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Brock Commons Phase 2 coming soon

Microdose a course with One Day @ UBC

Yu Jiantuo’s talk on campus should have been noticed

Species competition and the climate crisis

Clutch plays pave way for playoff season

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EVENTS

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Wednesday, October 30 – sunday, November 10 heart of the city festival The 16th annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Fest is going on for the next two weeks! Enjoy a wide variety of events, including music, film screenings and discussions, all in support of artists and creators from Vancouver’s DTES!

saturday, november 2 pleasant comedy 8 to 10 p.m. @ our town cafe

If you’re looking for comedy and you enjoy the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, you should probably check this event out. It’s $10 and they’ve got comedians from near and far!

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NEWS

OCToBER 29, 2019 TUESday

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Media //

UBC School of Journalism undergoes name change to include writing studies

YOUTH MOVEMENT //

“We are a wave of change and together we are unstoppable.”

“The skills you learn through journalism are skills that are essential in almost just about every career.”

Negin Nia Contributor

As of January 1, 2020, the UBC School of Journalism will be renamed to the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.

The change, which was approved by the UBC Vancouver Senate on October 16, was based around the expansion of the UBC School of Journalism to include courses in academic writing and research such as WRDS 150 and 350. These courses are currently administered by Arts Studies in Research and Writing, an administrative unit that is overseen by the Dean of Arts office.

REASONS FOR CHANGE According to Director and Associate Professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Dr. Alfred Hermida, the School of Journalism has been discussing how they can expand for some time.

“One of the discussions that has been a feature among faculty is to think in terms of how we can grow the school and expand,” said Hermida. “It’s hard to do that since we’re a small graduate program with five to six faculty. Part of this has been exploring other units or programs within UBC that align intellectually with our program.”

“Writing studies is an undergraduate program, which runs out of the Dean’s office. It essentially introduces first-year students to scholarly writing and research in different genres and topics, but it’s a program, so it doesn’t have a home,” he added.

“This means it’s hard to expand it and hire people because you don’t have a faculty.”

After speaking with other colleagues and Dr. Laurie McNeill, who is the chair of writing studies, the faculty at the School of Journalism found that there were overlaps with writing studies, as both work with different aspects of media.

Hermida emphasized that there has always been an interest in developing undergraduate level journalism courses at UBC. Over a decade ago, the university started JRNL 100A, New Media and Society, which was the only journalism course offered. Now, they have JRNL 400, Feminist Postcolonial Critique and

Journalism in a Digital Age, and soon they will be offering JRNL 420, Social Media and Journalism.

By having this larger unit, they can offer more journalism courses for undergraduate students who see these courses as a strong added value to their existing areas of expertise.

“The skills you learn through journalism are skills that are essential in almost just about every career,” Hermida said.

CONSULTING STAKEHOLDERS According to Logan Turner, president of the School of Journalism Students Association (SJSA), the SJSA has been working with faculty members to make sure journalism students are consulted about the upcoming change.

“The Ubyssey wrote an article last year on the change as well and spoke to the SJSA who were pretty upset when the merger came to light. However, the SJSA has worked really closely with the faculty members since then to make sure students are staying informed. There have been several opportunities for consolation,” said Turner.

Additionally, Hermida made it clear that they’ve completed extensive consultation with students through the School of Journalism, the SJSA representatives and other methods throughout the past year.

“For me, and us as a school, it’s very important to involve students in what we do. I meet with Logan on a regular basis to hear the students’ concerns and feedback,” said Hermida.

These consultations are meant to reassure students that nothing will change in the short-term but by having this broader base to work with, it allows the school to potentially hire more faculty.

Eventually in the long-term, the goal is to help them expand and enhance the student experience.

ADDRESSING CONCERNS Turner added, “there’s, of course, some concern. Concerns are around the identity of the school and that the program will inevitably change.”

But he said he knows from his conversation with faculty members and Hermida that this will still be a program training

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students to become journalists.

“The degree will not change.

It’ll continue to be a Master of Journalism. It’s more the structure in which it’s housed,” said Hermida. “Students that graduate will still get a certificate that says they got a Master of Journalism from UBC. That doesn’t change and the nature of the program doesn’t change.”

Additionally, the School of Journalism’s alumni survey has shown that half of their graduate students work in media-related careers, where they use their skills developed through the journalism program.

MAKING A VERSATILE DEGREE “The name change responds to the changing dynamic of [the] journalism field at the moment, such as shrinking journalist pledges and mass journalist layoffs. This provides opportunities for a lot of students to use the skills that we help them develop at the School of Journalism and apply those to any sort of field they end up being in,” said Turner.

The faculty at the UBC School of Journalism is working to address any concerns students may have with the name change.

There are hopes that a larger school, the UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media will set this foundation to build upon the current success and also expand into undergraduate education.

Speaking with some of the current students and alumni of the school of journalism, they expressed content with the name change.

“I don’t think the name itself affects the program. In fact, I think it’s very accurate to what the program is trying to do,” said Monique Rodrigues, a School of Journalism alumna.

“I don’t think on a professional level if you’re practicing journalism and if you know what journalism is all about, the name change would undermine anything,” said Mashal Butt, a current journalism student. “An outsider’s perspective looking in might be confused, but if you’re already familiar with the industry, it shouldn’t be a problem.” U

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UBC students join Greta Thunberg at climate strike in downtown Vancouver Liam Sfaxi Contributor

Friday, October 25 saw climate protesters take to the streets of Vancouver again to demand more urgent climate action from political leaders.

The march was organized by the youth-run organization, Sustainabiliteens. To capitalize on their message, well-known Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg also made an appearance. She marched alongside attendees and spoke to a crowd of between 12,000 and 15,000 people outside the Vancouver Art Gallery according to estimates from the Vancouver Police Department.

Thunberg was joined by local climate activists including Dr. David Suzuki and members of the Tiny House Warriors, an activist group protesting the building of the Trans Mountain Pipeline on unceded Secwepemc territory by strategically building houses along the pipeline route.

Many UBC students joined the march in support of the activists’ messages for further action on the climate crisis. Lizzy Ruta, a natural resource conservation major at UBC, said she came to the march to support Greta’s message. “[I wanted to] support Greta Thunberg and be with other like-minded people who also support her ... for her bravery and dedication to supporting solutions for climate change,” said Ruta.

But Thunberg’s presence was not the only reason for the large turnout among young activists.

Second-year biology major Lucy Wall felt the need to come out to show her continued support for the cause. “I came to the last climate strike and I thought it was important to come again and show solidarity for what I believe in,” she said.

Urban forestry major Liam Gannon who is also part of a nonviolent direct action group called Extinction Rebellion expressed frustration with the pace of climate action by politicians. When asked why he attended the rally, Gannon said, “Well, frankly, I’ve had it with government and with the inaction … and by the time everyone’s going to act it’s going to be too late.”

Gannon said he feels that his responsibility is to keep Canadian leaders from shirking their responsibilities and refusing to act on the climate crisis.

The most notable proponent of the youth’s role in fighting the climate crisis is arguably Thunberg herself, who rose to prominence by holding climate strikes outside of Sweden’s parliament. In previous climate protests and speeches Thunberg said world leaders must be responsible for ignoring the warnings of scientists 27 years ago in Rio de Janeiro.

“Because we are not just some kids skipping school or just some adults who are not going to work,” said Thunberg to the crowd. “We are a wave of change and together we are unstoppable.”

“Change is coming, whether you like it or not,” she said as she ended her speech. U

“Change is coming, whether you like it or not.”

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Second phase of Brock Commons development will bring over 500 student beds to campus Zubair Hirji Staff Writer

UBC community members around the northeast corner of campus will see an increase in blue construction fences over the next few years as Brock Commons Phase 2 begins construction.

The new buildings will consist of 595 new student beds comprised of four-bedroom and studio units. Overall, this will bring the total number of beds in Brock Commons to 999.

The South building will also include a 3,000 square foot area for food services, which will be modeled after the Harvest store in Ponderosa Commons.

Additionally, there will be two new daycare centres. One for toddlers under the age of three that will have 12 spaces and one for children ages three to five that will have 24 spaces.

While the two new buildings aren’t planned to be built out of timber, like Brock Commons Tallwood House, they are planned to comply with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. However, the new building will implement a variety of energy-saving techniques. “[UBC is trying to be] really thoughtful around building

envelope to limit energy consumption, all sorts of low flow toilets, showers and sinks to reduce water consumption,” said Andrew Parr, managing director of UBC Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS).

The project’s total cost is estimated to be $156.4 million and will have the majority of its funding come from SHHS at $114.2 million (73 per cent). The rest of the funding will come from; a central budget with $33.9 million (21.7 per cent), the faculty of arts with $5.9 million (3.7 per cent) and the Allard School of Law at $2.2 million (1.4 per cent).

Additionally, UBC will be asking the province to consider increasing the height limit on academic buildings on campus through the Land Use Plan from its current limit of 53 metres or 18 stories to 65 metres or 22 stories.

The UBC Board of Governors approved the second round of development for Brock Commons Phase 2 on September 24 at the General Board meeting.

Brock Commons is included in a greater campus housing plan that began in 2010. At the time there were only 3,200 students on the waitlist to enter student housing, that number has now risen by 188 per cent to 6,000 students, despite the addition

The new buildings will consist of 595 new student beds comprised of four-bedroom and studio units.

of 4,500 beds to student housing.

Right now there are 12,447 beds on campus, the most of any university in Canada. By 2022 SHHS expects that there will be more than 14,000 beds on campus

as well as the opportunity to add 4,000 additional beds in the years following.

With these plans in mind, Parr said that he is thankful for the support of the university and the

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Board of Governors.

“We’ve been very supported by the University, by the Board of Governors, to continue to invest in growing or student housing stock,” Parr said. U

RELOCATION //

Arts Student Centre finds new home within second phase of Brock Commons Marna Swart Contributor

After much debate about the location, the site for the Arts Student Centre (ASC) has been set at the northeast corner of East Mall and Walter Gage Road, as an addition to the Brock Commons Phase 2 site.

The building is scheduled for completion by September 2021.

The initial location in the Bosque faced mass criticism online from the UBC community spearheaded by the twitter account @BosqueUbc. Most of the criticism centred around the proposed removal of eight mature oak trees from the Bosque site to make room for the building.

In addition to the social media backlash, an online petition, which amassed nearly 1,000 signatures, also pushed President Santa Ono to ask campus planners to reconsider the location back in May. After consultation with stakeholders including the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS), the AMS and Campus and Community Planning (C+CP), the decision was made to move the building from the Bosque and incorporate it into the Brock Commons Phase 2 site in front of the Allard School of Law. Brock Commons Phase 2 will include two buildings of mixeduse residential, academic and recreation spaces. Both Brock Commons and the ASC were approved for development at the September 24 Board of Governors meeting, with the ASC being

The ASC is scheduled for completion by September 2021.

approved for a funding release of $750,000. The ASC will be presented again at the December Board meeting for Board 2 approval.

According to Yash Gurnani, an AUS representative and chair of

the ASC project, the consultation on the new site was thorough.

“First, Campus and Community Planning set up a new Building Site Selection Committee. For us, it’s been our third iteration of this,” said

SCREENSHOT FROM CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING

Gurnani.

“At that particular committee, we had myself, people from UBC Campus and Community Planning, UBC Properties Trust, the AMS design office, the faculty of arts and Allard Law School.

We sat down and reviewed five prospective sites.”

According to Associate VP of C+CP Michael White and C+CP Director of Planning and Design Gerry McGeough, projects such as the ASC always entail rigorous consultation.

To account for the loss of Allard Law School’s parking lot and a portion of its field area, C+CP promises a “new, usable, sunny green space” off East Mall and welcomes continued community feedback.

“UBC carefully considers how to fit new development into the fabric of the campus in ways that minimize the ecological, cultural and aesthetic impact of the loss of green space and trees,” said McGeough and White in an emailed statement to The Ubyssey.

“In many cases where infill development has occurred, we have successfully preserved our most mature trees to the benefit of both the project and the campus at large as well as add new green spaces.”

AUS President Kat Aquino also voiced her enthusiasm regarding the building’s proximity to the faculty of arts academic precinct in the Buchanan complex, the student services and student life precinct at Brock Hall as well as the Bus Exchange.

“I can say that the closer proximity to the services that will be built in that area is pretty exciting,” said Aquino. U

CULTURE

OCTOBER 29, 2019 Tuesday

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Education //

One Day @ UBC program looks to teaches a whole course in five hours Sanjana Subramanian Contributor

Have you ever been in a course and thought, if only I could do all this learning but in one day? Well, UBC Extended Learning has the solution to that predicament with their One Day @ UBC program.

For the last 10 years, UBC Extended Learning has been organizing inter-disciplinary classes spanning topics in pop culture, medieval history and even current affairs with One Day @ UBC. The One Day @ UBC lectures happen every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Unlike the lectures you may be used to, there are no admission requirements to get in. All the lectures are taught by UBC faculty.

If you’ve been searching for an opportunity to find the intersection between Nazi Germany and the conservation of endangered species or simply examine closely tensions within China, look no further!

Delving into the history of things, Don Black, the director of community programs at UBC Extended Learning revealed that the vast majority of courses like the ones offered at One Day @ UBC were taught by community intellectuals. As people got busier, it became harder to sustain a schedule that allowed for repetitive, long-term classes. Other commitments started getting in

the way of class timing, not just for the professors involved but for the students too. In an attempt to connect the community with the UBC faculty and overcome these logistical challenges, the One Day @ UBC program was launched.

This was an easier commitment for students and professors. This breakthrough learning format that is now practiced at the University of Calgary too.

The program has a very simple philosophy: all you need is interest to learn about truly whatever fascinates you. Regardless of if you received your post-secondary education years ago — or never did — One Day @ UBC gives you a chance to connect with accredited instructors in an intimate environment for $50.

Class sizes being capped at 45 sets this opportunity apart from free lectures at UBC that are generally short, very large and filled with brief panel discussions after that students may or may not be able to participate in. “[That] is not the most ideal environment for people learning at different levels. Sometimes, you just want to be in a small group, have intimate discussions and talk about specific issues that intrigue you,” said Black.

The rapid success of the program has now allowed UBC Extended Learning to offer 12 courses in each term spanning

The most popular ones are related to psychology, politics, history and philosophy.

a variety of disciplines. The most popular ones are related to psychology, politics, history and philosophy. The content covered in each class always starts at an introductory level to allow everyone to be on the same playing field before embarking on this exciting educational experience.

As Black noted, “university can be a mysterious but engaging place, and it’s nice for people to be able to explore that.”

There are several notable professors participating in the program this year, including Dr. Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, the department head of the Central, Northern and Eastern European Studies. He will be teaching a newly conceptualized course about reviving extinct species in post-

World War II Germany.

The late Leonard Cohen was also part of the teaching team during his time in Vancouver, and his poetry still continues to remain central to courses offered. Joining the lecture series again is also Dr. Michael Griffin, who Black notes almost always receives over 90 per cent positive feedback from everyone who takes his classes. This year, his lecture is focused on uncovering mysteries of the Oracle at Delphi.

Past reviews have maintained that the course content is appropriately influenced by current events while maintaining a highlevel academic environment and being rigorous. This is why the offerings this year seem to be a mixed bag that vary from studying Medieval times using Game of

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Thrones has an appropriate model, to the challenges of artificial intelligence. In the past, overlaps between mythology and music and other interesting combinations have also made for popular choices.

So whether you know someone looking for some sort of enrichment and intellectual engagement, or someone just looking to be an interesting conversationalist, the One Day @ UBC can strike the perfect balance between an educational journey and other time commitments.

“It is neat that we [are] able to connect, even in a modest way, UBC professors and community members,’’ said Black, “especially when community engagement is an important aspect of the UBC mandate.” U

Art show //

The S Project: an outline of potential

Zubair Hirji

It’s a lot to take in.

Moe Kirkpatrick Senior Staff Writer

I don’t know about you, but personally, I don’t know anything about maps.

Sure, I can read a map, but I can’t draw one. Not a rough outline of like where houses in a neighborhood are, I can do that, but a real map, a map map, with cardinal directions or topographical shading, any of that legitimate cartography stuff.

In a way, that makes me distinctly and generically unqualified to review the Hatch’s latest exhibition, The S Project.

The S Project is a collection of “artefacts, objects, and letters”

illuminating a collaboration between two artists who have never met: Carly Butler (Vancouver Island, Canada) and Gudrun Filipska (The Fens, UK). Butler’s artistic practices work with concepts of nautical and celestial navigation, such as the Great Circle Route. In contrast, Filipska’s focuses on the psychology behind dissociative fugues, which is a psychological state where a person loses track of their identity and engages in unexpected wandering, with little to no memory of wandering afterwards. Filipska also explores motherhood and how being a parent challenges the colonial ideals of travel and tourism.

What this means for what the exhibit carries is rather broad.

There are two clips on a video display, an MP3 with headphones, so many jars of water, photobooks, regular books, maps, red thread, a globe, an etching of Morse code, cyanotypes — photographic prints in cyan blue, the same as blueprint — more photos and even a museum case with other photos and samples.

It’s a lot to take in and it takes a while to take in.

And it takes even longer to understand what, really, The S Project is about because this exhibition does not directly discuss the actual undertaking of the project at all. (Except for in a little

black binder on one of the benches, which I highly recommend taking a look through.)

While Butler and Filipska did send letters and objects back and forth, and they did make art using the landscapes of their respective homes, their main collaborative undertaking was in mapping out three potential routes between Vancouver Island and The Fens, using a variety of alternative cartographical methods. The simplest way I can describe it is virtual traveling, but with actual math.

One route focused on how the distance would be traveled via roads and shipping routes, while another allowed only travel by land, which meant detouring through Russia rather than crossing the Atlantic. The third route was charted beforehand using celestial navigation, and then, as the artists traveled as far along that route as they could, replotted with the same celestial navigation, to see how the approximated locations matched up with the actual journey.

All of these routes and the updated locations for the last route were uploaded onto a digital map, which, while not shown in the Hatch exhibition, can be found online.

However, despite the fragmented display and the lack of context for what the actual project detailed, there are still moments of genuine connection in this exhibit.

When I saw the first cyanotype — it looks like a starry sky, with a faint gradient and pops of white — and found out it was made

with Vancouver Island seawater, I took a step back. It wasn’t just water that had been transported from there to here. It was water that had been transformed, purposefully, so we would look at it more closely. The artist had been there, had left an impression on this piece, and I wanted to be there too, to be let in to the places they knew.

I think this is best shown here: In the museum case, up in the top right corner, there is a postcard sent from Filipska to Butler, alongside a small cardboard box. The box has been opened, but still carries the Canadian customs declaration, which has simply been marked “art.” You can read the postcard if you want. It’s just a postcard from one woman to another, talking about the photos she sent. It doesn’t have stunning, beautiful wordplay or detailed sketches along the sides. It’s just a postcard.

But it reminded me, above anything, that The S Project was a literal exchange of things between two people. An attempt at sharing a life and a land settled on to someone thousands of miles away, who will never see it. For each photograph or map, someone had to write a letter and write the envelope and get the stamp and send it and then wait, for it to travel, and then for someone to read it and reply, and write the envelope and get the stamp and send it, and wait. U The S Project will be at the Hatch from October 15 to November 7.

6 | CULTURE | tueSDAY OCTOBER 29, 2019 Poems //

Review: Bounce House is a melancholic reflection on childhood and motherhood

Public Talks //

Pree Bright was stunned to capture a young Black woman holding a Confederate flag high.

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Constructing ‘race spaces’: Sheila Pree Bright talk directs Vancouver through spaces of racial inequality Jasmyne Eastmond Staff Writer

The cover looks like the house from Up.

Tiffany Wong Contributor

Short, sweet and heartbreakingly poignant, Bounce House by UBC alumna Jennica Harper is her fourth book of poems.

Reading Bounce House was like re-discovering a favourite childhood playground: it is an overwhelmingly nostalgic yet reflexive process of discovery, but ultimately you feel as if you don’t belong. Harper writes about her search for her place of belonging as she navigates the space between being a new mother and also becoming recently motherless.

Like standing next to a plastic structure that used to tower over you, but now barely reaches the crown of your head, Harper weaves together the sadness of losing the innocence and joy of youth with the inexplicable discomfort of being an adult, uneasy in her newly grown body.

Harper lives with seeing her own childhood reflected in her daughter, D., while continuing her journey of self-acceptance and self-discovery away from youth.

She sees old insecurities in her daughter, too young to realize that “honey-pot tummies” will be unwanted later in life.

Harper writes strictly in four couplets per page. To me, this rigid structuring of her words is an attempt on constraining her emotions, both joy at her child and an all-encompassing sadness at the loss of her mother. Though her words are bounded, Harper’s skill as a writer allows the emotions to spill forth and take a life of their own.

Just as grief takes place with

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no preamble or warning, Harper’s writing takes you by surprise as she leaps from a poem on a new mother’s joy, “D. asks me what her wrinkly belly button is,” to one on her own mother’s death, “Mom’s bones in a blanket.” She muses on the randomness of death and her anxieties on protecting D., questioning whether she “trusts herself” to “catch the kid landing.”

The striking duality only serves to heighten the emotional journey Harper takes the reader on.

The poems are interspersed with whimsical illustrations: a bowl of butterfly wings, a ball of yarn, a bicycle wheel. The process of discovery continues as I slowly notice that all the doodles are round. It isn’t until the final poem that it dawns on me, Harper has brought the reader back full circle.

She plays with the imagery of a wheel or a loop to show the neverending cycle of birth, death and motherhood.

While I am not a new mother and am blessed with a healthy relationship with my mom, Bounce House both gave me a new appreciation for maternal relations but also made me slightly apprehensive of having my own children. I’m not sure if I want to be faced with the self-reckoning that motherhood brought Harper.

I’d recommend this book for those looking for a brief diversion from their mundane school readings. It’s short and easy to consume but does force the reader to grapple with some tough emotions. Perhaps if you’re looking for a form of procrastination that will motivate you to finally call your mom, this is the book for you. U

Through her pieces critiquing societal conventions of beauty and physicality to those linking the new to the old, award-winning photographer Sheila Pree Bright led the audience of What Do Pictures Want through her beginnings as a photographer and to her current role as a social activist.

The talk was held at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music on October 23 — the start to a multi-day International Research Roundtable conference hosted by UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

Pree Bright had not visited Canada prior to her talk.

Unaware of whether the issues concerning racial inequality and discrimination so evident in American societies were also present in Canada, Pree Bright initially hesitated to speak of race in the context of Vancouver, instead calling upon infamous reputations of Canadian amiability and politeness.

But by the end of her talk, Pree Bright made one thing clear: Vancouver has a race problem.

Vancouver has a race problem because, in the simplest sense, everywhere has a race problem.

Race problems are global, bordertranscending problems.

An open discussion evolved into conversations about misrepresentations of Canada as a ‘safe space’ isolated from racial discrimination, the demolition of Hogan’s Alley — and consequent displacement of Vancouver’s Black community — and the use of derogatory slurs in public areas.

Pree Bright insisted on the creation and maintenance of ‘race spaces’: domains in which individuals can openly and directly discuss racism, such as the What Do Pictures Want event. These areas would also allow people to actively grasp global issues rather than dismissing such challenges with ‘them, not us’ mentalities.

From her work “Plastic Bodies” to “#1960Now,” Pree Bright’s art helps construct these race spaces.

figures. So, when Pree Bright visited the mountain to document white nationalist protests, she was stunned to capture a young Black woman holding a Confederate flag high.

“How does one occupy this space with so much symbolism?”

Pree Bright said while telling this story at What Do Pictures Want.

A conversation with the flagbearer taught Pree Bright that the young woman was merely attempting to indicate the insignificance of the flag, but the nuanced meanings within the photograph further developed the artist’s interest in the power of an image. This power is also portrayed clearly throughout Pree Bright’s photography: her art-show debut included a photo of rapper Class C pointing a gun directly at her camera and to this day, she remains unsure of whether the gun was loaded.

Pree Bright’s black-and-white photographs disrupt viewers’ senses of linear history while also transcending temporal boundaries to portray an interconnectedness

between the old and the new.

At What Do Pictures Want, Pree Bright emphasized the need for past generations to share their stories and for present-day activists to be willing to seek advice and inspiration from their forebearers.

“The African American fight for justice and equality is a continuous fight,” said Pree Bright. “Current activists are still fighting the fights of their parents and grandparents.”

What Do Pictures Want taught audience members to “observe the love in the image” and challenge mainstream representations of that love to showcase individuality, beauty and power beyond the confines of racialized social norms and expectations.

The evening concluded with a book-signing of “#1960Now” and a continued discussion as audience members were left questioning their relocation from deafeningly silent safe spaces to Pree Bright’s active, powerful “race spaces.” U

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UBC has a clear mandate from students and faculty to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. But beyond modest changes, UBC administration seems to be digging in its heels.

Currently sitting at $1.75 billion, UBC’s endowment is the second largest of any Canadian university. In 2016, The Sustainability and Education Policy Network estimated it to have the most endowment funds invested in fossil fuels with over $120 million.

Following a campaign led by UBCC350 and other groups, students voted for UBC to divest from fossil fuels in an AMS referendum in 2014 and faculty followed suit in 2015. But the university’s Board of Governors (BoG) rejected the proposal in 2016.

Instead, the Board piloted the Sustainable Future Pool (SFP), a fund made up entirely of investments in sustainable initiatives. The fund is currently valued at $16 million or just under one per cent of the entire endowment.

But not much has changed since then. In a BoG Endowment Responsible Investment Committee meeting on September 18, UBC Treasurer Yale Loh and VP Finance & Operations Peter Smailes delivered the latest in a series of presentations indicating why the university does not view divestment as the best way forward.

Because of its conservative approach, the presentation sparked criticism from several governors, including BoG Chair Michael Korenberg.

“It’s relatively uninspiring, and has a strong odour of status quo about it,” said Korenberg. “... I think we’re too wrapped up in how historically returns have been addressed.”

In step with Korenberg, President Santa Ono asked those in the Finance portfolio and the Investment Management Trust (IMANT) — the independent organization in charge of investing UBC’s endowment and other funds like the $1.82-billion UBC Staff Pension Plan — to follow the lead of the University of California, a close sustainability partner of UBC that has announced it will divest from fossil fuels the day before the meeting.

There are many facets to the discussion at UBC of whether it should divest. In 2016, The Ubyssey explained how it could cause fossil fuel companies to sever financial ties to UBC that fund research into sustainable technology and also hurt the chances of UBC graduates applying for jobs at those companies. It also served as a significant talking point in the last AMS elections.

But in its case for the status quo, UBC administration had on September 17 relied on two main arguments, neither of which question the urgency of the climate crisis or its

connection to fossil fuels.

As the divestment movement at universities in Canada and around the world builds momentum, unpacking the debate at UBC raises important questions about the role of fossil fuel companies as they grow obsolete and UBC’s obligations as a public institution and investor.

Is divestment an ‘effective strategy’?

According to Dr. Sumeet Gulati, a UBC professor in environmental and resource economics, the generally agreed-upon goal is to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. The benchmark stems from the Paris Climate Agreement, signed by 196 countries, that aims to cap the global temperature increase at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

In order to reach this metric, countries around the world will have to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

To put that into perspective, the world burns fossil fuels at a rate of the equivalent of 12 million tons of oil a year. By 2050, that energy will have to be replaced with renewable sources, and all the capital and infrastructure that were created for the extraction, transportation and consumption of fossil fuels will have to be destroyed or repurposed.

When you look at the sheer size of that task, it’s easy to dismiss UBC’s investments as only being a drop in the ocean.

At the last cycle of Board meetings in September, Loh contended in a proposed endowment responsible investment approach that fossil fuel divestment is not proven to be effective enough at reversing the climate crisis to justify its accompanying risks. “... the Responsible Investing Principles clearly states that UBC does not believe that divestment is an effective strategy for addressing long-term and persistent ESG (environmental, social, governmental) risks,” reads the proposal.

According to Christie Stephenson, executive director of the Sauder School of Business’s Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, UBC is correct at first glance.

“Anytime an investor sells a security at a certain price, of course, another investor can come in and buy it at that price. And you know, it’s a bit like the hot potato — as long as there’s always another investor to buy in at the same

price, then it isn’t a particularly damaging strategy.”

But she believes divestment can still make a statement and contribute to a political movement where there “suddenly is less investor appetite” for fossil fuel stocks.

Gulati agrees that fossil fuel companies are never “going away” because of divestment alone, but he thinks doing so will pressure other institutions to divest as well, which could lead to the adoption of more ethical policies.

“I do believe large enough divestment movements can put pressure on the fossil fuel industry to stop sort of doing the kind of things they do where they try to get subsidies, where they influence politics in their favour, where they knowingly deny climate change and things like that,” said Gulati.

But according to economics professor Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi, who published research on the efficacy of divestment in 2015, it’s not worth it for the university to “impoverish” itself with a risky investment to make a political statement Instead, he noted that the only way for big fossil fuel companies to lose their standing is for them to lose their customer base, and divestment would not substantially diminish the consumption of their products.

“Imagine there’s only one energy supplier in the world and their name is Exxon Mobil and you want them to be 10 per cent of the size they are today,” said Dowlatabadi. “That means your demand needs to be 10 per cent of what it is today.”

Avoiding complicity But for many people advocating for divestment, the issue is not necessarily about directly reducing emissions, but choosing not to be complicit in an industry that they view as harmful.

“The university is supporting this industry that is jeopardizing the future of all young people and of people in the most marginalized communities around the world, so it’s a moral issue,” said Michelle Marcus, a fifth-year environmental sciences student and UBCC350 member.

Dr. Charles Menzies, an anthropology professor and BoG faculty representative, com-

pared it to investing in criminal activity just because it’s profitable.

“Say Hells Angels had a joint-stock company running the club. I’m sure you could argue to UBC, ‘I think we should invest! It’s a great little start-up company, entrepreneurial spirit, innovative technology techniques and approach to things,’” said Menzies. “[I’m] pretty sure they would tell you that that would be an inappropriate thing, even if they had a high rate of return.”

But Gulati said he is wary of moral arguments because they can develop into focusing blame rather than finding solutions where every member of society is pitching in.

“Initially … I saw this whole divestment movement as very moral, and I had a problem with that and the sort of ‘I’m not the problem, You in the fossil fuel industry are the problem’ [argument], because eventually once you start pushing this logic, I am the problem too,” said Gulati.

“I’m using the fossil fuel industries’ different products in my everyday life … So once you start pushing the moral logic, you realize everyone’s complicit.”

This is why Dowlatabadi believes divestment will only be useful if it leads to regulation that pushes people towards choosing energy-efficient options.

“We’re much more complicit in the way we consume than in the investments we hold, but the majority of people, they don’t have equity in these gas companies,” said Dowlatabadi. “If we could manage consumption, if we could change the nature of consumption [through regulation] we could address that.”

The ‘tool’ of engagement One way of addressing the practices of carbon-intensive industries without wholesale divestment is through engagement, the solution that was proposed as the best alternative to divestment by Loh in the last Board meeting.

Stephenson says engagement can look like starting conversations and cooperating with other shareholders to push companies towards renewable practices, or even proposing shareholder votes to change specific policies, a process known as proxy voting.

While she calls divestment one of many “tools” in the socially conscious investor’s toolbox, Stephenson said it causes a firm to give up its leverage as a shareholder, meaning it can no longer use other tools like engagement and proxy voting.

While

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Marcus is in favour of engaging with certain industries that could evolve to be more sustainable, she believes engaging with fossil fuel companies will only bring about marginal change.

“When it comes to the fossil fuel industry, that is an industry whose profit model is based on fueling the climate crisis,” she said.

Another aspect of the problem, according to Marcus, is that IMANT has not been transparent about its efforts to engage with fossil fuel companies. This is partly because IMANT does invest directly, but through several fund managers.

In a statement to The Ubyssey, Loh said IMANT ensures its public asset managers are signatories of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and are investing with ESG considerations in mind.

But IMANT is still working to figure out how to actually hold its assets managers accountable for engaging companies on “specific issues.” “... We are re-examining how UBC, through IMANT, can better understand how our external fund managers have been engaging with different companies and what their proxy voting has been relative to certain issues,” wrote Loh. “The analysis will include a framework to identify which issues should be highlighted and how to improve reporting by IMANT on those engagement issues.”

Legal barriers UBC’s second argument — which it developed with the reports of two outside legal firms, Koskie Minsky in 2016 and Pushor Mitchell in January 2019 — is that it wouldn’t legally be able to divest its endowment if it wanted to.

According to Loh, only 20 per cent of the university’s main endowment pool is actually made up of its own money earned from land revenue and unrestricted donations. For this portion of the endowment pool, UBC’s fiduciary duty is only to “act in the best interests of the university,” as is mandated in the BC University Act. In the

past, UBC has argued that divesting its revenues from fossil fuels would mean less funding for students, faculty, research and campus projects.

But the tide of opinion among members of UBC’s Board of Governors seems to be turning.

In their meeting on September 18, Korenberg suggested Loh and IMANT should work to divest that 20 per cent.

“The degree to which there’s money in the endowment that is not encumbered by a donor request, but is instead there because it was created through the development and other work of the university — it strikes me that you’ve got a much larger investable piece than you’ve ever contemplated in the context of our Sustainable Future Pool,” he said.

Ono was quick to echo Korenberg in support of the idea, which would increase the SFP by over 2,000 per cent — from $16 million to $366 million.

Loh and Smailes said they will take the recommendation under consideration and bring a revised responsible invest plan to a future meeting.

“UBC is currently reviewing all the potential challenges and steps associated with moving funds from land revenues that were originally endowed to the sustainable futures pool,” wrote Loh in a statement to The Ubyssey.

He did not make a clear commitment to the proposal.

As for the other 80 per cent of the endowment pool, it comprises charitable donations that were invested in specific agreements between UBC and its donors. The donations are invested as charitable purpose trusts, making UBC the money’s trustee and binding the university with a provincial law called the Trustee Act. The Trustee Act has a stronger standard of fiduciary duty than the University Act does. It calls on trustees to handle investments with prudence, which university counsel defined as “the diligent managing” of investments such that financial risk is minimized at all costs.

But the act also stipulates that the university can only invest according to the specific

terms that the donor specified in their agreement.

Most of the donations in the endowment were made decades ago, before investing responsibly on climate issues was a prevalent concern, so UBC would have to track down its donors to have them add non-financial considerations to their agreements.

Many donors are also no longer alive, so the terms of their agreement can not be revised.

The high standard of fiduciary duty is also held up by the UK common law case of Cowan v Scargill, which ruled that trustees can only use donated funds for the original purposes that they were given for.

But the Office of the University Counsel did specify in its own interpretation of the trustee duties that socially responsible investing based on non-financial matters could be allowed if it is “aligned with the best interests of the beneficiary.”

In a 2016 Ubyssey op-ed, Allard Law professors Dennis Pavlich and Jocelyn Stacey used this reasoning to argue that the university’s primary obligation as a trustee is to its students and faculty. Since preserving the climate is in their long-term benefit, it is the university’s fiduciary duty to divest from fossil fuels.

“If anything, the duty can be stretched to cover only those actual persons who are the beneficiaries of the purposes of the charitable trust — students and faculty. Donors and other stakeholder individuals outside the purview of the declared purposes of the trust (for example, scholarships and areas of research) are not, from a legal perspective, beneficiaries under the charitable trust,” wrote Pavlich and Stacey.

Neither professor was available to be interviewed for this article.

Marcus believes that if UBC were to explore fossil fuel divestment options under the guise of fiduciary duty, it could set an important legal precedent.

“Universities are supposed to be innovators, on the leading edge — that’s part of the strategic plan. And if [UBC] were really committed to doing that, they could find ways. They could go as far as challenging this common law case,” said Marcus.

“This can be huge. If UBC really wanted to take serious action on climate change, they could set a precedent for all other institutions in Canada and other countries as well.”

Is divestment financially prudent?

But rather than proving divestment’s practical benefits or reinterpreting the law, BoG student representative Max Holmes believes the argument that will find the most success is that divestment is, in fact, financially

prudent.

“It’s more powerful, I think, in a way to say that it’s a financially prudent decision to divest as opposed to just saying, ‘This is a political statement,’” said Holmes.

“Because ultimately, the more people who say it’s a financially prudent decision to go forward, the more that this is a movement that more financial institutions can join … so I think that the movement can bring in more people.”

The history of divested funds at universities is relatively young, but there’s evidence that seems to suggest divesting from fossil fuels will be profitable going forward.

The University of California divested its $13.4-billion endowment on the basis that the energy sector posed a financial risk.

Shortly after, UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies announced that it would work to ensure that 100 per cent of its $40-million endowment is fossil fuel-free, but Loh predicted that there it would see increased financial risk.

Yet, sustainable investments at UBC appear to be thriving. According to IMANT’s 2019 Annual Report, the Sustainable Future Pool had its best year in 2019. Since the SFP was established in 2017, it has outperformed the five-year return of the main endowment pool, 8.0 per cent to 7.7 per cent.

Since the AMS divested in 2018, the AMS has seen investment return increase from $178,000 to $626,000, according to AMS President Chris Hakim.

But financial institutions need to see more than a few years of good returns to conclude that divestment is the least risky option.

When Dowlatabadi researched divestment in 2015, he wrote about how buying into new technology too soon can cause similar financial losses to buying too late. But he’s not sure that the same risk is present four years later as sustainable energy becomes increasingly financially secure.

“The challenge of the time was that renewables were a tiny, tiny fraction of all available equities in the energy sector, and if you took your money out of something which is a huge sector and then tried to put it into a small fraction of the same sector, that part of the economy is overpriced,” said Dowlatabadi.

“So the consequence of doing that would be that you would be selling low and buying high.”

Currently, UBC Finance is working on a revised edition of its endowment responsible investment approach that will be ready for the Board’s next cycle of meetings in late November and early December.

“Ultimately it is the Board’s decision and the Board needs to work on this,” said Holmes.

“But it is just as important, if not more important, that the administration is fully committed to this — led by the president, showing that they’re coming forward with proposals with information, engaging with IMANT, showing that they’re just as committed.” U

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Mind your mind: Encourage yourself with cheerleading statements

Beating myself up for every little mistake is rarely effective.

Daphnée Lévesque Mindfulness Columnist

One thing that helps me during stressful times is coping statements.

These statements come in the form of positive self-talk and are sometimes known as daily affirmations. Basically, whenever I start to feel overwhelmed by life, I try to encourage myself by acting like my own cheerleader. What I like most about coping statements is that they help you cope in the moment and you can use them anywhere, anytime.

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They are considered an internal resource and are a form of selfsoothing. For me, coping statements are reassuring and help me build confidence. When I was first taught coping statements, I found them to be tacky, ‘fake’ and inauthentic.

The truth is, I’ll never be the kind of person to say to myself, “You go, girl!” or “This too shall pass.” That’s why I discovered that in order to be effective, coping statements need to use simple language that rings true to you.

They also need to be concise, easy to memorize and realistic. If

they don’t reflect some aspect of the truth, they will feel intimidating and unnatural. Especially if you suffer from low self-esteem, it can be discouraging to tell yourself things you don’t even believe. For instance, instead of saying, “I love myself!” you can try something like, “I’m working towards maintaining a healthier relationship with myself.”

One thing that has been hard for me is wrapping my head around the idea that self-critical thoughts and beating myself up for every little mistake are rarely effective.

Although for a lot of us it happens to be an automatic habit ­— the truth is that people who hate themselves rarely succeed in a way that people with self-compassion do. In my attempt to treat myself like I would treat a friend, I came up with three main coping statements that I try to rehearse whenever I find myself in a difficult situation.

‘I’m doing the best I can with the resources I have.’

This is by far my favourite coping statement, and for many reasons.

First, I like to work with the assumption that everyone is always doing the best they can. Second, I truly believe that people aren’t malicious or intending to hurt others on purpose. I also believe that although I don’t always engage in healthy behaviours or make good

choices, I am always trying the best I can. Sometimes, this means that I engage in harmful actions because I simply don’t know any better, or don’t have the necessary skills to cope in a healthier way. Doing the best you can doesn’t mean you also can’t improve or do better. It simply acknowledges that based on your life circumstances, your ability to cope, your biological dispositions and your support system, you are coping in the best way you know how.

‘The pain of the present moment is enough, for anyone.’

This statement can be attributed to psychologist Marsha Linehan, who created a therapy designed for people in intense emotional pain.

Linehan states that “adding to a painful present moment all the pain from the past and all the pain from the future is too much. It is too much suffering, for anyone.” I find this concept validating and helpful, because it’s true that sometimes, I create more self-suffering by revising past mistakes or worrying about future situations. To me, this statement gives me permission to experience my present suffering without having to justify myself or provide reasons for feeling the way I do. Another version of this statement can be, “All I have to get through is the next moment.”

‘It’s just one paper, in one subject, in one course, in my whole life.’

This is definitely one of my favourite coping statements and I try to use it as much as I can during the school year. Academic papers are a major stressor for me and when I start to feel overwhelmed, I catastrophize and become consumed with worries.

In those instances, I try to remind myself that grades don’t define who I am. I am still worthy even if I fail.

My whole life doesn’t depend on this one assignment, and besides, will this even matter in a week? A month? A year? Probably not. These sorts of statement can help you regain perspective and remind you of what’s really important.

In short, I like to work with coping statements because they are a form of self-validation and self-compassion. Coping statements also help me accept my mistakes and forgive myself, which is both liberating and healing. Although at first it felt weird to encourage myself, I am slowly getting used to it. Like any other skill, it requires patience and practice. U The authors of this column are not mental health professionals. If you need additional support, please contact Student Health Services, Sexual Assault Support Centre and/ or the Wellness Centre. In case of an emergency, call 911.

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Letter: Where was the outrage for Yu Jiantuo’s talk at UBC?

The reaction to the Ricardo Duchesne and Mark Hecht talk.

Sam Klein-Laufer Contributor

On October 10, Ricardo Duchesne and Mark Hecht were the featured speakers of an event hosted by the Students for Freedom of Expression, an off-shoot of the ever-controversial UBC Free Speech Club and movement that is sweeping campuses worldwide.

This talk was met with outrage, a protest by Students Against Bigotry

and it drew the attention of The Ubyssey.

A retired professor from the University of New Brunswick, Duchesne has been accused by peers of bad scholarship as well as furthering a white nationalist agenda and the white genocide conspiracy theory. His work has been denounced by both his colleagues and the Canadian Historical Association as being without “academic merit” and

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“racist.” He has also denied accusations of being a white supremacist, despite appearing on white supremacist websites and podcasts.

Mark Hecht, an instructor at Mount Royal University, wrote a fervently anti-immigration and anti-multiculturalism opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun. His thesis has been described as “ethnic diversity harms trust and economic well-being.”

But it was not the only the controversial talk that occurred that week that deserved to be criticized.

Also on October 10 at UBC, Yu Jiantuo — a former fellow of Harvard’s Ashe Centre and the Assistant Secretary General of the China Development Research Foundation — discussed China and the current situation in Xinjiang.

For those unaware, Xinjiang is a region on the northwestern border of China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, and home to the majority of China’s Uyghur population. The Uyghurs are one of the Muslim ethnic minorities in China and are currently subject to internment, cultural genocide and a campaign of re-education by the Chinese government.

In his talk, Yu excused the reports of Uyghur internment as China offering “vocational training.”

This was not a student-led event. This was led by UBC and it was not the only time the university had invited speakers and individuals who have an involvement in the cultural genocide in Xinjiang.

Hu Angang was invited to speak last year and maintains a page on UBC’s Centre for China Research. Hu has been accused of advocating for ethnic homogenization of China in the name of economic and social development.

While students and reporters focused on the SFE talk, Yu was covering up and spouting Chinese propaganda about the situation in Xinjiang.

Where was the outrage? Where

was the attention? Where was anything?

Regardless of your opinion on Duchesne and Hecht, propaganda has no place on this campus or any other. What Yu said was the government line appears to have no basis in reality. Even people who have gone with the sole purpose of disproving claims of mistreatment, like CanadianAlbanian historian Olsi Jazexhi, admitted he was “naive” in believing the party line on these camps.

This is a moment in time where China is in the global spotlight for their actions in Hong Kong and their violent suppression of pro-democracy protests that have grown into a global issue. Corporations like the NBA and Blizzard have been heavily criticized for protecting their business interests by hesitating to stand by their employees and agents making pro-Hong Kong statement.

People should be angry. People should be disappointed that our campus hosted an event whose purpose was to downplay and excuse the mass imprisonment, eradication of a culture and, by some accounts, the extermination of the Uyghur people. Yet people were too focused on speakers whose claim to fame is saying some false and controversial things that poison the political pot in Canada.

This is misplaced outrage. This is wrong. We, as a campus, should stand with the Uyghurs! U Sam Klein-Laufer is a fourth-year history student.

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Your first-year hookup guide Isa Isa Contributor

How does one go about hooking up in first year with dignity? This is an age-old question that has been on the minds of students since the invention of universities.

Surely, dear reader, it’s on your mind if you are reading this. Have no fear, we’ve got your back.

After extensive research here at The Ubyssey, we feel equipped to help guide you through your first hookup here at university.

We all know this is part of the reason you decided to live in residence. Just think, hundreds of attractive strangers all living together in the same building, no parental supervision for perhaps the first time in your life; you’ve got to take advantage of your situation. After all, hooking up is a component of the quintessential first-year experience just like going to the frats sober or mistakenly signing up for an 8 a.m. class.

Finding someone won’t be hard. Relish in the knowledge that most people are very desperate.

This can happen many ways, maybe you’ll meet in a class, the elevator, a frat, the laundry room or one of many firstweek

mixer events. The possibilities are endless. If you find small talk excruciating, you can always just download Tinder.

If you’re feeling extra spicy, pick someone from the same building as you. That way, you’re more likely to run into each other. For maximum thrills, pick someone from your floor.

Sometimes, there will be a roommate to kick out. Before they leave they will say a line about not doing it in their bed. You will roll your eyes. Their sheets are probably dirty anyway.

There will be a lot of fumbling.

The fluorescent lighting isn’t particularly sexy but you can make do. The white faux brick is so industrial chic! The pictures of your friends and family that you stuck up in an attempt to thwart your loneliness watch you in silent judgment.

There are only so many places this can be done in a dorm room, only so many configurations before you give up and move to the bed. Bonus points if you’ve lofted the bed, that way you get to experience the adrenaline rush of almost falling off the tiny twin XL mattress anytime one of you shifts. The bed will also most definitely creak.

We all know this is part of the reason you decided to live in residence.

When it’s finally done, sit up and tug on your clothes. Pick up your dignity off of the floor.

Watch them rush to get dressed and put on their shoes. Wave

silently to them as they leave.

Know this is probably the last time you will see each other out of your own volition.

This has probably been a

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regrettable experience for both of you, no need to make things more difficult. What is college for, if not to learn.

Better luck next time! U

psychoanalysis //

What your seating choice in a lecture hall says about you a good choice. You’re scared of speaking up in a class full of people because of past childhood trauma of never being good enough so you sit up front so it feels like there are only 10 people in the class and you get those participation points. Or you’re just a nerd. Honestly, same.

If you sit at the back

Long story short, you don’t have any trauma other than the stuff higher education gives you.

Anupriya Dasgupta Senior Staff Writer

So you think a tarot card reading or a licensed psychologist or an astrologer can help you understand yourself and resolve all your ‘issues’? Please! I have all the skills of an ethnographic sociology student to do a deep psychoanalysis of you based on

your seating choice in lecture — and before you start doubting my capabilities, yes, I have taken a single psychology class.

My credentials also include making all my ‘friends’ hate me because I clearly know too much for them to handle and making that one psychology prof tear their hair out because again, I clearly know too much for them

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to handle. If you like what you see — which you will — contact me on Venmo to pay my UBC tuition because I’m just that good.

If you sit somewhere in the first three rows Depending on class size, you’re either really engaged and clever about it or lazy and failed to make

You hate this class. Why are you in it. You come extra late to it. You hate all the nerds who sit in front.

You hate the prof. Why are they in it. You just need this for your major requirement. It’s not like you care about your major anyway.

Or you’re very tall and/ or sitting at the back and participating makes you feel like the most powerful person in the world because if you’re sitting at the back and participating, you sound like a god to everyone sitting up front who can’t see you and then you become, by default, the most powerful person in the microcosmic world of that lecture hall. Politics and life are intertwined, okay?

Or you just want to play Minecraft because you don’t actually care about the education you’re selling your internal organs for.

Long story short, you don’t have any trauma other than the stuff higher education gives you.

Somewhere in the middle This reflects your middle-child trauma. You’re used to never being taken seriously. You will never be

as much of a disappointment as the eldest child i.e. the backbencher and you will never be as angelic and destined for greatness as the youngest child i.e. the nerd. You’re probably used to feeling like a mediocre student who will never be good enough to become the next Santa Ono or to drop out and start a revolutionary billion-dollar corporate system that in the longrun will only deprive our world of any kind of life it ever had.

Somewhere on the sides You don’t have any friends, do you?

That’s the tough kind of trauma.

Let me tell you what isn’t going to help. Sitting on the side on your own where you can’t interact with anyone else. That’s not how you make friends. Trust me, I got like a billion friends.

Corner of a row you sat on by accident You now have to deal with the lefthand side table because you were too absent-minded to realize before you sat down and now the class has started and you’re too awkward to get up and look for a better seat to sit on. Lots of trauma.

A different seat every class Seriously? What kind of monster are you? I leave this one to Freud himself.

Now that we’ve established that you probably have some sort of trauma, please consider Venmo-ing me. u

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Unsustainable Consumption //

The climate crisis will present new management challenges for Arctic fisheries

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However, the biggest challenge facing ocean ecosystems is not acidification induced by the climate crisis, but overfishing.

Rithikha Rajamohan Contributor

With much of 2019 characterized by burning forests, storms and inland flooding, a team of UBC researchers hope to turn our attention to the challenges facing the other 70 per cent of our planet, our oceans.

The study — led by Dr. Travis Tai, a post-doctoral researcher at UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) — found that the climate crisis will increase fish stocks in the Canadian Arctic as rising temperatures drive populations from their sub-Arctic habitats into cooler, though also warming, Arctic waters.

The oceans absorb over 90 per cent of excess heat energy trapped in the atmosphere by fossil fuels. They’re also the world’s largest active carbon sinks, absorbing almost one-third of global CO2 emissions.

The researchers modelled the average movement of 72 species of fish over time based on different climate crisis trajectories. The final results show net positive increases in catch in a high climate crisis scenario.

“Despite our analysis projecting this seemed increase and positive benefit [to fisheries catch], it isn’t necessarily a winner for our Arctic,” explained Tai, who stressed the importance of using a holistic framework, taking into account economic, environmental,

social and cultural factors when considering commercialization.

The Arctic is also the location of an acidification hotspot that has rapidly spread in area and depth since the 1990s. It is currently acidifying twice as fast as rates observed in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Though the study’s current projections show that more fish will move into the Arctic than those destroyed by ocean acidification, Dr. Rashid Sumaila, one of the study authors and director of the IOF Fisheries Economics Research Unit, explained this trend could reverse if acidification and temperatures continue to increase.

However, the biggest challenge facing ocean ecosystems is not acidification induced by the climate crisis, but overfishing.

Commercial fishing has depleted over two-thirds of the world’s fish populations.

In Canada, only 35 per cent of known fish stock is considered healthy. Currently, most Canadian Arctic fisheries are run by Inuit and other Indigenous peoples, and are largely for subsistence and ceremonial purposes.

“Big commercial fishing is new to the area, so anything that we can do before hand, before this boat really comes, to protect this ecosystem will be very important,” said Sumaila.

The last commercial frontier

“I think the opportunity [the Arctic] gives us, is for us to be more proactive and anticipatory than reactive to these struggles,” said Sumaila, recalling the collapse of the Canadian Atlantic Cod fisheries in 1992.

Despite early warnings from scientists, the combination of increased fishing quotas set by the government and the use of environmentally damaging technology like bottom trawlers by large commercial fisheries led to cod biomass falling to just one per cent of earlier levels and the collapse of the industry.

Ultimately the crash resulted in the largest layoffs in Canadian history affecting over 30,000 people, and requiring $2 billion in federal aid.

“A fraction of that [amount of money] could have saved the country, but nobody had the guts to do it,” continued Sumaila.

Around the world, marine species are dying off at a rate faster than those on land. In a recent working paper published by Sumaila and Tai, the pair explained how overfishing weakens marine ecosystems, rendering them more vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis and ultimately, preventing their recovery.

This September, almost two decades after the 1992 cod collapse, First Nations and commercial salmon fisheries have again called on the federal government for disaster aid after salmon populations in runs across the region plummeted, leading

to the worst commercial fishing season in 50 years on the BC coast.

According to Dr. Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, the first thing Canadians should be looking to the government for is a reform in their governance approach.

“We need to be able to trust that the government is going to truly investigate emerging risks that are associated with oceans and every other kind of ecosystem, and that they’re going to reveal that in a transparent way to civil society,” said Chan in a February interview.

“There’s no legitimate reason to trust that that’s happening right now, to be honest.”

According to Tai, scientists in academia and at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) are all working towards a common goal of keeping fish stocks at sustainable levels, while also keeping people employed.

“But at times, I think that policies in government are still made independent of the scientific suggestions that we come up with,” said Tai. The DFO’s lack of transparency and effective management of commercial activities have long been criticized by scientists and activists alike and many gaps still exist in the data such as the unknown health of almost 40 per cent of Canadian fish stock.

“What we’re dealing with is

entirely around the perception of harm and the [fisheries] industry wanting to prevent any kind of legitimate conversation around the real magnitude of that harm by preventing any data from getting out there,” explained Chan.

‘It’s people who do things, who make things happen’ “There is a lot to do. The country is not the worst in the world, but its not at the place you would think is adequate,” said Sumaila in reference to Canada’s declining reputation for ocean conservation.

According to Sumaila, many scientists believe Canada has a chance to lead the world in sustainable fishing and conservation through how it manages the Arctic.

Among the many necessary changes are political and corporate shifts from shortterm to long-term thinking, the adoption of ecosystembased management and the acknowledgement of the value of traditional ecological knowledge in informing future research and policy.

“People need to be engaged here. What I realize more and more, for democracies at least, is the people ultimately get what they want” he said.

“We should all use our democratic rights to get the right people, because it is people who do things, who make things happen.” U

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Species dispersion may worsen effects of climate crisis on biodiversity Katie Czenczek Contributor

A recent study out of UBC and the University of Montpellier found that one of the impacts of the climate crisis is likely to be increased competition between species as they’re pushed out of their historical range.

As organisms vie for survival in a fast-changing landscape, many are forced to disperse, evolve or both.

Previous research has been focused on either disperson or adaptation. Dispersion is a species’ movement across a landscape, either in latitude or elevation, while adaptation refers to evolutionary change brought on by environmental changes. Both options should theoretically work in conjunction with the other.

Yet, new research indicates that this may not be the case.

In an article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UBC ecologist Dr. Patrick Thompson and Dr. Emanuel Fronhofer of University of Montpellier found that previous research into adaptation and dispersion has failed to look at how these concepts impact one another,

complicating the maintenance of biodiversity in a changing climate.

The study was conducted through computer simulations that modeled multiple species interactions. What they found was that adaptation and dispersion can impede one another when looking at species interactions.

Failing to take species interactions into account can cause projected species survival rates to be higher than they may actually be. Thompson explained why only looking at either evolution or dispersion is an issue.

“What we see, rather predictably, is that when you don’t have species interacting, you’re basically just considering species one at a time,” he said. “When you put the species interactions into the picture, we actually see this conflict arise between movement and evolution, where you get some species evolving faster and they prevent slower-adapting species from being able to shift their ranges.”

While some species move to other landscapes, others may stay behind, which could lead to more competition between species. This could potentially lead slowerevolving species to move towards

extinction at a rate higher than previously projected when only looking at dispersion or adaptation.

Another potential complication that could arise is when species that depend on one another become disjointed from dispersion due to the climate crisis, though this is something the study authors didn’t directly consider.

Despite this, Thompson said that the findings can also provide a framework for how to maintain biodiversity.

“When species are able to move freely across the landscape, we don’t see this negative effect of the two processes combining,” said Thompson. “I think that this speaks to the benefit if we keep landscapes connected and we allow for higher rates of movement, then we’re likely to see biodiversity preserved in changing climates.”

Initiatives such as wildlife corridors could help preserve biodiversity by making dispersal more achievable for species. Along with that, maintaining species populations would allow for greater genetic diversity which would help species evolve faster for a new landscape.

“There are lots of wildlife corridor initiatives going on,

Adaptation and dispersion can impede one another.

one of the most famous ones is the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, where they’re looking to link protected areas along the spine of the North American Rocky Mountains,” said Thompson.

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“What our study does is look at the theory of how we think these types of processes are acting to affect ecosystems and can give a bit more information when someone might be trying to design a protected area.” U

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T-Bird and Olympic medalist Brent Hayden announces comeback Salomon Micko Benrimoh Sports Editor

Former Olympic medalist, World Champion and Commonwealth Game record-holder Brent Hayden is making a comeback. The former Thunderbirds swimmer announced his intention to come out of retirement and train to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

Hayden, 35, first swam for Team Canada at a major international competition at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England.

He’d eventually become a Commonwealth Games champion at the 2010 Games in New Delhi, where he walked away with gold medals in both the 50 and 100 metre freestyle events.

Hayden became a World Champion in his signature 100 metre freestyle event at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, where he tied with Italy’s Filippo Magnini before finally stepping onto the Olympic podium in the same event at London 2012.

“He is one of the most natural racers I’ve ever coached, it’s his jam, it’s what he likes to do. So ... it’ll come back to him pretty quickly,” said Tom Johnson, former Thunderbirds and current Swimming Canada High Performance Centre-Vancouver head coach.

“He’s still Brent, but it’s like a different guy because he’s got life experience now beyond sport. And when you have life beyond sport and you come back to sport, it’s very

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Brent Hayden is a former Olympic bronze medalist, Commonwealth and World Champion.

different than when you just have life experience in sport.”

Hayden initially retired from competitive swimming after the London 2012 Olympics, citing mental health reasons and losing his initial passion for the sport.

“Whenever I was trying to get back into the pool, it was hard to do without the flashbacks of the struggle and the challenge that I had gone through and it just made me want to just get out of the pool and not have to think about that again,”

Hayden explained.

But Hayden does not regret retiring after 2012 and taking some time off. He added, “I’m very confident that at the time, I had made the right decision and as I’ve been away from it long enough and I’ve kept my body healthy and strong enough, if not stronger ... I think coming back and then the weight of not having anything to prove and doing this more for myself and maybe being an example for others, it’s a great place to be.”

Hayden has loads of experience to share with other Canadian swimmers, most of whom have taken part in only a handful of international races compared to the decade of international racing Hayden already has under his belt.

The potential of having a veteran on the Olympic roster could be a needed boost for the men’s side of the Olympic squad, whose raw talent has yet to match the likes of the women’s team featuring Olympic and World Champions like Kylie

Masse, Maggie MacNeil and Penny Oleksiak.

“That’s one of the first things I told John [Atkinson] and Tom is that if I’m going back into this role, it’s not going to be just about me. I have a lot of experience that I want to be able to pass on to the next generation,” Hayden explained.

But if there is one thing that isn’t on Hayden’s side, it is time.

He will need to go through a full re-registration process with the likes of Swimming Canada, FINA — Fédération internationale de natation / International Swimming Federation — the World Anti-Doping Agency and many more before being able to properly get the ball rolling.

Johnson explained, “He’s eligible to compete on January 20. So once we get through that, we need to find a competition where he can actually post some times to be able to get into some meets that allow him to qualify for the Olympic trials. And then once he’s at the Olympic trials, he has to qualify for the Olympic team.”

Hayden is already one of the most decorated swimmers in Canadian history. If he’s able to successfully qualify for Tokyo 2020, it will be one of the greatest comebacks in Canadian Olympic history.

“This is the best I’ve felt in my head and ever [while] training ...

I’m going because I want to be there and to just have fun. And it’s like, you know, the goals and everything like that is like almost secondary,” said Hayden “When I’m in that mind space, I know I can perform well.” U

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T-Birds down Bisons in sexual assault awarness night Jordan Elizabeth-Liddell Staff Writer

A special game took place Friday night at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Arena. The night was hosted to raise awareness around sexual violence and funds for the Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Rape Crisis Centre.

For the occasion, the UBC women’s hockey team took on the Univeristy of Manitoba Bisons.

Shiayli Toni, a member of the UBC women’s hockey team and winner of the UBC Athletics esteemed Kay Brearley Service Award, was the lead student organizer for the event.

Despite the craze of planning an event of this magnitude, Toni found time to discuss the importance of hosting public, social and positive events like this evening with The Ubyssey.

Looking around the stands, there were UBC varsity jackets from a number of the various sports teams that had come out to support the cause. Toni stated that it was “important that they were not using this platform to elevate athletes but as a way for athletes to give back.” Amongst the 138 in attendance, many were varsity Thunderbirds. Along with coming out to support the cause, multiple athletes also came out to have that important conversation about the culture of

The night raised funds for the Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW) Rape Crisis Centre.

consent. One of the avenues for this conversation was through anonymous, brightly coloured Post-it notes.

These Post-it Notes were organized by two former UBC athletes: Taylor Reilly and Mimi Neufield.

Their table was amongst the other organizations that had come out in support of this event.

The questions being asked were “What does a culture of consent mean to you? And “How can we build it together?” The answers were largely tackling

the latter. The theme of athletics in the answers also indicated that athletes were here and giving constructive feedback to the system that they live in.

One of the Post-it Notes read “Mandatory varsity sexual violence training.”

Toni also stated, “Eventually I would love if there was a mandatory training for all athletes regarding sexual violence and building a culture of consent.”

With the charity being discussed on an athletic platform,

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Toni acknowledged that, “historically, sports culture has been problematic when it comes to issues like this.”

However, the focus and emphasis on athletics seems to be much more positive.

Toni cited the “elevated visibility” that UBC athletes enjoy as an opportunity to affect positive change, and stated that “[I] think there is a lot of potential for growth and leadership within sports culture because of that.”

Even though there may have

been an emphasis on athletics, Toni also explained, “when we look at our society in general, this is a very pervasive problem.”

There was an overarching focus of the evening, as Toni emphasised that the event “opens a channel for communication and talking about these topics before they are an issue.”

As for the actual game itself, the home team won with a decisive 3–0 decision. Going into the game the two teams were historically evenly matched with 22 wins 22 loses each.

The first few minutes of the game reflected that history.

However, it wasn’t long before the Thunderbirds began to pull ahead.

UBC capitalized on a Manitoba hooking penalty and 30 seconds into the power play, Mikayla Ogrodniczuk received a pass from Rylind MacKinnon at the point. Ogrodniczuk sniped a top-shelf shot and opened up the scoring.

With just over five minutes remaining in the third, UBC’s Shay-Lee McConnell scored and put UBC up by two. It was quickly followed by Hannah ClaytonCarroll’s back hand shot that went in before McConnell’s had even finished being announced.

The Bisons immediately called a time-out but they were already trailing by three at this point and the game ended in UBC’s favour. U

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WEEKEND RUNDOWN Men’s soccer sneak past Golden Bears Andy Phung Staff Writer

A late goal from UBC defender Jordan Haynes was what separated the Thunderbirds men’s soccer team and the University of Alberta Golden Bears in their Canada West quarter final clash last Friday.

The goalless first half could only be characterized as somewhat disappointing, as the T-Birds dominated their opponents but most of their shots went out wide. The match day’s

windy conditions were favourable for the Golden Bears, but the team failed to put UBC goalie Jason Roberts to the test.

With play shifting to their side, UBC’s offensive flair brewed much trouble for the opponents in the second half. The 48th-minute saw T-Bird midfielder Mackenzie Cole miss two shots at point-blank range after he received the ball free from any defenders. Cole also took his chances in the 56thminute with a long shot outside the box, but Alberta goalie Liam Collens made a stunning save.

A header from UBC defender Jackson Farmer in the 70thminute almost gave the T-Birds the lead, but the ball hit the crossbar.

It was only a matter of time

before UBC finally scored. The crowd could only gasp as Jordan Haynes’s 76th-minute corner kick curled high in the air and flew into the upper left corner of the goal. The sight was something to remember.

“We had several chances.

A few cleared off the line and what not,” remarked head coach Mike Mosher. “That’s the game sometimes, right? You gotta persevere and just keep playing and believe that something’s gonna come. We really tilted the field in the second half in our favour, and eventually, [the goal] would come.”

The T-Birds will face the University of Saskatchewan Huskies in the first match of the Canada West final four on

The Thunderbirds snuck past the Goldern Bears with a 1–0 victory.

T-Birds beat Huskies and Pronghorns Salomon Micko Benrimoh Sports Editor

The Thunderbirds will have their hands full when they face Trinity Western in the final four.

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It was a near perfect weekend for the Thunderbirds women’s soccer team in Saskatoon.

The team was playing in the opening rounds of the Canada West playoffs being hosted by the University of Saskatchewan Huskies. The team finished third in the standings after the Canada West regular season. An 8–2–4 record placed the Thunderbirds third behind the University of Calgary Dinos and the Trinity Western University Spartans in their division.

The Thunderbirds’ first opponent of the weekend were the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns, a team that snuck in with the sixth and final spot in Canada West’s Prairie division.

It was a clean game, with no penalties handed out from the start

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to the final whistle. The T-Birds came out of the gates swinging, with Katalin Tolnai slotting a goal back off an assist from Natasha Klasios at the 25th minute.

It would prove to be the only goal of the game, but the Thunderbirds still dominated it.

They put 17 shots on the Lethbridge goal while the Pronghorns could only get two past the UBC defence, but not T-Bird keeper Emily Moore.

Next, the Thunderbirds faced the home team in the Huskies.

While Saskatchewan finished with an identical 8–2–4 record in the regular season, they were no match for the stellar UBC offence and defence. The T-Birds scored three goals in the opening half courtesy of Tolnai, Amelia Crawford and Danielle Steer.

Two late yellow cards in the second half did not help Huskies attempts at a comeback and Anisha Sangha scored on more for the T-Birds, giving them a 4–0 win.

Next, the ’Birds will face off against dreaded rivals Trinity Western in the Canada West final four being held in Edmonton this weekend. U

Thunderbirds bested by Vikes, lose out on Canada West title Salomon Micko Benrimoh Sports Editor

The UBC women’s field hockey squad had a weekend to forget in Victoria.

The team came into the weekend needing to come away with big wins against rivals the University of Victoria Vikes in order to try and reclaim the Canada West crown and punch their ticket to the U Sports National Championships.

The Thunderbirds, who up until last year had won seven straight U Sports titles, needed to beat the Vikes after they left Calgary last weekend with two wins in the bag against the University of Calgary Dinos and the advantage in the standings.

A five-hole shot from Vikes’ player Ashton Aumen saw Victoria take the lead in the 45th

minute of a hotly contested first game.

The Thunderbirds continued to play hard, searching for an equalizer but they ultimately came up short.

The win meant that the Vikes would win the Canada West title and the right to host the U Sports National Championships in November.

Even with the grand prize out of reach, the Thunderbirds came back to play even harder in the second game of the weekend.

The Thunderbirds came out ahead early with two goals courtesy of Niki Best and Izzy Fraser.

They would go into the half with a 2–1 lead before the Vikes’ Leina Dueck scored a tying goal and gave the game its final tally of 2–2, ending the Thunderbirds 2019 season. U

The women’s team will need to wait another year to reclaim the top spot in Canada West.

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“From the last Friday in October to Remembrance Day (November 11), millions of Canadians wear a poppy as a visual pledge to never forget those who sacrificed for our freedom. The Royal Canadian Legion at UBC is selling poppies on campus in support of our veterans. We invite everyone across campus to show their recognition by proudly wearing this symbol of remembrance and taking a moment to reflect.”

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