September 10, 2012 by The Ubyssey

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Welcome Back BBQ From rocky starting acts to the fistpumping finale, The Ubyssey reviews this year’s back-to-school bash

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Chipping in

International students stranded Visa delays prevent over 80 students from attending their first days of class

“Except for 20 seconds...” Cacnio given probation for participation in riots

Vancouver Whitecaps, B.C. government announce $32M National Soccer Development Centre at UBC P5

Olympic bronze medalist Chelsea Buckland and head coach Jon Herdman of the Canadian national women’s soccer team kick off at a press conference announcing the Vancouver Whitecaps’ new National Soccer Development Centre.

Fringe Festival Bigger, better and more accessible than ever before

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YOUR GUIDE TO UBC EVENTS + PEOPLE

What’s on Tue 1210

OUR CAMPUS

THIS WEEK, MAY WE SUGGEST...

MUSIC >>

ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC

MONDAY

Nardwuar’s Video Vault 2.0: 6–8:30 p.m. @ The Norm Theatre

If you haven’t yet heard of Nardwuar, he is a bit of a UBC celebrity. He got his start as a music journalist at CiTR in 1987, and his work can be seen on campus, MuchMusic and now at the Norm. The Human Serviette will be showing clips from his interviews with popular musicians and discussing his many career experiences. Free event, first-come, first-served. Tue 1211

VOLUNTEER >>

TUESDAY

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RECREATION >>

WEDNESDAY

Purple & Yellow Bike Work Party: 6–9 p.m. @ The Bike Kitchen Ever noticed all those purple and yellow bikes parked in odd places around campus? You can help maintain the UBC bike co-op’s fleet of bikes. Let’s face it, knowing how to fix bixes is so hip. Free dinner provided. Tue 1213

EDUCATION >>

THURSDAY

Orientation to the UBC Library: 1–2 p.m. @ Koerner Library Whether you are a new or returnign student, the UBC Library system has lots of offer in support of your studies. This basic tour of the library will show you the tools to succeed throughout university. Tue 1214

Ray Hsu’s work expands traditional definitions of poetry.

Shopping Week: All week @ the Student Rec Centre Looking for an way to get in shape this year? Make sure to check out UBC REC’s shopping week. Over 60 classes, from martial arts to yoga, will be available for free this week only! So why not start off your term with a soothing downward dog? Space is limited. Visit rec.ubc.ca for more info.

CONCERTS >>

FRIDAY

Expand your musical horizons Vancouver has a vibrant and diverse music scene. If you’re in the mood to head out of the UBC bubble, consider going to Crosby, Stills & Nash at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at the Malkin Bowl or Sloan at the Commodore Ballroom. Tickets available on ticketmaster.ca

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Writing outside the margins Arno Rosenfeld Contributor

Ray Hsu has written two critically acclaimed books of poetry, published over 125 poems in literary journals and won numerous poetry awards — but he’s moved on. And these days, he even shies away from the word poetry. “If I show it to them and say, ‘Look, this is poetry!’, people will say, ‘Wait a second, I just heard the word poetry, so my brain is going to shut down,’” explained Hsu, a postdoctoral fellow in the creative writing program. “I think there’s something about not saying the word ‘poetry’.” Hsu has unique ideas about what contemporary poetry should look like: he declares poetry reading “dead,” and in his current work, he has moved beyond lines on a page. “Am I content, as a poet, to stay in the arts and entertainment section, or do I want to blow things up? Do I want to be on the front page?” Hsu said. The answer to that question is clear, but Hsu is more enigmatic when it comes to other questions. Hsu, a Toronto native, received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Toronto. He got his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin while teaching writing in American prisons and founding the Prison Writing Workshop. Now, Hsu edits the Asian culture magazine Ricepaper and has taught at UBC since 2008.

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Growing up, Hsu has always looked for opportunities to turn school presentations into bizarre performance art and conventional essays into creative writing. But it wasn’t until he reached university that he became involved in poetry, realizing that poets often engaged with each other artistically, while fiction writers tended toward solitude. Hsu published two conventional books of poetry to rave reviews: Anthropy in 2004 and Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon in 2010. But he acknowledged that many poets wouldn’t recognize what he does now as poetry. One current project is a Tumblr blog called Writer Shame, where writers send in photographs of themselves holding up written confessions such as “I hate rhyming couplets” and “I use my copy of Ulysses as a doorstop.” Hsu is also known for his innovative poetry readings. He recently hosted a “Twitteraryokee” event, which blended social media and live online streaming as a poetry reading redux. On another memorable occasion, he instructed a live audience to rip out pages of his book and throw them at him; he then read pages as they hit him. As a writer in a genre often viewed as inaccessible, Hsu wants to reach out to the masses. “If someone would rather watch a sports game, play a video game, be on Facebook, than attend my reading, I have something

to learn from that person,” Hsu said. “Why don’t I have them tell me what is capturing their imagination?” This respect for the audience extends to Hsu’s teaching. “[Students] have to know that the authority figures they’ve come to count on, such as teachers, have their own questions.... If they know their authority figures are also just as human, that they’re searching for something themselves, then that’s a fundamentally different relationship to learning.” It’s clear that reinvention — what Hsu calls the search for new forms — permeates everything he does these days. “Most people think in terms of new forms of poetry,” Hsu said. “Because poetry is the air that I breathe and the way that I think, that could encompass anything.” It can be hard to pin down exactly what Hsu hopes to achieve, because he eschews the entire concept of goals, saying they lead to tunnel vision. “I always want to grab whatever is flying at me from left-field,” he said. While Hsu said he still hasn’t reached front-page status, he’s confident that he’s on the right track. “There will always be people writing in stanzas with line breaks.... There will always be people who hold down the fort in poetry land,” Hsu said. “I think my efforts are needed elsewhere.” U

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 |

EDITORS WILL MCDONALD + LAURA RODGERS

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS >>

STANLEY CUP RIOT >>

UBC grad sentenced to probation

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Cacnio on the night of the riot.

Will McDonald News Editor

More than 80 international students have delayed their studies at UBC because they are unable to get the required paperwork.

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Visa office closures hold back students

Micki Cowan CUP B.C. Bureau Chief

Vancouver, B.C. (CUP) — An increase in visa application numbers and worldwide visa office closures is causing uncertainty for international students intending to start university classes in B.C. this September. More than 80 international students at UBC, 30 to 40 at SFU and at least 10 at UVic are still waiting to find out if they will have their visas processed in time to start classes, or if their studies will need to be delayed until January or next September. Bulletins put out by Citizenship and Immigration Canada listed closures of offices in Syria, Tokyo, Berlin, Iran, Belgrade and Buffalo, N.Y. since January 2012. Immigrations Canada maintains these closures are not the

NEWS BRIEFS Provincial investigation finds misuse of medical data The B.C. government has suspended $4 million in contracts related to health research, including research being done at UBC, after an investigation uncovered widespread misuse of confidential patient data in unauthorized research. The investigation has also resulted in the firing of four government employees. The province also intends to tighten its rules on awarding drug research contracts to universities. UBC spokesperson Lucie McNeill said to the Vancouver Sun that UBC has not yet determined whether it needs to take disciplinary action against researchers at the university. McNeill also said that she is not yet able to say how many UBC researchers were potentially involved. Parking mishaps abound Two examples of creative parking at UBC on September 7 drew a huge amount of student attention. In the morning, a black sedan got stuck on a flight of stairs by the SUB north plaza and was later towed. “My best guess would be that the driver was leaving the SUB north plaza and didn’t notice the stairs until it was too late,” said Campus Security’s Paul Wong. And at around 10 p.m. that night, yet another black sedan drove off a concrete barrier outside Marine Drive residence and became stuck. Photos of both parking jobs are available on The Ubyssey’s new blog at ubyssey.ca/theblog/. U

problem, and that in most cases, processing times have returned to what they were prior to the closures. They blame an increasing number of applications. “The overall increase in processing times is due to the high volume of applications across the entire visa processing network,” said immigration department spokesperson Danielle Vlemmiks in an email. She said the closures are part of the department’s mandate to modernize their network by streamlining programs and operations and moving processing to where capacity exists. The increasing number of applications to study in B.C. may be related to the recent push to increase the number of international students in the province. B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s job plan, revealed last year, aims to increase

the number of international students by 50 per cent in four years. There were approximately 94,000 international students studying in the province when the plan was revealed. UBC Vice-President Students Louise Cowin said the university is working with the provincial and federal governments to try to solve the problem as quickly as possible. UBC has also expressed interest in increasing international student numbers. “UBC remains certain that international students enrich our community and that international students are good for the province and [the delays are] an unintended outcome,” said Cowin. Elham Abouei, a first-year student from Iran, was able to get her visa in time. But she said she has two friends back in Iran who are

still waiting. One of them already had to cancel a flight. In the case of Iran, visa operations were cut entirely and moved to Turkey. “We all understand the government is needing to save some money because of the economic situation,” said SFU AVP Students Tim Rahilly. “We’d like to find ways where these students could ... get their visas processed in time for the school year.” Immigrations claims that students will soon have the option to apply for visas online and they hope to expand their network of visa application centres around the world to 150 by 2014. But for now, students who are not able to get their visas processed in time will have to wait for Immigrations to catch up to the increasing demand. U

TRAFFIC >>

New roundabouts in the works for South Campus

Laura Rodgers News Editor

Two new roundabouts are planned to replace two traffic-light-controlled intersections on campus. But a UBC professor is concerned that the change will make roads riskier for pedestrians and cyclists. Finalized plans for a new roundabout to go in at the intersection of 16th Avenue and East Mall are expected to be ready by next month. Afterwards, UBC plans to build a roundabout at 16th Avenue and Marine Drive. Jan Fialkowski, executive director of the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), said the roundabouts make campus safer by slowing down cars. “[Roundabouts] have been presented to us by the university as the best option, and the [UNA] board has accepted that as making a lot of sense,” said Fialkowski. But Kay Teschke, a professor of population and public health at UBC, said that although roundabouts are effective at reducing the number of car-to-car crashes, they may not be the best option for UBC campus. “They seem to increase the risk for cyclist crashes and potentially also for pedestrians. And that’s been shown in a fair number of studies,” said Teschke. “It was certainly consistent, and that’s what you look for.”

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The two new roundabouts are proposed for intersections along 16th Avenue.

Teschke said that the increased risk for cyclists can be reduced if precautions are taken. “It’s worse if the traffic circle had two lanes of traffic versus one lane of traffic, and it’s better for cyclists if they had a separate lane for cyclists,” she said. “I think UBC has not taken into account its residents and how they interact on their overall campus, and they haven’t found ways to make it much more attractive to cycle and walk on the campus itself.” According to Kera McArthur of UBC Campus + Community Planning, plans to calm traffic along 16th Avenue on campus have been discussed since 2006. And now that there’s a new high school being built on 16th Avenue between Wesbrook Mall and East Mall, both UBC and the UNA feel that it’s important that the area is as safe as possible for students walking to school. Fialkowski said that UBC intends

to put in a pedestrian crossing along 16th Avenue between East Mall and Wesbrook Mall for high school students, where the traffic has been slowed between the roundabouts. But Teschke doesn’t think that a road-level crossing is the safest option. “Since there’s a school now that’s going to be on the south side of 16th, the best soluton if you want to have safe cycling and pedestrians is to have an underpass under 16th. This is very commonly done in European countries to protect pathways for students and so on.” But Fialkowski said that she doesn’t think anything other than a road-level crosswalk is a realistic possibility. “What I’m told is the safest way for people to cross the road ... is between the roundabouts where the traffic is slowed down,” said Fialkowski. U

UBC graduate Camille Cacnio won’t be spending any time in jail for participating in the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot. Today, Cacnio was sentenced to two years of probation as well as community service for stealing two pairs of men’s dress pants and a tie from Black and Lee on June 15, 2011. Cacnio will have to complete 150 hours of community service and maintain a 10 p.m. curfew during her probation. Cacnio turned herself in to the police and pled guilty to participating in a riot after photos surfaced online of her looting Black and Lee. Cacnio later returned the items and apologized for her actions in a blog post. According to Cacnio, the post has received over 4 million views. Jason Tarnow, Cacnio’s attorney, argued that she had already received enough punishment for her actions, since she was fired from three jobs (including one at the UBC Birdcoop), her online reputation was tarnished and she became the public face of the Vancouver riots. Cacnio’s attorney also said she was forced to drop out of UBC due to all of the negative publicity she received. Tarnow said she returned to UBC to finish her degree last summer, when the campus wasn’t so crowded. Cacnio has graduated with a degree in environmental biology, and plans to work in that field in the future. Tarnow argued that a criminal record would seriously hinder her job prospects and her potential to benefit the environment. Tarnow said Cacnio was a model citizen, except for the 20 seconds she spent inside Black and Lee on the night of the riot. He cited her extensive record of community service, academic success and volunteer work (including a stint in the Philippines helping underprivileged children). Cacnio also formerly competed on UBC’s rowing team and has worked in multiple gyms. “I can’t picture a more well-rounded human being, save and except for 20 seconds,” said Tarnow in the pre-sentencing hearing. Prosecution originally recommended 15 to 30 days in jail, to be served intermittently on weekends. The Crown prosecution said jail time was necessary to show disapproval for the riot, as well as deter potential riots in the future. Provincial court Judge Joseph Galati, who sentenced Cacnio, said that a jail sentence wasn’t necessary, since the damage done to her reputation and the negative publicity she has received were punishment enough. U

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

SOCCER>>

Whitecaps, province fund $32M soccer facility on UBC campus By Andrew Bates

Thunderbird Arena

Members of community soccer teams will also benefit from the new facilities.

THUNDERBIRD STADIUM

FIELD HOUSE Use split 60/40 Whitecaps.

Not a part of the deal. Whitecaps could play games here but UBC will retain 100% control

Features: Offices, Team/change rooms, Washrooms, Laundry rooms, Meeting rooms, Multipurpose rooms for UBC/Community

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VARSITY FIELD Existing turf field

NEW TURF FIELD Will cost $2 million. Use split 75/25 Whitecaps. DYLAN FIELD Existing grass field.

Starting in October, field will be used as practice field until new field is built.

TWO NEW GRASS FIELDS Could be replaced by housing in 10 years time

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Former Minister of Community Sport and Cultural Development Ida Chong announces the new soccer centre.

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BC Athletics has got a new roommate, and that roommate will be bringing a lot of furniture. On Thursday, the Vancouver Whitecaps announced they will be building a $32 million soccer training facility at UBC. Their men’s and women’s senior teams, youth residency programs and youth development programs will all be moving their training to this soon-to-bebuilt National Soccer Development Centre, which includes five fields and a fieldhouse at Thunderbird Park (right next to Thunderbird Stadium). Two of the five fields already exist at Thunderbird Park; that means that UBC’s soccer teams — as well as field hockey, baseball and rec leagues — will be sharing space with one of the three Canadian professional soccer teams for the next 20 years. “We were pretty straightforward about trying to focus on finding a really good partnership, that really good relationship that benefits both parties,” said Kavie Toor, UBC Athletics associate director of facilities and business development. Toor liaised between UBC and the Whitecaps during the two-year negotiation. “It’s not about necessarily fitting them into what we’re doing now, it’s about building some added infrastructure that they would have access to.” But there are still challenges to adding a multi-million dollar professional sports facility to a complex that already sees heavy use by UBC’s teams. How will Major League Soccer players coexist with intramural rec leagues? Who owns the facility? Why does it work for the Whitecaps, and how did UBC make the deal in the first place?

Sharing space The current facility at Thunderbird Park includes two turf soccer fields, one field hockey court, a baseball field, and a combination field and running track. According to Toor, Thunderbird Park’s soccer fields currently see about 130 hours a week of usage from UBC varsity reams and campus rec, and 160 hours of usage from other community groups like the University Neighbourhoods

Association, Urban Rec and Vancouver minor league teams. Toor expects that UBC’s field time will actually increase by 10 to 20 per cent. Because the Whitecaps’ heaviest training periods take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., they’ll be using the field during what are normally quiet hours for UBC Athletics. “Typically our fields are jam-packed during evenings and weekends, but not so much during the school [or] work day. But a lot of [the Whitecaps’] programs take place during that time,” said Toor. The Whitecaps will refurbish one of the turf fields, Varsity Field, and build a second one beside it. The grass field that currently has a running track on it, called Dylan Field, will be a part of the project, and Matthews Field, the lawn across the street by Thunderbird Stadium, will be turned into two grass fields. According to Toor, the new fields and turf pitch are on underused space. “[It’s] basically being built on a three-quarter grass field that isn’t utilized for programs,” he said, saying the situation was similar for Matthews Field. “Its infrastructure isn’t in place and the field is in pretty poor condition, and without a pretty significant overhaul, it’s not really usable.” Athletics will control booking for the fields, and the Whitecaps will get guarantees in their contract for how often they can use them. UBC VP Students Louise Cowan promises that use of the fields will be split 50-50 between the Whitecaps and the community. According to Cowin, 50 per cent of usage will be split between the Whitecaps and UBC varsity teams, with the other 50 per cent available for community-focused recreation. Each facility has a separate usage percentage; the new turf field will be 75-25 per cent between the Caps and UBC, for example.

Who owns it? UBC and the Whitecaps have currently signed a letter of intent and are negotiating a contract that will last 20 years, starting from when construction is completed. But UBC will own all the facilities, and at the end of the contract they

will all be returned to the university, according to John Metras, UBC managing director of infrastructure development. “We have negotiated a use agreement with the Whitecaps, so the land and the facilities all are ultimately owned by the university,” Metras said. The province will be contributing $14.5 million of the capital costs, with the Whitecaps kicking in the rest. The Caps will be paying for operating costs like utilities and field maintenance. According to Metras, the key achievement for UBC will be building the fieldhouse facility. The fieldhouse will house coaches’ offices and team rooms for the Whitecaps, and also laundry facilities, washrooms, meeting rooms and multi-use areas that will be shared between the Caps, UBC and the community. “The university, for a long time, has had a requirement for a fieldhouse facility to service the playing fields,” Metras said. A $295,000 recreational and community fieldhouse was listed as an unfunded project in the 2012/13 UBC budget. “The fact that we can do that without using UBC capital is a huge opportunity for us.” UBC has talked of putting market housing on the lawn in front of Thunderbird Stadium, but the grass pitches there will postpone any new condos. “In the long term, that area is designated for housing, but the timing of that is well into the future,” Metras said, adding that those particular fields are committed for 10 years, and after that, UBC can consider doing other things with the land. The playing field upgrades will be completed in the spring of 2013, and completion of the fieldhouse is targeted for mid-2014. In the meantime, the Whitecaps will get a temporary locker room at Thunderbird Arena, and will have exclusive use of Dylan Field for practices before the end of the MLS season this November.

Playing on grass For the Whitecaps, the draw of having a facility like this is always

knowing where their next practice is, and not having to share space on community pitches like lower-level teams. “[When] you’re playing on a community field, there’s balls coming from everywhere, the fields aren’t in great shape,” said Whitecaps President Bob Lenarduzzi. “That’s not a knock on community fields, but ... they get a lot of use.” The Whitecaps will be moving training for both their men’s and women’s senior teams to the facility, as well as their under-16 and under-18 youth residency programs and Girls Elite under-14 programs. The facility will also be used by the Canadian women’s nationa team. Previously, the Whitecaps reserve teams, U-18 residency program and U-23 Premier Development League (PDL) team played some of their games at Thunderbird Stadium, an arrangement that gave club staff a chance to see campus. “There’s a vibrancy to UBC,” Lenarduzzi said, noting that the facility is 15 minutes away from their competition stadium, B.C. Place. “Coaches like to have peace and quiet. From that point of view, it’s very beneficial.” Whitecaps manager Martin Rennie agreed. “It’s a great setting out here, a beautiful campus. It’s a lot quieter than some of the places that we train, so that’s important for the coaches and the players,” he said. “It’s a great location and it just adds to the quality of the facility.” Rennie especially likes the addition of grass fields for practice, saying that turf fields can cause players to be injured more often. “Turf does make a big difference to the body when you’re doing it every single day,” he said. The Whitecaps also spoke about the importance of having a home, both for senior and youth players. “Where you have a good training ground, you get a good buzz around it,” said Whitecaps captain Jay DeMerit. “The youth can inspire us. We can inspire the youth, [and that’s] really important for how you develop, not only this club but soccer in general here in B.C.”

How it came together The Caps have been hunting for a training ground for about ten years, seeing proposed facilities miss the mark in Delta and Burnaby. In 2010, after the Delta project fell through, Toor met Whitecaps Chief Operating Officer Rachel Lewis to discuss housing a temporary facility at UBC for two to three years until terms had been agreed for a permanent facility. The problems in some of the other areas came down to land access, according to Bob Lenarduzzi. “We were going for the RollsRoyce version,” Lenarduzzi said. “We were talking to Burnaby about having this there, and unfortunately we couldn’t come up with the same amount of land that wouldn’t have allowed this to happen.” Toor said UBC’s objective was getting facility upgrades that would work for them. “They were pretty open with us that they were in conversations with other municipalities, including Burnaby, and that they would be working with and considering all options,” Toor said. At the end of the 10-year process, UBC was the only partner that made sense, according to Whitecaps executive chair John Furlong. “There’s the space, the desire, the access, the scope out here.... When you think about it, this is the kind of place a venue like this belongs.” Furlong was the CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which partnered with UBC on building Thunderbird Arena. “The University of British Columbia always reaches out. This is the thing about UBC: there’s a great desire here for excellence,” he said. “This is a university with a tremendous sport tradition, so usually if it’s going on in the city and there’s going to be an opportunity to be a part of it, the university is pretty well always there.” He said that during three-way negotiations with the Caps and the province, UBC was a good partner. “When there are multiple partners, there is always a lot of stuff that has to be put together to make it all work,” Furlong said. “When you have good friends, anything is possible.” U

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 |

EDITOR C.J. PENTLAND

SOCCER >>

UBC rolls to decisive weekend sweep

FOOTBALL >>

Football flails for second Women’s soccer dominates, easily defeats Calgary and Lethbridge straight week C.J. Pentland Sports + Rec Editor

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Janine Frazao led the offensive charge on the weekend, scoring three times in two games and helping UBC to two convincing victories.

Friday, September 7 vs Calgary Joseph Ssettuba Contributor

The UBC Thunderbirds took care of business against the Calgary Dinos Friday evening at Thunderbird Stadium. The young ’Birds, led by their fourth-year star and reigning conference scoring champion Janine Frazao, put on a clinic and cruised to a 5-1 victory. The match began with the CIS eighth-ranked ’Birds getting off to a flying start, scoring within the first minute of the game. Frazao picked up a loose ball at the edge of the box and coolly finished it home, picking up where she left off last year. The Thunderbirds then relentlessly hemmed their opponents into their own end of the pitch. With 32 minutes showing on the clock, the Thunderbirds managed to score the second goal of the match. Frazao showed excellent composure, drawing defenders around her before laying the ball off to her teammate, Rachel Ramsden. Ramsden then sent a cross into the path of Taryn Lim, who in turn put the ball past the Dinos keeper. If it weren’t for the goalkeeper and a bit of bad luck, the score could have been higher. Multiple efforts on goal were met with a clang off the post or a save off the fingertips; it was a solid performance in the face of intense pressure all evening long. It was more of the same in the second half. Persistent pressure by the Thunderbirds kept the Dinos in their own zone, and it was only a matter of time before the ’Birds scored again. Alisha Penev received two corner kicks and dutifully dispatched them home, and the third-year centreback earned the praise of her head coach, Mark Rogers. “I’m … happy for Alisha, as we’ve done a lot of work on set pieces, and for her to come forward and bury two and kill the game off for us was really pleas-

ing,” he said after the game. The Dinos managed to break their goose egg with a goal in the 76th minute, after a nifty play in the corner produced a goal by Maddie Lee. However, their celebrations were brief, as a great strike by Lim produced her second goal of the game. She curled the ball gloriously into the corner of the net from beyond the penalty area, the Dinos goalkeeper barely managing to get a finger on it. Despite the score and impressive result, Mark Rogers still found room for improvement from his squad. “We can play at a faster speed than that. It’s nice, yeah, we won 5-1 and I don’t want to be too critical … and although it’s a young team, they can play at a faster speed,” he remarked. Needless to say, the Thunderbirds can be satisfied with their victory and look forward to next weekend’s game against a much stronger opponent. U

Saturday, September 8 vs Lethbridge Rory Gattens Contributor

A quick start, clinical finishing and rock-solid defence were the keys to success on Saturday evening at Thunderbird Stadium, as the UBC women’s soccer team easily defeated the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns by a score of 4-0. After downing the Calgary Dinos 5-1 on Friday night, the Thunderbirds didn’t miss a beat on Saturday. In the first minute, a shot from striker Taryn Lim rattled off the crossbar, only for Janine Frazao to pounce on the rebound and head home the opening goal. The early goal seemed to settle the T-Birds as they kept possession intelligently in the Prong-

horns’ defensive third, firing shot after shot at Lethbridge goalkeeper Taura Willoughby. The next scoring chance finally came after a miscue in the Pronghorn defence, as Frazao collected the ball while racing in towards goal. She clinically finished a strike just inside the left post to put the Thunderbirds up 2-0 in the 17th minute. The Thunderbird back four (Sydney Morrison, Alisha Penev, Jordan Kitagawa and Katherine Caverly) looked extremely composed the entire match as they dealt with the few Pronghorn counterattacks. They were influential in starting each Thunderbird attack throughout the contest. Just inside halftime, a great bit of footwork by left-midfielder Rachael Sawer led to a cross into the box, and the play was beautifully finished by striker Taryn Lim with a half-volley. The T-Birds went into halftime with a comfortable 3-0 lead. Finally in stoppage time, Sawer turned from provider to goal scorer as she bent a free kick into the top left corner to finish the rout of the Pronghorns. “The girls played for each other and created tons of chances,” said Sawer after the game. “Having that fast start and coming out ready to play helped us, but after Janine scored the first goal, it really calmed us down. Having two good results during opening weekend really showed us what we’re capable of doing.” Special mention must be accredited to strikers Frazao and Lim, as they put home an astonishing five goals between them during the opening weekend series. Next for the Thunderbirds is a fixture against the Trinity Western Spartans in a battle of two undefeated teams. They will square off on Saturday, September 15 in Langley. Their next home game is not until September 28, when they take on the University of Saskatchewan. U

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Number of goals that Janine Frazao is on pace for during the 12-game regular season

Number of minutes that it took Frazao to score the opening goal in each game

Number of players who recorded multi-point games this weekend: Frazao, Taryn Lim, Alisha Penev, Rachael Sawer and Rachel Ramsden

Number of shots that UBC allowed all weekend STANDINGS

WOMEN’S SOCCER 2012 standings 1. Manitoba 2-0 2. Trinity Western 2-0 3. UBC 2-0 4. Regina 1-0 5. Alberta 1-0-1 6. Victoria 1-0-1 7. UFV 1-1 8. UNBC 0-1-1 9. Winnipeg 0-1-1 10. Saskatchewan 0-1 11. Calgary 0-2 12. Lethbridge 0-2 13. Mount Royal 0-2

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To say the football team’s season has gotten off to a bad start would be a bit of an understatement. After two straight losses to open up their regular season, the second being a 49-20 shellacking at the hands of the Regina Rams on Friday night in Regina, the Thunderbirds now sit tied for last in the Canada West and have a steep climb ahead of them if they want to make the playoffs, let alone host a postseason contest. The first half of Friday’s game started out well for UBC. The ’Birds led 13-7 at the half, with the defence coming up with several big stops to hold the Rams to a single touchdown after 30 minutes. The offence also strung together some impressive drives by attacking through the air and on the ground, and Billy Greene had 199 yards passing and a touchdown, and looked like his old self. But the second half was just short of a nightmare. The T-Birds turned the ball over four times in the half, three of which were via interceptions. Regina capitalized by scoring 42 unanswered points, shutting out UBC’s offence until Daniel English scored with three minutes left in the game. Greene, who only threw for eight yards in the second half and was picked off twice, was eventually pulled in favour of backup Dominik Bundschuh. In a nutshell, almost nothing went right for UBC in the final two quarters, and they paid for it dearly on the scoreboard. Next weekend’s home game against Saskatchewan will be a test of whether or not UBC has any shot of making the playoffs. With only eight games during the regular season, teams can’t afford to take any weeks off, and UBC has already used up those weeks. Especially in the Canada West, where every team is close in terms of talent, UBC needs a victory next weekend to prove that they can compete in this conference and that last year wasn’t a flash in the pan. The biggest worry heading into the season was the new-look defence, and they have shown their lack of experience in these two losses. But a new concern — one that wasn’t supposed to be a problem — is the severe inconsistency of the offence. To only throw for eight yards in a half is unacceptable at any level, especially if that player is a former CIS MVP. The big-name receivers from last year, most notably Jordan Grieve and David Scott, also need to step up if the offence wants to really get going. The two only combined for five catches for 40 yards on Friday, a far cry from their numbers last season that made them two of the best receivers in the nation. Saturday will make or break the season. If the Thunderbirds can come out against Saskatchewan and play like the team they were in 2011, they will be back on the path towards the playoffs, which will be the first step of a long journey. But if they put on another shoddy performance, all that optimism at the start of the year will be for nothing. U

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Men’s soccer shows no mercy SOCCER >>

Stifling defence and a high-powered offensive attack leads UBC to 2-0 start Rory Gattens Contributor

The UBC men’s soccer team was a class ahead on Saturday night at Thunderbird Stadium, as they dominated the visiting Lethbridge Pronghorns and defeated them by a score of 8-0. The Thunderbirds were keen to keep possession during the entire match, spraying passes all over the pitch, which led to the frustrated Pronghorns committing needless fouls in their own defensive third. Centreback Paul Clerc took advantage of this, nodding home two goals in quick succession off of near-perfect free kicks swung into the box by Navid Mashinchi. The highlight of the half went to captain Marco Visintin, who struck a trademark free kick into the top corner of the net, sending the fans at Thunderbird Stadium into an uproar. The Thunderbirds had a 5-0 lead heading into halftime, as striker Gagan Dosanjh showed he’s ready to shoulder the scoring load for the season with two clinical strikes past the helpless Pronghorn goalie. Coach Mike Mosher made a handful of substitutions at

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Navid Mashinchi tallied a goal and three assists on the weekend, helping lead the offensive onslaught. halftime, but this had no ill effects as the offence continued to apply pressure on the Pronghorn defence. Goals from Milad Mehrabi, Reynold Stewart and Kent O’Connor finished the dis-

mantlement of the visiting Lethbridge team. UBC head coach Mike Mosher was pleased with the weekend. “Having 11 goals and none against sends a pretty good message that this team is for real and

definitely a national contender,” said Mosher after Saturday’s game. “The attacking weapons we have within this group makes it tough to get into the starting 11, though you see with the subs we had come off the bench, we

can score goals in many ways, and those goals can come from a multitude of players.” UBC goalkeeper Luke O’Shea recorded his second straight shutout to start the year, and fourth-year defender Steve Johnson was instrumental in maintaining the shape of the UBC defence with his composure, communication and strong tackling. Friday night saw the T-Birds play another sound contest, as they handily defeated Calgary 3-0. Visintin converted on a penalty shot in the 24th minute to give UBC an early 1-0 lead, and Dosanjh and Mehrabi tallied in the second half to provide the insurance. Donsanjh was a force during the entire game, drawing the foul that led to the penalty shot and adding an assist to go along with his goal. O’Shea wasn’t tested much, stopping only one shot to earn the clean sheet. The Thunderbirds embark on a brief road trip next weekend to take on the University of Fraser Valley in Abbotsford on Friday, September 14. Then they come back home on Saturday to challenge the University of Victoria. Game time is 8 p.m. at Thunderbird Stadium. U

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EDITOR ANNA ZORIA

Fringe shows highlight different ways to be human

The 28th annual theatre festival features plays about war, love and genitals Sebastian Yoh Chern Contributor

scar Wilde said, “Theatre is the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” As the days get colder and cloudier and we say farewell to the blissful days of summer, a throng of talented thespians descend upon Granville Island to entertain, inspire and charm at the annual Vancouver International Fringe Festival. What began as an East Vancouver tradition has steadily grown into a fixture on Vancouver’s event calendar. Showcasing everything from a surreal adaptation of Picasso’s work to a musical comedy about working in a restaurant, this year’s Fringe Festival shows us just how fantastically silly, or tragically cruel, humans can be. Taking advantage of Granville Island’s natural affinity for the arts, Fringe transforms the popular tourist destination into a bustling hub of condensed creativity that attracts a large and diverse audience from all over the Lower Mainland. “The real neat thing about Granville Island is the concentration of venues here,” said David Jordan, executive director of the Fringe Festival. “They’re all close together, so the audience can travel from venue to venue very easily on foot and see multiple shows in one night.” To accommodate the sheer volume of shows — 97 groups doing more than 700 performances over 11 days — Fringe has had to get creative with their venues, both on and off the island. When groups don’t get lucky in the lottery for mainstage venues, they can go the route of “Bring Your Own Venue” (BYOV), which allows them to produce their own show while remaining part of the festival lineup. “[BYOV] started in 1994 with a group from Victoria that did a

show called Louis and Dave in the parking lot of the Cultch,” said Jordan. “Since then, it’s really taken off.” Encouraged by the success of BYOV, Fringe partnered up with The Only Animal, a Vancouver performance art company, to help artists direct and produce site-specific acts on Granville Island called Fringe Onsite shows. Under the watchful eyes of their mentors, artists workshop and rehearse their way into the festival program by drawing inspiration from the island’s architecture and history. Fringe Onsite is a new and exciting way to experience theatre; audiences can watch a play under the Alder Bay Bridge or a comedy at the water park. “It’s a new chapter for us,” said Jordan. “It’s our second year doing it and it’s been really amazing to see the artists develop throughout the process.” Jordan said many of the Onsite artists are students from UBC’s department of theatre and film who responded to their call for new talent. “When we conceived the program, we wanted to engage the educational institutions around the city. We were really warmly embraced when we went to classes at UBC, so there are a lot of UBC students involved in [Fringe Onsite].” If theatre is not for you, or maybe you’re just thirsty, there’s the nightly St. Ambroise Fringe Bar and the Peter Lehmann Wines Stage, which offers free entertainment and a variety of drinks. The Wines Stage performances include DJs, musicians, short films, bad poetry, good poetry and improv. There are also a healthy handful of open-mic nights and competitions where you can flex your creative muscles. The Fringe Festival manages to stage all of this despite decreased funding to the arts from the provincial and federal government. Luckily, the festival has overcome its handicap and thrived with the

help of sponsors, donations and volunteers. “We’ve become fundraisers,” said Jordan. “We want everyone to understand we’re a charity. We’ve really just had to learn how to professionally fundraise.” Volunteers play a huge role in the festival. Aside from a small group of permanent staff guiding the operation, the majority of the staff are volunteers: ripping stubs, ushering guests, answering phones, and — a new feature this year — escorting people to shows. If you’re struggling to decide on what to see, the volunteers at the Fringe Info Centre can suggest a few shows or even watch one with you. “We’re responding to the fact that a lot of people are intimidated by the sheer volume of shows at the festival. It’s difficult to find a place to start, so we’ve enlisted five volunteers who really love the festival and love to go see shows [to help],” said Jordan. For artists, Fringe is not only an excellent way to build up a reputation; it’s a profitable one, too. One hundred per cent of the box office proceeds go towards the artists, although some have agreed to donate three per cent of their earnings to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. Additionally, Fringe takes care of advertising and some, if not all, of the technical side of production. “What we’re moving towards is being able to support artists before, during and after the festival. Onsite is the beginning of that, being able to support them in their creative phase. We’re also working on ways we can officially support them.” The festival this year is aptly named 2012: A Fringe Odyssey, alluding to the discovery of the unknown. Now bigger, better and more accessible than ever, there’s little excuse not to make a trip under the bridge for Fringe. Jump in, buckle up and prepare to explore the depths of the human mind and body. U

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Loon, a production by Portland-based troupe WONDERHEADS, tells the story of a man who falls in love with the moon.

Wondering what to see? May we reccommend these Fringe Fest standouts...

o help you tackle the daunting gauntlet of performances, we at The Ubyssey have taken it upon ourselves to suggest some.

the moon. How will he ever meet the one he loves?

God is a Scottish Drag Queen T r y not to st a re at G od’s fa ke brea st s a s he delivers a comedic, c y n ica l ser mon on Va ncouver, Ca nadia n s a nd t he world in a loud Scot t ish accent .

Loon A man with a forlorn face and a can-do attitude falls in love with

Guernica Pablo Picasso said that every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Bombs fall on a Spanish town; bodies fling themselves left and right, screaming their insecurities and secret loathing; Picasso paints his masterpiece.

Where is My Flying Car? In a world where people have pet ferrets because all the cats are gone, a robot girl is the face of a faceless corporation. Imagine

Zooey Deschanel in a Chuck Palahniukian dystopic satire. Yeah. Go see it.

How to Love: The Headphone Play A romantic play where you’re part of the action. Lines and directions are fed through a pair of headphones as the audience acts out the play. Will you be the one who falls in love?

Utopia A planet full of resources hovers above a rural town. People want it. Some kids fall in love, probably.

My Aim is True

you try to hold your breath for as long as singer Melanie Gall holds some of her notes, you may just faint; don’t do that, though, because then you’ll miss the captivating singing.

The Missing Piece Two best friends discover their love for each other after wandering away from their grad dance.

An 18-year-old girl copes with her mother’s terminal illness in this musical drama/comedy.

For showtimes, tickets and more information, visit www.vancouverfringe.com or pick up a copy of the program guide from select Blenz Coffee locations.

Gametes and Gonads

Ne Me Quitte Pas

It’s hard not to be impressed by this girthy comedy thick with genital puns.

Two singers stage an “impossible concert” by music icons Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel. If

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Welcome Back BBQ picks up after disappointing first acts Alicia Binneboese Contributor

On Friday, September 7, thousands of students put down their textbooks to kick off the year right at the annual Welcome Back BBQ. Throughout the day, MacInnes Field saw friends new and old enjoying live entertainment by Hey Ocean!, Starfucker, Morgan Page and more. The event started slow, with straggling semicircles of firstyears making awkward introductions as DJ She remixed oldies like “Another One Bites the Dust.” Things picked up with the arrival of Erica Dee and Honey Larochelle, together known as Minxy Jones. Though the turnout was limited, their music soared with a sick mix of Aretha Franklin’s soulful voice and M.I.A.’s swagger beats. But their performance was cut rather short, as the band left the stage for Wreck Beach after playing only four songs. When asked if they’d come back, Honey Larochelle said yes, but that hopefully next year they’d get a better time slot for their music to be heard. Despite the slightly bitter note that Minxy Jones left on, things began to look up as more and more people filed in. Unfortunately, the next act, Starfucker, wasn’t much to get excited about. More than anything, the four-piece band seemed like an over-extended version of MGMT,

with techno beats, pop-like lyrics and unappealing repetitiveness. While some songs worked, most were disappointing. Between acts, mainstream music pumped out from the speakers and turned the outdoor concert into something of a high school dance, with throngs of students jumping up and down to Lil Wayne, Lil Jon, Jay-Z, Soulja Boy, Wiz Khalifa and Kanye West. What may sound lame on paper turned out to be a perfect ice-breaker for first-years just getting to know each other. The night seemed to progress smoothly after that. Hey Ocean!, now a common staple at UBC events, delivered a solid performance as always, with the crowd bobbing along enthusiastically to their nautical beats. Ashleigh Ball’s vocals were creative and fun: a little of Ingrid Michaelson, but deeper and with a rock tone. But all good things must come to an end, and Morgan Page turned out to provide just the right finale for one of the biggest parties of the school year. His progressive and electric house vibes got most people in the groove to dance, and after it was all over, to continue partying elsewhere. All in all, the Welcome Back BBQ was a clamour of mingling, dancing, socializing and expanding the music library. Who wouldn’t like the sound of that on a Friday night? U PETER WOJNAR, CLAIRE MELANSON, KAI JACOBSON/THE UBYSSEY

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STUDENT VOICE. COMMUNITY REACH.

THE LAST WORD

The dangers of trendy reporting on mental health EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

by Jonny Wakefield

People like a good generational story. A big, sweeping narrative that tells us who we are and how we’ve been shaped by the world around us. They make us feel like we’re part of something bigger, and that there’s a cohesive reason for why things are the way they are. Well, this week, Maclean’s magazine decided that we’re the “broken generation.” Actually, make that #brokengeneration. The fact that Maclean’s is running with such an article now — just in time for back to school! — is revealing. It’s a “kids aren’t alright” piece that hinges on a string of suicides at Cornell University, all of which happened in 2010. We’re walked through the depression-related numbers from the National College Health Assessment, and are treated to a bunch of pictures of dead-eyed young people.

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It was then that the UBC department of philosophy futsal team realized they weren’t playing in the beer league any more.

You know what this campus really needs? A National Soccer Development Centre! When the Vancouver Whitecaps and the province unveiled last week that UBC would be the home of a $32-million National Soccer Development Centre, the immediate question was whether this deal will actually benefit the majority of UBC students. As more details are released, the answer to that still isn’t clear. This deal comes in the wake of an external review of UBC Athletics, which, among other things, criticized the university for having unclear goals for the department. For years, UBC has been turning out stellar athletes and winning national titles, but student interest in most facets of university athletics (with the exception of rec) has stagnated. What exactly should such a department be doing on a campus like UBC in the 21st century? Until recently, most university administrators wouldn’t have been able to give you much more than a shrug and a few mumbled words about “excellence.” Now the VP Students office is talking about making UBC the “healthiest campus on earth” through community athletics. A lofty goal. The review called for more students to get involved in athletics on campus, whether that’s through watching games or playing them. But this deal with the Whitecaps doesn’t create more opportunities for student involvement; in fact, it may hamper them. It’s true that three new fields will be built, but with a heavy amount of their use permanently reserved for the Whitecaps and the national team, those improvements are cancelled out for anyone who wants

to get involved in community athletics. High-performance sports at UBC will likely improve because of the new facilities. But administrators should ask themselves: is partnering with an MLS club and national team really within the scope of the university’s mandate? Or is this going to be another weird, poorly understood sideshow that doesn’t benefit the university as a whole?

Visa troubles reveal how Canada is saying one thing, doing another with international student policies So, Canada — and B.C. in particular — really wants more international students. With government funding for post-secondary education plateauing, universities really need the monetary boost from full-priced tuition paid by foreign applicants. The federal government recently put out a report about how important international students were to the higher-ed bottom line nationwide. B.C. Premier Christy Clark wants to increase the number of international students in the province by 50 per cent, and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (currently headed by UBC President Stephen Toope) just put out a document arguing that these students bring in $6.5 billion to the country every year. But the federal government’s recent spate of visa office closures and cutbacks around the world has made acquiring students a bit hard. It’s a classic case of one hand not knowing what the other hand’s doing. At UBC alone, there are over 80 international

students who were prevented from arriving this September due to visa delays. And with UBC’s plan to build an entire new training-wheels college for international students on the horizon, we can imagine that they’re feeling increasingly frustrated with Ottawa’s position on this issue. If the federal government is going to expect international students to kick in significant amounts to university budgets across the country, they had better be ready to fork out a little cash to make sure those students can actually get here.

We shouldn’t go out of our way to dehumanize rioters One of the first UBC students identified as a party to the 2011 Stanley Cup riots has been dealt two years of probation. Camille Cacnio’s sentence was softened due to her community service record and the non-judicial consequences of being the face of the riots, which included getting fired from three jobs. Some have wondered why those humanizing details matter and why we don’t punish her to the full extent of the law. While these people must be judged on the basis of their crimes, personal stories do matter. All along, what people seem to really want out of these riot cases is to punish the anonymous rioter: the one they saw on top of a car or stuffing a cloth into a gas tank. But the best possible result in this case is that the lawbreakers pay a debt to society and emerge as contrite but still contributing citizens. U

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This week, Maclean’s magazine decided that we’re the “broken generation.” Actually , make that #brokengeneration. The mental health issue on campus isn’t new. It’s one that university administrators and student politicians, not to mention friends and family, have made a huge priority. But the problem isn’t that such reporting is boilerplate. The problem is that it’s dangerous. Reporting on suicide and depression is a recurring debate within the media. In 2009, the Canadian Psychiatric Association released guidelines on how to report suicide in a way that doesn’t

encourage copycat behaviour. Discouraged practices include using the word “suicide” in the headline, giving the issue sensational, repetitive coverage and setting up simplistic narratives for why people are suicidal. Which, when you break it down, is how Maclean’s tackles this issue, even though they delve into all the additional stresses that make university students more depressed: pressure to do well, to get a job, to fund an increasingly expensive education. But the reason why “our best and brightest are so troubled” is quite simple. It’s membership in a generation: the portrait that emerges of this group of people who are trapped by who they are. Broken, as it were, by the way they were raised, their expectations and the institutions they interact with. Applying a generational narrative to anything is always imprecise. Not everyone who grew up in the sixties was a hippie, and not every Gen Xer thought it was cool to not give a fuck. Things get even messier when you try this with something as complex and personal as mental health. We’re left with the impression that this generation is helplessly adrift on some socio-political, psycho-economic morass. That, because of the challenges we face and our apparent inability to deal with things like our parents did, we’re somehow “broken.” This isn’t meant to be some kind of pep talk, or to in any way downplay mental health concerns. The article concludes with some vague line about how talking about mental health issues and organizing around them is a positive step towards reducing stigma. Absolutely. But telling a generation that their defining characteristics are depression, stress and suicidal thoughts? Yeah, that’s no way to go about it. U

Errors in UNA noise bylaw article CORRECTION The Ubyssey strives to bring you accurate reporting. But an article in last week’s issue did not fully live up to those expectations. An article in the September 6 issue of the Ubyssey, “UNA noise bylaw could affect students,” contained several errors. The article indicated that a draft noise bylaw, if implemented, would apply to UBC student residences and other buildings adjacent to, but not in, UNA neighbourhoods. We have since received information clarifying that these bylaws, in fact, only apply to activities that take place within UNA neighbourhoods. According to UNA Director Jan Fialkowski, “The bylaws apply within the boundaries of the five UNA neighbourhoods: Hampton, Hawthorne, Chancellor, Wesbrook and East Campus.” She further clarified that the bylaw would not apply to

residents of Fraser Hall, which is located within the UNA East Campus neighbourhood, because that building is operated by UBC Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS). Fialkowski said she was unsure whether or not the bylaw would apply to MBA House, which is located within the UNA Wesbrook neighbourhood and exclusively houses students but is not operated by SHHS. “MBA House is an interesting one, because I’m not sure if it [applies to] MBA House,” said Fialkowski. She added, “It’s hardly likely that the bylaw would ever be used there, because MBA House is such a quiet building anyway.” The provincial University Act, which regulates UBC’s powers over the campus, does give the UBC Board of Governors the power to enact noise bylaws that could apply to any and all areas of campus, but no such bylaws are currently in the works, according to Fialkowski. The Ubyssey regrets not bringing you the full story. U

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WORDS + PICTURES OF YOUR UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE

HACKÉDEX

HUMOUR >>

A frosh’s guide to the friend zone

YOUR UBC WORD OF THE WEEK

WHAT YOU SHOULD DO

with Dr. Bryce Warnes

Hi Bryce,

I need advice regarding relationships. Like many first-year students, sex in college is something we strive to achieve, but I want some relationship guidelines. For now, scoring is what matters, but at some point I would have to settle in a relationship. I live on campus, so it’s easy to meet girls, but I still have to go through the friend zone. My question is, WHEN DO I KNOW THAT IT’S THE RIGHT TIME TO TRY TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND HOW CAN I DO IT??? I am asking this because I don’t know how things at UBC work. Your reply means a lot. Yours faithfully, The Kid From the Other Side

Dear Kid, If you have been spending a lot of time alone with a lady and the two of you aren’t locking lips, then you are friends — or, if you prefer, you are in the friend zone. And I can’t make this any clearer: You will most likely always be friends, and nothing “more.” You can’t spend an extended period of time meeting up to do crafts and bake muffins with a member of the desired sex and then one day be like, “Hey, let’s do all the stuff we’ve

(/bôg/, abrev.)

Short for the Board of Governors. The BoG is the highest decision-making body at UBC. There are two students elected to the BoG annually, and benefits include a free iPad and an all-access parking pass to campus.

What I’m Drinking Now No, you don’t need to stop

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Stay out of the “friend zone” by being up front about your intentions from the start.

been doing so far, but with more squelching noises.” To the other person, you will seem like a sleazeball, because presumably you have felt this way all along, but hid it while you won their trust. If you want someone to be more than a pal and more than a hook-up – a combination of the two, with a little something extra – then you need to be honest from the get-go. Say you meet a girl at a party. You talk for a while and the two of you get along well. You think you’d like to hang out with this person a lot. You also want to have sex with them. What you should do is: be a gentleman. Ask her on a date. Say, “Would you like to have coffee/a beer sometime?” and if she’s like, “What, as a date?”, say “Yes.” If she says no, she probably won’t feel comfortable hanging out with you even in a platonic-buddies-kindof-way, now that she realizes you

want to jump her bones. But that’s no huge loss. After all, you just met like an hour ago. It’s not as though you’ve spent months cultivating some sort of “friendship” with her before mentioning you’d like to rub fuzzies. If she says yes, then you have a whole new set of tasks ahead of you, most of which have to do with convincing her that you are worthy BF material. Asking a pretty lady out for a root beer float might be scary, but it has the potential to lead to something totally awesome. Trying to “friend” your way into a relationship, though? In the words of Biz Markie, “C’mon, don’t even gimme that.” U Don’t know what you should do? Dr. Bryce does! Email advice@ubyssey.ca for a chance at having your personal problems solved. All submissions are entirely anonymous.

RUM

Source: That frat party you went to last night

STALE COFFEE

Source: UBC Food Services

CHEAP BEER

Source: Welcome Back BBQ