April 11, 2013

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YOUR GUIDE TO UBC EVENTS + PEOPLE

OUR CAMPUS

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THE MOST POPULAR CHANGEMAKERS FROM UBC

Sara Eftekhar I think my patients’ stories reflect the deeper story of how we treat the most vulnerable elements in our society.

Ray Hsu 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?

Emily Yakashiro First of all, I want the blog to appeal to more ages, especially for young readers like girls in high school. There are magazines and other publications nowadays that I wish I had back when I was younger.

Michael Souza My dad was, and is, a pathological gambler and spent my college fund. When I got into Davis, I didn’t have any resources to go, and so I worked in a casino for a year, right after high school.

Veronica Cho If you have a bold idea that you believe can make an impact on society and change the world, you have a responsibility. You owe it to yourself, and to everybody that could possibly be impacted by this idea of yours, to see it through or at least try.

It’s not just you anymore.

Robert Ploughman I said to myself, “My god, I’m gay, I’m done.” I realized there was something in me I had to deal with that I’ve never dealt with.

Marco Ciufolini I can take stuff and turn it into something else through chemistry? Holy smokes!

That’s what God does.

Jason Kwan He was thinking he was top gun, so I decided to practice a bit.

Frank Roberts Apparently I don’t get anything on the hot rating. That’s the only thing I can’t understand; young people must have bad eyesight.

Emily Lomax I walked in and thought, “This is the most amazing place I’ve ever seen.” I didn’t have any friends; it’s a big university. It felt like coming home and it still does. I’m here all the time.

Here’s to another year of being awesome, UBC.

—Features editor Arno Rosenfeld & managing editor, print Jeff Aschkinasi

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EDITORS WILL Mcdonald + laura rodgers

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B.C. GOVERNMENT >>

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The B.C. Liberals are confident their shared services plan will save $46 million — but the opposition isn’t so sure.

Schools mull cost-cutting plan

Andrew Bates Managing Editor, Web

As B.C.’s colleges and universities puzzle over how to deal with $46 million of funding cuts, the provincial government is trying to convince them to cozy up to each other.

The Ministry of Advanced Education is currently making proposals for post-secondary institutions to cut costs by combining services like information technology, purchasing and libraries.

But with the project still far away from implementation, some wonder whether it can save enough money to deal with $46 million in funding cuts to B.C.’s post-secondary sector over the next two years.

Called the Post-Secondary Administrative Service Delivery Project, external consultants Deloitte

NEWS BRIEFS Minister promises to tackle TransLink funding issues Transportation minister Mary Polak has created a working group to address a variety of issues plaguing TransLink, including their ongoing funding crunch.

The working group aims to create new legislation to tackle the public transit body’s many problems, including a lack of money to expand rapid transit and concerns about the accountability of their unelected board.

Polak said they hope to give the TransLink Mayors’ Council more power. The council consists of regional Lower Mainland mayors and provides some oversight to TransLink.

UBC gets high grade on making medicine affordable Universities Allied for Essential Medicines recently gave UBC the top grade among North American research universities in terms of how well its medical research helps people with neglected diseases.

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines is a group that advocates for researchers to make medicine affordable to treat people in developing countries.

UBC received an A- grade from the organization. Medical powerhouse Johns Hopkins received a B, Harvard received a B- and and most schools scored in the C to D range. U

and Touche delivered a report in February identifying opportunities for universities to cut costs by sharing services.

The report identifies three categories of opportunities — those with the clearest benefits and those easiest to implement — as saving between $38 and $83 million, not counting the $13.5–26 million they would cost to implement. Many of the opportunities revolve around purchasing; the idea is that buying things together and loading more schools onto the same contract for things like credit card payments, print services, food services, vending machines and shipping could result in more favourable rates.

“I thought it was a well-crafted report,” Oliver Gruter-Andrew, UBC’s chief information officer and representative on the project,

wrote in an email. Gruter-Andrew went on to praise the project’s tight timelines. The project began in June 2012.

Because UBC is so large, Gruter-Andrew suggested that it doesn’t have a lot to save through the program. “UBC already has critical mass and our costs are at the lower end of the possible range. This is simply a function of our size compared to most other institutions,” he wrote.

He suggested that the main benefit would be making things easier for smaller schools. “We will mostly contribute our purchasing power,... as well as our expertise and resource capacity,” he said.

“UBC gains from the strength of the whole sector.”

A budget-planning document on the University of Victoria’s website calls the project helpful.

But UVic still believes it will have to cut education programs to meet the province’s funding cuts, and it doesn’t think the program will help. They say they have already found savings that amount to 8.5 per cent of its operating budget since 2009, and asked departments on April 1 to cut a further four per cent from their budgets.

Gruter-Andrew said that while he agrees with the savings projections, there’s still a lot of work to do to find out whether or not those savings are actually possible, as well as what they’d cost to execute.

“The ranges of savings ... are subject to significant interpretation,” he said. “Achieving the target benefits will require substantial investments upfront.”

The NDP’s post-secondary critic, Michelle Mungall, wasn’t against the project, but criticized it as a way of justifying the post-secondary funding cuts. “Interesting being an ambiguous word, it was nonetheless interesting that there were some opportunities, absolutely, to save costs to the system,” she said. “Overall, an interesting component in all of this is how the Liberals have chosen to administrate this.”

Mungall said that the project is the government’s main plan on how to achieve the $46 million in cuts, even though the savings could take six years to realize.

“The reason why they’re cutting $46 million between post-secondary education is the difference between 83 and 38,” she said.

“They’re going to jam-pack it into the next two fiscal years.”

Mungall also noted that shared services have had mixed success in B.C.’s health industry. It’s a sore point among unions that make up part of the NDP’s support base, who worry that it could mean job losses for public-sector employees.

“If we’re going to proceed on this as a government, we’re going to have to be very thoughtful,” she said. “We definitely can’t steamroll ahead … because we’re talking about people’s jobs.”

SUSTAINABILITY >>

Prof questions value of AMS water filtration machines Veronika Bondarenko Staff Writer

Despite a series of recent maintenance misfires, it looks as though the Waterfillz machines that have been popping up across campus in the last three years are here to stay.

The machines, which were first brought into the Student Union Building in September 2010 for a cost of around $20,000, allow students to fill their water bottles with filtered water free of charge.

Recently, the machines have also been equipped with speakers and screens that allow the AMS to run short videos about current projects, events and initiatives related to sustainability.

But while the machines have proven popular with students over the last three years and have since been installed in the West Mall Swing Space and MacMillan buildings, recent drain blockages due to the construction of the new SUB have caused water to start leaking out of several machines on at least two occasions.

An investigation on the costs of the repairs and whether liability lies with the AMS or Waterfillz is still being conducted.

However, some have questioned the value of the machines in the first place.

Associate professor Pierre

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Some question whether the AMS’s WaterFillz machines are a smart investment.

Bérubé, who specializes in water treatment for the UBC Faculty of Engineering, explained that tap water in B.C. undergoes a stringent filtration process and is already just as clean as filtered or bottled water.

“It’s been treated already, so the usefulness of refiltering it is very questionable,” said Bérubé.

“In fact, if you read the fine print on most over-the-counter filtration systems, it says that the system is only valid if it’s being used on high-quality filtered tap water. So you have to ask yourself why you are using this product if it’s only valid or rated to be operated on a water that’s always treated.”

Accordingly, Bérubé said the Waterfillz machines are not an effective use of AMS funds.

“I think it’d be better to potentially spend funds on advocating the benefits of drinking water with respect to health or getting people to drink more water,” said Bérubé.

But AMS sustainability coordinator Justin Ritchie said the machines were brought in not to discourage students from drinking tap water, but to discourage them from purchasing bottled water.

“Though the tap water on campus is great, a study by UBC Food Service found that students weren’t filling up with bottle-

Though the original report said the decisions of the project’s nine-school committee will be binding on those nine schools, the government says that institutions will help the government develop business plans, and not every institution will be included in every project. The ministry has also confirmed that implementation won’t break existing contracts with university workers and is not expected to result in staff reductions.

Many of the job opportunities, including those related to IT operations, will go through independent bodies operated by either the government or groups of post-secondary institutions. Some of these include BCNET, which handles network services, and BCCampus, which handles research and development of software systems.

“Some of our institutional partners do see us as outsourcing, but in actuality we’re not,” said Victoria Klassen, BCCampus’s director of communications. “What we’ve worked very hard to do over the last 10 years is to make sure that whatever we built can work and integrate with ... systems that respect the autonomy of the institutions, but at the same time bring institutions together.”

BCCampus, founded in 2002 by the Liberal government as part of a pilot project for shared services in the post-secondary sector, develops IT products like ApplyBC, which attempts to streamline university and college applications, and Moodle, an opensource Learning Management System that operates like WebCT Vista. BCCampus also develops business models and practices for online learning.

“Even if there is a desire of several institutions to work together, there has to be one kind of space, one body, that has the infrastructure and the processes in place that will actually bring those institutions together,” said Klassen. “We really believe that together, we can do more than one institution can do on its own.” U neck water fillers,” said Ritchie.

“In the first month of installing the Waterfillz machines, vended bottled water sales fell 50 per cent.”

Shona Robinson is one of three students who compared the water from the Waterfillz machines with tap water on campus for Bérubé’s CIVL 562 class.

The group found that the water coming out of most Waterfillz machines, which can sometimes sit without circulation for long periods of time, contained hundreds of thousands of tiny microorganisms that, while not harmful, are not present in tap water.

That said, Robinson believes that many students may still prefer filtered water because of the taste.

“The tap water had a little chlorine left in it,” said Robinson. “Chlorine is safe and it helps keep our water safe, but some people don’t like the taste of that, so the machine does take that taste out.”

In the meantime, Ritchie expects the machines to continue running without any further problems.

“Waterfillz sent plumbers to install pressure reduction valves on each of the machines last week and we haven’t had any problems since,” said Ritchie.

“We’re still monitoring the machines closely because students have been really disappointed when the machines aren’t running.” U

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EDITOR C.J. PENTLAND

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PROFILE >>

Life after university football Star quarterback Billy Greene is faced with an uncertain future post-UBC Jonny Wakefield Coordinating Editor

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illy Greene played his last football game in late October. When I sat down with him in early April, it had been more than five months since he last suited up, threw a pass or ran the ball.

For the majority of UBC athletes, that last game comes with a sense of clarity: they know that they will probably never play the game again, at least at that level.

They’ve prepared themselves for their new reality and can move on.

But for Greene, UBC’s former star quarterback and one of the handful of athletes who have a shot at playing professionally after university, clarity is hard to come by these days. Ask Greene whether he will be able to play football again, and you get a sigh.

“I honestly don’t know,” he said. “[I’m in] absolute limbo.”

Greene, a Surrey native, is one of the most successful UBC athletes in recent memory.

Before last fall’s season, he was the top player in Canada, winning the Hec Creighton trophy for CIS MVP. He was recently named UBC’s top graduating male athlete. His performance as quarterback in 2011 propelled UBC to a six and two record, the team’s first winning season since 2004 (though the team’s record was wiped to 0-8 after the post-season for use of an ineligible player). Before Greene, the team hadn’t won a home playoff game since 1999.

Greene’s speed and physicality impressed both commentators and recruiters over his varsity career. In his five years at UBC, he passed for 49 touchdowns and a total 9,143 yards. He carried in 14 more himself, racking up more than 1,800 rushing yards in the

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Billy Greene was one of UBC’s most polarizing athletes over the past five years, but his future with football remains uncertain.

process. In 2012, he was invited to the Canadian Football League’s spring training camp. Many wondered whether Greene had

the ability to play quarterback at a professional level — something that has seemed almost impossible for a Canadian.

But while Greene’s style of play grabbed the attention of recruiters, it also made him a target in the 2012 season.

Greene’s injuries are many.

Last spring, he underwent surgery to remove a bone in his foot. He has another piece of bone floating around in his knee.

His hand is “messed up” and his shoulder is separated.

His coach for the last three years, former UBC quarterback Shawn Olson, is familiar with such pain from his own playing days, during which he led the T-Birds to their last Vanier Cup title in 1997. Whether Greene will be able to play again is an open question.

“You get a little bit more pissy or grumpy because you’re in this pain,… [these] stupid little things that are out of your control,” Olson said. “The injuries scramble up the situation in everyone’s minds.”

So Greene is in limbo. His intent is to play again. That will mean either switching positions (he’s written off the possibility of playing quarterback) or moving to play in a European league. But before any of that can happen, he has to put his body back together.

For now, Greene is staring down a year of uncertainty.

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niversity is a structured time for building expectations and identities.

Graduation, or otherwise moving on, means finally confronting those expectations and testing those identities in the unstructured, demanding world of adulthood.

For athletes who have had their identities wrapped up in sports since before they can remember, it’s an especially complicated time.

“I know there are a lot of guys each year who are kind of like, Whoa, football’s done?’ Which is obviously tough,” said Greene.

“There are guys in the past I’ve seen who are just lost. They have no idea what to do without having to go to practice, without that schedule.”

Olson said the loss of structure affects some players more than others. “Most of the time what guys miss most is not the actual football side of things. At some level it’s nice not to be sore all the time, to put yourself through these rigorous, sometimes stupid sorts of activities. But they miss the team.”

For the past few months, Greene’s life has had a different kind of structure. He spends 45 minutes of every weekday at physiotherapy in War Memorial Gym. The most painful parts of these sessions, according to Greene, take place on “the table,” where physical therapists try to poke and prod his body back into shape.

“I’ll yell when I’m on the table because it hurts a lot, but [I] want to be able to walk properly,” he said. “I don’t want to go out and make it worse and then be 40 and unable to move.”

Greene refuses to let himself become directionless. Instead, he has put a timer on his pro aspirations: 14 to 15 months of physio and training to get his body back to where it was during the 2011 season. If he can do it in that time, he has a shot at trying out for a pro team. If he can’t, he’ll move on.

In some ways, Greene is a case study for university athletics programs in Canada. Unlike the NCAA, Canadian programs don’t produce athletes who know nothing but the game. “If we’ve done our jobs well, they have parallel aspirations,” said Olson. “It’s not just football and that’s it.”

“We’re here to do school,” said Greene. “We were fortunate enough to play football, but we know there’s a life afterwards.”

If football doesn’t work out, Greene has options. He’s considered working in air traffic control — perhaps a good fit for someone who excelled at moving objects safely through the air. “I think football is something that could prepare you for that. You’re on the field and there are moving parts all over the place,” he said.

Still, he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life wondering “what if?”

Olson, who went on to play professionally in Europe, understands where Greene is at in his life, and said he will do what he can to get him back on the field.

“You’ve had all these dreams and aspirations. You’ve trained, you’ve done all of the things you think are necessary to get there,” Olson said. “At some level, you kind of just want to know. You want someone to tell you, Hey, you’re not good enough.’”

“That would give me peace of mind,” said Greene, when he read that quote. “Either you take that and say, I think I can,’ and work even harder, or you say okay and move on.”

That kind of clarity is one painful year of rebuilding away.

But for Greene, it’s still too early to talk about “lasts.” U

GREENE STATS

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9,143 passing yards

racked up by Greene over his five-year career, the most of any UBC player when only Canada West play is taken into account.

49

touchdowns thrown by Greene during his career.

1,820 rushing yards

racked up by Greene during his career.

14 touchdowns that

Greene rushed for during his career.

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BEST TEAM OF THE YEAR?

MOST DISAPPOINTING TEAM OF THE YEAR?

WHO WILL BE THE BEST TEAM NEXT YEAR?

KRIS YOUNG, JANINE FRAZAO, SHANICE MARCELLE, GAGANDEEP DOSANJH, SAVANNAH KING AND KELLY ASPINALL ALL WERE MVPS. WHO IS THE ULTIMATE MVP?

WHAT WAS YOUR FAVOURITE RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY OF THE PAST YEAR? CAN ANYTHING STOP WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL’S STREAK OF CONSECUTIVE NATIONAL TITLES?

WHAT SHOULD BE THE SLOGAN OF UBC THUNDERBIRD SPORTS?

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JEFF ASCHKINASI

C.J. PENTLAND

ANDREW BATES

ARNO ROSENFELD

FORMER ATHLETE TURNED OLD MAN.

WATCHES A LOT OF SOCCER AND, WELL, MORE SOCCER.

AMERICAN, CAPITALIST, CHRISTIAN. PROUD TO BE RIGHT!

This is like trying to decide which Sedin brother is better.

Well, I can’t choose just one, so women’s volleyball is 1A and men’s soccer is 1B. Their opponents were helpless.

Men’s soccer really impressed for its total domination of the CIS field. I was duly shocked that not only would nobody be able to beat them, but nobody would come close.

Men’s hockey for standing strong in the face of adversity.

To be able to stare down militant feminism and come out stronger for it should be applauded.

UBC’s soccer teams are in a class of their own. Look at their stats against the other CIS teams. They are depressingly good.

Women’s hockey. My roommate claims to have cried when she found out they went to nationals, so I take it that this was a #BFD.

Football was an obvious letdown, but it sucked seeing men’s volleyball not qualify for nationals. They were ONE point away, but they couldn’t do it.

I wanted more from men’s hockey, to be honest; they had the promise. I’m also really disappointed that it was another year where Janine Frazao didn’t win it all.

Women’s hockey.

Football had a great season last year and didn’t live up to that this season.

FOOTBALL. I’m not going to lie, this is like one of three sports at UBC that I have any semi-vested interest in. I mean, they were so close to the playoffs and lost it.

I’m going with a wild card and choosing women’s soccer.

They have a new coach and several players in their fifth year who want to leave on top.

I was really impressed with the young players on the men’s basketball team, and this year’s nationals trip can only galvanize them further.

I’m more of a Clan fan myself.

My money’s on the men in white. Go SFU!!

I’m going to rule out the teams who always win gold medals and say that the women’s hockey team will show that this year was no fluke.

UBC Wresting. They’re like that ugly stepchild of varsity athletics that might get the chance to go to the big leagues next year.

Dosanjh is one of the most electric players that I’ve ever seen play soccer. Without him, UBC men’s soccer probably wouldn’t have won national gold.

Gagan Dosanjh. After a disappointing 2011-12 season, he rebounded to become a true leader on the pitch, generate endless effort and help power the team’s victory at nationals.

I’d weigh Michael Vick against Barry Bonds, but Mike’s whole animal abuse thing makes him hard to stand behind, so it’s Barry FTW. No, in all seriousness, it is Marshawn Lynch.

Janine Frazao scored 13 goals in 12 games and set the new Canada West record for most career goals. Honourable mention to two-time Olympian Savannah King, though.

I think that Savannah was in the Olympics, so she seems prett y badass (a.k.a. MVPworthy).

Wandering throughout the libraries and trying to find an open table.

Biking to work. Cheaper than a bus pass! Until my tire popped, and I thought that the Bike Kitchen was closed due to all of the construction.

Haven’t gotten out to the ice yet, but I hear seal clubbing is a blast!

Versus, the zombie battle thing. It just looked really cool.

Day of the Longboat. While many of The Ubyssey’s teammates were too hungover to attend the event, the survivors got brunch. That’s right, Sunday motherfucking brunch.

The team plays with their feet.

Actually no, they’d still win doing that.

Forcefield. (Maybe. If a forcefield loses power every time it’s hit, it can last, what, five hits from Shanice Marcelle?)

I think the bigger question is, “Is there anything that can make people care about women’s sports?”

When the CIS abolishes the competition because there’s just no point anymore.

Having ugly shoes. Seriously, I bet that men’s volleyball wouldn’t fly with ugly shoes.

(If so, I’m disappointed with your shoe blog, Jarrid.)

Be warned: even our women’s hockey team is legit now.

You Can Only Expect Like A Hundred People For These Things.

The future will be better tomorrow.

“Kill! Maim! Destroy!” Not that it should be actually their ethos. I just think it would really intimidate the opposition.

I think that UBC Athletics should support a viral video campaign emphasizing their amazing — yet depressingly under-utilized — hashtag, #gobirdsgo.

COLIN CHIA DOES SPORTS THINGS ON CAMPUS

WHEN HE GOES TO A GAME, HE’LL TWEET ABOUT IT. #GOBIRDSGO

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YEAR IN REVIEW

CLASS OF CONSTRUCTION

UNIVERSITIES JO FOR POSITION AH PROVINCIAL ELEC

A TUMULTUOUS YEAR FOR UBC UNIONS

THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF THE SIGMA SAGA

UBC GETS CREATIVE TO FILL THE FUNDING GAP

A BANNER YEAR F T-BIRD ATHLETIC

TOOPE ANNOUNCES PLAN TO STEP DOWN

PR PROBLEMS PL HEADLESS ATHLE DEPARTMENT

AN UPSWING IN ENGAGEMENT?

BIEKSA AND UBC JOY TO HUNGRY H FANS

2012–2013

Standout stories For some editorial boards, UBC can be a boring place to cover. Change at universities comes at a glacial pace, scandals are few and far between, and students come and go so quickly that it’s hard to get any major projects moving forward. 2012-13, though, was one for the books. Our reporters covered strikes, social media snafus, election scandals and a departing university president.

So how to choose the top stories in a year like this one? Lots of arguing, that’s how. We looked for stories that will have a far-reaching impact, that were a real sign of the times, that captivated students. After much debate, we finally came to a consensus on the top 10 UBC stories of the academic year.

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10. Bieksa and UBC bring joy to hungry hockey fans

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The NHL lockout was a bad time for a lot of people. Fans were disappointed, businesses lost revenue and charities saw their donations dry up. But thanks to the efforts of Vancouver Canucks defenceman Kevin Bieksa and several of his “Buddies,” all that was forgotten for one night in October. In front of a sold-out crowd at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, several Vancouver Canucks took on the UBC men’s hockey team, who they had been practicing with and mentoring during the lockout.

The game proved to offer almost everything that the lockout had taken away. Bieksa and co. came from behind to defeat the T-Birds 8-7, capping off an exciting game where both sides showed talent. Ticket proceeds raised $100,000 for three Vancouver charities, and that total was then matched by singer Michael Bublé, making the total for the entire night $200,000. Thanks to Bieksa, something good came out of the NHL lockout.

9. PR problems plague headless athletics department Despite the success of the varsity teams, the athletics department itself weathered a number of public scandals this year.

Two minor drug-test suspensions tested the department’s already-frayed reputation for being able to comply with Canadian Interuniversity Sport rules. Then, in December, the department fast-tracked a former Langara coach to head the women’s soccer team. People raised a stink because they passed over Angela Reid, a former Canadian national team captain, and the department ended up retracting the hire one day later because they didn’t follow the rules. They eventually hired Reid.

Then there was the Dime Watch scandal, where UBC athletes were alleged to be behind an anonymous Twitter account that tweeted voyeuristic photos of women without their consent.

All this came during a time when universities were trying to figure out where athletics fit in their public missions. UBC has begun the process of revamping its own programs after the departure of long-time director Bob Phillip. Next year will mean a lot of change for the department, but hopefully it will be quieter on the PR front.

8. A banner year for T-Bird athletics UBC teams have won 87 CIS championships in school history — by far the most of any Canadian school. At this point, UBC teams are expected to do well. But this year saw Thunderbird squads perform in a way that few had before. A total of six teams won national championships over the past year (men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, women’s swimming, women’s cross-country, women’s field hockey and women’s golf), and they did it in impressive style.

Men’s soccer and women’s field hockey both had undefeated seasons, women’s swimming won by 143.5 points at nationals and women’s volleyball finished the season on a 25-game winning streak to capture their sixth straight national title.

In addition, six teams won Canada West championships. One of those conference-winning teams

was women’s hockey, a team who had won only one game the previous season, but orchestrated the greatest turnaround in CIS history to finish fifth in the country. With six players awarded MVP honours and five coaches winning top coach accolades, UBC showed that its athletic program is arguably the best in Canada.

7. The agony and the ecstasy of Kappa Sigma Stories involving fraternities always get a lot of attention on campus. Whether people love or hate the Greek system, hearing that a fraternity has been shut down for “code of conduct violations” garners a lot of interest. The chapter had a few months to appeal the decision to its national office.

During that time, both chapter members and the national office kept silent about the infractions that caused the chapter to be shut down, leading some students to assume they did far worse things than host a kegger.

The chapter successfully appealed the decision and was allowed to start back up on campus — with some serious fun-killing provisions. Almost three quarters of the chapter’s members were either kicked out or decided to leave of their own accord. No drinking is allowed in the chapter house, and all members have to do additional community service.

6. Universities jockey for position ahead of provincial election Universities have asked for some big-ticket items in the lead-up to this May’s provincial election.

The promise — or spectre — of power changing hands in the provincial legislature hung heavy over this year at UBC. Universities across the province yelled out their hopes for increased provincial spending on funded student spaces, grants for low-income students and research dollars. And the NDP — which is poised to take power this spring — kept doggedly criticizing the B.C. Liberals post-secondary record. What’s more, the NDP announced a fat promise of $100 million in grants for low-income students.

The Liberals, for their part, turned the advanced education portfolio from an afterthought to a crater. After a revolving door of ministers in charge of universities and colleges, John Yap — who was also in charge of multiculturalism — found himself implicated in a scandal that saw taxpayer money being spent on partisan campaigning.

The ministry was promptly shuffled off to a junior minister who’s also in charge of seniors’ issues, and chances are slim the party will give any thought to post-secondary issues in its platform.

5. An upswing in engagement?

It’s hard to measure something as ephemeral as “student engagement,” but by some accounts, it’s on the upswing.

People have long recognized that UBC students don’t have an attachment to campus outside of class. This year, we’ve seen both top-down and grassroots efforts to address the problem.

Perhaps the most notable initiative has been UBC’s switch to broad-based admissions. Instead of focusing solely on grades and academic performance, admissions officials now take personal essays into account. UBC is trying

to send a message to prospective students: we want people who are interesting, not just academically focused.

The class of 2016 was the first cohort to be admitted through broad-based admissions, so the sample size is obviously too small to draw any conclusions. But we’ve seen a few promising signs that students are getting more involved on campus. This year, we saw a record turnout in the AMS elections. A dude with a website and a few T-shirts got hundreds of students out to parties. A concert on a rainy day in April sold out. Maybe we’re grasping for examples, but something about campus this year felt more alive.

It’s still too early to say, but if things go well, UBC might end up being a place that students actually want to engage with.

4. President Stephen Toope announces his plan to step down Earlier this month, UBC President Stephen Toope announced that he will be stepping down from his post early in summer 2014.

Toope’s legacy at UBC is an interesting one. He didn’t exactly carve out a unique vision, but he was hugely successful in seeing others’ dreams for UBC through.

He helmed a school that was already on a clear trajectory from a very good provincial institution to a globally relevant research powerhouse. And he somehow managed to continue that trajectory through troubling economic times.

Toope wasn’t a towering, beloved figure like famed previous president Walter Gage, but he avoided the deeply polarizing indifference of his immediate predecessor, Martha Piper.

At a time when budget pressures pushed UBC to act more like a business, Toope’s deep roots in his academic field (international human rights law) kept some focus on the university’s first mission: academic progress.

And the way he flaunted and treasured those roots made his departure, two years before the end of his second five-year term, easier to understand. It really is plausible that he wants to spend more time with legal texts and less with budget spreadsheets.

His record isn’t without its controversies — the quickening pace of for-proft campus development under his reign rankled sedate and radical student groups alike. And some questioned his tendency to pander to university rankings rather than average students.

But in the end, Toope kept the lights on — and kept this university moving forward.

3. UBC gets creative to fill the funding gap This year, UBC discovered it could be up to $2.5 million short on next year’s budget. To make up for the shortfall, UBC had to get creative to find new sources of revenue.

A lot of that extra money will be coming from two new academic programs: the bachelor of international economics and the Bridge to UBC. Both of these programs were controversial from the start. While UBC presented the new econ degree as a boutique program for international recognition, it came with a hefty price tag. It was originally set at $10,000 per year for domestic students and $29,000 per year for international students, but after opposition from several student groups, the tuition was cut to $7,670 per year for domes-

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tic students and $26,939 per year for international students.

The Bridge to UBC also comes with its challenges. While it is being presented as a way to increase the diversity on campus by bringing in bright students who may not meet UBC’s English language requirements, some wonder if it is just a money grab to pad UBC’s budget.

Controversy aside, UBC has set a new precedent for boutique programs on campus in its efforts to create a balanced budget.

2. A tumultuous year for UBC labour UBC students got a real life lesson in labour politics this past fall. The university faced tight budgets due to empty provincial coffers, and unionized workers felt choked by the high cost of living in Vancouver. At least five unions were negotiating for new contracts this academic year, and many of those negotiations boiled over into strikes.

The union representing a bevy of workers on campus, including maintenance, IT, security and other service workers, went on strike first. By the time they had their deal, TAs walked off the job, and the newly unionized AMS Security workers also took job action while trying to reach their first collective agreement.

After the dust settled, child care workers filed strike notice before reaching a deal.

In the end, UBC found ways to reach deals under the province’s cooperative gains mandate, which allows for wage increases through savings found elsewhere.

But workers only made these gains by exercising their right to strike.

1. A class of construction When UBC talks about “campus community,” it’s accompanied by soft piano music and aerial photos of old-growth forest. But what ultimately brings a community together is not so much high-minded appeals from the powers that be, but the crap people have to deal with on a dayto-day basis.

This year, that crap has been construction. In the summer, we wrote a feature about the forthcoming changes to UBC’s landscape. The new SUB is the most obvious project, followed by upgrades to Main Mall and University Boulevard. And that’s just the beginning; stay tuned for ground breaking on the Alumni Centre and the new Aquatic Centre on McInnes Field, as well as upgrades to the UBC Bookstore.

We described the next five years as the “Class of Construction,” and the name stuck.

The construction struck a populist nerve. For one, it’s inconvenient. Student griped loudly on social media about encountering blue fences on their way to class. Some went as far as to post signs on the fences, one of which read, “Gimme my goddamn campus back.”

But more fundamentally, all this capital spending is taking place in a time when universities are being asked to cut back and “find efficiencies,” and when the affordability of education is of increasing concern. While UBC’s operating grant and capital spending are two very different things, most folks have had trouble reconciling the two.

All these new buildings will be lovely when they’re completed.

But now, people just see the campus they love disappearing behind yellow tape. U

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YEAR IN REVIEW 2012–2013

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Standout people

The Ubyssey doesn’t select a “person of the year.” But in every school year, on any campus, there are people who deserve to be recognized. We’ve selected eight people who stood out in 2012-13.

KIRAN MAHAL

DAVID FARRAR

NASSIF GHOUSSOUB

In the past, many student government executives fell on either side of a simple dichotomy: either they were strident rabble-rousers, angrily railing against the establishment, or they were meek shills out for personal gain, student interests be damned. The scarily competent Kiran Mahal, an AMS vice-president academic who recently started her second term, blasted apart this easy categorization.

She made change. And she didn’t make it by impotently yelling at powerful people from outside the door. Her advocacy was polished, professional and meticulously researched — and when she met with powerful people at UBC, they listened.

Along with various student groups, she spearheaded the effort to lower the tuition fees for the new bachelor of international economics. If UBC hadn’t backed down, students taking the new degree would’ve been gouged. She led the charge on re-implementing an exam database and got buy-in from the UBC Senate. She collected a wide-ranging survey on students’ concerns, helped create midterm teaching evaluations and did actual, meaningful work on mental health issues.

Mahal reminded us how effective measured, focused advocacy can be when it’s wielded by someone who knows what she’s doing.

Various UBC administrators embarked on a number of scary plans recently. But one of the scariest was UBC’s decision to leave the licensing firm Access Copyright and set out independently — a move championed by David Farrar, UBC’s provost and vice-president academic.

After a period of waffling, Farrar didn’t mince words when he announced UBC’s decision to leave Access Copyright once and for all. He said only a few institutions in Canada were going to follow UBC’s lead — he could “count them on one hand” — and he said he believed UBC “would be the largest finger on that hand” — a subtle, academic way of saying screw you to Access Copyright.

But it was Farrar’s actions, not his arch comments, that made him important this year.

Though there were initial hiccups, UBC’s local copyright-vetting office is now up and running. Doing things internally rather than relying on Acess Copyright to pay authors for their work has resulted in million-dollar savings. Twenty-five other schools also left Access Copyright, including most major research universities.

And a recent Supreme Court decision widening what can be copied for free under “fair use” law soundly vindicated UBC’s decision.

Copyright law has never been a particularly attention-grabbing topic. But if there was ever a time to pay attention to it, it was this year, when Farrar and UBC set a precedent that will be important for years to come.

The phrases “bespectacled math prof” and “hell-raiser” aren’t often seen in the same sentence, but there’s no better way to describe Nassif Ghoussoub. He has been the elected faculty representative on the UBC Board of Governors, UBC’s most powerful decision-making body, for over five years now. In that time, he has walked a fine line of critiquing the actions of UBC’s administration while looking out for the university’s best interests.

It has been a productive year for Ghoussoub. He pushed through UBC’s housing action plan, an attempt to address the problem of attracting world-class faculty to one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets. He has picked fights with NSERC, the federal agency in charge of research grants, for cutting money to graduate research programs.

And he’s been an outspoken voice for democratizing university governance, since UBC’s Board of Governors is largely appointed by the province, not elected.

We can only hope that Ghoussoub’s eventual successor brings the same energy to the position.

ROB MORTON

IAN CAMPBELL

TEAM CANADA

Earlier in this issue, we mentioned that “a dude with a website and a few T-shirts” started organizing parties for UBC students.

That dude is Rob Morton.

It seems that every year, a debauchery-inclined group of students realizes that good parties at UBC are few and far between, and sets out to do something about it. Usually, these efforts peter out around midterms and are never heard of again.

There’s a veritable graveyard of inactive “UBC Party” Facebook groups, left to stand as a monument to the difficulties of getting kegs of beer and UBC students in the same room.

But Morton’s UBC Party Calendar aggregator has had staying power. Morton and his crew have been visible at every major campus event, pushing the site and their parties through savvy social media promotion. They partnered with a number of campus groups (including, for the sake of disclosure, The Ubyssey ) for cross-promotion, with generally positive results.

People used to talk about a War on Fun at UBC — a combination of restrictive liquor licensing and policing that makes it hard to throw parties — but it seems the term has fallen out of use. It’s good to see that a well-organized group like Morton’s is carrying the fight forward.

Outgoing Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) president Ian Campbell has achieved a lot for students during his career in both the EUS and on AMS Council.

This year, he did something that will affect students in multiple faculties for years to come. Campbell led the negotiations with UBC on the contract for the new Engineering Student Centre. The contract gives students more control of the space than the agreement that Faculty of Science students approved for the Abdul Ladha building. Although the Faculty of Engineering dean will have the final say on events in the building, students will still maintain a great deal of control over the space.

The deal will not only affect the engineers. It sets the basis for the governance of any future student spaces. In January, the Arts Undergraduate Society approved a fee for a new student space, and Sauder students are considering a new building as well. They will look to the EUS’s example for contracts in their new buildings.

UBC student-athletes Savannah King, Tera Van Beilen and Heather MacLean were on top of the world last summer while competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, but after coming back to school they did not slow down. The trio dominated the CIS once again, helping the Thunderbirds win their second straight CIS championship. King was named CIS Female Swimmer of the Year for the second year in row after winning three gold medals and one bronze at the national finals; Van Beilen won a gold, a silver and two bronzes; and MacLean racked up two silvers. This summer will also see King and Van Beilen head to Barcelona to represent Canada at the World Swimming Championships.

In addition to their prowess in competitive swimming, all three found time to give back to the sport in 2013. The three helped out with a program founded by former UBC swimmer Hayley Pipher to offer swimming lessons to African students.

And, of course, they accomplished all of this while staying on top of their classes.

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In the margins of history LITERATURE >>

Discovering the stories within stories at Irving K. Barber’s exhibit of rare books Rhys Edwards senior Culture Writer

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ou find an old textbook opened to the front page.

Scrawled in the margins, instead of the usual formulae, notes and doodles, you find dozens of beautifully penned, seemingly arcane words. In slender cursive, they suggest an alchemical recipe of some kind, and come complete with a diagram: a nude man and woman engaged in some kind of esoteric ritual.

No, you haven’t chanced upon a book once owned by a devious magician. The markings are actually the scrawlings of several bored 18th-century schoolboys — and that illustration is more salacious than it is inspired.

This juvenile graffiti reflects how books are transformed by their users, which is the subject of Problems of Provenance , an exhibition currently on display at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Each book in the collection features unusual markings, modifications and additions that allude to past owners.

“These books have more than one story to tell,” said Sarah Hillier, curator of the exhibit and graduate student in the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. “One [story] expressed by the content contained within their pages, and a second, more hidden story about their custodial history that may shed light on the context of their production and how owners interacted with them.”

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cludes books one might otherwise find in a bibliophile’s dream, such as a 1688 printing of Milton’s Paradise Lost, a book of Greek poetry signed by Lord Byron and a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland signed by none other than Alice Hargreave, who was the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s titular character.

Many students may be surprised to learn that the Rare Books and Special Collections Library hosts these exhibitions — or even that the library exists.

Located in the basement of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the library is UBC’s main repository for unique archival materials. In addition to books, it is home to thousands of historical artifacts, including posters, maps and photo collections.

You won’t see any of these items upon entering the library, however.

“I’ve actually heard students refer to us as the library with no books,’ because our collections are completely sequestered,” said Sarah Romkey, an archivist working for the library. “They’re all behind the scenes in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vault.”

Given the fragile nature of the collection, all visitors are required to put away any personal belongings before entering. Also, unlike other libraries, you can’t take these books home with you.

“There’s a bit of an intimidation factor just in getting through the doors because of these restrictions,” said Romkey. “But once you’re here, we want people to know that we’re here to sup<em>

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port your research, we’re here to support your studies and we want you to feel comfortable and confident in your use of rare and archival sources.”

Although the library’s collection emphasizes materials from British Columbia, it is continually increasing in scope. From ancient theological texts from the Vatican Library to Douglas Coupland’s private letters, there is an eclectic range of material that caters to both professional scholars and students.

“When you’re exposed to this kind of material all of the time,... sometimes you can become a bit jaded to it,” said Romkey. “And then once in a while you have to step back and step out of your shoes and say, Wow, this is really amazing. This is a book that was published in the 1600s,’ or, This is a photograph of a community in British Columbia that doesn’t exist anymore.’”

The temporary exhibits, meanwhile, aren’t just a way for student curators to gain experience; they’re also meant to expose others to novel ways of thinking about books, libraries and archives.

“Understanding this history and seeing the physical evidence of ownership brings the books to life,” said Hillier, on the subject of Problems of Provenance . “For me, this is magical, and I wanted to share this with others.” U <em>

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You might be surprised what treasures can be found in the rare books collection.

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INVESTIGATION >>

Getting that green UBC’s partnership with a ‘green’ construction company from China was hailed as a new era of sustainability for the university. But behind the scenes, UBC took millions from Modern Green and accomodated the company’s private development goals, Alexandra Smith reports.

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hen Modern Green, one of China’s largest property developers and a leading specialist in green development, formed a “strategic partnership” with UBC in 2011, the news was greeted with the boosterism typical of university deals.

But according to documents provided to The Ubyssey by Neal Yonson of the now-defunct UBC Insiders website, Modern Green and UBC engaged in some unusual practices behind the scenes that brought millions of dollars to UBC and a lucrative development deal for the Chinese company.

The partnership entailed a $3.5 million donation from Modern Green to the Centre for Institutional Research on Sustainability (CIRS), UBC’s sustainable building initiative. The developer also formed a research partnership with the university, giving Modern Green a partner to test and deploy green building technologies, as well as opportunities for personnel and student exchanges for experiential learning and research. These opportunities include a graduate student internship in Beijing funded by Modern Green, which is set to begin this summer.

“This partnership helps place UBC and Modern Green at the forefront of sustainable initiatives,” UBC President Stephen Toope said at the time.

Featuring a rainwater collection system, a solar-powered hot water system and a living roof and wall, the CIRS was billed as the greenest building in North America when it opened in the fall of 2011.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson even complimented the initiative. “Modern Green’s investments will help stimulate the local economy and job growth, as they continue to engage a number of local firms and build expertise by implementing new, greener building technologies,” he said at the time.

Shortly after making the donation to the CIRS, Modern Green undertook plans to build an environmentally friendly residential structure in UBC’s new Wesbrook Village. The project was a private, for-profit undertaking and the company received a development permit on June 1, 2012.

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tions, which go through UBC’s development office in charge of fundraising, Modern Green’s $3.5 million contribution was processed through UBC Properties Trust. The Properties Trust is a private corporation owned by the university. Its main role is to acquire, manage and develop the university’s real estate assets, earning revenue for UBC and the UBC Foundation.

Why did Modern Green send its multi-million dollar donation to the institution managing Wesbrook Village, where it planned to build its residential structure?

“They call it a donation but really it’s a contribution,” Don Matheson, CFO of UBC Properties Trust, said in an interview. “There was no donation receipt given. It was a contribution.”

Matheson said the trust volunteered to tie the donation to Modern Green’s lease at Wesbrook Village, where the company wanted to build a residential structure. Modern Green’s payments on the lease were set to be made over the course of three years, so by accepting Modern Green’s donation, UBC Properties Trust would have something fall back on if Modern Green reneged on their lease payments.

“It’s a way of securitizing the payments because they’re not taking it all at once, they are paying it over three years. You want to have some security knowing that they are going to make the payments, so we said, Let’s tie it to the lease.’

That’s why we’re involved,” said Matheson.

Matheson clarified that when UBC Properties Trust receives the donation, it immediately turns the money over to UBC’s development office.

But the timing of Modern Green’s contribution to the Properties Trust coincides with changes in UBC’s campus development plan made to accommodate the developer. Soon after Modern Green made the donation, the height restrictions in the South Campus Neighbourhood Plan were amended to allow construction of Modern Green’s six-storey residential tower.

The South Campus Neighbourhood Plan is a document setting out regulations and policies for

development in Wesbrook Village.

The initial plan was adopted in December 2005 and incorporated elements from UBC’s Land Use Plan, a document that establishes land use and provides policies and development criteria for UBC campus. The old South Campus Neighbourhood Plan generally restricted building heights to four storeys.

The contribution agreement between Modern Green and the university was signed in early December 2010. On Jan. 13, 2011, the Land Use Plan was amended to increase building heights to six storeys. On March 28, 2011, Modern Green applied for a permit to build a six-storey residential tower in South Campus. Following their application, the South Campus Neighbourhood Plan was amended, and building height restrictions were increased to six storeys; Modern Green’s structure could now be approved.

While it may seem that the South Campus Plan was simply amended to agree with the Land Use Plan, not all of the University Neighbourhood Plans were amended. Two years later, the University Boulevard Neighbourhood Plan, for instance, has still not been amended. But neither did a developer seeking to build a commercial development in the University Boulevard area make a $3.5 million “contribution” to UBC. Richard Fisher, chief communications officer for UBC development and alumni relations, said in an email, “At no time during the development permit or the plan amendment process was the donation a factor in reviewing the development proposal received by Campus and Community Planning.”

It is clear, though, that the changes to the South Campus Plan were explicitly made to accommodate Modern Green.

Joe Stott, director of UBC Campus and Community Planning, said that in regard to the South Campus Neighbourhood Plan, “We had an active application for a development permit from Modern Green, so there was some priority in making sure the Neighbourhood Plan was in alignment with the Land Use Plan. There was no active application for housing at University Boulevard to respond to.” U

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Thank you for a great year from The Ubyssey’s 2012-13 editorial board More than 200 of you contributed articles, photos, videos, layouts, drawings or general good times to this year’s paper. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Adam Feibel, Adeeb Tawseef, Alanna Mackenzie, Alba Ng, Alex Dodd, Alexandra Smith, Alexis Sogl, Alice Chen, Alicia Binneboese, Alina Anghel, Alvin Yu, Andrew Bates, Andrew Hood, Angela Holubowich, Anna Ou, Anna Zoria, Anna-Lilja Dawson, Anne-Marie Long, Annie Ju, April Hudson, Arman Kazemi, Arno Rosenfeld, Aron Rosenberg, Arshy Mann, Astrid Tentorio, Ben Chen, Brandon Chow, Brenna Fynes, Brian Horstead, Bruce Chen, Bryan Sandberg, Bryce Warnes, Bryn Becker, Catherine Guan, Catherine Lai, Catherine Rawn, Catherine Salinas, Chantal Lyon Stevenson, Charles Menzies, Charlie Tilstra, Cheneil Hale, Chloe Bocker, Chloe Williams, Chris Lane, Christine Thian, Christopher Cheung, CJ Pentland, Clay Coffman, Colin Chia, Collyn Chan, Connor Thorpe, Coral Kasirer, Cynthia Chou, Daniel Millerd , Danielle Piper, Darryl Gallinger, Daryl Hofman, David Marino, David Penco, Donald Wang, Elba Gomez Navas, Elisabeth Piccolo, Elizabeth Hames, Elspeth Malcolm, Emilie Warren, Emily Burton-Brown, Emily Olesen, Emma Windsor-Liscombe, Erik Coates, Erin May, Faiza Mirza, Garricia Lee, Geoff Lister, Ginny Monaco, Gordon Katic, Grayson Reim, Greg Ursic, Haig Basmadjian, Hannah Goddard-Rebstein, Harveer Athwal, Henry Lebard, In Hye Lee, Ivana Litaveez, Jack Agopian, Jane Jun, Janet Tse, Jeff Aschkinasi, Jeff Cho, Jeremy Brian Avery, Jessica Dawson, Jillian Fung, Jillian James, Joan Tan, Joe Johnson, Johannah Cramer, Jonny Wakefield, Jordan Irwin, Jordan Mowat, Jordan Sawchuk, Joseph Ssettuba, Josh Curran, Joshua Beharry, Joshua Decolongon, Julia Browne, Julian Legere, Justin Fleming, Kaavya Lakshmanan, Kai Jacobson, Kaitlyn Tissington, Kamil Somaratne, Karina Palmitesta, Katelyn Verstraten, Katie Coopersmith, Katja De Bock, Kayi Wong, Kim Pringle, Kit Sauder, Kiyan Abhari, Kristen McEwen, Kristine Wilson, Kurtis Lockhart, Kyle Warwick, Laura Janara, Laura Pfeister, Laura Rodgers, Lauren Dixon, Lawrence Neal Garcia, Linda Peng, Linhui Li, Lisa Anderson, Ludmila Andréa, Lydia Adeli, Madeline Rigg, Maitrayee Dhaka, Mallorie Davies, Marilla Steuter-Martin, Marion Benkaiouche, Matisse Emanuele, Matt Meuse, Matthew Guité, Meriha Beaton, Mia Steinberg, Michael Oeckel, Michelle Mark, Micki Cowan, Mike Davies, Ming Wong, Mustafa Akhtar, Nassif Ghoussoub, Natalya Kautz, Nathan Smith, Nic Roggeveen, Nicholas Gorgopa, Nicole Yeh, Noah Lidell, Nolan Matthews, Olivia Etey, Omar Shariff, Paul Bogdan, Paul Bucci, Pavla Tan, Prabhi Deol, Priyanka Hariharan, Quinn Aebi, Raul Arambula, Raul Pacheco-Vega, Rebecca Clarkson, Rebekah Ho, Reyhana Heatherington, Rhys Edwards, Riana Ang-Canning, Riley Tomasek, Ripan Hans, RJ Reid, Rory Gattens, Sara Amadi, Sarah Bigam, Sarah Bigam , Sean Brady, Sebastian Yoh Chern, Shandi Shiach, Shane Belbin, Sharan Rai, Shoshanna Hereld, Sidney Hryciuk, Spencer Toffoli, Sruthi Tadepalli, Stephanie Xu, Sunny Thorne, Tagh Sira, Tarana Rana, Tia Low, Tiffany Law, Ting Kelly, Trisha Bernardo, Tristan Miller, Tyler McRobbie, Vaughn Brakhage, Veronika Bondarenko, Veronika Khvorostukhina, Will McDonald, Zac Davis, Zafira Rajan