of a child that later developed asthma.

They then “spiked” the mouse with the proper four microbes.

Finlay and Arrieta discovered

that if those four microbes were present, they then decreased the mouse’s chance of developing the disease.

“That basically said that microbes would now play a role in infectious diseases and asthma,” explained Finlay.

After carrying out these experiments, Arrieta brought up the possibility of a book over a beer with Finlay. While he was hesitant at first, he decided it was an important enough message and they began to write it in a way that the reader would not need a PhD to understand, making it accessible to all types of people.

Finlay began writing one end of the book and Arrieta began the other. They met in the middle and “the book was born.”

Both professors included “do and don’t” lists that give advice on how to carry out a healthy lifestyle without being obsessively clean. Although this book is directed towards parents and people who work with children, everyone can benefit from it. For someone who doesn’t know the science lingo, it was clear, easy to follow and most importantly, interesting.

We were all given an immune system for a reason. As Finlay put it, “if you don’t use it, you lose it.”

So stop washing your hands 50 times a day and “chill a bit.” U

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Synthetic heart tissue may change how surgery is taught

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The device, which doesn’t look like a heart, is being used to teach new and old surgeons.

Michael Choi Contributor

“I believe that we can cover the whole area of cardiovascular reconstructive surgery,” said Hadi Mohammadi, biomedical engineer at UBC Okanagan.

Along with his research partner, Guy Fradet — an associate professor of surgery — and a team of UBCO engineers and Kelowna General Hospital surgeons, Mohammadi has developed synthetic tissue simulation models designed to give surgeons-in-

training a more realistic experience when practicing particular surgical procedures. These devices can model individual parts of the heart to stand in for the real thing when surgeons are practicing.

The team’s research goes back over 15 years with Mohammadi’s master’s and doctorate degrees, which both focused on prosthetic and synthetic heart valves. The team aims to apply their research to replace cadavers and animal organs for training and practice.

The team has designed affordable synthetic training

models to “basically simulate the related surgical procedures,” said Mohammadi. Because they are fabricated, they are more readily available in greater quantities than the human cadavers and animal tissues currently in use.

The advantages of synthetic tissues over those from animals or cadavers are not only economical, but practical for the surgeons.

Mohammadi notes that cadaver and animal tissues are not only in short supply, but do not accurately simulate the mechanical properties of a diseased, living human heart. This inaccuracy is exacerbated by the preservation methods that are necessary when working with dead tissue and by the sanitation procedures required to keep surgeons safe as they handle them.

“The good thing about the synthetic model is that it’s not contaminated — it doesn’t have any problems. It’s basically the very same [as real diseased tissue] — very cheap. If you want to practice 10,000 times, you can actually do that with no problem,” said Mohammadi.

At the moment, Mohammadi and his team are not concerned about pushing a product out to market, rather they are focused on fine-tuning the model and making it as accurate as possible.

“The manufacturing time is a little bit high, we are working on that. But right now, the only objective we have is the best quality ever. After that, we’d be concerned about the cost and time, but not in this phase.”

That quality is reflected in the physical and mechanical properties of the models. Diseased tissue and living tissue don’t move in the same way that healthy dead tissue does. So a synthetic simulation of living, diseased tissue will be far more accurate than a dead cadaver or animal can be.

Human cadavers or animal tissues don’t have the diseases of the hearts they are standing in for when surgeons practice.

“But here with synthetic models, we actually develop that diseased valves that simulates exactly the same basic structure that the diseased valve has [in humans] and then all the surgical skills that apply to that particular surgery can be applied to this synthetic model,” said Mohammadi.

And the possibilities are not limited to any particular disease.

The team’s research has led them to consider many different candidate materials to fabricate their synthetic tissue from. The result of their research gives them both adaptability and accuracy, allowing the simulation of many different kinds of diseased tissues.

“We know basically how to customize the mechanical properties of this material exactly the way we want it to be. This is basically our technology,” said Mohammadi.

Mohammadi’s eventual goals with this synthetic tissue technology have not yet been fully realized. His next project will be to use these advanced materials

to develop what he calls the next generation of prosthetic heart valves.

The team is applying this technology to developing synthetic implantable valves. The development of such a device would mean a reduction in the amount of patients who would need open heart surgery, as the technology would allow the device to be implemented without it.

“These valves can be placed into a very small space and can be angled into a particular or intended destination using a catheter,” said Mohammadi.

The team is looking towards the future when their synthetic tissue models are wellestablished. Mohammadi sees the synthetic models as a necessity to future medical students.

With lower costs and greater availability than the current animal and cadaver models in use, the models are already seeing use at Kelowna General Hospital by some of Mohammadi’s colleagues.

Someday, this technology may be commonplace with students in cardiovascular surgery institutions at UBC and around the world.

“Usually, they have to watch an experienced surgeon and they just watch,” said Mohammadi, “But the thing is that [by] using this model, they can have, for example, ten models each and they can apply the skills needed for that particular surgery, and they can build up expertise on that particular surgery.” U

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Fisheries predicted to lose boatloads to climate change Mona Adibmoradi Contributor

Let’s play a game. The rules are simple — guess how much global fisheries will lose due to climate change by 2050. 500 million? One billion? Five billion?

According to research conducted

by UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, fisheries worldwide are projected to lose $10 billion USD in revenue by 2050.

Trends in climate change show drastic shifts in ocean conditions, especially in the temperature, acidity, salinity and oxygen levels.

These changes are leading to a global redistribution of marine species, as fish move from more tropical regions to polar regions.

ARE COUNTRIES IN POLAR REGIONS WINNERS? Well, not necessarily.

“We found it’s not necessarily the increase in the species in their own exclusive economic zone that transfers to income,” said Vicky Lam, the study’s lead author and a postdoctoral researcher at UBC. Based off of projections, the exclusive economic zone — the area that a country exclusively claims for fishing and other economic activities — of countries like Greenland may see a 58 per cent increase in possible catch potential, but revenue potential is only expected to increase by 19 per cent.

This discrepancy can be attributed to the decline in the availability of higher economically valued species such as the Atlantic salmon.

Many countries have distant water fishing sectors farther from the poles that will also be affected by the redistribution of fish.

The study also found that developing countries that rely on fisheries for revenue and food — especially those in tropical areas and small islands — will be impacted the most. These fisheries have lower adaptive capacities towards climate change, which is why they are expected to suffer the most.

ARE DEVELOPED, NONTROPICAL COUNTRIES SAFE? “Ten billion [dollars] — when compared to other sectors — is a small amount, but when considering the subsequent economic impact, it will be a big one,” said Lam. The global fishery sector supports a maximum of 820 million people, representing more than 10 per cent of the world’s population.

The loss in revenue of the fishery district is predicted to have a large amplifying effect on other industries — both directly and indirectly.

When you take into consideration the fishery processing plants, the transportation and the retailers, the socio-economic importance of the fishing industry becomes a lot more apparent.

The loss of revenue will affect the industry worldwide.

To adapt to climate change, many fisheries are considering aquaculture as the solution — the almighty silver bullet.

Aquaculture, which is also known as “farm fishing,” has the potential to improve food security and ease the revenue loss. However, in her research, Lam illustrates how aquaculture may actually lead to a larger loss

in revenue by driving down the price of fish.

“This result is of particular interest because you can tell the policy maker that aquaculture development is not a silver bullet,” said Lam. “It’s not the only adaptation measure. You have to consider it before you expand it too much.”

Lam hopes to continue this

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research as a crucial step in developing food sustainability strategies and socio-economic policies to adapt to climate change. By incorporating a more dynamic model, she hopes to have a more holistic and comprehensive projection of the impact on fisheries to implement better marine resource management. U

SPORTS+REC

EDITOR OLAMIDE OLANIYAN

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 TUESDAY

LAST YEAR UBC BEAT REGINA 27-20.

THIS YEAR THEY LOST 20-10.

THIS SEASON IS NOT LOOKING GOOD. PHOTO JEREMY JOHNSON-SILVERS

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“WHAT’S DISAPPOINTING IS WE’RE IN A POSITION TO WIN THE GAME AGAIN AND WE DIDN’T MAKE THE PLAYS AT THE RIGHT TIME.” - BLAKE NILL, UBC HEAD COACH

RAMS COME BACK TO DEFEAT UBC 20-10 Bill Situ Contributor

There were 7,834 spectators packed into the Thunderbird Stadium, but there was no joy for the home crowd as the UBC football team dropped a 20-10 decision to the Regina Rams.

“I came to UBC because I want to play in front of big crowds,” said Blake Nill, UBC head coach.

“I appreciate all the work that the Athletic Department people did and I feel like I let them down today.”

The first frame was a scoreless affair right until the final second.

As the Rams were in punt formation, the T-Birds were able to mount the pressure and force a fumble. Linebacker Colton Zayshley then picked up the ball and found the touchdown zone, giving UBC a 7-0 lead.

A little under five minutes into the second intermission, Regina got onto the scoreboard with a field goal to narrow UBC’s lead to 7-3.

The ’Birds responded with a strong offensive drive until Regina’s defence forced a third-and-goal situation at the 11-yard line. Greg Hutchins restored the seven-point lead for the T-Birds on the field goal attempt.

As the second frame winded down to the final two minutes, the ’Birds had another scoring opportunity as they neared the end zone, but the Rams took the opportunity away as they caught an interception on quarterback Michael O’Connor’s pass.

“What’s disappointing is we’re in a position to win the game again and we didn’t make the plays at the right time,” said Nill, who attributes the plays to the “inconsistencies of the young kids that [the Thunderbirds] have.”

With UBC leading 10-3 at halftime, Regina equalized the game three minutes into the second half with their first touchdown of the game.

On the ensuing UBC possession, the T-Birds again managed to successfully advance deep into the Rams’ zone, but again ran into a third-and-goal situation. This time, the ’Birds failed to put points onto the board.

Having trailed throughout the first half, Regina managed to take the lead for the first time with a little under five minutes remaining in the third frame on its second touchdown of the game. UBC had a 41-yard field goal opportunity on the next possession, but Hutchins’ kick went wide.

The final quarter was again a stalemate between the two teams.

The only points came from another field goal by Regina that secured the 20-10 win.

Despite the comeback victory for the Rams, Nill believes that the T-Birds’ defence was solid overall.

“The defence continues to play better and so there are positives out there, but we have to win some games,” said Nill. U UBC will be on the road next week to take on the University of Alberta Golden Bears on Saturday, September 24 .

HOMECOMING: IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT, DISAPPOINTING PERFORMANCE Matt Langmuir Contributor

With the forecast anticipating showers, it was uncertain whether rain would affect the turnout for Homecoming. Fortunately, the rain dissipated, allowing 7,834 fans to enjoy watching the Thunderbirds football team take on the Regina Rams under the warm BC sun.

There were food trucks, beer tents, games and various booths set up for companies doing promotions such as BMO, MasterCard and the Vancouver Canucks. Attendees were also entertained with a special appearance by UBC president Santa Ono, the theatrics of mascot Thunder and countless giveaway prizes.

This year’s attendance beat last year’s record-breaking number of 6,950 by a respectable margin. And when you compare these numbers with other UBC sports, football definitely has the edge. Last year’s CIS Final 8 quarterfinal match between the men’s basketball team and Ryerson had an attendance of 4,750, while the men’s hockey team’s Winter Classic drew 3,577.

Say what you want about UBC school spirit — the organizers did an excellent job promoting the game and the hard work paid off.

This event undoubtedly saw one of the biggest crowds in UBC sports history.

The ’Birds did not take long to get the crowd going. They scored a touchdown in the first half and went into the halftime break 10-3.

However, that was all the ’Birds’ fans had to cheer for. The Rams went on to play a strong second half and ended up winning the game 20-10. The result of the game left a bitter taste in what was otherwise a spectacular event.

The fact is that this game was lost on mistakes. The biggest mistake came in the third quarter, when the Thunderbirds were third and goal with the game tied 10-10. A field goal would have given them the lead with lots of time left to build on it. Instead, Blake Nill’s team elected to go for it and ultimately lost the gamble on an incomplete pass from quarterback Michael O’Connor to receiver Will Watson.

UBC needed to take the points in this scenario. They took the gamble and lost, completely chang the momentum of the game. After the turnover on downs, it didn’t take Regina long to run the ball all the way down into the ’Birds’ end zone.

The mistake cost UBC three points and gave the Rams an all-important touchdown that gave them their first lead of the night.

The mistakes didn’t end there.

Shortly after the Regina touchdown, UBC kicker Greg Hutchins fanned on a punt, sending the ball just 13 yards up field, giving the Rams an excellent field position in the Thunderbirds’ half. This led to a Regina field goal and ultimately put the game to rest.

All in all, Homecoming 2016 was quite the spectacle. Too bad the ’Birds weren’t able pull-off a victory for their unbelievable crowd. U

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The sprinter: How UBC student Yuri Kisil became an Olympian Andrew Hung Contributor

In the call room at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, UBC swimmer Yuri Kisil waited for the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay. Seated in the row behind him was Michael Phelps, the greatest swimmer of all time, and the French relay team, that had won gold four years ago in London.

Everyone in the room wore tense, unsmiling expressions on their faces— except for Kisil. The 20-yearold danced a little jig in front of the cameras and his relaxed attitude seemed out of place at such an elite level of swimming.

But once he dived in the water, Kisil showed that he could race with the best athletes in the sport.

Among all the swimmers competing in the second leg of the relay, Kisil’s time of 47.76 seconds was the third fastest, behind only Phelps and Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers, who eventually won the gold in the 100-metre freestyle.

Kisil’s swim propelled the relay team to a seventh-place finish — a promising sign considering that, four years ago in London, the Canadians had failed to even qualify for the finals. This was his very first Olympic final, but already Kisil showed that he belonged on the international stage.

It was still nerve-wracking to swim against so many legendary swimmers, he admitted.

“These are guys that I looked up to,” said Kisil. “As a kid, I remember sitting at home and watching them on the TV, thinking that I want to be those guys one day. Getting to race and learn from them was an unbelievable experience.”

No longer a spectator, Kisil has received greater attention since

As a younger swimmer Kisil would often skip practices, but a change was sparked as he began qualifying for national teams.

becoming an Olympian, shining a spotlight on his swimming like never before. Friends from the past and others who wouldn’t normally watch swimming gave him support, giving him more incentive to perform well.

Yet Rio 2016, and the limelight and publicity that came along with it, was only the final stage of a long, two-year journey. Kisil already saw the Olympics as a realistic goal in 2014 when he became the fastest Canadian in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle for that year.

With those swims, he qualified for his first senior national team, representing the country in the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacific Championships that summer.

Kisil is a sprinter, specializing in races that never exceed 50 seconds.

Yet, the preparation leading up to

the games was more like a marathon swim than a sprint. Even with other international competitions in the schedule — such as the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia ­— the ultimate goal was always the Olympics.

“Throughout the two years, there were many ups and downs. There were times when it was hard to be motivated and other times when it wasn’t as hard,” said Kisil.

The months were marked with gruelling training in the pool and the gym — a weekly average of 25 hours. With two or three sessions a day, practicing for Kisil often became a day-long routine — one which extended into many other aspects of life outside of the pool. Reaching his Olympic aspirations required many sacrifices and the swimmer had to

reconsider his priorities.

As a younger swimmer, Kisil often skipped practices, but a change was sparked as he began qualifying for national teams.

“I realized I could be really good at this and I want to be really good at this,” said Kisil. “That’s when it became urgent, where the most important thing was to make a practice — whatever it took to make a practice.”

With the heavy workload, other activities had to be pushed aside, such as his social life. Often, early morning training meant sleeping early instead of going out with friends.

The inordinate amounts of swimming and gym sessions also required the swimmer to work out routines that would allow him to

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finish his schoolwork in spite of the exhaustion he often felt from practices. This conscientious approach in balancing swimming and school was something that Kisil, who is entering his second year in the faculty of arts, got better at as his university studies progressed.

The dedication and hard work of the past two years gave Kisil confidence as he stepped onto the pool deck at Rio, ready to swim the most crucial races of his career. As nerves began to set in, Kisil relied on the preparation and training for reassurance.

“I had to tell myself, ‘This was the fastest you’ve ever swum going into the meet and your dives are the best they’ve ever been.’ I had to stay in positive facts that I knew would reassure me.” U

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Men’s soccer pull off another undefeated weekend, but struggle to get a win Olamide Olaniyan Sports and Rec editor

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The Thunderbirds came into the weekend with an undefeated conference record (4-02) and one point below the table-leading Trinity Western University Spartans.

The UBC men’s soccer team has a season scoresheet that is now incredibly arid, with scoreless ties in the last three games.

This week, the team played against the University of Alberta Golden Bears and University of Saskatchewan Huskies on Friday, September 16 and Sunday, September 18 respectively and came away with a scoreless draw on both days.

The T-Bird offence provided plenty of scoring chances in both games, but the team was unable to capitalize on these chances. In both games, the ’Birds outshot the opposition. On Friday night — a game which saw two Canada West soccer heavyweights face off at the Thunderbird stadium — they outshot the Golden Bears with 14 shots as compared to Alberta’s two shots. Despite the flurry of attack from the ’Birds,

the game ended with both teams tied at nil.

On Sunday, it was the same old problem, but a different game as the T-Birds had yet another scoreless skirmish. The T-Birds’ goal famine continued into Sunday even as UBC made 15 shots while the Huskies made six.

But then again, in terms of defence and goalkeeping, the ’Birds are holding their own, having let by only three goals since the start of their regular season. In a UBC Athletics article, UBC defender Manraj Bains recognized this, saying, “Our counter-press and our defensive shape have been doing very well recently. That’s probably been the best part of our game.”

The Thunderbirds came into the weekend with an undefeated conference record (4-0-2) and one point below the table leaders — the Trinity Western University Spartans. The team’s scoreless ties against University of Alberta

Golden Bears and University of Saskatchewan Huskies means that although they have preserved that record (4-0-4), the Spartans have also gained a four-point lead on the ’Birds.

The men’s soccer team is now officially halfway through their regular season and are still going strong, holding onto their second place spot in the Pacific Division.

Six points behind them in third place are the University of Fraser Valley Cascades. While the ’Birds are safe for now, they are entering the most important half of their season and they need to get some wins to put themselves well ahead of the pack. U The T-Birds will be battling on the road in Alberta against the Mount Royal University Cougars on Saturday, September 24 at 12:30 p.m. and the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns on Sunday, September 25 at 1:15 p.m.

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FIELD HOCKEY//

Season primer 2016/17: assume nothing

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The ‘Birds won 3-2 on Saturday and 2-1 on Sunday.

Men’s hockey beats Alberta twice in overtime Matt Langmuir Contributor

After a 3-1 win over cross-town rivals SFU, the UBC men’s hockey team continued their fine form in the preseason against the powerhouse University of Alberta Golden Bears.

The ’Birds’ strong defensive play earned them two straight overtime wins — 3-2 on Saturday and 2-1 on Sunday.

“It’s nice to see the guys go out there and perform in a game situation,” said head coach Sven Butenschon. “They’ve worked so hard in practice [and] they’ve really impressed me in the short time I’ve been here. It’s nice to see them get rewarded.”

Saturday’s game was a backand-forth thriller. T-Bird forward Manraj Hayer got the ball rolling for UBC with a goal in the first period, but it was cancelled out by Alberta’s

Tanner Clarkson in the final minute of the frame.

The Golden Bears then took the lead on a power play goal in the third period when Alberta’s Stephane Legault pounced on the rebound to give Alberta their first lead. That lead was short-lived. Just three minutes later, Luke Lockhart answered with a power play goal of his own.

Tied 2-2, the teams went into a five minute period of 4-on-4 overtime, which was followed by a five minute 3-on-3 frame. The Thunderbirds saw the light of day in the second extra period. Austin Vetterl played a perfect pass to Josh Connolly who tapped it in for the game winner.

Sunday’s game was a defensive battle throughout the first two periods. ’Birds forward Nick Buonassisi finally broke the deadlock in the ninth minute of the third.

With time winding down, UBC’s Tanner Faith was given a two-minute minor for charging.

This gave Alberta the chance to go 6-on-4 with the goalie pulled for the final 42 seconds. The ’Birds’ worst fears were realized as it took the Bears just 10 seconds to get the equalizer from Tanner Clarkson. For the second game in a row, overtime was needed to determine a winner.

Thankfully for the Thunderbirds, it only took them two minutes to get the overtime winner once again. This time, it was Michael Stenerson who netted the OT tally.

All’s well that ends well for UBC. U The men’s hockey team will continue their preseason campaign against the Ryerson University Rams on Friday, September 23 and Saturday, September 24.

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.

Join the Conversation Online or In Person: Online:

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3. Monday, October 17th The Nest, first floor 11:30am – 1:00pm

2. Thursday, October 13th Wesbrook Community Centre, lobby · 4:30pm – 7:00pm

4. Wednesday, October 19th Forest Sciences Centre, atrium 4:30pm – 6:30pm

October 3 to 23, 2016 WHERE?

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Questions? Please contact Gabrielle Armstrong, Senior Manager, Public Engagement, at gabrielle.armstrong@ubc.ca or 604-822-9984.

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Last season, the T-Birds recorded their fifth straight national title.

Marcus Yun Contributor

While currently holding the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championship title, the UBC women’s field hockey team is set for yet another competitive season.

Their previous season ended with a celebration, but none of the success came easily. A season full of nail-biting score lines shows that the team’s success was definitely a hard-earned one. Despite three straight losses to the University of Victoria Vikes, the Thunderbirds found their form and gained momentum just in time for the nationals. After earning a spot there, the women’s field hockey team ended up winning a record fifthstraight and 17th-overall national title last season.

Following a successful season, not even the national champions can escape facing challenges for the upcoming season. For the 2016/17 season, there are three visible challenges that the ’Birds have — the departure of key players, getting back in competitive shape and forming chemistry as a new team.

In any sports team, there will be players coming in and going out each year. For UBC’s women’s field hockey team, there were departures last season as well — most notably Katrina Davis, who was one of the captains of the team. Head coach Robin D’Abreo stated that the loss of players like Davis “will have a huge impact on our team … she will be missed.”

Besides the national champion quality players remaining on the roster, D’Abreo said, “We added a bunch of new and exciting players to our mix this year.” He also stated that there will be four of the new players on the roster this year.

When asked about difficulties during the summer, D’Abreo answered, “summer is always challenging for a university program.” During summer months,

the team has a lot more flexibility in terms of commitment and “the cost of that is obviously contact time with the athletes and contact time as a group,” said D’Abreo.

However, with the majority of the roster being players from last season, the team should be able to find their top form very quickly.

This season, an entertaining player to watch will be Hannah Haughn. She is the reigning national championship MVP and is entering her fifth year in the program. As the team has many young players, Haughn’s experience will be a big asset for them.

For anyone who followed the women’s field hockey team last season, it is very clear that the Thunderbird’s biggest rivals would be the Vikes — a team also in the Canada West division. The ’Birds suffered three straight losses to the Vikes during the 2015 season. The head-to-head record for the two teams is well in favour of the Vikes as well.

However, in two of their three most recent meetings, the Thunderbirds came out victorious — the most recent being the national finals. The momentum the team has against the Vikes means that it will likely bring better results compared to last season.

Following a slippery start to last year’s campaign, the team’s keyword was “belief.” It is how they made it all the way to the national championships. Now being one of the biggest teams in the league and with the high expectations for this season, the team’s strategy is to prepare as hard as any other season and “assume nothing.”

“As we get going [in the season], we take feedback from those opportunities, and continue to reinvest and improve,” said D’Abreo.

With a strong squad, the Thunderbirds have the potential to finish atop the Canada West standings and contend for yet another national title. U

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