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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to acknowledge that this paper and the land on which we study and work is the traditional, occupied, unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

“It’s my work, but more importantly, [it’s] the recognition about positive aspects of Indigenous education.”

alex nguyen News Editor

Dr. Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem found her purpose early in life.

In high school in the ’60s, she was forced to navigate a system that either neglected Indigenous history and culture or reduced it to stereotypes. Despite living and feeling the legacy of colonial practices as a member of the Stó:lō First Nations, she recalled not knowing the full history until she studied at UBC. “I often felt ashamed about being Indigenous for what was taught in high school,” she said.

The inclusion of Indigenous knowledge and perspective became a singular focus for Archibald over her 45-year career: in her teacher education assignments, in her development of K-12 curriculum and in her research and work at UBC. So when she learned she had been appointed to the Order of Canada — one of the country’s highest civilian honours — Archibald was more happy about the award’s recognition of the value of Indigenous education than of her as an individual.

“It’s my work, but more importantly, [it’s] the recognition about positive aspects of Indigenous education,” she said.

changing the SySteMS Despite retiring in 2017, Archibald still has a constant presence at UBC — a maple wood sculpture, entitled Dancing Flame, honouring her legacy stands tall in the middle of Ponderosa Commons. Against the glass panels and modern architecture, the sculpture — carved by Anishinaabe artist and graduate from the Indigenous Teacher Education program (NITEP) Dave Robinson — exudes a warm glow, a quiet intensity much like Archibald herself.

She also comes to campus twice weekly, working in her brightly lit office in the same building — an upgrade from the “old army huts” that used to house

Indigenous education programs like NITEP earlier in her career, before the 1993 opening of the First Nations Longhouse.

Sitting near the centre of the university now, Archibald reflected on her life’s work of carving out space for Indigenous education as taking “a baby step” at a time.

Much like her high school experience, her higher education and early career in the K-12 system were riddled with gaps in Indigenous perspectives and representation. She was often the only Indigenous teacher in the school district.

“The challenges that I see are more cumulative in different systems … In high school, [there was] very little [Indigenous content] or what was there was negative, and then nothing in my teacher education program,” she said. “Going into my master’s and doctoral, again [there was] nothing in the core curriculum.”

Undeterred, Archibald responded by focusing on Indigenous topics in all her assignments and working with elders and communities members to include their ways of knowing in her teaching.

Over time, she tackled the system itself. She became involved with NITEP to increase the number of Indigenous teachers, and expanded the effort as she rose to serve as the director of NITEP and the faculty of education’s associate dean for Indigenous education, amongst other leadership positions at UBC. “The work I’ve done here at UBC was really more to change the systems and not to change the Indigenous person,” she said, recalling the effort to review admission policies and programs to ensure that Indigenous communities have input and decision-making roles.

“I felt if an Indigenous person comes to UBC and they choose to use their Indigenous ways of knowing and build on that while they’re learning, that is so important because I think that has been denied or has not been a huge way that the university fostered.”

Changes didn’t come easily.

Those early days were a constant process of “educating, rationalizing and challenging” those who were in decision-making positions.

“Often if Indigeneity was introduced, it was much more as an add-on, as part of the margins,” she said. “… You do a lot of justification, rationalizing to create a little bit of space, and you have to really struggle like getting funding, and then you’re still doing other work too.”

But after decades of advocacy from her and many others, Indigenous education now has a much more central place on campus — from expanded programming to an established “home away from home” in the First Nations Longhouse, to an important place in UBC’s strategic plan.

“Change happens, but rather slowly,” said Archibald.

“Sometimes we take a baby step forward, and then we fall back, get up, go again.”

SuStaining progreSS Archibald is optimistic about the future.

She says the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and its 94 calls to action have allowed for “more awareness than ever before” about the need for including Indigenous history, culture and ways of knowing at all levels of education.

But more needs to be done to sustain progress and continue pushing for Indigeneity’s place at the core of learning. For Archibald, this doesn’t have to be a required course taught on campus — instead, it could be meaningful programming based in Indigenous communities.

She also wants to see more Indigenous representation in leadership roles.

“There are more [Indigenous leadership positions] in not only associate deans but vice provost of Indigenous [affairs] at other universities and I think we need to have positions like that.

But also Indigenous people in deanships and in vice-president roles,” Archibald said, before taking a slight pause.

“Or president, even.”

And this process starts with providing an environment that recognizes Indigenous knowledge and nurtures Indigenous students.

“It’s important you find a program that you believe will honour your Indigenous community, that will help facilitate the way you want to learn and where there are people who will care about you as a student,” said Archibald. “… And I think once we start, there are ways that others can take it up and continue on, and even if there’s resistance or change, I would hope there’d be some people there who would say, ‘This isn’t good enough,’ and question and make change.” U

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UBC considers curbing growth of international enrolment to address space, resource shortage Mario Salazar Contributor

UBC has increased its enrolment numbers consistently for years, but now wants to stop growth to address space and resource limitations.

Over the past few years, domestic intake for undergraduate students at UBC Vancouver — which has to consider the provincial government’s mandate — has been stable. But the population of new international undergraduate students has been growing about 10 per cent annually since 2008/09.

According to the 2018/19 enrolment report, both campuses also exceeded their new-toprogram intake target for international students, with UBC Vancouver enrolling 105 per cent of its target and UBC Okanagan enrolling 147 per cent.

Now, the university is considering stopping the compound annual growth rate for new-to-UBC students — which was three per cent between 2014/15 and 2018/19 — for the next five years by maintaining a flat level of new international student intake.

“UBC’s international enrolments are strategically planned within the context of our

overall undergraduate enrolments,” said UBC Vice-Provost and Associate VP Enrolment and Academic Facilities Pamela Ratner in a statement to The Ubyssey.

“The faculties carefully calibrate their enrolment targets in relation to teaching capacity and program space.”

According to Ratner, the Senate will consider the enrolment intake targets and fiveyear projections in its February meeting before they go to the Board of Governors for approval.

“In its enrolment planning, UBC strives: to slightly surpass the government-funded number of domestic undergraduate students; to increase the enrolment of Aboriginal students; to ensure a strong national representation of domestic students; and to maintain a healthy enrolment of a diverse international student body,” Ratner wrote.

Managing the growth A major consideration in the conversation around enrolment has been UBC’s space and resource capacity. While the university reported that class sizes have not increased substantially over the past years, departments with high demand

have struggled to manage the growth that has already occurred.

UBC’s Undergraduate Chair of Mathematics Dr. Mark MacLean believes the increase makes it very difficult for instructors to give a personalized teaching experience.

“I’m watching my colleagues just get exhausted; they’re just feeling their classes are increasing, support is going down for teaching and that’s discouraging when you want to deliver a certain experience to students and you aren’t in the position to do it,” said MacLean.

He argued that the inability to give personal feedback to students is one of the main consequences of the increase in students.

“If you have more students per person involved in the teaching, you have reduced capacity to give feedback,” MacLean said.

“No matter what kind of teaching mode we have in the institution, at some point [students] both want and need an expert intervention in their learning experience.”

AMS VP Academic University and Affairs Max Holmes thinks the challenge for UBC is to match the growth the university has had with enough resources.

“We need to be making sure that we are putting the resources towards things like student

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A major consideration in the conversation around enrolment has been resource capacity.

services, making sure that we have enough counsellors, making sure that we have enough people to teach these large courses, and [overall] being prepared for something like that,” he said.

Besides its plan to stabilize enrolment growth, UBC continues to build new housing and academic facilities for students.

“In September 2018, the Board of Governors approved the Brock Commons Phase 2 project, which will provide 600 student residence units and academic

facilities, including a new 150seat general-use classroom, advising offices and other student service facilities,” wrote Ratner.

But stakeholders believe the university must also go beyond reactive support.

“From the AMS perspective, of course, we think that UBC could be more transparent to publish a long-term enrolment plan, to share that with the university so that people can understand, so that faculties can plan for this,” said Holmes. U

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Math building in desperate need of replacement, says external review

“This is a really powerful source of mathematical knowledge and leadership, and you can’t tell by looking.”

Thea Udwadia Senior Staff Writer

UBC’s mathematics department is facing a critical shortage of space as its building is unable to accommodate its students or meet the needs of faculty.

A recent external review highlights the space constraints in the mathematics department, stressing the need for a new building. The report identified three “urgent issues”: a lack of resources, inadequate physical infrastructure and a shortage of classroom space.

Department Head Dr. Philip Loewen says the “shabby”

state of the math building isn’t “commensurate and compatible” with the prestigious international ranking of the department.

“In the subject-specific rankings, the UBC math department is in the top 30 in the world,” he said. “This is a really powerful source of mathematical knowledge and leadership, and you can’t tell by looking.”

A matter of numbers Loewen said the new building would mostly be used for the department’s academic needs.

“I think our teaching could be more powerful if we had better

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classrooms and a little more geographical concentration,” he said. The math building’s small size means many classes are taught in other locations across UBC. This not only affects undergraduate students, who have to travel further to reach different classes, but also graduate students and faculty, whose offices and study spaces are distributed widely across campus.

“That creates a little bit of isolation,” said Loewen, “and reduces the crazy little chancemeetings and interactions, that turn out often to stimulate research collaboration.”

A new math building would expand the existing amount of seats open in classrooms for students, which the Senate review also underlined as an important issue.

According to Loewen, many of the classrooms in the math buildings are too small to even accommodate section sizes, which is one of the reasons why multiple classes are delivered in other buildings.

Loewen says talks about a new mathematics building have been in motion for decades. Even in the last external review — completed in 2011 — the construction of a new building was flagged as a high, urgent priority.

According to UBC Managing Director at Infrastructure Development Jennifer Sanguinetti, new projects are prioritized according to the “strategic value and operational benefit” of the proposed building.

She believes that the math department has “very compelling reasons” for the construction of a new building, but there is currently no timeline for its actual construction. She said a building of this scale would likely take three to four years to design and build.

All about the money Despite the long delay in securing a new building, Loewen acknowledged that there seems to be progress. The building was recently given “Executive

1” priority, meaning they now have approval to start formally planning the new building and looking for a site.

But funding remains a challenge.

Loewen says the estimated cost of a new building would be as high as $100 million. The construction of new buildings are often partially financed by donors to offset the high cost of the project.

According to Sanguinetti, how fast the project moves forward depends a lot on how individual faculties or departments champion its funding.

“When you look at the academic buildings being built, it’s happening because of the championing at the level of the individual faculties or departments, who have decided that that’s their priority,” she said.

“And they focus their development efforts in terms of fundraising.”

But Loewen says UBC shouldn’t have to wait for a donor to provide vital infrastructure.

“It’s well known that in order to get a new building constructed on campus, a great step forward that will make anything happen is for some donor to show up with $30 million,” he said.

“What we’d really like is for the university to recognize that mathematics is a fundamentally important core academic discipline ... and even if we can’t get somebody from the private sector to bankroll it, it’s a worthwhile use of the university’s budget.” u

4 | News | tuEsDAY january 29, 2019 housing //

UBC delays controversial Stadium Road Neighbourhood plan following resident backlash

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While residents are hoping for a considerably smaller development, the AMS is taking the opposite stance.

Ben Musset Contributor

UBC’s upcoming Stadium Road Neighbourhood has been delayed as community concerns continue to plague the project.

In a letter dated January 3, UBC Board of Governors (BoG) Chair Michael Korenberg announced the university will consider additional opportunities for UBC community housing, the development’s impact on local services and further consult with the Musqueam Indian Band before moving forward with a final plan.

However, the university does not appear to be reconsidering the neighbourhood’s proposed density or building heights, which remain at the heart of residents’ concerns.

UBC began drafting plans and consulting the public on this project in the fall of 2017. UBC Campus and Community Planning (CC+P) was previously slated to present a final neighbourhood plan to the BoG in February. Now, according to Director of Planning and Design Gerry McGeough, CC+P expects to present the plan “later in 2019.”

Stadium Road Neighbourhood will be located near the south end of UBC’s Point Grey campus and will feature a mix of marketrate condominiums and rental housing. A new stadium will also be constructed near East Mall and West 16th Avenue to replace Thunderbird Stadium.

In his letter, Korenberg said that the BoG’s Housing Action Plan Working Group has expressed interest in dedicating “up to two-thirds” of the neighbourhood to rental housing, a significant development from previous proposals that only allocated a third of residential space for rental housing with the

remaining two-thirds allotted to market-rate condos.

McGeough says the neighbourhood’s rental housing would include a share of discounted units for university faculty and staff as well as other restricted rental housing available to students at market rates comparable to similar housing developments on campus.

Proposed towers rile local residents Murray McCutcheon, a university area resident and UBC alumnus, is pleased with the university’s decision to extend Stadium Road Neighbourhood’s planning and consultation process. But he says UBC hasn’t addressed concerns about the project’s proposed density and building heights.

“There’s overwhelming opposition to a density greater than 1 million square feet and to heights that are being proposed up to 32 storeys,” said McCutcheon.

Based on preliminary plans released in the fall, Stadium Road Neighbourhood is expected to include 1.5 million square feet of housing, including four or five towers as high as 32 storeys. This proposed level of density and building height would require the Province to amend UBC’s Land Use Plan, which only permits buildings up to 65 metres or approximately 20 storeys.

McCutcheon believes the university’s proposed plans will have a detrimental impact on the area’s “sense of community, belonging and livability,” and could set a negative precedent for the university to ignore the Land Use Plan when designing future developments. He also worries about the pressures an additional 3,700 people could have on local services and amenities.

“We’re not opposed to the use of land to create sustainability for the university but there’s essentially one model being put forth here and one proposal, and it’s 1.5 million square foot,” said McCutcheon. “Where did the number come from? Why 32 storeys? None of this has really been unpacked or shared in consultation.”

McCutcheon says he has gathered 1,480 signatures on a petition calling for UBC to reduce the Stadium Road Neighbourhood’s proposed density and building heights so they fall within limits set out in the current Land Use Plan.

He’s also met with David Eby, Vancouver-Point Grey MLA and BC Attorney General, whose government will have the final say over how the project proceeds.

But it seems unlikely that UBC will change its mind.

“The housing and building heights proposed for Stadium [Road] Neighbourhood are a result of relocating Thunderbird Stadium to a more efficient [area] that frees up additional neighbourhood land, significant pressure for more UBC community housing, and a need to provide important community amenities,” explained McGeough.

He added that the university has gone through “extensive technical work to develop this proposal.”

McCutcheon says he and other neighbourhood residents will continue to encourage the university to reconsider.

AMS pushes for more, Musqueam’s stance unclear While residents are hoping for a considerably smaller development, the Alma Mater Society (AMS) is taking the opposite stance.

The society’s plan would expand housing in Stadium Road Neighbourhood from 1.5 to 1.8 million square feet, featuring market-rate condos and options for faculty ownership. It would also restrict rental housing to faculty, staff and students, including some discounted units for faculty and staff members.

Max Holmes, VP Academic and University Affairs, says that the AMS’s support for Stadium Road Neighbourhood is driven by Vancouver’s housing crisis.

“Making sure that there is more available housing, especially close to campus for faculty, staff and students should be a priority when housing insecurity is such an issue,” Holmes said.

When asked about the contention over Stadium Road Neighbourhood’s proposed density and building heights, Holmes said that the AMS respects all perspectives but feels these concerns are irrelevant compared to ongoing housing troubles faced by many at the university. Fourteen per cent of respondents to the last Academic Experience Survey said they’ve experienced housing insecurity during their time at UBC. “We don’t have much sympathy for those arguments just because many of the arguments that we’ve heard come from a point of privilege,” said Holmes.

But it is unclear how affordable Stadium Road Neighbourhood will be for students. While some rental housing is expected to be discounted at approximately 25 per cent below market rate, these units will only be available to faculty and staff members, not students.

However, Holmes believes that Stadium Road Neighbourhood will have an indirect impact on housing affordability by reducing waitlists for more affordable

housing elsewhere on campus and by growing the university’s endowment, which he believes could be used to fund additional student housing.

Holmes said he is also glad to hear the university is further consulting with the Musqueam Indian Band on this project. The proposed development — and the university as a whole — are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

“Without respectful and in-depth consultation with Musqueam, AMS and our members could never support the neighbourhood development or be a part of the process going forward,” Holmes said.

Musqueam’s position on Stadium Road represents more uncertainty for the project.

In November, Leona Sparrow, the director of Treaty, Lands and Resources for Musqueam, said that the band was “not in favour of the development at all.” When reached by phone last week, Sparrow declined to comment on where the band currently stands.

Musqueam is currently in the process of building a 2,500-person neighbourhood near Pacific Spirit Park, along University Boulevard.

Besides community opposition and potential conflict with Musqueam, UBC might also soon face backlash over the plan to remove trees to make room for the site of the new stadium, a frequent consequence of development that often ruffles feathers on campus.

The BoG Housing Action Plan Working Group is scheduled to meet and discuss the various issues surrounding the Stadium Road Neighbourhood Plan on January 29.

Chair Korenberg has invited Murray McCutcheon to join them. U

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UBC Italian Student’s Association collaborates with Italian Consulate Riya Talitha Senior Staff Writer

It was on a train heading to Monte Carlo in the summer of their third year at UBC when Lorenzo de Bernardini and Anna Lazzereschi first started talking about the possibility of starting a club for Italian students.

“We look around and we see huge communities … and they all know each other and we don’t. … We thought we had to start something so that we could make a group and unite all the Italians on campus,” said de Bernardini, who is currently president of the UBC Italian Student’s Association (ITASA).

Now-treasurer Lazzereschi and a few friends who are current club executives were the ones who sent in the club application to the AMS in August 2017. But it was only after tumultuous processing delays and issues, which caused de Bernardini to call on the AMS omsbudperson, that ITASA was finally granted official club status in early 2018.

Despite growing pains, ITASA has been extremely successful in building relationships and working collaboratively with UBC student associations, outside

organizations and surprisingly, the Italian Consulate in Vancouver.

A few club members approached the Italian Cultural Centre in search of collaboration opportunities, who then directed them to the Cultural Office of the Italian Consulate. Due to its role in carrying out actions to promote the Italian language and culture, the consulate was very happy to work with the student group.

ITASA has an ongoing film screening series and the last film shown, La Banda Grossi, (The Grossi Gang) was attended by the director, Claudio Ripalti, and the Italian Consul who suggested that the film be screened at UBC. It was also through the consulate that ITASA has connections with Italian grocery stores and importers in Vancouver from whom they source the food and drinks served at their events. It is all imported directly from Italy and is part of the club’s efforts to share their culture.

“There is a reason we don’t go to Spaghetti Factory,” said de Bernardini Apart from an ambitious event schedule, ITASA also offers weekly workshops to students

ITASA has connections with Italian grocery stores and importers in Vancouver.

who are studying Italian and would like to practice with native speakers. “[Our club] doesn’t represent the stereotypes about Italy

that people think, but what we’re trying to show is the true culture and what it actually means to come from Italy,” said Lazzereschi.

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“Whatever is shown [in popular culture] doesn’t really represent Italian culture and we’re trying to show the truth,” said de Bernardini. U

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Hexsa’am: To Be Here Always defines a nation through a sea of voices

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In that same summer, a group of over a dozen artists gathered to address these threats to unceded territory and water.

Coleman Pete Staff Writer

In May 2018, the Dzawada̱ ʼenux̱w First Nation of Kingcome Inlet, BC launched a BC Supreme Court case to extend Aboriginal Title to the ocean with the intent of dismantling salmon farming in the Broughton Archipelago. That same summer, a group of over a dozen artists gathered to address these threats to unceded territory and water.

Hexsa’a̱ m: To Be Here Always at the UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is the result of this — a collection of works from artists

of many nations and of diverse mediums. The exhibit centres on the resistance and pride of an entire nation in the face of pressure from the Canadian government and private corporate interests.

It’s an experience that not only seeks to transport the viewer to the Kingcome Inlet but also to promote a familiarity with the context of the issue through the timeless songs, dance and art of the Dzawada̱ ʼenux̱w.

The best primer for contextualizing the exhibit came in the form of storytelling, seen written in Video interview

transcript with Melissa Willie, Midori Nicholson and Willie Moon from Summer 2018. Here, three members of band governance explain their perspective on battles with salmon farming and logging companies on their unceded territory.

A similar piece, A’axsila (to take care of ) by Lindsey Willie (Dzawada̱ ’enux̱ w), portrays the same theme through photojournalism. Both explain the situation in Kingcome Inlet and inject a sense of anger and desire to learn more about the issue.

In the same room, Feast Dish Lid is a poignant symbol of the potlatch — a tradition subjected to a lengthy ban in Canada from 1885 to 1951. Other pieces show innovative uses of mediums by artists such as Akia by Siku Allooloo (Inuit/Haitain Taino), which features a display of sealskin on canvas arranged in the form of poetic script. These works show that the exhibit isn’t limited by nation or medium and that their message is emboldened by the wide range of perspectives offered.

The real emotional power of this exhibit comes after context has been achieved. Several pieces highlight the essence of Hexsa’am, where the viewer is granted a window into what this entire exhibit is about: the land. Great, sweeping shots of the landscape of the Kingcome Inlet are showcased in Hexsa’a̱ m (To be there always) by Marianne Nicolson (Dzawada̱ ’enux̱w) and Althea Thauberger (Canadian) as well as with Gwa’yi by Nabidu Taylor (Musgamakw, Dzawada̱ ’enux̱w).

These photos show the joy of a child singing, dancing and swimming in and alongside the inlet’s waters. The importance of the preservation of these lands and waters, of song, of dance and of language is made clear here.

The songs and sounds from these pieces reverberate throughout the Belkin in a way that continues to echo in the head of the viewer. A lasting impression of Hexsa’a̱ m persists, as does a desire to stay invested and involved in their efforts. U Hexsa’a̱ m: To Be Here Always is on at the Belkin until April 7, 2019.

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6 | Culture | tuESDAY january 29, 2019 Slam... poetry. Yelling! Angry! //

UBC Slam increases reach for upcoming poetry chapbook publication Chimedum Ohaegbu Staff Writer

Between Instapoets and the proliferation of micropoems, poetry is experiencing a Renaissance, enjoying an increase in the numbers and the passion of its readers. UBC Slam Poetry, no stranger to poetry’s magnetic tug, continues that trend on campus by calling for submissions for its fourth chapbook.

Submissions are open to students of all faculties, as long as they pay the $5 membership fee, until February 15. As with their previous publications, Slam is creating this edition to highlight both slam and for-thepage poetry, genres that Slam’s VP External Communications, Anjalica Solomon, acknowledges as distinct and unique.

“Slam poetry involves an audience that’s so present,” Solomon explained. “Whereas, when you’re writing, your audience is practically invisible.”

Invisible or visible, the audience for this chapbook will be, Solomon hopes, bigger due to a collaboration with The

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by Slam will be published in the Culture section of the paper as well. The chapbook is also taking submissions for cover art. This expansion of the submission pool will increase the workload for a club whose usual features include biweekly meetings and workshops and is an outreach prospect Solomon is interested in.

“We just want to validate everyone’s art,” she said. “It’s more about being part of this community.”

She noted published and unpublished works are welcome, but that Slam prefers unpublished work, “just for the sake of encouraging people to keep writing new things.”

“I’m excited when people experiment with their poetry a little bit,” said Solomon. “So I’d say if you’re unsure about going [to] a certain place, just be brave and go deep.”

Solomon was published in an earlier edition of Slam’s yearly, and now has her own chapbook out, something she partially credits to the confidence she gained from the success of that first submission.

Slam prefers unpublished work, “just for the sake of encouraging people to keep writing new things.”

“You get one win, and then you feel like you can have another one, and that’s the idea of it —making people feel like they can.”

UBC Slam is planning a launch party for April that will include

performances by student writers and guest poets. At past launches, featured speakers have included luminaries like Sheri-D Wilson and UBC alum and CBC Poetry Prizewinner Alessandra Naccarato. U

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For more information on how to submit work to the 2019 UBC Slam Poetry chapbook, visit the UBC Slam Poetry Facebook page. The winning submission will be published in an upcoming Ubyssey issue.

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The Pit celebrates its 50th birthday with a crowd of AMS executives, Dr. David Suzuki and unaware party-goers and it’s good for the students,” he said during the event.

While the atmosphere of the afternoon’s event was incredibly nostalgic, the birthday party was only attended by a small crowd of AMS staff and UBC administrators.

In contrast, that night’s Pit Night was very well attended.

By 10 p.m. the wait to get in was nearly an hour long. The line up wrapping through the lower atrium of the Nest was boisterous — though people did seem frustrated by how long they had to wait. Most seemed unaware that it was the Pit’s 50th birthday; when told, they were delighted to be celebrating an event that they didn’t know was occurring.

The event also saw the unveiling of a new mural, featuring quotes from Suzuki’s UBC Reports opinion piece.

Angela O’Donnell Senior Staff Writer

On January 23, the Pit Pub celebrated its 50th birthday. The AMS hosted a celebration within the pub itself that afternoon.

The exclusive event had speeches from UBC interim VP Students Andrew Parr, AMS President Marium Hamid, a filmed video from President Santa Ono and remarks from noted ‘father of the Pit’ professor emeritus Dr. David Suzuki. The speakers touched on their personal experiences with the pub.

While it may seem odd that Suzuki was in attendance, he is attributed for building the foundations that started the student bar.

In a UBC Reports article from 1968, Suzuki advocated for a pub on campus in order to break down boundaries between students and faculty.

In his speech at last week’s event, he reiterated the importance of giving students the chance to meet with professors in a relaxed environment.

“How the hell do you take this experience in a gigantic

“[The Pit] is obviously a big staple in UBC, everyone comes here to let loose,” one student in the line up said. “It truly represents UBC.” When asked where the Pit would be in 50 years, a different student said, “I see it still upholding the UBC tradition and keeping everyone going.”

As students waited to distract themselves from studying and dance the night away, there wasn’t a professor in sight.

Suzuki’s original intention of the Pit may not yet be fully realized, but students seemed genuinely enthusiastic about the night’s prospects on the Pit’s birthday soirée — even if they didn’t know what they were celebrating. U

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university and give kids an opportunity to really get to know a professor … I still feel a pub offers this opportunity.”

“It was an opportunity to come and talk to the students in a very different situation from the classroom,” Suzuki added about his personal experience of going to the Pit as a professor.

The event also saw the unveiling of a new mural, featuring quotes from Suzuki’s UBC Reports opinion piece.

“I am delighted to be acknowledged as having tried to kick it off … It’s something I did

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Playing probabilities How data helped break a 35-year national championship drought

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Clockwise from top left: MacDonald looking through his team’s data; the 2018/19 roster playing; the 2018 national championship win; the 2017/18 roster playing.

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n 2016, a new men’s volleyball head coach stepped onto the court at War Memorial Gym for the first time in 13 years. It was his first head coaching role in a Canadian university.

He was young. He was an academic.

Two years later, his team were national champions.

Though the Thunderbirds had a core of Canada’s top talent — including Irvan Brar, Byron Keturakis, Fynn McCarthy and Matt Guidi — coach Kerry MacDonald brought something to the UBC makeup that only his PhD in injury prevention could provide: a winning formula.

Its components? Statistical analysis of Canada West’s everchanging benchmarks, serving analysis and in-depth injury prevention techniques. Beyond the numbers,

MacDonald’s strategy is building a stronger game.

THE FINER DETAILS Though a volleyball player throughout his teens, MacDonald switched to coaching when he moved to Calgary for his undergraduate degree. His coaching resume throughout his years of academia includes an assistant coaching role with the Calgary Dinos volleyball team, and roles with the national teams’ full-time training centre and the youth national team program.

Having completed his undergraduate degree, he went back to do his master’s in coaching and worked as a coach with Volleyball Canada. In that role, he fortuitously coached the son of the

University of Calgary’s Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre director, current NHL medical director — and MacDonald’s eventual PhD supervisor — Dr. Willem Meeuwisse.

“He convinced me — at age 30, with my first child on the way — to quit my job and go back and be a PhD student and [it was] probably the best decision I’ve ever made,” MacDonald said of Meeuwisse. “...

The injury prevention piece was really exciting, but [the postgraduate idea] was around coaching and trying to help athletes.”

MacDonald brought that injury prevention expertise to UBC where he advocated for a new way of thinking about volleyball: by the numbers, the stats and the probabilities.

With the help of James Brotherhood, former director of sports science and sports medicine at UBC, MacDonald

found a team to help with data collection and hired a data collector to begin noting the minute details of each men’s volleyball athlete, well beyond what box scores are able to provide.

In Canada West — UBC’s regional league within national university sport — volleyball teams are generally limited to what is available within the box score when it comes to data. That includes stats like aces, services errors, kills — the bare bones of the sport.

That is, teams that aren’t the Thunderbirds.

MacDonald’s staff notes every particularity of UBC’s game. His team also tracked data from other Canada West team throughout their seasons, allowing the Thunderbirds to numerically analyze how they needed to play against each school to win.

In terms of the data’s analysis, MacDonald did that work himself.

With Canada West teams winning 30 of the last 32 national championships, MacDonald believed that tracking data only across the Western teams would give them a good chance of winning nationals in the 2017/18 season.

That mentality paid off. UBC won the national title for the first time in 35 years on March 19, 2018, defeating Canada West rivals and two-time reigning national champions, the Trinity Western Spartans, in three sets.

The data goes beyond the comparative. With thousands of data points accumulated throughout the season, MacDonald is able to peg individual athletes’ key performance indicators and better their game as a unit.

For UBC in the 2017/18 season, that strength was serves.

MacDonald’s data surrounding both his team and opposing teams, comparing them to championship standards. Green meets or surpasses the standard, while red means they fall short.

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PLAYING TO YOUR STRENGTHS From what is available in the standard Canada West box score, you can only see the serves that results in a direct point or a direct error, and nothing in between like serves that started a rally, for example. For MacDonald and his team, they believed that that wasn’t enough.

“On the high end, that’s probably [only] 30 per cent of all serves in a game. What we started doing was diving more into the 70 per cent and understanding the nuances within the 70 per cent,” MacDonald explained.

“We started developing ... a pointscoring probability for every single serve. So when that player serves, what’s the probability that we’re going [to get] the point. But, to take it a little bit deeper … we started using radar guns to track the velocity of serves to start understanding what were the optimal velocities to maximize that point-scoring probability.”

With that system, MacDonald was able to determine optimal velocities for each of his players, data that could then be translated into individual athlete profiles. Through his first season as head coach, those profiles were developed and by the 2017/18 season, they were being used to hone the ‘perfect’ serve for each Thunderbird.

It was unlike anything done in volleyball previously.

“Traditionally in volleyball ... players kind of go back to the line and they hit a serve and it’s almost a different sort of serve every single time; they serve to a different player, they serve a little bit harder, little softer depending on the time of the match or whatever else,” MacDonald said.

“We kind of threw all of those other variables out and we said, ‘No, let’s just develop one really good serve, let’s find the best serve for you…’”

By the end of their 2017/18 championship season, MacDonald’s

team led U Sports with 215 service aces, 51 more than their next closest competitor. They had set the record in Canada We kind of threw all of West in aces per set with 2.34 and starting setter those other variables Keturakis had set the U Sports individual aces out and we said, ‘No, records with 65.

“It kind of let’s just develop one became what we are known for ... just really good serve, let’s being a really, really find the best serve for hard serving team.

And I think a lot of you…’ people would say it’s why we won a national championship,” MacDonald – Kerry MacDonald said.

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Each team member receives their own load-monitoring device that fits into a waistband.

STAYING IN PEAK CONDITION

volleyball and something that can cause overuse injuries — as well as how much

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With the U Sports volleyball season beginning in October, ending — if playoffs are in the cards — in March and consisting of back-toback games scheduled almost every weekend during those months, staying healthy is a key concern for teams.

For MacDonald, finding the balance around each athlete’s training regime was something that worked into his area of expertise. He just had to add in one component: accelerometers.

A small, USB-like device that slips into a waistband, accelerometers are worn by each player on the roster in practices and in games. The device monitors the average height of jumps — a key movement in

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they’ve jumped in a session.

With the information MacDonald receives from those devices, his staff can do load monitoring for each athlete to keep them game-ready.

“Our sport is predominantly a chronic injury based sport ... almost 80 per cent of our injuries [are] overuse shoulder, overuse knee and overuse back.

By monitoring that load and not having huge big swings and [monitoring] how much training we’re doing at any time, we’re able to kind of mitigate our issues and stay very, very healthy.”

That data can also help evaluate each athlete’s prime work rate leading into games, be that how many jumps they do in a practice or what their

At nationals, guys were feeling great.

While other teams were feeling beatup, we were in peak condition.

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weight room training looks like.

“Throughout the week, [athletes] may get a bit more time off or we may not train them as hard because we see … they jumped a lot on a Friday and Saturday weekend playing,” MacDonald said.

As current team captain Joel Regehr explained, the data is added to their reported pain scores before and after practices and games, to be as accurate as possible in determining an athlete’s condition.

“If you’re really thinking about it, it kind of helps you get a better grip on how your body is feeling and how you prepared for practice as well …

[MacDonald] can track where it is on the graph throughout the week, the month and the whole season. It can allow guys just to be more … mindful of how their bodies are feeling,” Regehr said.

That injury prevention work by MacDonald’s team made sure the players were in top form for the national

championship last year.

“Guys were hurt at certain points throughout the season but they were very minimal injuries because I think we’ve managed really well,” Regehr said. “At nationals, guys were feeling great. While other teams were feeling beat-up, we were in peak condition.”

Graduated team captain Irvan Brar, who now plays professional volleyball in Germany, also saw the individual benefits of MacDonald’s load monitoring work throughout their roster last year.

“With this type of environment for student athletes, where sleep might be sacrificed for educational attainments, our team was feeling fresh and energized heading into our post-season versus feeling drained and worn down,” he said in a statement to The Ubyssey.

“That kind of attentiveness to detail put us in the position to perform our best when it counted most and ultimately lead to the end result of the Thunderbirds winning our first national championship in 35 years.”

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BUYING IN Though risk came with reward in that 2017/18 season, the Thunderbirds experienced their own hiccups on the run-up to their national title. That year, the team had the most service errors in Canada and lost some statistically winnable games while testing out certain serves — two small blips on an otherwise spotless resume.

“We knew that ... when we’re serving that aggressively, when it’s on, we’re going to have some very successful weekends and … [at] the top of the [statistical] range, no one’s going to touch us, MacDonald said. “When we’re at the bottom of the range, we could lose to anybody in the league.”

Balancing those odds and taking the risk is not unlike MacDonald’s own path to the team. As a soon-to-be PhD candidate in injury prevention at the University of Calgary, MacDonald saw the posting for the UBC head coaching role and applied.

A university coaching position had always been at the front of his mind

and he only had two schools in mind: Calgary and UBC. “I thought the odds of either of those positions becoming available were next to none. And so when the UBC position did get posted, I kind of threw a hail Mary … thinking there’s no chance they’re going to hire a young coach, that’s really just some scientist, for the position,” MacDonald said.

Even so, he threw his name in, knowing that he would only accept the position if he was able to come and do research simultaneously, creating a living laboratory with the team.

“Little did I know that that would be really well-received by UBC and that’s really a push and initiative of our department is to be cutting edge on the science side,” MacDonald said.

In 2014, UBC invested in sport science and innovation within Athletics.

The support allowed the department to improve on mental performance, nutrition, strength and conditioning and athlete care like physiotherapy.

“Kerry’s resume didn’t have the experience that we would typically be

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The application MacDonald’s team uses to get live updates on his team’s jump statistics.

THE PAYOFF With most of their star players from last season now playing pro, Hawkins and MacDonald are testing out the data on a younger core of athletes.

“A lot of them are first time here, so we’re actually giving them brand new serves, we’re changing their serves all together,” MacDonald explained. “...

We’re, just like [in] my first year [as head coach], where we’re collecting the data and seeing what seems to work for each individual and giving them the serve that we think will be the best for them in the long run.”

The team had a tough first semester, going 2-10 through their first two months of games. That said, MacDonald is still optimistic about the years to come for the Thunderbirds.

“We have phenomenal human beings on our team and they’re tremendous athletes and I’m confident that with time it’s going to work out. I do believe that we have a process that with time will bring success back to the men’s volleyball team.”

And the Thunderbirds have that wealth of data knowledge and their cutting-edge techniques to continue to elevate their game, both as individuals and as a team.

“It’s really easy to put the devices on people and collect information and have it sitting in an iPad. It’s a lot more to take that data from an iPad and develop a dashboard system with filters and slicers to visually display all of that data

and assess trend lines and whatnot,” MacDonald said. “So yeah, I think we’re taking it to a deeper level than than any of our competitors.”

For department staff, MacDonald’s strategies for training and injury prevention are an exemplary case for their use of sport science among teams going forward.

“Kerry is an instrumental part of [their case] because he was the leader and has the background and was striving for that and we were as a department supporting it, all those cogs started to move together and were greased really well, so it’s just a really good example of how when it does work, what can be done in Athletics,” Senior Manager of Sports Science and Sports Medicine Samantha Ebata said.

MacDonald’s ideas are even beginning to trickle down to other Thunderbird teams. Women’s volleyball is beginning to implement some of MacDonald’s ideas around injury prevention and load monitoring, while the women’s hockey team is interested in the analytics.

“What Kerry’s done is really demonstrated a stronger connection between science and implementation and when you see it implemented, and it works then all of a sudden, you start

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looking for a head coach, but he did have an incredible education. And so it [peaked] our interest ... We thought the potential would pay off, not just for volleyball but potentially for the department in terms of helping to shift more people towards that innovation mindset,” UBC Athletics’ Director of Performance and Team Support Gord Hopper said.

Now, three years since accepting the role, he has a national championship in hand and a role with Volleyball Canada as the director of sports science and innovation — a new position created in the sport’s national governing body.

He also earned a Coach of the Year nomination from Sport BC. The winner will be announced in March.

Though he is no longer the head coach at UBC, he has stayed on in an assistant coaching role, sharing an office with long-time friend, former UBC Okanagan coach and current UBC head coach Mike Hawkins.

“I like to tell people every day is kind of a new adventure and I don’t really know necessarily where things are going to go,” MacDonald said.

Fifth-year Joel Regehr serves for UBC.

able to come up with a zone within 10km/hr at which we served best and got us to train hitting our serves within that range.

Now coming into my pro career I’ve been able to train myself into staying within those targets cause I know that’s where I’ll be most effective for my team and many teams moving forward.”

Going forward, Brar hopes MacDonald can help his professional team implement similar loadmonitoring technology into their training.

Within the UBC Athletics department, Hopper sees that direct correlation between MacDonald’s sport science work and their national title, particularly when considering the low injury rates within the roster and the serve data. But perhaps what resonates is the mentality the sports scientist brings to the team.

“His style of coaching, which is not about sport science, has really created an incredible sense of team with the guys. They really pull together and support each other,” Hopper said. “I think that they’re really developing as individuals who are making decisions and accountable for those decisions on the court and that’s helping them develop both as players and as people.”

What Kerry’s done is really demonstrated

a stronger connection between science and implementation.

– Gord Hopper to pay more attention to it. So I think what we’re seeing, like some of the load monitoring work that he’s doing, I think that that is contagious in a really positive way,” Hopper said.

For Brar, the work MacDonald did with the team has continued to impact his professional career with German side Düren SWD Powervolleys.

“The work Kerry implemented with us has carried beyond just that of winning the championship but has also translated into my first pro-season overseas in Germany,” Brar said. “With calculating percentages of errors with our point scoring percentages in matches we were

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In retrospect, UBC’s national win isn’t entirely down to the numbers, though. Each year is different — teams change and variations occur outside of what can be added into a spreadsheet. Perhaps most importantly, the numbers don’t reflect the overall attitude of the team itself.

“I think that, you know, sports science played a role in our success.

But at the end of the day, I think the individuals ... the athletes won the championship, and the culture within the group and the quality of the humans that we get to work with within the program is really what excites me more so than the spreadsheets,” MacDonald said.

For Regehr, that is perhaps the biggest takeaway from all of the data: the reassurance for their community around the attitude the team exudes.

“You can try and believe as hard as you want that you’re going to beat another team, or that you have the ability to beat another team, not that you’re going to do it but that you have the ability to do it. But when you have evidence such as that, it definitely contributes to a sense of confidence going in.”

And, in the end, it’s still an everchanging game.

“We believe that we have a process and with our players that we had last year, we were definitely like a high risk, high reward [team].

But ... we didn’t actually see it that way,” MacDonald said. “We were just playing probabilities.” U

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Letter: Being the only survivor in the room Max Holmes Contributor

Disclaimer: This letter discusses sexual assault, sexual harassment, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. If you need support, please contact the Sexual Assault Support Center, Student Health Services or the Wellness Centre.

One year ago, I wrote about my own personal experience as a survivor of sexual assault and the struggles I continue to have with my own mental health and well being. In one year, I have worked with survivors and allies to push the university to support survivors, but I admit I have made mistakes along the journey. I’ve been waiting to write this letter for a long time. This letter serves not only as my apology to my community but also as a call to action for survivors and allies to help create a UBC community that supports survivors. I have apologized before but I chose to write this letter now because of the opportunity to take action to support survivors.

The next couple of months will be crucial in the long struggle to support survivors of sexual violence at UBC. This is the story of my experience as the only survivor in the room.

Before I continue, I want to acknowledge that for many of the meetings and issues I discuss, there may have been other survivors of sexual violence in the room that I was unaware of. This letter is only meant to reflect on my own experience as feeling like the only survivor in the room.

One year ago, I found myself in the difficult position of realizing that UBC was still doing very little to address systemic issues of sexual violence. Since the passage of Policy 131, the UBC Vancouver Senate had done little to address issues of sexual violence — but soon after I joined the Senate, an opportunity arose in one of the committees.

The Content and Distribution of Course Syllabi Policy, which would mandate all courses have syllabi with certain resources on them, was being created.

When I arrived, I saw that, like many Senate committees, the Academic Policy Committee was mostly older men. When I raised the issue of including both the UBC Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) and the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) as student support resources on the syllabus, I was shocked and disheartened by some of the responses I got. I remember being asked whether the issue of sexual violence was prevalent enough to justify including it in the policy.

After the committee meeting, I felt worn down, as if all my energy was drained from my body. I had to sit in a committee of fellow senators, many of whom I respected, and listen to some of them dismiss the issue of sexual violence as not relevant to every classroom. At this point, I began to truly realize the emotional drain of being the only survivor in the room.

These types of situations with the university would continue for

“I and the other executives quickly realized our mistake but our decision still hurt many survivors and allies.”

the entirety of my time as AMS VP Academic and University Affairs (VPAUA). Soon, every time an issue related to sexual violence came forward, I would build up all the emotional strength I had. This strength would often only last long enough for me to fight the issue and then I would find myself worn down again.

Despite the difficulty of advocating on issues of sexual violence, I knew that I could make a difference and the hope that I could help my community and survivors like me kept me going.

Hope is also what made me decide to run for my second term as VPAUA and student senator.

During my second election, I found myself in a room with the Inter-Fraternity Council, being questioned by multiple fraternity men about survivor-centric support. After the conversation, I felt horrible and knew that I had to speak out and reject their endorsement. I was shocked by the groundswell of support I received from my letter — but I wasn’t ready for the level of backlash I received.

I remember the first night that I read one of the anonymous threats I was sent after my letter was published. I felt unsafe at my own home and wherever I went.

I had never received a threat on my life before or even experienced such violent and hateful language directed at me.

In my second year, the AMS would be faced with a difficult decision about the SASC. When we began to discuss the future of SASC as an executive team, I found myself emotionally torn.

After months of exhausting advocacy, I had convinced myself that we had no other choice. After the decision to cut SASC’s support services, I felt a familiar cold and lonely feeling. I and the other executives quickly realized our mistake but our decision still hurt many survivors and allies.

I was determined to be open and to not hide my emotions after we made the decision. I tried to answer every survivor and ally who emailed or messaged me. I let them know my sorrow for being part of a decision that retraumatized survivors. Despite being open and honest in the aftermath and the reversal of the decision, I was still a part of the decision and I did everything I could to own my part in it.

The weeks after the SASC decision were the most alone I have felt since I tried to take my own life in first year. I considered resigning, I considered leaving UBC and I considered worse. My closest friends and loved ones were there for me though and I found solace when individual members of my community let me know they disagreed with the decision but did forgive me after the reversal.

Months later, I do still have a shadow that follows me around UBC. The most difficult criticism that has caused me sleepless nights since the SASC decision is when I am told “you’re not survivorcentric,” or “you don’t care about survivors.” I accept that I will never be able to be forgiven by some community members but it does hurt to know that anyone could hold this opinion.

I cannot apologize enough for playing a role in this decision. I am incredibly sorry for all of the pain it caused and for letting my supporters and community down.

I have always tried to support survivors and I have always fought for a UBC community that supports survivors. I will always be sorry for being a part of this decision and I will never stop trying to do everything in my power to make up for this mistake.

My own story and the stories of so many survivors has helped me realize the opportunity that is in front of the student body. After years of advocacy by survivors and allies, I have never been more hopeful than I am now that we can create a community that supports survivors. There are four major initiatives though that will need involvement from both survivors and allies to ensure their success.

First, one of the most pressing issues at UBC has been academic concessions for survivors. In September, I proposed and helped to create a working group of university experts to review the Academic Concessions Policy.

The new draft policy has been consulted on with both SASC and SVPRO to help write a survivor-centric policy that will be consulted on this semester and hopefully passed this year.

Also, Policy 131 itself is flawed in many ways. In September, the AMS wrote a submission to the Board of Governors to call for the University to review Policy 131 and the University has agreed to review and consult on the Policy next academic year.

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Despite the reversal of the SASC decision, there is still a major funding deficit for the SASC. There has been significant work to propose a fee increase that will ensure that the SASC is funded for years to come. The referendum will be open during the AMS elections this March.

Finally, the AMS itself does not have a standalone policy on sexual violence. A working group led by the current AMS VP Administration, Chris Hakim, has helped to create the AMS’s first internal policy on Sexual Violence. The policy is open to public consultation now and hopefully will be passed by AMS Council this year.

All of these initiatives are in progress and none of them are guaranteed to be successful.

In order for any of them to be accomplished, there has to be support and involvement from survivors and allies. Students must show up and make their voices heard for change to be possible. So please, if you are a student and you want survivors supported, come out and show that you support them. Whether it’s attending a town hall, voting in favour of the SASC fee increase referendum, or sharing one of the upcoming consultations, please come out and support survivors.

Your help is needed now more than ever. U Max Holmes, third-year arts student, is AMS VP Academic and University Affairs as well as a student member of the UBC Vancouver Senate. All opinions expressed in this article are his own.

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COURTESY UBC JAZZ CAFE

The UBC Jazz Cafe Club hosts weekly jam sessions on Tuesdays.

A no-nonsense guide to regular live music events on campus Sophie Galloway Contributor

Don’t fancy heading all the way downtown to get your live music fix? Lucky for you, UBC hosts a few regular gig nights of its own, with a wide variety of musicians from campus and beyond.

Open mics for the budding performer UBC’s Blank Vinyl Project hosts a series of bi-weekly Open Mic Nights from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Gallery.

These nights are an open invitation for musicians on campus to perform

and are a great way to hear some new music. If you’re interested in performing, the sign-up opens at 6:30 p.m. The next Open Mic Nights are February 6 and February 27.

Jazz for the cool cats If you’re looking for something a little smoother, the UBC Jazz Cafe Club hosts weekly jam sessions on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Nest’s Lev Bukhman Lounge. It is open to jazz musicians looking to connect with others and anyone who wants to go and listen. More information can be found on the UBC Jazz Cafe Club Facebook page.

Campus radio for the hip enthusiast Last but certainly not least, UBC’s campus radio station CiTR frequently opens its doors to musicians to play in the station’s lounge, which is located on the bottom floor of the Nest. Chaotic Music Meetings, hosted by CiTR’s Music Department Manager Myles Black, broadcasts live in-studio performances on an unscheduled but semi-frequent basis. Catch Vancouver locals Nasti Weather on February 13 from 3 to 4 p.m. and Maneater on February 18 from 6 to 7 p.m. U

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Acadia Modular Child Care Buildings

Join us on Tuesday, February 5 to view and comment on the proposed addition of three prefabricated modular classrooms with outdoor playspaces north of the existing UBC Child Care Services.

Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Times: 4:30 - 6:00PM Place: Activity Room 147, Child Care Services Administration Building, 2881 Acadia Road Plans will be displayed for three prefabricated classrooms, totalling 929m2, with outdoor playspaces to support up to 100 new child care spaces in Acadia Park.

Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project.

Can’t attend in person? Online feedback will be accepted until February 12, 2019. To learn more or to comment on this project, please visit: planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/projects-consultations For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager, Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586 This event is wheelchair accessible.

But is this really the best we can do?

Anupriya Dasgupta Senior Staff Writer

Did you know that along with being North America’s Most International University™, UBC also specializes in bringing you the best variety of vending machines across campus? With items suited for every kind of need, UBC vending machines have specialized offerings depending on location, bringing consumerism to you and you to consumerism. The benefits are so bountiful, you will be astounded.

Here’s a rundown of some of the vending machines on campus.

The bottom floor of the SRC Need a quick energy drink before/ after a workout? The Birdcoop has you covered! It offers a variety of healthy snacks such as trail mix and Clif bars, as well as an entire machine dedicated to getting you energy drinks so you can stare at yourself in the mirror while you do those bicep curls and hope to impress that cute trainer you saw the other day. Although I do think that the SRC could do better by adding fruits and vegetables in powder form to be chugged by those of us who have no time to have our veggies because we spend every waking hour working out.

Irving K. Barber Midterms and papers got you stressed? Are you spending an ungodly number of hours of your life in the library? Fear not, IKB vending machines have arrived.

While you can get actual food at Ike’s, the real thrill is spending all your money on unhealthy snacks from the machines on the second floor. Running out of highlighters or need batteries for some outlandish reason? IKB floor three has you covered, with a vending

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machine specializing solely in stationery. Scientists wonder if this one has ever been used. Take your chance, shoot your shot, be the first and be a trendsetter. Now that I think about it, wouldn’t it make more sense if we had these outside all the Buchanans too?

Honourable mentions Residence machines offer you condoms (but they do nothing to make those dorm beds any less creaky) and overpriced electronics can be found in the machines in the Nest if you ever feel the need to impulsively buy expensive and fragile stuff that will drop a few feet to the bottom of a metal box before you can take it out.

But is all this really the best we can do?

The Aristotelian ideal of a UBC vending machine While these are all incredible examples of how technology has progressed in the 21st century, we’re still waiting for the ideal UBC vending machine and I have some suggestions for how it should be stocked.

UBC embroidered neck cushions to sleep in class, squirreland raccoon-inspired collectibles to set you apart from all other West Coast schools with our rare and unique fauna, letters of encouragement hand-written by Santa Ono, Blue Chip cookies, sand from Wreck Beach to make you feel like you live by the ocean without having to climb 500 stairs, vintage T-Bird merch to appear ‘edgy’ and ‘fashionable’ and umbrellas because you know you were too overconfident when you walked out of your house today thinking that it wouldn’t rain.

So hurry! Get your hands on the goodies from those sweet, sweet UBC vending machines while supplies last. U

SCIENCE

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distinguished topiaries //

Descendants of Isaac Newton’s apple trees stand just outside TRIUMF Lucy Fox Sports Editor

In the summer of 1666, one of science’s most celebrated legends, Sir Isaac Newton, is said to have seen an apple fall from a tree on his family’s farm at Woolsthorpe Manor. In questioning how the apple’s trajectory sent it straight to the ground, Newton theorized what would be published in 1687 as the theory of gravity.

UBC has descendants of those trees right under its nose.

Turn up Wesbrook Mall from Marine Drive and you are soon confronted by a roundabout. Turn right and you are on the TRIUMF campus. Go straight and you head into Wesbrook Village.

Pause, though, and you notice a circle of trees at the centre of the roundabout. These are some of Newton’s trees.

The sextet have particular meaning to their owners at the TRIUMF Particle Accelerator Centre. Rooted just outside the research centre, the trees are a representation of their sixpronged logo, which draws its inspiration from the six magnetic sectors of their main particle accelerator.

What’s more, the trees are a symbol of science overall — particularly for those within TRIUMF’s research team, including professor emeritus Dr.

Jean-Michel Poutissou.

“It’s a symbol of what research is about,” he said. “You start with an observation and you ask a deep question and that’s what Newton did.”

But how did these famous trees get to campus?

According to Atlas Obscura, pieces of the original tree have been distributed worldwide since a partial collapse of the original tree in 1816. Universities, gardens, research centres and observatories in various countries now hold a piece of its puzzle. Today, there are Newton trees on all continents except Antarctica.

When it comes to universities, UBC isn’t the only one to house some of the original tree’s offspring.

With seemingly no tradition or policy surrounding the distribution of its seeds, campuses worldwide have their own version of the trees including York University in Toronto and Newton’s alma mater, Cambridge University in the UK. Here at UBC, the quest to bring the trees to campus began with the first director of TRIUMF, Dr. John Warren.

“He was a big apple grower [himself ], he had a big orchard in the Okanagan. So you can see that connection, but he wanted a symbol that would symbolize fundamental research, so he planted the [trees] right in front of TRIUMF,” Poutissou explained.

Discussions between TRIUMF and England’s National Physical Laboratory, which houses the trees, to bring some saplings of the tree to UBC began in the late ’60s. Because the internet didn’t exist then, all the work was done over telexes, a system of telegraphy with printed messages transmitted and received by teleprinters. In the UK, the National Trust are the caretakers of the original Newton tree, which is a varietal called the Flower of Kent.

It took just under a year to get two saplings to campus. They arrived on January 4, 1971.

With the development of the Wesbrook area in the mid-1990s, however, threats to the continued existence of the trees came to the forefront. Plans to change the roundabout to one, straight road would have been the end of the historical circle as it stands.

A campaign to the president of the university stopped the area’s reconstruction, saving the shrubs and their current circular organization.

Outside of that campaign against the removal of the roundabout, however, they rarely get any attention at all, according to Poutissou. Their only real moment in the spotlight since their planting was for TRIUMFs 40th anniversary ten years ago, when Warren’s wife visited the centre.

“It’s quite interesting that this is raising the profile of [TRIUMF],”

“I don’t know if there’s another symbol like this on campus.”

Poutissou said. “For 50 years, that was sort of ignored, and I hope UBC pays attention to this. I don’t know if there’s another symbol like this on campus.”

For Poutissou, the closest similar symbol of scientific curiosity that came to mind was the blue whale in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.

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Unlike that gigantic fossil, though, the trees are hidden in plain sight.

“For a big university, it should be a big symbol,” Poutissou continued about the trees. “It’s part of the life of the university, but it starts from observation and trying to answer big questions, that’s what it means for us.” U

the void screams back //

CHIME radio telescope is a valuable tool to study mysterious fast radio bursts

CHIME consists of four adjacent 20m x 100m cylindrical reflectors that focus electromagnetic radiation.

Clare Skillman Staff Writer

In the summer of 2018, during a precommissioning run, the Canadian hydrogen intensity mapping experiment (CHIME) detected 13 fast radio bursts and the second-ever

repeating fast radio burst (FRB).

CHIME is a new Canadian collaboration, co-led by UBC, to develop a revolutionary radio telescope that aims to monitor pulsars and detect FRBs. Fast radio bursts are signals of radio waves lasting only a

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few milliseconds that originate outside our galaxy. In order to detect these signals, one needs to use a radio telescope. It is estimated that there are roughly 1,000 FRBs that reach our sky per day; however, we’ve only known about their existence since 2007.

Deborah Good, a PhD candidate at UBC working on the CHIME FRB/Pulsar Team, said, “one thing that sometimes people [find confusing] about radio telescopes is that this is light — this is not sound — you don’t hear the signals, you see them. This is just another form of light, but at a lower frequency and therefore a lower energy. So, optical light would have a wavelength of a few hundred nanometers, for us we’re looking at wavelengths of almost a meter.”

CHIME is unique in this respect because, unlike previous radio telescopes, it is designed without any moving parts. CHIME consists of four adjacent 20 metre by 100 metre cylindrical reflectors that focus electromagnetic radiation towards an array of antennas in the middle of the cylinder.

“As the Earth spins, we progressively see different parts of the sky so that over the course of a day we see the entire Northern sky. We are able to observe all the time, which differs from most other telescopes,” said Good.

Unfortunately, the frequency range for detecting FRBs is 400-800 megahertz and the LTE data band is approximately 730 megahertz. According to Good, “there is a big swath of our data that we just have to throw out because it is just all contaminated by our cellphones.”

That is not to say that FRBs cannot be reliably detected.

CHIME implements a rigorous combination of computer technology, machine learning algorithms and human verification in order to ensure that the signals are extra-galactic.

As it stands, FRBs are a bit of a cosmological mystery because it is unclear where they originate from. Theories on the source of FRBs range from the pragmatic to the fantastical. Although not impossible, the hypothesis that FRBs are a form of extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely a great proposal for a science fiction thriller than a reality of our universe.

“There’s a lot of speculation that FRBs could be an irregular emission from magnetars which would be like pulsars but different in that they are not driven by their spin, they’re driven by their magnetic field,” said Good.

The hope is that FRBs could be used as a cosmological probe to better understand compact objects such as neutron stars, pulsars, black holes or magnetars. The study of FRBs is still in its infancy; however, scientists still need to collect a lot more data before there is enough evidence to support any specific theory.

“In some ways, they’re probably more exciting as mysteries than they will be once they’re solved,” said Good. U

SPORTS+REC

january 29, 2019 tuesday

Editor Lucy fox

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recap //

Weekend rundown: Volleyball breaks down Canada West’s best while Micklash hits milestone in women’s hockey We’re coming down the home stretch in the regular season for several of the Thunderbird winter teams, and UBC’s rosters are peaking just at the right time.

In the sports section, we hardly have any complaints about this past weekend. Lots of wins, lots of interesting highlights. Way to go, Thunderbirds.

’Birds take down Trinity in volleyball It was going to be one of the toughest weekends of the season for both Thunderbird volleyball teams: a trip to Langley to face off against one of the best volleyball programs in the country, the Trinity Western Spartans. For a women’s team that has been slowly picking up the pace over the last few weeks, it was a big test against the first-ranked Spartans roster. In a fortuitous turn of events, UBC came out on top in both of their games: 3-1 and 3-0.

It was the first Canada West losses of the year for the current national title favourites.

Kiera Van Ryk led the team on both nights with 12 kills on Friday and 19 on Saturday, another

strong outing for their leading outside hitter.

The wins also put UBC on a four-game win streak as they head into their bye weekend.

Micklash milestone on Mental Health Awareness Night On Friday night, UBC women’s hockey hosted their third annual Mental Health Awareness Night, a tradition that’s held in honour of former teammate Laura Taylor, who took her own life in 2016.

They faced the Saskatchewan Huskies in the match — and while it was a low-scoring game, it didn’t come without its fair share of excitement for the almost 500 fans in the stands. An Ashley McFadden shorthanded goal would give the Thunderbirds their seventh win of the season.

Goaltender Tory Micklash also hit a Canada West milestone, earning her tenth shutout in the league.

BASKETBALL’S Wondrous winning streak It’s the same old story coming out of War Memorial Gym: men’s basketball is continuing to dominate. They now sit on 16 wins in a row with a 17-1 record in Canada West.

Patrick Simon was the leading man for the T-Birds in both of their games against the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves this weekend. He put up 20 points and 8 rebounds on Friday, and 12 points and 9 rebounds on Saturday. It was perhaps the perfect send-off for the senior, who was playing in his final regular season game at UBC. The women’s team had a tougher time this weekend, splitting their series against UNBC.

Track takes off to Seattle The T-Birds track roster got their season started away from home over the weekend, with the University of Washington Invitational.

Highlights included a threeway tie for first place for rookie Trinity Hansma in the high jump; she cleared 1.74 metres to take top spot. It was the first big moment of her blue and gold career, and her personal best in the event.

Senior Nicola Symonds had a strong finish in the women’s 3,000 metres with a time of 9:35.56.

Jessica Hanson roars towards the basket for UBC.

Humbled against the Huskies While the women’s hockey team had a strong weekend at home, the men’s team had a much different

story unfold in Regina. After clinching their playoff spot last weekend against the Dinos, the positive vibes came crashing down against Canada West’s top dogs: the

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Saskatchewan Huskies dismantled the Thunderbirds 4-0 and 5-0 on Friday and Saturday.

The losses put UBC on an 11-11 record in Canada West. U

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Thunderbird outside hitter Kiera Van Ryk is back leading the T-Birds after a whirlwind summer with Volleyball Canada

Kiera Van Ryk prepares to send the ball into the opponent’s end of the court.

Elizabeth Wang Photo Editor

Kiera Van Ryk has two sides to her persona.

Off the court, she is another friendly face in the masses along Main Mall. You can see her walking around campus, oftentimes carrying a backpack with the UBC women’s volleyball logo on it — she is hard to miss at 6’2”. If you call her name after a game, she’ll respond with a cheerful smile.

It’s different on the court, though.

If you’ve seen her play volleyball, she is ruthless. As an outside hitter, she hasn’t failed to reach double-digits in points on the court in the past season. She’s ranked number one in the country in kills with 354 and kills per set with 4.60. Having been a part of

UBC’s roster for just the last two seasons, Van Ryk’s consistency on the court has already become a key weapon for the women’s volleyball team.

It’s hard not to be noticed when you lead a team that way.

Last year, Van Ryk was selected for the Canadian senior national team for the Pan American Cup. She traveled to the Dominican Republic and helped the team successfully defeat Brazil in the bronze medal game.

For Van Ryk, the whole experience was unexpected.

“I originally was not supposed to be on the full travel team,” she said. “I wasn’t really sure what my role was going to be on the team when I was selected at the tryout. A couple weeks in, I started to play with the team. I started to really learn a

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lot more and grow a lot in the first month. … I think the coach really appreciated the work I was putting in.”

The trip to the Dominican Republic was a turning point in Van Ryk’s volleyball career.

Winning an international medal has boosted her confidence, while earning her a lot of experience competing against other countries’ top talents.

“It was an amazing learning experience for me, I got to learn a lot from the girls there and I got to learn a lot about myself at the tournament,” she said.

Van Ryk is also the youngest player on the national team, a position that gives her the chance to learn from some of Canada’s best athletes.

“Being the youngest, the pressure isn’t as great as being

the older player ... you have so much to learn from everyone around you,” she said. “Some of the older girls are up to 10 years older than me, so they have a lot of experience and they’ve been around the sport longer than I have. So learning from them — it’s not just for volleyball — it’s also for life experiences ... and learning how to deal with some of the stress ... and being a professional athlete.”

Following the Dominican trip, Van Ryk went on two more trips with the team to Asia and Europe.

A highlight of her tour was the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Women’s World Championship in Hokkaido, Japan in August.

During her FIVB trip, Van Ryk had the chance to travel to the northern city of Sendai. It was a stop she still remembers vividly today.

“When you’re not competing, a lot of the time you’re eating, you’re sleeping or you’re doing videos. So you’re working out the team and trying to figure out the best way for you guys to win ... so you don’t get a lot of chances to see the city,” she said. “However, we were there a week before the World Championship in Japan, we got to see a little small town ... which is very nice to see ... it was really neat.”

Coming back to the Thunderbirds this fall, Van Ryk has a new understanding of teamwork and responsibility thanks to her national team tour.

Now in her second year and with national experience behind

her, she has started taking a leadership role within the squad — a roster that is going through its own new chapter.

“Our team has changed a lot ...

We’ve been trying to create a new identity, which has been taking a little bit, but we’re working at it ... being able to take my knowledge from the summer to help out and ... supporting my teammates along the way and trying to build the identity with them.”

With playoff season approaching, Van Ryk is taking on a huge responsibility on the court, leading a younger roster as they fight for a solidified playoff spot.

That said, she is more than just an athlete — she’s a student, a friend, a family member, world traveller and much more.

Outside of the gym, just like everyone else, Van Ryk likes to spend time with her family and friends. She’s also a dog lover.

While on her tour last summer, she had to say goodbye to her family’s dog — her sidekick since she was five years old.

“It was tough because I came home from Japan, and I didn’t get to see him. I ... came home and heard that he wasn’t gonna be there anymore. It was hard for me to come home to.”

For Van Ryk, being an athlete has its evident highlights, but it can also mean missing some significant moments outside the court. In the grand scheme of things, her life isn’t just about sports.

“Volleyball is only a part of my life, it’s not just my life. I’m a lot more than just a volleyball player.” U

Fixtures Sport

Home

Score

Away

Volleyball (W)

Trinity Western

1-3

UBC

Basketball (W)

UBC

60-77

UNBC

Ice Hockey (M)

Saskatchewan

4-0

UBC

Volleyball (M)

Trinity Western

1-3

UBC

Ice Hockey (W)

UBC

1-0

Saskatchewan

Basketball (M)

UBC

94-75

UNBC

Friday, January 25

Saturday, January 26

Van Ryk (left) celebrates a point with her 2017/18 teammates.

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Volleyball (M)

Trinity Western

3-0

UBC

Rugby (M)

Nanaimo Hornets

21-24

UBC

Basketball (W)

UBC

93-79

UNBC

Volleyball (W)

Trinity Western

0-3

UBC

Ice Hockey (M)

Saskatchewan

5-0

UBC

Ice Hockey (W)

UBC

2-0

Saskatchewan

Basketball (M)

UBC

88-73

UNBC

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