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UBC’S OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER | OCTOBER 15, 2012 | VOLUME XCIV| ISSUE XIII
THERE’S AN APPLE FOR THAT Newly bred apple among 77 varieties featured in annual festival P8
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THE UBYSSEY
OUT IN THE
SWEET SORROWS Unrequited love takes a tragic turn onstage in The Sorrows of Young Werther P8
COLD With no plans to improve Broadway service, TransLink’s 10-year plan looks bleak for UBC students P4
STAYIN’
ALIVE
UBC rolls over Regina and remains in the running for the playoffs P5
BACK TO
BARGAINING CUPE 116 and UBC resume talks, but disagreements persist P3
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 |
YOUR GUIDE TO UBC EVENTS + PEOPLE
What’s on Tue 1215
OUR CAMPUS
THIS WEEK, MAY WE SUGGEST...
NEW SUB >>
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ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC
MONDAY
New SUB Sustainability Art Showcase: 12 p.m.–1:30 p.m. @ the SUB
There will be four sculptures on display in the SUB all week. A mechanical tree, floating gardens, an interactive hourglass and clouds that generate light are all in competition for a spot in the new SUB. Free. Tue 1216
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BIKES >>
TUESDAY
THEATRE >>
WEDNESDAY
Purple and Yellow Volunteer Night: 6–9 p.m. @ the Bike Kitchen Have you ever wanted to fix your own chain? Or perhaps be that awesome stranger that can help people change a tire on the side of the highway? Come learn at the bike co-op volunteer night! Tue 1218
GENDER >> The Sorrows of Young Werther: 7:30 p.m. @ Frederic Wood Theatre Based on the novel of the same name by Goethe, this stage adaptation is the second show of Theatre at UBC’s season. Come for a modern twist on this tragic tale of unrequited love. Tickets $10-22.
Who needs feminism?: 12–2 p.m. @ the SUB What does feminism mean to you? Come out to the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Undergraduate Student Association’s event to discuss your personal experiences with feminism and social justice.
BZZR >>
FRIDAY
Superhero Beer Garden: 8 p.m.–12 a.m. @ MASS Dress up like your favourite superhero and have a drink with other superheroes. Let all your weird Wonder Woman/ Superman fantasies come to life. Tickets $2. Drinks $2. 19+.
Got an event you’d like to see on this page? Send your event and your best pitch to printeditor@ubyssey.ca.
This Week at The Norm Wednesday 5–Sunday 21 To Rome with Love: 7 p.m. Take This Waltz: 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $5 for students, $2.50 for FilmSoc members. Learn more at UBCfilmsociety.com!
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Handfield helms art gallery Sarah Bigam Contributor
THURSDAY
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Kathleen Handfield is constructing a bright future for the AMS Art Gallery.
Kathleen Handfield has found an unexpected home at the AMS Art Gallery. “The gallery’s never closed. [I] live here, essentially,” said Handfield, who is the commissioner of the gallery. “It’s lots of work. But fun work.” Handfield explained that she initially got into art history because “two of my friends had gone [into art history] and they absolutely loved it.” As commissioner, Handfield manages the space and the AMS’s permanent art collection of 73 pieces. She also organizes weekly shows at the gallery. Handfield’s favourite part of the job is the opportunity to meet lots of people. She said she was worried that people might be less likely to get involved since UBC is such a big school, but she’s been impressed with the number of people who come by looking for a place to show their art.
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“People are really proactive in the way that they want to get involved, which is refreshing,” she said. Handfield holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Queen’s Universtiy in Ontario. After her time at Queen’s, she came back to Vancouver and enrolled in the one-year Diploma in Accounting Program at Sauder. Handfield said she’s happy to be back in Vancouver. “I’d been away from home for a long time and I decided that to stay on campus and be close to friends and family and kind of involve myself back in the city, that would be the best option.” She plans to get involved in the business side of running an art gallery and help artists who are “starved for money.” She said she would eventually like to work in a larger gallery and become more involved in management and fundraising. When she’s not in the gallery, Handfield’s main hobby is fen-
cing. She fenced competitively in high school and continued with the sport at Queen’s, though she had to bring down the intensity in favour of coursework. Now she fences with the UBC Fencing Club. “[The] UBC Fencing Club and I have become good friends.… That’s awesome that it’s here and it’s available,” she said. Handfield said the art gallery serves a crucial role on campus. “I think the art gallery is important because it allows students who might not have otherwise had experience going into art galleries or had experience showing their own work [to do so].” Handfield said she gets students from many different departments, such as chemistry and physics, who haven’t had any experience showing their work. “I think that’s what a student gallery allows you to do. You don’t need to be a professional artist to show your work; you just need to have passion.” U
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 |
EDITORS WILL MCDONALD + LAURA RODGERS
UNIONS >>
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U.S. ELECTIONS >>
UBC sends email with partisan election info
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The email mistakenly linked to a website supporting Democrat Barack Obama in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Arno Rosenfeld Staff Writer
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CUPE 116 and UBC have scheduled talks this Friday and Saturday, but the union plans to continue strikes until an agreement is signed.
Bargaining resumes between CUPE 116 and UBC
Will McDonald News Editor
After 12 days of job action, the support and service workers of CUPE 116 are going back to the bargaining table with UBC. But this doesn’t mean that the strikes will end. Colleen Garbe, CUPE 116 president, said bargaining sessions have been set up for Friday and Saturday. However, she said job action would continue until the union reaches a collective agreement with the university. “The employers opened up dates and we definitely will be meeting next week,” said Garbe. “But our actions are going to continue until we get a collective agreement.” The most recent location hit with CUPE 116 job action was the Thunderbird Residence commons-
NEWS BRIEFS UBC gets new Canada research chair appointments The Canadian government will give new funding to 13 Canada research chair positions at UBC. A total of $11 million will be given to the chairs, with eight new appointments, two advancements and three renewed positions. UBC has 186 research chair professors, the second-largest number in the country. The newly appointed chairs include researchers studying climate change, spinal cord injury and inner-city medicine. “I am honoured to join this group of leading investigators,” said new chair and UBC neuroscientist Teresa Liu-Ambrose. UBC researchers releases first video of rare seahorse species UBC’s Project Seahorse has released the world’s first footage of a rare West African seahorse. The video shows the seahorse being caught and released unharmed by Senegalese fishermen. In a joint project between Imperial College London, the Zoological Society of London and Project Seahorse, researcher Kate West shot the rare footage off the coast of Senegal. “Essentially no research has been done on this species, and nothing is known about its habitat, life cycle or numbers,” said West. Around 600,000 West African seahorses are exported annually for use in traditional medicine. U
block, which was picketed last Friday. The building houses about 25 Student Housing and Hospitality trades workers. According to UBC Director of Public Affairs Lucie McNeill, any repairs or maintenance needed in the residence on Friday was done by management. “It’s carpenters and plumbers and so on who [were] ... not available to do maintenance on the residences, the kind of services they would provide usually,” said McNeill. CUPE 116 has said they want their job action to have as little impact on students as possible. However, Garbe said workers in other student residences have asked for pickets. “They’re all begging us to take them down, and we can only do so much in one day, so we’re building on that,” said Garbe.
The union has witheld all custodial services across campus since Thursday. An overtime ban for all CUPE 116 workers has been in effect since Thursday as well. According to McNeill, managers have had to do all the cleaning on campus. “We’ve had managers who’ve gone around cleaning toilets in buildings and doing whatever is necessary,” said McNeill. “Different units and buildings would have different plans.... [It’s] managers who have been doing the absolute essentials.” Garbe didn’t say how long it will be until custodians go back to work. “[Cleaning is] hard work,” said Garbe. “[Managers] need to respect the members that do that work,… and if they’re in doing that work, maybe they’ll have a better understanding,” said Garbe.
On Thursday, the Nobel Biocare dental clinic on campus was also shut down at midday when all CUPE 116 staff walked off the job. McNeill said that some dental students were affected by the closure. “Dental students — the ones that were affected were the ones that were there working on patients. So they had to finish the patients or complete the work on the patients that they were seeing at the time.” Garbe said although job action will keep going until an agreement is signed, she hopes that it won’t harm the union’s reputation with the public. “We hope that everybody supports us and this will be shortlived and we can get back [to] doing what we’re doing … and just keep UBC thriving,” she said. U <em>
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STUDENT SOCIETY >>
New AMS harassment policy doesn’t include unions
Laura Rodgers News Editor
The AMS has a new way to deal with complaints of harassment or discrimination, but it doesn’t apply to everyone. A rewritten policy for AMS employees, volunteers and appointees sets out grounds for discrimination charges concerning age, race or sexual orientation. But it cuts out a provision that previously existed for years: the policy no longer covers anyone alleging that they’ve been discriminated against based on union activities. “I think if a member of a union is concerned that they’re being discriminated against based on their union membership, that’s something they can bring to their union,” said Hans Seidemann, engineering rep on AMS Council and head of the AMS Legislative Procedures Committee. “That’s a whole different ball game from what this policy is intended to prescribe.” During the AMS’s negotiations with its security guards, who voted to join the COPE 378 union in 2011, key union organizer Irfan Reayat filed a complaint alleging he was harassed and demoted because of his union involvement. Reayat opted to file his complaint through the Labour Relations
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AMS security workers held a one-day strike on October 4th. In the AMS’s new harassment and discrimination policy, union membership is no longer listed as a reason for lodging a complaint.
Board rather than opt for the AMS’s internal procedure. Negotiations between the AMS and its security guards continue, though both parties say they are “within a dollar” on wages and there are no other topics still left on the bargaining table. The document says that any category covered by “applicable human rights legislation” is also fair game. Charges of anti-union discrimination are dealt with provincially through the Labour Relations Code, and this will likely leave anyone lodging a complaint of anti-union discrimination to work outside the AMS system and pursue other avenues. “Union members weren’t the only group that were left off the new [policy],” said COPE 378 spokesperson Jarrah Hodge. “I think that the omission does raise questions. “I would be interested to know what their rationale was for that,” Hodge continued. “It is curious that
there were the union groups ... and also things like gender identity left off the new list.” Seidemann explained that the redrawn policy doesn’t cover union affiliation because it is “not a personal characteristic.” “This is intended to be a policy on issues that make up a person, as opposed to membership in an organization,” said Seidemann. “If I’m a member of a knitting club, and someone is like, ‘I don’t like knitters,’ that’s not necessarily the same as being attacked based on my religion.” Seidemann said that the new policy was mostly drafted by the AMS’s lawyers, who drew from both old policy and a document prepared by AMS Equity Commissioner Brett Sinclair. It’s also been expanded so that complaints to include a new informal resolution method for individuals who don’t want to launch a formal complaint. U
The Office of International Student Development (ISD) at UBC accidentally emailed information supporting the Democratic Party to American international students. With the U.S. presidential election coming up at the beginning of November, the ISD office wanted to help U.S. citizens studying at UBC vote. At the end of September, an email was sent from the ISD office to the 1,393 U.S. citizens studying at UBC. The email included a set of instructions on how to vote using an absentee ballot and provided a link to votefromabroad.org, a Democrat-supporting site. “[My office] was contacted by a partisan group a few weeks ago, with information about how students could register to vote abroad,” said Michelle Suderman, associate director of ISD. “We cleaned up the announcement,... because what they suggested we send in the email was partisan information.” But the office later realized they left a link to a partisan Web site. On Oct. 4, six days after the first email was sent out, ISD sent out a mea culpa. “We realized after sending the email out that the website link contained partisan information for the Democratic Party,” the email read. “We had no intention of supporting one party.” The new email included a link to the U.S. government website for voting abroad and repeated that absentee ballots are available in the International House. “We thought we checked [the website] thoroughly enough,” Suderman said. “A student contacted us to say that if you drilled down far enough on that website you actually do get to partisan information about a particular party.” While the home page doesn’t display any party affiliation, if one clicks the “About” link, the third sentence says, “[This site] is provided as a public service, in English and Spanish, by Democrats Abroad for the use of all overseas voters, regardless of party affiliation.” The page also offers examples of races narrowly won by Democrats as evidence of why it is important to vote. “Once I saw the word ‘Democrat,’ that was all I needed,” Suderman said. “We regret any confusion this may have caused for students.” The U.S. consulate in Vancouver typically sends UBC information about voting abroad to give to students, and Suderman said this was this first time Democrats Abroad had sent the school an email. Suderman said that the email from the student who alerted them to the partisan information was “quite hilarious.” “He actually commented that he would actually be … very happy for us to endorse the Democratic Party, but that we probably had made a mistake.” U
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
TRANSIT >>
TransLink cancels student transit improvements 10-year plan doesn’t include increased #99 service or rapid transit to UBC Micki Cowan CUP B.C. Bureau Chief
VANCOUVER (CUP) — TransLink’s newest 10-year plan is a mixed bag for students. The 2013 Base Plan, which TransLink rolled out in September, highlights the company’s financial plans for the next three years and a looser schedule for the following seven. The plan is updated every year, sometimes gaining items, sometimes losing them. But facing major funding issues, Translink, in its updated plan that will be finalized in November, has cancelled plans to add more services to overcrowded U-Pass routes. “We had hoped to provide new bus service, which really would have benefited students in particular,” said TransLink transportation planner Rex Hodgson. “Now with our outlook being a bit worse than what we had anticipated, we’ve had to scale back on some of our investments.” The new plan no longer includes increasing bus service on routes to and from universities and colleges, a move which would have added 79,000 more trips along bus routes by 2013. Hodgson said that the company realized they didn’t have the revenue and had to re-evaluate what services could be provided in the new plan. While students won’t see those additional services this year, Hodgson said they are still
The #99 runs along the Broadway corridor, the busiest commuter bus route in North America.
looking to implement them in the future, when money is available. TransLink’s financial situation has recently come under fire from a student group called Get on Board B.C., which focuses on funding issues and the need for rapid transit. “We’re thinking how funding is allocated to TransLink,” said Tanner Bokor, Get on Board spokesperson and AMS associate vice-president external. “We’re certainly not addressing TransLink as an organization. We think that there are governance issues in TransLink that play onto the funding issue.”
One advance in rapid transit is included in the plan: the Burnaby-to-Coquitlam Evergreen Skytrain line. Hodgson said the line, which will add seven stops, is one of the main benefits for students in the new plan. Construction begins this year and is to be completed in 2016. Students at Douglas College’s Coquitlam campus will be gaining a Skytrain stop, which is a big gain for a campus where the majority of students commute by car. Dave Taylor, communications director at Douglas College, said
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the station will make a tremendous difference for students. “Our students need to get out there and transit would be the biggest and easiest way to do that,” he said. Taylor projects that at least half of the campus’s 4,000 students will make use of the Evergreen Line, as they already are part of a mandatory U-Pass program. SFU students could also see an impact from the Evergreen Line in the future, as bus services are rerouted to account for a new “Burquitlam” station.
Though the Evergreen Line will certainly benefit students, TransLink’s plan made no mention of a rapid transit system along the Broadway corridor, a topic that has incited action from thousands of students over the years. The Broadway corridor is the main route students use to commute to UBC. It is not mentioned in TransLink’s 40-year plan either. But Hodgson said that this doesn’t mean rapid transit along Broadway is off the table. “We’ve not progressed to the point yet where we’re able to include that yet in this plan,” he said. “We recognize there is a demand. Even with the great service we’re providing, capacity is a problem.” TransLink is currently evaluating the route as part of a rapid transit study called the Regional Transportation Strategy. That study will be undergoing consultations this spring and will be completed by August 2013. Looking back on the plan, Hodgson said the company wasn’t able to target U-Pass routes this year, but still recognizes the need for transit for students in the future. “Given the financial situation we find ourselves in and some of the challenges we’re facing with funding, we’ve had to make some hard decisions.” U —With files from Laura Rodgers
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 |
EDITOR C.J. PENTLAND
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FOOTBALL >>
FIRST DOWN
UBC 10 Regina 0
POINT AFTER: THOMAS MOULT kick attempt good
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RUSH BILLY GREENE for 16 yards
PASS
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BILLY GREENE pass complete to JORDAN GRIEVE for 12 yards
PASS SAM ADU for 9 yards
TOUCHDOWN PASS TOUCHDOWN
FIRST DOWN
FIRST DOWN
FIRST DOWN
BILLY GREENE pass complete to ANDREW DARCOVICH for 16 yards
C.J. Pentland Sports + Rec Editor
Drive starts on the UBC 28-yard line after interception by BRYAN RIDEOUT.
6:17 of second quarter
RUSH
BRANDON DESCHAMPS for 5 yards
RUSH
BILLY GREENE pass complete to DANIEL ENGLISH for 3 yards
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BILLY GREENE pass complete to ANDREW DARCOVICH for 19 yards
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BRANDON DESCHAMPS for 2 yards
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ANATOMY OF A DRIVE
Bye week a blessing for victorious Thunderbirds Banged up, bruised and battered, the UBC football team was hurting badly, and it was showing on the scoreboard. After four straight losses to start the year and their only victory against the winless Alberta Golden Bears, the season had the makings of a write-off. The T-Birds had three more games left in the year, but two of them were against teams ranked in the top eight in Canada, which didn’t provide an optimistic outlook. They needed something, anything, to turn their 1-4 season around and perhaps back into the final playoff spot. And wouldn’t you know it, they got exactly what they needed: a bye week. With Thanksgiving weekend scheduled as a bye week for all the teams in the Canada West conference, the T-Birds had a chance to regroup and gain experience by playing next to a set group of guys. And because of that, they were able to come out with a strong performance and take down the CIS No. 6 ranked Regina Rams 24-17 on Saturday afternoon at Thunderbird Stadium. “The bye week helped us to get healthy, but also to have some time to actually work together again,” said head coach Shawn Olson after the game. “That’s one of the things that is overlooked on defence, your ability to work in coordination with the guy next to you. When there’s always a revolving door of who’s next to you, it’s really hard to get that coordination.… [Today] we finally had a version of what we kind of expected at the beginning of the year.” The Thunderbirds racked up an impressive 281 yards on the ground rushing against the Rams. The Canada West’s leading rusher Brandon Deschamps accounted for 171 of them, capped off by an 85-yard touchdown run on the second play of the second half. But it was the defence that kept the T-Birds in the game. They held the Regina offence to well below their season average of 30.4 points per game, picking off four passes — one each by Bryan Rideout and Kofi Kuma-Mintah and two by Miguel Barker — and recovering one fumble in the process. The timing of the big plays made the difference. When UBC’s offence completely stalled in the second half and recorded six straight drives without a first down, the defence limited the damage by preventing any big plays by Regina and always keeping UBC in the lead. The interceptions all came at huge times as well. Rideout’s came after a mess of a play that saw a field goal attempt turn into an interception by the Rams; he picked off a throw on UBC’s two-yard line. This action kept UBC’s slim 3-0 lead and was the catalyst for the ensuing drive that resulted in a 16-yard touchdown pass from Billy Greene to Andrew Darcovich. Kuma-Mintah’s interception was perhaps a game-saver. Regina was threatening to complete their comeback, only trailing by two with 3:44 left in the game, but the defensive back picked off the opening pass of the drive. The ’Birds then turned it into some much-needed insurance points, as Greene connected with a diving Jordan Grieve in the back of the endzone to make it a nine-point lead. “That’s the big thing that I was proud about with these guys,” said Olson in reference to the big plays on defence. “The offence struggled the whole second half, we were missing things, [but] defensively we played real good. I wouldn’t say [it was good] the whole game — guys were tired – but guys stepped up and made a play when we needed to make a play.” With only two more games left in the regular season, the T-Birds finally have some momentum, and they will need to carry that forward in order to have a shot at the playoffs. To slide into the fourth and final playoff spot, they must win their remaining contests and hope for a little help from the other Canada West teams. Next week will see UBC travel to Winnipeg to take on Manitoba, and they close out their season the following Saturday against Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. They have lost to both those teams already this season, but as this season has shown, nothing is predictable. UBC had lost 49-20 to Regina the last time they played, but they showed on Saturday that they can compete with the top teams in the west. If the T-Birds can continue to gel and roll with their momentum, what looked to be a lost season may in fact be salvaged. U
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012
SOCCER >>
Women’s soccer crushes UNBC
SOCCER >>
Frazao sets Canada West scoring record
Men’s soccer ties Alberta
Brandon Chow Staff Writer
Andrew Bates Managing Editor, Web
The UBC women’s soccer team’s torrid pace at Thunderbird Park on Saturday led them to a convincing 13-0 win against their northern neighbours, the University of Northern B.C. Timberwolves. Leading the way was fourth-year striker Janine Frazao, who earned the title of Canada West all-time leading scorer with her impressive five-goal effort. From the start, the Thunderbirds displayed a relentless first-to-theball attitude. Strategic passing plays allowed them to dominate ball control and zone possession throughout the match. UBC was quick to strike after Rachael Sawer’s low, hard shot from 20 yards out found the back of the net a minute after the opening whistle. Two minutes later, an assertive run down the right side followed by a stretch pass to Sawer gave her space to cross the ball to Frazao, who neatly headed the ball in for her first tally of the night. The 21st minute saw another Sawer-to-Frazao setup; their tight passing play inside the 18-yard box led to UBC’s fifth goal. Five minutes later, UNBC decided to switch goaltenders, substituting Kat Hartwig-Clay for Reagan McMillan. The sub didn’t change much for UNBC, though, as UBC went on to score four more goals in the first half. Frazao’s third goal of the night came off a sharp pass across the 18yard box from Rachel Ramsden. Meanwhile, at the back end, UBC
The last time the UBC men’s soccer team failed to win a game, it gave up a goal in the last minute of the Canada West championship and fell to the University of Alberta Golden Bears. In this weekend’s rematch, Alberta frustrated them again. The Thunderbirds gave up a tying goal with ten minutes left in the game to record a 2-2 draw with the Golden Bears in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon. UBC was in the midst of closing out a promising comeback until a looping header by Alberta’s Jonah Feil eluded the defence and found its way into the back of the net. The game started out with Alberta’s Zenon Markevych scoring a goal in the first seven minutes of the game, making it only the second time all year that UBC has been behind. But goals by Thunderbird midfielders Greg Smith and Reynold Stewart on either side of halftime gave UBC the lead and set the team on track for a ninth consecutive win, which was some measure of revenge for last year’s playoff encounter. However, Feil was able to tie the score when he snuck past an otherwise organized T-Birds back line to put his head on a cross and knock it home. With the tie and a 2-0 victory over Saskatchewan on Sunday, UBC is now 9-0-1 and is in first in the Pacific division of the Canada West. They continue their regular season at home next weekend against Victoria. U
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Janine Frazao scored five goals to become the Canada West’s all-time leading scorer.
defenders expertly deconstructed any UNBC opportunities while providing reassuring offensive support. Heading into the second half with a commanding 9-0 lead, UBC continued to dictate the play, hemming UNBC in their half and creating numerous chances off crosses and nifty passing plays outside the box. The first goal of the second half came at 63 minutes, with another simple redirect off Frazao’s head from a cross by defencewoman Meghan Pasternak. Eight minutes later, Frazao received a penalty shot after being fouled in the box; she finished from the spot for her fifth goal of the night. After two more goals from Taylor Shannik and Shayla Chorney, the
game ended with a standing ovation for Frazao after the announcement of her title as Canada West’s all-time leading scorer. In total, Frazao had eight shots on goal and one assist to add to her five goals in 71 minutes of playing time. “She’s worked very hard for me and I’m super proud of her,” said head coach Mark Rogers after the game. “It’s a big accomplishment and she still has one more year to go, so hopefully she can continue to score like she has done and add to that tally.” UBC moves to 7-1-2 on the year and sits in third place in the Canada West. They close out the regular season next weekend on the road when they take on Victoria and the University of the Fraser Valley. U
THUNDERBIRD RESULTS Friday, Oct. 12 Men’s hockey UBC 4 Calgary 2 Women’s hockey Calgary 5 UBC 2 Men’s basketball UBC 74 Wilfrid Laurier 69 Women’s basketball UBC 65 Toronto 61 Women’s volleyball UBC 3 Laval 0
Saturday, Oct. 13 Women’s rugby UBC 10 UVic 5 (UBC grabs fourth and final playoff spot with the win) Men’s hockey UBC 4 Calgary 7 Women’s hockey Calgary 6 UBC 5 (OT) Women’s field hockey UBC 7 Calgary 0 (UBC has clinched a berth at CIS nationals)
INTERVIEW BIEKSA!
SPORTS! (and rec)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 |
EDITOR ANNA ZORIA
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THEATRE >>
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Actor and improv artist Ryan Beil stars as Werther, a young man who takes his life in the name of unrequited love.
Goethe stage adaptation waxes tragic, traumatic Kaavya Lakshmanan Contributor
We’ve all heard of Beiber fever, but what about Werther fever? In its next production of the 2012-13 season, Theatre at UBC presents The Sorrows of Young Werther , a tragic love story about a man who falls in love with a married woman and eventually takes his own life. Somewhat autobiographical, this Romantic novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe set into motion what is known as the “copycat suicide” phenomenon. “The church was really opposed to the novel when it was first published in 1774,” said director and UBC theatre alumna Fannina Waubert de Puiseau. <em>
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“There was a phenomenon called ‘Werther fever,’ where young men started dressing in the clothes that were described [as being worn by Werther] in the novel.” According to de Puiseau, the church claimed that young men were committing suicide in order to copy Werther’s actions in the novel. “Whether that’s actually true is unclear,” she added. This novel was revolutionary at the time for its portrayal of a commoner. De Puiseau admitted that it hasn’t always been her favourite read. “I first had to study the novel when I was 15, 16,” she recalled, “and I hated it! It was actually quite traumatic.” In fact, it wasn’t until she came to UBC and took a course
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on British Romantic literature that she gained an appreciation for unrequited and non-normative love stories, which prompted her to re-read Goethe through a different set of eyes. Ryan Beil, Jessie Award winning actor and UBC BFA acting alumnus, will be playing the part of Werther. His love for the performing arts began in elementary school when he participated in pageants. “I’ve always been a drama geek … and starved for attention,” he said with a laugh. “I generally get cast as funny parts.… I’m a comic actor. I usually play the clown or the funny guy.” Ryan is a member of improv team the Sunday Service, which
recently won the 2012 Canadian Comedy Award for best improv troupe.
Falling for someone you can’t be with,... the torrents of emotion that follow ... absolutely. Ryan Beil Actor and improv artist
“You learn in theatre school that acting is about making specific choices,” Beil said. “Improv training helps you do that instantaneously: be specific, make a choice and commit to it.
I find it helps you stay on your feet.” When asked if he identified with the character of Werther, he replied with an enthusiastic, “Absolutely!” “Falling for someone you can’t be with,… the torrents of emotion that follow … absolutely.” Beil’s words of wisdom to aspiring actors? “It’s tough and it’s hard, you have to chase the jobs, but it’s also good to produce your own work. It’s not about necessarily just waiting for the phone to ring. You have to ... get up and do it as well.” U The Sorrows of Young Werther runs Oct. 17–20 at the Freddy Wood Theatre, with a matinee on Oct. 20. <em>
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FRUIT >>
A SPA-493 A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
More than 25 years in the making, a new apple variety gets its big reveal at the Apple Festival BY ANDREW BATES
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hat started 22 years ago as a simple fruit sale has now grown into 22 tons of apples at UBC. The annual Apple Festival hit the UBC Botanical Garden on Saturday and Sunday, featuring 44,000 pounds of apples in 77 different varieties. “We started because there were apples growing in the vegetable garden, in the fruit area,” said Friends of the Garden (FoG) member Margaret Butschler, recalling the festival’s humble origins. “Some of the FoGs said, ‘Hey, we can make some money if we sell these to other Friends of the Garden.’” In addition to the regular apple sales, the festival now includes food carts, apple pies, candied apples, crafts like apple earrings and apple necklaces, and other apple-related memorabilia. Running the festival requires 300 volunteers, and Butschler estimated 17,000 people are usually in attendance. One of the festival’s main attractions is the tasting booth, where attendees can pay $5 to taste over 60 varieties of apples. Butschler compared the differences in apples to differences in wine.
SPA-493/SALISH The new variety of apple, which has been named Salish, is a bit of a mystery. “It’s yellow underneath and then it has that beautiful red glow on top of that, this blush,” said Butschler. “We know that it has a bit of a sharp, piquant flavour, but we also know that it’s very sweet.” Food scientists have compared the Salish apple to the Nicola, Delicious or Golden Gala varieties. “But all the people who have done a blind tasting — just like wine again — those people have chosen SPA. Eighty-nine per cent of them like SPA best for its taste,” she said. “So you taste it, you think, ‘Wow, is that ever delicious and crunchy.’ And when you cut it, you actually have juice dripping down the knife.” “Up in Vernon and Summerland this year, it’s been hot and sunny; they have lots of water from the lake. Their apples are huge and heavy and firm this year,” she said. “You can go to the Fraser Valley, where they have very little water and it didn’t rain: they have smaller apples.” A new variety of apple joined the mix on Saturday as well. Code-named SPA-493, this apple was developed by plant improvement scientists from the federal government. The new apple will be called Salish. Below, Butschler has shared some of her favourite types of apples from the festival. U
WOLF RIVER “That’s a huge apple,” said Butschler, who said some apples can weigh as much as three pounds. “When you buy your three-pound bag of apples, you’re maybe only going to get two apples in that bag. It’s an apple you can cut up and share with all the fine people in the family or in your residence.”
ELSTAR “That’s for people who like that taste of a Golden Delicious, but this actually keeps better,” she said. “It’s good to stock. It won’t go brown when it’s close to the air.” Though some of the apples become known as winter varieties, most apples are picked by November and store for up to five months.
LORD LAMBOURNE “That’s a beautiful, sweet dessert apple,” Butschler said. “It only keeps for two months, so come over and buy a bag, eat it in the next few weeks and it’ll be just a joy.”
CALVILLE BLANC D’HIVER This apple is great for baking, according to Butschler. “It’s a beautiful apple for people that make French tarts or open pies or little tarts. It keeps its shape,” she said. “That one, if you eat it, is so juicy that it just drips down your hand.”
BELLE DE BOSKOOP “That’s a Dutch apple that was developed in the Netherlands. That was in the 1850s,” she said. “Really juicy and sharp-flavoured, and very, very high in Vitamin C.”
HONEY CRISP According to Butschler, Honey Crisp apples are constantly in demand. “It’s a lovely scent when you bite into it. Very aromatic, juicy and very sweet,” she said. “It’s the one that’s been in the stores for three or four years, and just about everybody you talk to says, ‘Do you have any Honey Crisp?’”
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MUSIC >>
Five playlists to tune you into midterms
From classical arias to boy band drivel, the right tracks make all the difference Mia Steinberg The Martlet
keys? Well, you do now.
VICTORIA (CUP) — Ever find yourself short on tunes during those late-night midterm study sessions? Below, find a list of the best studying music, helpfully organized according to your state of mind, whether you’re determined and alert or panicked and caffeinated.
2. THE FILM SCORE
1. THE BAROQUE-N RECORD STUDY STATUS Fresh and eager.
This year will be different: readings done on time, no lastminute cramming and all As, baby. DETAILS Classical music is fantastic
for studying: interesting, low-key, and no lyrics. Plus, it’s easy to find online. Musopen.org has hundreds of recordings from different composers available to stream and download.
3. THE AMBIENT POSTROCK INTELLI-RAVE
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STUDY STATUS In need of a little
motivation, but still on schedule. DETAILS A film’s soundtrack
is explicitly tied to the events onscreen and plays a large part in connecting you to the story. The score alone can transport you into a specific headspace, and you can begin to feel like the star of your own action movie. Suddenly, finishing that biology assignment is a matter of life and death; without it, the Avengers can’t win against the Cylons and Darth Vader will crush the rebellion. They’re counting on you. You can do this. Yes, Tony Stark wants a fist bump — wait, no, you’re still in the library. Turn that imaginary high-five into a muscle stretch. RECOMMENDED TUNES The How to
Train Your Dragon soundtrack is brilliantly energizing. For a real fist-pumper, grab the score to the first Pirates of the Caribbean film. </em>
RECOMMENDED TUNES Bach’s
“Goldberg Variations” are lengthy and inobtrusive, providing hours of lightly interesting background noise. Any and all Romantic-era piano pieces work, too; after that, there’s always Mozart. POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Remember
those horrendous piano lessons as a child? Spine straight, chin up, hands lightly floating above the
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POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Having
flashbacks to the films you love leads to YouTube clips of your favourite scenes, followed by, “I’ll just watch the first 20 minutes,” followed by, “Does the library have popcorn? Because this trilogy needs popcorn.”
STUDY STATUS Your blood is now
52 per cent coffee, and your economics textbook needs some existential whimsy. DETAILS This post-rock subgenre
takes its cues from progressive, ambient, minimalist and experimental musicians. With sparse lyrics and lots of slow build, postrock can put you in a relaxed yet focused state of mind. RECOMMENDED TUNES The Camp-
fire Headphase by Boards of Canada is exquisite electronica that pulls double duty as study aid and obscure music snob fodder. The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky is fantastic as well. </em>
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POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Prolonged
exposure can cause depersonalization, staring contests with the nearest wall, and long, strange trips through Wikipedia articles. If you find yourself contemplating the black dwarf fate of the sun, abort mission. Harsh that mellow. Do not walk towards the light.
4. THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT STUDY STATUS Well, that five-
minute break lasted nearly an
hour, and there’s no way you can do the entire assignment tonight, but you can finish most of it. Probably. DETAILS It’s a fact: as soon as you
need to focus on schoolwork, you’ll discover a new TV show, musician or other fun distraction. All you want to do is immerse yourself in this new love, but you can’t — you have midterms to study for. So your new obsession sits just out of reach, positively dripping with all the fun you’re not having right now. And it knows you’ll give in; it’s just a matter of time.
You’re done. The barista has cut you off, the overhead lights seem to be buzzing in tune to “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and your textbooks are suddenly scribbled with gibberish. Your dignity disappeared at roughly the same time you somehow got ink all over your face. DETAILS
RECOMMENDED TUNES Listen to
music player. Which album or artist do you automatically select, devoid of conscious thought? That’s the one.
the music you loved before you had taste, right when puberty hit and emotions ran high. The stuff you publicly decry but privately love. The dorkiest boy bands and most autotuned pop drivel. Put your drinks up, hit the dance floor and let the beat drop. Indulging in guilty pleasures can cause a surge in energy, temporarily boosting your productivity over the finish line.
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Complete
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS Those
RECOMMENDED TUNES Open your
denial. You can still work while listening to this album. For sure. Except for this one part, because it’s amazing. And the next two tracks really deserve your full attention. After that, back to the books — you promise. You can stop any time you want to.
5. THE BUBBLEGUM POP STUDY STATUS Brain-melting error.
Cannot compute. Just. Do. One. More. Page.
mindless beats at full volume will not foster poetry, kids. Proofread that essay in the morning. While your ideas will be out on paper, they’ll be so exquisitely nonsensical that you’ll feel like they were written by a stranger. But it’s OK; next time you’ll do things differently. Maybe listen to some Bach instead of Ke$ha, and avoid this whole desperate last-minute mess. Sounds like a plan.
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STUDENT VOICE. COMMUNITY REACH.
Two-tier uni plan smacks of classism
LAST WORDS
KATICHISMS
by Gordon Katic
ILLUSTRATION INDIANA JOEL/THE UBYSSEY
FED UP WITH UBC’S FLAGRANT APPLE BOOSTERISM </strong>
We’re fed up with UBC’s flagrant apple boosterism. For 22 years, the university has more or less made the apple its unofficial mascot. The Apple Festival has been UBC’s premier farmer’s market/agricultural-themed fair. But what was once a small provincial festival celebrating the popular fruit has become a decadent coming-out party for some of the apple industry’s most powerful illuminati. Take the new Salish apple, for example, unveiled at last Sunday’s festival. It’s another in a long line of hot-rod varietals rolled out annually at apple festivals around North America. This announcement is quite a “get” for the UBC Botanical Garden, and has cemented its place in the stratosphere of Appledom. It’s safe to say UBC’s festival is now the apple industry equivalent of Cannes, the Paris Air Show or the Academy Awards. Which is great for apples. But then there’s the nagging little truth: there are a lot of other fruits out there that deserve celebrating. Like the blueberry. UBC’s annual blueberry festival pales in comparison: a few stands outside the Bookstore, a box or two of blueberries, and, if you’re lucky, a pancake. The double standard is stark. UBC is willing to invest in some fruits, but not others. UBC’s fruit policy is rotten to the core.
AMS TONE-DEAF ON CHANGES TO HARASSMENT POLICY </strong>
It’s no secret that the AMS has been having a few labour issues over the past year. Security workers have unionized and gone on strike, and one security worker has even filed a complaint against the AMS for
allegedly discriminating against him for his involvement in a union. It’s certainly awkward that during this time, the AMS has decided to remove any references to union activities or union membership from its harassment and discrimination policy. At best, this is a clumsy oversight. At worst, it’s a preemptive strike against any other workers that are considering organizing. And this isn’t even getting into the exclusion of gender identity from the new policy. Young people are often the most at-risk for being exploited by employers and it’s in the interest of students and the AMS to fight against that.
WHAT LESSONS CAN YOU LEARN FROM A 13-0 WIN? The conferences that UBC’s soccer teams play in were thrown out of balance with the addition of three awful teams and no extra games. Universities that aren’t members of Canadian Interuniversity Sport — as opposed to the second-tier Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association — want in for the increased quality of play and attention offered by a major athletic program. There has been a rush of new applicants: Mount Royal University, the University of Winnipeg and the University of Northern British Columbia all fielded Canada West soccer programs for the first time this year, with UBC Okanagan set to be added next year. But adding all of those teams is flooding the schedule, and now UBC players have fewer opportunities to test their skills against the top-tier teams in the conference. For the men, the 11-team conference has been split into Prairie and Pacific divisions, meaning that Pacific teams play other Pacific teams twice and teams from the Prairies only once. For the women, all 13 teams only meet once in the regular season. When you have more
teams in a league than games in the season, you don’t really learn a lot about your opponents. All this would be simply annoying if the new teams weren’t so bad. UBC just destroyed UNBC 13-0 in women’s soccer. In the men’s game, UNBC have lost every match this year, and the three games Winnipeg didn’t lose were wiped off because they fielded an ineligible player. Some of UBC’s lopsided wins: 8-0 (against the University of Lethbridge), 5-1 (Winnipeg), 6-0 and 5-1 (UNBC). According to the UNBC student paper, the soccer program was rushed up a level in the hope that it would convince Canada West to approve their application to the conference. They’re facing challenges that would kneecap any established program, and maybe they can be competitive in the future. But they aren’t now. UBC has talented players that can compete at the highest level of CIS competition, but they’ve been having trouble reaching the national tournament. Men’s coach Mike Mosher has spent two years preaching the gospel that everything comes down to high-pressure knockout games. Thrashing UNBC is not preparing them to face teams that are actually hard to beat. Despite their powerful performance on Saturday, the women’s team got trounced 3-0 by Trinity Western University earlier this year, and this past month both teams came to a stalemate against the team that beat them in last month’s playoffs. UBC has pitched a proposal to CIS to create an elite division for schools that want to pour resources into their top teams. The proposal has strengths and drawbacks, but one thing is clear: there are too many teams and not enough games in the Canada West, and competitive balance needs to be found to avoid turning off casual fans and halting player development. U
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Nearly every week, the media tells a distressing story of the financial prospects of our graduating class: overwhelming student debt, depressed wages for perhaps a decade, want of basic cognitive capacity (graduates lack the “critical skills,” “problem-solving, writing skills, social intelligence and adaptive thinking” necessary for today’s workforce). But don’t fear: the Globe and Mail has a plan to deliver us from this Dickensian future of functional illiteracy and debt servitude. “RE:EDUCATION,” a series launched Oct. 6, proposes a “radical overhaul of the system,” including such innovative suggestions as lifting the tuition cap — which in B.C. forbids domestic tuition from rising more than the rate of inflation — and creating a two-tiered system of education. The first tier would be composed of a small number of elite research institutions (similar to the Ivy League) for students who “value their proximity to the top scholars and researchers.” The larger and more varied second tier would de-emphasize research and focus on remedial teaching and “up-skilling” through a vague balance of online and offline courses. But wait, there’s more! These schools would offer you a “deification of choice” through degree customization, including add-ons and bonus “degree badges,” turning your education into something like buying World of Warcraft expansion packs. Why the overhaul? The “massification” of education. We made the silly mistake of making education too accessible, creating a glut of over-qualified and under-employed riffraff. I think it would really be best for everyone that you leave these august halls of higher learning to us bluebloods, and set that tattered copy of The Republic down as you march back to the salt mines from whence you came. Returning to the world of reality, I have good news for you: there is no crisis in higher education, and certainly not one that demands this sort of transformation. Despite the recession, completing a post-secondary degree remains <em>
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the single most prudent financial decision you can make. Next time you see a melodramatic warning of your impending poverty or read a long treatise about how we have to “fix” universities, I want you to remember a few facts. • The unemployment and underemployment rate of young university-educated workers is substantially lower than those without university educations. During the recession, unemployment rates for the university-educated increased only 0.6 per cent for men and 1.2 per cent for women. • The income gains from post-secondary education are as large as they have ever been, and the wage gap between those with and without post-secondary degrees is only increasing. According to a UBC co-authored study, those with university educations can expect 40 to 50 per cent more lifetime income on average. • Youth unemployment is not some peculiar consequence of a Canadian policy of over-education, but a phenomena across the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. However, Canada has been praised for being well below the OECD average. • Young graduates are indeed suffering, but the problem is not over-education or the failure of the academy, it is a sluggish economy. Low aggregate demand coupled with austerity policies threatens to prolong this economic stagnation. Instead of boosting spending to stimulate the economy, the 2012 provincial budget has made substantial cuts to post-secondary education. This is the continuation of a trend since the 1970s, when 90 per cent of post-secondary revenue was covered by government (by 2000, just 57 per cent, according to the Canadian Federation of Students). Anyone interested in the financial plight of Canadian students should plead with the government to reinvest in post-secondary education. We should not use the consequences of economic stagnation as a pretence for thinly veiled calls to segregate our universities across class lines. U
T-Bird arena more than just concerts, liquor LETTER Dear editor: Your article “Arena Dreamin’” (Oct. 11, 2012) incorrectly suggests that the Olympic legacy of UBC’s Thunderbird Arena rests only in large-scale concerts with a liquor licence. The vision for the arena was always far greater, and includes providing a range of diverse community programs. On this score, the facts speak for themselves: the arena receives more than 650,000 annual visits, including 1,200 participants in weekly drop-in programs, over 190 hours of programs per week, and more than 100 weekly hockey games. It is one of the most well-used sport facilities in the province. It is true that there were issues with concert events prior to the 2010 Games. After the Games,
the event management team underwent major changes. The new vision includes concerts, but also other events that have been very popular. The article ignored the recent record, including successful events like the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals media and practice events, a round of the 2012 Davis Cup, UBC Rec’s Annual Lace-Up for Kids fundraiser, as well as many family and community events. Holding a permanent liquor licence is not the most important part of our operations. This modern university arena has made possible a host of university, community, national and international programming. And we look forward to providing more. Sincerely, Kavie Toor Associate Director, UBC Athletics and Recreation
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PICTURES + WORDS ON YOUR UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE
ADVICE >>
Going the distance with Dr. Bryce
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YOUR UBC WORD OF THE WEEK
MOA, or the Museum of Anthropology, is easily the best museum on campus. Located off Marine Drive, it features world-renowned exhibits and doubles as a hub for teaching and research. The building itself is an architectural masterpiece. Believe us — it’s stunning.
PIC OF THE WEEK WHAT YOU SHOULD DO by Dr. Bryce Warnes
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Hi Dr. Bryce,
can handle being jealous, but I’m sure as hell not paying money to watch the two of them flirt with each other. Again. Help me! Sincerely, Envious </em>
I’m in a long-distance relationship and my girlfriend and I are planning to see each other this summer. Problem is, instead of coming here to Vancouver like we originally planned, she wants to go to Edmonton so we can spend time with her a-little-tooclose best friend. I’ve already said yes, but the more time she spends with Mr. Edmonton, the less I’m looking forward to feeling like the third wheel for two weeks. The three of us spent last summer together, and there’s no indication that next summer will be any different. We’ve had fights about letting jealousy get the best of me, so I need to somehow back out of going to Edmonton without bringing that up again. I
Dear Envious, You say you want to get her to come to Vancouver, but you don’t want to bring up the jealousy thing. Bad idea. You need to bring it up because it’s what’s making you feel shitty right now, and because suppressed jealousy has a corrosive effect over the long term. Let your feelings see the light of day, or else they’ll compromise the stability of your relationship. But if you’re accusatory — “Last time I came and visited, you wanted to hang out with Mr. Edmonton all the time!” — she’ll go on the defence, and neither of you will leave the conversation happy.
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If you’re honest and aren’t afraid to discuss your emotions openly — “It makes me uncomfortable spending the summer with you and Mr. E. I feel like a third wheel. I feel I deserve some just-you time,” — you will hopefully get her to see the matter from your perspective. You’ll both have to make compromises to maintain a long-distance relationship. If you can suppress your jealousy enough to let your girlfriend keep Mr. Edmonton around as a shoulder to cry on when you’re out of town, she needs to make compromises as well — like taking a twoweek break from her BF substitute. At the end of the day, though, you’re a guy who gets jealous, and she’s a woman who likes having close male friends. There is a fundamental incompatibility between you two. You can make it work, but it will take openness and compromise on both ends, even if that means bringing up the J-word. U
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Jas Dhillon helped shut down the Regina offence on Saturday in UBC’s 24-17 win.
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