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Courses moved online for the rest of the semester

Confusion on code leads to art community clash

Back when you were still allowed to travel

How to stay safe: make your own hand sanitizer

NAIA and U Sports championships cancelled

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Dr. Tiffany Potter is helping students see the world and ‘make sense of it’ ANY DAY OF THE WEEK CHECK IN ON YOUR FRIENDS ANY TIME OF THE DAY @ YOUR FRIEND’S HOUSE With COVID-19 taking up a lot of our collective mental space right now, take some time to check in on the folks you care for! The only caveats are that best practice dictates you keep the group small and maintain a bit of physical distance for everyone’s safety.

“I think that the most important thing that I do is teach.”

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WHENEVER THE SUN’S OUT GO ON A WALK CHECK LOCAL TRAIL TIMES In her livestreamed address on March 13, Dr. Bonnie Henry said “Go out and experience what we have there in British Columbia right now.” Take some time to head outside, enjoy the numerous trails in the Lower Mainland and take some stress off your mind.

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The department of English’s Dr. Tiffany Potter has recently been awarded the 3M National Teaching Fellowship Award, which recognizes exceptional contributions to teaching and learning. It’s not her first time being recognized for her pedagogical achievements, however — she also won the 2006 Ian Fairclough Prize and 2015’s Killam Teaching Prize. With yet another academic achievement, you’ve got to wonder: how does Potter do it?

To answer these questions, Potter looked back at her academic beginnings. She began her studies at the University of Victoria, where she was supported by the late Dr. Anthony Jenkins through her bachelor’s of arts honours in English literature. She credited Jenkins as her primary inspiration to go into the honours program and later begin a master’s degree, which she completed at Queen’s University. At Queen’s, Dr. Peter Sabor inspired her to pursue a PhD and, upon completion of her doctorate, she began a fellowship at the University of Alberta before moving to Vancouver and UBC. “I wish I could tell you that I was [a] forward-thinking, self-confident, self-empowered 20 year-old woman, but I really wasn’t. It was really [those] great professors who helped me to see what I could do,” she said.

Potter’s story reflects the power that professors have to instil a passion for learning. Now she hopes to do the same for her students.

PAYING IT FORWARD Potter has had great success in her endeavours and strives to provide students with routes to success as well, including ways to “see the world in a way that helps them make sense of it and find their placement.” She strives to give the same support she received as a student, saying that, despite her accomplishments, publications and research, she found her work as a professor to be her greatest task.

“I think that the most important thing I do is teach … [and] what I hope that does is invite them into scholarship,” she said.

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Majoring in English literature may not be the goal for all her students, but Potter wants to show its “intrinsic value” nonetheless.

She enjoys teaching her English 110, 353 and 490 courses, but admitted there are challenges in each.

Especially in 110, where there are often many non-arts students taking the course, there is the daunting task of presenting literature as engaging and worthwhile for students who may have little interest in the subject.

Ultimately, she said, “[she wants] to humanize the scale of first-year teaching in those great big courses.”

First-year courses can make or break a student’s next steps at university, so Potter’s approach is geared toward self-discovery. Her current ENGL 110’s theme is ‘Shipwrecks and Life’s Big Questions,’ which focuses on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. These texts are from different centuries, but Potter brings them together in order to examine their potential to illuminate broader ideas.

“We spend the whole course thinking about how literature asks us those questions and what are the stories that it tell us about ourselves,” she said.

App development, teaching and research are just a few places of interest for Potter. Her awards reflect the dedication that she puts specifically into being a professor and the skills she brings to the role.

“I think, for me, being a teacher [and a] scholar means that you are always working with other people to create new [ways of ] thinking,” she said.

To that end, Potter helped organize the Pedagogy Hub at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2019, hosted at UBC. Congress is the largest multidisciplinary academic gathering in Canada, hosting more than 10,000 participants. Before Potter’s involvement, conversations about formal pedagogy were often put into “The Career Corner,” but in co-creating the Pedagogy Hub, she helped Congress stimulate discussion.

“Having those conversations about teaching, as part of the conversations that we have about our scholarship, is really, really important to me,” she said.

Potter is glad to have seen a shift from the older, ‘survey model’ of instruction, which includes all the “important texts of the 18th century,” to the argument-based model, “where professors are bringing current thinking and their own research into the classroom.”

“Students are really participating in cutting-edge conversations,” Potter said.

DEVELOPING IDEAS Although she enjoys studying 18th-century literature, Potter’s academics go beyond lecturing. Last year, she had the unique opportunity to take part in a project with the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology, helping to develop the ComPAIR app. ComPAIR is a peer assessment and feedback application and is paving the way for greater access to educational tools in high schools and universities.

Potter also noted that UBC’s funding for the project means that ComPAIR is “actually open access, it’s free.”

Overall, Potter found the project to be a great success, where she was not only a part of the development team for a teaching tool, but also a part of a team that brought many branches of UBC together.

“We built it from the ground up,” she said.

POWERFUL PROFESSORS Potter noted that, as an undergraduate, she needed a little encouragement. Her talents brought her to her position at UBC today, where she tries to pay it forward by inspiring students to realize their potential. Ultimately, Potter hopes to bring students from all faculties together to support their education, from first year to graduation.

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Starting Monday, March 16, UBC classes have transitioned online for social distancing

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Ahsan Sahibzada, the chief electoral officer, said the AMS is moving forward with the election, but they won’t be having any in-person events.

VP Academic special election debate and results party cancelled due to COVID-19 Charlotte Alden Senior Staff Writer

The special election for the AMS VP academic and university affairs position has mostly moved online, due to the governmentinstituted COVID-19 restrictions.

Ahsan Sahibzada, the chief electoral officer, said the AMS is moving forward with the election, but they won’t be having any inperson events.

“Pretty much the entire election [will] be online. We did have one in-person event planned but seeing the way how things are moving, we have decided to ... cancel the in-person debate,” he said.

The results party, which typically happens on the night the election results are announced, is also cancelled.

“Once voting closes, we will just announce the partial unofficial results and then the unofficial results and then they become official once Council has approved them,” Sahibzada said.

Campaigning will also be different for this election.

“If classes get suspended or moved online, essentially all of their campaigning would need to be held online or through any other in-person medium that they can think of which wouldn’t really require a large gathering,” he said.

Sahibzada expressed concern that the referendum on the ballot won’t reach quorum due to a lack of in-person campaigning and events.

“In general, it will be interesting to see if you can reach quorum for that referendum, considering it’s a special election [and that] there is a possibility that there may not be opportunities for physical campaigning,” he said.

The timeline for the election remains the same. The campaign period for the special election will begin on March 16 at 12:01 a.m. and voting will take place from March 23 to 27. U

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“We understand this shift in delivery will have a significant impact on our community and you have many questions. I would ask for your patience as we seek to answer those questions.”

Henry Anderson and Emma Livingstone News Editors

On Friday, March 13 UBC announced that all in-person classes will transition online starting Monday, March 16 and lasting for the remainder of the term to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to a broadcast email sent out Friday afternoon, the

transition will apply to all classes at Vancouver, Okanagan and Robson Square campuses. The news comes after several schools across the country including McGill, the University of Toronto and more recently Simon Fraser University announced that they would be cancelling all in-person classes.

“We are working as quickly as possible to inform our faculty, in order to assist them in preparing their materials for online. We

understand this shift in delivery will have a significant impact on our community and you have many questions. I would ask for your patience as we seek to answer those questions,” wrote President Santa Ono in an official letter to the UBC community.

While classes will shift to online-only starting Monday, the campuses will remain open and university operations will proceed as normal.

Earlier in the day, UBC cancelled or suspended all events and classes that included over 250 students and asked students to self-quarantine for 14 days if they were travelling abroad. This news came after BC health authorities recommended cancelling all events with over 250 people to try and prevent the spread of the virus on Thursday, March 12.

Ono also wrote that the university is exploring options for administering exams remotely and holding graduation ceremonies.

It is unclear whether the Nest and AMS services will operate as usual. In a written statement to The Ubyssey, AMS President Chris Hakim said the society is still considering its options and will keep students updated.

“We’re working with staff on our next steps and will be providing more information to ensure staff are healthy and safe soon,” said Hakim.

BC Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announced on March 16 that there are 103 cases of COVID-19 in BC. In his letter, Ono noted that there are no presumptive or confirmed cases among UBC students, faculty or staff. U

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Go Global suspends upcoming summer programs due to COVID-19 risks

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Go Global has sent emails to students who were scheduled to go on international travel programs confirming that all upcoming programs have been suspended until further notice.

Emma Livingstone News Editor

As provincial and federal governments have issued new travel advisories to try and contain the spread of COVID-19, UBC has cancelled upcoming international exchange programs for students.

Go Global has sent emails to students who were scheduled to go on international travel programs confirming that all upcoming programs have been suspended

until further notice. This includes exchanges and global seminars from April to August 2020.

On Monday, March 16 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would bar entry to travellers except Canadian citizens, permanent residents and Americans. Following the announcement, UBC sent out a mass email to students confirming that in-person exams had been cancelled and students could make

travel plans to return home.

UBC Media Relations Director of University Affairs Matthew Ramsey said the university is following federal and provincial guidelines surrounding travel safety.

“With the spread of COVID-19 globally and the risk that poses to travelling students and faculty, UBC made the decision last week to cancel all upcoming outbound international programs for students,” said Ramsey.

He added that June and July

sessions of the Vancouver Summer Program, a four-week summer exchange program for international university students, have also been cancelled. The university is now in the process of working to ensure costs for outgoing international programs are covered.

On March 13, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau advised Canadians to avoid all non-essential international travel, including crossing the border into the United States.

A global travel advisory has been posted on the Government of Canada’s website and the university is advising faculty and staff to keep with those guidelines and avoid non-essential travel.

While other universities such as the University of Calgary and Simon Fraser University have encouraged their students on spring 2020 exchanges to return to Canada, UBC has yet to publicly announce if they will do the same.

Ramsey said UBC is working alongside other BC universities on a coordinated response to plan for September exchanges. He confirmed they are taking direction from provincial health authorities including Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), the BC Ministry of Health and Vancouver Coastal Health.

The BCCDC is recommending that anyone returning from travel outside of Canada enter a 14day period of self-isolation and monitor their symptoms. U

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UBC faculty and staff prepared quick contingency plans for COVID-19 outbreak Henry Anderson and Emma Livingstone News Editors

Unlike major Canadian schools like the University of Toronto and McGill, UBC and other public universities in BC waited until Friday evening to suspend inperson courses and until Monday, March 16 to suspend in-person exams to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decision to wait — and the eventual decision to act — stemmed from recommendations from the BC Health Ministry and Provincial Public Health Official Dr. Bonnie Henry, who has maintained that risk in BC remains low and the public should remain calm.

“Our schools and our workplaces are operating safely, and we want to keep it that way,” said Henry and BC Minister of Health Adrian Dix in a joint statement released on March 11.

But many staff and faculty members were asked to make contingency plans over a week ago to prepare for the possibility of the university moving classes completely online. The recommendations — and all of UBC’s communications on the virus outbreak — were written in consultation with a working group comprising university executives, staff and other stakeholders.

“The university’s working group was formed in January and has been meeting regularly since that time and is now convening formally twice a week, but informally multiple times a day,” said UBC Media Relations Director of University Affairs Matthew Ramsey.

“We’ve sent out multiple bulletins to faculty and department leaders, multiple emails through our UBC broadcast email system, communicated to students through the SIS [Student Information System]. We’ve posted information on many websites across the university. We’ve got digital signage across the university. We have posters and starting today, posters will be in every washroom detailing proper hygiene habits.”

‘GETTING THINGS RIGHT’ Leading up to the transition to online courses, feedback from faculty and staff about UBC’s response to the outbreak has been plentiful but mixed.

Joey Hansen, the executive director of the Association of Administrative and Professional Staff at UBC, said the university is “handling the potential crisis very, very well.”

“I say that because the university is taking an informed approach relying on the province’s health experts,” said Hansen. “And I understand when people express concerns about whether or not stuff is being communicated, but I think it’s more important that the university get things right than it do things quickly.”

He pointed out that when other universities took action too rapidly, it led to unintended negative consequences.

“One of the things you’re seeing in the US, for instance, where

The university has encouraged professors to connect with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology for tools on how to teach courses remotely.

places moved to close and to communicate quickly, is students who are stranded on campus [and] they can’t afford to get home,” said Hansen.

“For instance, if I were a student from the United States, I would much rather be at UBC than I would be going back home at this point.”

But Dr. Izabella Laba, a professor in the department of mathematics, said some of the early communications about contingency planning were vague and lacked a clear timeline. On March 7, she received the first communications from the math department head to begin a contingency plan.

She added that on March 10, she received a follow-up saying the Faculty of Science had asked for the update and the plans were to be submitted to department and associate heads, and on March 12, faculty and staff received a broadcast email with more information about how to move courses online. “[The email] again did not have any specific information. It only referred faculty to the general UBC webpage and it said that UBC was quote-unquote ‘supporting the faculty’ which I’m not sure that it’s doing,” said Laba.

Dr. Juliet O’Brien, a lecturer in the department of French, Hispanic & Italian studies, said in a written statement to The Ubyssey that there should be more on-theground consultation with faculty members.

“Working with faculty means talking to those of us who do actual teaching, every day. The ones

who’ll be teaching online, changing courses at short notice, working unpaid overtime on it,” she said.

German & Scandinavian studies Professor Dr. Kyle Frackman said he wished UBC were more transparent about the working group that’s making these decisions. “[The broadcast email] saying the working group basically will continue communicating with people — I found that incredibly misleading because I don’t think any faculty, at least that I am aware of, has received any kind of communications from that working group,” said Frackman.

But Ramsey clarified that almost all of UBC’s messaging has been written in consultation with the working group.

“Although the communications that have been coming out are not signed by that committee, they are very much a product of that committee,” said Ramsey.

TEACHING AT A SOCIAL DISTANCE On Friday morning, the university announced that all courses with over 250 students enrolled would be suspended. The decision followed recommendations from BC health authorities to postpone all events with more than 250 people present, but smaller classes were expected to go ahead as planned.

Laba expressed concerns about continuing smaller classes, as there is still the possibility for large crowds to form in between classes and on transit on the way

to class.

“People who make those decisions, have they ever taken the 99? … Do they ever try to get into one calculus class when the other one is trying to leave the class?”

Laba said.

According to UBC’s March 12 broadcast email, the university’s healthcare partners including the Ministry of Health, Vancouver Coastal Health and the BC Centre for Disease Control “have requested UBC to continue operations at this time.”

But the recommendation to move courses online will not be a smooth shift for all instructors, as Laba pointed out.

“An online course is a whole different thing. It has to be developed online, pretty much from the beginning,” she said.

The university has encouraged professors to connect with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology for tools on how to teach courses remotely. The broadcast email sent to faculty and staff on March 12 also linked to the new Keep Teaching site, which “provides guidance on going virtual with teaching and learning for face-to-face or blended classrooms.”

Laba said she wouldn’t be recording her lectures as she doesn’t want to assume every student has access to a computer or broadband internet. But she plans to upload notes online and ensure she covers all information needed to move to upper-level courses.

“I’m aware that one of my courses may be needed as a

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prerequisite for other courses so I want to make sure that that part of the material is covered. But [I’m] also probably going to skip the material as needed. Because I think, honestly, everybody’s going to have enough to worry about without trying to squeeze in one more thing into the syllabus.”

Before all in-person classes were suspended, Frackman also felt the university should have provided more guidance about how to facilitate social distancing for professors whose classes have less than 250 students. “[The university is] emphasizing social distancing, which I understand is [its] best practice, but it’s not clear how we’re supposed to implement that in our courses and ... some guidance from the university would be helpful,” he said, “… like are we supposed to mandate students sitting apart from each other if students end up still coming to class?”

Ramsey did not provide any information on social distancing in the classroom beyond what has already been published on the university’s website. But he reiterated that university leadership is working “nearly around the clock” to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and communicate with stakeholders responsibly.

“We are doing our very best through all of those measures to provide the community with the information they need at this time,” he said. “Appreciate this as an unprecedented time for the university.” U

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Get Thrifty, UBC’s campus thrift store, opens for business

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Bylaw referenda added to VPAUA special election

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“Prior to the referendum passing, it was just getting someone to listen to us and believe in us.”

Sonia Pathak Senior Staff Writer

One year after 7,018 students voted in favour of a referenda question to establish a permanent thrift shop on campus, Get Thrifty officially opened in the Life Building on March 2.

The thrift shop project was spearheaded by Project Imagine, a student-run collective centred around sustainable communitybased projects.

Project Imagine and Get Thrifty’s Coordinator Rain Chen explained that after the referendum went through, they were able to hit the ground running in preparations.

“Prior to the referendum passing, it was just getting someone to listen to us and believe in us. And then when we realized that no one really would until you prove that you had money … once the students voted with overwhelming support and we got that funding, people started listening to us to say the least,” said Chen, who has been working to establish the store since 2017.

The first step was to decide on a location for the store. In the Life Building basement, Get Thrifty exists near kindred student initiatives like the Bike Kitchen and Sprouts.

The space they chose was, according to Chen, “[not] even a room … it was just an empty cavity.”

Michael Kingsmill, the AMS’s project and design services manager who helped oversee the project, explained the space’s history.

“There’s kind of a hidden catacomb that lies on the other side,” Kingsmill said.

“Just for history sake, the space behind was intended to be the new foyer and entrance into the Norm Theatre. It was our desire way back when in the planning stages of the Life Building.”

From gate installation, electrical routing, new lighting and drywalling, Kingsmill and the Get Thrifty team worked from the ground up to transform the abandoned foyer into a storefront.

“It’s always nice in some ways when we’re coming to the end. ...

[One] Sunday, there were others who I hadn’t met that all of a sudden come and a little work party formed and they [were] all cleaning and doing things and you think this is what it’s all about. You know, getting the students here and getting them all buzzed up … so that’s very gratifying,” he said.

“I think it’s always a positive to be working with student groups on projects,” added outgoing AMS VP Admin Cole Evans, whose office oversaw the project.

“As evident by the referendum but also throughout the year, we’ve seen that students are really enthusiastic about the potential of this project. So it’s been really nice to be able to work on something that students are so excited about and that people want to see.”

For the entirety of March, Get Thrifty was scheduled open at reduced capacity on Mondays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in order to pilot test their operations.

But due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Get Thrifty announced they would be suspending operations

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until further notice.

“We have a partnership with Walter Gage [residence] right now where we will place donation bins in their waste sorting area and see what it’s like to actually pick up from residences. There’s a lot of logistics that actually go into it, including sanitization, pick-up delivery frequency, how to gauge the accuracy of donations,” said Chen.

In terms of donations, Chen said they’ve noticed a lack of male clothing.

“We really want to encourage diversity in terms of ethnicity, gender, size, age, anything, but I feel like the kind of stuff we’re getting in isn’t as diverse and we can only work with what we receive. Really, I want to encourage everyone to just donate,” Chen said.

“I don’t care what you look like, I don’t care what age you are, what size you are, just sign up to be a model with us. We are the platform to represent everyone [at UBC] ... [as] the first thrift store by students for students.” U

Following the failure of an AMS bylaws omnibus referendum to meet quorum in the 2019 and 2020 general elections, it will be sent back out to the students in the online VP academic special election.

At the March 11 AMS Council meeting, councillors voted in favour of adding the referendum to the ballot in the upcoming special election. The campaign period for the special election will begin on March 16 and voting will take place from March 23 to 27.

The AMS bylaw changes included some basic housekeeping, including the abolition of student court, an extension of the AMS membership and a general improvement of referenda guidelines. Notably, it includes an amendment that would allow Council to keep certain records confidential if their “disclosure would be harmful to the AMS, third parties, ongoing investigations, solicitor-client privilege, or the secrecy of in camera discussions.”

In the general elections, 3,549 students voted in favour of the referendum, but it needed a minimum of 4,647 votes to reach quorum. It fell short by 1,098 votes.

Katherine Westerlund, the interim president of the Engineering Undergraduate Society, suggested the inclusion of this referendum to the special election and recommended the AMS do more to promote it.

“I don’t think that I’m alone in saying the Yes Campaign for the referendum during the general election was relatively lacklustre,” she said, noting that this is the third time the AMS will be putting this up for a vote.

AMS President Chris Hakim noted issues with hiring for getting the Yes Campaign off the ground this year.

“We’re definitely going to emphasize a bit more on meeting with various clubs and constituencies on the referendums as well,” Hakim said.

“I think coordinating with those groups as well around social media and awareness … is a big thing in trying to make sure constituencies are also advertising the referendums to make them available [to students].” U

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Commerce without context: How a misunderstanding almost led the AMS to sell two highly valued art pieces with little community consultation

“Abandoned Village, River’s Inlet” by E.J. Hughes was one of the paintings up for sale.

Charlotte Alden Senior Staff Writer

“We cool?”

This was AMS President and Sale of Hatch Art Planning & Execution (SHAPE) Committee Chair Chris Hakim’s call for a “unanimous vote” in the SHAPE Committee to determine the fate of two pieces of art worth over $1 million from the AMS’s permanent collection, according to three members of the SHAPE Committee.

Shortly after, everyone stood up and left, leaving the people in the room who weren’t AMS executives or employees stunned.

“When the unanimous vote came down, I was expecting them to be like, ‘Okay, let’s vote on this issue,’” said SHAPE Committee member and Visual Art Students’ Association (VASA) President James Albers. “In that moment, that’s when we would be like, ‘no’. But the vote came down to Chris [Hakim] literally saying, ‘We cool? Okay, cool.’ And then he adjourned the meeting.”

Following the committee meeting, the UBC art community spoke up at the February 26 council meeting, providing context for the collection and urging councillors to not approve a contract that would essentially guarantee the sale of these works.

The contract was tabled, with more conversation to come.

The situation has been chalked up as a misunderstanding, but it has given the art community a platform to give more attention to the AMS’s permanent art collection and the importance of understanding the context of the collection before selling any of it.

‘AN INHERITED ISSUE’: FROM 2012 TO NOW This issue isn’t new — ­ since 2012, the AMS has been considering selling art pieces from its permanent collection and since that time opposition from the art community has existed, a situation that Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, the assistant director of the Hatch Art Gallery called an “inherited issue.”

In 2012, a referendum passed allowing the AMS to sell three pieces of art, with a one-year time limit on the sale. But the sales never happened and in 2017 the question was sent back out to the students. This time, without a time limit and authorizing — not requiring — the AMS to sell up to four pieces of art. At the time, the AMS said that selling the four most expensive pieces would reduce their insurance costs by $15,000 and would gain a significant amount of financial interest for the AMS endowment fund, where the money from sales would be directed.

The referendum passed.

Following that, the ad-hoc SHAPE Committee was created.

This year the AMS jumpstarted the work of the SHAPE Committee, chaired by Hakim.

Current VP Administration and incoming AMS President Cole Evans has also been integral in the process.

Last fall, the SHAPE Committee was presented with two pieces to sell and the members of the art community on the committee voiced their concerns with the sale of the pieces. “[We explained that] this doesn’t really make sense to sell these because [of the] history.

So we’ve grounded it in that and then it got taken back and reconsidered,” said Kiel Torres, the Hatch Art Gallery director and a non-voting member of SHAPE. The follow-up meeting presented the pieces that were eventually brought to AMS Council: E.J. Hughes’s “Abandoned Village, River’s Inlet” and A.Y. Jackson’s “South of Copper Mine.”

Hakim said no one had points of contentions at the committee meeting apart from pricing.

While the Hatch director and the VASA president both didn’t agree with the sale, Torres explained that there was a misunderstanding on the purpose of the meeting. To her, it felt like the sale had already been decided.

“It was more of just reviewing the contracts that people had

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provided and seeing if there are any issues with the technical side of the sale. But there wasn’t necessarily a conversation about the works, but it just wasn’t really a place for that, which was something that I had misunderstood,” Torres said.

Both Evans and Hakim emphasized this “miscommunication,” saying that it was based in the fact that these representatives aren’t familiar with student government.

“For individuals who are wellversed in student government, it’s very typical [to] ask for unanimous consent and be like ‘okay, everybody, good. Nobody’s raising any qualms. That sounds good,’” Evans explained. “But if there was an expectation that the voting would be conducted differently, then I can definitely see how there might have been some indication.”

Albers said they didn’t feel like they were properly educated in how the meetings worked.

“We doubted our ability to be able to sway the Committee against the sale,” Albers said.

“Instead, we thought that it would be best to advocate for Kiel and Yasmine to give a presentation at the Council meeting.”

At the Council meeting, Torres and Whaley-Kalaora both spoke, and Albers read a statement from the department of visual arts backing up the claims made by the Hatch directors.

“This was [our] chance to gain greater visibility of the issue,” Albers said of the Council presentation. “Because if we were to sway our decision during the committee ... the issue would live and die there, in a room with seven people, and that we didn’t want that to happen.”

importance.

Torres and Whaley-Kalaora said that they’re working to contextualize the collection in its greater history.

“We’ve been trying to communicate the importance of how every single work in the collection operates as like an index of the development of Vancouver art,” Whaley-Kalaora said.

The pieces proposed for sale have their own unique place within the collection.

Whaley-Kalaora said that the E.J. Hughes piece was the first work ever acquired.

“From my understanding, E.J. knew ... the people that started the collection,” she said. “[They] worked out a deal where they would purchase the work at like a discounted rate.”

“It was acquired in very unique circumstances that came out of very deep interpersonal connections that then informed the entire collection as a whole,” Torres said.

“As much as the works are important also the social connections that informed their acquisition is equally as important.”

Whaley-Kalaora also highlighted the intention of the artists in this discussion.

“The artists were. ... giving these things up … on a cheaper budget because they wanted it to be used as a pedagogical resource for the students,” she said.

STRATEGIES MOVING FORWARD Hakim and Evans both admitted there have been crossed lines in this process.

“It’s largely been a misunderstanding, which is why after realizing that there was a miscommunication in terms of the process and people’s thoughts, we very quickly brought things back to bring things back to have a discussion about … the direction we want to move in, in which we’re all happy,” Hakim said.

The AMS plans to meet with the Hatch staff and members of the art community at large to talk about ways to move forward in the potential sale of artwork — a process galleries call

deaccessioning.

“I think at the end of the day, we want to make sure we’re doing what’s in the best interest of students,” Evans said.

“If the sale happens … there’s money that goes back into the AMS endowment which contributes more to the money that we earn per year that allows us to provide services for students,” he continued.

“On the other side. We have a great permanent collection. We have great teams … who work with the permanent collection.”

The Hatch staff is focusing on developing their internal strategic plan to guide the collection in the direction they want it to go and also to lay out procedures for deaccessioning pieces from the permanent collection to ensure that situations like this don’t happen again in the future.

“Part of our strategic plan is including a curatorial focused [guideline] for deaccessioning and acquisitions to then hopefully inform future decisions about the collection, as they are based in like, the history of the entire thing,” Torres said.

“What became very apparent at the council meeting was that the history of the question was not known, especially to voting members of council who were essentially the people deciding the fate of these works.”

Whaley-Kalaora clarified that they’re not against deaccessioning works, it would just need to be done “transparently and ethically.”

Torres noted that the Canadian Museum Association guidelines say that no deaccessioning should take place unless the money from the sale is being directed back into the collection, something that they want to happen in this case if works are sold.

Hakim said that he was “very much open” to any returns being reinvested back into the art community. Whaley-Kalaora agreed.

“If they decide the collection just needs to be sold in the future, then that money [should] go back into making a hotbed for generating new connectivity [between the collection and artists],” she said. U

THE COLLECTION IN CONTEXT With the motion to sell now tabled and movement towards more transparent discussion in the works, Albers said that they got what they wanted out of this conversation. Now people are more aware of the issues of the permanent collection and its

Lawren Harris’s “Northern Image” from the permanent collection.

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The art of resistance art on campus

Andrew Ha Senior Staff Writer

Art is defining student activist movements in a world that’s increasingly moving to social media. The visual side of activism has evolved to encompass new forms with students embracing performance and Lennon Walls — but despite the shift online, one medium remains especially striking: the protest sign.

The sense of community was undeniable at a recent UBCC350 sign-making event and I hesitated to pull members Max Hiscox and Mukta Chachra away from the camaraderie for an interview. They were preparing for solidarity action with Wet’suwet’en land defenders that was being held at Vancouverarea ports later the same afternoon.

A dozen or so students cut up cardboard and gather markers while sitting on the floor or perched on couches. They passed around a bag of chips, amidst typical student chatter about some concert the week before or the shortcomings of some professor.

“It’s a space for people to build art and at the same time talk to each other about what’s going on and organize,” said Hiscox.

There’s more nuance to activist art than just protest, however, and the simple sign goes beyond protest.

“I don’t even like to call them protest signs,” Chachra said. “I think it’s more like art and it’s the art of resistance.”

Sign slogans assert a certain kind of defiance. Take the worldwide climate strikes led by activists like Autumn Peltier and Greta Thunberg, where photos of protest signs struck the internet with snappy slogans.

Chachra acknowledged the space she occupies with her activism, stressing the need to centre the voices of the communities most impacted.

“With our signs, I think it’s really important to echo the voices of the people at the front lines, and … for those of us in the more privileged position to support those communities and … their voices in art,” she said.

FINDING SPACE IN THE IMPERMANENT Although signage will almost certainly continue as a mainstay in activism, campus activist groups — such as UBCC350 — have been exploring the usage of more fluid mediums, like screen printing and chants in their activism.

The Lennon Walls across campus also show how spontaneous mediums of protest can have an impact at UBC, as they provide a space for students to write messages about the recent protest movement in Hong Kong. Walk by the wall and you’ll see a motley patch of coloured Post-its upon which students have scrawled messages of support for pro-Hong Kong activists.

Of note is the ubiquitous 加 油, literally translated as “add oil,” a common Chinese phrase of encouragement. Beside a photo memorializing the late Dr. Li

Wet’suwet’en demonstrators blocking the University Boulevard intersection on February 13.

The Lennon Wall in the Nest in late January.

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XR hunger strikers in January.

Wenliang, who was a COVID-19 whistleblower, are pens and pads of blank notes for passersby to write and stick on their own thoughts.

Phoenix Au-Yeung, an executive at UBC The Enlightenment of HK, said the wall in the Nest started in a “half organic” way after a rally on campus in October 2019.

“We just thought this might be a chance for everyone to kind of fill up this Lennon Wall, which is a really common way of expressing opinions … in Hong Kong,” she said. “So from then on, we’ve seen people putting on Post-it Notes.”

One of the most eye-catching visuals of Hong Kong activism, Lennon Walls in Hong Kong feature Post-its that are typically glued down in public spaces. The notes provide an easily accessible way for anybody to contribute to an installation — “You probably have

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one in your backpack right now,” Au-Yeung mused — and it’s already spawned an offshoot for Kashmir in the Life Building.

But the transience of the notes is one of the wall’s greatest vulnerabilities. The installation in the Nest has endured several instances of vandalism, despite the AMS’s approval for the wall to remain.

The wall’s resilience symbolizes the people in the movement, said Au-Yeung, even as media attention has waned.

“We’re still here,” she said.

“It’s really exciting to see that there are still people caring, especially [since] we’re all the way here in Canada,” she said.

“They’re still willing to kind of put themselves out there … just leaving a message that is letting other people know that they’re caring.”

And it’s neither Au-Yeung nor the rest of Enlightenment’s role to police the messages put up, she said. The wall is open to all, both pro-HK and pro-Chinese government sentiments.

“What we were really upset about [with] the last wall being torn down was that we never stopped you from putting anything on,” she said.

“It could be anything. It could be pro-China. But you didn’t have the right to tear down what other people had to say because those are their thoughts, their property and their rights — and you shouldn’t be able to remove that from the public attention.”

GOOD PRESS, BAD PRESS By nature, the visual impact of activist art lends itself to being taken

up by the media. But Au-Yeung said that media attention is a “side product of the wall.”

“I believe that this should be something that comes together naturally, that exists because people want to present their thoughts and they want to share what’s on their minds.”

Emma Pham, a member of Extinction Rebellion (XR) UBC, holds a different philosophy.

“I think that art is very important in this because this movement is based in the 21st century. There’s nothing better than a good photo.”

XR is more focused on taking up space in media than the other activist organizations I spoke to. For example, events like last month’s road blockades in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en or the hunger strike for divestment in January were both aimed at bringing media attention to XR and its mission. The latter featured chants from the Red Brigade, an activist group tied to XR that brings performance to protests with members clad in signature blood-red livery.

“That’s something that’s kept in mind during disruptive actions,” said Pham, one of the hunger strikers. “Is it going to be enticing for media to be there? Is there going to be a good story or a good photo they can get out of it?”

On the other hand, some have criticized XR for its focus on grabbing attention instead of policy change.

Personally, Chachra said she has issues with media coverage of activism. She said, consider Wet’suwet’en land defenders, whom news outlets and social media users have branded as ‘protesters,’ despite their goal of resisting the RCMP to defend their ancestral lands.

“It’s not a protest because they are Indigenous water and land defenders, and they’re protecting their territory which has never been surrendered.”

Even if the narrative is out of their control, there are still benefits to media attention, said Hiscox. It’s especially important for Wet’suwet’en land defenders, he explained, because spreading awareness about RCMP actions around the Unist’ot’en camp keeps resisters safe.

“I think we’re trying to make it really clear that this genocide and removal of Indigenous people from the land is not something that will be tolerated,” he said. “It’s not something that will just cause a stir for a bit and will blow over. It’s something that absolutely will not go unnoticed.”

And for many student activists at UBC, there will be resistance as long as conflict persists. With tensions in Hong Kong becoming less intense in recent months, I asked Au-Yeung what she saw for the future of the Lennon Wall.

“I hope it could stay up as long as the movement’s going on,” she said. “As long as we’re still fighting in Hong Kong and everywhere else in the world.

“Ultimately [the Lennon Wall] could just be a platform for anyone to say anything they want.” U

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hen people ask me where I’m from, I usually answer with Coquitlam. It’s a quaint little city in the Lower Mainland — the type meant for raising families — about an hour’s drive away from UBC. I say it’s where I’m from not only because that’s where I went to high school, but because I’m also aware that that question is usually just them making some easy conversation, not because of a desire to hear anything really personal. So, Coquitlam it is.

It’s not really a lie, just a simplification of the truth.

I grew up moving around a lot. Over time, I’ve edited and omitted so much of my own history that I worry I might have forgotten pieces of it. This is what I know to be true: my upbringing starts and ends in Canada, but in between spans three continents where my parents tried to carve out a life.

It was a pretty cool childhood, I guess. I've been on more flights than I can count and lived in more neighbourhoods than I can remember. I’ve known urban jungles and fishing villages, the biting cold of -40 degrees and the kind of cloying heat that people die from. I’d like to think all that built character — I’m fluent in public transportation, I’m pretty good with maps and I know how to get from point A to point B, except when I’d benefit from pretending to be directionless.

Travel is all I’ve known. One of my earliest memories is crawling into a suitcase in the back of the closet to hide. It was where I would go to feel safe. I would bury myself in the unpacked clothes, back when I could fit into my parents’ suitcases. We used the same luggage for all our moves up until I was 13. I wonder if they were the same suitcases my parents used when they first came to Canada.

The flip side of moving a lot as a kid is that you never truly develop a sense of security in your bearings. I’m technically Canadian, but I’ve spent most of my life outside the country. When I came back at 13, I had a harsh American accent with the odd British word, and missed all the pop-culture references my peers made.

I know what it’s like to be homesick — or, at least, I think so. Problem is, I’m not homesick for any physical place I can remember. I’m homesick for comfort, for belonging, for something that can never be replaced or never truly was.

Just as I got used to a place, my life was uprooted and packed into boxes to be shipped across borders, coasts and oceans. There are only so many times you can introduce yourself to a class of strangers before faces blend and you kind of stop trying. Instead of actual connection, I learned to mirror accents and habits, while always poised to leave.

I learned to shape sentences and fit words on paper to cope, and I’ve been trying to write about it since I was 11. I have a running list of metaphors — tumbleweed, dandelion, unrooted, dust speck, splinter — but I get discouraged and stop thinking anymore about it.

If home is where the heart is and I don’t have a home, what does that say about me and my heart? Is it doomed to be forever displaced?

Two summers ago, I spent a few months in a muggy suburb of Montréal. In a small borough that was basically farmland, I stayed out late, drank by bonfires, partied next to cornfields and biked its empty streets after midnight. I fell in love with the town that summer though, looking back, I think it was more because of that first taste of freedom it gave me.

I longed for the sunny suburbs’ sweltering heat and the trust people got from being in class with the same kids, from kindergarten through senior year. I missed the white picket fences and lazy afternoons at the public swimming pool — memories that weren’t even strictly mine.

Except it mostly felt like a life that did not belong to me, and once in a while I’d be reminded of the ways others there saw me.

There was the occasional racist joke — the classic ‘pulling your eyelids until they resembled slits’ bit, or ridicule when I struggled to speak French. I desperately wanted this to be my home but it just felt unattainable. It just would not take.

On the flight home, I burst into tears when the snowy peaks of British Columbia came into view because I knew what awaited: a home that wasn’t mine and displacement no matter where I went.

I love these places, but they never feel like mine.

It’s not like I hated the cities I lived in, it’s just that, in every city, I feel like someone else. And I’m a bit tired of starting over again and again.

The girl next to me held me and patted my back, saying ‘It’s okay, you’re home.’ I didn’t have the heart to tell her it was the exact opposite.

When people ask me where I’m from, I answer with Coquitlam, because that’s the easiest thing to say and I can almost pretend that it is true. I can try to pretend, if only for a moment, that I’ve found some semblance of peace in a safe suburb only an hour away, instead of some vague, nebulous idea I secretly believe is unattainable.

It beats looking around and noticing all the ways you stick out and feel like an outsider. It’s easier than saying ‘I don’t know.’ My heart is a bit malnourished and a bit hungry. I wonder if my desire for connection can ever be fully sated.

I wasn’t supposed to stay in Metro Vancouver. I had planned to go to Toronto for university — it was the escape plan that I had worked so hard for in high school. I’d never felt like I belonged in my town, so instead of reaching out and trying to find community, I withdrew even more. I focused my efforts on studying and getting the grades I needed to get to my dream school.

My living arrangements fell through, so I settled on UBC on a whim.

I went to a school that was not my first choice, but it’s not that tragic.

I’ve found a place for myself in brief pockets of time: quiet mornings at a friend’s apartment, my routines before classes, drinks with strangers that turn into more and, sometimes, just the way sunlight streams through tree branches to hit my skin. Fleeting seconds where I think that, this time, I’m on to something. It’s nothing permanent, yet, but I’m starting to hope.

Ask me again where home is and I’ll say — I want this essay to end with some sort of happy conclusion. I could say that I moved to university, settled down and finally found a firm sense of home, but that’s a lie. Instead, the most I can tell you is that, this August, I’ll have been in the Lower Mainland for six years — the longest I’ve ever stayed in one place.

I don’t exactly know how to feel about it.

This place is one I thought I would die in, and that I tried so hard to leave behind. I’m no longer a child, even if I sometimes feel like one, and I don’t have to be here if I detest it.

I’m adjusting to the idea that I don’t have to hate it here — despite the fact that the arts scene is tiny, everyone knows each other and I’m doomed to having awkward run-ins with people I have bad blood with.

I’m adjusting to the idea that, if I truly wanted to, I could stay here for the rest of my life. I still have to confront the fact that I don’t know if I want that, or if I will keep on wanting that — and then I have to question if I have commitment issues and it just becomes this whole big deal.

Forever is a long time so, for right now, I'm here at UBC and I'll probably hang around for a few more years. Maybe I’ll take it slow. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll figure it out. U

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Arts and culture closures and cancellation on campus due to COVID-19 Thomas O’Donnell Culture Editor

On Friday the BC Health Ministry advocated for all events with more than 250 people in attendance to be cancelled and on Monday March 16 ordered for the cancelation of activities with groups over 50 people. With this announcement UBC arts and cultural spaces and events are being affected. Here is a list of what arts and culture centres are planning to do in reaction to COVID-19 health concerns.

CHAN CENTRE In response to governmental calls for event cancellations, UBC has cancelled all events occurring at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts “through to and including Sunday April 5,” according to their website.

Postponed or cancelled events include the Phil Lind Initiative’s Thinking While Black speaker series. Both the Ibram X. Kendi talk on March 17 and the Jesmyn Ward talk on March 24 have been postponed to later dates.

The TEDxUBC Conference 2020, Stuff You Should Know: LIVE, and La Santa Cecilia have all been cancelled or postponed as well.

The UBC Symphony Orchestra performances will be streamed online.

UBC THEATRE On Friday it was reported that performances of UBC Theatre and Film’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch would be going forward. But in a statement released on Monday UBC Theatre announced all performances of the show have been cancelled.

In a statement, Andrea Rabinovitch, the marketing and communications coordinator for UBC Theatre and Film said, “At UBC Theatre and Film, our students’ and patrons’ health and safety is our top priority, and we are taking guidance from the University of British Columbia and the BC Ministry of Health seriously in regards to the developing COVID-19 situation.

“To protect our students, staff, and audience, the remainder of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch has been cancelled.”

Refunds for tickets can be arranged with the box office.

THE MORRIS AND HELEN BELKIN ART GALLERY The Belkin Gallery “plan[s] to stay open for the complete run David Wojnarowicz: Photography & Film 1978-1992,” according to an emailed statement from the Arts & Culture District. “However events may very well dictate that this weekend will be the last

opportunity to see this important exhibition.” Most of the gallery’s special events in the coming month have been cancelled.

The gallery says they have “established a rigorous surfacewiping regime of heavily-touched surfaces, including headphones, railings and door handles,” and urge visitors to follow best practices in self-care.

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY In a statement released Monday March 16, The Museum of Anthropology (MOA) announced, “[they] will be temporarily closing to the public, effective Tuesday, March 17, until Tuesday, April 7. This includes all tours, public programs and events, and school programs.”

The museum stressed that this was done “as we strive to be part of the local solution to this global situation,” rather than as a response to a case of COVID-19 in the area.

In a previous statement released on March 13, the Museum of Anthropology’s Director Anthony Shelton had said the museum planned to stay open.

“At this time, MOA continues to remain open to the public.”

AMS EVENTS Regarding events held by the

All Chan Centre performances are cancelled or postponed until April 5.

AMS, larger events — such as Block Party — are cancelled.

“Our priority is to ensure the safety of all students and event attendees. Because provincial health authorities have recommended the postponement or cancellation of events with more than 250 attendees, we are cancelling Pit Nights until further notice,” said Eric Lowe, marketing & communications manager for the AMS, in a written statement. “As well we are assessing the safety of smaller events (those with fewer than 250 attendees) on a case-by-case basis. We have asked clubs to follow our lead and do the same.”

For information on AMS club events, turn to club social media pages.

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HATCH GALLERY In a March 14 statement from Kiel Torres, director of the Hatch Art Gallery, “We will be continuing with our regular gallery hours, but the closing reception for our upcoming AMS Permanent Collection exhibition scheduled for April 8th will be cancelled until further notice.”

However, by March 16, the AMS announced that it is closing the Nest to prevent the spread of COVID-19. U This story will be updated as the situation changes and more information is gathered. For more information on COVID-19 please consult the BCCDC website or visit ubyssey.ca/covid-19.

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Editorial: Protect yourself against COVID-19, but not at the expense of your community The Ubyssey Editorial Board

As UBC moves all classes online, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic feel like they’ve arrived at our doorstep in a hurry. And despite the constant news cycle, it has been a week characterized by uncertainty: uncertainty about how classes and exams will proceed, uncertainty about what to do and how to feel and uncertainty about how bad things might get.

Last Friday, we wanted to make a video about how to make your own hand sanitizer at home.

While we had no problem getting most of the ingredients, there was one thing we couldn’t find: isopropyl alcohol. The Shoppers Drug Mart on University Boulevard was sold out. The Shoppers in Wesbrook Village was sold out. The Save-On in Wesbrook Village was sold out.

We called some other stores in the area and we got the same answer at each: out of stock. One store simply said, “We’re sold out of everything right now.”

All that not finding isopropyl alcohol meant for us was that we couldn’t make a video. But for other people, the consequences of not being able to reliably access things like hand sanitizer and masks can be much, much bigger.

This is a scary time. It’s understandable to feel afraid and it’s important to take steps to protect yourself — but it’s also important to remember that you have a responsibility to help protect your community.

Ultimately, the personal safety measures you take shouldn’t come at the cost of the safety of others, especially the most vulnerable members of society.

‘A RACE TO THE BOTTOM’ In situations of great uncertainty like this, the reaction to want to over-prepare is understandable.

Standing in Safeway or London Drugs staring at a shelf, it’s easy to spiral and fall into the mental trap of ‘“If I don’t buy this right now, I might not be able to for a while”’ or ‘“If I don’t buy this right now, and as much of it as I can, someone else will.”’ It can provide a sense of control in a situation where we feel powerless.

But as easy as falling into that line of thinking is, we should take a moment to think about how that mentality affects the rest of our community.

For example, stockpiling and hoarding masks — which are most effective when worn by people who are currently sick to prevent spreading illness to others — has led to global shortages that are putting health care workers at risk.

“Without secure supply chains, the risk to healthcare workers around the world is real,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the directorgeneral of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) in a March 3 news release. “We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting health workers first.”

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“Doing things to keep yourself healthy is as much about others as it is about you.”

The same logic applies to hoarding things like hand sanitizer and isopropyl alcohol.

Frequent hand washing with soap and water is more effective than sanitizers, which the BC Centre for Disease Control recommends for use when you don’t have access to a sink. But for people who are housing insecure or homeless, wipes and hand sanitizer may be the only reliable means to stay clean and protected.

It is also important to remember that not everyone has the ability to buy a month’s worth of food, toilet paper or other essentials in one shopping trip.

According to the 2019 AMS Academic Experience Survey Report, 45 per cent of UBC undergraduate students reported having been concerned about how to feed themselves in the past year.

Meanwhile, eight per cent reported lacking “an adequate nighttime residence.”

So before you go out and buy three months’ supply of Campbell’s

soup or Purell hand sanitizers, take a moment to consider the fact that for people who are experiencing financial insecurity, empty store shelves will make an already precarious situation that much worse.

Stockpiling and shortages driven by fear can quickly turn into a race to the bottom that disproportionately affects our community’s most marginalized members.

‘THIS IS THE TIME WHERE WE ALL NEED TO DO OUR PART’ This can be a hard message to square with the philosophy of social distancing. When we’re being encouraged to avoid large groups of people and be more cautious in our interactions with others, it’s easy for protecting yourself to take on a quality of paranoia that feeds the zero-sum attitude behind things like hoarding hand sanitizer.

But that’s not the way we should be thinking about social distancing.

Doing things to keep yourself healthy is as much about others as it is about you. Social distancing is also important in curbing the spread of viruses and is as imperative to protecting those around you as hygiene. By coughing into your arm or a tissue and washing your hands afterwards, you’re helping prevent any germs you may have from spreading to others.

This is especially important to protect not only the elderly, but also peers with compromised immune systems.

“This is the time where we all need to do our part,” said Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in a March 13 press conference.

“And these are the things we do to protect ourselves from getting ill, but also we know that this virus is most likely to be spread to the people who are closest to us. So we need to do this to protect our families and our close friends and our communities.”

This approach is key to keeping

yourself safe while ensuring you’re not robbing others of the ability to do so. In public health crises like this, we all have an obligation to look out for each other.

So please, in the weeks to come, when you’re faced with a choice like how much soup to buy at No Frills or whether to get just one more bottle of hand sanitizer, take a minute to consider the needs of the rest of your community. Keep yourself safe, but take only what you need, listen to what public health authorities are telling you and think about what the most vulnerable in our community need to keep themselves safe too.

This crisis will likely be one of the most historically significant times of our lives, won’t you want to be able to look back on it with the knowledge you did everything you could not just for yourself but for others too? U Stay up to date on UBC information related to COVID-19 by visiting ubyssey.ca/covid-19/.

FROM THE BLOG

MARCH 17, 2020 TUESDAY

EDITOR TRISTAN WHEELER

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LIFE UNDER QUARANTINE //

Passive-aggressive notes to leave for your roommates Kaila Johnson Staff Writer

Writing a quick note is much faster than sitting down and having a boring conversation about how you should be better at existing. As patience is running low and stress levels are at an all-time high, put all that chaotic energy into these passive-aggressive notes.

DO THE DISHES Does anyone like doing dishes? They sit in the sink, stare at you and make you want to never cook anything ever again. Just leave them in the sink long enough, along with this note, so your roommate does it for you.

TAKE LAUNDRY OUT OF THE DRYER Sometimes you think you can multi-task and get assignments done while your clothes are in the washing machine. Surprise! You can’t! But your roomies might.

HAVE YOU SEEN MY ____?

This could also be taken as ‘Hey, did you take my ___?’ One of the more nuclear roommate options.

If you get no reply, hide all your belongings to the point where it looks like you’re about to move out.

Don’t be like me.

Put cold medicine in your sock drawer because they deserve to suffer for being a thief.

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TAKE OUT THE TRASH/ RECYCLING/COMPOST

university students living together.

If you’re like me, you wait until the bin is just overflowing before you muster up the courage to even think about posting the note. Don’t be like me.

This is for the benefit of the already confusingly gross aroma of four

WHY DID YOU DRINK MY ALMOND MILK? :(

Learn from my mistake! Figure out what food items you are sharing or else. You will be walking on eggshells — maybe literally if the last tip is not taken seriously — until the lease is up.

If you’re really bad with confrontation, this could turn into a fun sticky-note thread on the fridge.

I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT DAY! If you somehow have a good relationship with your roommate, make sure you tell them how much you appreciate them putting up with your mediocrity. If this doesn’t work, try moving out and never talking to them again. U

TINY GERMS //

Things you can touch other than your face People are especially afraid of public spaces and touching public surfaces, which is fair, but that doesn’t mean you can’t touch anything when you’re on the bus.

If you touch a bus pole, be sure to wipe it down with the single Lysol wipe you traded your car for. If you weren’t able to get Lysol wipes, just wash your hands when you get home.

YOUR SYLLABUS Need something that you know hasn’t been touched for a few months and is thus rendered uncontaminated by any new viruses? Well your syllabus from this semester probably hasn’t been looked at or touched since you first got it in January, which is a good few months before COVID-19 got to Vancouver in a bad way. So touch that baby as much as you want.

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I love touching my face.

Tristan Wheeler Blog & Opinion Editor

With the spread of COVID-19 internationally, a few daily activities we take part in are having to be altered.

For example, BC’s health authority recommends avoiding big groups and making regular hand-washing a habit throughout the day. But the hardest thing to do that protects yourself and others is probably not touching

your face.

I don’t know about you, but I love touching my face. It is one of the main ways that I emote. How am I going to go about my day and not clench the bridge of my nose to indicate that I’m stressed out?

How will I show that I’m crying if I can’t rub my fist against my eyes?

Well, as a means of helping all my fellow face-touchers, here is a list of things that you can touch other than your face.

YOUR NECK

YOUR OTHER HAND

Okay, I accept that this is a bit of a cop-out, but if you gotta touch something, why not your neck? The logic behind touching your neck is that it is in the same general area as your face, so it might trick your brain into thinking you’re touching your face. Also, there are no holes or orifices for germs and dirt to get into. After your neck, you can try touching your back, your etc.

Good news folks, most people have two hands, which means one is always available to touch.

If you’re left-handed, touch your right hand. If you’re righthanded, touch your left. That’s basically it. Two hands means one’s for touching.

THE POLE OF A BUS (AFTER YOU HAVE PERSONALLY CLEANED IT)

If you, like me, are now in a constant state of stress about the new reality that we live in, it might be a good opportunity to invest in a stress ball.

Not only will it give you something to squeeze when you think about the looming economic recession that will occur in the coming months, it will also give you something to touch other than your face.

A WALL Sure, why not. I mean how dirty can a wall really be? Then wash your hands again just to be safe. U

SCIENCE

MARCH 17, 2020 TUESDAY

EDITOR JAMES VOGL

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STAYING SAFE //

How to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 James Vogl Science Editor

With the March 13 announcement that all UBC classes will be moved online for the duration of the term beginning March 16, the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak has become much more tangible for members of the UBC community, so it’s more important than ever to be aware of the best means for keeping yourself and others safe.

THE BASICS According to the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), the most effective things you can do to protect yourself against COVID-19 are frequently washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and avoiding touching your face with unwashed hands. If you need to cough or sneeze, do it into the crook of your arm or use a Kleenex, and wash your hands afterwards.

While hand sanitizers may seem like a more effective way of keeping your hands clean, they still don’t beat soap and water. In situations where you don’t have access to a sink, however, they are the nextbest thing.

When using sanitizers, make sure they contain at least 60 per cent alcohol to be effective against COVID-19, and the BCCDC recommends cleaning “visibly soiled” hands with wipes before using a sanitizer.

Masks are most effective at preventing sick individuals from spreading their illness to others, but for healthy individuals it’s unclear whether they offer any more protection and healthy people buying masks can leave health care workers or vulnerable members of the population at a higher risk due to supply shortages.

For individuals with chronic conditions that may put them

at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19, the BCCDC has provided additional guidance on ways to stay safe.

On March 16 the federal government announced that non-citizens and non-permanent residents would no longer be allowed to enter Canada. US citizens are currently exempt from that restriction. All travelers arriving in Canada should selfisolate for 14 days and monitor themselves for the development of any symptoms, regardless of where they are arriving from.

FEELING ILL? One thing that presents an additional challenge to the public health apparatus is the fact that the symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to the flu or a cold.

According to the BCCDC, they include a fever, sore throat, cough and difficulty breathing.

If you are presenting these symptoms, the first thing public health authorities recommend is calling your healthcare provider.

They will be able to advise you on whether or not you should be tested.

You can also call 1-888-COVID19 to be connected to HealthLinkBC, which will also be able to assist you.

One thing authorities are recommending against at this stage is seeking COVID-19 testing without contacting your healthcare provider first. In a March 13 press conference, BC Minister of Health Adrian Dix urged people not to seek testing before calling HealthLinkBC or their primary care provider to prevent putting undue strain on the public health system.

“Just so everybody understands, if we open such sites or when we open such sites, it’s not for people to go [to] if they’ve not been referred there by anyone,” he said.

“Those decisions will be made by medical professionals.”

The most effective things you can do to protect yourself against the virus are frequently washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds and avoiding touching your face.

For individuals who are self-isolating because they have recently returned home from abroad, are feeling ill or have been instructed to by a health care professional, the BCCDC is instructing avoiding all face-toface contact for a full two weeks.

This means staying out of public areas like shops, restaurants, your place of work and your place of worship. It also means that if you live with roommates, you should stay in your room, use a separate bathroom if possible, wear a mask if you have to be in a room with others and avoid sharing dishes or utensils.

Individuals who are selfisolating and notice changes in their health are advised to call 8-1-1 and if you have to leave home for medical care, the BCCDC discourages taking

transit, taxis or ride-sharing services to prevent exposing yourself to others.

‘I’M CALLING ON EVERYONE’ Another point both Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Dix emphasized in the March 13 press conference was that BC residents should view personal protective measures like frequent hand-washing as ways to not only protect themselves, but also their communities at large.

“When we ask people to wash their hands regularly, that’s playing a part. When we ask you to throw away Kleenexes and not touch your face, that’s playing a part. When we ask you to support other people in the community, that’s playing a part,” Dix said.

Despite the fact that the elderly and immunocompromised, among

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other groups, seem to be more adversely impacted by COVID-19, Henry echoed the sentiment that the healthy have a responsibility to protect people other than themselves by taking precautions.

“These are the things we do to protect ourselves from getting ill,” said Henry. “But also we know that this virus is most likely to be spread to the people who are closest to us.

So we need to do this to protect our families and our close friends and our communities.”

“I’m calling on everyone in BC to work with us to do that,” she concluded. U For more information, visit the websites of the BCCDC, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the World Health Organization.

For updates on UBC’s response to COVID-19, visit ubc.ca/campusnotifications/.

DIY //

Make your own sanitizer with this WHO recipe

JAMES VOGL

James Vogl Science Editor

With precautionary measures in BC surrounding COVID-19 escalating, talk about stocking up on things like non-perishable food and hygiene products is also increasing. But your local stores are out of hand sanitizers — now what?

While frequently washing your

hands for at least 20 seconds with soap and water is the single best way to keep your hands clean, it is also possible to easily make your own hand sanitizer at home in the event of a shortage.

This formulation is a scaleddown version of the recipe the World Health Organization (WHO) provides for local producers and will yield about half a litre

of sanitizer with about 75 per cent alcohol. This is key as only sanitizers with more than 60 per cent alcohol are effective against COVID-19. You can find these ingredients in most drug stores and can prepare the whole thing with materials you can likely find in your kitchen. If you’re looking for an even easier formulation with fewer ingredients, Wired has another recipe also in line with WHO guidelines.

NOTE: Since isopropyl alcohol is flammable, you’ll want to make sure you’re in a well-ventilated area away from any open flames while you’re making this. You’ll also want to make sure to sanitize any measuring and mixing tools you use so you don’t contaminate your solution.

INGREDIENTS - 1 2/3 cups of 99 per cent isopropyl alcohol - 1 ½ tablespoons of 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide - 1 ½ teaspoons of 98 per cent glycerol - Cooled, boiled water

MATERIALS - Measuring cup - Tablespoon - Teaspoon - Sealable container for mixing - Funnel - Spray bottle(s)

STEPS All you need to do to make your sanitizer is add the alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and glycerol to your mixing container — stirring if necessary to incorporate the glycerol.

Add cooled, boiled water until the total volume of your solution is 500 ml (a little more than 1/3 cup).

Using the funnel, you can then transfer the solution to smaller, more portable spray bottles if you prefer.

Once your solution is done, the WHO recommends letting it sit for at least 72 hours so any remaining wee beasties in the bottle are killed.

It is important to stress that regular hand-washing is still the most effective way to keep your

hands clean. Similarly, if you have access to a commercial sanitizer with more than 60 per cent alcohol, that will be a better option than making your own, but please also remember other community members who need access to the same products (when we went shopping for isopropyl alcohol, every store we went to was sold out). This information is shared to give you some knowledge that might be helpful in the future — not to panic you — because the more knowledge you have, the better prepared you will be.

For more information, UBC is maintaining a web page with updates about their response as well as links to other resources.

You can also check out the BC Centre for Disease Contol, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the WHO to access even more information. U The author is not a health professional and it is important to note that frequent hand-washing and commercial sanitizers are better options than homemade sanitizers.

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HAND SANITIZER

MASKS Masks are most effective when worn by people who are feeling sick to prevent them from spreading their illness to others. When worn by people who are healthy, however, they can lead people to touch their faces more often to adjust the mask.

Global mask shortages are putting health care workers and others at risk, so public health authorities worldwide are discouraging people from buying masks.

While frequently washing your hands with soap and water is the most effective way to keep them clean, hand sanitizer can be useful when you don’t have access to a sink. It should contain at least 60 per cent alcohol to be effective against COVID-19. Be cognizant when purchasing necessities like hand sanitizer that you’re taking only what you need and leaving enough for other members of the community, some of whom may be more vulnerable than you.

WIPES

HAND-WASHING The most effective way to keep your hands clean is by frequently washing them with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds.

You should be doing this regularly even if you are practicing social distancing at home, especially if you share a residence with multiple people. Pay special attention to hand-washing when preparing or eating food and if coming or going from home.

Wipes are a good way to keep commonly touched surfaces clean, which is especially important if you live with others. Doorknobs, faucets, light switches and other shared surfaces that see lots of contact should be cleaned regularly. As with hand sanitizer and masks, only buy the amount of cleaning products that you need to ensure everyone who needs them has access to them.

SPORTS+REC

MARCH 17, 2020 TUESDAY

EDITOR SALOMON MICKO BENRIMOH

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UNCHARTED TERRITORY //

COVID-19 leads to cancellation of Storm the Wall, NAIA games and U Sports winter national championships Salomon Micko Benrimoh Sports Editor

Amidst the continuing development of the COVID-19 pandemic, many sporting and recreation events both on and off campus have either been suspended or cancelled.

This year’s edition of Storm the Wall has been cancelled over fears of exposure and spread of COVID-19.

The event’s Facebook page was cancelled at approximately 6 p.m. on Friday, March 13.

This came after the provincial government suggested cancelling events with more than 250 people, earlier that day.

Aaron Miu, senior manager of marketing & communications for the department of athletics and recreation issued the following statement in regards to the cancellation: “In light of the increasing concerns around coronavirus (COVID-19), UBC Recreation has made the difficult decision to cancel Storm the Wall. While we are disappointed that we are unable to provide the experience of Storm the Wall this year, we recognize that continuing to host the event could contribute unnecessary risks to participants, staff, and the community.”

Storm the Wall, a staple UBC tradition, was set to take off on Saturday, March 21 and continue on until Tuesday, March 24.

The groundwork had already been laid out in front of the Nest, as well as other preparations before the plug was pulled on the event altogether.

In addition to Storm the Wall, almost all remaining U Sports winter national championships were cancelled, with some having already gotten underway.

Men’s and women’s volleyball national championships were cancelled after having previously been announced as taking place behind closed doors.

Neither UBC teams qualified for this year’s national championships. The women’s squad are the reigning national champions from 2019.

Both the women’s tournament being hosted by the University of Calgary and the men’s championship hosted by the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg were first meant to go ahead as scheduled but behind closed doors.

Later on March 12, U Sports came to the conclusion to cancel both championships due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19.

UBC men’s hockey team was already in Halifax for the men’s national championships when news came that they would have to travel back to Vancouver empty handed.

The announcement from U Sports came shortly after Hockey Canada announced all sanctioned events would be cancelled until further notice.

The men’s team was set to

Preparations for Storm the Wall had already started when news came that the event would cancelled due to fears over the spread of COVID-19.

take on the University of New Brunswick Reds in the opening round of the men’s tournament in Halifax while the women’s tournament was meant to take place on Prince Edward Island.

In a statement, U Sports references how the cancellation of both the men’s and women’s tournament was a first for the governing federation of university sport in Canada: “This is the first time in the 58year history of the David Johnston University Cup that it will not be presented. Similarly, the Golden Path Trophy will not be awarded for the first time in its 22-year history.”

The cancellations of sporting events doesn’t stop at UBC campus or even U Sports.

The Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC), part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in the United States, has announced a twoweek suspension of play effective immediately due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19.

This comes as the main collegiate conference of the United States; the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced indefinite suspensions, delays as well as the cancellation of this year’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament.

UBC currently fields four sports in the CCC: men’s baseball, women’s softball, men’s and women’s track and field as well as both men’s and women’s golf.

The announcement came from CCC commissioner Robert Cashell, who added that “The hiatus will allow us all an opportunity to assess the very fluid health crisis going on around the world and determine the best steps moving forward that are in the best interest of the health and welfare of the student-athletes on each of our campuses.”

CCC officials will meet regularly over the coming weeks to decide what to do when the

The Thunderbirds men’s hockey team salute the crowd after this year’s WInter Classic victory, a major turning point in their season.

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suspension is supposed to end on March 29.

Outside of team sports, Swimming Canada has also announced the indefinite postponement of this year’s Olympic trials, putting the seasons of former and current Thunderbirds Markus Thormeyer, Emily Overholt and London 2012 bronze medalist Brent Hayden in uncertainty.

Major professional leagues like the NHL, NBA, MLB and more have also announced delays or suspensions in play, with no clear point of resumption in sight. It is without a doubt a trying time for athletes and fans alike. U

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Enjoy the weather Enjoy the folks you care for Stay safe and healthy

­— A Haik-Ubyssey-er

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1.Gator’s cousin 5.Dues 9.Matter for Holmes 13.Verdi opera 14.Relative by marriage 16.Cupid 17.Apparatus for weaving 18.Methuselah’s father 19.Taylor of “Mystic Pizza” 20.Raison d’ ___ 21.Flee 22.Intrude upon 24.Sites 26.In the Black?

27.Make amends 29.Pertaining to an empire 33.Disney dog 34.Treater’s words 35.It’s used to walk the dog 36.Help

37.Sucrose 38.Homer’s TV neighbor 39.Actor Novello 41.By and by 42.Burning 44.Abandoned 46.Brother of Prometheus 47.Hamlet, for one 48.Follow orders 49.Detract 52.___-Magnon man 53.Sheltered, nautically 57.A Baldwin brother 58.___ Gay 60.Friendly 61.Fr. miss 62.Giver 63.Got down 64.Stated 65.Look after 66.Tibetan beasts DOWN

1.Racer Yarborough 2.Public disturbance 3.Scent 4.King Arthur’s palace 5.Violent in force 6.Boredom 7.North Carolina university 8.Animal pouch 9.Place of crucifixion 10.What ___ mind reader?

11.Realtor’s sign 12.Classic railroad name 15.Talk softly 23.Word used to precede a woman’s maiden name 25.Lennon’s lady 26.Capital of Jordan 27.Not dead yet 28.English royal house

29.Gold bar 30.Ancient region of Asia Minor 31.Australia’s ___ Rock 32.Veinlike deposit 33.Discharged a debt 34.Prevention dose 37.Hallowed 40.Decreased 42.Had a little lamb 43.Windblown 45.Fond du ___, Wis. 46.On deck, perhaps 48.Synthetic fiber 49.Beaver creations 50.Actress Raines 51.Where heroes are made 52.Circle at bottom, point at top 54.In ___ land 55.Actor Estrada 56.CPR experts 59.“As if!”

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