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Going into science was never a question for UBC alum Jakob Manning — both of his parents are science teachers. Manning, who graduated from UBC in 2015, now dedicates his time to Geering Up UBC Engineering & Science, a non-profit organization that strives to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to youth.

“I was really lucky, [having two science teachers for parents] was the key for me being welcomed to the field of science,” said Manning. “I studied physics here [at UBC], and it wasn’t until my second year when I realized that I would have the exact same degree as my mom.”

Everything seemed to align for Manning when he found a summer position at the UBC scienceaffiliated program Geering Up. He first started as a student instructor in 2012, then proceeded to work his way up the organization the following years and eventually became the program manager, the position he currently holds.

“I was looking for something to do in my first summer [at UBC] … and I knew I was interested in science and … education. I was really lucky I found Geering Up because it is the perfect hybrid,” said Manning.

Manning didn’t need to look anywhere else for full-time employment after graduation because he was already involved in an organization that he felt was promoting his passion. In those six years, he has seen enrolment in Geering Up programs increase from 6,000 to 20,000 per year.

“It turned into a career for me,” he said.

Geering Up was founded at UBC in 1994 by a couple of mechanical engineers and has always been primarily run by university students who lead summer camps, workshops and community outreach programs designed to promote inclusivity in STEM-related fields to youth. Being

a former university staff member, Manning stressed how vital the work of the student staff and volunteers are to the program.

“My goal in my position is to build the infrastructure necessary for students to step into a leadership positions and lead the program similarly to when I was a student,” said Manning.

He mentioned that the organization will always be led by undergraduate students and that they are mentors to the elementary and high school students who take part in their programs.

“I think our student coordinator positions are some of the coolest jobs on campus. In terms of autonomy these students have and the degree of freedom to make an impact on their local community,” he said, noting that students both plan and teach their own programs.

Manning is proud of how much Geering Up has grown since he joined six years ago. It has expanded to many more centres and schools around BC, and “grown from a couple of students [on staff ] to a few hundred,” he said. “Go where the kids are, that’s our motto.”

The focus on promoting STEM skills and knowledge, Manning explained, isn’t just a professional one for him, either.

“I think there are so many reasons to do this work. The least emotional one — the economical one — is that STEM fields are an area with some of the fastest job growth in Canada, and we don’t want anyone to be left out in that,” he said.

“The more emotional answer is that I love science, I grew up in this community and I always felt welcome here — I want to extend that inclusivity to everyone else.”

Manning and Geering Up specifically work on promoting the inclusion of those who are traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields, especially women and Indigenous youth. Its main goal is to connect with those who don’t envision themselves

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studying in STEM-related fields because of gender and cultural norms.

“We have been really pushing ourselves in the last five years to get off campus and to get out of the city and find youth who don’t already feel welcome in a university. Our Indigenous and STEM programs have been a focus of our growth in the last couple years,” he said, “[because] if you don’t have someone in your life who doesn’t already have a connection to a university, it is really hard to see yourself there.”

Manning hopes to continue working with Indigenous communities and co-developing programs with them, referencing how Geering Up is also working with Britannia Secondary School and the Vancouver School Board to help youth understand how science is connected to their local community and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into the workshop curricula.

Geering Up has also been doing girls-only camps, which Manning hopes will work to end the underrepresentation of women in many STEM-related positions.

“I think it’s important that everyone feels important in the STEM fields,” said Manning. “The data is really bad when you look at the percentage of men and women in physics versus [in] arts… we’re not there yet.”

He mentioned that they found a “value misalignment” between young girls and science fields during their research when developing the program. According to their research, the average elementary school student describes a scientist or engineer as an “elderly gentlemen working alone in a dusty lab,” but Manning hopes that over time Geering Up can help break down these socialized occupational gender and cultural norms and can create a more inclusive learning environment for anyone who wants to work in STEM. “We’re trying to create an inclusive and more friendly environment for everyone,” he said. “We’ve got huge plans for the future [and] there are many things we would like to do, but it just takes time.” U

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New Board of Governors committee to hold UBC accountable on Indigenous initiatives Henry Anderson Contributor

After announcing its commitment to create an Indigenous Engagement Committee on February 19, the UBC Board of Governors (BoG) has since approved the committee’s terms of reference and filled its membership.

The committee is expected to “monitor the progress of all initiatives” that are outlined in UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan. They also encompass items related to post-secondary institutions in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, such as creating “degree and diploma programs in Aboriginal languages.”

This objective is to be carried through four main focus areas: “promoting greater awareness and recognition of Indigenous peoples within Canada;” “identifying and securing funding to support Indigenous learners and initiatives;” “developing a more detailed understanding of [UBC’s] Indigenous strategies” and holding the university accountable in reaching its goals related to Indigeneity.

While remaining a separate committee, the Indigenous Engagement Committee will

report to the Board through the People, Community & International Committee.

“It’s a very timely and a very positive move,” said Dr. Linc Kesler, director of the UBC First Nations House of Learning and senior advisor to the president on Aboriginal affairs.

“The Board I think, in my experience, has certainly taken an interest in the way in which some of our initiatives have developed ... I think this initiative is welcome though because it shows an interest from the Board of being more actively involved and perhaps wanting to see updated information more frequently and commenting on it.”

The committee consists of five BoG members, three of whom are Indigenous: Chair Celeste Haldane is a member of the Musqueam and Metlakatla communities; Vice-Chair Dr. Charles Menzies is a member of the Gitxaała Nation; and recent provincial BoG appointee Chaslynn Gillanders is a member of the Nisga’a Nation.

It also includes Leona Sparrow, a member of the Musqueam Indian band whose land UBC resides on and UBC Vancouver’s President’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee representative, as well as Pauline Terbasket, a member of the Syilx Nation and UBC Okanagan’s

“We’re moving away from what I would call ‘research and run.’”

Aboriginal Advisory Committee representative.

Chancellor Lindsay Gordon sits on the committee as an ex officio member.

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Haldane intends to let her Indigenous background and social justice advocacy guide her leadership. Along with being an active member of the Indigenous

Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association, she is also the first Indigenous chair of the Legal Services Society.

“Growing up in strong communities with cultural understanding and strong cultural support, I think, is important and that also informs my leadership,” said Haldane.

“I have different epistemology than others, and I view the world in a very holistic, whole way ... For me it’s about how do I empower others and how do I carry out the voices of those who aren’t being heard?”

Along with the mandate set out in the terms of reference, Haldane also pointed out the need to provide cultural and well-being support for Indigenous members of the community, as well as the need to make research more collaborative.

“We’re moving away from what I would call ‘research and run,’” she said, describing a process where researchers would “extract information” from Indigenous communities without giving back to them.

“By co-developing research with Indigenous communities, you’re actually developing research that Indigenous communities need ... [and] making sure that the need of the Indigenous community and Indigenous peoples are at the forefront not the other way around.” U

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Broadway Skytrain gets largest part of Translink’s expected $7.3 billion phase two investment plan

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“Being a commuter student from Coquitlam, this would definitely streamline my commute.”

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In a two-week long May public engagement, TransLink detailed a $7.3 billion investment for Metro Vancouver’s transportation systems through their Phase Two

Investment Plan for the Mayor’s 10-Year Vision. The majority of the plan focuses on expanding Skytrain and bus operations, while rapid transit to UBC is listed under “future projects.”

Most relevant to the UBC community is the expected

$2.83 billion investment into the Millennium Line Broadway extension to Arbutus.

According to a Translink media release, this Skytrain line will have six new stations, with trains running “every 3 to 4 minutes during peak periods.”

It estimates that travelling from Coquitlam’s Lafarge Lake-Douglas Station to Arbutus Street will take approximately 46 minutes.

Subjected to “design, procurement and construction schedules,” the extension’s construction is expected to start in 2020 and reach completion by 2025. “[UBC] thinks that this is a great first step in securing a line to Arbutus,” said Michael White, associate vice-president of UBC Campus and Community Planning.

“And now that that has been secured, and planning, design and construction will start imminently, we think it’s a good time to also advocate for continuing the line all the way to the university, and to have a seamless connection to the university.”

UBC’s Board of Governors announced last month that the university would be willing to contribute to the Millennium Line expansion to campus from Arbutus through land contributions, development charges, financial funding or a combination of all three.

But at this point, the cost of this expansion remains unclear, according to White.

“There’s work underway to try to get a better handle on what those costs will be,” he said. “We are hoping that with a commitment soon to UBC, we can see an opening day at UBC a few years after that.”

Translink itself is only putting $36 million into planning for rapid transit to UBC — along with other future projects such as the Surrey-Langley line and a potential Burnaby Mountain gondola.

“The Vision includes preliminary planning for a UBC extension, not construction,” Chris Bryan, Translink senior media relations advisor, confirmed in an emailed statement.

EXTENDED TIMELINE: WHO BENEFITS? James Wu, a second-year engineering student, believes that the expansion of the Millennium Line would greatly benefit commuter students like him.

“Being a commuter student from Coquitlam, this would definitely streamline my commute,” he said.

“I would also expect it to reduce my commute by up to 30 minutes.”

Wu, who spends up to three hours commuting each day, said that he could be spending that time doing other things, such as exercising or volunteering.

At the same time, some students said these extensions “should have been built ages ago.”

“I don’t think any Skytrain line extension would affect us, since we will be already graduated (hopefully) by that time,” Reddit user yppahAsulp commented.

But other users pointed out that some community members, like faculty and staff, will still be at UBC to enjoy the benefits of easier access to more affordable housing and faster transportation, as also noted by White in his interview.

While it is still in the planning phase, White and other university executives indicated that the expansion of rapid transit to UBC would have “really broad impacts for the region,” as it would benefit the surrounding area environmentally, socially and economically.

“What I’m personally so excited about on this is the contribution to connectivity issues and commute times,” said UBC VP External Relations Philip Steenkamp in a previous interview with The Ubyssey.

“And of course, the sustainability clause with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

Following the plan’s public consultation from April 30 to May 11, it will be finalized and forwarded to TransLink’s Board of Directors and the Metro Vancouver Mayors’ Council in June. If approved, regionwide transit system improvements could begin in early 2019. U

4 | NEWS | TUESDAY MAY 29, 2018 BY-ELECTION //

Two newcomers and two familiar faces run for Board of Governors faculty seat Alex Nguyen & Zak Vescera News Editors

After associate professor Ayesha Chaudhry announced her resignation from the Board of Governors on April 19, four faculty members are now running to fill her vacated faculty representative seat.

Faculty representatives are voting members of the Board elected to represent faculty in the highest level of decision-making at the university. The other current sitting representative for the Vancouver campus is anthropology professor Charles Menzies.

The four candidates are professor Jeannie Shoveller from the School of Population and Public Health, microbiology and immunology professor Steven Hallam, mathematics professor Nassif Ghoussoub and psychology professor Darrin Lehman.

JEANNIE SHOVELLER While Shoveller has had extensive experience working on different boards and committees at UBC and across Canada, like the Governing Council for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, this is her first bid for a position on UBC BoG. She attributed her decision to run to her “dedication to the UBC community.”

Her platform focuses on positioning UBC for reinvestment from different levels of government and philanthropic organizations to enable interdisciplinary collaboration, committing the Board to “organizational renewal” and helping the university with faculty, staff and student attraction and retention.

“We all know that it’s a very competitive market out there [for attraction and retention] and simply staying the course will not really do what we need to do in terms of scholarship and scientific discovery,” she said.

Shoveller acknowledged the importance of housing for this process, but added that directing more funding towards interdisciplinary research on campus and creating mechanisms to support it like the UBC Research Excellence clusters could be complementary solutions.

And while she would be new to the Board if elected, Shoveller believes she has the experience and strength to carry out her platform and represent the faculty effectively.

“I’m a consensus builder and I’m told I have an ambassadorial quality, but I also am a kind of person whose kindness should not be mistaken for weakness,” she said.

“I feel like I will be able to make my voice heard in the interest of the university and the interest of the public.”

STEVEN HALLAM While this is his first run at elected office and he acknowledged there is a “lot to learn,” Hallam said he wants to be be a “voice of reason” for faculty within the BoG.

The by-election’s voting period has already opened on May 15 and will go until June 5.

“Faculty want representation that is willing to take the best interests of the faculty at heart … and are in alignment with the strategic vision of the university to be a diverse, energized place,” he said.

In an interview with The Ubyssey, Hallam noted that the university had “stabilized” after President Gupta’s resignation and the subsequent controversy.

“As a faculty member during that time, I feel there was not information presented that we needed to hear,” said Hallam. “If something like that came up, I’d be a real advocate for transparency.”

Hallam’s main platform points are related to educational leadership, including the introduction of data visualization and literacy skills to student and training curriculums.

“I see value in pushing that in terms of curriculum reform — not to force it onto people … but to support programs that give people literal competency in being able to work with and navigate large data sets beyond the university,” he said.

Hallam also advocates for educational leadership development, noting that while UBC has been successful at raising funds to improve its programs, it needs to “bring that knowledge back into the classroom where it can be applied.”

Arvind Gupta’s resignation and a breakdown in confidence of the Board from the Faculty Association. Gupta has since endorsed Ghoussoub for this by-election on Twitter and in a message to faculty members.

Lehman said in an emailed response to The Ubyssey that he “didn’t know about this endorsement, and [doesn’t] want to speak to such issues.”

NASSIF GHOUSSOUB After serving on the Board from 2008 to 2014, Ghoussoub is running again to provide more perspectives from the academic

community and to continue improving transparency and accountability at UBC. While he “wasn’t eager to run” originally, he feels that he had to stop Lehman from winning the vacated seat. Since the list of candidates wasn’t released until the first day of voting, Ghoussoub said he had “a hunch” during the nomination period and would have withdrawn later if he had seen only “good, new faces.”

“Darrin Lehman was part of the Board that got 800 votes of non-confidence,” he said.

“Some people did a lot of damage to the university and they need to be stopped once and for all, so I decided

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DARRIN LEHMAN Having previously served on the BoG, Lehman is now running again on a platform of eight items as outlined in an email to The Ubyssey.

In particular, he wants the Board to “support ways to improve everyday life for UBC faculty members,” increase “support for interdisciplinary research, teaching and learning” and make the appointed members “better known (and understood) by faculty members.”

Lehman’s platform also advocates for expanded opportunities for faculty and students to interact and “an enhanced student experience (e.g, cultural activities, athletics, offcampus experiences).”

More notably, Lehman was a Board faculty representative during former UBC President

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to get a last kick at the can and go for it.”

Ghoussoub’s platform also outlines 10 goals that range from “providing academic focus to IMANT, UBC Properties Trust, and the forthcoming Student Housing Fund” to “returning to open searches for senior administrators and to convocation-elected chancellors.”

When asked which would be his top priority if elected, Ghoussoub said that they are “all top priorities” but the timing is uncertain because he wouldn’t be the only one making the agenda. Instead, he would aim to sit on the governance committee or the property committee — “important committees where faculty need to have a say.”

He then stressed that his extensive experience, as well as his communication about the Board’s activities via his personal blog and Twitter, would allow him to bring a strong faculty voice.

“Usually these boards have very short memory, people come and go, so it’s very important for me with my knowledge of the six years when I was on the Board,” he said.

“If you have the knowledge then you know when to push back and when to support it.”

The by-election’s voting period has already opened on May 15 — following a slight delay because of a system outage — and will go until June 5. The winning candidate will then take over after June 30 and serve until the end of Chaudhry’s term on February 29, 2020. U

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Interned Japanese-Canadian teenagers show ‘histories of friendship’ in letters donated to UBC Tanya Gurka Contributor

UBC has acquired dozens of letters written by interned JapaneseCanadian teenagers during the internment period of 1942.

The letters illustrated an intimate correspondence between Joan Gillis, a student at Queen Elizabeth High School in Surrey, BC, and fellow classmates who she met while working for the school newspaper.

The year 1942 marked the beginning of the internment of Japanese-Canadians, in which the Canadian government ordered families residing on the coast of BC to relocate to internment camps and sugar beet farms. The relocation required them to be at least a 100-mile radius away from the coast. Homes and assets of the families were then sold and made property of the government, consequently used to fund the running of internment camps.

“I’m just absolutely delighted that we have the letters,” said Dr. Laura Ishiguro, assistant professor at the department of history. “I think that we really need new stories about this history, and I say that as a historian of British Columbia, as somebody who teaches this and I also say this as a Japanese-Canadian. We really need to tell different stories about this history, and I think that the letters give us one really amazing way to do that.”

Ishiguro said the relocation of Japanese-Canadians marked one of the many movements in Canadian history where non-Indigenous people of colour were subject to state violence and marginalization.

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“I’ve seen a lot of really great material in my time and this is definitely one of the highlights.”

“The letters show us that there are also these histories of friendship, and I love the insights of these young people who challenge the idea that everything was about fear and division and racism, and the friendships between Joan Gillis and her classmates make really clear that there’s a different story to be told where there were other ideas that were possible.”

Krisztina Laszlo, an archivist at the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, shares Ishiguro’s delight in being able to explore a different narrative during the internment period.

Laszlo explained that families weren’t allowed to have access to radios in fear of their potential use for contact with Japan. However, through the correspondence with Gillis, the teenagers were able to live vicariously through her experiences.

“The kids write about things that teenagers are interested in [and] how they miss school,” Laszlo said. “In the letters, they’re asking about things that teenagers are worried and concerned about [like] what’s happening in school, they’re complaining about how cold it is in Alberta and the snow,

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and they’re even saying they missed going to math class and what teenager misses going to math class?”

Describing Gillis as a person “always ahead of her time,” her decades of preserved letters made Laszlo smile as she reflected on her 20 years of being an archivist.

“I’ve seen a lot of really great material in my time and this is definitely one of the highlights. I mean just because … the letters are beautiful, the story of friendship is so profound and I think there’s so much opportunity to learn from these letters and they’re going to

COMEDY //

Review: Bears is an uncensored battle cry against pipelines

Can you guess the filthy liar at the Rio’s Story Story Lie? Bridget Berner Contributor

It is no accident that this story about pipelines must also be about Indigenous land rights.

Helena Zhang Contributor

What does it mean to be in bear country? For Matthew MacKenzie, playwright and director of Bears, bear country becomes the supernatural backdrop for one man’s journey to understanding his identity, his politics and the importance of protecting the land that shapes it.

The story is told through third person by Floyd (Sheldon Elter) himself, who we first meet on the run from the RCMP and Kinder Morgan bounty hunters. Floyd’s journey takes

live for a very long time and have a really great impact in many, many ways.”

Laszlo placed a small letter in front of her, written by a teenager named Sumi Mototsume. The letter is dated September 24, 1943.

Mototsume wrote, “Well, I am just wishing for the day when you and me, telling and hearing each others’ story for hours and hours of what we’ve missed. I only wish it would be soon, don’t you think so, Joan?”

Mototsume’s letter ends with a hopeful promise, “I’ll write again; a longer letter, and I’ll be waiting for yours every day.” U

him from the oil rigs of Alberta where he is formally employed, to the the wilderness of British Columbia. The reason is revealed to us slowly, but feels irrelevant amongst lessons from his mother (Christine Sokaymoh Frederick) and the industry related tragedies of his childhood that are woven throughout the play. It is no accident that this story about pipelines must also be about Indigenous land rights. As Frederick noted at the reception before the show, “What each of us needs to understand, we’re not at ‘reconciliation’ yet, we’re still just at the ‘truth’ part.”

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Bears has many strengths.

Its script is an unapologetic and uncensored take on Canadian politics and industry, and each component of the cast does an amazing job supporting it.

The dancers change the simple set into any environment by transforming themselves into everything from wild tiger lilies to the waves of the Pacific ocean.

Elter is a powerful narrator in Floyd, and Frederick delivers her maternal lessons without feeling forced. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, Bears will have the audience standing on their feet and chanting. U

When has there been a night at the Rio that wasn’t fun?

The Rio, a treasured Vancouver landmark and allaround badass indie theatre, plays host to a quirky homegrown game show titled Story Story Lie. The show features six comedians who each share a strange, embarrassing or in the case of the April 26 theme (d-d-d-danger zone), unbelievably dangerous story with the audience. The twist, or rather where the name of the game comes from, is that one of these brilliant comedians is a filthy, filthy liar.

The audience is then given the task to interrogate each comedian by asking them questions related to their story to see if they trip up.

By the end of the show, you text in who you think is the liar and you may win a prize put together by the Rio. The show was hosted by the hilarious Jo Dworschak, who with her assistant host Matt Loeb made the evening incredibly entertaining and remained engaged with the audience throughout.

Before the start of the show, the audience was encouraged by Loeb to write down a moment in

their life where they may of told a teensy (or not) lie on a small slip of paper and stuff it into a box near the front. After the intermission, Loeb then picked out the most scandalous lies from the box and read them out loud.

The audience member whose lie was read out had the opportunity to admit their sins to a theatre full of strangers for the chance to win a prize. An example from a previous show featured one audience member bringing a vibrator to church by mistake.

The comedians featured that night shared stories that ranged from first-time storyteller Lorna Dawna’s tale about being nearly butt-naked in a standoff with a feral monkey to Patrick Maliha’s story about being peed on by a red-headed hottie hailing from Esquimalt. I swear, there’s something about Maliha’s comedic delivery that just gets me roaring, and it’s absolutely worth seeing in-person.

Overall, I didn’t know what to expect; each story had me up in arms, and in one case I was taken on an emotional rollercoaster by pro-wrestler/comedian Ravenous Randy Myers. Make no mistake, this is an absolutely spicy show, and it’s definitely worth the $10 fee to enter. U

6 | CULTURE | TUESDAY MAY 29, 2018 COMMUNITY //

Muslim Student Association welcomes new members and combats misconceptions Hannah Feodorov Contributor

Last September, President Santa Ono voiced his support for all of UBC’s faith communities in a speech that addressed rising Islamophobic sentiments.

However, he refrained from directly promising any significant administrative action to accommodate the increasing number of Muslim students on campus. The Muslim Student Association (MSA), which serves as a home and representative body for Muslim students at UBC, maintains that administrators have been helpful. However, the group still has concerns as they continue to grow.

The MSA hosts events such as “Islam Awareness Week” and “Chat and Chai” in order to open up discussions to a range of diverse opinions and experiences here at UBC. Executive member Meryem Katırcıoglu explained that the club hopes to be a community-oriented space. The diversity within the community, as well as each student’s personal approach to their faith makes it difficult to be a representative voice for all Muslim students. This was demonstrated after a survey taken about student perceptions of Islam and the MSA had some people claiming that the MSA’s events were too liberal, with others suggesting that they were too conservative.

The club actively encourages non-Muslim students to come to

The MSA seeks to be a “resource of information for people who want to know about Islam.”

their events. Executive member Nour Youssef said that although a lot of students on campus are tolerant, the MSA wants to use their events to bring people closer together and help people get over any misconceptions they may have. As a way to combat these misconceptions, club president Hamsa Mohamoud said that the MSA seeks to be a “resource of information for people who want to know about Islam.”

Mohamoud encourages students to come to events, explaining that the MSA not only provides a spiritual community for students on campus, but that “it becomes social, [and] helps with your education because [it provides a group of ] people who want to learn.”

Mohamoud also voiced his concerns about prayer space for Ramadan use. While Friday

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prayers are important to Muslim students all year, prayers become particularly significant during the month of Ramadan. Friday prayers at Totem Ballroom are becoming increasingly overcrowded and securing a larger prayer area has been a constant issue for the club in previous years.

“It’s a bit of a fire hazard,” joked executive member Hussain Khan.

Despite issues of space, the MSA is always open to new members. Executives stressed that the club is extremely nonjudgmental, no matter what level of practice you are at.

“We are welcoming towards people’s different beliefs and ideas… we want to have genuine conversations,” said Katırcıoglu.

“Nobody’s perfect, we’re all works in progress.” U

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Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America showcases the weight of politics on art

Pieces about contemporary issues ... demonstrate the weight politics have on art.

Brenda González Contributor

With bright colours, provocative lettering and breathtaking artwork, Arts of Resistance: Politics and the Past in Latin America tells several stories of injustice and how art has responded to and challenged them.

The curator, Dr. Laura Osorio Sunnucks, spoke of the social value that art has when its political context is highlighted.

“If anything, this exhibition proves that creativity and arts and imagination are the ways that a lot of people who are disenfranchised do find healing, find strength and find solidarity,” Osorio Sunnucks explained.

The exhibit, divided into five sections, opens with a splash of

yellow and a powerful title wall simulating graffiti. White sheer curtains divide the sections, drawing the audience to lines of traditional Mayan textiles, which have become a symbol of solidarity between Indigenous communities.

Tensions increase in the second section. Pieces about contemporary issues such as corruption, unresolved crimes and violent state interventions leave a lasting impression on spectators and demonstrate the weight politics have on art. One piece, an aggravating serigraph print, represents Indigenous insurgency against the genetic alteration of corn in Oaxaca, Mexico.

“It’s a shame that those political contexts are often excluded [when discussing the art]. It’s not about

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bashing the government, it’s just about making clear what the contexts are,” Osorio Sunnucks explained. “It’s about a discourse.”

With the exhibit being held at the Museum of Anthropology, a comparison arises between First Nations communities in Canada and Indigenous communities in Latin America.

“One of the things I’ve been really pleasantly surprised by in Canada is how much First Nations communities are proud of their ancestral culture and … how much they are inserted into intellectual, creative and political fields,” Osorio Sunnucks said. “I’ve heard people in Indigenous communities in Mexico say that Indigenous rituals and religions are “costumbres,” just costumes, they are just “creencias,”

they’re just beliefs. They never used the word religion, and that is, effectively, I think a result of consistent disenfranchisement of their cultural identity and that’s something obviously I’d like to see develop in many of the same ways as it has done in Canada.”

It also brings to mind the role Indigenous people have in their countries’ politics. Arts of Resistance showcases powerful voices expressed through art, but Osorio Sunnucks argued that their voices are often lacking in academic settings.

“I’ve always been shocked and upset by the very small number of Indigenous intellectuals,” Osorio Sunnucks explained, referring to her fields of archeology and anthropology. “These [are] people who have an enormous amount of Indigenous knowledge which, through their language and through their cultural practices, could scientifically inform research. I would say the same for politics. It’s not until there are enough intellectuals running as politicians in Latin America that I think there would be the kind of support and attention paid to Indigenous issues”.

With bubblegum pink, glitter and sparkles, the fourth section presents a change in mood with a display of masks and costumes traditional of Mexican and South American carnivals. Their political context goes back to colonial times when Catholicism was violently imposed by the Spanish.

The closing installation is a beautiful mural from the Shipibo

culture in Peru. The designs, called “Kené,” tell a traditional story and are considered to be therapeutic art.

With the tense, harrowing themes that run through the exhibition, the colours and exhibits themselves can feel disjointed.

However, Osorio Sunnucks shared that despite the mismatch of theme and mood, the exhibition gives her a sense of calm.

“I really do believe that’s what making these artworks feels like to the people who make them. That [it] is part of themselves, part of their identities, part of the ways that they can reap economic rewards and it’s also part of the way that they express themselves through dress. Part of the way they express themselves politically. And I think that just the existence of those things, and their exhibition is some kind of resolution to problems”. U

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a lost memory of Tiananmen hides in plain sight on UBC campus

words Zak Vescera art Claire Lloyd

T

he Goddess of Democracy is not a beautiful statue.

Standing alone between Brock Hall and the Nest, the Goddess’ gypsum and marble frame is yellowed, her features roughly sculpted. To her left is a pallet holding what used to be a wreath.

At her base is a bouquet of rotted flowers wrapped in clear plastic.

Every June 4, mourners lay flowers here to pay respects to the victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, where pro-democracy demonstrators were killed by Chinese soldiers.

The original Goddess of Democracy was over six times this statue’s size, a ten metrehigh monolith of styrofoam and plastic-soaked rags. She was created in secret by students at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts as a symbol of the fight for expanded democratic rights. When the tanks came, she was obliterated.

This statue is one of her first life-size copies. A testament to students killed while protesting,

it was once a symbol for student activism at UBC. But now, thousands of students walk by every day without so much as a glance.

In the streets and on the screen What Dr. Tom Perry remembers is that everyone was watching TV. In the spring of 1989, Chinese students and workers occupied Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of former Chairman Hu Yaobang, an advocate for government transparency. The world joined from their living rooms, anxious at the thought of watching history in the making.

“I used to rush home to make sure I was in time to watch the evening news with my wife,” said Perry. “It was very exciting. And extremely optimistic.”

In 1989, Perry was the MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey. Despite the 8,500 kilometres between his constituency and Beijing, students from China, Hong Kong

and Canada had been assembling on UBC’s campus in solidarity with their counterparts overseas.

Tiananmen was happening across the world — in the streets and on the screen.

“The death of Yaobang opened up Pandora’s Box,” said UBC Chinese history Professor Leo Shin. “It allowed certain sentiments of liberalism to become much more open.”

“It became a nationwide movement … and not just nationwide but also [in] the overseas Chinese communities in North America, Hong Kong and Europe.”

For members of Vancouver’s Chinese-speaking population, Tiananmen was as revolutionary as it was concerning.

“We worried about the students — if they didn’t compromise, we knew it would lead to violence,” said Richard Lee. A former BC Liberal MLA and UBC alumnus, Lee was an engineer at TRIUMF at the time of the protests.

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He and other residents, especially recent immigrants from Hong Kong, had been organizing protests across Vancouver and at UBC. They spent evenings tuned into media reports from Hong Kong. On June 2, as tensions continued to escalate, Lee was glued to the TV. “We didn’t sleep that night.

We kept an eye on the television,” said Lee.

“Say something!”

Because of the time difference, Vancouver learned about June 4 on June 3, at around 10 a.m.

Radio host Tung Tat-Shing — who goes by the anglicized name Ken Tung — and his wife, Mabel, were among the first to hear the news. As many as 10,000 protesters were estimated to have been massacred by government troops in Tiananmen.

They, along with dozens of other demonstrators, flooded the space outside the Chinese consulate on Granville Street.

“It was spontaneous,” said Tung.

“At one point, Vancouver police blocked the whole of Granville Street. People kept yelling, repeating the slogans from Beijing.”

Perry wasn’t far behind. “I went down there with my wife and my daughter on my shoulders,” he remarked. “I remember scrambling across Granville Street, dodging cars and running up to one of the protesters with bullhorns ... I understood it was their moment — but I told them, ‘I’m in the legislature. Would you like me to say something?’

“And they said, ‘Yes! Please say something!’”

Eventually, the police lost their patience.

“Vancouver police, around 1 p.m. came to us in the front of consulate and said, ‘I think we have

to open up Granville Street. Can you guys finish?’” joked Tung.

The crowd milled for a second.

“Then someone said, ‘Let’s go to Chinatown!’” said Tung. He said he saw Raymond Chan — another TRIUMF engineer and a future Liberal Member of Parliament — lead a group of residents to Chinatown.

There, demonstrators decided to coordinate their efforts as the Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement (VSSDM) — the group that would erect a Goddess of Democracy at UBC.

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Because it was students who had been killed.

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“The storm of the spring”

The VSSDM hit the ground running.

They organized hunger strikes, rallies, marches and proposed building a new Goddess of Democracy to be erected outside Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in the heart of Chinatown, ensuring that the movement would never be forgotten.

Building the Goddess would be easy. American sculptor Thomas Marsh had just created a bronze replica of the statue in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Through mutual contacts, the VSSDM arranged for a mould of the original work to be sent north.

But getting the statue approved would be harder. As countries

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resumed trade with China, support for the Tiananmen protests abroad was already starting to fade. With that, the party line began to take hold.

“Anything about June 4 is censored in China,” noted Shin.

“The only thing you will hear, when it’s necessary, is ‘the storm of the spring of 1989.’”

Even in BC, the shift in tone was palpable. When Perry invited VSSDM members and students to Victoria, only one other MLA went to meet them.

“No one wanted to meet with them — with one exception, Emory Bines,” said Perry. “No one in the hierarchy came out. And why not?”

“They were scared of China, and business,” Perry declared. “And the Chinese Benevolent Association.”

The Chinese Benevolent Association of Vancouver (CBA) is one of the most influential Chinese organizations in the country. In 1989, it boasted 10,000 members.

Its then-president, Bill Yee, was Vancouver’s first ChineseCanadian “alderman” (now called a city councillor). He said the statue amounted to meddling in China’s internal affairs.

“In my mind, it’s like running a family. Every family has different circumstances,” said Yee. “It’s not up to me to run your family, or you to tell me how to run my family. It’s a basic human kind of respect.”

“Can you imagine if the Chinese government had taken a position on the separation of Quebec in the 1990s?” asked Yee. “That would have been a big no-no.”

Yee was far from alone.

Many in Vancouver’s Chinese community — whose needs had long been ignored by politicians — valued economic stability over involvement in politics. And the

Goddess of Democracy was — and still is — a radical symbol.

“To have a statue to commemorate the event is endorsing the ideas of the students — and that means the crackdown and the government was wrong,” said Shin. “The statue is essentially saying that it was a massacre.”

What followed was a collision of worldviews within the ChineseCanadian community.

After the VSSDM filed an application to construct the Goddess with the Vancouver Parks Board, a bitter debate at Vancouver City Hall followed.

Eventually, the Parks Board refused the application. The VSSDM attempted to barter to erect a plaque instead, but this too was rejected.

In Tung’s opinion, it was more than just the CBA that prevented this.

“It was the influence of Beijing,” said Tung. “Definitely the consulate may — I use may — have played a very important role.”

Yee denied that the consulate was directly involved. He also said there was no lobbying on the part of the CBA to influence MLAs like Tom Perry.

But the consulate did take a hardline stance against the VSSDM. Like Yee, they accused the VSSDM of meddling in China’s internal affairs.

“When any country commented on any issue on China,” said Lee, “they always said the same thing: ‘It is our internal affair.’”

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At this point, the Chinese consulate stepped in to directly lobby UBC. In an October 16 letter to then-UBC President Dr. David Strangway, Chinese Consul General An Wenbin called the statue “an attempt to interfere into China’s internal affairs and of hostility towards the Chinese people,” hinting that UBC’s many joint programs with Chinese universities may be harmed if the statue went up. “... [T]he erection of ‘Godess of Democracy’ [sic] will surely harm in concrete terms the existing relations between U.B.C. and China,” the letter continues.

The consulate did not respond to a request for comment.

Yee also wrote a letter on behalf of the CBA, urging Strangway to reject the statue in order to preserve good relations with China. “It is our position that for anyone else outside to China to get involved in those kinds of decisions really gets close to interfering with another country’s affairs,” the letter reads.

Many UBC presidents might have reasonably backed down.

But Strangway, who passed away in 2016, was an odd duck. Unlike many of his predecessors, he had a personal interest in art and would regularly discuss the university’s collection with John O’Brian, the then-chair of the committee.

“It really was the President’s Committee of University Art,” said O’Brian. “It wasn’t just a phrase at the time.”

Strangway was also a master of feigning one thing, then doing another.

On October 31, 1991, he wrote back to Wenbin indicating that the decision was not his.

“The university will not interfere in a student activity taken in sympathy with fellow students around the world,” the letter reads. “The only criterion that must be met is to ensure that any structure erected meets the criteria of our art committee.”

At the same time, he made it clear to members of the committee that he expected the statue to be approved.

“We were being asked to approve or reject something that AMS wanted to do,” said thenUAC member professor Scott Watson. “To say ‘no’ would have been very aggressive.”

The combination of Strangway’s maneuvering and sympathy for the student movement allowed the statue to pass.

“He understood the notion of freedom that’s embedded in all art,” said O’Brian of Strangway.

“Another president might not have understood it. But he got it.”

The statue was unveiled in front of hundreds of students in the Old Sub Plaza on June 2, 1991.

Chan, the Tungs, Lee, Perry and

a shopping list of local politicians from federal and provincial parties were all in attendance.

“It was quite inspiring,” said Senator Patricia Carney, one of many present. “You got the feeling that maybe China, with this kind of support for

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democracy, it might expand its efforts to operate in a more democratic process as we know it.”

“I had that feeling,” said Tung.

“But it is is not a final step of helping China … it is almost the beginning. It is one page. We have many pages to go.”

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“I left thinking that it was one of the most emotional days I’d ever spent on my alma mater’s campus,” concluded Carney.

Flesh Made Stone That same month, the Belkin Art Gallery hosted a feminist art installation titled Heroic-Romance.

Among the exhibit’s themes was the use of the female body to express political feelings — like the Goddess of Democracy.

With Watson’s blessing, two of the participating artists, Kathryn Walters and Jin Me-Yoon, strolled out to the Goddess and installed a plaque with the word “Flesh” written in English and Chinese, entitled Flesh Made Stone.

“We wanted to provide a counterpoint to the work,” said Walters. “Acknowledging the

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problems associated with the image of the Goddess […] while also presenting our work as a grave, as a reminder that people had died in pursuit of this ideal.”

A few months later, Flesh Made Stone disappeared. Watson isn’t sure whether it was stolen by pro-regime sympathizers or accidentally removed by UBC. Flesh marked the first time that the Goddess would become a focal point for political action on campus. It would not be the last.

During the anti-APEC protests on the UBC campus in 1997, over 1,500 protesters surrounded the Goddess to create an “APEC-free zone.”

“Her torch has no flame and she stands only 10 feet tall, but the Goddess of Democracy means as much to some students as the Statue of Liberty does to New Yorkers,” a Ubyssey article from September 1997 notes. Students hung signs from the Goddess’s neck, doused her in paint and even put lipstick on her, according to an article from the same issue of The Ubyssey.

“We never anticipated that people would try to put lipstick on the sculpture,” added original artist Thomas Marsh with a laugh. “But we were hoping that this statue would encourage people to stand up and speak freely to government.”

It didn’t stop with APEC. In 1999, pro-choice and antiabortion protesters clashed in front of the Goddess to debate newly passed abortion legislation in the United States. In 2003, students assembled around the Goddess to protest the Iraq War. More recently, in 2014, the Goddess’ torch was briefly replaced by an umbrella in reference to the Hong Kong Umbrella movement.

“The statue has always become a focal point in times of tension on campus,” said O’Brian. “It does and continues to do exactly what a work of public sculpture that has a political side should do.

“It is a place where people can gather as a group and have their voices heard.”

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The Goddess of Democracy has become an epicentre of action for anti-APEC activists (September 1997).

Living history After the statue was unveiled, Chan ran for political office.

Using his involvement in the pro-democracy movement as a springboard, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1993, becoming Canada’s Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific under Jean Chrétien’s Liberal government.

It made him Canada’s first Chinese-Canadian minister; it also meant that the former pro-democracy activist was soon shaking hands with the people he had protested against.

Chan represented Canada at the 1997 APEC forum, where officials involved with the Tiananmen crackdown were invited as diplomatic guests.

Ironically, the very statue he helped place on campus became a symbol for resistance against his new political direction.

“I think that many people in that movement … used their popularity to seek political office,” said Yee. Chan did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The statue itself has largely been removed from campus consciousness. During the construction of the Nest, it was moved from its former prominent position and placed in its current home near Brock Hall.

Goddess is also slowly yellowing, with cracks already beginning to form on its surface.

Because of the odd alignment of organizations that led to the statue’s installation, it is “owned” by the VSSDM and the CSSA, who paid $20,000 and $5,000 for it, respectively.

Officially, it is maintained by the AMS. But 2017-18 AMS President Alan Ehrenholz indicated that the statue hadn’t been cleaned in “many years,” although to do so is “on the agenda.”

Every June, the VSSDM and supporters gather at the statue to pay respects. But every year, there are fewer in attendance.

“By and large, the event really touched the generation of people who saw it on TV,” said Shin. “I think the event meant a great deal to those who are alive at the time.

It’s hard for the younger generation to feel the same thing — especially since China is so strong now.”

“The statue is a record,” said Yee. “It is something that only matters to a small group of people. It is a part of history, now.”

But even if the movement it represented has faded to the background, supporters say the Goddess is an important reminder of what was and what could be.

“Pointedly and tragically, it means more than it ever did,” said Watson. “It’s performing a service by remembering the voices that were silenced in China.”

As the statue approaches its 26th birthday, Watson said he hopes to move the Goddess to a more central location, and recreate Flesh Made Stone.

“There is no Goddess of Democracy in China. When visitors come to UBC, they will be surprised seeing this,” said Tung.

“I think that is a very important evidence to show what happened in 1989 and what the world has worked on.”

Marsh, the creator of the statue’s mould, has meticulously tracked the Chinese government’s propaganda around June 4. He noted that every few years, the estimate of casualties tends to fall, getting closer to the government’s line. It is part of why he believes his creation is so important today.

“As time passes, naturally if you weren’t alive during that history, you’re moving farther away from it,” said Marsh.

“But there are people who will never forget, and I’m never allowing them to be forgotten.” U Members of the VSSDM will meet at the Goddess of Democracy on June 3 at noon to pay respects.

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Editorial: Congrats, UBC, you’ve won another fight in your war against transparency Ubyssey Editorial Board

After a lengthy court battle with the university over whether they should be required to release documents on broad-based admissions to The Ubyssey, the BC Court of Appeals ruled in favour of UBC in a decision issued April 13. That really, really sucks for the future of UBC transparency.

In 2013, The Ubyssey’s thencoordinating editor Geoff Lister submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request seeking the rubrics that UBC was using to grade admissions applications in a broadbased way (using both academic and non-academic markers for success).

The university refused to give us those documents, citing section 17 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) to say that releasing the rubric would cause them economic harm as a public body. UBC spent $1.76 million updating its admissions process to the broad-based system, and on top of that spends about $75,000 annually to train and pay its application readers.

The Ubyssey, rejecting that justification, then requested that the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC (OIPC) review the decision. A

2014 mediation with the university failed, and in 2015, UBC broadened their justification to include a few additional items, including that the scope of FIPPA does not apply to “a record of a question that is to be used on an examination or test” (Section 3(1)(d)). Basically UBC has said that disclosing the rubric would be like giving applicants the answers to an exam, which it argued would ruin the school’s investment in the system.

The OIPC ruled in The Ubyssey’s favour, saying that the documents were neither a record or an examination of a test and would not cause the university financial harm.

UBC appealed that decision.

In late 2016, the BC Supreme Court heard arguments from UBC, the OIPC and The Ubyssey about whether or not to uphold the OIPC’s initial ruling. Another Ubyssey win: in her January 2017 decision, Justice Loryl D. Russell said, “I find nothing in this analysis to be unreasonable and UBC has not provided any authority to convince me otherwise.”

After that decision, instead of giving us the requested rubrics as directed, UBC refused to comply and chose to file a notice of appeal to the BC Court of Appeal, effectively suing the OIPC for their original decision.

But, four years after The Ubyssey originally requested the rubric, an anonymous source leaked the 14-page document to us and we published a story detailing UBC’s admissions process.

Following that, the official release of the documents was not so important as the particular precedent that they set: UBC still wanted to preserve what they see as the rightful interpretation of FIPPA, mainly their definition of a public body’s financial harm, and we still wanted to set a precedent that emphasized freedom of information and press access. (We detailed some of our reasoning behind the importance of the release of the documents in a sassy February 2017 editorial.)

With the most recent April 13 decision, a panel of three BC Court of Appeal judges ruled unanimously in favour of UBC. “[Justice Russell’s] decision was unreasonable, as it ... determined, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, that disclosure of the rubrics did not meet the requisite ‘reasonable expectation of probable harm’ standard,” the ruling reads.

We’ll reiterate Lister’s reasons for requesting the documents in the first place: transparency, fairness and

It is unclear at this time whether we will choose to pursue further legal action.

the elimination of potential classbased barriers to university access.

Given that UBC is a post-secondary institution, it should understand that a rubric is in no way equivalent to giving students an answer key. It’s simply letting them know how they are being tested. And when only certain, well-funded high schools can afford counsellors with specialized knowledge of what broad-based admissions processes look like, or when only certain families can afford to send their children to college admissions workshops, it inherently creates a barrier for low-income students or students that live in areas with reduced educational infrastructure. With openly available

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rubrics, all students can see how UBC is evaluating them, and the playing field is evened out.

From a media perspective, it’s infuriating that UBC has spent what we can only assume is tens of thousands of dollars, fighting this case against its own student-run newspaper, all to set a precedent that would allow them to erect even more barriers between themselves and transparency.

With an FOI office that has been overloaded for a while, this addition is unneeded.

A Supreme Court appeal is an option, but would be incredibly expensive for The Ubyssey on top of the legal fees already incurred. U

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Ask Pawan: My club might be run by people I don’t like

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You’re all on the same seam, albeit with different game plans.

Pawan Minhas Contributor

Summer has finally arrived, and that can only mean three things: the sun’s out, the hats are on backwards and it’s time to party!

To ensure no one gets too homesick for the halls of our university, here’s a question from one of your classmates on dealing with change and taking matters into your own hands. If reading other people’s questions is too passive for you, you can anonymously send in your

own pleas for advice and they may be featured in the next edition of Ask Pawan!

“Dear Pawan, My student club is having their elections and three of the people running for hired positions are actually people I don’t like. I really like the club, but I don’t know if I’ll enjoy it as much next year if the people get their positions. What should I do? Nominate myself? Revolt?

Stage a coup?”

To celebrate the summer, let’s start off with the hottest topics on everyone’s minds: student politics. It’s rare that the adviceseeker holds their solution in the question, but I have two core tenets: coincidences are the universe’s way of showing its will, and coups = awesome.

You can even borrow the following call to action, ‘[Club name here] has had it too good for too long, sitting on their haunches and collecting all the revenue from their [income sources here], it’s

time to start writing some history to look back on for UBC’s 200th anniversary!’ Some may say that the best way to show your love for something is to let it grow on its own, but whoever said that obviously didn’t know how cool it is to storm the front gates of a democratically-elected leader — albeit of a university club.

However, if a coup doesn’t exactly appeal to you or you can’t fit large-scale protests into your schedule, there are still plenty of ways for you to create change

in your club for the better. You mentioned running for the position yourself, and that is most likely your best course of action. You can maintain the aspects of the club you enjoy, without overturning the ideal of governance by the people with an uprising. Elections being what they are, it’s no guarantee you will win, so I also encourage you to review the other candidates in the election and try to see what they’re about. Chances are they enjoy the club to some extent and, even if you may not agree with the direction they campaign on leading the club to. It’s important to remember that the election and club leadership in general aren’t a football match where you are vying for your team to win; everyone is trying to get the club in the direction they see is best. You’re all on the same team, albeit with different game plans.

With my sports analogy quota filled, I’ll say again that compromise and cooperation are what you and those running for leadership should be looking for, even if the path agreed upon isn’t exactly what you may have imagined. At the end of the day, a club is a collection of people who share a common interest, and it’s the job of all the club members to keep that aspect of community in their heads at all time, so the enjoyment of that common interest isn’t lost in the peripherals. U Summer days driftin’ away? Spice it up and email in any questions, queries, or quandaries you have to advice@ ubyssey.ca or on our website at www. ubyssey.ca/advice.

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SUMMER LOVIN’//

RELISH IN THE FACT THERE ARE NO LINES AT ANY OF THE COFFEE SHOPS There are a great variety of coffee shops on campus, from five Starbucks’ scattered across campus to a differently named, but strangely similar, UBC-run shop in almost every faculty building. On winter mornings before 10 a.m. classes start, you’ll be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t have a line out the door.

But, in the summer, not so much!

Take in the joy of being able to walk right up to the counter and order before it’s gone.

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BEERBONGS AND BENTLEYS//

A Post Malone afterparty causes AUS event to fall apart

FINALLY GET A TABLE IN IKB

Visit the Botanical Gardens when they’re in full bloom

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Things to do on campus this summer now that everyone is gone Emma Livingstone Contributor

Summer is here and after a year of assignments, tests and all the other joys of learning, it’s a welcome relief to finally not be spending five days a week on campus.

If you don’t have that luxury and are stuck on campus for work, summer school or year round residence commitments, then don’t let the school atmosphere get you down. Campus in the summer is a completely different experience, full of things to enjoy that you might not be able to do once winter semester comes around.

If you’ve tried to make backto-back classes from Buchanan to EOSC, you know how difficult it can be to navigate through the crowded masses of students looking down at their phones without running into anyone. But in the summer when the crowds have cleared it’s a pretty nice place to take a stroll or remember what it’s like to bike or skateboard at full speed without waiting for people to move out of the way.

U WALK/BIKE/SKATEBOARD FREELY DOWN MAIN MALL WITHOUT LITERALLY RUNNING INTO ANYONE

During winter semester the 10 minutes between class changes on Main Mall are the busiest times that stretch of campus sees.

GET NAKED AT WRECK BEACH WITHOUT FEAR OF AWKWARDLY RUNNING INTO SOMEONE YOU DID A PROJECT WITH IN FIRST YEAR

It’s summer, so expect to see an increase in the amount of people going commando on Wreck, but with most of the students returning home or gone on vacation there’s less of a chance you’ll run into someone you did a project with in first year. So, embrace the hippie culture and go for it.

Once syllabus week passes and midterm studying begins, IKB turns into an overcrowded mess of people camping out there all day and night. But in the summer the peaceful ambience of a library returns. Curl up on one of the couches and remember what it’s like to read for fun.

SEE HOW EMPTY THE PIT CAN REALLY GET ON SUMMER WEDNESDAY NIGHTS If you thought The Pit was dead during the school year, even on Wednesdays, check it out and see how empty it can really get. Go with a group of friends and turn the empty dance floor into your own private party. At least with fewer people you’ll be able to convince the DJ to play your request for Toto’s “Africa” every eight minutes.

GO TO ONE OF THE MUSEUMS/ GARDENS YOU CAN GET INTO FOR FREE BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO YET If you haven’t been to Nitobe or the Museum of Anthropology yet then you’re not taking full advantage of your student card. It can be difficult to find time during the school year to visit the museums or see the sights UBC has to offer, so do it this summer. Visit the Botanical Gardens while they’re in full bloom. Figure out where the Pacific Museum of the Earth is and check out what it has on display. Soak up the campus culture while you can! U

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Twelvewest had apparently planned an afterparty for the Beerbongs and Bentleys star

Zak Vescera News Editor

There are a lot of things that can accidentally ruin an Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) party: poor planning, too much booze, not enough booze and American rapper Post Malone.

On April 27, the AUS held an event at Vancouver club Twelvewest, which you might remember as that place from the night you don’t remember.

Attendees of the ‘Great Arts Getaway’ were promised unlimited pizza and booze for a $22 ticket, or roughly half an arts student’s weekly salary.

The fun was cut short at 10:30 p.m. when the bouncers at Twelvewest began kicking out all the arts students and, we can only assume, innocent bystanders who may have just really looked like poli sci majors.

The reason? Rap superstar Post Malone. Twelvewest had apparently planned an afterparty for the Beerbongs and Bentleys star, and presumably needed the whole of the space to make room for both of his pigtails if he showed up.

So how did one of the most popular rappers in the world get double booked with an AUS event?

As per usual, there is a way to blame this on fratboys.

Turns out a lot of campus associations, especially Greek ones, like to host events at Twelvewest that end at 10:30 so patrons can go spend even more money at other clubs.

A representative from Twelvewest confirmed that she believed this to be the case with the AUS event and included the 10:30 end time on the contract.

Despite the entirety of their degrees consisting of reading and interpreting information, the good people at the AUS apparently took this to mean the event would become public at 10:30 and that they could stay until 3 a.m. They believed this right until they got kicked to the pavement.

Luckily, the good people at Twelvewest were pretty understanding of the miscommunication. Their owner was so concerned that he personally approved a whole new afterparty for the displaced partygoers on May 11.

People who could not make the new event were not reimbursed by the AUS. Post Malone has not responded to a request for comment. We can’t be sure he was there that night. We still can’t be sure if Post Malone is real, to be honest. But if there was ever a chance to blackmail an A-list celebrity into playing Block Party, this would be it. U

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SCIENCE

MAY 29, 2018 TUESDAY

EDITOR JAMES VOGL

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WOOD SCIENCE //

Proposed wood science program designed to prepare undergraduates for modern bioeconomy Patrick Hatch Contributor

To say that BC has a lot of trees is an understatement. This abundance has been utilized by many in the past, making the province a huge source of raw material for paper, doors, windows and houses. Nowadays, all that wood is becoming something different: a currency in what is called the bioeconomy.

At its core, the bioeconomy is about bioproducts, or products made out of renewable materials like corn, sugar cane or wood.

One of the driving forces of the bioeconomy is finding innovative ways to replace products made from non-renewable resources — like oil, concrete and steel — with renewable alternatives.

Recognizing this emerging economy and its potentially powerful role within it, the BC government has given UBC’s department of wood sciences within the faculty of forestry an approximately $300,000 grant to support the development of a new program called Bioeconomy, Sciences and Technology (BEST) that will prepare undergraduates to take advantage of all that wood can do to support the bioeconomy. Increasing the

prevalence of wood products in the economy might raise concerns over damaging BC’s forests, but Dr. Stavros Avramidis — head of the department of wood sciences — stated that there is no reason for alarm. The provincial policy is that for every tree cut, at least two must be planted, he said. These replanted trees grow back in between 30 to 50 years depending on the species.

In fact, according to Avramidis, this cycle of growth and usage benefits the environment in ways that simply leaving the trees to die on their own does not. This is because trees are essentially solidified carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. This means that if the tree dies on its own, the CO2 will return to the air, but if the wood is put to a more permanent use, it will keep the CO2 from returning to the atmosphere.

The BEST program will exist alongside the department’s Wood Products Processing (WPP) program. This program equips students to manage facilities like sawmills and plywood mills that process wood for traditional applications like housing, but as graduates of the BEST program will see, wood can do so much more than that.

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The BEST program could accept students as early as September 2019.

The components of wood — mainly cellulose and lignin — are very versatile in terms of what they can do. Cellulose is the molecule that makes up half of wood’s mass and is responsible for

its tensile strength, and lignin is the molecule that gives wood its strength under compression.

Using trees, “you can make products from the ... nano-scale level all the way to the ultra-macro

level,” said Avramidis, citing macroscale examples such as the main body of a Boeing 787 and nano-scale examples such as artificial arteries.

Additionally, similar to how corn can be used to make bioethanol — a substitute for gasoline — wood can also be used as a biofuel. “Last year there was ... a Boeing plane that flew from Seattle to Denver, and a big percentage of the fuel in its tanks came from wood,” said Avramidis.

The potential for wood is growing ever larger as researchers find new uses, but Avramidis noted that deep technological research into these uses won’t be the only aspect of the BEST program.

“We want to create someone who understands science, but also understands the social, political and financial implications of developing this green economy,” said Avramidis. Therefore the courses within BEST will cover a wide range of topics including technology, sustainability, policy and land use.

The approval process for BEST is not yet complete, but if it gets the green light, it could be part of the department of wood sciences as early as September 2019, potentially giving the already highly-ranked department a more broad and modern scope. U

ROCKET //

UBC Rocket showcases new projects at 2018 open house

Cypress rides off into the New Mexico sunset at the 2017 Spaceport America Cup.

James Vogl Science Editor

It’s not every day that you stumble upon a fully-assembled rocket while wandering around campus — but if you were to have visited the firstever UBC Rocket open house at the Engineering Student Centre on April 27, you would have found just that.

According to Patricia Loo-Xu, the team’s organizational development officer, the dual aims of the event

were to give members of UBC’s undergraduate rocket design team the opportunity to share some of their knowledge of rocketry with the UBC community, as well as to recruit new members.

Despite having only existed for two years, UBC Rocket has already enjoyed some notable success like winning first place in the 10,000 foot commercial-off-the-shelf category at last year’s Spaceport America Cup, an intercollegiate

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competition that brought together over 100 rocket design teams.

Displayed prominently outside the student centre was Cypress, their winning rocket from 2017.

With its bright white body and red nose and tail sections, it was difficult to ignore on the way inside to view some of the other projects the team has been working on over the past year.

Among these projects was the construction of Hollyburn,

another 10,000 foot rocket and Black Tusk, a 30,000 foot rocket.

Both of them will be taken along with Cypress to the 2018 Spaceport America Cup in June.

Black Tusk will be the team’s first supersonic rocket, capable of traveling up to 1.6 times faster than the speed of sound. Designing a rocket that could perform at those higher speeds presented a new set of challenges for the team, said Joren Jackson — one of the club’s co-founders — particularly when it came to modelling how the rocket would behave.

“As soon as you break the speed of sound, or even get close, it becomes a lot harder to predict what’s actually going to happen,” he said.

Another project was the team’s payload program, which gave teams from local secondary schools the opportunity to design and construct payload modules that will be launched on Cypress and Hollyburn in June.

The team received a variety of submissions, from a camera that will record the rocket’s flight to an experimental module designed to assess the effects of a rocket launch on a Raspberry Pi, a popular and inexpensive single-board computer that could potentially be used on future rockets.

The final project the team had on display was their progress towards their ambitious longterm goal of constructing a liquidfuelled rocket capable of reaching the Karman line, which, at 100 kilometres above earth’s surface, officially marks the edge of space.

According to Simon Bambey, the technical lead on the space shot project, UBC Rocket is one of many collegiate design teams working towards this goal in what has developed into an unofficial space race.

Compared to the development of Black Tusk, Cypress and Hollyburn, this project has presented the team with a number of new challenges, one of which is simply ensuring that the rocket will fly straight.

“That’s lower than airliners fly, 30,000 feet,” said Bambey.

“You still have quite a bit of air and atmosphere where you are, which actually helps a lot, you can have wings that make the rocket more stable. We don’t have that luxury unfortunately because pretty quickly we’ll be in the vacuum of space.”

The team spent the past year designing, testing and refining the engine technology for the eventual space shot rocket. So far, they have only been able to do cold flow trials, which utilize water rather than propellant as a means of testing the various components of the propulsion system. But they hope to begin hot fire testing soon, and they are in the process of finding a suitable site to conduct those trials.

Through working on ambitious projects like Black Tusk and the space shot rockets, the team hopes to provide its members with unique educational opportunities in rocketry and aeronautical design that they might not be able to find elsewhere.

“It’s the best learning experience I’ve had,” said Jackson. U

SPORTS+REC

MAY 29, 2018 TUESDAY

EDITOR LUCY FOX

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FOOTBALL //

T-Bird Dakoda Shepley puts pen to paper with NFL’s New York Jets Alanah Levandosky Contributor

Standing at a daunting 6’5”, Thunderbird offensive lineman Dakoda Shepley steps up to the barbell at the 2018 CFL Combine in late March. He braces and starts his reps — ending on an impressive, event-topping 27 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press.

Just a few days earlier, the 23-year-old impressed at the East Michigan Pro Day in front of NFL scouts.

His hard work paid off.

Though he didn’t get his name called in the 2018 NFL Draft, Shepley signed a three-year rookie undrafted free agent deal with the NFL’s New York Jets on April 28.

He was selected fifth overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders less than a week later in the 2018 CFL Draft.

“It was a little strange for me, being the centre of attention. I had some idea of what my standings were, from the draft, and how I was being recruited from other teams. I had no idea that I would be the centre of attention as much as it was. It was a lot more fun for me,” Shepley said of his time in the spotlight at the Combine and the Pro Day. Though he is still a few credits shy of finishing his degree, Shepley has been focusing on making it in the pros — evident through his commitment to training since the T-Birds finished their playoff run in November.

“I was training in Michigan, so I was driving an hour and half one-way from Windsor. I’d wake up around 5:45 a.m., have breakfast

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Shepley playing for the Thunderbirds.

— have some kind of a shake, drink coffee — and then hit the road. I’d get there, start working around at 8:30 a.m. and be at the gym till about 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. Recover, drink a shake, stretch out, go home. From there, I’d just relax.

“With combine training, you can’t even sip a beer,” Shepley said, laughing.

His work evidently paid off, and it all follows a successful career with the UBC Thunderbirds.

Shepley lived his entire life in Windsor, Ontario, before moving out West to play for the ’Birds, a shift from the norm in the Canadian border city.

“Being from Windsor, everyone is always trying to play in the States. They wanna play NCAA, so that’s what I was trying to do, I was trying to play in Michigan ... I was getting recruited by a school in Michigan. UBC gave me a call and I’d never heard of UBC before — I’d

never even been out West before.

The coach at the time, Shawn Olson, said ‘Come out for a visit — if you don’t like it, don’t come.’”

For the T-Birds veteran, it was an easy decision once he got to campus.

“Right away when I got [here], I wanted to go,” he said.

He hasn’t looked back, and neither have the T-Birds.

The years at UBC have held some major milestones for the fourth-year student, though the 2015 Vanier

Cup was by far the highlight of his years on the roster. Beating Calgary in the 2015 Hardy Cup was a close second, too.

“We beat [Calgary] and we beat them when it counted, so it was even sweeter. We train all year, and it had been three years of losing to them before that. When you finally get [the win], it’s like playing a level on a video game when you keep losing and you finally get it, you never have to do it again,” Shepley said, laughing.

He was also named a Canada West all-star in 2017.

And while tough games like the Vanier Cup or Calgary matchups can wear on him, Shepley lives by the motto of letting go and moving forward.

“You’ve gotta have a shortterm memory in football … from play to play. If you mess up on one play, you’ve got to forget about it because there’s another play coming. It’s the same with games — just on a grander scale. It’s really influenced my life that way as well, if it’s out of my control then it’s not going to stress me out anymore.”

He does swear by one particular pregame ritual, too, to keep himself collected and focused.

“I just like being early. I get to the stadium before the coaches and just sit there. I hate being rushed, so it’s the only pregame ritual I have. I’m easily there at least three hours early. I’ll be sitting in the locker room, have a coffee or two and just relax. I just like to be in the environment as long as I can.”

And it looks like he will have even more time to embrace the football environment, now that the pros have come knocking. U

COACHING //

Volleyball Canada comes calling for men’s head coach Kerry MacDonald Liam Fisher Contributor

After two seasons with the UBC men’s volleyball team, head coach Kerry MacDonald has taken a position with Volleyball Canada as their new director of Sports Science, Medicine and Information. His new role began on May 15.

MacDonald will take his talents and PhD in sports injury prevention — along with a master’s degree in coaching — to the sports national body. His new role with Volleyball Canada will be leading and developing the Integrated Support Teams for all the national programs. This work will be focused on integrating sports science into Canadian coaching staff regimes.

He is no stranger to Volleyball Canada either, having been both the head coach of the Youth National Team in 2017, and the high performance director for sitting volleyball in previous years.

MacDonald will remain with the Thunderbirds, though not in the head coaching capacity; he

will be attending practices and home games while also running the team’s sports science and analytics programs.

In his time with the Thunderbirds, MacDonald led UBC to their first U Sports men’s volleyball national championship in 35 years. While UBC dropped their semi-final match up against Alberta 2-3 and 1-3 this past season, the combination of a critical Canada West bronze medal win against Winnipeg and their secondplace standing allowed for an invite to the U Sports nationals. There, MacDonald and his T-Birds settled the score, beating Alberta before taking down Lower Mainland rival Trinity Western to claim the championship trophy.

UBC has hired UBC Okanagan’s Mike Hawkins as interim head coach of the men’s volleyball team for the time being.

Hawkins previously served as assistant coach for the UBCO Heat and as interim head coach for Thompson Rivers University. He has also worked with MacDonald as an assistant coach for the 2017 Youth National Team. U

MacDonald coaching UBC in the Canada West bronze medal game.

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PATIO & LOUNGE

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1 Quebec’s ___ Peninsula; 6 Feat; 10 Male turkey; 13 Blender brand; 14 Harper’s Bazaar illustrator; 15­River in central Switzerland; 16­Name on a bomber; 17 Diving bird; 18 Comic Rudner; 19 Truck stop sight; 20 Eternal; 22 Bigot; 24­Uses money; 28 Bear witness; 31­Grenoble’s river; 32 “Inferno” writer; 34 Guggenheim display; 36­Edinburgh native; 37 Arab instrument; 38 Group of fruit trees; 41 Sportage maker; 42 Rime; 44­___ disant (self styled); 45­Brewer’s need; 47 ___ vincit amor; 49 Lozenge shaped; 51 Hype; 53­Power problem; 56 Mirror; 59 Able was ___...; 61 Second letter of the Greek alphabet; 64 Kansas city; 65 Bother; 66 Quick sharp bark; 67 Civil disturbance; 68 Line in a play directed to the audience; 69­Corner key; 70 Feminine ending; 71 Spirited horse;

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11­Table scrap; 12 Give ___ break!; 15 “Gunsmoke” star; 20 Late bloomers; 21 Bee: Prefix; 23 Sock ___ me!; 25 Head supporters; 26 Legal right; 27 ___ precedent; 29 Indian term of respect; 30­Singing syllable; 32 Cathedral; 33 A Bell for ___; 35 Audition; 37 Yikes!; 39 Dove’s sound;

40­Car scar; 43 Wall of irregular stones; 46 Contrary to; 48 Stout relative; 50 Situate; 52 Flaming; 54 Bottled spirit; 55 Wear down, physically or emotionally; 57 Cut of beef; 58 North Carolina university; 60 Watched intently; 61 Ciao!; 62 Some MIT grads; 63 Pampering, briefly; 65 Small batteries;

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