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UBC’s new university librarian turns a page

Another year without the Old SUB

CULTURE A first period reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan

A Haiku: Sexy sex is sexy

Barn burning, bisons and beast modes

‘Absolutely Essential’ UBC science and engineering gets a $42 million boost from the federal government. Page 10

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Parker officially began her role in September.

Andrea Garza Contributor

As methodical as her discipline, Susan E. Parker has wasted no time getting down to business since she began her role as UBC’s new university librarian in September. Parker, who was formally appointed this past June, met with the Dean of Science to discuss his faculty’s needs within her first month.

Even before that, Parker went for a tour at the education library to begin getting aquainted with the vast UBC library system.

“A typical day for me right now is just really learning about the university,” said Parker. “So I’ve been making appointments with different deans to talk with them about their schools and what they need from the library and to learn about what they do.”

Parker’s job is a big one. In her position as university librarian — a very similar role to a faculty dean — she is in charge not only of all the physical libraries on campus, but also library staff and all of the library’s content across its massive, cross-disciplinary system.

“My job is largely administrative,” she said, noting that much of her position is about ensuring that the library continues to recieve funding in order to acquire new content, database licenses and equipment.

“It’s really … making sure that the lights are turned on.”

Before her appointment at UBC, Parker’s career in the United States spanned from coast to coast.

Beginning her career at a law firm on Wall Street in New York City, she discovered the possibility of library sciences as a career.

After getting her library sciences degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, she worked at several universities, starting at Tufts University in Massachusetts as the government documents librarian. She then took up a position in charge of the public services at Harvard Law School Library.

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“It was a really wonderful place to be,” said Parker of her time at Harvard. “But you know, after awhile you need to challenge yourself.”

After 12 years at Harvard, she was offered a position at California State University Northridge, in the wake of the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

The earthquake destroyed many of the buildings on campus — including the library. Soon after, Parker was hired as the associate dean in 1997 to oversee the rebuilding effort, but she found that the position required a lot more than just that.

“I was the only person in the library staff that had not been there for the earthquake,” she said. “And there were days when I was the only person that could actually do anything.”

It was her experience in a workplace dealing with the aftermath of a devastating natural disaster that led her to her theory of “credible optimism.” For Parker, in order to be a credible and effective leader — especially during challenging times — the most important thing is to tell the truth.

“I think that there’s always a way to be optimistic about it,” she said. “I was there [in Northridge] saying, ‘you’re right, it’s never going to be the same.’

“But we have to just keep going ahead because there is an ahead and there is a tomorrow. And we have to keep tomorrow together.”

Her own commitment to honesty aligns well with one of the central aspects of a librarian’s job – organizing and analyzing information. Though it may often seem like libraries run themselves, there’s a lot of work being put in behind the scenes — and screens — to ensure that the information that’s available is trustworthy and current.

While it may at times appear that the internet age has begun to make libraries obsolete, the opposite is true. A librarian’s job is to evaluate information, a role that has become even

more important due to the sheer amount of information online, according to Parker.

“The details of how it’s served up may change over time,” said Parker. “But the heart of librarianship is still about making sure that people get what [information] they need with as little trouble as possible.”

Parker’s goals for her fiveyear term as university librarian are still taking shape, and she acknowledges how much learning she still has to do with regard to UBC’s capacities.

Many of the challenges of the role include legal and copyright issues, how to handle Open Access information and how best to tackle the management of all the research data that the university produces — but the biggest challenge is funding.

“The financial pressure on the library continues,” she said.

“We have to [make sure] that the university – and that includes students as well as faculty – understands the issues we’re facing.”

Parker has already begun reaching out to donors. Her first steps are to align the library’s goals with the university’s as a whole, in addition to finding out what students, faculty and staff want and need most from the library. Once that happens, there will be room to develop larger projects, like work from her previous positions which includes the curation of collections of work from costume designer Eiko Ishioka and photographer Barbara Morgan at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Ultimately, her focus is making sure that the library is able to provide what everyone on campus needs from it.

“Every individual person has their own definition of [the library] because they have their own experience of it,” said Parker.

“The library has to be ready to provide that for you, whatever point you touch it at.” U

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EDITORS SAMANTHA MCCABE + ALEX NGUYEN

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AMS pushing for more student involvement in $18.2 million Excellence Fund allocation

According to UBC, “excellence” entails “having outstanding students, researchers and teachers, and staff.”

Lawrence Ge Contributor

This year, the AMS plans to improve student representation in the allocation process of the UBC Excellence Fund. This will be done through encouraging more consultations between the AMS and different student constituencies, including first-year constituencies.

The Excellence Fund was first implemented in 2016 as a result of a three-year plan to increase international student tuition.

The fund takes a large portion of this additional revenue and allocates it towards different strategic initiatives. According to UBC, these initiatives help the Excellence Fund achieve its goals of “excellence.”

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According to the fund’s terms of reference, “excellence” entails “having outstanding students, researchers and teachers, and staff.” It is specified that this can be achieved through supporting initiatives that promote “an excellent student learning experience.”

For this school year’s 2017/18 budget, the Excellence Fund was $18.2 million strong — in 2018/19,

it is projected to grow to $35 million.

AMS executives play a large part in the decision-making behind the Excellence Fund’s allocation. It was agreed that the AMS, along with the GSS, would have the annual opportunity to consult with the university administration on the allocation of the Excellence Fund. The role of the AMS in these discussions is to represent the voices of undergraduate students with regards to the areas of university life that should gain funding.

According to AMS President Alan Ehrenholz, the AMS has, and will continue to, advocate for funding towards areas such as “research mentorship programs, career services, incubator space for entrepreneurship opportunities and greater financial aid and awards.”

The AMS does, however, believe that student representation in the fund’s allocation process can be improved.

The newly elected AMS VP Academic, Max Holmes, will be heavily involved in carrying out this improvement through his current plans to increase student engagement.

This plan includes carrying out consultation with a broader scope of student leadership in order to represent voices from more areas of student life.

According to Ehrenholz, Holmes will be consulting with the constituent VP Academics of each faculty, all the student senators as well as the AMS Advocacy Committee.

Along with these consultations, the AMS will utilize their annual Academic Experience Survey to collect opinions and issues that may also be relevant to the Excellence Fund’s allocation process.

One area of the student body that requires more representation in the fund’s allocation process is UBC’s first-year students, said Ehrenholz. International firstyear students are the ones who have to experience the full effect of UBC’s tuition increase.

Ehrenholz explains that first-year representation in the Excellence Fund will be addressed by Holmes, who will encourage constituent VP Academics to consult with first year representatives and councils in regards to areas that may benefit from funding.

Ehrenholz also encourages individual students to bring forward their opinions on the fund’s allocations to either him or Holmes.

“Ultimately, the AMS is here to serve our students and we want to hear from our students what they feel the best allocations of these funds are,” said Ehrenholz. “We’ll be sure to incorporate that into our decision making process.” U

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Old SUB renovation to be completed by early April 2018 Marissa Birnie Contributor

According to the latest updates, the Old SUB is expected to be completed in late March or early April 2018.

Its conversion into the UBC Life Building will see increased club space for the AMS on the basement level and a newly constructed Norm Theatre on the first floor.

The university will occupy the rest of the building and part of the basement.

While the restructuring of the Old SUB was supposed to commence after the completion of the Nest, the AMS agreed to wait as the university pursued seismic upgrade on campus, thus resulting in a 23-month delay.

Currently, the removal of hazardous materials has concluded.

The next phase is the fit out of the building, which prepares the interior space for occupation.

“We’re working with UBC infrastructure development, UBC Properties Trust, as well as BIRD — the contractor — to make sure construction is moving forward at a timely rate,” said AMS President Alan Ehrenholz.

According to him, the society is also working with these groups to bring down the costs of the project, which were presented by VP Administration Pooja Bhatti at the September 27 AMS Council meeting.

“We’re hoping to continue to bring that number down and get the project completed for late March.”

The current cost breakdown plans for just over $4.7 million in hard costs for the various aspects of construction and $655,000 in soft costs for consulting fees and permits, among others.

The carrying cost — cost to maintain clubs in the new space — is $440,000. The project costs are $187,876.03 for taxes at 1.62 per

cent and $292,445.30 set aside for uncertainties at five per cent.

Overall, the AMS expects the construction of the old SUB will cost anywhere from $855,000 to $1.7 million in overage costs on a budget of $5 million.

A combination of small changes to a building’s design or features and cost inflation due to delays were the

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main drivers of the increased costs, according to Ehrenholz.

In response, the society has reduced the scope of some of their space in the basement by foregoing costly design features like the now-scrapped basement entrance to the Norm Theatre and by reusing materials from the Old SUB and the Nest.

They are also advocating for more cost-sharing from UBC. “[There are] hallways and different open areas that have access both to the club spaces that are AMS leased and the offices that are UBC owned,” said Ehrenholz. “Because of that open access and shared space, we talked with the university and said ‘look it doesn’t make 100 per cent sense to us that we’re footing the bill for this entire space, we should be cost-sharing that.’”

Thus far, the unversity has committed $116,651 to account for the cost of shared common space in the basement. Combined with the other strategies, this will result in roughly $270,000 in recoverable costs for the AMS. “We are closing in on getting back down to the best case [overage cost scenario of $855,000] because of some of those shared cost discussions coming to a close,” said Ehrenholz, adding that it is a “realistic” goal.

Still, the society will continue aiming to lower the project’s cost.

“The $100,000 you saw in Council is already agreed upon and we’re trying to see if there’s any other avenues that we can pursue — those were much more early conversations,” he said. “We’re hoping to continue to bring that number down and get the project completed for late March.” U

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Amid sexual assault policy implementation, UBC fields another human rights complaint Samantha McCabe News Editor

A former student at the Okanagan campus has filed a complaint against UBC with BC’s Human Rights Tribunal, alleging that the university mishandled her case after she reported a sexual assault.

Stephanie Hale discovered that pursuing a human rights case was an option after she got in touch with Glynnis Kirchmeier, an alumna who filed a similar complaint in 2016 after she witnessed a UBC sexual assault case from 2015.

Much of the manner in which UBC dealt with these cases — which Hale alleges as being wildly inappropriate in her case — stems from the lack of both policy and services that were in place at the time. Before the 2016 legislation that mandated the creation of standalone sexual assault policies at all post-secondary institutions in BC and its year-long implementation timeline, almost all complaints were dealt with using a generic “nonacademic misconduct” policy.

“I feel that there was no way that they could not have known that the non-academic misconduct process was inappropriate for my complaint, with all that was already going on,” said Hale in an interview with The Ubyssey. “To do the [non-academic misconduct] trial without me in attendance was really inappropriate.”

UBC said that privacy legislation does not permit them to discuss individual cases.

Since its implementation in May, the new Policy 131 applies to both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses, and sets aside a completely separate investigative process for sexual assault. These investigations — as mandated by the policy — will be initiated by the

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At the time of her complaint, Hale asked UBCO for a trained investigator to oversee the case — that request was denied.

Another huge complaint from Hale is the discrepancy in resources between the two campuses: in her time at the Okanagan campus, she was simply directed to their general Health & Wellness Centre. She also joined the sexual assault awareness group on campus, but says that it is completely student-run. UBC Vancouver has had a Sexual Assault Support Centre operated and funded by the AMS since 2002.

A large change with the new policy is the creation of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Offices, which will centralize how sexual assault allegations are handled. Each campus will also now have a specialized office to hear disclosures and reports, support and accommodate survivors, as well as provide resources and information. They are expected to become “operational in midOctober” for the Vancouver campus, and “later this year” for the Okanagan campus.

“While [the offices on each campus] may look different, they will fill the values and principles of the policy in the way that is most appropriate for that campus,” said UBC Associate Vice-President Equity and Inclusion Sara-Jane Finlay, who helped to write the new policy.

Prior to the existence of these

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offices, complainants typically had to go through mutiple contact points, as in Hale’s case.

“I’m thrilled,” said Hale. “I think it will make the process more streamlined.”

She does, however, acknowledge her desire for a continued scrutiny of how UBC handles these cases.

Both women who filed human rights complaints agree that there is still work to be done — Kirchmeier wrote a series of 44 “solutions to ensure equality and safety at UBC” prior to the creation of Policy 131. Some, but not all, of those recommendations have seen realization within the new policy.

“The tribunal have the ability to order the university to change its policy, which is my end goal,” said Hale. She mentioned that she has about “twenty small points” that she would like to see tweaked in the policy.

One change that Hale would like to see made is the policy’s mandate that both complainant and respondent see the final report.

According to Finlay, this decision was made to ensure fairness.

“Under privacy law, it has always been the case that the respondent was the only one that got the report.

And what we’re doing in the policy is pushing the limitations to allow the complainant to also get a copy of the investigation,” said Finlay. “So in the past, the complainant would never see the investigation report.

Now, we are going to make as much as we possibly can available

to the complainant.”

Outside of policy issues, Hale hopes to see the general rhetoric towards instances of sexual assaults on university campuses change.

“I think funding and supporting sexual assault awareness efforts on campus … would be really good for education and to open up more talks about it. It’s still seen as something very taboo on campuses, and I think the way to combat that is to expose it more,” she said.

Currently, Hale has received the receipt of her human rights complaint’s submission, but is still waiting to hear back from the tribunal about its acceptance. UBC would be given a month to respond if her case is moving forward.

“I have no idea and I’m very curious to find out what they have to say,” she said about her expectation of a potential response from the university. “I would like to have a response from them saying that ‘yes, we’re opening to exmaining our errors and making this the best as possible,’ but there is a part of me that is a bit skeptical and that it would be some statements of denial.”

Kirchmeier shares Hale’s pessimism in how UBC would react to their human rights complaints, but “would be happy to be proven wrong.”

Kirchmeier’s case with the BC Human Rights Tribunal is moving forward, and she is due to receive a response from UBC by October 17. U - With files from Alex Nguyen

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY | news | 5 AMS NEST //

Sprouts to close down for the next year due to AMS space complications Sophie Sutcliffe Staff Writer

Due to ongoing renovations in the Old SUB, Sprouts — a volunteerrun cafe that serves sustainable food on campus — will be closed until the next academic year. While construction has been ongoing in the Old SUB for over a year, Sprouts has been using a part of the Pit during the day for the past academic year.

Nikki Lax, a fourth-year land and food systems student and vicepresident of Sprouts, said that while they were able to use the space in the Pit, there were complications — including the space becoming 19+ in the middle of March due to changing hours at the Pit. Lax said that Sprouts learned at the end of the last semester that not only were renovations delayed until December, but also that they were not going to get the Pit space again in the interim. While the fact that the renovations were delayed until the next academic year were announced at an AMS Council meeting on July 19, Sprouts did not receive a personal email updating them until August 19.

Sprouts has been using a part of the Pit for the past academic year.

“We didn’t push for sharing the space because we knew it was not going to be a good environment for our volunteers if we had to be constantly ID’ing and watching our backs in that regard,” said

Lax in a follow-up email. “It was initially only going to be for one semester so we settled — had we known at the time it was for an entire year, we would most likely have pursued it more.”

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AMS president Alan Ehrenholz said in an emailed statement to The Ubyssey that the AMS is still brainstorming solutions and alternatives.

“We understand the value that

Sprouts brings to UBC students, and are optimistic about their growth and outreach once their new space is available. We remain dedicated to assisting Sprouts in their outreach to students throughout this transition year,” said Ehrenholz in the statement.

Lax said that these alternatives, which included running as a popup shop, were unrealistic, so they decided to spend the year focusing on their other operations and getting ready to move into the new space in the Old SUB when it is finished.

“The bright side is that maybe we don’t have Sprouts this year but everything else is becoming stronger because of that,” said Lax. Sprouts is still running their other cafe — Seedlings — out of the Thea Koerner Student House, and is also running their sprouts box, bulk buying program, workshops and helping out with the orchard garden.

Lax also said that they are applying for the Aviva Community grant, which will be given to the project with the most votes.

Sprouts is also continuing their community eats program, which they are running out of the Engineering Student Centre from 11:30-2pm every Friday. U

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VANCOUVER HOODS //

Neighbourhood Feature: Mount Pleasant the biryani. Or hit up Budgie’s Burritos and get a vegan burrito the size of a small child for less than ten bucks. For those on a budget, Papa’s Gourmet Pizza has some of the best slices in the city for cheap.

GET YOUR STYLE ON Main is Vancouver’s thrift hub. If your jean jacket hasn’t been owned by at least three other disaffected 20-somethings, it’s not up to snuff.

Go to F as in Frank and pretend you understand the appeal of expensive vintage. When you give up, slip into the alleyway and pop into Rag Machine. Don’t be freaked out by the massive tubs of clothes: if you wanna find diamonds, you gotta dig.

If you still haven’t gotten over that one time you got scarlet fever from a second-hand toque, Main has fancier options. 8th and Main is as chic as it is easy to find.

If you a) appreciate streetwear or b) pretend to appreciate streetwear, The Corner Store is the place for you.

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You can chill in Dude Chilling Park. Real chill park.

Zak Vescera Staff Writer

UBC gets old. After a couple months the campus feels like how Buchanan Tower looks; plain, imposing, and vaguely Stalinist.

Fortunately, there’s a world beyond this gilded Birdcage.

Unfortunately, you spent all your money on tater tots and vodka shots and are too broke to afford a plane ticket out of Vancouver.

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First stop: Mount Pleasant.

Mount Pleasant is centered around Main Street, bordered by 2nd in the north and 16th in the south. Back in the day, this was Vancouver’s first suburb: it’s accessible from downtown, about as central as it gets and has traditionally been a diverse hub for middle-class families, artists and immigrant communities

(especially Filipinos, Chinese, and Ukrainians).

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Main Street is Vancouver’s coffee mecca. Drinking expensive pourovers while pretending to do work is practically a regional sport here.

JJ Bean and 49th Parallel have a bit of a gang war going on between 13th and 14th. Pick your side, just avoid the poor lil’ Starbucks caught in the middle.

For something more upscale, try one of the grocery store/coffeeshop hybrids that everyone loves these days. The Mighty Oak over on Columbia makes an awesome espresso, and The Federal Store on Quebec is obstenously cute, and also fairly pricey.

Our vote for the best coffee in the neighbourhood is Matchstick’s Kochere blend. Saunter off and buy your Tinder date the best citrustinged bean juice money can buy.

Mount Pleasant is plastered with street art. There’s a good argument that these murals are a gift for developers, designed to further the neighbourhood’s gentrification. All the same, they’re beautiful. Walk down the alley between Main and Quebec and photobomb fellow edgy 20-somethings taking profile pictures.

Check out Beer Island at night to find small herds of stoners and great views of downtown Vancouver. If the sun’s still out, Mount Pleasant Park is a great place for a picnic, talking about how you should have a picnic, or looking jealously at other people having picnics.

Go to Dude Chilling Park to remark on the fact that the City of Vancouver actually named a park Dude Chilling Park. Then, be the dude that chills. Become one with Mount Pleasant.

NIGHTLIFE Mount Pleasant is full of bearded hipsters who spend their days

making refined craft beer and their nights getting blackout drunk on it.

Try 33 Acres for a bustling vibe and some of the Lower Mainland’s best brews. Uncle Abe’s is an intimate and quirky little cocktail bar attached to a shawarma shop, and man, we’re not sure it gets much better than that.

If you’re not a drinker, don’t worry. There are plenty of other sins out there. Brave the line at Earnest Ice Cream; or slip into the pint express lineup, get your salted caramel and be in and out in five minutes.

Life has a lot of ephemeral questions: chocolate or vanilla?

East Van or West Van? The Cairn (big block of concrete) or the Cairn (UBC President)? Tonight, the question is which cabaret.

The Biltmore Cabaret is one of Van’s best concert venues and in true Van fashion it’s tucked in the alley behind a really shitty hotel. Go figure. They host the brilliantly weird Ping Pong Beer Night every month.

If you feel like dancing, hit up the Fox Cabaret. They do club nights for every conceivable musical taste. (We would review this venue in greater detail but most of my fellow Ubyssey staffers tend to black out here a lot).

Debauchery done? Saunter up to Lucy’s Eastside Diner. As you’d expect from a diner that only closes on Christmas, Lucy’s is a bastion of sin and regret the likes of which you’ve never seen. Going there at 3 a.m. is like seeing a temple of the damned in action as various breeds of hipster fight for a spot at the booth. The milkshakes (and memories) are more than worth it.

Now as your drunk ass rides the B-Line back to campus, you have time to reflect on your day.

You had world-class coffee, great food, your Snapchat is slightly less boring than usual and you’ve picked up an unidentified illness from either a sketchy piece of secondhand clothing or a stranger at the Fox. Yikes. No worries, Mount Pleasant will still be here when you recover.

After all, this guide is just a start. The best spots you’ll find will be on your own. U

EATING Okay, so your Tinder date wasn’t impressed with the $10 coffee you bought. Time to eat the pain away.

Chutney Villa is an incredible little family-owned gem right by the 99-B Line stop on Main. Grab a friend for a chill night and enjoy

Mount Pleasant is a pleasant place to go.

ZAK VESCERA

8 | Culture | WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11, 2017 MEMOIR //

A first period from hell and unlimited ribs at Montana’s

A day full of pain and blood ended unexpectedly with dinner at Montana’s.

Moira Wyton Features Editor

My first period was a lot like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, except Tom Hanks wasn’t there.

Just like my mother, her mother and her mother before her, 13 brought with it the gift of “womanhood,” which arrived shortly after third period (ha!) began. Doubled over with cramps by the time attendance got around, I felt like my ovaries were on fire and that mother nature herself was prying apart the vertebrae in my lower back with a poorly shaped wooden spoon.

I turned to the only solution that brought any relief — an upright fetal position, sitting in my chair, legs up on my desk with calves resting on the table, knees pulled to my chest and dignity firmly flung out the window. To my teacher’s credit, she let me sit alone in the back after she dimmed the lights and played the Bill Nye video — I got to quietly wallow instead of throwing my already miniscule shred of social capital into the proverbial burning dumpster.

Classes passed and the pain came in waves, but for a born brown-noser like me, not even my physical distress warranted a visit to the office.

The underfunded, public fine arts school I attended could apparently afford pyrotechnics for the drama department’s production of Willy Wonka but not a remotely comfortable space for me to writhe in pain out of sight of passing classmates. The “sick chairs” were conveniently located in plain view of the main doors and my sevenththrough-tenth grade crush’s locker.

I was between a rock and a hard plastic seat, but I wasn’t a quitter.

Throughout the whole day, never once did the possibility of menstruation cross my mind. I put off peeing about as long as I could, fearing that whatever was going on down there would somehow be released along with my bladder.

Subconsciously though, I thought that if I didn’t look, my body would somehow suction the blood back up into my uterus like a vacuum and call the whole thing off.

I was not so lucky.

On the third floor of my friend Rachel’s 80s split-level home after school and surrounded by kitsch hand towels with tiny bears making direct eye contact with me, I pulled down my pants to pee, expecting the worst and getting a hellfire of bodily fluids instead.

If you’ve ever seen a tampon commercial, forget what you know and check that toxic period narrative at the door.

Blue liquid did not daintily drop onto a pristine liner, and I was certainly not in the mood to galavant on a beach in only my bikini and an elegant silk wrap like the women on TV. Brown blood and uterine lining had made itself a comfortable basement suite in my underwear.

An awful consistency and equally as pungent, I thought I had shit myself — or rather I had been shitting myself constantly the whole day. What had previously been an innocent organ was now the enemy, but I was not in any state to think logically that “hey, shit does not come out there.”

I immediately called my mom to come pick me up and we sailed

INGRID SCHAEFER

away in her forest green grand caravan like it was the Mayflower and we were pilgrims who desperately needed a tampon. At this point, the toilet paper I had

haphazardly used to staunch the bleeding was beginning to itch.

On the ride home, I laid it all out for my mom, hoping she’d have a logical excuse that wasn’t a symptom of death or my period.

As soon I told her, my mom burst into laughter as violently as my uterus had apparently emptied itself in my underwear.

The brownness, she explained, was just old blood, and everything else I had experienced was typical of the first period or two. I stood there, gushing and dumbfounded, until she finally stopped laughing long enough to give me a pad and tell me to go get cleaned up.

However, my mom had zero intention of letting this moment pass without proper pomp and circumstance. A hippie type, she had told me stories of attending a friend’s “period party” in Australia when she was thirteen, complete with a red velvet cake and red paper cups filled with blood-red punch. She gathered my younger sister and called my dad, to my dismay telling him to meet us at the cosmopolitan and elegant Montana’s location near our house for dinner.

Truly, nothing says “congrats on becoming a woman!” more than mediocre southwestern cuisine and eating yourself to cardiac arrest with unlimited ribs.

My dad, much to my chagrin, had dragged along my twentysome year-old male cousin who was staying with us to my celebration of puberty and public humiliation. My mom, equally as surprised, mercifully came to my rescue when the occasion of our

dinner came up — if one could call dinner at Montana’s worthy of a special occasion. She just said I had gotten some good grades back — to her credit and at risk of bragging, this was a pretty plausible excuse.

I think I ordered the chicken pasta, but at this point my memory is blurred by the embarrassment of sitting at a Montana’s in broad daylight where any number of friends or acquaintances could see me as I covertly hemorrhaged blood sitting atop the pleather seats.

The breaks our server took to sing a cheesy rendition of “Happy Birthday” to another table seemed like an eternity — I just wanted to eat, bleed and leave.

Later on, I filled my dad in on what had happened and he nearly cried laughing at the period panties of a situation he had created, just barely pulling himself together in time to make an oh-so-natural comment about “waiting on more good news from school” as my cousin ascended the stairs to grab a glass of water.

Thankfully, the interruption came just as my dad started a rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’re A Woman Now,” which is one hundred per cent about having sex for the first time and was zero per cent relevant to my gawky, sore and bleeding self.

Perhaps nothing in Alberta’s sexual education program had prepared me for my first period, but I couldn’t help but liken the experience to the oil and gas industry that fuels the Albertan economy — messy, smelly and an unpleasant experience for many women. U

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SCIENCE

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY

EDITOR NIVRETTA THATRA

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$42 million from government to provide ‘absolutely essential’ support for UBC science GETTING THAT MOOLAH If you haven’t taken a moment this week to marvel at the breadth of scientific innovations occurring at UBC, do it now. On campus, researchers are in lab meetings gesticulating passionately about their muses — including genes in baby stickleback fish, risky decision making in mammals and proteins in milk.

However, these curiosity-driven conversations would amount to nothing without necessary practicalities, the most important of which is funding.

In recognition of our world-class science, on September 8, the federal government announced that the University of British Columbia will receive $42 million to fund science and engineering research.

UBC’s funding is part of a Canadawide initiative to support basic scientific research through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) 2017 competition for the Discovery Grants program, as well as other scholarships and fellowships.

A total of $515 million has been allocated to supporting the research of 4,000 scientists and engineers at 71 Canadian institutions.

“The recent funding announced

by NSERC is absolutely essential to UBC. It is the lifeblood of natural and applied science research programs at our university and at institutions across Canada,” said Dr. Gail Murphy, vice president of research and innovation at UBC, in a written statement to The Ubyssey.

NSERC provides funding through various programs. The Discovery Grants program — which was the main focus of the UBC funding announcement — is targeted at basic scientific research.

This is research that investigates natural phenomena — for example, a basic science researcher trying to understand a disease. On the other hand, the applied sciences attempt to change natural phenomena — an applied science research project would try to find ways to stop diseases.

The basic and applied sciences go hand-in-hand. Applied scientists take what has been learned through basic research and ask more questions. The answers to these questions then fuel more basic research studies.

Funding is meaningful at all levels — for graduate students, established professors and deans alike. However, the process of applying for funding and what the money will eventually be used for are varied. Three recipients of NSERC funding — PhD student Nicole Jenni, zoology professor Dr. Patricia Schulte and dean of land and food systems Dr. Rickey Yada — can attest to the diversity of experiences and research found under one funding umbrella.

In general, what does NSERC look for in a grant application?

“Something that is cool, something that is well planned out,” said Schulte, a UBC professor and researcher in zoology and one of many recipients of the September NSERC Discovery Grants.

The application comes down to three main things — quality of research, track record and training. For the quality of intended research, scientists have to show that their research is exciting and answers an important question with a reasonable chance of success.

The track record of the researcher is also evaluated. Having done excellent research in the past is used as a potential indicator of the quality of research that a scientist will show in the future. The third aspect of the application is a record of training highly qualified personnel such as undergraduate and graduate students.

Each Discovery Grant lasts for five years and a scientist can only hold one grant at a time. Other scholarships from NSERC, like those for graduate students, can last two to three years.

To assist researchers in developing their proposals and applications, UBC provides a network of support services. Researchers can access grant development workshops and proposal reviews through faculty research advisors, the Office of Research Services and the Support Programs to Advance Research Capacity (SPARC) office.

“This allows UBC to work closely with our researchers not only to promote awareness of funding opportunities across all disciplines, but also to support individuals or groups when they apply to funding agencies,” said Murphy about the services.

FUNDING PUMPS UP GRADUATE STUDENT MORALE Jenni, a current PhD student in the department of psychology, got a cut of the $42 million pie through a toplevel NSERC graduate scholarship.

Her research focuses on examining the different brain circuits that are involved in various behaviours, particularly risky decision making.

The funding that she received will go towards a series of projects that look at dissecting the different brain regions involved when engaging in risky behaviours, as well as the interactions between the regions.

Compared to the one-year NSERC funding that she received for her Master’s, the doctoral award that she received this September was allocated for three years of her degree, after which the university will cover the fourth year of funding.

Jenni received the highest possible level of funding available from NSERC for graduate students, which will have a significant impact on the types of studies she can run. With the extended time period of the funding, Jenni is able to plan more longitudinal studies rather than ones of shorter duration. Some studies can take years to be completed, so having extended funding allows for greater security when undertaking such projects.

Having the top level of funding has also given Jenni more flexibility in how she is able to spend her time, greatly reducing the stress caused by financial commitments. Extracurricular activities are important sources of morale for graduate students, a fact that is often not given the importance it deserves.

“Your commitments outside of the lab now become optional, whether I choose to TA or how many hours I want to TA on top of that. I don’t need that financial support anymore to supplement my income,” said Jenni.

Given that Jenni applied for a graduate student award, her application required different criteria compared

to that of a head scientist — called the principal investigator (PI) — of a lab. The awards granted to graduate students are allocated towards paying their salaries, whereas PI awards are used to fund the various projects in the lab.

As such, graduate student awards like Jenni’s are centred around three main criteria: a research proposal, conference abstracts and publications, and the applicant’s leadership capabilities.

The application process for graduate students involves writing a research proposal and a few pages detailing leadership roles within the lab, in order to allow the agency to evaluate researcher potential and how the applicant lines up with the goals of the lab. Between the Master’s and Doctoral proposal, more writing is involved for the Doctoral proposal, which Jenni felt was helpful in allowing her to fully represent herself.

“You’re more free to titrate [the application] a bit more to yourself which I think for me worked out well, but it is definitely a bit more work” said Jenni. “They didn’t limit word counts or limit your ability to do things, so that’s nice to feel like you really got everything out there.”

Given the emphasis on applicant’s contributions to research, Jenni’s advice to students is to get involved in research early and search out graduate students who have had success in the past to help with understanding the application process.

“When it works out, it’s well worth it,” said Jenni of the overall application process.

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FROM UBC UNDERGRADUATE TO NSERC COMMITTEE MEMBER ‘THAT’S KIND OF COOL BUT WHAT’S THE POINT?’ When Schulte opens the door to her laboratory, an NSERC sticker can be spotted on the side of her lab equipment. Schulte is a professor in the department of zoology here at UBC, and her research project is one of the 192 projects at UBC funded through the Discovery Grants.

The focus of her research is how organisms respond to stressful environmental changes, and what makes one individual different from another within a species. Her lab works with species of fish that are economically important, such as salmon and trout, and with species like stickleback that aren’t economically important but are useful when studying changes due to stress.

“Think about climate change,” said Schulte. “We think forward to future climates which will be several degrees warmer than they are now. Are there some individuals within a population that will be more able to cope with those changes and are there others that are less able? And are there differences between them?”

Often the real-world significance and applications of basic research can be hard to understand initially, but Schulte’s research shows why basic research is critical.

In the past, an NSERC grant allowed Schulte to use stickleback fish to understand the impact of the environment experienced by the mother on future generations of fish.

Researchers already knew that when stickleback mothers are exposed to stress, their offspring can have problems with learning and being able to avoid predators. Furthermore, past experiments were often performed on male offspring because female hormones complicated the experiments.

Schulte decided to take a closer look. Her lab exposed stickleback females to a stressor and fertilized them. They then raised the babies until they were adults.

What she came across was a surprise.

She noticed that the effects on the genes of the offspring were opposite in males and females. Genes that increased in females decreased in males.

“It was always assumed that males and females react the same. Turns out they don’t. This is an example of something that you think ‘well that’s kind of cool but what’s the point?’ The point is that it changes the way we think when we approach our applied questions,” Schulte said.

From her research, predictions can be made about how populations of fish will react to environmental changes in the real-world.

Yada, dean of the faculty of land and food systems, is currently supported by a Discovery Grant awarded this past April for research on the Structure and Function of Food Related Proteins.

With an extensive research career in food science spanning across UBC and the University of Guelph, Yada has also held a seat on the committee that reviews NSERC grant applications.

“The philosophy of NSERC is to drive a research program rather than specific projects. It’s curiosity-driven research that has allowed me to bring teams of people together,” said Yada.

Yada began his career in research as a fourth year UBC food science student. Tasked with completing a research project, he fell in love with the ability to apply the basic sciences of microbiology and biochemistry to food.

Following both a Master’s and PhD in food science at UBC, he moved to the University of Guelph as an assistant professor where during his first year he was a “grant-writing machine.”

He wrote his first NSERC grant application, which wasn’t successful.

However, Yada attests this failure as the foundation for his success. “I’ve learned so much from experiments not working out. Failure hones your problem-solving skills.”

Fast-forward to today and Yada says that “research is my oasis in a day of madness.”

The NSERC grant allows Yada’s research team to continue their work on exploring the role of enzymes in

food. Composed of one PhD student, one postdoctoral fellow, one research associate and four undergraduate students, his team investigates how to make food processing more efficient using enzymes — substances that allow biochemical reactions to take place.

“The best analogy is the cheesemaking process — you’re looking at the conversion of a liquid to solid which is in part mediated by an enzyme. Certain enzymes are better at coagulating [milk] than others and our question is: why?” said Yada.

The challenge lies in the sensitivity of enzymes to environmental factors.

“When you heat the product, or adjust the pH of the environment, you want the enzyme to work. But it doesn’t — so how can we make the enzyme more stable to environmental changes and tolerant to certain conditions?”

In exploring this question, it’s important to note the multidisciplinary nature of food science. One project, spearheaded by PhD student John Dupuis and postdoctoral fellow Brian Bryksa, is looking at a segment of a potato enzyme that has exhibited microbial activity with the use of skills across physics, biochemistry, and microbiology.

A day in the lab for Yada takes on a consultancy role, particularly in talking to the graduate students he supervises. He humbly admits, “They are inevitably way smarter than me. I’m just there to facilitate and generate ideas.”

Despite a busy schedule balancing his roles as a dean and researcher, it’s clear that Yada’s curiosity won’t be satiated any time soon.

“Most new researchers are cursed with the curiosity of why things work the way they do and that feeling still drives me today,” he said. “I love solving problems.” U

Left to Right: Nicole Jenni, Dr. Ricky Yada and Dr. Patricia Schulte.

OPINIONS

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY

EDITOR EMMA HICKS

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SEX COLUMN //

Positively Sex: Pursue safety and pleasure

“Work around consent and healthy relationships and communication ... has always been part of the work that we’ve done out of the wellness centre.”

Katya Downey Contributor

I’m not gonna sugarcoat here — the UBC Wellness Centre’s website is a great resource on sexuality. Scroll through to the bottom of their page and you’ll find sensible advice on everything from masturbation to communication. The usual cautionary disclaimers about STIs

and contraception are close to the bottom, followed immediately by some stuff on what it means to be in a healthy relationship. The page concludes with a pile of sexpositive resources.

This has not always been the case. Last spring, the page listed information on consent, STIs, contraception, sexual assault and not much else. The update is

nothing short of a paradigm shift: going from a harm-reduction model to a sex-positive one. So how did this happen?

To find out, I spoke to Patty Hambler, director of Health Promotion and Education at UBC and Amanda Unruh, Health Promotion Specialist of the same organization. This new unit works to promote student well-being and

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its name parallels its mandate - to promote and educate about health on campus.

About a year ago, students.ubc. ca moved to a new platform, giving them a chance to take a closer look at the purpose of the Wellness Centre. Between that and the fact that the sexual health page was getting a lot of traffic compared to other pages, it became a catalyst to change the message from the cautionary advice you hear in sex ed courses for kids who can’t even say the word, to the sex-positive attitude you’ll find in-person at the wellness centre.

So why a sex-positive approach?

And what does that even mean? As Unruh pointed out, it’s not about what the words mean separately.

“So sex positivity does not mean that somebody has to have sex, or that sex is necessarily a part of someone’s experience.

It’s an approach that looks at sex as something that can be part of someone’s experience if they choose for it to be.” In other words, it’s a non-judgemental approach that recognizes that sex, in all its variations or lack thereof, is just a part of human life.

Of course, any philosophy has its criticisms, and sex positivity is no exception. Like many other social movements, the people it’s most likely to help are already in a place of privilege. What’s more, it can play into pre-existing exploitative narratives, prudeshaming people who want to abstain from sex or certain kinds of sex. But the solution is simple - being conscientious and critical in our discussions - and that’s something the Wellness Centre knows.

“Work around consent and healthy relationships and communication ... has always been part of the work that we’ve done out of the Wellness Centre,” said Unruh.

“Prevention efforts and education efforts around sexual

violence has definitely become more important in terms of our campus wide conversation ... so in our work, we’re just thinking about how we can ensure that, as we’re educating students about sexual health issues, we’re also always including those messages about consent and communication and healthy relationships as part of the conversation,” Hambler added.

They also work in tandem with the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), which focuses more on assault support. In a way, the two groups embody the two frameworks: harm reduction and sex-positivity — in other words, avoiding hurt and pursuing pleasure. And that pleasure is important.

We’ve got evidence that sex has the potential to boost your immune system, reduce your risk for heart disease and release a whole slew of feel-good neurochems that can combat pain. Interestingly, a lot of the effects of a healthy sex life are exactly the same as the effects of healthy stress levels.

Looking at sex from a harmreduction paradigm completely overlooks those aspects. This isn’t news to the people over at Health Promotion and Education.

“We recognize that sexuality and sexual health is part of people’s life experience and it’s part of their well being, and selfcare is a part of that,” said Unruh.

“Whether you’re having sex or not.”

According to Hambler, they employ “a holistic perspective, recognizing that that well-being is multidimensional ... and human sexuality is one of the pieces that cuts across many of the different aspects.”

She’s got a point. It’s time we started recognizing the real potential that good sex has for seriously improving your mental, emotional and physical life. That means we need to stop talking about sex exclusively in terms of STIs, pregnancy scares and other critical-level scenarios. Sex can boost your mental, physical, and emotional health, not just threaten them.

“A lot of people on campus are thinking about well being, and how important it is for students to be able to be successful at university. There is an investment in services for students, but we’re also thinking about prevention and a more upstream health promotion approach,” said Hambler.

So what does this mean on an individual basis? Lots of stuff. All of it personal.

Maybe you’re starting from a place of anxiety and want to come to peace with things. Maybe it means thinking about how sex improves your life outside of the momentary ecstasy of an orgasm.

Maybe it allows you to express something that you can’t easily express in your day-to-day. Or maybe it just blows off stress more effectively than your average guided meditation.

At the end of the day, sex isn’t junk food, or alcohol, or a million other empty indulgences. It’s worth thinking about sex as a source of wellness, rather than a threat to it. U

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY | OPINIONS | 13 ADVERTISEMENT //

TECH IN THE CLASS //

Op-ed: A Letter: Can we save energy costs little less without an over-reliance on technology? Alesse, please

The offending ad.

NATALIE MORRIS

Natalie Morris Design Editor

Dear AMS,

These days, governments and reputable institutions like UBC are increasingly advocating for a greener lifestyle and encouraging opportunities for the creation of innovative energy-saving strategies.

In a lecture hall the other day, I wondered if we need to take a step back from the technology rat race and question whether a 21st-century lifestyle that relies heavily on advanced gadgets and devices is in line with such explicit motivation and incentives.

Inside a UBC lecture hall — or any university lecture hall for that matter — the majority of students have their laptops turned on throughout the session but are only typing out notes for a fraction of the time. The minority pull out their pen and paper instead.

Before we remark that many students with their laptops are more technology-savvy and staying ahead of the game, maybe we should consider fast-forwarding past school hours when these same students are to return home to recharge their computers and smartphones.

How much more energy can be saved when you compare using electronic devices and working simply with “energy-free” stationery? If we were to take into

myriad benefits associated with advancements in education. It would be impossible to completely do away with these devices when wireless is all around us, and even more unlikely that every student would regress by coming to lectures with just pens and paper.

However, it is time to realize that there are both rewards and downsides to technology, and that our campus might be overemphasizing the positive. As individuals, we could still make personal choices that arise from responsible consideration of the potential benefit and burden our action would leave on the community and environment.

We should find out more clearly whether the cost of technology outweighs the resources available to sustain its progress into the future, and make plans to address possible overuse both on personal and team research levels.

Based on this Canadian research, students could check-in with themselves regarding the extent and nature of their device usage in the classroom and if their GPAs at the end of the term are sounding alarms, which is just one more reason to justify turning their laptops or phones off — especially in the lecture hall. U Rowena Kong is a fourth year student, studying psychology.

Natalie Morris is the design editor of The Ubyssey.

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Is that kid on Facebook?

Rowena Kong Contributor

I’m like you. I work and hang out in the Nest probably more than I would like to admit. I like to think we are two sides of the same coin. Sisters in a way. Sure, we don’t always get along, but generally I think we appreciate each other.

But that was before.

You’ve done something that has truly hurt me.

It’s almost hard to talk about it.

It’s such a huge thing.

You’ve… you’ve ruined the short breaks I get from the student paper to use the washroom.

Every time I walk into the washroom on the second floor, I’m faced with a horrifying sight.

There’s an Alesse birth control advertisement that shouts a horrible message: if you don’t get the brand name version of the Pill, you’ve gotten the wrong Pill.

Which is ridiculous and has changed my few breaks from the office into a time where I get angry.

I’m not sure what your advertising policy is for the Nest. I know we need ads for revenue. But I don’t understand how you can allow an advertisement, aimed at women, encouraging them to purchase the more expensive version of something they need, even though a cheaper and identical version is available as a generic.

Maybe this wouldn’t matter if women didn’t have to pay out of pocket for birth control, but a lot of us do. Even with your own AMS Health and Dental Plan, only 80 per cent of prescription drugs are covered for students. This means that women still need to dish out serious cash if they want to be protected against pregnancy, control heavy flow, intense PMS, menstrual migraines, crippling cramps or any number of the other reasons a women needs hormonal birth control.

Alesse, implying that a woman “should ask for it” if they don’t see the brand name, is saying that generic drugs are not a valid choice when in fact they are. Women — or anyone who uses prescription drugs — should have the choice to use generic and they sure as hell shouldn’t be belittled for that choice.

So, next time Alesse comes to you looking for an advertisement and claiming they are better than generic, please remember that a lot of women can barely afford birth control, period — let alone brand name birth control. U

account the increased cellphone charging, use of automated sensors in public buildings on campus, are we really going greener? This has yet to consider the resources we are using for leisure, entertainment and miscellaneous non-educational purposes.

A recent figure showed mobile phone owners spend an average of 90 minutes a day on their phones making calls, texting, etc. At a presentation last year, Facebook Head of Marketing Michelle Klein revealed that the average millennial checked their phone at least 157 times per day.

It is no wonder that a survey study in the US reported college students checked their phones and devices more than 11 times in class on average. I can recall instances of spotting students in our lecture halls having both their phones and laptops turned on simultaneously side by side on the tables. Is this a double blessing or trouble?

Perhaps we need to perform an evaluation of how much excess energy consumption there is between the ‘70s lifestyle, when people didn’t recharge their devices each time they ran out of power, and the present, when things happen around the clock.

To what extent has our campus community been made aware of these figures — and are we implementing strategies to

minimize the growing demands for energy and electronic devices?

It appears that there should be a more healthy balance of focus between energy use reductions and energy efficient technology to reduce the pressure on the energy production industry. BC Hydro, for example, has been increasingly encouraging residents to save energy while elevating electricity costs in recent years. It hints at the burden an energy-craving world is putting on the supply end, which is painstakingly trying to meet the growing demand as population increases.

How much energy can we save without powering our computers and major automated devices to work most of the day? Although we may never get to go back in time, we can still make wiser choices by rethinking our philosophy and strategies. The first step to take is, perhaps, to conduct accurate research and comparative analysis of past and present energy demand in the community, with the UBC campus as an ideal place to start, because the future of our community begins from here.

UBC students are fortunate to be offered the latest technology in access, learning, communication and the exchange of academic resources and ideas with peers and faculty. Perhaps we may see this as a great opportunity to utilize the

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OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY

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FOR WHEN THOSE MIDTERMS GET TO YOU //

Amazing spots on campus to peacefully burst into tears because your life is falling apart Joshua Azizi Staff Writer

Failed your first midterm?

Dumped by your significant other?

Lost your pet recently? Feeling insecure because that friend of yours is somehow able to balance five courses, a part-time job and a fulfilling romantic life while you can barely hold it together with just four courses?

Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. We all have our shitty days, and sometimes we just have to let it all out by bawling uncontrollably. It’s just like what that Upworthy video said — it’s okay to cry.

But you already know that. Your problem right now, however, is that you’re on the verge of turning into a sobbing mess on campus but you’re too embarrassed to do that in front of tens of thousands of UBC students.

You know deep down that you’re a smart, likeable person who’s great at many things, but right now you’re convinced of the exact opposite and you really don’t want that acquaintance you talk to maybe once every three weeks to see you crying your eyes out.

So for all of your emotional breakdown needs, we’ve compiled a list of the best places on campus to burst into tears because - let’s face it - your life is clearly falling apart. Whether you’re looking for somewhere quiet and peaceful or you’re stuck in a bad situation and need to break down in the least awkward place, we’ve got you covered.

THE BATHROOMS IN BUCHANAN It’s your first year at UBC, and you’re more than excited to finally get out of your lame hometown and test your smarts at a worldrenowned academic institution.

You take your first econ midterm thinking you knocked it out of the park, but a week later you get it back and see a big fat red super-F stamped on it. You’re distraught and your confidence has been crushed — but good news! There’s plenty of cold bathroom stalls throughout Buchanan where you cry as much as you want without anyone knowing it’s you! Because they’re all filled with students bawling.

One flunked midterm isn’t the end of the world. If anything, it’s really the start of your UBC experience because, little do you know, it’s merely the first of many future occasions that this place will try to crush your confidence.

The real education you’ll get here — other than, you know, your actual classes — is learning how to keep your head up in spite of your setbacks.

WRECK BEACH AT NIGHT We all know what Wreck Beach looks like during the day and nobody wants to cry around that.

At night, however, the beautiful

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Your tears will mingle with the salt water or sizzle on a drunkard’s bonfire.

scenery and vast expanse of Wreck Beach make it a great place for a truly cinematic cry.

Out here, you can have a nice, quiet walk by the ocean while you slowly release those tears, reminisce about your failed relationship and imagine Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” playing in the background. Sure, it was actually an extremely toxic relationship that your friends have been begging you to exit for months, but when you’re standing by the sea with tears rolling down your face, it all seems like such a sad, beautiful tragedy.

However, if it’s the daytime and you don’t want the naked people to see you cry, then you’ll have to go…

BESIDE A DUMPSTER AND BEHIND A BUILDING THAT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN INSIDE You really wish that you could’ve found a better place to break down, but you just really needed to get away from people and find the nearest secluded location available.

This, of course, led you to walk down an alleyway behind two buildings that you’ve never been in before and now you’re sitting beside a dumpster and crying into your hands and knees. You didn’t think anyone would see you here,

but some construction worker saw you for a second and then went back to his own business. On the bright side, at least you’ve managed to find some peace and quiet.

YOUR DORM ROOM Your dorm room is an absolutely classic location. When all of campus feels like a bustling hurricane of stressful classes, obnoxious jerks and attractive people you don’t have the nerve to talk to, finally coming back to your dorm room at the end of the day is like settling down in a cozy shelter for as long as you like. Put simply, it’s where you can let your guard down and be yourself — and by that, we mean it’s the perfect place for you to start sobbing uncontrollably into a pillow where no one else can see. However, if you don’t have residence, then you’ll have to take it to…

THE 99 B-LINE Ok, so you don’t have residence and now you have to ride the 99 B-line home to have your sob-fest.

But chances are, you’re probably not gonna be able to hold it in ’til you get there, so now you’re gonna be that person crying on the bus.

This will likely go in one of two

ways — either you’ll cry awkwardly while everyone pretends not to notice you, or some kind, wonderful angel will come console you and quickly become your new best friend. Except the latter never happens — at best, some secondyear guy might write some shit on UBC Confessions about how they felt sorry for you.

So it looks like you’re stuck awkwardly crying on the 99, but hey, you can’t help it. You’re sad because Todd messed around with another girl and argued very defensively that you should “stop being so emotional” about it because the two of you were “never official.” Todd’s an asshole. Fuck Todd. You deserve some time to vent your feelings out, and if you’ve got no choice but to do that on the 99, then so be it.

INTO THE ARMS OF YOUR BEST FRIEND Through your happy moments and your sad moments, your best friend has been a consistently reliable part of your life. You might not want to burst into tears in front of that guy you sometimes talk to in your language requirement class, but in the arms of your best friend you feel perfectly comfortable opening up to them.

They know you well and they accept you for who you are, even when your face looks like a damp red towel. But if the reason you’re sad in the first place is that you’re struggling to make friends on campus, you can always go with...

ON THE PHONE WITH YOUR MOM Ah yes, your mother — the one person who’s loved you unconditionally since day one.

She’s always been there for you, not just because she loves you but also because she’s your mom and has no choice but to put up with your bullshit. Even if you don’t always get along, she knows your personality just as well as your friends do and will likely have some useful wisdom that can help see you through your troubles.

THE CAIRN Love the Cairn. Embrace the Cairn.

Bow down to the Cairn. Whether you’re an overworked engineer, a “Sauder snake” or an arts student working at Starbucks, the Cairn is there for you. Unlike that bully, Buchanan Tower, the Cairn will help you heal. The physical one and the human one. U

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY | BLOG | 15 THE LIST //

99 things to do at UBC – Painting the two Cairns Tristan Wheeler Staff Writer

23 – PAINT THE CAIRN (PHYSICAL CAIRN) Everyone’s seen it. The monument to human ingenuity, accomplishment and social awkwardness. Its traditional colours — red and white — adorned proudly in the engineering wing of campus. The Cairn is a beautiful

marriage of concrete and other bits of concrete to create a wonderfully bland piece of artwork fit for an engineer.

The painting of the Cairn is a UBC tradition. Whether it be decorated with the Greek flag or decorated by people from the Greek village, the Cairn is almost always perpetually gilded in colour. It was going to be my turn to partake in this long tradition of vandalism.

With painter’s pallet in hand, I walked over to the Cairn in the light of the day. With the precision of Picasso, I began my work. The brush took over.

I carefully wrote my Banksy inspired tag, “T-Bone wuz here!”

When I had finished, a rush of adrenaline coursed through my veins.

I am now a street artist on par with Haring or Basquiat on the run from Johnny Law.

Cairn the man.

24 – PAINT THE CAIRN (AMS PRESIDENT)

The physical Cairn

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This was going to be much harder.

AMS President Alan Ehrenholz ran officially as “The Cairn” in last year’s election, and unfortunately, vandalizing him is not a longstanding tradition. My first strategy was to tweet the AMS, which got a painfully low amount of attention even from my huge number of close friends that love and respect what I have to say.

So I opted for a more direct approach.

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I walked into the AMS office and knocked on his door.

I stuttered through my pitch that involves painting the face of an adult man and Alan was surprisingly game. We decided on sports inspired lines beneath the eyes. My hand trembled as I streaked his cheeks with perfectly safe and non-toxic acrylic paint that was likely safe for skin. After I was done, I thanked him and awkwardly shook his hand.

I’ve pulled off my greatest artistic feat. U

WELCOME BACK RAIN //

The top rainy day activities on and off campus only $30 per semester. Also, if you live on residence, most places like Marine Drive, Ponderosa, Place Vanier and Orchard Commons have their own smaller gym you can go to if you don’t want to pay extra for the already-cramped Coop.

try this” but never do because you’re lazy and never find the time.

Well, if you find yourself bored and doing nothing, pull them back up and get cooking.

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Yeah the rain sucks, but hey, when it rains it’s easier to study because you’re not distracted by all the things you could potentially be doing outdoors. Go get yourself a spot at Irving K. Barber or Koerner’s library and get all your work done so that when the sun miraculously does come out, you can actually enjoy it without stressing about school work.

UBC’s campus is full of culture and most of the time we’re too busy to take advantage of it. From the display of First Nations art in the Museum of Anthropology, to the cool exhibits in the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, we have something for everyone. So the next rainy day, visit one of our indoor museums and art galleries that not only keep you safe from the rain but are interesting to experience.

NETFLIX AND LEGITIMATELY CHILL BECAUSE IT’S COLD OUTSIDE STEVEN DURFEE

Raincouver, welcome back.

Negin Nia Staff Writer

As a UBC student, there’s nothing more relatable than walking back from class drenched in rain, thinking about transferring schools to a sunny destination. You’ve probably realized by now that once the rain clouds roll out midSeptember, they pretty much station there until school ends in April.

Let’s face it: it rains a lot in Vancouver, but why let the rain stop you from enjoying your

university experience? Here are some top things to do as a UBC student when it’s raining that will get you motivated to get out and about - or feel a bit better about yourself when you stay home and do absolutely nothing.

place for studying on campus and is located on the main floor of the Robert H. Lee Alumni centre. If you’re getting sick of staying on campus, check out Olive and Ruby in Kits, it’s as aesthetically pleasing as coffee shops go.

AESTHETIC COFFEE SHOPS

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Whether you’re catching up with friends or doing school work, coffee shops are a good place to go to make you feel warm and cozy on a rainy day. Loafe Café is a nice

Take advantage of a rainy day with your BirdCoop membership and answer this question with “yes” the next time someone asks that. The BirdCoop is the UBC gym and it’s

If you weren’t already doing this regardless of the weather, watching Netflix snuggled up in your dorm room with junk food is probably a given for a rainy day. Since it’s rainy you won’t feel like you should be doing something, right?

RAMEN NO MORE Whether you’re living that ramen noodle life or you genuinely want to learn a new recipe, a rainy day is the perfect day to learn how to cook new foods. You’ve probably tagged your friends or roommates in those food videos on Facebook and have commented “we should

GET S*** DONE

I DONUT CARE ABOUT THE RAIN Don’t let the rain stop you from going out and having a donut, because who doesn’t love donuts?

Cartems Donuteire in Kits has the most delicious selection of donuts around campus. Another good donut shop in Kits is 49th Parallel and it’s a cool place to study as well. You won’t regret bussing out to go grab one of these donuts.

TRIPLE O… NO IT’S RAINING Not only is Triple O’s conveniently on campus, but it’s also half price on Tuesdays and accepts UBC meal plan dollars.

Escape the rain by grabbing a booth with your friends and having onion rings until the rain stops. You just might explode from onion rings, but it will be worth it in the end. U

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Fearlessly focused: UBC dualsport athlete Jessica Williams Sherwyn Kalyan Contributor

As the day draws to a close, UBC women’s soccer is just getting started at Ken Woods Field.

Amongst her teammates stands Jessica Williams with a look in her eyes that says she knows what needs to be done and how to do it.

The whistle blows and she’s off, buzzing with action. She’s always on the move, tracking opponent attacks, assisting the counter attack, supporting her teammates. One moment, she’s intercepting a through ball in her own half and the next she’s upfield, supplementing the attack with her runs down the middle of the park. The first-year centre-back is driven, determined and daring, a combination that makes her an asset to the powerhouse ’Birds team.

She brings that same dynamic talent to the T-Birds’ track and field team as well, as a rare breed of dual-sport athlete here at UBC. The track and soccer rookie caught the eyes of the school’s coaches for her stellar performances in both sports. Prior to UBC, she earned multiple gold medals for the 400 metre at the BC High School and Athletics BC club levels. In the soccer realm, Williams was a member of the Vancouver Elite Girls FC REX program, played for Coastal FC and was the captain of Team BC as it took gold in the Western Canada Games in 2015.

Such displays of excellence did not go unnoticed. T-Birds track and cross-country coach Laurier Primeau, and soccer coach Jesse Symons, collaborated together to enable her to be able to play both sports while attending UBC. “This has happened to me all my life, I’ve had to make a choice and then UBC was like, ‘why don’t you just do both?’ So, for the first time in my life, they are in separate seasons,” Williams said.

“I was fortunate to work with Jessica with the Whitecaps, she was a leader and a high impact

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UBC rookie Jessica Williams fights for space against UVic.

player,” said Symons. “When I got this job, she was one of my first calls and fortunately it worked out that she’s able to come here and do both track and soccer.”

Primeau shared a similar interest in the first-year arts student.

“Her times speak for themselves. I always liked the way she ran. She runs fearlessly, probably the same way she plays soccer,” he said.

The rookie’s athletic prowess is unsurprising given her roots.

The White Rock, BC native is the daughter of Paul Williams and Lynn Kanuka-Williams — both Olympians. Her father ran long distance for Canada in three Olympic Games, while her mother secured the bronze for Canada in

the 3000m at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Even with all the genetic ties going for her, Williams has taken it upon herself to sculpt her own path.

“My mom’s been my track coach since I really started running. My parents are my idols in terms of success and what I would want for myself, if I could have that. But everything that has happened, has come from me internally,” Williams said.

Although her ability has a great say in the matter, both coaches were enthusiastically drawn to who she was as a person and her effect on each respective team.

“Being a first-year player at UBC is extremely difficult but she

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not only plays but also influences the team – most of our goals start from her playing out of the back. She’s shown she can defend, and hopefully she influences a lot of players in her five years here.

She’s got a great personality, she’s humble, she puts the team before herself and she’s been a great addition to the team,” said Symons.

“She is a really great person and she will fit well into the team culture here and that’s as important as the performance: the fact that we have someone who is a contributor in the locker room equally to performances on the track,” said Primeau.

Despite track coming up in the spring, her focus is on the task at hand.

“I’m focused on soccer and this

is what I want to be doing right now but I am really excited to go run in the spring,” said Williams.

Balancing the juggling act that is university is no small ordeal for any student, much less a dual-sport varsity athlete but Williams has something to keep her going: “My mom used to always tell me, ‘The sun will always rise tomorrow’ and now that I’m by myself and in university and there’s a lot to do, I just tell myself, ‘you know what, the sun will always rise tomorrow.’”

The year rages on and the challenges keep coming, but as articulated by her family, “the sun will always rise tomorrow” and much to the delight of the T-Birds, Jessica Williams looks set to rise with it.U

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OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY | SPORTS+REC | 17 PRE-SEASON PARTY //

Barn burner at War: T-Birds sink Gaiters and Warriors in UBC Invitational Adam McQueen Contributor

On Friday night, the men’s basketball team opened their season in emphatic fashion — claiming a 99-92 victory in exhibition play against the Bishop’s Gaiters in the UBC Invitational.

The ’Birds made light work of the visitors in the opening quarter. Phil Jalalpoor dictated proceedings, darting into the paint at will and finding open cutters with a variety of passes. The German guard didn’t break a sweat controlling the tempo of the game enroute to a 24-11 lead at the end of the first.

Rookies Mason Bourcier and Grant Audu each made their presence felt as they entered the contest. Audu brought a frenetic energy, soaring for consecutive acrobatic finishes at the rim. In contrast, Bourcier was remarkably steady as the primary ball handler, continually feeding the big men in the paint. Bourcier’s contributions didn’t show up on the box score, but he definitely gained attention for his composed play and smart decision making.

After a dominant first two quarters, Bishop’s began to have their own Thanksgiving feast in the paint and on the boards.

As UBC’s lead began to dwindle to single digits, Coach Kevin Hanson juggled through lineups in hopes of finding a spark.

Thankfully, Conor Morgan blew by his opposing defender for an emphatic dunk, snapping the ’Birds

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Conor Morgan dunks the ball in front of home fans.

out of their turkey-induced food coma early in the fourth quarter.

Morgan had a feisty affair all game with his matchup Duncan Lambert, who — if nothing else — had a trash talking game reminiscent of Michael Jordan.

A deep triple from Jauquin Bennett-Boire off of a beautiful kick out pass from Luka

Zaharijevic sealed the game midway through the fourth as the ’Birds cruised towards the finish line. There was certainly some rust on display for UBC as they opened their 2017 campaign. However, the first half provided a glimpse into the potential force this squad can be on both ends of the floor.

The Thunderbirds kept that

momentum going into Saturday’s match up against the Waterloo Warriors, scoring over 20 points in each quarter and burying the Warriors in the fourth quarter as they added a final 30 points to the scoreboard.

Breaking the three digit barrier, the game ended 105-73 in favour of the home team.

The most important thing in all of professional basketball is unequivocally Lavar Ball and the Big Baller Brand. As such this weekly award will be named in his honour.

The recipient of the inaugural Big Baller award goes to Luke Zaharijevic for his dominant display in both games this weekend.

Zaharijevic looks to have aspirations for a positional change — entering the season with a new lean frame and providing countless deft passes to wide open shooters.

The ‘Bazooka’ also shot an astonishing 87 per cent from the floor and was a consistent presence on the low post offensively.

In a close second for the award is UBC Athletics for finally getting rid of the horrific teal court design at War Memorial gym.

Basketball’s home no longer resembles a middle school gym with thousands of lines painted across it and the royal blue colour design actually matches the ’Birds jerseys. U

FIGHT FOR FIRST//

Duel for Canada West dominance ends in draw for women’s soccer

The ’Birds battle in the box against UVic’s defence.

Ryan Neale Contributor

In what was an eventful Friday evening, two of the top teams in the women’s soccer Canada West Pacific Division — UBC and the University of Victoria (UVic) Vikes — went head to head for a

1-1 draw at Thunderbird Stadium.

Recapping the match, Head Coach Jesse Symons commented, “Defensively, [Victoria] do well and they look to attack quickly in transition and were able to get one back today. Overall, I’m pleased with where we’re at as a team.”

Going into the game, both teams

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held the same record (7-1-1) and top of the table standings —it was a pivotal matchup that would hold implications for later in the season.

The first 20 minutes of the game saw a lot of back and forth, with both teams committing a lot of unforced errors. Things started to pick up for the ’Birds when, in

the 36th minute, forward Jasmin Dhanda weaved through the Vikes’ defense and got a clear shot at goal.

Though the play didn’t result in a goal, it proved the ’Birds were starting to make some headway.

UVic were able to make a push back before the half, with forward Kiara Kilbey testing T-Birds fifth-year keeper Marlee Maracle with two close range shots. The Thunderbirds immediately returned the favour, when forward Amelia Crawford put the burners on the Vikes defence down the right wing, slotting the ball low into the box. The ball ricocheted off a player’s foot and almost lobbed UVic goalie Puck Louwes, but the match remained scoreless as it breezed over the top of the bar.

At the half, the teams were still at a stalemate.

Coming out of the dressing rooms, it was clear both teams had developed more aggressive game plans, evidenced by tighter defense and faster counterattacks. The 65th minute saw a fantastic chance for the ’Birds when Dhanda deflected a cross from defender Emma Kallner towards Crawford, who drilled the ball into the side netting. The ‘Birds wouldn’t have to wait long for another opportunity, however, with Dhanda finding plenty of space off a flick from teammate Aman Shergill. This time, UBC

converted in the 69th minute to make it 1-0.

It was clear the game was far from over as the Vikes opted to shake things up with four substitutions in the 77th minute, bringing fresh legs on the pitch — it worked in their favour. After pressuring the home squad, Vikes midfielder Kyra Teetzen dribbled around UBC’s defenders and finished well, equalizing the game.

As the match drew to a close, the momentum had obviously shifted in Victoria’s favour. Even so, UBC had one last chance, when Shergill threaded a through-ball for Dhanda who was stopped by an excellent save from Louwes.

Post-game, Dhanda acknowledged the created and missed chances for the T-Birds but was pleased with her team’s performance overall. Regarding next week’s matchup, she commented, “Travelling away games are always harder, so we just got to make sure we stay on our game, play how we can and make sure we have that next level.”

UBC moves to 7-1-2, splitting top spot in Canada West with the Vikes. The team moves on to face the University of Alberta Pandas in Edmonton next week, in what is sure to be a gritty game. U

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Thunderbirds split season opening weekend against Manitoba Bill Situ Staff Writer

With the 2017 women’s hockey season finally underway, the T-Birds team split their debut doubleheader against the Manitoba Bisons in front of their home fans.

In the first game on Friday night, the ’Birds trailed 5-2 by the end of the second, having given up three goals on Bison power plays.

Still, thanks to two goals by UBC defenceman Celine Tardif in the final frame, Manitoba came out with a 5-4 win in the end. Logan Boyd and Emily Costales had the other two goals for the ’Birds.

On Saturday, the Thunderbirds were looking for a redemption victory and they did just that as they routed the Bisons 4-1.

“At the end of yesterday’s game, we showed a lot of heart.

Everybody on the ice dug really deep to come back,” T-Bird forward Jaedon Cooke said after the game. “We just kept our train rolling into this game and that was our mentality.”

Midway into the first frame, Boyd recorded her second goal of the weekend, putting the biscuit in the basket from the right circle for the ’Birds.

Two minutes after the opening goal, Manitoba’s Lauren Warkentin received a penalty for hooking. On the ensuing power

play, first-year UBC forward Ireland Perrott buried the puck top-shelf on a one-timer, doubling the ’Birds’ lead.

It didn’t take long before UBC saw their next power play goal.

As Bisons captain Caitlyn Fyten was serving a penalty for body checking, Cooke lit the lamp and bumped the ’Birds up to a 3-0 lead by the end of the first.

“That’s a really great hockey team and we got to come out ready to play,” UBC head coach Graham Thomas said.

At the start of the second frame, the penalty troubles continued for the Bisons. This time, Alexandra Henderson received a major penalty and game misconduct for body checking. One minute into the power play, the ’Birds showed strong offensive pressure once again, culminating in a goal by third-year forward Hannah Clayton-Carroll.

“Our power play’s got to be effective in the game,” said Thomas.

“There have been struggles in the preseason … but we got it figured out and we’re keeping it.”

Despite the four-goal deficit, the Bisons’ momentum picked up in the remainder of the frame. With four power plays in the second period, Manitoba produced several close scoring chances. Still, the only time they found an opening was during a

T-Birds forward Emily Costales faces off with Bisons goalie Rachel Dyck.

5-on-3 in the final three minutes of the frame, when Bisons defender Erica Rieder rebounded a deflection off the blocker of UBC goaltender Tory Micklash.

At the second period’s final

buzzer, the ’Birds held a 4-1 lead. That scoreline would stand throughout the final frame, giving UBC their first win of the 2017 regular season.

“Tonight, you have so much

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confidence in [Micklash],” said Cooke. “She made some incredible saves tonight for sure.”

The ’Birds will be travelling on the road next week to face the Calgary Dinos. U

OCTOBER 11, 2017 WEDNESDAY | SPORTS+REC | 19 WEEKLY WARRIORS //

TAC athlete of the week: Madelyn Brunt Max Trummer TAC Representative

Often we focus purely on the achievements of athletes. Rarely do we look at the setbacks they had to face. For fourth-year cross-country runner Madelyn Brunt, the road to the 2017 season wasn’t easy.

Faced with a stress fracture in early 2017 and forced to sit out months of training, the AllAmerican harrier fell far behind her teammates and competitors in terms of fitness. While a setback like this would discourage even the best of us, Brunt used it as motivation to come back even stronger.

Her rehabilitation was long — from crutches, to the pool, to the bike and then slowly jogging.

Eventually, she was able to join the team again, stronger and better than ever.

What’s more, with the loss of top runner Natalia Hawthorn from last year’s championship winning team, Brunt’s veteran team status — she is now in her last year of NAIA cross-country eligibility — put her in a position to step up and help lead the women’s crosscountry team to another team title this season.

Last weekend at the University of Willamette Invitational in Oregon, Brunt ran her best five kilometre time yet and finished second overall. The fourth-year

Last Weekend’s Fixtures Sport

Home

Score

Away

0-5

UBC

77-57

Brandon

thursday, October 5 Soccer (M)

Victoria

Basketball (W) UBC

friday, October 6 Soccer (W)

UBC

1-1

Victoria

Basketball (M)

UBC

99-92

Bishop’s

Ice Hockey (W)

UBC

4-5

Manitoba

Saturday, October 7 Field Hockey (W)

UBC

2-0

Victoria

Ice Hockey (W)

UBC

4-1

Manitoba

Soccer (M)

UBC

1-2

Victoria

Ice Hockey (M) Manitoba

4-6

UBC

Basketball (M)

105-73

Waterloo

Ice Hockey (M) Manitoba

3-2

UBC

Field Hockey (W)

2-1

Victoria

UBC

Sunday, October 8

Brunt (right) racing in Charlotte, North Carolina.

kinesiology major continues to show that she is an invaluable part of the cross-country roster, putting up a time of 17:48.9.

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Brunt is also a member of UBC’s track and field team, running in the steeplechase. She is from Victoria, BC. U

Max Trummer is a member of the men’s varsity cross-country team and an executive in charge of community outreach and

engagement on the Thunderbird Athletes Council (TAC). TAC athlete of the week is voted upon by varsity team representatives.

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