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Good is the first member of his community to be admitted to medical school.

Emma Hicks Opinion & Blog Editor Getting into medical school is no easy feat, let alone at UBC, one of the top schools in Canada — but for Darcy Good, there was an extra reason to celebrate this accomplishment.

Good is the first member of his community, Snuneymuxw, located near Nanaimo, BC, to be admitted to medical school where he has recently been “matched” with the psychiatry residency program at UBC — his first choice.

“Mental health is something I’m very passionate about, so I’m really excited,” said Good. “My main goal throughout my residency is to attempt to get more exposure to positions that I’ve been working with in First Nations communities.”

But for Good, his interest in medicine started long before university was even on his radar.

“When I was 12 or 13 … I had a really difficult year with my family.

There were several deaths [and] at that time there was a lot going on with my siblings and my stepfather had a minor heart attack,” he said. “His ICU doctor was one of my friend’s dads so he took the time to pull me aside and say, ‘You know what, I’m not going to let your father die.’ And after my stepdad pulled through ... I realized what impact saving one life can have, which is what inspired me to pursue medicine.”

Outside of his academic career, Good embodies his name — building kindergarten classrooms in Peru

and Nicaragua, networking with different doctors to bring outpatient mental health services into various health centres in BC and encouraging the people he works with to live the most active and healthy lives possible.

Despite being a busy fourth-year medical student, Good wants people to know that he’s also a “big fan of sleep.”

“It’s probably one of my greatest hobbies,” said Good. “I do have a lot of time where I have to be studying, so I definitely like to be a more relaxed type of person.”

After having a run-in with a “dark spot” on his neck in grade 12, Good reached the conclusion that he wasn’t going to have much legitimacy with his patients if he wasn’t taking care of his own health.

So he switched from a sedentary lifestyle to a very active one — and lost 115 pounds in 10 months.

“I think it’s really important to reflect upon how you treat your own body when you’re going to tell people how to treat their own body,” he said.

Although Good takes physical wellbeing very seriously, he highlights that the stigmas surrounding mental health — especially in First Nations communities — are very prevalent in today’s society.

“I got to do an elective with a doctor who works in the Fraser Health Authority,” he said. “He’s delivering outpatient mental health services directly in their health centres and not only does it make it

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more accessible, but I think it makes it more comfortable that you don’t have to bring people an hour or two just to see a physician outside the hospital.

They can get it right in the community where they are feeling safe.”

The goal of giving back to his community is rooted in the close-knit environment that he grew up in.

When Good was originally accepted into medical school four years ago, he couldn’t believe that he actually accomplished this feat — and almost no one even knew he had applied.

“I tried to keep it a little bit quiet, that [medical school] was my goal but obviously my mom and close family knew,” he said. “I tried to keep it quiet because there was no guarantee that it was going to happen. When I first started, my community held this big celebration where we all came together.”

Good said he felt a lot of pressure during the celebration that the community hosted for him because everyone was expecting him to succeed and bring his newfound expertise back to Vancouver Island.

However, he believes that if he were to ever find a new career path or decide not to pursue medicine, his community would be just as proud of him.

“There’s always these great expectations for what I’m going to accomplish and for what I’m going to bring back,” he said, “but I think that when reflecting upon it, I really realize that people don’t have expectations of me — they just have this great pride for me and they just want to see me succeed.” U

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Access & Diversity to soft launch new shuttle service for mobility needs Access & Diversity (A&D) is unveiling a new shuttle service that can transport individuals who are unable to walk long distances across campus.

Having been in talks since 2016, the service will be launched as a pilot project this May. Previously a collaborative project between A&D, the AMS as well as Campus and Community Planning, its initial launch will now be headed by only A&D. “Once the demand is established and we understand what the need is, we’ll look to decide on a permanent home,” said A&D Director Janet Mee.

According to Mee, the service will run on a “pick-upand-delivery” model that will transport members of the UBC community and visitors with mobility challenges throughout the campus’s pedestrian core, which consists of the buildings and areas surrounding Main Mall.

“It will get people, for example, from the bus loops, from some key parking lots and also locations close to some of the residences that are on the perimeter of the Vancouver campus into the pedestrian core,” she said.

Mee described the vehicle as “a large golf cart” that can hold three passengers and a driver. Unlike a general golf cart,

however, it has windows, a door and a roof. It is also wheelchairaccessible.

Students registered with A&D for accommodations for mobility-based disabilities will automatically be eligible to use the shuttle. Students with temporary mobility disabilities, such as an injury, can also go through A&D to access the service on a short-term basis.

Visitors and campus residents can use the shuttle on an “honour system” where they don’t need to provide documentation to use it once or twice.

This is not the first approach UBC and A&D have taken to accommodate individuals with mobility challenges.

For example, students can ask a professor to move a classroom if the student is unable to walk the distance between that room and their previous classroom. They can also get priority access to parking spots and registration in courses, and a TransLink community shuttle service is available for travelling around the campus perimeter.

“This is really just one more way that we’re trying to improve access,” said Mee. Since this is a new service, A&D will debut it in a “soft launch” that will give them time to fine tune the service over the summer. Mee anticipates that a full launch will arrive in late August or early September.

“We haven’t done a lot of advertising ... because we don’t really know what the demand will be, and we’re starting with one shuttle van,” she said. “We want to be able to work out the kinks and evaluate our early assumptions about demand and routing and travel times.” U

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UBC investigates allegation of geography faculty pressuring event cancellation at Hillel

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“I think that this will kind of be a watershed moment, how [UBC] will handle this incident.”

Lawrence Ge Senior Staff Writer

UBC is investigating an incident where some faculty members from the department of geography allegedly pressured the Geography Students’ Association (GSA) into cancelling a booking for a private event at Hillel BC. The investigation was launched with Ben Felstein, a Jewish student and former GSA executive, who resigned from the association because of the incident.

The department of geography is also facing backlash from the Jewish community. On March 15, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) released a statement and a prewritten letter of concern that people could sign and send to the UBC president, associate VP Equity & Inclusion and the ombudsperson for students.

According to CIJA’s letter, the GSA was pressured into cancelling their booking because of the political views of some faculty members on Israel. It also cites a definition of anti-Semitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which states that anti-Semitism includes “holding Jews collectively responsible for the State of Israel’s policies.”

“The actions of these faculty members violate the moral and legal values of academic freedom and protection from discrimination at UBC,” reads the letter. “It should be obvious that boycotting Jews simply because of one’s views about Israel is discrimination.”

CIJA’s letter also references Felstein’s resignation, saying that he felt discriminated against as a result of the incident. The Ubyssey has reached out to him for comment, but he declined due to the ongoing investigation.

Ariela Karmel, the program coordinator at Hillel BC, believes that incident was entirely due to pushback from some geography department’s faculty members and not from the GSA. “The students [were] the one who originally booked the space in Hillel and [didn’t change it] for a couple of months,” said Karmel. “It was only when the GSA informed the faculty ... that the faculty then said ‘We will not attend if it’s at Hillel.’”

Similar to the CIJA’s letter and statement, she also believes that the faculty members have mischaracterized Hillel BC as being too politically controversial to be an appropriate venue.

“We’re a space that’s open to the entire UBC community to use and come together in,” Karmel said, noting that the location regularly hosts meetings for various organizations such as the UBC’s Chaplains Association.

“This incident and the way these faculty members have conducted themselves, [they are] so contrary to the values of inclusiveness that we have and that this entire campus has.”

But while the Progressive Jewish Alliance UBC (PJA) also “urged the GSA to recognize that Hillel is the physical Jewish space on campus,” they noted that Hillel’s “political positions, such as an opposition to all boycotts of Israel, can alienate other Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and students.”

The PJA’s Facebook post reads, “We hope that both organizations take this opportunity to engage in genuine dialogue around the complexity of politics and place.”

Regarding the university’s current investigation, Karmel thinks that it will be critical for discouraging future cases of anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination on campus.

In particular, she looks forward to a statement condemning the incident in alignment with UBC’s discrimination and harassment policy.

“I think that this will kind of be a watershed moment, how [UBC] will handle this incident,” said Karmel.

“I have every faith in the university that the investigation will be carried out properly ... but it would be very disappointing and it would normalize the idea that Jewish spaces can be boycotted on this campus, if that investigation proved fruitless and if it didn’t bring about any real results.”

The Ubyssey reached out to both the GSA and the geography department for comments, but they both redirected the request toward the faculty of arts’ senior administration and UBC. “We are aware of concerns that have been expressed by CIJA,” UBC VP External Relations Philip Steenkamp said in an emailed statement, while noting the university’s commitment to a respectful environment and process for investigating complaints of discrimination.

“We are looking into this matter and will follow due process to ensure it is appropriately addressed.” U

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UBC’s Faculty Association is corrupt and must change, say professors David Nixon Contributor

“It’s academic mobbing,” said Peter Wylie. “They’re trying to stop me.”

On Tuesday, the UBC Faculty Association (UBCFA) emailed an unusual advisory to its morethan 3,200 members about Peter Wylie, a professor of economics at UBC Okanagan. The advisory was sent during the UBCFA elections, in which Wylie is currently a candidate for vice-president.

The online elections are open to faculty members until April 5.

“Dr. Wylie alleges that the staff of the [UBCFA] are in collusion with University administration and human resources on the Okanagan campus, and working against the interests of our membership,” reads the advisory.

“Dr. Wylie’s allegation is false and unfounded. In our opinion, it constitutes bullying and harassment against our staff.”

Wylie’s allegations were supported by a 31-page report he published online and emailed on Monday — the first day UBCFA elections were open — to 310 professors at UBC Vancouver and 104 at UBC Okanagan. The document is a case-by-case account of his interactions with the UBCFA as a professor and as a member of the UBCFA Okanagan Faculty Committee and its Member Services Grievances Committee.

Representing faculty on both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses in their dealings with UBC, the UBCFA is governed by a faculty-elected executive committee of 14 members. Of those, nine member-at-large positions are currently up for election. Separately, on a staggered timeline, the UBCFA’s five standing committees also elect one chair each, all of whom also sit on the executive committee. Elected positions are unpaid and work on a two-year term basis. Its operations are handled by a professional staff of six.

Wylie is running for the executive committee on a loud campaign of “sweeping changes to the UBCFA.” He says that some of the professional staff are in collusion with UBCO management and must go. He’s framing this year’s UBCFA election as a battle between “the faculty members like you and me who fund [the UBCFA],” and “the executive director and her professional staff.”

“There’s a sweetheart union deal between UBC Okanagan and the UBC Faculty Association that benefits UBCO management and faculty association [staff ] in Vancouver at the expense of UBCO faculty members,” said Wylie.

A sweetheart deal means collusion between management and labour representatives that benefits management but is unfavourable to union workers.

Wylie argues extensively in his report, using examples, that the UBCFA accomplishes this through consolidating power to staff, drawing out legitimate grievances until they’re dropped, and acting in UBC administration’s interests over the faculty they’re supposed to represent.

Wylie is running with seven other professors from UBC’s

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“It’s academic mobbing.”

Okanagan campus. There are 11 candidates from UBC Vancouver’s campus. It’s the first year that UBCO professors have contested eight UBCFA executive committee positions. The ninth position is a library representative — the only UBCV candidate who has already won by default.

“Our intention with running the eight people is to put out a message that we’re not happy,” Wylie told The Ubyssey in a phone interview. “We’re not thinking we’re going to get elected, necessarily — this is a protest.”

Six minutes after the UBCFA advisory went out accusing Wylie of harassment, Professor E. Wayne Ross of UBC Vancouver’s department of curriculum and pedagogy replied.

“Whether or not the allegations in Dr. Wylie’s report are accurate, this response seems to confirm that the UBCFA is actively working against him,” wrote Ross. “This is a completely inappropriate message to send to the membership at any time, but particularly in the midst of an election in which Dr. Wylie is a candidate.”

Ross tweeted the same complaint, sparking debate. Then, two days later, there was another email reply to the advisory, this time from Professor Paul J. Quirk of UBC’s political science department.

“The charge of harassment is an attack on Dr. Wylie’s freedom of expression,” he wrote. “It is an attempt to suppress debate and avoid criticism about matters of concern to the entire faculty.”

On Friday, a candidate for UBCFA president, Associate Professor Martin Schulz of UBC Sauder’s organizational behavior division, also weighed in.

“The level of dysfunction and chaos that UBC faculty have to endure is unbearable,” Schulz wrote. “We cannot continue like this. We need to stop the train wreck and develop better approaches and structures.”

Schulz said he’d personally been “academically mobbed” at UBC, and that it had been an “abusive experience.” He called the current UBCFA situation an “Orwellian nightmare.”

According to a 2010 paper

by S.B. Khoo, published in the Malaysian Family Physician,

“academic mobbing,” is “an insidious, non-violent and sophisticated kind of psychological bullying that predominantly takes place in college and university campuses.” Wylie cites this definition in his document.

Alan Richardson, a professor of philosophy from UBC Vancouver who is running against Wylie for vice-president of the UBCFA, would not talk about Wylie’s allegations, saying he’d have “nothing of use to say.” He said he was not aware of any problems with faculty grievances.

Richardson’s candidate statement says that he would foster “a workplace atmosphere that fully supports the work of the expert staff members of the Association.”

The Ubyssey reached out to the UBCFA president and spokesperson, Nancy Langton, for comment. Langton responded to neither an email nor phone calls over two workdays.

“She’s been sidelined by the UBCFA for siding with faculty over staff,” Wylie said.

“The president is apparently on leave at the moment,” said former UBCFA President Mark Mac Lean by email.

There is no notice of Langton being on leave on her UBC faculty page, nor on the UBCFA website, nor does her email have an autoreply set up. The UBCFA did not reply to a request to confirm her status in time for the publishing of this article.

Langton is currently running in the UBCFA elections, but not as an incumbent president. She’s running instead for one of three member-at-large positions. In her candidate statement, she stresses the importance that “the [UBCFA] remain firmly under the control of faculty members, rather than staff.… It is really important that the Association be faculty-led and driven.”

Mac Lean, who supports Richardson for vice-president, addressed Wylie’s allegations by email, saying Wylie’s assertions that “the staff of the Faculty Association act against the interests of its members are false. Furthermore, there is no ‘sweetheart deal’ between the Association and the UBCO Administration.”

Mac Lean said Okanagan faculty are well-represented at the UBCFA already. He said the Okanagan Standing Committee’s chair gets a guaranteed spot on the executive committee. And, “as evidenced by the current election, Okanagan faculty members are also eligible to run for all the other positions on the executive committee, though none have done so until now.”

The current UBCFA Vice President, Vinayak Vatsik — answering questions in Langton’s stead — said it may take until Monday to get a response from the committee.

“We don’t usually talk to media and I certainly have no authority to do so,” Vatsik said by email. “I will ask [the executive committee] if they wish to make any comment.

“But I can’t promise anything.” U

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t was the moment of being in a class with someone who had signed that letter — any illusion of accountability and safety in that department was just kind of ripped out from under my feet.”

“It was really weird trying to get my bearings within the program and then to hear that there was this upheaval going on within it. The thing that really struck me was no one had any idea really what was going on for months, even years.”

“I just thought: how is this in the news and I’m literally sitting in a classroom at the school where this is happening and no one is saying anything?”

On November 18, 2015, former Chair of the creative writing department Steven Galloway was suspended from UBC due to “serious allegations.” A year later, prominent Canadian authors, including Margaret Atwood, published an open letter demanding an external investigation into the university’s handling of Galloway’s case. Now, The Ubyssey looks at how these tumultuous years have impacted the students at the heart of the scandal. “[The UBC Accountable letter] basically tore open the wound again and made it worse for the UBC students than it was before,” said Alicia Elliott, a Haudenosaunee writer and the recipient of the creative writing department’s 2017-18 Geoffrey and Margaret Andrew fellowship.

“And that’s a thing I don’t think the people who signed that letter are aware of. I don’t think a lot of them have talked to any UBC students.”

THE LETTER The release of the open letter on November 15, 2016 prompted Galloway to break his yearlong silence on the allegations against him.

His statement cited “grave concerns” with the investigative process followed by UBC. It also divulged several details of the investigation conducted by former BC Supreme Court Judge Mary Ellen Boyd, which had not been made public by the university. According to The Globe and Mail, Boyd’s 44-page report — of which more

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The actual twists and turns of what happened evolving through the UBC Accountable letter is very complicated. The early un-signers, I trust.

The late un-signers… I don’t.”

— Keith Maillard

than half had been redacted following a freedom of information request by ancillary complainants — included accusations of sexual assault, sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviour.

Margaret Atwood, Joseph Boyden and Michael Ondaatje were some of the original

88 authors to sign the open letter demanding Galloway be afforded the “right to due process.”

The letter drew immediate backlash from people who felt that it prioritized Galloway over the complainants and amplified the existence of Canadian literature’s (CanLit) “old boys’ club.” Since the original letter’s release, many signatories have been both added and removed. As of March 22, 2018, there are 82 signatories. A counter-letter in protest of UBC Accountable was made by Professor Julie Rak of the University of Alberta, and has circulated widely in online communities.

“The actual twists and turns of what happened evolving through the UBC Accountable letter is very complicated,” said Keith Maillard, a professor of fiction and poetry who joined the UBC faculty in 1989. “The early un-signers, I trust. The late un-signers… I don’t.”

THE STUDENTS UBC is home to what its website calls “Canada’s most prestigious creative writing program,” which boasts a long list of recognized alumni and writers from all over the world. The Ubyssey sat down with four former and current creative writing students, three of whom requested anonymity out of concern for how speaking publicly might impact their professional and personal lives. Their real names have been substituted with alternative ones.

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Continued from page 5.

Hannah’s journey to UBC is a familiar story.

She fell in love with writing as a child and has been doing it ever since. When she was admitted to UBC, she moved from Ontario to Vancouver to begin her studies in the fall of 2015. Although students must apply for admission to the creative writing major at the end of their second year, Hannah was pretty confident in her ability to get in.

“I do have to preface this by saying that I’m completely aware that maybe going to school for creative writing just wasn’t right for me,” said Hannah. “But as soon as I got to UBC, I feel like I heard about all of the problems with Steven Galloway and the problems within the department before the program even started.”

She tried to stick it out and continue along a path towards applying for the creative writing major, but couldn’t get past her disappointment in the program. She recalls discussing the issues in the CanLit community in her First Nations and Indigenous studies and gender, race, sexuality and social justice studies classes, but never in creative writing.

“I think there’s two prongs for me. One is definitely a lack of confidence in the program.

I feel like the issues in Canadian literature are getting worse, that’s sort of the instigator. The second thing that happened was I found that the creative writing program completely ruined my desire to write.”

Erin entered the creative writing major in the fall of 2015. She had dreams of writing children’s books as well as non-fiction for local magazines.

Although Galloway’s dismissal was difficult, it was the UBC Accountable letter that pushed her to distance herself from the literary community.

“It just took up so much emotional energy to deal with that that I took a step back from the creative writing work that I was doing.

I just wasn’t interested in interacting in a community of people who weren’t interested in being accountable.”

Erin recalls taking a class with Andreas Schroeder at the time, a long-time professor who had signed the letter and written a statement for UBC Accountable.

“Having to be in that class with [Schroeder] a day or two days after I had found out that he had signed that letter was a tough class. A lot of students in that class, I could see, were having a tough time. People weren’t making eye contact with him, people weren’t answering his questions. It was just this elephant in the room

that wasn’t being addressed — like everyone just looked pretty visibly upset. Especially the women and queer students.”

In an emailed response, Schroeder said, “it’s true that it was unfortunate the way the university handled this issue. [It] really had the effect of whipping up student turmoil.”

He identified a single student in his response who “seemed determined to make the issue a central topic for my class.” (The protection of Erin’s identity makes this comment unverifiable in relation to her experience.)

He declined to comment further, writing that he did “not really have much to say on that subject.”

Erin’s gut instinct was to go to the administration to seek support. At the advice of a professor, she arranged a meeting with acting co-chairs Annabel Lyon and Linda Svendsen to express concerns regarding her safety in a class with an instructor who signed the letter, among other issues. She told Lyon and Svendsen that students were having a hard time and that she would like to see the chairs reach out to students and offer support.

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What I find offensive about UBC Accountable is that its primary purpose was to defend an accused professor, and it expressed little concern for the students at the heart of the matter” —Lawrence Hill

“Basically, the response to me was, ‘No, we can’t reach out to students because then it will make it seem like we’re showing sides’ and, ‘No we can’t tell you what happened with the Steven Galloway case,’” said Erin.

“I was like, ‘I’m not asking for details,’ but they kept responding to me as if I was just there mining for information about the actual details. Really, I was just asking them to assess how this was impacting students, provide students with support and give them options so that they could finish their semesters and feel okay.”

A month after the meeting, at which point the semester had ended, a memo was issued to students offering support, encouraging them to visit the department’s offices and

pointing to UBC Counselling as a resource.

According to Erin, that’s what she was asking for in the first place, but her requests at the time were viewed as “unreasonable.”

When asked for comment on this occurrence, Leslie Dickson from UBC Public Affairs provided the following written statement on behalf of Lyon and Svendsen: “We encourage any student who has concerns about their learning environment to notify their professor, department head or dean’s office so their concerns can be addressed. In cases where students have a concern about their learning environment, UBC can provide support in a variety of ways, including academic accommodations.”

Erin is currently finishing up her degree and looking at a “more professional” career path.

“Not to say that I will stop writing or anything or that it’s actually effectively silenced me — it hasn’t. It just showed me who these people are who are holding all the power in CanLit and I don’t want to be sharing tables with those people right now, not for a second.”

THE SILENCE Of the 31 creative writing faculty members that The Ubyssey reached out to for their perspectives as instructors, Keith Maillard — a tenured professor since 1989 — was the only one who agreed to sit down for an interview.

The declining parties shared sentiments of discomfort, lack of emotional energy or being generally “unable to discuss this matter.”

“You have to understand how small the Canadian literary scene is, and how interconnected [it is],” said Maillard, who stressed that these are his own personal opinions and do not represent the university.

“You have no idea who’s going to be on the jury-judge of your book … you get a letter back from a publisher saying they don’t want to publish you, they say, ‘Oh, we didn’t fall in love with your manuscript.’ But the real reason might be — and a lot of this is — based on people stepping aside and having a quiet word with each other. And the message coming out after UBC Accountable is if you care about your career, just back off and don’t say anything.”

Lawrence Hill, best-selling author of The Book of Negroes, was one of the first notable names in CanLit to speak out against UBC Accountable. Hill originally was not going to say anything regarding the Galloway case,

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but when the letter was published he was “so offended” that he felt he “had no choice but to speak up and to oppose the voices that coalesced in the letter.”

“Let’s face it: a person might say, ‘You are courageous to speak out,’ but not really, because I didn’t have that much to lose, whereas a person who is mid-career or early-career could really suffer,” said Hill. “And so the people who’ve been the most courageous are those who have the most to risk and the most to lose by speaking out.

“What I find offensive about UBC Accountable is that its primary purpose was to defend an accused professor, and it expressed little concern for the students at the heart of the matter. It tells students and other developing writers that the Canadian literary establishment cares about protecting its own, first and foremost. As a university professor, and as somebody who’s mentored and taught for many years, we can’t only think about the accused when an issue like this comes forward. We also have to consider the needs and wants and the expressions of those who are at the centre of the complaints.”

Elliott had been worried that speaking out would impact her future career, but decided that she was “never going to be that person who was going to get through based on the ability to schmooze with the right people.”

“I decided instead of having to worry about building a writing career on that, I will never know what that could have looked like because that would never have been me anyways,” explained Elliott. “I might as well speak out about this because I would rather have a career built on integrity than a career built on being silent when speaking out is essential.”

When Elliott began her fellowship at UBC in early 2018, she had students ask her about being outspoken on social media. She began speaking out against UBC Accountable by engaging with Margaret Atwood on Twitter after the letter’s release and hasn’t stopped her online activism since.

“It’s something that I don’t really know how to answer because I have a very strong sense of responsibility,” said Elliott. “We can’t be quiet about these sorts of things because by being quiet we’re making a choice that is allowing more powerful voices to control narratives and to continue keeping systems of oppression and discrimination and all of those things in place.”

THE FEAR The wake of UBC Accountable has brought with it the new reckoning of the CanLit community.

However, according to Laura Moss, a professor of Canadian literature in UBC’s English department, this isn’t the first time that the Canadian literary community has been in turmoil.

“Although there is a lot that has happened in the last two years, this is certainly not the first time that there’s been debate or dissent in Canadian literary history, and that to me is really important,” said Moss. “I think what the difference is at the moment is it’s much more public and it’s much more volatile.”

Moss cites the 1980s and early ’90s as a time when appropriation of voice, race and accountability issues in the Canadian literary community emerged in discussion. She is comforted by history, knowing that marginalized communities have worked together to create spaces for themselves, with examples of Women’s Press, The Toronto South Asian Review and Ricepaper Magazine emerging in this time.

“My fear at this point is that people will stop writing or stop working on their own creative work because they’re afraid it doesn’t fit in some framework and I don’t think that framework is going to keep existing, if it ever did,” said Moss.

“So I’m not naively saying there has not been power and abuses of power. I believe that there have been. But I think that there has also always been room for some other voices to come through and I think that those other voices are going to be more powerful — whether they’re the voices of women’s voices, of racialized writers and the voices of younger people.”

Elliott is one of many younger writers who is focusing on moving forward and lifting up the voices of a new generation.

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Right now, I haven’t even submitted a short story or a poem to a literary magazine in over two years because of all these things that have happened.”

— Hannah

“I think that a lot of the people who are on the UBC Accountable list are part of an old guard that’s getting left behind and that’s their decision,” said Elliott. “We’re moving forward regardless and there’s solidarity that’s being built between communities. Black writers, Indigenous writers, writers of colour, LGBT writers and disabled writers have kind of banded together almost as a response to UBC Accountable, and that’s what’s interesting to me. The stuff that they’re writing is revolutionary, is fresh, is new and I think that readers see that too.”

“I hope that people who have been feeling held in by the events in the last year know there are many people who support them. I hope for them to keep writing because there are going to be readers who want to read their stories and hear what they have to say,” said Moss.

“I think that there was a shift right away. I had a wonderful experience, I’ve had nothing but a wonderful experience under their chairship,” said Gravener. “And then starting with [new creative writing Chair] Alix Ohlin this January, everything they’ve put forward that I’ve seen is really championing students. They really want students who have those voices to be put forward, which is so encouraging.”

He doesn’t deny the difficulties of the past few years, but believes that the department has been very supportive of the students in this time.

“Yes, it’s shitty circumstances that happened, but it’s how we dealt with them that’s characterdefining for the department and character-defining for us as students,” said Gravener. “Our work has still been strong, if not stronger because of something like that. We still want to be writers and I think that that’s never not been a priority for them. They want to produce the future and I very much think that they’re doing that.”

Having only started at UBC a few short months ago, Ohlin is still getting her bearings with the department. She previously worked in the United States, teaching English and writing at various institutions, and is brand-new to UBC. Her goal is to make it a safe and supportive place for writers to grow into the best kinds of artists that they want to be.

“I think the idea in hiring me was to bring in someone from the outside for a fresh start for the program, and that’s what I’m trying to do and to be,” said Ohlin. “I think that this program is more than a sum of these recent turbulent events, and I think I have an incredibly bright future, and the focus of my energy is to work towards that future in any way that I can.”

For others, like Erin and Hannah, it’s been more difficult to move past the turbulence of 2016 in the context of their studies. Hannah, who once dreamed of a creative writing major, is disheartened by the community.

“I don’t know what to say now when people ask me why I changed my major, especially since I was so all about creative writing,” said Hannah.

“Right now, I haven’t even submitted a short story or a poem to a literary magazine in over two years because of all these things that have happened.”

“I will probably never go back to university.

It’s been super emotionally draining. I won’t stop writing and creating and being creative, but I’m going to be doing that in communities and ways that are distinctly anti-establishment,” said Erin.

“Fuck UBC and fuck institutions and fuck CanLit.” U

THE FUTURE With a few years’ distance from the release of the UBC Accountable letter, many people are just trying to move on. For the students at the heart of it, the task is more daunting than it seems.

Derrick Gravener is a creative writing major and editorial assistant at PRISM Magazine who is hopeful for the future of the program. Gravener entered the program in the fall of 2016 under the interim chairship of Svendson and Lyon.

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Ask Pawan: Moving back to a small town after living in Vancouver

Letter: What not to expect from the Senate

Pawan Minhas Staff Writer

“Dear Pawan, Living in Vancouver and going to UBC has been really cool, but I don’t think I can handle going back to my small town in Ontario for summer. What do I do?”

One thing I love about UBC is that the students here are a mix of small-town Canadians and international students who are amazed by every wonder the big city has to offer.

For those unaccustomed to city living, the glitz and glam of Vancouver is hard to walk away from, and it’s only made worse by those lucky few who get to stay in the city and post weekly Instagrams praising the unending sunny beaches with the mountains as a nice backdrop.

One tip I have for enjoying summer in a small town, however, is summed up nicely in one word: exaggerate. People in small towns seem to have an obsession with asking how life is in “VanCity” — maybe it’s because they’re interested in how you’re adjusting or maybe because they visited on vacation once and want to talk about Stanley Park and the rain.

I’ve found in my own experiences that if you try to spice up your Vancouver livin’ stories a bit for your small town friends and family, it’s usually a win-win situation: you get to paint Vancouver with the brightest colours possible and they get to learn new, exciting things about the hippest city west of the Prairies!

However, to help emphasize your new life as a Vancouverite, there are a few touchstones you’ll want to hit: first, adopt a unique opinion on the housing situation in Vancouver, ensuring you throw in terms like “contractors” or “bike lanes” for pizzazz. After that, you’ll want to go to Google Maps and learn the names of at least three hiking trails that have “breathtaking vistas” and are “must-sees if you’re in the Lower Mainland” (note: if you can’t provide personal testimonials, online reviews are fine).

Finally, and this is what separates the wheat from the chaff in proving you’re one of the big city folk, you have to make sure you pronounce the “g” in “Vancouver” with enough pride and confidence that any impressionable child in the vicinity will spell it “Vang” for years to come.

Follow these steps carefully and you are guaranteed to convince even the most skeptical of hometown friends that you really are the Yaletown-traipsing, Skytrain-taking, Grouse Grind-ing cosmopolitan that you are meant to be. U Got a burning question that needs some advice? Send it in anonymously at ubyssey.ca/advice, or email it to Pawan at advice@ubyssey.ca!

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Max Holmes in the Kingsmill Forum during a debate, February 27, 2018.

Kevin Doering, Marium Hamid and Max Holmes Contributors “Relate to Senate” — a monthly

column explaining the agenda of UBC’s Senate meeting —­­is an opportunity to let students know what is happening monthly at the UBC Senate, the highest academic body of the university that oversees academic policy, appointments, awards and admissions. This month, however, the Senate meeting was cancelled “due to a lack of sufficient business,” and we want to address why that is.

The lack of “sufficient business” was cited for a lack of work completed in Senate Committees since the last Senate meeting. There are 12 standing committees and a newly minted ad hoc committee that work in between Senate meetings on various topics. We were surprised that none of these groups completed sufficient work to be discussed by Senate as a whole. In fact, in response to the cancellation of the Senate meeting, several committees cancelled their regular meetings — which seems counterintuitive to the rationale provided.

When you hear about the Senate you might imagine the 87 students, faculties and deans of the Senate working with a horde of support staff to review policies or approve awards. But that is not how it works at all, currently.

The Senate is massively underresourced and the burden falls to a small number of part-time graduate student support staff and volunteer committee chairs, most of whom are also serving as active faculty members. To be clear, the Senate is indebted to these support staff and committee chairs for their dedication, but in a university with more than 7,000 staff members, 15,000 faculty and 50,000 students, it is inane that UBC has fewer staff hours

for academic governance than for a single food outlet. Perhaps if we put more resources into the Senate, committees would be able to accomplish more and would not have to cancel meetings due to “a lack of sufficient business.”

There are good reasons for the Senate to be slow from time to time — we are wholeheartedly supportive of being deliberate about discussions and ensuring that we do our due diligence before making decisions.

But cancelling a meeting when there is an abundance of work is simply negligent. The Senate only meets for about 20 hours a year. It should alarm the UBC academic community that the body responsible for developing policy and strategy met for fewer than 20 hours this year and yet came to the conclusion this month that that was too much.

It is probably unnecessary to remind you that there are countless number of things that

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the Senate could be working on — like working on a fall reading rreak, providing feedback on UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan, or feedback on UBC’s Sexual Assault, and the other Sexual Misconduct Policy that has yet to be implemented in Senate policy more than a year later.

Your student senators recently published a collection of goals to accomplish entitled “Senate 2020.” One of the goals outlined is the need for Senate governance review — and this is yet another sign that something within our Senate simply isn’t working.

We understand it is easy not to care about the Senate, that it seems big and bureaucratic and hard to understand. But until we begin to see a change in how we operate our Senate, the changes we all want as students will continue to move at a snail’s pace.

Every election, a new cohort of students promises to keep students informed about what the Senate is actually doing. And as your democratically elected incoming and outgoing elected representatives, it is our responsibility to do the same.

Increasingly, however, the answer to that question seems to be “not much.” U Kevin Doering is a current senator and co-chair of the Student Senate Caucus.

Marium Hamid is a current senator and co-chair of the Student Senate Caucus.

Max Holmes is a current senator and the AMS VP Academic and University Affairs.

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Letter: Student-led campus climate conversations sparks calls for action The Sustainability Collective Contributors

Officials in Cape Town, South Africa are organizing 200 emergency water stations in preparation for when the city will have to shut off taps to millions of homes and businesses later this year. National Geographic cautions that climate change and population growth will force cities around the world into similar water crises. Meanwhile, scientists warn that the next three years are critical to mitigating the profound threat of a warming world. Society’s most marginalized will suffer the worst consequences — disease, drought, floods, wildfires. It’s easy to throw up our hands in despair at these stories — what can we do in the face of such a complex, global threat?

We can turn to our friends, our families, our communities. We can draw hope from one another. We can engage. We can build and connect and collaborate and know that millions of others around the world are fighting the same fight.

This past year, more than a dozen student sustainability groups, representing thousands of students at UBC, realized that our power would be amplified if we worked together to coordinate our efforts.

We formed the UBC Sustainability Collective.

Recognizing the urgency of the climate threat, the profound injustices that will be compounded by a warming world and UBC’s potential to be a global leader on the issue, we decided to host a Climate Town Hall in the AMS Student Nest. On March 6, 2018, we brought

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“We brought together hundreds of students, staff and faculty, and generated myriad of creative, workable ideas for action.”

together hundreds of students, staff and faculty, and generated myriad creative, workable ideas for action.

After months of preparation, more than 50 student volunteers spent the afternoon sparking discussion and gathering feedback on creative ways for UBC to lead the fight against climate change and for climate justice. Working with UBC’s University Sustainability Initiative, we mapped the innovative work already being done across campus to identify further opportunities for collaboration.

We brought together people working, studying and teaching in engineering, law, chemistry, biology, political science, education, geography, land and food systems, economics and countless other disciplines to brainstorm bold ideas for capping global carbon emissions within the critical three-year window.

We asked what it would look like for a university to commit to climate justice; how to mainstream climate change and climate justice issues into the curriculum; how

to best connect researchers and students from across the university working on climate change; how to foster civic engagement and support student involvement in the wider community; how to better integrate and support art, storytelling, public engagement and communications into campus climate action.

And the response we received was overwhelming.

Hundreds of people showed up to support bold climate action and to show their commitment to continuing this conversation

into the future. We have begun synthesizing the masses of positive feedback collected and will soon be publicly presenting these ideas to the university and others. Over the coming months, we look forward to working together with UBC to see these ideas translated into action.

Now we challenge other universities and institutions to follow suit and hold their own community town halls to solicit ideas from students, staff and faculty on how their institutions can take a greater role in the fight for climate justice.

Is your institution taking every possible proactive step to help peak global emissions within the threeyear window? Are you leveraging your knowledge and resources to help other institutions do the same?

Are you centering justice in your institutional conversation?

It’s easy to think of climate change and feel like we’re all on the Titanic, heading for the iceberg — why should we engage if we can’t possibly stop the boat? But the boat is turning. We just need every single person on deck to help it turn in time. We — young people, your children and grandchildren — will suffer the consequences of a warming world. We’re calling you to arms — work with us for a just and sustainable future.

For ideas about what you can do to get involved in the fight for climate justice contact the UBC Sustainability Collective by emailing us at ubcsustainabilitycollective@gmail. com or visiting our Facebook page UBC Sustainability Collective. U

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Letter: It’s time for a change, SUS Diane Nguyen Contributor

I have stayed relatively silent this election season. With polls opening for the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) elections, I wanted to share something that has been on my mind for a while.

As some of you may know, I was extensively involved in student government throughout my time at UBC, holding positions as a representative, an executive and eventually president of the UBC SUS whose mission is to support over 8,000+ students. However, something that never sat quite right with me in my years working with SUS was the air of “cliqueyness,” regardless of whether there was an intention to compose that atmosphere. I felt I could not previously voice my sentiments because of my affiliation.

Having worked in the system myself, I can tell you that student government is nowhere near as glamorous as it’s painted to be.

Students volunteer hours upon hours of their time to create initiatives and run events wanting to help their peers. But at the end of the day, it is their lapses in judgements and pitfalls that are remembered, outshining the

“I recognize that there is no overnight solution.”

dedication behind any successes.

This isn’t to distract from the fact that severe “cliqueyness” exists within societies. It needs to be addressed. It is because of this environment that it has always been difficult to achieve the goals of a student society — to cater to

the needs of the entire student body and not solely those who hold associations, or feel that they are close enough to elected representatives to voice their opinions and receive the support that they are entitled to. Because of this dynamic between SUS

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and its constituents, achieving its overarching goal is a pipe dream when its brand is currently one that is fundamentally exclusive.

Throughout my years at UBC, it always saddened me whenever I encouraged a student to run for a position, but they quickly

dismissed the idea, deeming it as outrageous because they didn’t have an “in” with the society. It saddened me when I heard staff of the society question a candidate’s credibility because they fear that they will not mesh well, or because they don’t possess society specific experience.

But this is only a small part of a larger problem: these concerns wouldn’t exist if the society wasn’t so impenetrable to start.

This election season, the majority of positions are uncontested and there are only two candidates who are not previously associated with the SUS. It is disconcerting that I no longer hold a positive perception of a system that I attribute so much of my personal growth to, but it is crucial to raise awareness. While most of my examples are drawn from my experiences with the SUS, this message can be applied to all student groups. Change takes time, and I recognize that there is no overnight solution. My hope is that undergraduate science students will find the SUS to be an inclusive place where everyone is welcome in the future. U Diane Nguyen is a fourth-year integrated sciences student and former SUS president.

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99 things to do at UBC: Experiencing The best places to Wreck Beach in nothing but my socks karaoke in Vancouver Tristan Wheeler Senior Staff Writer

#88: GET NAKED ON WRECK BEACH Like most people, I’m super comfortable and able to be shirtless in extremely public situations like beaches, pools and Walmarts.

So, like the super confident and chill guy I am, I decided I had to experience the freedom that is public nudity. As you’re probably aware, right next to campus is the only clothing-optional beach in Canada — Wreck Beach. It’s a mecca for aging hippies and nudists from across the country.

I, with great levels of confidence, made my way there, not worried at all about how pale I was.

Down on the cold wet sand I stripped down, leaving only my socks on as that is the chillest thing to do in a situation like this. I felt totally free and 100 per cent not self conscious and uncomfortable. As I stood there ass out, the wind kissed me in places I never knew I had and all I could hear was the gentle sloshing of the waves, drowning out my confident whimpers.

#89: SEE SOMEONE YOU RECOGNIZE AT THE BEACH AND AVOID EYE CONTACT THE WHOLE TIME As I inched towards the cold water, I looked behind me. A fully clothed student was walking with a group of his friends along the shoreline.

Do I recognize them? How do I know that guy? They seem to keep stealing glances at me.

I, with great levels of confidence, made my way there, not worried at all about how pale I was.

Oh lord. Realization hit me like the 1980s hit the Woodstock generation. I did a German project with him last semester. I was completely naked in front of a guy who help me pronounce the word “Eichhörnchen.”

I immediately did what I could to cover myself, but the damage was done. Our eyes met for far too long, I had to say something.

“Hey Greg!” I said.

He looked at his feet and quickly walked away, ignoring my naked, fleshy existence. As soon as he was out of sight, I dove for my clothes and scrambled to put them on.

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#90: GET CREEPED OUT AND NEVER GO NUDE TO THE BEACH AGAIN As I slogged up those many steps, I vowed that this would be the last time I would ever going to go to Wreck Beach again. I’d rather not run the risk of seeing the naked bodies of my classmates, teachers and co-workers, or even worse, them seeing my naked body. Wreck Beach is a beautiful place and a vestige of the freelove lifestyle, but I think I prefer my love at a premium price and thoroughly repressed. U

UBC alumnus Jerrica Santos is a karaoke champion.

Olivia Johnson Staff Writer

Whether you’re secretly Beyoncé in the making or have had one too many and want to try something new, karaoke nights are for you.

Vancouver is a lively city, filled with numerous karaoke locations for every type of individual and music style.

Here are a few of the most notable spots:

FANTACITY KARAOKE 1133 Robson Street (Every day, 2 p.m. until 1 a.m.)

If you’re not quite skilled enough — or drunk enough — to belt out childhood favourites in public, this is the place for you and your friends.

Though it’s been noted to be on the expensive side, the comfort of having your own space makes up for the semi-overpriced drinks and appetizers that are readily available for order. Find a larger group and call ahead if you want to book a reservation for this location!

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HHK AT FORTUNE SOUND 147 East Pender Street (Fridays & Saturdays 10 p.m.)

Fortune Sound Club is notorious for its bass-boosting, rap-filled music with semi-incomprehensible lyrics. If you feel up to the challenge of rapping along to some of these, come to HHK. Located in the actual club, there are two rooms filled with purple neon lights and giant screens to help you read the speediest lyrics.

The best part: you’re in a club. If you don’t want to hear those awful high notes, no one else can hear you either! Or if you want to take a break, the dance floor is only 10 feet away.

This place definitely holds a unique vibe from traditional karaoke, so if you’re feeling like something different, check it out.

Try to get on guest list, as normal cover will be charged at the door.

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STUDIO LOUNGE 919 Granville Street (Mondays at 10 p.m.)

Unlike the usual lounges and nightclubs, Studio offers a specific night for all karaoke enthusiasts. As the name suggests, music is a top priority for this location. Even if you want to come alone, there is no need to worry as other locals will be there just to sing too. Any genre of music is okay — modern radio jams to those classic oldies are perfectly acceptable. Up the challenge and perform a duet.

This event is free too.

THE COBALT 917 Main Street (Mondays 9 p.m.)

The rustic setting of this bar instantly makes people feel comfortable. Monday nights are known for their popular karaoke events — so come early to ensure a space.

There is no cover charge, and drink specials allow even students on a budget to come have one too many. A wide range of songs are available with an even more expansive selection of local craft beers to fill your heart. It’s truly a local hub, so come experience this atmosphere.

FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 West Hastings Street (Every night at 9 p.m.)

This location makes music its reputation. Hosting karaoke every night of the week, it allows those looking to exercise their pipes to choose from a wide range of options.

Metal Mondays to Throwback ’90s Thursdays allow a large demographic to be enticed by this bar. Free cover and low prices will make any night fun. Though a bit off of the main downtown grid, the extra few blocks will be worth it. U

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‘Like PB and J’: The Ubyssey’s sci-fi contest winner Chimedum Ohaegbu Staff Writer

Mackenzie takes so long to butter bread — with as much care as though she’s painting a portrait, eyes narrowed, exhale imprisoned behind her teeth — that Sara learns that buttering isn’t just an act of spreading onto but also into, layers of jam or margarine sinking into porous, waiting bread.

“Never noticed,” she says, “but bread’s kinda like a sponge.”

Mackenzie smiles but does not breathe. If anyone could break the record for holding one’s breath it’d be Mack — but they’d only be allowed to measure when she was making sandwiches. Sara isn’t sure if that would constitute some sort of fraud. What if someone accuses Mack of buttering up the judges?

She grins and snorts.

“What’s so funny?” Mackenzie, finally done, chomps into her bread. Honey, peanut butter and apricot jam seep from the back of the fold-up sandwich. Mack licks the leaking side. “I hope you’re not laughing at me.”

Sara widens her eyes, shakes her head. A lock of dark hair escapes her bun and, tucking it back, she says, “Mack! When have I ever!”

“Oh at least five times since yesterday night. Fifteen minutes ago —” “It took you fifteen minutes to butter the bread?”

“I’m exaggerating.”

“Wouldn’t’ve known it,” she snickers, and Mack points the knife at her, a pearl of apricot jelly trembling on its teeth. Sara puts her hands up in surrender but Mack flicks the jelly at her anyway, and says primly over Sara’s yelp, “Six times.”

Sara swipes at the amber blob — it landed above her jawline, just out of her tongue’s reach — and sucks her finger, tang of apricot exploding all too briefly in her mouth.

Their phones chime in concert. Sara twitches but restrains herself — she shouldn’t look like she’s been waiting all day, Mack would notice — and Mack dives for her own. But Mack’s butter-greasy fingers smear the touchscreen and frustrate the fingerprint scanner, making her swear and Sara laugh. The laughter peters out when Sara calmly picks up her phone to read Dear Sara Flyn giving way to your application was not chosen, but before she can shrug like she always does as though it doesn’t matter, shrug off the disappointment and the irritation with her undying hope and worst of all the lack of surprise, Mackenzie is gasping, then grinning, then whooping.

“I’m in!” Mack does an embarrassing happy dance around the kitchen that Sara doesn’t watch, knows about only through Mack’s intermittent blocking of the dying light. “I’m in, I’m in, I’m gonna be a —” “Congrats,” Sara says, smiling hard.

Mack doesn’t respond, is still dancing dancing dancing. Sara thinks: I should have buttered up the judges and makes a noise that sounds but does not feel like a laugh. Mack doesn’t reprimand her for it this time; she’s busy twirling.

“The room is empty but for — Mack. Eating a sandwich, licking her webbed fingers clean of jam.”

*** “It wasn’t so bad,” Mack says, a month later, after the surgery. Her pillow is halfway to devouring her drawn face, the dark circles under her eyes could hide the moon, and she is the luckiest girl in the room.

Sara shakes her head and swallows back jealousy and says, “No?” “No,” Mack shrugs, then winces.

“I don’t know. I thought I’d feel more different, more… more. ” “It’s not really supposed to start taking effect for a while though, right?” She strokes Mack’s hair back, the better to see the bandage. She frowns: “You’ll bruise.”

“Small price to pay for superpowers,” Mack singsongs. She closes her eyes, smiling dreamily.

“Wonder what I’ll get.”

“Hopefully heightened speed.”

When Mack doesn’t reply, just keeps smiling like the luckiest girl in the world, Sara feels something in her tighten. She still manages her next words — “So you won’t take years to butter bread anymore, see?” — but they come out flat.

The room goes silent after that, save for the beeping of various machines, and outside the hushed, watchful bustling of nurses. Mack must be in pain, yet she’s smiling.

Maybe that’s her superpower — ability, that’s the official term.

“Sara?”

“Yes.” Mack’s eyelids flutter, but then settle on closed. “Can I ask you a question?”

“If you want.”

“Why didn’t you apply?”

“Wasn’t interested.”

“Huh. Really?”

Sweat prickles in Sara’s armpits.

She wonders if visiting hours should be ending soon. “It seemed kind of elitist, and also kind of ‘bwahaha the government’s gonna fuck with your braiiiin!’ I mean, superpowers?” She snorts, waves a hand dismissively. “It’s kind of stupid, isn’t it? Uh, I mean, not to say that you’re — that you’ve — sorry, that isn’t what…”

“Flexibility.”

“What?”

“That’s why you didn’t apply,” Mack says, wisely. “You already had

a superpower: you can effortlessly put your foot in your mouth.”

Sara’s shoulders sag, and she laughs breathlessly. “You’ve got it.”

Mack giggles, makes a gesture that is probably supposed to be ‘putting your foot in your mouth’ but comes out very differently, and then Sara’s laughing, too, until Mack says, “I’ll miss you.”

“You’ll call me,” Sara corrects her.

“The institution —” “— academy —” “It has wifi, right? Just call me, it’ll be like always.”

“Holographs aren’t the same. I mean, won’t you still miss me?”

“Nah,” says Sara, with a grin, but Mack doesn’t return it. When a nurse escorts Sara out and Sara chances a glance goodbye, Mack’s finger is pressed hard to the morphine pump. *** This is how they fall apart: Mack calling her, looking — even through holograph — shinier, stronger, better, until Sara breaks her phone and informs Mack they’ll have to just message via computer until it’s replaced. (Sara replaces the phone one week after it’s broken, and does not mention it.)

Sara applying for private-owned variations on the government’s endeavor and receiving so many rejections that your application was not chosen is tattooed on the insides of her eyelids.

Mack on the TV, doing something sweet for baby turtles. Sara’s older brother dying — caught flying over the Pacific by a super-hurricane — and Sara declining to mention it to Mack, on the rare occasion they catch one another. Mack flying to the apartment and yelling at her about her absence and Sara yelling back until both are hot with fury and tasting salt from tears.

Sara, reading a eulogy Mack would’ve proofread, dress ripped at by wind, mascara ruined by rain.

Sara, changing her program to match her late brother’s — environmental science — because her father’s little remarks about her ‘useless’ degree have grown sharper.

Sara, graduating — inviting her father to the ceremony, but not Mack. Sara: acing an interview, celebrating with acquaintances

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forged in the fire of exam season and forgotten otherwise. Sara asking her new colleagues, “How can we kill them,” referring to hurricanes.

Sara, only thinking about Mack to wonder if Mack ever thinks about her. *** The conference hall is buzzing with people and Dr. Singh’s newly patented bees. Sara smiles at the sensation of one in her cupped hands and assures the good doctor that they tickle just like the real thing.

“Though I’ll always wonder if they’re spies,” she admits, to Dr. Singh’s laughter.

Sara roams briefly, then heads to the session on thunderstorm asthma, which has become prominent since the April of 20—. The door opens with a pneumatic hiss and the room is empty but for — Mack. Eating a sandwich, licking her webbed fingers clean of jam.

Sara catches her breath and Mack turns and sees her. The gills at her neck widen, as do her eyes.

They say nothing and nothing and nothing until the room starts filling. Sara grabs a seat and takes careful notes, refines them at the end of the presentation, nods when a shadow falls over her scribbling hand.

“What are you doing here?”

Mack asks. Her breath smells like peanut butter, jam, no longer of honey — Singh’s working on that.

“Same as you. Saving the world.”

Sara stands, hugging her notes to her chest. “More slowly, though.”

“Slow and steady wins the race.”

“You’d know.”

Mack blinks. It takes longer than it once did, what with the inner eyelid. “What?”

Sara shrugs, regretting. “You were eating a sandwich…?”

“Oh! Yes.” “Yeah.” She chuckles. “How — how long are you going to be here?”

“Whole conference, if the weather holds.”

“Excellent, that’s… that’s excellent.” The lights are humming. Sara scratches her neck, moves closer. “Have you seen Dr. Singh’s bees?”

“Bees?” Mack’s nostrils flare.

“Do they make honey?”

“Not yet, but — how about I walk you over, introduce you?”

Mack regards her with the same level, steady gaze. All the differences and yet so much the same; it loosens Sara’s tongue and she spills out apologies, excuses, confessions. It seems to take very long, and take everything out of her.

Then Mack says, “Catch me up on our way?” and Sara breathes again. *** This is how they fall back together: Through research and action and biotech fashion and all the offerings of a shifting world.

And sandwiches; of course sandwiches. U

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Birdcage student directors step down after repeatedly butting heads with UBC Athletics Jack Hauen Coordinating Editor

In less than two years, UBC Birdcage went from a small group of dedicated student sports fans to a campus force, helping to draw the biggest crowds the school had ever seen for games like Winter Classic and Homecoming.

Now, multiple directors have stepped down, meaning the organization is dead at least until the end of the season. Former leaders said they grew frustrated with how UBC Athletics managed Birdcage. Austin Kretzschmar, the department’s promotions and game day manager, said he did the best he could to work with the students, and was surprised it all fell apart.

After Athletics brought the student sports marketing group under its wing in the fall of 2017, former Birdcage executives said the department didn’t take their ideas seriously and asked directors to do too much for too little money.

Two directors said they received their cheques in early March for terms ending in February and December. Another, Jeff, asked to be identified with a false name as he said he hasn’t been paid at all.

Jake Rusnak, who founded Birdcage in 2016, said he felt Birdcage was “the lowest priority of Athletics — below having Thunder [UBC’s mascot] show up at some kid’s birthday party.”

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I’d faithfully characterize it as being shot in the leg and then being told to run a marathon.”

— Jake Rusnak, Birdcage founder

Noah Kussin-Bordo, who took over from Rusnak after he transferred to Arizona State University at the end of 2017, said budget concerns also dampened Birdcage’s ability to generate hype. The team initially charged $30 for a membership, which included a Birdcage hoodie and a season pass to every Thunderbird home game. In 2017, Athletics upped the price to $40 and changed the hoodie to a t-shirt.

“What we saw was there were [fewer] people who were buying the season pass and there were [fewer]people who really wanted to actually be involved,” said KussinBordo about the pricing change.

Kretzschmar expressed his regret about what he sees as necessary decisions to keep the department fiscally responsible. “[The hoodies were] just something that we couldn’t continue because it just wasn’t sustainable and financially viable for us to do that,” he said. “We can’t lose a whole lot of money ... investing in certain things that we may not be able to recoup the losses of.”

Kretzschmar also said the working relationship took a hit whenever Athletics couldn’t make

Birdcage isn’t dead — Athletics will be interviewing students to take over leadership before September.

a Birdcage idea happen — Birdcage directors could be all-or-nothing on potential projects.

“If there were situations where we couldn’t green-light budgetary decisions that they had brought to the table ... there may have been some deflation on their end and less eagerness to approach us with other ideas,” he said.

Former Birdcage directors also said Athletics worked them too hard for how much they were compensated.

“During this whole time, [Athletics is] expecting us to be boothing for events, they’re expecting us to be at games with a full staff, working basically as promotions staff in the game.... They were using us as volunteers — sort of a spirit squad,” said KussinBordo, who said it was like “we were doing two full-time jobs.”

Kussin-Bordo said he brought up concerns to Kretzschmar multiple times and was ignored.

Kretzschmar said he doesn’t remember hearing about the workload ever being a problem.

“The way Athletics has treated us, it always seemed like we were on the brink of getting shut down, even though we’ve done more for the program in increasing student attendance and student involvement than Blue Crew or anyone else has,” said Jeff.

“They’ve consistently not delivered what they’ve promised in terms of support, in terms of pay, in terms of helping us develop this program.”

Kretzschmar said his door was “literally always open” and he was responsive to any of the directors’ concerns, though because Birdcage was only part of his portfolio it couldn’t always be his primary focus.

“I certainly never wanted to have an iron fist over the operations of the Birdcage and I really wanted them to operate independently, but within the parameters that we have to set with budgetary constraints, because it is a budget the university’s providing, so it has

to be used or not used in particular ways,” he said.

Eventually, Kussin-Bordo said, it was too much.

“My entire staff said, ‘We don’t want to come back,” he said. “Having looked at the expectations of Athletics and the lack of support, they all came to the conclusion [that] there was no reason [to continue].”

Payment was also a problem

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for the directors. Rusnak said he was paid $1,500 per school year — one $750 cheque per term — and the four staff under him each got $1,200. For 2016, he said he received his first cheque two weeks into the second term, then had to follow up with Athletics multiple times to get his second payment, for the period ending in March, 2017. He said he finally got paid in July.

For the rest of 2017, Rusnak and Kussin-Bordo say they were paid in February.

Kretzschmar said he submitted their payments in early December, 2017 and that UBC’s financial system was the reason for the sluggishness.

Kussin-Bordo said his pay was based on a “handshake deal” and that Athletics didn’t have him sign an agreement. When asked, Kretzschmar — who took his manager’s role with Athletics in August 2017 — believed contracts were signed before his time. UBC Athletics were unable to provide those documents before publication.

“We were just given basically a verbal list of expectations of, ‘Here’s how I want you to behave at games, here’s how we want you to work and here’s what you’re going to do,’” Kussin-Bordo said.

Kretzschmar stressed that Birdcage isn’t dead — Athletics will be interviewing students to take over leadership before September.

“I see potential for the Birdcage, and I definitely want to work on succeeding and drawing that potential,” he said. “It’s something that we’re very eager to execute and execute well.”

Rusnak said he would love to see Birdcage get back on its feet, but for that to happen, Athletics will need to take student input more seriously.

“The whole idea behind all of this was that students are best at advocating for themselves, and students are best at supporting themselves,” he said. “And so the moment that transfers from students is the moment it dies.” U

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’Birds christen new Thunderbird Park with first series sweep of season SATURDAY: 7-6 WIN

Mitchell Ballachay Senior Staff Writer

This past weekend, the UBC baseball team took the field at Thunderbird Park for the first time — unveiling their new stadium in style as they swept their four-game home opener series against the Oregon Tech Hustlin’ Owls. Having lost five of their last six regular season games, the T-Birds’ bats finally came to life as they secured their first series sweep of the season.

SATURDAY: 7-5 WIN After a series against Corban two weeks ago that saw them held to just three hits on two separate occasions, the Thunderbirds offence had a lot to prove on Saturday.

Their offence was quick to respond in the first inning, putting up two hits, including Jaxon Valcke’s one-run single, to open the scoring.

The offence would strike again in the third with catcher Anthony Cusati and outfielder Austen Butler hitting back-to-back doubles to put UBC up by two. Starting designated hitter Lucas Soper would drive Butler home to push the lead to 3-0 by the end of the inning.

UBC lefty ace Niall Windeler took the mound first for the ’Birds.

He gave up just two hits and two walks through the first four innings.

However, the Owls made great contact with his pitches, fouling them off and forcing Windeler to throw a number of long at-bats early.

Windeler’s dominance started to falter as he wore out. With his pitch count high into the fifth inning, he issued three walks and gave up two runs as the Owls cut the lead to just one run.

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Jake Lanferman steps upto bat.

UBC would tack on another run and would lead by two into the top of the eighth, as Patrick Van Den Brink took the ball from reliever Jack Caswell after two scoreless innings. Van Den Brink would give up a lead-off single, followed by a double and a triple, tying the game at 4-4. The Owls would score one more on a sacrifice fly to take their first lead of the game.

The ’Birds launched a rally of their own in the bottom of the eighth. Valcke was set to lead off the bottom of the inning and sent the first pitch deep. His second home run of the season tied the game at five.

The explosive end to the inning would see UBC score two more as they stormed back to reclaim a 7-5 lead.

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The Thunderbirds offence would make a quiet start, picking up just four hits and one run through the first five innings, as they found themselves down a pair.

In the bottom of the sixth, Lucas Soper picked up a one-run double to cut the lead in half and John Whaley would score in the seventh to tie the game.

To start the eighth, Brad Smith entered in relief of McKillican and closed out the eighth and ninth in just six batters. The Thunderbirds, however, were unable to put the game away and play extended to extra innings.

In the top of the tenth, Smith walked a batter and hit a batter to put runners on first and third.

The Owls would take a one run lead — another runner would score on a wild pitch. Oregon would extend their lead to three with a sacrifice fly and would end the top half of the inning up 6-3.

To open the bottom of the tenth, UBC grounded out and struck out, putting the Owls just one out away from a win. Soper, unphased by the pressure, hit a double to get a runner on base.

Braeden Alleman would follow with a single. With two out and two aboard, Cusati crushed a three-run homer to pull even with the Owls. The tenth would again end in a tie.

UBC and Oregon traded scoreless innings in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth, extending the near-four-hour marathon affair.

In the bottom of the fourteenth, UBC short-stop Kyle McComb picked up his first hit of the night.

Butler would advance McComb to second with a sacrifice bunt. With a chance to win the game, Olson, who was previously 0-6 on the night, picked up a hit of his own.

McComb would score from second and the Thunderbirds would walkoff the thriller ahead 7-6.

SUNDAY: 5-4 WIN For the third consecutive game, the ’Birds were able to put up double digit hits as their offence continued to roll against the Owls. The top of the order would continue to hit well as Butler, Soper, Whaley and Mitch Robinson combined for seven hits, three runners-batted-in (RBI) and two homers.

Robinson would hit his team-leading third home run of the season in the bottom of the third. The two-out, two-run shot opened the scoring for UBC. Jake Lanferman’s double would bring home another run in the fourth and the ’Birds extended their lead to 3-0.

UBC starter James Bradwell threw decently through seven, giving up just six hits and four earned runs. He would hit four batters on the day, however, and the extra baserunners would prove crucial as the Owls clawed back in the fifth. In the frame, Bradwell hit three batters, two of whom scored, as the Owls tied the game up at 3-3.

In the bottom of the sixth, Whaley would recapture the lead for the ’Birds with a lead-off home run, but Oregon would answer quickly in the top of the seventh to knot the score once more.

The eighth and ninth frames were scoreless, as play extended to extra innings for the second consecutive game.

In the bottom of the eleventh, with a chance to win the game, the ’Birds executed a similar series to their walk-off from the afternoon prior. Olson lead off the inning with a walk and was advanced to second by McComb.

Lanferman picked up his second RBI of the game on a single up the middle to drive home the 5-4 winning run.

SUNDAY: 13-2 WIN After dishing out back-to-back walk-off thrillers earlier in the weekend, the Thunderbirds walked all over the Owls and closed out the final game in seven innings.

After his heroics late in Sunday’s first game, Lanferman earned a start in the leadoff spot for UBC and had another tremendous game, picking up two hits, two runs and two RBI. He would be one of a number of Thunderbirds with a multi-hit game, as Butler, Allemann, Valcke and Justin Orton each picked up a pair of hits, and Robinson hit three.

The Thunderbirds’ offence exploded in the second inning with an eight-run frame to open the scoring. After Cusati reached base on a fielding error, the ’Birds hit six singles and one double, driving Owls’ starter Zach Scherman off the mound in the process.

The ’Birds added three more runs in the third to open the lead to eleven.

Though the Owls answered with a two-run double in the fifth, it would prove too little and too late. UBC would score two more in the sixth, and the game would end 13-2 early on a doubleplay in the top of the seventh.

SUMMARY With a week off to re-tool after their American road-trip, the Thunderbirds looked like a brand-new team. Though all the elements were there in their past two series, it really seemed as though the ’Birds were missing the magic to close out games that should have been theirs.

This weekend, however, the team was firing on all cylinders.

Their rotation has continued to be strong, but their bullpen also rose to the occasion to help keep the team in games late (a reminder that Smith threw seven innings in relief in Saturday afternoon’s game, and only gave up one hit).

Most importantly, however, their lineup is clicking ­— the ’Birds are finally getting hits when it matters. Valcke, Cusati and Allemann each had a 3-RBI game in this series, and Sunday’s game saw every batter who with at least two at-bats get a hit.

Looking to continue their success at home, UBC plays host to College of Idaho next weekend for a festive, Easter weekend fivegame set. First pitch to open that series is at 3 p.m. on Friday. U

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