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Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon answers
UBC’s call to service
Renée Rochefort Contributor
When Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon first visited Vancouver during a cross-country road trip from Montréal, he was awed by BC’s natural beauty.
A young Concordia University student at the time, Bacon never imagined he would get to stare at these beautiful views every day through the windows of the president’s office just a couple of decades later.
“When UBC … offered me the position, I didn‘t hesitate for one second,” said Bacon.
Bacon was born and raised in Montréal and, as a self-proclaimed Habs fan, he’s still adjusting to cheering for the Canucks and to West Coast life.
A neuropsychologist by training, Bacon’s desire to research the brain was heavily influenced by his childhood experiences. He viewed his studies on the brain as crucial to understanding how people see, view, feel and interact with the world.
“I was gifted a dysfunctional childhood in an unsafe home and I think that’s what led me to study psychology — because I was looking for sense in the world,” said Bacon in a May interview with The Ubyssey . “I was also a summer camp counsellor and many of those kids were experiencing difficulties around their family — as I was — perhaps, in school, and I felt ill-equipped to help them.”
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Research and teaching remain Bacon’s main interests and his contract includes a clause ensuring he is able to access funds to pursue personal research.
Seeing all the work done at UBC labs has been one of his favourite parts of the job, and he’s been actively engaging with the federal government over the past few months to advocate for increased support for post-secondary institutions — something the latest budget delivered.
“The first lab I visited was the Quantum Materials Lab, a really amazing place. It feels like the future when you get into a lab like [it],” said Bacon.
While he hasn’t had the opportunity to draft up any research plans as of yet, Bacon said he is a member of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health and hopes to continue research on perceptual systems (his specialty) and mental health.
Throughout his career as a public administrator, Bacon has been an advocate for destigmatizing mental health, often sharing his past experiences with substance use and depression
to humanize these experiences.
One of his main personal and professional goals at UBC is to further expand mental health support at the university.
“It’s sometimes tempting for [the] university to think we’re all about thinking and decision making and rationality and these are all good things, but we’re also human beings with feelings, with complex emotions, and we need to put that at the centre of our lives as well,” said Bacon.
“When I took the chair of the psychology department [at Bishop’s University], I really thought it would be three years. When I took on a deanship, I really thought I would go back, but now it’s been 16 years, one year after the other taking on these leadership roles. It creeps up on you, and it becomes your life.”
Over the next five years, Bacon aims to support the community and work collaboratively toward building a future that the community wants. For him, a job well done means improving student happiness and success, producing impactful research and being a leader in truth and reconciliation and sustainability.
“The president is the face of the university but the president is not a king,” said Bacon. “If you get to a leadership position like this one, you’re no longer a musician. You don’t play in the orchestra, you’re the conduct-
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or. You need to make sure that the violins are playing with the cellos and everybody’s playing together and at the right level.”
University administrators have recently faced scrutiny as campus discourse has entered the mainstream with the establishment and end of Canadian university campus encampments. UBC’s MacInnes Field was occupied by a community-led Palestinian solidarity encampment for two months.
Bacon said UBC’s role in world events is to “be a space where these various viewpoints can be debated in a rational and reasoned way, and obviously in a peaceful and respectful way.”
“There’s so much that we can do through education, through research, to build a better world.”
Since Bacon’s arrival at UBC, he has released statements refusing calls to divest from companies activists say are complicit in human rights violations in Palestine. This was one of the encampments’ demands before it ended.
Still, Bacon said the university wants to find a way forward that satisfies everyone and ensures safety for all.
“The only way to get there is through talking,” said Bacon. “We’re hoping engagement is possible [and] that we‘ll find a path forward.” U
An article about university Palestinian solidarity encampments in The Ubyssey’s July 31 issue misstated which editors of The Gateway were present at the University of Alberta’s encampment. The Ubyssey regrets this error.
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UBC revolutionary communist club holds open meeting in solidarity with Palestine
Fiona Sjaus Features Editor
On September 17, the UBC Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) student group held a community meeting to plan student strikes in solidarity with Palestine.
These strikes are part of the Canadian RCP’s Towards a Student Strike for Palestine movement.
Students and community members have expressed discontent with UBC’s response to what human rights experts call a genocide in Gaza.
According to a report issued by a United Nations-appointed independent expert, there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
A Palestinian solidarity encampment took place on UBC’s MacInnes Field from April 29 to July 7. The encampment was voluntarily dismantled.
Encampment organizers demanded UBC divest from companies complicit in human rights violations in Palestine and cut ties with Israeli post-secondary institutions. As of press time, neither of these demands were met by UBC.
“We clearly did not achieve our goal [during the encampment] … so we need to change our tactics,” said RCP member Enzo, whose full name has been withheld due to safety concerns.
Enzo said it’s crucial the community “move forward as a united direction,” and that students across the country are working “to spring up a student strike campaign.” University of Toronto’s RCP has announced a similar strike.
“Our common goal is to mobilize massively to end the support
of the Zionist war machine, to ask for the end of the repression of the Palestinian movement and to finally fucking end this genocide,” Enzo said.
Around 100 people were at the RCP meeting. Enzo also said the group aims to “disrupt business as usual.”
On its website, the Canadian RCP wrote “it is … important to begin politically convincing as many students as possible of the need for a strike.”
“Every single person who agrees with the need for a student
strike for Palestine, should be put to work to help convince more people and build towards the strike,” wrote the Canadian RCP.
“We need to be able to form groups of action that are entrusted with the mission of doing propaganda, coming up with speeches, leaflets, mobilizing the people, mobilizing devices and organizing protests and obviously strikes,” said Enzo.
“This task will clearly draw the line and create the solid foundation towards the success of the movement.” U
UBC, provincial government announces construction of 1,500 new student beds
begin in fall 2026 and finish in fall 2029.
On August 20, UBC announced its partnership with the provincial government to create more than 1,500 student beds on the Vancouver campus.
The project will cost approximately $560 million, with $300 million coming from the provincial government. This is the most significant contribution the provincial government has made to a single building project in the university’s history.
Construction is planned to
The historic $300 million dollar investment comes from the Homes for People Action Plan, where the provincial government has committed more than $2 billion to develop student beds throughout BC.
Associate VP Student Housing and Community Services Andrew Parr said this project sits within the broader picture of UBC’s Campus Vision Plan 2050 and Housing Action Plan, where the university is committed to delivering 3,300 new student beds for the Vancou-
ver campus.
Despite being the largest provider of student housing in Canada, demand for housing at UBC continues to outpace supply in the face of increasing affordability concerns.
“The biggest issue is the financial realities,” Parr said regarding the university’s ability to provide housing at a rate that meets student demand.
With the costs of maintaining these student housing units increasing every year and the university striving to provide below-market housing, the economic
UBC PSYCHOLOGY MISTAKENLY LEAKS 900 STUDENTS’ PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information of nearly 900 psychology students — including names, ID numbers and academic standing — was leaked in error by UBC’s psychology department in an email on September 3.
Other information on the spreadsheet such as students’ cumulative averages and international student status was also sent to psychology students in the email to promote Imagine Day.
Student home and email addresses, phone numbers and financial information were not included in the spreadsheet.
Three hours later, the department apologized for the “attachment error” and asked recipients of the email to delete the message immediately.
Students took to Reddit to express frustration over the leak. One user wrote this leak was “a gross invasion of privacy.”
In a statement to The Ubyssey, Dr. Toni Schmader, the psychology department head, said the department “immediately took steps to contain the situation,” such as contacting UBC IT, initiating a message recall and asking students to delete the email.
Schmader said the department is working on notifying UBC’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the affected students.
“We sincerely apologize for this breach and any harm it may have caused,” said Schmader.
“We are taking all necessary measures to prevent future incidents and better protect personal information.”
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aspect has been one of the major challenges in combating the housing crisis, said Parr.
“It’s really an economic issue of the capital cost upfront and then the operating costs going forward, coupled with the revenue that we can generate”
Construction will include five new residence buildings on Lower Mall. The units will be a mix of independent studios and two- to four-bedroom shared units with a focus on graduate student housing.
Parr said that over the past decade, construction of new student housing has largely focused on undergraduate students, and this imbalance has caused a large vocal cohort of graduate students to question the university’s commitment to creating a sustainable housing environment for them.
“We’ve put huge investments into first-year and upper-year housing, and this is just the next stage of that process,” Parr said.
The new residence buildings will be located where St. John’s College is, a community and residence for graduate students.
This housing project includes the construction of a 400-seat dining hall and 37 childcare spaces aimed at recruiting and retaining graduate students.
Parr said the new dining hall will also strengthen the existing communities at the Marine Drive and Ponderosa Commons residences.
“It’s a project that I think brings benefit to the whole campus.” U
FACULTY OF ARTS LEAKS OVER 100 PERSONAL EMAIL ADDRESSES IN EMAIL ERROR
Around 160 personal email addresses were leaked in error by UBC’s Faculty of Arts Dean’s Office in an email on September 12.
The email was sent to some students, faculty and staff who applied to join the faculty’s strategic plan working group. Only individuals affiliated with UBC were invited.
Personal information, according to the federal government, includes identifying information such as names, home and email addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth.
According to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, public bodies like UBC “must protect personal information in its custody or under its control by making reasonable security arrangements against such risks as unauthorized collection, use, disclosure or disposal.”
In a statement to The Ubyssey, Acting Senior Director of UBC Media Relations Matthew Ramsey said said the invite “unintentionally” allowed recipients to see “the names and UBC email addresses of some recipients and the non-UBC email addresses (but not names) of others.”
Ramsey said the faculty “has taken steps to change this process so the issue does not happen again,” but did not further specify what these changes are. U — Iman Janmohamed
RCP member Enzo said the goal of the movement is to “disrupt business as usual.”
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Construction will include five new residence buildings on Lower Mall.
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SUPPORTING SURVIVORS
AMS secures seat on provincial sexualized violence committee
Bridget Chu Contributor
The AMS and the Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC) have secured two seats on the Provincial Committee for Sexualized Violence.
At AMS Council on August 28, VP External Ayesha Irfan announced the seats on the committee. The mandate of the committee is to provide recommendations and feedback to the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills on its strategic direction.
Irfan said in an interview with The Ubyssey the committee has an annual nomination process where post-secondary institutions can put themselves forward to sit on the committee.
Irfan said her office and SASC will be “working very tightly together … to make sure that we can serve students the best that we can.”
“On my end, I can do the advocacy, but it’s important that I carry the work and the lived experiences of the folks who work hands-on with students into these spaces.”
Irfan said expanding the committee’s jurisdiction is important to ensure survivors recieve adequate support.
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cating for a robust education about consent culture and addressing different educational gaps regarding sexualized violence.
She said she will advocate for all students in the province, not just UBC students.
“Making sure that I’m talking to other universities and their student representatives can make sure that we have a unified voice at the table.”
Students have previously criticized the AMS for failing to support survivors in its sexualized violence policy, PC2. In April, the AMS passed PC2 after three years of contentious review. Before it was passed, community memebers expressed concerns around the wording of a previous policy draft.
Irfan said having a seat on the committee will allow the AMS “space to really be a pioneer in that work,” and reflects broader AMS goals of making students feel safe on campus.
“It’s a privilege to be in this seat and in this space, and I think the best way to go about it is by really making sure that we are amplifying certain concerns,” said Irfan.
“Whenever we have the opportunity to do advocacy with students, we’re making sure their priorities are on the front lines.” U
Incorrect tuition fees applied to some Workday Student accounts
Sophia Samilski Contributor
UBC incorrectly applied tuition and fee assessments to some student accounts before the payment deadline on September 4.
On August 21, students received an email informing them that UBC had encountered issues
with applying fees and tuition.
In a statement to The Ubyssey, Associate Vice-president, Enrolment Services and Registrar Rella Ng said the issues were largely caused during the transition from the SSC to Workday Student. On May 21, UBC launched its new student portal Workday Student. “Challenges like this are typical
and are the result of the transition from the old system to the new system. Addressing and correcting these are a normal part of system implementation,” wrote Ng. Ng said fewer than 1,500 student accounts were impacted by tuition and fee assessment issues related to term 1, and around 8,000 students were affected for term 2.
Ng wrote moving to Workday Student marked an “important milestone” on UBC’s journey to renew its enterprise platforms and ensure it meets its strategic and operational goals.
“Like many institutions, our enterprise system had reached its end of life and needed to be replaced,” wrote Ng.
UBC had been seeking a replacement solution since 2002. The implementation of Workday Student began in 2017 to serve as UBC’s core platform for human resources, finance, payroll and now student services. “As with any new system, we anticipate some challenges and are equipped and prepared to respond,” Ng wrote.
Moving ahead, Ng wrote UBC anticipates these issues related to tuition and fee assessments will be resolved ahead of the tuition payment deadlines on September 4, 2024, for term 1, and January 8, 2025, for term 2. Ng said with all financial records now in Workday, further transition-related errors are not expected.
“We are continuing to closely monitor these issues and are taking measures to ensure that no late fees are applied to student accounts as a result of these problems. Course registrations will not be impacted.”
She also wrote that UBC did not incur any additional costs fixing this error and that there were no financial impacts on students. According to Ng, if students see any incorrect charges and/or changes to their account balances, they should be assured UBC is working to resolve these issues.
“We deeply appreciate students’ patience and understanding while we work to address these issues.” U
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UBC anticipates fee issues will be resolved ahead of tuition payment deadlines.
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AMS VP External Ayesha Irfan said the AMS strives to make students feel safe on campus.
Someone ate 2.5 kilograms of peas outside the Nest
Julian Forst Contributor
Stay at UBC long enough and you’ll start to recognize the little things that make autumn what it is on campus: fragrant petals in the rose garden; the oak trees’ edges turning yellow on the malls; the guy in the green ski-mask vomiting, moaning, absolutely housing two-and-a-half kilograms of frozen peas outside the Nest. Okay, that last one is new, but don’t be a luddite — embrace him! Embrace him.
This is Pea Man, and since June, he’s amassed a following on UBC-associated corners of Instagram, TikTok and Reddit as the vegetal villain of “Cheeseball Man,” building on a savoury superhero trend that started this spring.
Earlier this year, New York YouTuber AnthPo put on an orange ski mask and ate a massive jar of cheeseballs in Union Square Park. As his stomach expanded, so did his follower counts. Soon, Cheeseball Man had gone viral and raised over $1,000 for the Food Bank for New York City. Now a villain turned homegrown hero wants to do the same for Vancouver.
“I really wanted to do something heroic, do a good thing for the city,” said Pea Man in an interview with The Ubyssey. “So I was like, what if we make a fundraiser event for the [Greater] Vancouver Food Bank?”
On September 4, I showed up outside the Nest at about 4:30 p.m., half an hour before Pea Man was to take the stage (read, knoll), looking very official and not at all silly with a giant Ubyssey-issued camera dangling heavily from my neck. Before long, a small crowd had gathered. A few people asked me if this was where the “pea guy” was going to be.
Local YouTuber Kodekai took to the mic to hype up the growing audience. Scooter Dom, another UBC influencer, stood beside him, revving his electric scooter on the grass. By now the crowd had become a genuine horde stretching halfway to the bookstore, and the shocked hosting team did their best to consolidate everyone as close to
the action as they could.
“I was shocked, honestly,” Pea Man said after the event. “I didn’t know how to react. I just knew I had to do a cool event … I didn’t expect to throw up four times,” he added happily.
“I thought it would be, like, two times.”
When Pea Man appeared from across the commons, the crowd parted. He waved and high-fived his way up the knoll where the hosts introduced him, read donation goals and announced the upcoming auction of various Pea Man memorabilia: a bag of frozen peas, several mysterious bottles of “Pea Man Elixir” and (I was excited about this one) just a regular-ass mini fridge.
After doing some crowd work and hyping up the Greater Vancouver Food Bank (GVFB), Pea Man held his two-and-a-half kilogram
bag of peas aloft. He dumped them into a large foil bin and went to town. Students perched in trees and climbed up on concrete dividers to get a better view. They cheered and chanted “EAT THOSE PEAS,” “We love you Pea Man!” and “How tall are you, Pea Man?”
A few donated salt, pepper and sugar to the cause, dumping generous helpings of seasoning over the pile of peas.
Kodekai and his fellow hosts kept the energy up, taking over for Pea Man when his mouth was full. They auctioned off their wares for the benefit of the GVFB, with one audience member paying $200 for a bottle of “Elixir” (the mini fridge would later go for around $100).
Now, I’ll level with you, reader. When my editor texted me the day of Pea Man’s event and asked if I wanted to cover a guy eating a lot
of peas outside the Nest, I thought it sounded like a fun 45-minute, in-and-out type piece. I did not expect to be there for almost three hours.
By the time Pea Man licked his last legume, the crowd had shrunk back down to a manageable size.
The event raised almost $3,000 for the GVFB, and happy fans lined up to shake hands and get autographs.
I spoke with Pea Man, Kodekai and Scooter Dom after the admirers had thinned out (and after being impersonated by an overeager influencer trying to get at Pea Man, but that’s another story).
“In Stan Lee’s Spider-Man, they always say it could be anyone behind the mask,” said Kodekai. “If you have free time and [a] good heart, you can do things like this, you can raise two, three thousand dollars for a food bank.”
The hosts agreed that there’s a certain joy in imbuing something as ridiculous as a ski mask superhero eating copious amounts of peas with the kind of meaning that comes from an act of generosity.
“This is really goofy on paper, but I’m so happy how it turned out. I think it was beautiful,” said Pea Man. Kodekai added that, while some might call their method of raising money stupid or meaningless, “there’s so much passion in it, actually, and there’s so much kindness.”
At the time of writing, Pea Man’s fundraiser for the GVFB is still active. Consider donating to help the food bank feed Vancouverites just like you. Or just do it because you think a guy eating 2.5 kilograms of peas outside the Nest is funny. It’s your moral framework, not mine. U
People donated salt, pepper and sugar to the cause, dumping generous helpings of seasoning over the pile of peas.
The death of blue and gold
Kev Heieis Contributor
Kev Heieis is a seventh-year integrated engineering student who is passionate about improving campus community. He ran for VP administration in the 2024 AMS Elections (second place) and is currently the AMS special projects lead.
Do you know UBC’s colours?
I don’t — and to me, it seems that UBC is just as clueless. The colours are undefined, arbitrary and their lack of existence dampens campus culture.
It’s game day. The foul UVic Vikes have ferried from Vancouver Island to challenge our Thunderbirds. Is campus different from a normal day? Even pre-COVID, this indifference was widespread outside a party-focused homecoming.
From what I can tell, not only are students generally unaware of sports games occurring — but students do not have a way to show pride. Looking at merchandise in the Bookstore, it seems UBC is catering to subcultures, using green for Forestry or purple for Arts. There is a lack of coordination in branding to associate the school with, because over time, UBC has bleached our campus colours.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
Blue and gold have represented UBC since 1916 when the Senate approved the colours, eight years after the campus was first established. Around 2009, UBC began a
transition away from blue and gold. Homecoming photo albums from over the years show a disorganized shift from blue and gold to a soup of darker shades. Photos from Homecoming 2017 show an atmosphere animated with bright blue and gold.
2019 was the last homecoming before COVID. I was there watching, sheltered from the rain in the stands, wrapped in a blue and gold scarf I had won the year prior. Despite showing pride with that colourful rag, I felt alone. By then, the jerseys and the fans had lost their colour.
The university’s branding website says UBC’s “primary & secondary” colours are navy and white. UBC and AMS Archives have been unable to find any declaration of a colour change, meaning the “official” colours are still blue and gold.
Nearly a century of blue and gold culture begs the question of why UBC pivoted to be so corporate, shifting to neutral colours that put a leash on expression. When I reached out about why UBC made the change, a branding representative wrote back that “[gold] was dropped to simplify printing and to increase the flexibility and readability of the logo,” and that previously there was never any consistency in the specific yellow used.
WHY DO UBC COLOURS MATTER?
Entering my seventh year at UBC, I question the inclusivity of campus-wide traditions I have
tried over the years, which failed to capture my engagement longterm.
Annual events like Day of the LongBoat, Undie Run, Polar Bear Swim and Block Party are great fun if you are adventurous. However, they share one similarity I find to be the epitome of lacking campus culture: they are not events you go to alone.
It seems common at UBC to attend events with at least another friend. I have fought my way through social anxiety so I know how tough it can be to rally a squad. This is not to say you cannot do something alone — the challenge with Vancouver and UBC is that there is no one to encourage you except yourself, if your friends aren’t down.
On a campus with real spirit, the intrinsic energy of the environment would be enough motivation. You could slap on campus colours before an event and leave with friends even if you went alone. The key here is that wearing campus colours connects you with an in-group despite not knowing each other. Visual identification breaks down the toughest barriers to forming social connections by showing commonality.
Colour schemes can be seen vividly within sports teams, countries and political parties. These are national- to international-level organizations and institutions, but colour branding is just as powerful within smaller communities.
For example, UBC engineering students can be easily distinguished by their red jackets. These lettermans (called Reds) hold immense importance to engineering student life. When the buttons snap together, a measly student contributes to engineering culture; now being associated with pranks and socialization rather than math and isolation.
Looking campus-wide, the “Blue Crew” was a community passionate about varsity sports events, highlighted by blue outfits. The program was created by UBC Athletics, and the culture it created grew event attendance consistently after starting in 2006. The Blue Crew disappeared over the years and their remains are kept only in articles about dying campus spirit. What happened?
In a 2016 Ubyssey article, former AMS President Aaron Bailey described UBC’s initiative as “Buy a season’s pass, here’s a free t-shirt. Hopefully you show up to games,” which implies UBC was not setting up the Blue Crew for success. It is also a testament to how culture cannot be maintained by students alone.
BOUNCING BACK
If we students cannot fix campus culture on our own, what is needed to rebuild it? The easy answer is first year students. COVID lockdowns allowed a reset for engineering culture, skyrocketing engagement indicated with how
Reds were sold: 45 in 2020/21 compared to 242 in 2023/24. Two years of engineering students had no expectations coming back to in-person school life and went along with the energy fed to them. The same can be done campus-wide with incoming first years who have no expectations. They will believe campus culture exists if UBC acts like it does, and by virtue, culture will form.
First-years wear Imagine Day shirts as proudly as the key card lanyards around their necks because the university is new and they want to feel a sense of belonging. But they need a reason to hold onto this belonging. I think that if these shirts were blue and gold, campus would be blossoming with colour by the end of Imagine Day.
I envision a campus where students bond deeply purely because UBC is a shared identity. Bright colours stand out — and standing out is what strengthens identity. So much potential was lost from the death of blue and gold. These colours can still be revived if UBC puts the effort in. But perhaps by starting this conversation, these historic colours will return bright and bold, giving students a reason to make UBC a stronger part of their identity. U
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Campus colours connect you with an in-group despite not knowing each other, breaking down the toughest barriers to forming social connections by showing commonality.
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a summer in India kind of heat
words by Armaana Thapar
Thea Turner
Srijaa Chatterjee
photos & illustrations by Saumya Kamra Pratik Kumar
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feeling the heat
Summer in Vancouver is different from summer in India.
In India, it doesn’t matter what city I’m in — the mosquitoes buzz in my periphery, red welts form from their bites, sweat drips down my eyes, clouding my vision momentarily before dripping down my cheek like a tear. You would think that, being born in India, I would be used to the heat, or at least know my way around it — I don’t.
I was 15 the last time I visited Delhi. My parents were busy with my aunts and uncles while I spent hours lying on my bed staring at the fan, hoping it would turn into something more exciting — I don’t mean to sound like a brat, but it’s hard to explain the turmoil of a moody, miserable teenager without sounding like one.
When I returned to Vancouver, I swore I would never visit my hometown again. I blamed it on the heat, while burying the emptiness that my parents never seemed to understand. I decided to shut this part of my identity out completely; it was the only way I knew how to cope. Still, it’s impossible to explain the pull one feel’s toward their birth place. Or at least
the sheer curiosity toward it. What started as merely watching more Indian movies and TV shows turned into musings of how different life would have been had I grown up there. What kind of friends would I have? What kind of things would I talk about? How would I dress, or do my hair? Perhaps, I would feel more complete. Perhaps, not. I asked my parents that question and they told me life everywhere was more or less the same.
But summer in Vancouver is different from summer in India — so how similar can life be?
In Vancouver, the sunlight is more direct and harsh. If you stare at it, you eventually have to look away. And if you close your eyes, you still see moving orange circles, phosphenes in the darkness, memories of the light. Stare at the sun long enough and you’ll see a kaleidoscope of orange, yellow and red patterns that seem to want to tell you something.
In India, you could look straight at the shrouded reddish halo in the sky and your eyes would probably be fine. Believe me, I tried a few times. U
from heat to hypothermia
When people ask me what my favourite season is, I think it is a privilege to say summer — because I didn't experience much besides that for the better part of my life.
Being from a country that stays at a steady 30ºC all year round, I never knew what it felt like to be held back from going outside because of the weather.
Heat means home for me. My life depended on all the things that the fever brought along with it — the sweaty bus ride back home from school before running through the sprinklers with my friends was my only solace.
The weather at home was my safety blanket. I would always rely on the fact that it would never change until July or August, when it would rain as the ocean flipped on us. Still, it remained hot.
People say you don't know what you have until you lose it. Moving to Vancouver truly put that phrase into perspective for me. I discovered a word that would slowly shake the foundation of my world: seasonal depression.
In Mumbai, the weather had no part to play in my emotions. But at UBC, that feeling came as fast-flowing as the rainy weather and the brand-new concept of
daylight saving time. Both those factors tangle together to create a strong enemy in my brain.
Finals week in Vancouver is gruelling. On top of having to write six papers and five finals, it's cold. It's either snowing or raining. Consequently, when you leave the library after a seven-hour grind, it's pitch-black outside and your day ends abruptly.
The one thing some of us international kids can count on is making our way to our warm home countries for Christmas. It makes finals a little more bearable, knowing there is heat at the end of the tunnel.
Don't misunderstand me; I love Vancouver despite the rain. Seeing the leaves change colour in the fall and the cherry blossoms bloom in the spring is unlike anything I have ever experienced.
I am eternally grateful to experience every season in this lifetime. It also means my wardrobe has doubled, which you will never hear me complain about. From the fur coat to the bikini, with the change of the weather and the excitement of what's to come next, the warmth holds a special place in my heart. U
suffocation or escape?
The sky is an unnatural, murky orange, casting a strange glow on the white walls.
You pull the curtain back just in time to see the sun glaring angrily, much worse than it had been in the morning when you’d taken the weird hue of the sky to mean rain was on the way. It taunts you, as if celebrating the fact that you had been woefully wrong.
The heat in both places is undeniable. How do you pick which one is worse? How can you even compare? Delhi dries up your very being, sucking out all the moisture. Vancouver blinds you with the mere presence of the sun, scorching everything in sight.
But you have the option of freedom in Vancouver, doing as you please whenever you want, which makes the city a slightly more appealing option. Delhi? Five phone calls in a minute if you’re a few minutes past curfew.
Two months at home — that was your limit. But you’re completing three now, with another remaining. You won’t survive this — the heat, yes. Home? No.
You can’t breathe.
The few minutes of respite as you shut the door to the bedroom you share with your sister are stolen in a mere second as it opens and the heat comes flooding in along with your mother, doing away with all the hard work of the AC. No! Close it! You want to yell. Just an hour on my own. Please.
But you smile and nod and pretend that the heat is alright, that the 18 years spent in Delhi have thickened your skin, while your mind pictures your own room in Vancouver with no one to shove your door open as they please.
After two years of putting up with Vancouver summers, Delhi is suffocating. The constant heat, the sandstorms hovering nearby all day long, the looming sun and family members unwilling to give you a single second alone.
There’s an urge to swap one horrifying summer for another — but do you really have a choice? Do you have the heart to leave? More importantly, do you have the guts to tell your parents you want to?
Looking out the window now, the sun is setting, not so angry anymore. Your friends text you from Vancouver, just waking up, gearing up to face another hot, AC-less day. The heat in Delhi seems a little less unbearable and you realize why. As you gaze out the window, your face vividly reflected in the glass, the sky is a beautiful, albeit polluted, dark blue and your face is joined by three others, that of your family. And suddenly, another month melting in Delhi is a little more worth it — those who make me want to leave are also those who keep me grounded.
So you wonder: was this an essay about the heat? U
The Princess and the Pea (Man)
Kyla Flynn Contributor
Once upon a time, there lived a young girl. She was a princess in all ways but literal — brave (she volunteered first to share one fun fact about herself during syllabus week icebreakers), graceful (she walked through the Orchard Commons wind tunnel to class without flipping her umbrella inside out OR soaking the legs of her jeans), kind (she stopped to give somewhat accurate directions to a lost high school senior) and oh-so beautiful (the UBC Crushes Facebook admin’s phone now autofills her name).
She was the epitome of demure and mindful, though she would not be aware of such trends, ever too busy singing in public spaces to attract local wildlife to sew her dresses (though the end product is rather… kitschy, she’s always grateful. Everyone knows raccoons make shitty seamstresses. Kip the Coyote, however, is a surprisingly proficient embroiderer).
All was right in this princess’s world. She was lucky in bookstore lineups (the swipe-your-studentcard-and-get-a-textbook-list printout system was reactivated only for her, her textbooks were all in stock and they applied the 10 per cent student discount they decided to get rid of a few years ago — no, I am not bitter at ALL), lucky in Blue Chip cookies (she always got there just as a freshly-baked tray left the oven) and even lucky on r/UBC (nobody has ever called her articles a “waste of time” or a “disgrace to student journalism”). However, she was not yet lucky in the one thing that people who don’t actually go to class treasure most.
Dear readers, she was not yet lucky in love.
Sure, there were suitors — first-year Instagram page DM guy, friend’s friend-of-a-friend who saw her that one time in the hallway guy, sitting-right-next-to-hereven-though-the-bus-is-empty guy, electric-scooter-to-class guy, smoothie shop guy and chronically sweaty guy. The poor girl had even been courted by some of these fine fellows. And though she isn’t one to kiss and tell, this author is wellequipped to regale you with her woeful trysts.
One began with a not-so-evenly split mimosa tower at Browns on a Saturday morning — though ever the lady, our heroine did find herself with her head in a white, porcelain circlet later that afternoon. A stroll through the picturesque apple festival ended in seasonal allergies and the revelation that one cannot consume an entire bag of apple chips without losing a part of oneself. An evening spent watching the local sporting team take another unfortunate loss against literally every other team, prompting a swift retreat as her caller began to weep. Loudly. Publicly. Profusely.
But our heroine did not give up hope. After all, her dear advisor (some girl she sat next to once in PSYC 207) once told her something about kissing a lot of frogs to find “the one.” After an unfortunate incident down at the local bog — our dear princess did not know toads were rather poisonous — she waited for her lips to stop swelling
and resumed her ultimate journey: pass a chemistry lab. Just kidding — what a laugh! She resumed her mission to find the one to whom she could give her heart.
As the years went by, seasons changed and the world changed with them. She could finally walk from Buchanan to Great Dane again without cutting through Allard or the North Parkade — a clear path in front of her, the stars were uncrossing. Celestial bodies were retrograding (or not. I don’t know). Our heroine came to a revelation, though perhaps she should have been coming to a conclusion for her essay due the next day (shoutout my English profs). She knew — nay, she felt it in her soul, her bones, the dust mites in her squeaky Walter Gage mattress — she deserved someone positively, truly exceptional.
Then, she saw it. A single flyer, picked up by a cherry-scented electronic cigarette breeze, fluttered most elegantly through the air, as if sent by God (of VeggieTales fame) himself. She reached out a dainty, manicured hand, and plucked it ever-so-gently from the air.
There he was. She had a time, a place and, unlike Cinderella, she needed no magical pumpkin to get there.
The Knoll. The Nest. The centre of student life, the centre of her kingdom, really. It was better than a hand-written love letter, better than winning a back-to-school Instagram giveaway, better than… being single, I guess.
And so the day came. A crowd formed. And there he appeared, looking ravishing — no, dashing — no! All together apPEAling in a neon green ski mask one could only describe as “totally hot hunky dreamy.” Our princess, blushing most elegantly, found herself positively infatuated with the beauty standing before her. Their eyes, meeting, would change her life forever.
Not only was Pea Man a man of good character — his event raised many a gold coin for a real, actual good cause, and unlike this very non-actual story, he was a man of his word. With each bite, our princess found some of her ladylike demeanor slipping away.
So formed her first ever impure thought, “I wish I were those peas.”
And so, that was that. The most romantic three hours of her life. She watched as he gobbled down each round green orb, and as he auctioned off a scintillating assortment of “Pea Man Elixir,” she believed it must be something
akin to a magical love potion, an incredibly intoxicating substance, more alluring and all-consuming than the finest of wines. The mere sight of that green juice, and that green man — why, it made her heart skip several beats.
She was head over heels. Pea over pod. Lost in the sauce but the sauce was peas. And as the crowd chanted, screamed, went UBC’s version of wild — mild — our fated couple’s eyes met in a perfect moment across the crowd.
Time stopped. If this were a movie, the cinematic feel-good music would swell. If this were a fairy tale, a flourishing, ornately-penned “Happily Ever After” would swoop in cursive across the page.
But this, in fact, is life: fated lovers fail to meet, and peas are served mushy and cold.
The masses roared on, and our heroine had to go to class (she was on academic probation). When she returned from her three-hour lecture on Spinning Thread into Gold at the 300-level, Pea Man had vanished, likely in a pea-shaped carriage.
As summer’s kiss faded to a picturesque, autumnal glow, lovers began their annual strolls through pumpkin patches and ritualistic, seasonal drowning of themselves
in pumpkin spice lattes. Our beloved princess, alone, with not a soul to take outfit-coordinated couples photos with, sat on the knoll for three hours (or days) at a time, shovelling peas down her throat to remember her lost love. Other suitors would approach — some of lentil, some of bean, but none with orbs of chlorophyllic green.
At night, this most heartbroken heroine dreamed of joining his pod. She tossed, turned, yearned for his return. She bought mattress upon mattress, hoping for even a pea-sized amount of rest. She swore there was love in their brief eye contact, roots of a future, the most bountiful harvest.
“Pea Man, Pea Man, wherefore art thou, Pea Man?” she called out to her loyal subjects (students) in front of the Nest, who promptly called security.
She saw him every time she wandered through the produce section. She chased ghosts of legumes, pondered the glint in the Green Giant’s eye. She left a trail of peas wherever she went, hoping against all odds that she would find him behind her, gobbling them up.
Alas, nothing she did could change her fate — it was simply not meant to pea. U
Dear readers, she was not yet lucky in love.
ELITA MENEZES / THE UBYSSEY
Unsetting stones: How Danilo (Giniw) Caron is working to decolonize civil engineering
Vicky Nguyen Contributor
Danilo (Giniw) Caron is advocating for decolonizing engineering design and project delivery by incorporating Indigenous ways of knowledge into Western engineering principles.
While applying to UBC in 2016, Caron didn’t consider how his Anishinaabe background would impact his engineering education. It wasn’t until his undergraduate studies began that he became aware of the knowledge gap about Indigenous cultures in academia.
“I started to see avenues that were less explored or less understood around Indigenous cultures,” said Caron, now a second-year UBC PhD student in civil engineering.
The recipient of the Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology Momentum Fellowship — which provides $25,000 of support per year for 4 years for Black and Indigenous students to study and conduct research at UBC — Caron researches the architecture, engineering and construction industries.
The heart of Caron’s research is benefitting the communities that infrastructure serves by changing design methods and construction.
Although civil engineering is often thought of as great feats of altering the natural landscape (think: the Empire State Building
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and the Golden Gate Bridge), Caron highlighted that it can also look like working with ecosystems holistically and developing infrastructure such as water systems.
“Things that get less attention but they really provide wellness to communities,” said Caron. “That’s why I think civil engineering is a really great place to start to decolonize.”
SUPPORTING INTERCULTURAL TIES
Part of Caron’s research explores the impact of Indigenous law and governance on construction, as Western engineering education doesn’t typically provide students with insights into Indigenous legal orders or pre-colonial practices.
This involves examining project delivery methods, where designers, contractors and other stakeholders collaborate to develop a product.
In an environment where Indigenous elders and Western-trained professionals work together, intercultural collaboration is crucial in ensuring smooth project delivery. According to Caron, the process isn’t always easy.
“It’s not as simple as putting them in the room. There has to be a cultural competency built up over time really hinging on relationship based on trust,” said Caron.
In many cases, Indigenous knowledge can also be exploited by non-Indigenous interests.
Biopiracy, for example, is the unauthorized extraction and patenting of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge.
Exploiting the medicinal qualities of plants by pharmaceutical industries without credit or compensation further erodes the trust between Indigenous communities and academia.
Caron also analyzes case studies, aiming to introduce culturally relevant methods into modern engineering.
“The research ideally is mutually beneficial, so that what we learn together has value for the community,” said Caron. “It has value for our industry partners, and it also has value to me as someone who’s on a learning journey.”
TOWARD A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT
According to a 2022 Engineers Canada survey, just over one per cent of students in accredited undergraduate engineering programs identify as Indigenous, making Indigenous students vastly underrepresented in the engineering community.
where he organizes community events and opportunities for Indigenous engineering students.
“Students who actively come out to events, they find some measure of comfort in knowing that they’re not the only Indigenous students,” said Caron.
sity of Manitoba and the University of Saskatchewan, to help Indigenous students lacking first-year prerequisites improve their academic requirements for engineering.
Caron is also working on a Pathways program, which is based on similar programs from the Univer-
Few Canadians have seen a wild caribou. This Canadian emblem has been on a historical decline, but conservation efforts are attempting to change the fate of the species.
BC is home to the Southern Mountain, Northern Mountain and Boreal caribou populations. But, all groups have declined, according to research on long-term historic population trends. Today, even many British Columbians living in the
Cariboo regional district — a region previously abundant in caribou — have never seen a caribou. Dr. Clayton Lamb, a wildlife scientist and postdoctoral fellow at UBCO, is researching the decline in population and caribou conservation efforts.
LOSS OF HABITAT & DECLINE
Caribou are sensitive to changes in their environment, explained Lamb, adding that “the reason for caribou decline is habitat that is
To help address this, Caron works as an Indigenous student engagement coordinator at UBC, not working for caribou.”
He hopes to achieve an enrolment level on par with the percentage of Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian population within a few generations.
“We have a long way to go.” U
Why caribou conservation in BC is tricky business
Ideal caribou habitat is vast, intact and has low predator density. According to Lamb, in BC, that is becoming increasingly hard to find.
“It’s been declining rapidly over the last 30 or 40 years at least, and to the point that we’ve actually lost quite a bit of the distribution of caribou within British Columbia, to the point that the southern range margin of Southern Mountain caribou has retracted by hundreds of kilometres in the last 10 years.”
The logging industry is the principal force of change as it modifies the landscape by removing trees and creates forestry roads.
However, these logging industry actions don’t have a direct impact on the caribou.
Rather, Lamb said they create conditions that allow predation of the caribou by facilitating the entry of moose and deer to the area. The arrival of moose and deer is quickly followed by wolves.
“Those wolves end up predating on caribou at unstable rates and cause declines and eventual extirpation of caribou herds,” said Lamb.
Caribou hooves are designed to walk on snowpack, something that wolves are unable to do, and keeps them safe from predators. But, the animal has little defence against wolves once conditions allow the predators into the environment.
TIMELINE OF CONSERVATION EFFORT
Caribou conservation in Western science has had three big eras, according to Lamb. The first focused on gathering information about the natural history species, followed by prioritization on understanding challenges facing the population, and the third and ongoing era is centred around implementing recovery efforts.
“Now, we’re in the middle or towards the end of another era which was actually applying a bunch of emergency recovery actions to try to stave off extirpation of this caribou,” said Lamb.
The interim efforts are successful with the population of Southern Mountain caribou rising by 1,500 individuals or 60 per cent over the past 10 to 20 years.
“There’s a lot [more] Southern Mountain caribou alive today than there would have been otherwise, which is quite a dramatic increase in a threatened and endangered species,” said Lamb.
Yet, many of the current conservation methods are not sustainable in the long run. They’re expensive and largely based on wolf reduction, a heavy handed and very controversial approach. Instead, Lamb explained the caribou needs habitat-based solutions, but that could take decades to come to fruition.
“Habitat based solutions are kind of the next frontier there and
that’s kind of the next era of caribou conservation. We’ve adequately tested what does and doesn’t work to keep caribou around in the interim.”
Researchers like Lamb and Indigenous partners are still actively involved in crafting solutions for the caribou population.
He pointed to the partnership between the provincial government and the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations in Northeast BC as exemplary of attempts at a habitat-based solution.
“They secured an area of almost 8,000 square kilometres per caribou, which is bigger than Banff National Park,” said Lamb.
The West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations have been instrumental leading in caribou conservation.
They have imposed a voluntary moratorium on hunting caribou, a traditional right they have, managed maternal pens and shared traditional predator-management knowledge.
Caribou conservation in BC doesn’t have a one-stop solution. It’s an uphill battle for conservationists, but Lamb believes it is worth fighting.
“We have examples of landscapes being degraded for caribou and no significant habitat restoration at scale to even know if we can turn the clock back on the disturbance,” said Lamb.
“But you might as well try and see what happens.” U
Renée Rochefort Contributor
“The research ideally is mutually beneficial.”
In BC, ideal caribou habitats are hard to find.
COURTESY DANILO (GINIW) CARON
COURTESY GIGUERE / WILDLIFE INFOMETRICS
Sophia Moiseyenko on sailing through World Championships, winds and marine wildlife
Katrianna DeSante Contributor
Third-year science student Sophia Moiseyenko followed in her older brother’s footsteps, sailing at six years old, and never looked back. She was initially drawn to sailing on the ocean because of the sport’s environmental connection.
“Seeing all the whales poke out of the water … you get a really unique perspective,” said Moiseyenko.
After sailing keelboats for a few years with the Farr 30 team at the West Vancouver Yacht Club, Moiseyenko discovered her passion for sailing. But it wasn’t until 2022 when she joined UBC’s Sailing team, a team in the Thunderbird Sports Club (TSC), that she noticed how community-oriented and close-knit the sport is.
“I still really like the competitive part of [racing] … but I also really like seeing all of my friends at every event that I go to, which I think college racing is really, really good for.”
“I try to pride myself and say that I can sail with anybody,” said Moiseyenko. “My biggest motivator is everybody I sail with.”
Aside from racing with UBC, Moiseyenko also sails on international waters as the only Western Canadian student selected to represent Canada. Last year, Mosieyenko’s team finished first overall among
seven teams in the J80 Class at the EDHEC Sailing Cup in France.
“It was cool seeing all the different countries there — that was really fun,” said Moiseyenko.
This past June marked one of Moiseyenko’s biggest accomplishments to date — the FISU Sailing World University Championships.
“That was my first time going to Italy and my first time sailing in Italy, so that was pretty awesome.”
The team sailed on Lake Garda, just east of Milan, where Moiseyenko took on the ‘bow’ position — a multi-
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skilled role involving changing sails and communicating manoeuvres, located at the most exposed, and therefore wettest, end of the boat.
“It was pretty cool sailing there; some of the biggest regattas are hosted on that same lake,” said Moiseyenko.
Despite unfortunate weather conditions with winds for “all four days being light and shifting directions, [which] makes it super tricky to keep the boat moving” — and having never sailed together as a team — Mosieyenko and the Canadian team
placed fourth overall.
“It was funny because the day after we left, it started blowing winds like crazy,” Moiseyenko laughed.
Reflecting on what she has learned while sailing over the years, Moiseyenko said sailing with TSC has improved her communication, which is crucial when there are multiple people on the boat.
“These boats are never silent; you’re always talking about something and feeding information,” she shared.
As the next season steadily
approaches, Moiseyenko is looking forward to another year of sailing with TSC and the Farr 30 team. She aims to — quite literally — go the distance, setting her sights on overnight races and long-distance regattas around BC.
“Living in Vancouver, you tend to take the mountains for granted because we see them every day,” said Moiseyenko. “But every once in a while, I sit down when I’m sailing and am super grateful for where I live and being able to sail in this beautiful place.” U
T-Birds thrash Huskies for 38–24 Homecoming win
Annaliese Gumboc Contributor
With 1–2 records, both the UBC Thunderbirds and University of Saskatchewan Huskies needed a win in Friday’s sold-out football match-up. Invigorated by an electric Homecoming crowd at Thunderbird Stadium, the ‘Birds emerged victorious, winning 38–24 in their highest-scoring game this season.
The Thunderbirds looked steady, especially compared to their latest performances. Quarterback Garrett Rooker had zero interceptions for the first time since 2023, while Isaiah Knight carried UBC’s run game. Meanwhile, the defence played some of their best all season.
“We still have a tendency to make it tough on us,” said UBC head coach Blake Nill after the game. “I think what you saw was the potential of this offence, and … our defence is becoming more comfortable.”
The Thunderbirds came out swinging early, opening Homecoming with an 80-yard scoring drive to take a 7–0 lead. The ‘Birds heavily utilized Knight, who capped off the possession with a 13-yard touchdown run.
The Huskies responded in kind, driving deep into ‘Birds territory. UBC’s defence seemed challenged by Saskatchewan’s passing game — a trend that continued for most of the game. Still, UBC held the Huskies to a field goal. After
another Saskatchewan field goal toward the start of the second quarter, UBC’s lead narrowed to 7–6.
UBC struggled in pass coverage, allowing Saskatchewan quarterback Anton Amundrud to connect
As the first half neared its end, Saskatchewan looked poised to tie the game again. However, UBC’s defence remained stout when it mattered most, forcing the Huskies to settle for a field goal. At halftime, the score was a close
21–17.
After the break, the T-Birds’ defence forced a quick three-andout — their first of the game. The UBC offence immediately capitalized on the opportunity: Starting from their own 51 yard-line, Knight tore up the field, cutting through defenders for a 59-yard touchdown run.
Momentum snowballed in UBC’s favour. The ‘Birds scored on each of their possessions in the third quarter, with their final drive taking five minutes of playtime. They entered the fourth quarter with a 38–17 lead.
The Huskies didn’t give up, scoring a touchdown with less than nine minutes left, and even recovering a subsequent onside kick. However, with time running out, Saskatchewan’s passing game floundered and the ‘Birds walked away with a 38–24 victory.
“We put together a pretty complete four quarters, and it was fun to just get the win here on Homecoming in front of the big crowd,” said Rooker in an interview with UBC Athletics.
After starting the season 0–2, UBC’s recent wins are critical to staying afloat in a close Canada West conference.
“It takes a little pressure off,” said Nill.
The Thunderbirds (2–2) will aim to continue their win streak on Saturday, as they take on the University of Calgary Dinos (1–3) in Calgary. U
“My biggest motivator is everybody I sail with,” said Moiseyenko
Isaiah Knight sneaks through the defensive line on his 59-yard touchdown run.
COURTESY SOPHIA MOISEYENKO
ZOE WAGNER / THE UBYSSEY
a beautiful 87-yard touchdown pass. Down 13–7, the Thunderbirds rebounded quickly, embarking on a nine-play scoring drive to retake the lead. A Huskies’ rouge tied the game, but UBC pulled ahead with another touchdown run.
SAUMYAKAMRA,SIDNEYSHAW&ZOEWAGNER
HOMECOMING 2024
1. Bones of the pelvis 5. Malicious 10. Wash
14. A restaurant gives you this 15. Without _ ____ in the world
16. This count has an eye tattoo on his ankle
17. Spanish years
18. Yeti’s country
19. The imposter goes here
20. Fuzzy squares at Home Depot
23. Hardworking UN agency founded under the League of Nations
24. Haters, nay______
28. Spiderman’s girlfriend’s
1. Job’s desktop
2. Luthor’s sister
3. Poker phrase minus “out”
4. Omen, prophetic
5. The Divine Comedy has 100
6. Excellent, good
7. Barkcloth from Oceania’s islands
8. Toronto transport
9. It’s worth rating
10. 1977 Beach Boys album
11. Canada dry
12. Rainy city nickname
13. Young newt
21. English cathedral city
22. She loves ewe
25. (Un)popular winter
second name
31. Traditional title of the ruler of Nigeria’s Benin Kingdom
34. Big deal in real estate or media
35. This is what you can do to a guy in ten days
36. Radar wakes up camp with this
38. Poignant, relevant, correct
39. Relief in a desert
40. Previously named
41. Hitchhike
44. A french body
45. Picky _____
46. Common nationality suffix
47. Mobster, no relation to
beverage
26. Two Lordes, or two lords
27. A languorous dwarf
28. Wipe it clean; a shade of grey
29. Tuxedo cats don’t fit a blacktie dress code without this
30. Clever, knowledgeable
31. Latin: to plead, to pray
32. An argument’s foundation
33. Interruptions of Shakespeare’s conversations
36. Snake; a feathered scarf
37. ¬SSE (Take a look, it’s in a book.)
42. March’s elimination of precipitation
Siegel’s Bagels
48. Ancient grave markers
50. “If I can’t control this ___ girl, I delete her.”
51. Brass, thumb, horse
58. Auntie homophone
61. The original “never forget”
62. Farmer’s wagon
63. Vancouver doesn’t allow for these signs to be removed
