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Dr. Amy Hanser is tapping into the etiquette of bussing in Vancouver WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29 SAAM: SEX IN ALL LANGUAGES 5 TO 7 P.M. @ PLACE VANIER BALLROOM Part of the annual Sexual Assault Awareness Month, UBC Equity is putting on this event to discuss the norms of sex, the world over. Head over to Vanier to learn about how folks view intimacy, sex, sexuality and gender with this free event!

“[Observing riders] made me think about how buses capture elements of city life and put it on display.”

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 30 ART + MEMORY + JUSTICE SYMPOSIUM 4 TO 8 P.M. @ LIU INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL ISSUES At this event, students showcase their work in the “field of transformative justice and memory,” according to their website. Expect cool art, a wine mixer and performances aplenty — for free!

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Dr. Amy Hanser’s academic path has seen her at a lot of crossroads.

Initially a chemistry undergraduate student at Princeton University, Hanser thought her career path was set. That was until she took a Chinese history class early in her degree and her route took a detour.

From there, it didn’t take long for Hanser to switch faculties and become an Asian studies major. She spent two years living in China as an English teacher before finding work as a journalist in Hong Kong.

After a few years, Hanser was on the move again. Her next stop was the University of California, Berkeley, where she would receive both her master’s and doctorate in sociology. Since then, she’s dedicated her research to a number of sociological topics in Chinese society. Recent years have seen her researching the consumption and inequality in urban Chinese markets.

Yet, her new project is dedicated to a space that is used both within and beyond China, one Hanser has wanted to look at for years: buses.

“I rode the bus in a lot of different places like Taiwan, Mainland China, Southeast Asia and a lot in California and had a lot of interesting experiences and observed how different it was in different places,” she said. “And since I’ve moved to Vancouver, I’ve mostly commuted by bus.”

Apart from being one of her primary modes of transportation, public transit always fascinated Hanser as an interactive social space and it has always been something she’s wanted to research further.

“It was probably when I was in graduate school and also [when I was] living in Asia that I rode buses a lot [and] I actually decided I wanted to do a project on buses. I promised myself that I would do it once I got tenure,” Hanser recounted.

Now a tenured professor in UBC’s department of sociology, Hanser is finally acting on her interest in transit by conducting

an observational study on the interactions and behaviours of commuters on Vancouver buses.

“I observed a lot of interesting behaviour on the bus that made me think about how buses captured elements of city life and put it on display for everybody,” Hanser explained.

Hanser is still early on in her research but has been able to notice certain particularities about bus commuter habits in the city and even differences between bus types and routes. “[In a double-length bus], the back of the bus feels quite different than the front in terms of norms and how people interact and who even uses those spaces.

Express buses often have a very different culture of riding them [compared to] the trolley buses.

[There are] people who are in a hurry more than people who are doing more local trips,” she said.

For now, Hanser has her hands full with Vancouver’s bus culture, including the data she gathered prior to the job action threatened by drivers this past November. “… In the lead up to the bus strike, I saw numerous instances … of people offering their support to the bus drivers, saying ‘You guys do a good job,’ [and being] really supportive. And I also saw cases where people asked bus drivers for information about what was going on.”

Ever since her research popped up on the CBC and other Vancouver media outlets, dozens of commuters have reached out to her willing to answer questions and further her work.

Apart from that, she’s spent a decent amount of time riding the bus.

“I ride from one end of a route to the other. And I’m riding routes that really traverse the city. So mostly east-west, but routes that go through very different neighbourhoods. And you really see the bus transform as it moves through the city — who’s on it and the atmosphere on the bus really changes as it moves.”

It was sitting on a route end to end that really allowed Hanser to notice even more about people’s bus habits but also about how much separation exists on some

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TransLink routes.

“Most folks who ride the bus eastward don’t go past downtown.

Their destination is somewhere between UBC and somewhere [along] Granville Street. It’s almost like a form of segregation,” Hanser explained.

“I don’t think most bus riders think about that very much. But it’s interesting to see how the inequalities in the city manifest themselves and who rides the bus and who’s not even on the bus,” she added.

An element that has come up in Hanser’s research is the use of cellphones, given that most people would assume that bus riders are absorbed by the small screens in front of them.

“I think that’s why a lot of people actually use their phones is it gives them a comfortable place to put their attention and they don’t have to, especially as the bus gets more crowded, worry about where to rest their eyes.

“There is a novelty about cellphones, which is that they don’t just give us a place to put our attention, they actually hold our attention very effectively.”

But Hanser believes that people’s attention, even if they are glued to their smartphones, still revolves around the confined space of the bus cabin.

“I [think that] one of the fictions that we engage in on the bus is that we’re not paying attention to each other, right? But in fact, we are,” she explained. “… Part of what you look for when you’re watching people’s behaviour on the bus is how they manage their attention and if something’s happening on the bus, it’s very hard to ignore,” she added.

Hanser will continue on with this project over the next few months. Her goals for the next while are to interview commuters at bus stops and, of course, spend even more time on the bus.

“I hope to have finished data collection by next August and originally I thought this [as] kind of an academic project, but the public interest [has] really made me think that what I write should actually be something that is written for a more popular audience.” U

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EDITORS HENRY ANDERSON AND EMMA LIVINGSTONE

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Graduate Student Society wants UBC to eliminate tuition for PhD students

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AMS Tutoring partners with Nimbus app

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Nimbus is available for Apple and Android devices and can be downloaded for free.

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UBC’s minimum funding policy guarantees PhD students $18,000 per year for the first four years of study.

Marissa Birnie Senior Staff Writer

The Graduate Student Society (GSS) is calling on the university to eliminate tuition for PhD students.

In a presentation at the December Board of Governors (BoG) meeting, GSS President Nicolas Romualdi urged UBC to consider improving its funding methods for students in researchbased graduate programs.

Among the suggested improvements were the proposal to waive or eliminate tuition for PhD students and increase guaranteed funding requirements from four years to five.

According to the UBC Graduate School’s website, there were over 10,000 graduate students enrolled in the 2019 winter session, including 3,625 doctoral students. UBC’s minimum funding policy guarantees PhD students $18,000 per year for the first four years of study.

However, this figure is $2,000 below BC’s poverty line and does not take into account the fact that most PhD students spend more than four years on their degree, Romualdi explained.

Some departments also count compensation for teaching assistants as part of the funding package, making it necessary for students to supplement their income in other ways, he said.

Insufficient funding causes some PhD students to pursue part-time work just to make ends meet. According to the GSS’s 2019 Student Satisfaction Survey, 71 per cent of graduate students in research programs said they relied on external sources of income to fund their studies.

78 per cent also said funding

advocacy should be a top priority for the GSS. “That’s not just a problem for the student. It’s a problem for the university that the student, instead of doing the research, is out working a minimum wage job outside of campus,” said Romualdi.

The struggles faced by many of UBC’s graduate students — including mental health and food insecurity — could be mitigated with proper funding, he said.

“If we just put the money back

into their pocket, they will know what they need to do to improve their mental well-being … They will know what they need to do to eat well, but we need to give them the means.”

At the December BoG meeting, Provost and VP Academic Andrew Szeri said the Academic Renewal Working Group was developing a long-term proposal to address graduate student funding. The President’s Academic Excellence Initiative will also incorporate graduate student funding in

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According to the GSS’s 2019 Student Satisfaction Survey, 71 per cent of graduate students in research programs said they relied on external sources of income to fund their studies.

addition to faculty recruitment.

In an emailed statement, Dean and Vice-Provost of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Dr. Susan Porter wrote that they were reviewing the GSS’s requests alongside the Provost’s office and “exploring avenues of support.”

“This examination is in its early stages and it’s too early to comment on specific outcomes,” she wrote.

BoG student representative Jeanie Malone said UBC’s challenge is finding a funding approach that works within the constraints of its operating budget.

“They’re exploring what stipend options would look like, whether it looks like raising that minimum [funding package], whether it looks like removing tuition costs because then you don’t have to do the moneyshuffling game of getting people to pay tuition and then giving it back to them, which is not productive for anyone,” she said.

“I do think that in order for UBC to be competitive with other universities, for us to retain the best and brightest grad students, this is something that we have to do. So I would be very surprised if we don’t see action on this within the next year,” she said.

Romualdi said he’s satisfied that UBC intends to address the funding problems faced by graduate students.

“Now what I want to see is the decision and the change, because every month, every year that we take debating on how we go about this is one more year that the students continue to suffer through this affordability crisis,” he said.

“It’s not something that we can take five years to sort out. We need an answer. We need action.” U

AMS Tutoring has partnered with app developers Nimbus Tutoring Inc. to offer its private tutoring service through an app. Nimbus is designed to make it easier and faster for students to connect with tutors.

The new service replaces a previous app used by the AMS service. Tutoring was previously offered using HelpHub but that service was discontinued in 2018 for various reasons according to AMS staff.

Since then, the AMS Tutoring team has had to manually connect students with tutors via email.

“There’s a lot of inefficient time spent emailing back and forth. This new app will make it much more efficient,” said Student Services Manager Ian Stone.

Last year around 1,200 students signed up for tutoring. AMS Tutoring staff tend to receive a spike of inquiries about tutoring around finals and midterms and that can make arranging private tutoring a longer process than usual.

“The main purpose of the app is to help us with arranging private tutoring. This will hopefully help us create a more seamless process,” said AMS Tutoring Coordinator Nikol Grishin.

Nimbus is available for Apple and Android devices and can be downloaded for free. Students and tutors need to create a profile and select their institution before making an appointment.

“What’s nice about the app is that it provides an interpersonal feel to it that we didn’t have with appointment tutoring,” Grishin said.

Through Nimbus, students are able to view a tutor’s qualifications and academic background, read reviews from other users and book an appointment at a time and place of their choosing.

The AMS currently offers private tutoring for a flat rate of $35 an hour for first- and second-year courses.

The team hopes the new app will raise the number of students seeking tutoring help.

Their aim is to facilitate over 200 appointments through the app over the coming months.

Right now the highest demand is for math, economics and sciences. But as more students access tutoring through the app the team hopes to be able to expand the number of courses available and hire additional tutors. U

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Renovated and expanded Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Laboratories open on campus Rachel Stein Contributor

After three years of construction, the new Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Laboratories are finally open.

The renovation and expansion project cost $91.4 million overall, with UBC funding $35.6 million, the provincial government funding $11.8 million and the federal government providing $32.5 million.

So far, the building has been well received by many science students.

“I think it’s ... super modern and it feels like I’m working in the future, kind of [like] science fiction — but it’s happening right now,” said first-year science student Vedanshi Vala.

But the modernity did have Vala feeling a bit strange.

“It feels like I am the lab subject at times,” she explained.

“It feels kinda futuristic in a way … like you’re in a spaceship,” added first-year science student Ethan Wong.

The new complex includes multiple older buildings that have been renovated, with a courtyard in the middle, creating more room and easier access for students.

“I like how they have different wings and sections ... If you ever go to office hours, you don’t have to crowd through hundreds of

people who are trying to get in and out of lecture halls, so that’s really convenient,” observed second-year science student and UBC Biological Sciences Society Officer Ben Zhang.

The Biological Sciences Building was first opened in 1950. UBC Associate VP Facilities John Metras noted that the soil under the building was contaminated with both saltwater and asbestos, significantly slowing down construction and increasing costs. The severe winter of 2017 also delayed work.

Because of these delays, many students had class while some of the construction was still going on in the first term, causing disruption and confusion.

Vala recalled getting lost on the first day of class trying to get into the building. Meanwhile, first-year arts student Sarah Stuttaord noted that noises from construction made it hard to take her biology midterm.

While the construction was a hardship for some students, the improvements in the long term will be easier on the environment, from the university’s perspectives.

For instance, the new building has a LEED Gold certification for sustainable construction.

“We designed it to have muchimproved energy performance and we have elements in the building like heat recovery on the laboratory

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“We designed it to have much-improved energy performance and we have elements in the building like heat recovery on the laboratory exhaust systems to capture waste heat and reuse it in the building.”

exhaust systems to capture waste heat and reuse it in the building,” said Metras.

UBC decided to start renovations on the building in fall 2016 to help improve the learning environment for students and professors, as many of the labs were deemed out of date and not up to modern standards.

Metras said the university worked with the Faculty of Science to design labs and classes that would

allow students to perform research and complement current teaching methods.

“The state of the art facilities will inspire generations of UBC science & medical students for generations to come,” tweeted UBC President Santa Ono, who was present at the opening ceremony.

Now that the construction of the Undergraduate Life Sciences Teaching Labs are complete, the

university is working on buildings for other departments.

“We are working on a number of projects right now with various faculties. For example, the Gateway Building Project for nursing, kinesiology, UBC Health and Student Health Services will provide much-improved facilities for those groups as well. Some of whom are in quite old facilities right now,” said Metras. U

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JANUARY 28, 2020 TUESDAY

EDITOR THOMAS O’DONNELL

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Playing with Fire: Ceramics of UBC Opera to premiere Passenger at the Extraordinary at MOA gets The symposium Auschwitz 75 playful with pottery Thomas O’Donnell Culture Editor

We started our tour in the Koerner European Ceramics Gallery, the boring room that has all the old plates. If I’m being honest, I’ve napped there between my classes. There’s nothing wrong with the plates and vases in there, they just look like something that my grandmother would have owned and then yelled at me for eating off of. The pieces in here feel trapped in time, stodgy yet elegant, and only important because someone told you they were.

But now, in between the 400-year-old platters and cups are these haunting ceramic babies.

They fit in the room, they’re painted sort of like everything else there. The pastel colours and that shiny glaze that makes them look permanently wet means they fit in really well. Personally, I did not like looking at them, because their eyes are so… creepy? Very lifeless, in that hollow way. My guide for the day Lua — the visuals editor for The Ubyssey, so you know she has a good eye for the artistic stuff — tells me that they represent the human aspect of ceramics, when historically the art form has focused on saints and still life.

As we moved to the main exhibition room of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) to view Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary, I was blown away instantly. Ceramic shoes dangling from a wire greet you at the door, making me feel like I was in my hometown.

My favourite pieces were probably Judy Chartland’s “If this is what you call ‘Being Civilized’ I’d rather go back to being a ‘Savage’” series. The series is five bowls, painted with the signs of hotels in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The signs have cockroaches crawling all around them. This art is so current and blatantly political, and yet the form meant it could have fit in in the Koerner Gallery. It made me reflect on all those bowls I had napped beside, and how 200 years ago someone had probably found meaning in them as I was finding meaning in these. Art that makes me think? Gah! Playing with Fire was incredibly playful, especially thinking about how precious ceramics are. In context with the European Ceramics Gallery, Playing with Fire was a great reminder of what ceramic art can be and how people in the past found meaning in the art that we may now have lost.

Finding time to go out of your way to look at art can be hard as a student, but if you have a spare 30 minutes, Playing with Fire is definitely worth seeing. U Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary is on at MOA until March 29, 2020.

The Chan Centre where the opera will be performed.

Anupriya Dasgupta Senior Staff Writer

The ceramic babies.

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Dangling shoes made of ceramic .

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Bowls displayed by signs of hotels in the DTES.

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A handsome culture editor looking at ceramics.

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Premiering on January 30 at the Chan Centre, The Passenger is part of the larger symposium, Auschwitz 75, being held in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

The symposium itself has been organized collaboratively

by UBC Opera Ensemble (UBC Music), the Department of central, eastern, northern European studies, members of the Witnessing Auschwitz Global Seminar Program and UBC Library. It is a four-day symposium, with performances of The Passenger each night between January 30 to February 2.

UBC Library is also housing a special exhibit in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre between January 15 and February 28.

The opera was written in 1968

by Polish composer Mieczysław Weinberg, who at the time resided in the Soviet Union after fleeing the Nazis in 1939 from Warsaw.

Weinberg’s biggest inspiration continued to be his family, all of whom perished in the concentration camps after being unable to make the journey to the Soviet Union.

“He was always trying to pay tribute to his family who lost their lives in Auschwitz,” explained Nancy Hermiston, director of the UBC Opera Ensemble and The Passenger.

The opera follows the journey of former Nazi SS officer Lisa on a ship to Brazil, who is haunted by visions of former prisoner Marta, whom she sent to her death when she worked as a guard in Auschwitz. The opera oscillates between the past and the present, showing the suffering faced

by Marta and her fiancée Tadeusz and the guilt that hangs over Lisa now.

Luka Kawabata, a secondyear master’s student in opera performance who plays Tadeusz, discussed the beauty of how Weinberg juxtaposes the leads and the chorus as well as how the composition takes audiences on a journey.

Telling the story through the perspective of a former Nazi woman is a way to grasp the duality of human beings, according to Hermiston.

“It shows the humanity of this person. No human is all good.

We all have weaknesses. We have moments in which we are capable of things we may not think we are,” Hermiston said.

UBC Opera’s production of The Passenger came together through

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primary collaboration between Hermiston, UBC Music and Dr. Bozena Karwowska, the director of UBC’s Witnessing Auschwitz program. Together, they chose this timely occasion to tell a riveting and highly emotional story of the horrors of the past.

UBC Opera has a tradition of performing socially significant shows, like last season’s Silent Night that commemorated the end of World War One and the veterans of war. The Passenger hopes to reignite and continue fuelling conversations around human rights and social justice, especially because of the unjust conditions multitudes of people face all over the globe today.

There will also be an opportunity for people to tell their own stories at the symposium with a survivors’ panel scheduled on Monday, January 26.

“The piece is very timely for the world,” said Hermiston.

“I hope people will remember, see what happened there and learn the lessons we should. We cannot let this happen. We have a responsibility to each other no matter where we’re from.”

The demanding emotional toll of performing in a show like this also does not go unrecognized.

While Kawabata has had experience playing an emotionally demanding role before in Silent Night, he is appreciative of the resources performers have been offered to help deal with the emotionality of the show.

“Your job is to make the audience feel something. You need to find the balance of feeling the emotion so you can convey it but not so much that you feel overwhelmed by it,” he said.

Hermiston talked about the high stakes of the production and the place of a university as the principal place of education.

The critical thinking gained there can be a guiding force in holding leaders accountable and ensuring that atrocities that have occurred in the past do not repeat themselves.

“This is for you people — the younger generation, the future.

You are the people that have to think about this and hold leaders accountable,” said Hermiston.

“Each of us has a responsibility for our democracy and our freedom. It is a principle that our university is founded on.”

Kawabata added, “What is art for rather than to provoke people?

Nothing changes if you don’t change it.

“It’s going to be very special.” U

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Review: The Changeling is Memoir: Lunar New Year away from home a full-bodied experience Sarah Zhao Senior Staff Writer

A part of the set of The Changeling.

Zhi Wen Teh Staff Writer

It started with a dance. A banging whip jolted me in my seat. The sound of a woman breathing starts to echo all around. Blood spurts forth from a dismembered finger. Everyone was drenched in red and brown fabric. “Whore!”

She was killed, the heavens descend and a choir surrounds a ruined woman.

The Changeling felt like a 360 degree, full-bodied experience.

The acting and design support the haunting nature of the play, but the comic plot line distracted from the overall show.

The show took place at the Chan Centre’s Telus Studio Theatre, a very intimate stage with the audience surrounding the performance. The production made full use of the space, with actors shouting from the balconies, lights revealing vignettes above the audience and characters entering the space from every direction. The blocking had the effect of making you frantically dart your head around taking in the sounds and movement. The set design by Luis Bellassai was occultish and evocative. Ropes were strung up from the floor to the rafters, resembling a cage suggestive of bondage.

The costumes designed

by Charlotte Di Chang were richly textured, giving an air of decadence and sensuality. The costumes were vividly red against the set, suggesting blood and accentuating the violence of the play’s subject matter.

The Changeling centres around Beatrice. Her father has arranged for her to be wed to Alonzo, but she doesn’t love him. Alsemero is the actual love of her life.

Beatrice seeks out the help of her father’s servant, De Flores, to help her murder Alonzo. But De Flores secretly lusts after her. Once the deed is done, he

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refuses the money and would much rather receive payment of another kind.

Bonnie Duff ’s performance as Beatrice in the first half of the play was exuberant, youthful and bright. She later brought forth an emotionally vulnerable performance during the part of the play where Beatrice is sexually assaulted. Her performance post-assault was haunted, sombre and desperate.

She’s the central performer we follow throughout the play and her transformation was the driving heart.

Kyle Preston Oliver’s performance as De Flores was slimy and smug. His physical looks did not quite match the ugliness of the character as originally described in the text, but having the character be attractive adds to the sinister nature.

Running parallel to the main storyline is a comic plotline that centres around a madhouse. But as I was questioning the play’s relevance to today’s world, I start to feel that the comic storyline softens the intensity of the play, breaking up the tension. Since the play was first written, there has been more art that delves further into the institutions that encourage sexual assault.

In the current cultural landscape we have things like Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, which was more effective in speaking to power and forcing the audience to sit with the tension that most marginalized people have to face every single day. And with the current art that is out there, I don’t see how The Changeling could stay relevant if it continues to coddle the audience by preserving the comic storyline.

The Changeling was a visceral disorienting experience, but the continued preservation of the original text in its entirety struggles in letting the audience feel the full tension of such a traumatic experience. U

I stopped going to Saturday school when I was 12, but many Chinese cultural traditions — the story behind firecrackers during 农历 新年 (Lunar New Year) and the reason we eat noodles or fish on certain holidays — were ingrained in me there.

When I was a kid, my family would gather with our family friends to make 饺子 (dumplings) or celebrate 中秋节 (Mid-Autumn Festival) together, but as I got older and my family moved out of a suburban ethnic enclave to be closer to downtown Toronto, the gatherings where we honoured our cultural traditions became smaller and less frequent.

Then 爷爷 (grandpa) got sick and my dad started going to China every new year to spend it with his side of my family, while my mom, my brother and I stayed behind. Us kids couldn’t miss school, but every year, I wished that I could fly back with my dad to experience a ‘real’ 春节 (spring festival) celebration in China.

Instead, the three of us usually prepared a 火锅 (hotpot) meal at home to mark the new year.

The hotpot is one of my favourite kinds of food. There are hotpot restaurants in Vancouver, like 小肥 羊 (Little Sheep Mongolian) and Boiling Point, but most Chinese people will tell you that hotpot is best enjoyed at home.

When I think about hotpot, I smell it first. There’s a particular smell that envelops you as you’re eating and stays with you even after your stomach is stuffed to the brim.

A Lunar New Year dinner.

My parents always tell me to throw the sweater I wore while we ate into the laundry because otherwise, I’ll carry the hotpot smell around with me for days. My mom is from 四川 (Sichuan), so she and my brother share the spicy half of the pot, while I get to throw whatever I want — my favourites are pork blood and glass noodles — into the clear broth on my side. Hotpot is a social meal, one that’s best enjoyed with friends and family to fight over the last shrimp with or to brag to when you pull out the meat at the perfect time.

I still hope to go to China one day and celebrate the new year with my extended family. But right now, I’m missing those hotpot nights with my mom and my brother.

I desperately miss homemade Chinese food, but I’ve learned to cook 炒饭 (fried rice) and 炒年糕 (fried rice cakes) since moving out of first-year residence and I think that I’ve always made a pretty good

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汤面 (noodle soup). So what I miss even more than good food is eating that food with my family.

This year is the second one that I won’t be at home to celebrate the new year. I’m lucky that some of our family friends live in Coquitlam and I’m excited to eat all the special hotpot dishes soon, both at their house and at the events the UBC Chinese language program is hosting. But for me, the Lunar New Year is about more than the food.

It’s the warmth and comfort of home, of that hotpot smell filling the kitchen. It’s my mom calling my dad and our relatives on 微信 (WeChat) while the hotpot steam rises around us, and my brother taking my dad’s place to place ingredients into the pot and make sure our bowls are filled.

We might not be in China, surrounded by so many of our relatives, but our celebration is just as real. U

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Taking root

How Canada’s first student recovery community is growing at UBC

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or years, third-year PhD student Sara Fudjack struggled with alcohol use.

Fudjack’s drinking began in college the same way it often does for other students: at parties or bars or clubs, where alcohol was a common crutch for young people looking to socialize. But she had trouble stopping — something her peers didn’t understand.

“I remember telling one friend and they just laughed at me and they were like, ‘Just drink less,’” she said.

“And in my mind, I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah, why didn’t I think of that?’ sort of sarcastically, but [it’s] just really a feeling of people not understanding that I would have given anything to drink like they were,” she said. “I literally physically couldn’t do it.”

She tried counselling and peer support programs in graduate school. But she didn’t fit in with her support group, whose membership was older and in a different phase of life.

“It was like, what’s worse: drinking myself to a point of danger or not having any friends?”

Eventually, she found a support group for femaleidentifying people that helped her restart and stay in recovery.

So when Fudjack first learned about student recovery community — a dedicated space on campus for students in recovery from addiction — after attending a seminar at the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Students in Recovery in 2016, her jaw dropped.

“I read a little bit of the literature that was out [about student recovery community] and it got me a little bit emotional, to be honest,” she said.

Behind that emotion was a touch of frustration.

Why hadn’t she found this sooner?

The student recovery community in the United States dates back to the 1970s. Today, there are 138 programs across the country for students struggling with alcohol, opioids, stimulants or any other substance.

In Canada, however, it’s a different story.

There were zero across the country, until Fudjack spearheaded the Student Recovery Community at UBC

(SRC UBC) establishment in fall 2019. But despite already serving over 30 students and receiving startup funding from the university, the nascent group is still trying to carve out space in a campus — and society — where problems around substance use are often scorned and ignored.

planting roots Canadian student recovery communities are rare.

But post-secondary students struggling with substance use are not.

The 2017 Canadian Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey found that the drinking of 29 per cent of adults age 20 to 24 exceeded the chronic risk’s guideline and 24 per cent exceeded the acute risk’s guideline, meaning roughly a quarter of undergraduate-aged students tend to abuse alcohol.

Around 10 per cent reported that their illegal drug use has impacted their physical, social, academic or economic well-being.

Besides that, specific data on student substance use at UBC is very limited.

But Dr. Heather Robertson, executive director of UBC Student Health & Wellbeing, says there’s little doubt the problem is widespread.

“We know it’s a very high time of risk,” she acknowledged.

Dr. Michael Krausz, a professor in UBC’s department of psychiatry specializing in addiction, notes the binge-drinking culture and increased level of stress at university are risks that could push students towards substance abuse or dependence.

“If you are totally stressed out and anxious, you may have problems [sleeping] and then you start drinking or taking benzodiazepines in the evening to calm down,” he said.

“It may help for a short period of time, but then it develops a dynamic on its own so at some point, you are unable to calm down without [the substance].

Then you may slide into dependence, which means you need to drink [or use] in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms.”

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He also stressed the “clear link” between mental health issues and substance use disorder.

“Young people getting drunk and ending up in emergency rooms — most of the time, they have a much bigger load to carry,” said Krausz.

But the campus had very limited services specifically for addressing substance dependence when Fudjack arrived in 2017. VICE, an AMS volunteer service that focuses on providing education and mentorship on alcohol, drugs and technology use, had only begun in January of that year. As she searched for a dedicated space for students with lived experiences with addiction and recovery, she found none — at the university and across the country.

“There’s a huge gap in services for students in recovery at UBC,” she said.

“And then I broadened the scope to what’s going on in the province and then what’s going on across Canada and really discovered that there are no student recovery communities in all of Canada.”

In 2018, Fudjack received a $3,000 AMS Impact Grant to study the experiences of UBC students in recovery and presented her proposal of creating a student recovery community to the university. After finding a receptive audience in President Santa Ono, she began working with Robertson to build the initiative, allowing it to receive ongoing administrative and medical oversight from Student Health & Wellbeing.

“ If you identify

as being in recovery, then we have a spot for you. ” Sara Fudjack

SRC UBC program manager A year later, SRC UBC held its first weekly peer support meeting in September 2019.

In each meeting, a small group of students would sit in a circle for an hour to discuss a particular topic around recovery. Most would share their name and experiences, while others could simply listen.

Matt, a student in recovery whose name has been changed to protect his privacy, remembers his first SRC UBC meeting as being remarkably open.

“We used most of that hour talking about what was going on for us and people shared really heavy stuff that was going on for them right off the bat, without me shaking their hand or getting to know them at all,” he said.

Beside this core feature, the community also offers drop-ins and one-on-one meetings, as well as online consultations via email and Instagram message.

And for all these interactions, Fudjack — who is now the community’s program manager — stressed that instead of focusing on only abstinence or harm reduction, SRC UBC allows space for all recovery approaches.

“If you identify as being in recovery, then we have a spot for you,” she said.

Growing together Matt knows exactly how important it is to have a community when dealing with addiction.

A fourth-year English literature student, he struggled with cannabis use throughout his first year at UBC Okanagan. But the situation got worse in his second year, when Matt used cannabis to cope with the fallout of ending a difficult relationship.

“I was [also] much more alone and I was off-campus, so … it was a pretty rapid decline,” he said.

After multiple unsuccessful interventions, Matt moved back to Vancouver and began a 12-step treatment program, an abstinence-based recovery approach usually rooted in religion.

But he says he made the most progress when building relationships with others who were staying at the facility.

“It was just like learning how to have fun with people who weren’t using drugs, which was the biggest thing that I needed,” he said.

At Douglas College, Matt went straight from class to an evening recovery meeting that rented space in the college.

When he transferred to UBC Vancouver in fall 2016, he would still commute there because he didn’t have options on campus.

Eventually, he found SRC UBC. “I’ve talked about this with other people since then and they’ve like shared similar sentiments — just knowing that it’s there finally, and that I have somewhere I can go to talk to people who are students and who are trying to work through their addiction is super therapeutic,” Matt said.

The community at UBC also helps students in recovery navigate the stigma and triggers that exist on campus.

Trevor Gray, the community’s program coordinator and a fourth-year social work student, sees these aspects “perpetuated in little ways.”

“I think oftentimes, it’s expressed in the way that these people who are dealing with addictions as people outside of universities, outside of the classrooms where they kind of neglect the fact that addiction affects everybody regardless of what you’re doing in your life,” he said.

Or it could simply be the start of the weekend. On campus, many social events — from Pit Nights to fraternity parties to club mixers — hinge on substance use.

“What we’ve found with students in recovery is like the start of the weekend can be a particularly triggering time,” Fudjack said. “... One student who came [for a meeting] last Friday said that it’s actually really grounding and helps put himself in a good perspective and mental place going into the weekend.”

But despite its services, the group still lacks a dedicated space on campus to call home. Last term, Fudjack said they had to jump around to many different buildings for their weekly meetings.

“The room has been one of our biggest struggles, I’ll be honest with you,” she said. “The research shows that a very key ingredient to student recovery communities is that you have a dedicated space so people can get really comfortable with the space.”

Sitting in a swivel chair in a fluorescent-lit Orchard Commons classroom, Fudjack envisioned comfortable couches and soft lighting instead. Gesturing at a corner, she could barely hide her excitement about the idea of filling the space with books about recovery and its many pathways. At another corner, there would be a food and drink station to store all the resources, snacks and a coffee maker that she has been lugging around in two big duffel bags for the recovery community meetings.

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She also hopes there would be a separate office for more private meetings and eventually space for an addiction recovery counsellor.

“So just a place where people really feel that it’s safe and comfortable to gather … [and] maybe not even talk necessarily about anything super heavy, but just to be able to be together,” Fudjack said, “and then be able to talk about super heavy stuff when needed.”

Closing gaps In many ways, it’s not enough to just start a general student recovery community.

A 2018 report from the BC Centre for Substance Use (BCCSU) identified the “lack of gender-specific, age-appropriate, and culturally-safe services for women, [2SLGBTQIA+] individuals, youth and Indigenous peoples” as a major barrier for starting and staying in recovery.

The SRC UBC is aware of this challenge.

Fudjack says the team aims to not only attract “white male [students] who have some socioeconomic privilege,” which she said is also a big topic of discussion for other student recovery communities in the United States. Instead, there is interest to include Indigenous pathways of recovery as well as creating female-identified and Queer-specific groups.

“I think that the diversity of the community very much reflects the diversity of UBC as a whole,” she said.

At a larger level, the community is also intentional about its inclusion of all recovery approaches.

“There are harm reduction approaches, there are abstinence approaches, there’s everything in between. All of these options should be available for the right purpose, for the right time,” said Dr. Carson McPherson, BCCSU’s senior advisor on recovery initiatives.

“The reality is for someone who is no longer alive because we don’t have harm reduction approaches available to them, we can never find that person recovering.”

McPherson, Fudjack and Gray all stressed the need to think about recovery as a “continuum.” The SRC UBC leaders added that harm reduction services have been instrumental to their recovery processes, especially at their start.

“I always struggle when I hear people separate [abstinence and harm reduction] because they oftentimes go hand in hand and there’s no right or wrong,” Gray said. “They’re just all part of the continuum of supporting people at various stages of their journey.”

More importantly for Fudjack and Gray, this goes to a larger understanding that recovery is an ongoing journey rather than an endpoint — a shift in thinking that they hope would mean more care for students in recovery.

“If we think about treatment, a lot of times there’s like a celebration or like a graduation at the end of treatment,” Fudjack said, “and perhaps that messaging is flawed because … their families and the community go, ‘Oh, perhaps it’s over’ … when in fact, that’s when the hard work begins.”

Branching out Ultimately, there’s an understanding from all groups about the need for more services dedicated to addiction and recovery on campus.

In particular, Krausz believes there should be

continuous support for a program like the student recovery community, preventive measures such as including information about this issue in high school and university curriculum as well as connections to specialized care.

“ The reality is for

someone who is no longer alive because we don’t have harm reduction approaches available to them, we can never find that person recovering. ”

Dr. Carson McPherson BCCSU senior advisor on recovery initiatives

According to Robertson, UBC Student Health & Wellbeing is “continuously looking” for long-term funding and space for SRC UBC. The university is also working to improve its education and prevention programs, as well as spreading the information on the topic through Jump Start and Residence Life.

“It’s about having conversations that bring the topic [out] of the closet and not associating shame with it — really meeting the person where they’re at and then working from there,” she said.

Similarly, AMS VICE is doing its own outreach and collaboration to raise awareness about balanced substance use, according to Coordinator Ashley Steele. She added that VICE is also working with SRC UBC on cross-referrals and social media campaigns to create that spectrum of care together.

In the meantime, Gray and Fudjack are optimistic about their community’s growth. Even as they know the work can still bring stigma and triggers in quiet ways.

“There are times when I have left [meetings] and I have felt a lot of shame and questioned like, ‘Why am I doing this? Why am I putting myself out there in these situations that are really hard for me?’” Fudjack said. “I’m being vulnerable about an identity that a lot of people like judge and look down upon, and so sometimes it does catch up to me. But when I get that one email from a student who says, ‘This has made a difference in my life,’ that’s what reminds me why I’m doing it. “... I think one day, it would be amazing if being in recovery was just as normal as being 22 and in university.” U

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Mind Your Mind: What are emotions?

Daphnée Lévesque Mindfulness Columnist

In my opinion, emotional literacy is an important skill to have, especially when it comes to taking care of our mental health.

Emotional literacy is the ability to identify, understand and express our emotions. Being self-aware and knowing how to manage our emotions are key because it can help us learn how to listen to our body, reducing our stress in the process. When it comes to emotional literacy, there are a few terms that can be confusing, so I’ve explained some of the main concepts below.

EMOTIONS: A FULL SYSTEM RESPONSE To give a brief history, from counsellor Scott E. Spradlin’s book Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, “the word emotion itself comes from the Latin exmovere, which means to move out, agitate, or excite. This is where our English word ‘motion’ comes from and of course you can see the connection with the word ‘emotion.’”

Emotions are conceptualized as a full system response, which essentially means that when you experience an emotion, a biological complex is activated. In other words, when you experience an emotion, your whole body lights up. It affects all of the different systems in your body (e.g. neurochemical activity, nervous system, respiratory and circulatory system, etc.).

Oftentimes, people believe that emotions are synonym words for feelings, but that’s not the case. Emotions are much more encompassing. You can feel the emotion of anger, but you can also feel cold or hungry — and those feelings aren’t emotions per se.

THOUGHTS, FEELINGS AND BODILY SENSATIONS When you experience an emotion, Spradlin says there are “thoughts, feelings and a disposition to act.”

This essentially means that when you experience an emotion, there is a psychological component — thoughts, cognition and thinking patterns — as well as a physiological one, physical urges to do certain actions and bodily sensations.

It’s important to note that many physical sensations can be associated with different emotions at different times, depending on the context. For example, having ‘butterflies’ in your stomach can mean that you are experiencing nervousness and at other times it can mean you are experiencing love. Crying is a sensation that is sometimes tied to sadness and other times joy.

Another key point to remember is that you cannot have emotions without having thoughts and vice versa. It is an integrated system, so essentially, thoughts and emotions are fused. All of these components are mutually interdependent. Your cognition affects your emotions and your automatic emotional states affect your thinking processes as well as brain activity.

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You cannot have emotions without having thoughts and vice versa.

EMOTIONS VS. MOOD VS. AFFECT We’ve all experienced being in a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ mood. Moods and emotions are often words used interchangeably, but there is a clear distinction between the two.

Moods are essentially, according to Spradlin, “emotions that stick around for a really long time” — sometimes too long. When moods become predominant, they can become mood disorders, such as a major depression or generalized anxiety disorder.

As a result, moods often encompass a wide range of feelings. For example, a person experiencing a depressed mood (sometimes for weeks, even months) will often experience a wide range of emotions during that time frame, such as sadness, shame and anger. An anxious mood might encompass emotions such as a fear, anger and guilt.

Moods sometimes can lack a contextual stimulus, whereas emotions are often directed at someone or something, meaning that emotions are caused by a specific event.

For example, a co-worker criticizes your work and in the moment, you feel an emotion

— anger — towards them. Since emotions are short-term, you might feel angry for a few minutes, then continue on with your day.

But then, as your day goes by, you notice that you’re in a ‘bad, low mood’ for no specific reason, and this goes on for hours, even days.

In this case, the cause of your low mood is general and unclear.

The main point to remember is that emotions are more fleeting, whereas mood states last for an extended period of time. Intense emotions come and go fairly quickly, but moods can stick around for hours, days or even weeks.

Finally, in psychiatry, there is a difference between mood and affect. Affect is what you convey and what is observable to others, whereas moods are subjective and an internal experience.

A flat affect is condition where a person barely displays any emotional expression, even when the situation calls for it.

For example, a person with a ‘normal’ affect will smile brightly when they experience something that pleases them. A person with a flat affect under the same circumstances, however, might not show facial expressions and respond with a monotonous voice.

It’s important to remember

that affect does not reflect a person’s mood or subjective internal experience. For instance, even if a person is not conveying any emotional response, they may actually be feeling great on the inside!

Another example is inappropriate affect. This reminds me of myself when I am put in difficult, stressful situations. Some people will display an inappropriate affect as a defence mechanism when attending funerals. They may be caught giggling or laughing, but on the inside, they are really feeling devastated.

EMOTION STATES VS. EMOTIONAL TRAITS When we talk about emotional states, it refers to the moment we say “I feel angry.”

An emotional trait, on the other hand, is more enduring and characteristic of a person. It’s not an emotion, but a disposition/ tendency to react to a certain emotion more often than others. An individual might be referred to as an ‘angry’ ‘sad’ or ‘happy’ person.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER It can be hard to distinguish

the difference between all of the concepts explained above.

A main takeaway, however, is understanding that emotional states, traits and moods are all related. Here’s a few examples from Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life.

State: love Trait: loving/caring Mood: euphoria State: fear Trait: fearful Mood: anxiety State: anger Trait: angry Mood: irritable Finally, it’s important to remember that we experience emotions for a reason. Emotions serve many purposes, and ultimately, they allow us to survive and thrive in an ever changing environment. Next time, we will explore the function of emotions, the importance of naming and understanding them, and the challenges that can arise during that process. U The authors of this column are not mental health professionals. If you need additional support, please contact Student Health Services, Sexual Assault Support Centre and/ or the Wellness Centre. In case of an emergency, call 911.

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The Dingbat: Reminder that classes are on today Tait Gamble Senior Staff Writer

In the event of heavy snow or an extreme weather event, classes may be cancelled, but today classes are on. In the event of heavy snow or an extreme weather event, campus may also be closed and nonessential services curtailed, but today, campus and non-essential services are open. Classes are on.

You can expect your classes to be on and proceeding as they are normally scheduled. You can expect your lectures and tutorials and labs to take place. You can also expect to check Canvas regarding assignments and projects and readings, which you will need to have completed and read and annotated today, because classes are on today.

Classes are probably also on tomorrow. Everything regarding UBC that you might expect to take place, will take place even special events, because there is no heavy snow or an extreme weather event.

Likewise, classes will also take place because classes are on today, and not cancelled, and will take place as scheduled.

If you are uncertain if classes are on, you can check www.ubc.ca to confirm that classes are on. This is the university’s home page and it will confirm for you that classes are on. You will load this page and you will see that classes are not

Classes are probably also on tomorrow.

cancelled. You will see that classes are on.

If you are uncertain if classes are on even after you’ve checked www.ubc.ca to confirm, you can check @UBCnews on Twitter. If you see nothing that explicitly says

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otherwise, you can be sure, that for sure, classes are on.

Classes are on and this means our classrooms are unlocked for you to sit and learn in. This means our buildings are unlocked for you to walk in. This also means our

non-essential services, such as food vendors, are ready for you to give them money.

Even though you may have hoped for the event of heavy snow or an extreme weather event, such that classes may be cancelled, today

is the event of normal weather, like rain or rain. Classes are on. U The Dingbat is The Ubyssey’s humour column. You can submit completed pieces or pitches to blog@ubyssey.ca

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UBC Stories: Are first impressions everything? people a chance and warm up to them.

VICTORIA Year: Fourth Major: Psychology What do you think people’s first impression of you is?

That I’m dumb.

What makes you think that?

With the blonde hair and I played sports and stuff; People don’t see that I do well in school.

Does it bother you?

I think it is a bit annoying.

People are really stereotypical, especially how people are portrayed in movies. If you look at blonde girls dating good guys, they’re usually kinda dumb, kinda promiscuous.

Perception is everything.

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Adry Yap Staff Writer

Major: Cellular, Anatomical and Physiological Sciences

Perception is everything. How we interpret other people’s impression of us can be powerful or demoralizing, it’s all about how you let it affect you.

As someone who stomps around campus with ‘resting bitch face,’ I know there’s more to me than just a less-thanhappy looking face. So, I wanted to investigate who else feels misrepresented, betrayed by their appearance, or simply doesn’t care?

What do you think people’s first impression of you is?

A lot of people think I’m stupid. They didn’t think I’d come [to UBC]. They thought I wouldn’t get in. I think it’s because I’m white so they think I’m dumb.

CARMEN Year: First

Does it bother you?

Nah, I know I’m not stupid.

I think it’s because I’m blonde right now.

JILL Year: Third Major: Psychology

What do you think people’s first impression of you is?

People usually think I’m nice, because I’m always smiling.

What’s something you wish more people knew about you?

Just that I’m really empathetic.

I feel like I can take on other people’s emotions really well and know what they’re feeling.

Is there anything else you want the readers to know about first impressions?

Well, just knowing from my friends, they look mean and they tend to say that most people don’t approach them, especially when they’re new to a place. Just to give

What do you wish people knew about you?

I kinda wish people knew that I’m way more soft and nerdy than I lead on … Last week, I started making a [Dungeons an Dragons] character with my boyfriend. I’m [also] obsessed with Catan right now [and] I play Pokemon Go every day as I’m walking to class.

JESSICA Year: Fourth Major: English literature, minor in creative writing.

What do you think people’s first impression of you is?

I mean, I always change things like my hair colour [and] people probably think, “You’re a

badass” or “You probably listen to heavy metal or something really alternative.”

What do you think people stereotype you as?

Sometimes they can stereotype me as a [fresh off the boat] Asian.

My boyfriend’s friend also thought I was a geek, which I kinda am.

I look like I may be a really quiet person who wants to stay home, but there’s so much more to me than people [know].

What are some of the things people might find surprising about you?

I like the Twilight fandoms. I was labelled as the Twilight chick in high school. And also, I’m a bit of a Tim Burton fan. Specifically, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

IN CONCLUSION Psychology says the majority of us can’t help but want to be liked. It’s an innate need for belonging that drives our desire for acceptance.

Knowing this, should we manage our outward personas for the sake of our social survival? I guess the answer depends on you. Jay Shetty once said, “We live in a perception of a perception of ourselves.” In other words, we have a tendency to see ourselves through other people’s eyes. In doing so, we base our self-worth on someone else’s impression of us. Sounds silly doesn’t it?

If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that we can’t help making snap judgements, yet it’s something all of us wish we’d stop doing. U

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‘Dead people don’t recover’: UBC professor’s biometric opioid dispenser tackles unsafe drug supply in Vancouver Alex Nguyen Coordinating Editor

Walking along a wall lined with photos of Downtown Eastside (DTES) community members and their dogs, Kevin sidestepped an interview to reach the 800-pound machine in the middle of the room. He tapped the blue screen that reads “Welcome to mySafe” and raised his palm to the scanner, which flashed blue then green. The machine hummed before releasing a small packet of hydromorphone pills, a legal opioid that serves as an alternative for heroin.

Despite the machine being the world’s first biometric opioid dispenser, the process only took about 10 seconds, said Kevin, who is a peer support worker at the site.

“If your hands are dirty or something, [the machine] can’t read and you might have to wipe it off, but there’s really no barrier at all,” he added.

Kevin also knew exactly how strong the pills were, without having to do any testing.

For Dr. Mark Tyndall, professor of medicine at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health (SPPH), this certainty is the goal of his MySafe Project. And in a city that has seen over 5,000 overdose deaths since 2016 because of contaminated drugs, Tyndall sees the initiative and safe supply as the “next frontier of harm reduction.”

The MySafe Project has been long in the making.

According to Tyndall, he first spoke about distributing a safe supply of drugs through a “vending machine” in 2018. But after doing around 20 interviews subsequently to try to roll back the idea, he decided that it was “the greatest idea [he’s] ever had.”

He then worked with a company called Dispension Industries to build a prototype, finally unveiling the machine in December 2019.

Tyndall stressed that the machine serves as a “safe box” for participants to keep their prescriptions, rather than dispensing opioids for anyone.

Hence the biometric scanning, which works to recognize the patterns on the participants’ palms.

It’s also a way to address the unstable housing conditions that many DTES community members face as well as the risk that comes with using alone.

“They don’t have a fixed address, [so] clearly asking people to take two or three weeks of these medications and store them is very challenging,” he said. “… We also know that over 80 per cent of people who have died of an overdose in this community are found dead in their rooms [and] by themselves, so the other big hope for this program is that we can draw people out of their rooms.”

As of January 22, there are 10 participants, with many being volunteers for the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) whose site is next door to the MySafe Project.

OPS Executive Director Sarah Blyth said she is already seeing positive impacts from the initiative, from easing access for people with disabilities to making it safer for people to get their drugs.

“In a really simple way, they don’t have to deal with drug dealers, they don’t have to owe money to drug dealers and get beat up,” she said. “A lot of the people using drugs are trying to get away from trauma and they’re being victimized every day, so it’s a new way of getting people into a situation where they’re being helped.”

Similarly, in response to criticisms that the project doesn’t

Tyndall stressed that the machine serves as a “safe box” for participants to keep their prescriptions.

address addiction, Tyndall acknowledged that the primary goal is not to solve that issue. But he believes by removing the need for the often-dangerous hustle that people have to go through to get illegal drugs, they can have more time to seek treatment.

“Dead people don’t recover,” he said.

‘WE GOT TO PROGRESS’ In 2019, the province saw a decline in the number of overdose

A display in the entryway to the MySafe building features DTES community members and their dogs.

deaths, but Tyndall pointed out this is more likely because the community has trained “an army of people” who know how to use naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to reverse overdoses.

Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP) is supportive of the MySafe Project for its potential in moving the discussion beyond reacting to overdoses, said Stephanie Lake, a PhD candidate in UBC SPPH and co-founder of the CSSDP UBC chapter.

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Blyth agrees.

“The overdose prevention we’ve done to stop people dying, it’s really the bare minimum of what should be done,” she said.

“We don’t want people to be further damaged. … It’s especially shameful because it’s our most vulnerable folks in society a lot of times with mental health issues, with disability issues … so we got to move forward, we got to progress and actually making people’s lives better.”

With room for 38 more participants, Tyndall is working to scale up the program. But while he believes replicating the machine would be relatively inexpensive, he says there are still challenges because he doesn’t “have endorsements from all the policymakers that are necessary.”

As reported by Global News, the MySafe Project has received support from the Vancouver Police Department. In a statement to The Ubyssey, the College of Pharmacists of BC also says it “welcome[s] new and innovative approaches to helping those with substance use disorders that still ensure public safety.”

But MySafe is still operating separately from the BC Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, according to the same Global News report.

“Most of pretty much all of the innovative harm reduction that’s ever occurred in Canada has not been top-down,” Tyndall said.

“It’s always been pushed by the community and really this whole program so far is based on community support and so it’s really encouraging that I get [to] have really the community on side and hopefully we can push from the bottom up.” U

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MOVE YOUR BODY //

Recreating Recess: Getting heated and having fun with Zumba Brendan Smith Senior Staff Writer

Before doing Zumba, I had heard a lot of stories about it.

Some were funny, while others described the experienced as exhausting. None, however, were exactly the same.

So when my sister asked me about taking a Zumba class this past summer, my curiosity won over.

The class was located at my former high school and the room was spacious. The room was also similar to those used for dance classes, which was a bit unsettling.

My dancing repertoire is small. At parties, I would bust out the hip twist, the sprinkler or an attempt at the moonwalk.

Sometimes it was a frantic combination of all three but these occasions were rare. There are usually mixed reviews as well.

But now in a public class with my sister and her friend, the stakes were high.

At first, things did not look promising. The warmup was challenging and the music was silenced by doubts about paying money to make a fool of myself.

It was not until researching this article that I realized there was nothing wrong with that.

In the late 1960s, “Jazzercise” was created and combined muscular movements with choreographed exercises. Besides promoting the use of spandex, the creation of jazzercise lead to the rise of dance-aerobics sessions of intense dancing-related movements intended to keep you fit.

Then in the 1980s, fitness instructors such as Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons made dance aerobic classes available on VHS so people could follow along at home, which attracted audiences outside North America.

Someone who was attracted by dancing aerobics was Alberto Perez. Perez loved to dance and taught dance aerobics classes to support his family in Colombia.

One day, Perez forgot the music for his class. With no music and no set dance exercises, Perez told the class that he was going

NEXT LEVEL //

New triathlon series set to kick off in 2020 Salomon Micko Benrimoh Sports Editor

A new university-focused triathlon series is set to take off in 2020.

Running parallel to the Western Canadian University Series that was launched in 2019, Triathlon BC announced the launch of the BC Provincial University Series.

Instrumental in developing the program was UBC’s own Thunderbird Triathlon Sport Club and its club lead Adam Guthrie.

“The circuit is developed for university athletes to be able to compete at a more competitive level and compare between schools and get towards kind of a varsitytype level of competition,” Guthrie explained.

“Within Canada, if you’re a university triathlete, you race in your age group but you don’t represent your school. You don’t race as a school. You don’t race really as a team,” Guthrie added about the lack of dedicated racing for university students.

In addition to the new series, the club will see competition south of the border.

“We’ve been invited to the [NCAA] Triathlon Collegiate Championships. So we’ll be going down to Arizona in April to compete at their collegiate nationals, which is

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Zumba can be an interesting and fun new workout to try this semester.

the first time a team in Canada has ever been able to do that,” Guthrie said.

“We’re hoping to send five athletes to [International Triathlon Union] worlds next year and we’re kind of in a competitive space where we’d be able to do that. That’s the kind of level of competition that we’re performing at right now.”

The club trains at a level that allows it to be able to compete at a higher level than most university triathlon clubs, splitting 11 practices a week across swims, runs, weight training and biking.

“It keeps us out of trouble,” Guthrie joked on the level of training.

“We enjoy training and competing, racing [at an] elite level.

However, as a Thunderbird Sport Club we’re officially students first, athletes second.”

As of now, the club remains a place for university students to train at a higher level while continuing on their studies.

But the sky’s the limit for the future for both the club and university triathlon in Canada.

“We really want to build that core foundation of competitive athletes and our team to be able to build our roster size and set an example for the rest of western canada and eventually, all of Canada,” Guthrie said. U

to try something different. Using the leftover cassettes from his car, Perez danced according to the rhythm of the music while the class followed his lead. The class became the one associated with the start of Zumba.

And within 10 years of that class, Zumba was then viewed as a new fitness trend.

So what exactly makes Zumba such an attractive fitness activity?

For one thing, Zumba differs from other dance aerobic classes because the style of the class is different. Instead of following

each precise movement, Zumba allows for flexibility, creativity and in my case comedy — because the class feels like a party.

In the class, there is normally up-tempo music of a certain genre. For instance when I went, the songs were mainly Spanish pop.

As you are listening to songs like “Despacito,” it is hard not to deviate from the routine and dance as if you were in Ibiza.

With that said, there are some boundaries. Although the instructor did not correct my

lackluster moves, I am sure that if I tried anything disruptive it would not be tolerated. After all, most people taking Zumba are there to have a good time.

It is important to keep in mind that others use Zumba to exercise. The class is a great workout, but can feel tiring if you are not used to dancing for extended periods of time. But of course, if you are tired and need a break, there is no issue sitting out a song or two.

The nature of Zumba also allows for social engagement.

I only went to Zumba once but going to these classes with friends or family is definitely worth some laughs each time.

Again, it is hard to stay serious when you are dancing like a possessed chicken.

Another good example of the positive social nature is at UBC, as once a year there is a large Zumba class that draws many students and staff. Weekly Zumba classes are offered through UBCREC as well.

But besides the social benefit, Zumba also carries a good lesson: do not worry about being perfect.

There were definitely other people in the class who missed steps and were slower than me.

But I could not see them, and they could probably not see me.

I was actually so focused on not embarrassing myself that eventually I just had to slow down. Maybe this was worse in terms of dancing quality, if that is even possible, but at least I started having more fun.

Too bad I did not realize this sooner. U

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Spartans spoil the party as T-Birds celebrate Pride Night Diana Hong and Mike Liu Staff Writers

A thunderous Pride Night crowd couldn’t boost the UBC Thunderbirds volleyball teams to wins Saturday night, with both dropping straight set decisions to the top ranked Trinity Western University (TWU) Spartans.

War Memorial Gymnasium was loud and proud right from the start, a packed house bolstering the women’s team as they took to the court. With the cheers at their backs, the T-Birds stormed out of the gate, snatching the initiative to take an early 7–1 lead. A brilliant block by Anna Price led to a Spartans timeout, the visiting side needing to regroup.

“I’m thankful for everyone who came out this weekend and whether we won or lost, we felt really loved and supported and I hope that [the] community did as well,” said T-Birds middle blocker Gabrielle Attieh after the game.

However, the timeout helped the Spartans reset. Despite a ferocious Olivia Furlan ace to send UBC into the technical timeout with a 16–14 lead, it was the best team in the country that swung the momentum in their favour, taking the first set 25–21.

The second set began with both teams scrapping it out before TWU pulled out to a 11–5 lead, resulting in a UBC timeout. Much like the Spartans in the first set, the T-Birds came out of the timeout a new team, clawing their way back into the set with outside hitter Brynn Pasin coming off three consecutive points to bring the T-Birds’ level at 23–23 late in the second. But a

The crowd was energetic but the Spartans proved to be too much too handle for the T-Birds.

missed spike in the end brought down the T-Birds, TWU coming out with the narrow 25–23 second set win.

Just like the second set, the third began with teams trading points, UBC holding a narrow 9–8 advantage after a massive block by Pasin. The Spartans would go on a run, breaking the 20 point mark with a four-point cushion. A late push by the T-Birds brought it to 24–22 but TWU were able to close it out, taking the set 25–22 and the game three sets to none.

“We’ve got to have confidence in our ability to attack the ball in different zones more consistently.

Some of this is just mentally our ability to play under control when

another team is putting us under pressure,” said head coach Doug Reimer post-game.

The Spartans improve their Canada West leading record to 18–2 while the 7th placed Thunderbirds drop to 8–10 on the season after two back-to-back losses this weekend.

The women’s squad will look to rebound next week in their series against the University of Regina Cougars (2–16) at home.

After losing their 10-game winning streak against the firstplaced Trinity Western University in a close 3–2 game Friday night, the second-placed men’s team was out for vengeance on Pride Night, ready to bounce back in front of a

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roaring home crowd.

“I’m thankful that I get to represent this [night], [it was a] pretty electric atmosphere. It’s great to play in front of big crowds,” said outside hitter Coltyn Liu, who had eight kills and an ace in the game.

However, such intentions were thwarted in a forgettable first set, with TWU storming out of the gate, taking a 20–8 lead. The Spartans closed out the set with little trouble, the final score 25–9.

Entering the second set, it was critical for UBC to get their receiving and blocking game back on track in order to have a shot at winning.

They did just that and the

second set was the definition of tight, with the teams pegging each other point after point.

A thunderous kill by Matt Neaves gave a slim 13–12 edge to the Thunderbirds, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

However, the Spartans took a two-point lead at 16–14, tilting the set to their favour.

The T-Birds fought back hard, with strong kills by Neaves and Michael Dowhaniuk late in the set, but the Spartan’s momentum enabled them to close out the set at 25–23.

The beginning of the third set was air-tight. Kills from outside hitters Liu and Neaves were crucial to the uphill battle, yet the T-Birds found themselves trailing behind by the second half of the set.

The visiting Spartans powered through to a 25–18 victory, sweeping the Thunderbirds 3–0 in the game.

“It was tough for us to be aggressive coming into this match when they were playing so well, they really put us on our heels with really good serving and great block defense,” head coach Mike Hawkins commented post-game. “[I] thought we answered well in the second and [it] kind of got away from us a bit in the third.”

Trinity Western brings its impressive nation-leading record to 17-1.

After two tough losses, UBC drops to 13–5, now sitting in third behind the University of Alberta Golden Bears (14–4). The T-Birds will try to get back to their winning ways against the UBC Okanagan Heat, who sit at the bottom of Canada West at 0–16, in Kelowna this weekend. U

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WEEKEND RUNDOWN T-Birds drop back-to-back games against Saskatchewan at home Jordan-Elizabeth Liddell Staff Writer

The UBC women’s hockey team played two games against the visiting Saskatchewan Huskies this weekend.

The Thunderbirds came out of the gate hot on Friday morning, dominating the visitors early in the game.

The opening goal scored by Mikayla Ogrodniczuk came after heavy Thunderbird offensive pressure and was followed quickly

by Hannah Clayton-Carroll’s first of two goals. Up by two, UBC maintained control until a rash of penalties sent the T-Birds into chronic disadvantages.

A cross-checking penalty on Rylind MacKinnon resulted in UBC being short two players. The Huskies capitalized, with Bailee Bourassa putting the visitors back within one.

The game was filled with penalties, making special teams unit an especially important feature of the game.

Two of the Thunderbirds’ three goals were scored on the power play, while the Huskies were able to capitalize only once.

However, in addition to the goal

against on the penalty kill, the early momentum that the Thunderbirds had experienced was lost.

After finding themselves in the box more than their opponent, UBC struggled to find their footing after the first.

Sophie Lalor of the Huskies scored quickly in the second tying the game at 2–2.

The Thunderbird’s ClaytonCarroll managed to put UBC back ahead with her second of the game.

Huskies’ Kennedy Brown opened the third period with an immediate goal. Leah Bohlken then brought Saskatchewan ahead for the first time in the game at 4–3.

UBC pulled goaltender Tory Micklash, who faced 22 shots in the contest, to try and tie the game but ultimately couldn’t find the back of Saskatchewan’s net.

Saturday’s game stayed scoreless through the first period and into the second when Saskatchewan’s Sophie Lalor made her way onto the scoreboard for the second time in two days.

Going into the second period, Jaedon Cooke was the lone Thunderbird who scored on Huskies goaltender Camryn Drever.

For a second day in a row, UBC found themselves in the penalty box

SCORE BOX Sport

Home

Score

Away

Friday, November 15

Women’s Hockey

UBC

Men’s Hockey

Saskatchewan

3–4 Saskatchewan 3–2

UBC

Women’s Basketball

MacEwan

69–83

UBC

Men’s Basketball

MacEwan 67–104

UBC

Women’s Volleyball

UBC

1–3

TWU

Men’s Volleyball

UBC

2–3

TWU

Saturday, November 16

Women’s Hockey Men’s Hockey

UBC Saskatchewan

1–3 Saskatchewan 5–2

UBC

Women’s Basketball

MacEwan

58–75

UBC

Men’s Basketball

MacEwan 73–108

UBC

Women’s Volleyball

UBC

0–3

TWU

Men’s Volleyball

UBC

0–3

TWU

Women’s hockey continue to stumble down the Canada West rankings.

all too often.

The third period, in which the Huskies pulled into the lead, saw the Thunderbirds take three penalties.

Shyan Elias of Saskatchewan snapped a wrister around T-Bird goalie Danielle Wierenga a little over a minute into the third.

Not long after, Abby Shirley widened the goal divide in favour of the Huskies.

In the face of a two-goal deficit, UBC continued to pressure the Huskies defence. They played to win till the last moments of the game, trading Wierenga for a player advantage. Despite

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outworking and outplaying Huskies often in the series, UBC struggled to maintain consistency and took too many penalties.

The squad will stay on campus to play another doubleheader against the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns this weekend. U

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