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The euphonioustones ofdozens ofmassedlow-brass instruments playing holiday favourites entranced theaudience Dec. 3inMarket Square asUVic musicprof Eugene ledthe Dowling Victoria Tuba tubaChristmas A very november in MACLEOD EDUGYAN AND TOPRESENTED AWARDS writing OF cash COMBINED PHOTO:Meaghan $157k VALUE VALUE RING THE T a ylor Blues where Esi Edugyan’swhere prioritieslie.“The well as an additional $7,500 in runner-up anadditional as $7,500 in runner-up well was ablur was of red-eyeevents. and gala flights ven Price—and four-month-old daughter, four-month-old Price—and ven Edugyan says. 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By John Threlfall little trails of cloud to appear. Most of the tracks seen in the cham- Science meets art in the Cloud ber are from a type of unstable Chamber, a dynamic new sculp- charged particle called a muon. ture by Lucy Pullen (visual arts). The Cloud Chamber is a col- We’re on Twitter Following its four-month exhibit laborative UVic effort between at Seattle’s noted Henry Art Gal- sculptor Pullen, astro-particle Want to be notified when major new lery earlier this year, the Cloud physicist Justin Albert, engineer content is posted to The Ring’s website? MacLeod with Siminovitch award. PHOTO: John Threlfall Chamber is now installed in the Mark Lenkowski, shop technician Then follow the UVicRing Twitter feed: lobby of the Elliott Lecture Thea- Chris Secord and computing wiz- awards CONTINUED FROM p.1 @uvicring tre. Pullen describes the piece as ard Chris Tooley, with assistance one or two plays left in me, I feel like the day, I’m proud that I have this body a “conjoined pair of elongated by undergraduate students Laura I have several.” of work and that people want to do it bi-symmetric sphendecahedrons.” Anderson (visual arts), Kate Pachal While her ninth play, Another in their theatres.” (Say that five times fast!) (physics) and Shane Prokopy (me- Vol. 37 No. 11 Home Invasion, just had its world pre- When asked if there was one The aluminum shell houses an chanical engineering). RINGTHE miere in Toronto earlier this year, she memorable moment that stands environmental chamber simulat- The chamber’s frame was built has another—What to Expect—set for out for her, MacLeod just chuckles. ing the atmospheric conditions in New York City by Andy Baker of The University of Victoria’s a 2012 debut, and has already started “This will sound so corny, but this needed to see subatomic cosmic the artsy industrial engineering community newspaper fielding calls from theatre companies is the first time my family has been rays, which randomly enter our firm, Kontraptionist. ring.uvic.ca interested in whatever comes next. present when I received an award,” atmosphere from outer space. For more information, see Printed using vegetable- “I’m fortunate that I’m at the stage in she smiles. “That really meant a lot When cosmic rays pass http://www.theartinparticle.com based inks on 100% post- my career where people will at least to me. Having my family with me through the chamber, they cause give my work a read,” she says with changed the event, and that was consumer recycled paper. characteristic humility. “At the end of fantastic.” Next issue January 12 The Ring is published monthly except in August by UVic Communications. Director Bruce Kilpatrick, 250-721-7638, Navigate the UVic [email protected] ever-changing Managing editor Robie Liscomb, 250-721-7640, [email protected] market Emergency Production Beth Doman A longtime resident Display ads Bonnie Light, 250-388-5321, Alerts [email protected] and UVic grad, Dave is Calendar Mandy Crocker, 250-721-8587, helping local residents [email protected] and new-comers to Material published in The Ring does not necessarily navigate their way reflect official university policy. through the real estate During an emergency, UVic will use all available methods of communication Material may be reprinted in whole or in part without market. Whether buying to inform students, staff and faculty of the situation. Information will be permission, but with appropriate credit to The Ring. or selling, he will assure available from the following sources as appropriate: The Ring, PO Box 1700, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 smooth sailing. Just • UVic web site: www.uvic.ca Tel: 250-721-7636 Fax: 250-721-8955 ask his many clients at • Register your mobile phone to receive UVic Emergency Alerts E-mail: [email protected] UVic. notifications at www.uvic.ca/alerts. Printed in Canada by Horizon Publications • Twitter: follow us @twitter.com/uvicemerg © 2011 University of Victoria Canadian Publications Mail Agreement No. 40014024 • UVic emergency information line: 250-721-8620 or 1-888-721-8620 (toll free in North America) Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty • CFUV community radio 101.9 FM 250-592-4422 | [email protected]

Page 2 The Ring December 2011 around Pass the the ring crumpets, UVic-ATLAS gets a 100G jolt In mid November, UVic was please plugged into some serious supercomputing action across the strait in Washington state. The A University of Victoria linguist demo of a 100G network at the traces Victoria’s fabled British world’s premier supercomputing conference, SC2011, in Seattle, roots transferred the equivalent of five full-length movies per second from the UVic Computing Centre By Peigi McGillivray to a booth at the Washington State Convention Centre on the Victorians have a reputation for being 100-gigabit-per-second network “more British than the British,” in part temporarily set up for the demo. due to our enduring love of flower The data came from the UVic-ATLAS baskets, tearooms and lawn bowling. project and the demo hinted at But are we really “more British” than what is likely to come in the future: other Canadians? the transfer of massive quantities To find out, Dr. Alexandra D’Arcy, of high-energy physics data in UVic linguistics professor and direc- a matter of hours to anywhere tor of the sociolinguistics research around the world. “In a few short lab, is searching for clues in the way years, we could see a 100G network we speak. all the way to Geneva,” said UVic “There’s an undeniably high Brit- ish presence in the city—roughly 30 physics professor Dr. Randall Sobie, per cent of Victoria’s population in a key organizer of the demo and a censuses from 1881 to 1951 claimed D’Arcy. photo: Nik West research scientist with the UVic- British origin—but born and bred ATLAS project. For more on ATLAS Canadians have been the majority,” also digging into archived diaries and into context with the development ing of who we are as Victorians. “We and the 100G demo: http://bit.ly/ notes D’Arcy. personal letters and reviewing past of standard urban Canadian English,” seldom think about the way we speak,” vOJAee “Linguistically speaking, this means issues of Victoria’s local papers as far s ay s D’Arc y. she says, “but it can tell us a lot about Canadians are the primary influence. back as 1858. The study is offering some tantaliz- ourselves.” Master’s in Global But this doesn’t mean that traces of To find out whether there are any ing hints that, linguistically, Victorians D’Arcy’s students benefit from Business expands our partly British roots won’t persist. lingering hints of British English in the may indeed be more “British” than direct involvement in her research. The Gustavson School of Business’s What I want to know is where—and speech of current Victoria residents, other Canadians. Undergraduates learn to conduct popular Master of Global Business how—these traces persist.” D’Arcy is also interviewing people “Evidence so far suggests that older interviews and record results using (MGB) program is expanding, giving Victoria was settled by Europeans born and raised in the city. speakers in Victoria tend to say tyoon a custom iPod/iPad app. Graduate students a choice of more world- relatively late—robust settlement Her lab’s state-of-the-art language rather than toon (tune), dyoo rather students help comb through the ar- wide study locations. Starting in didn’t really begin until about 1860, software enables her team to search than doo (due) and tyoob rather than chives and compile information into she notes. “That means I can trace the and interact with sound files, and toob (tube),” she says. a sophisticated language database. September 2012, students accepted development of spoken English right transcribe and analyze each sample. “These linguistic features are hard- “We’re building a resource of language into the Sardul S. Gill Graduate back to the city’s earliest days.” They look for key words and phrases er and harder to find evidence for in information that all students can use School’s innovative one-year degree Although there are no sound re- that are markers of British and North urban contexts west of Quebec,” she for research in the future,” says D’Arcy. program can enter Path One to cordings from the 1800s, it’s still pos- American usage. adds. “That they are here suggests study at UVic and then move to sible to infer how people spoke back For instance, while British people Victorians have held on to these older, You can help. D’Arcy is looking for Taiwan to attend the National then. “Patterns of speech don’t change tend to say: “Have you got any but- more conservative pronunciations interview candidates who were born Sun Yat-Sen University and finish much after our late teens,” says D’Arcy. ter?” North Americans say: “Do you with greater tenacity. This does make and raised in Victoria. She’s also in Austria at the Johannes Kepler “We can analyze later recordings of have any butter?” Other telltale words us unique!” looking for old sound recordings of University. Or they can enter the older people and hear how language include pronunciation of the words The study gives linguists a rare native Victorians. If you or someone new Path Two beginning at UVic, was used decades earlier.” schedule (skedule or shedule) and opportunity to “watch” a dialect but then moving to the Rouen To find those early voices, D’Arcy news (nooz or nyooz). evolve, says D’Arcy—knowledge that you know can help, contact her at [email protected]. Business School in France and and her team are poring over the “With historical as well as con- will be used to develop better teach- Sungkyunkwan University Business sound archives at the Royal BC Mu- temporary data, we’re able to put the ing and language assessment tools. School in Korea. In all cases, UVic seum and UVic’s libraries. They’re development of English in Victoria And we all get a better understand- students study alongside students from these partner institutions, then undertake a global internship to complete their degree. “We designed the program for students Who’s your nominee for the UVic formalizes research with an undergraduate business degree and our first two intakes 2012 Craigdarroch Research were fully subscribed,” says John agreement with City of Oldale, associate director of the MGB program. Admission Awards? Victoria requirements are online at www. uvic.ca/gustavson/gill. By Melanie Tromp Hoover bines the best of the former awards for By signing an official protocol of co- The protocol establishes a Societal Contribution and Excellence operation last month, the University formalized framework for inte- Labyrinth combats It’s that time of year again—the in Communicating Research into one of Victoria and the City of Victoria grating practical civic expertise chance for faculty members to help clear classification,” explains Vice- have formalized their mutual in- with theoretical knowledge. In exam, holiday stress put a spotlight on research or creative President Research Howard Brunt. terest in research addition, it will Members of the public are invited excellence in their unit. “Excellence in knowledge mobilization of benefit to both help to enhance to share a stress reliever that UVic From now until Feb. 1 you can at UVic means the purposeful ex- entities. future collabo- students have been using for 10 nominate an extraordinary researcher change and application of knowledge The city and The rations on pro- years to help combat exam anxiety. or artist who takes center stage in developed through an ongoing pro- University of Victo- jects involving The UVic Labyrinth is painted on a original, productive and ground- cess of research or creative and artistic ria have had strong sustainability large circle of canvas and installed breaking knowledge creation at the endeavors for the benefit of society.” connections since and community- on the floor of the Interfaith Chapel. University of Victoria. Established in 2003, the Craigdar- the laying of foundations for the first engaged research. The Labyrinth, modelled after the The 2012 Craigdarroch Research roch Research Awards recognize campus buildings and the mapping Projects already carried out in design found on the floor of the Awards include the inaugural prize for outstanding research-focused contri- of Ring Road. partnership with the city, university 12th century Chartres Cathedral in Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization butions in every unit at UVic. Nomi- Now, 50 years later, community and other partners include: communi- France, is available from Monday to (KM)—a newly established category nations are welcome from across mapping is one initiative of many that ty mapping of arts and culture, social, Thursday until Dec. 15 from 9 to 11 in line with UVic’s strategic priorities campus in five categories, including help exemplify the close ties forged green and neighbourhood initiatives; a.m. and 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. “People in the area of civic engagement and career achievement, research excel- between UVic and the City of Victoria food security; homelessness and producing knowledge designed espe- lence, artistic expression, innovation over the years. housing; micro-lending; and research report feeling more peaceful or cially for public uptake in a medium and entrepreneurship and the new City Manager Gail Stephens and supporting harm reduction and safe having new insights or getting to help society. KM honour. UVic’s Vice-President Research Dr. injection sites. new perspectives on a personal “The Excellence in Knowledge For eligibility criteria and a nomi- Howard Brunt signed the protocol on Details on future activities falling issue after walking the Labyrinth,” Mobilization award provides a means nation package, please visit www.uvic. Nov. 14. UVic’s Office of Community- within the protocol of cooperation will says Henri Lock of UVic’s Multifaith to recognize valuable work from ca/craigdarrochawards or contact Based Research led the process culmi- be posted on The Ring website in the Services. More info: [email protected] our researchers who are engaged in the awards facilitator at awardfac@ nating in this agreement. coming months. or call 250-472-4159. knowledge mobilization and com- uvic.ca.

The Ring December 2011 Page 3 Staging Woyzeck ringers Interdisciplinary course produces drama in German Armed only with logic, strategy, By Sinead Hughes A stage manager’s job depends on mental endurance and a single clear communication to effectively computer, two UVic math and How do you stage manage a play in a coordinate the different production computer science teams marched language you don’t speak? This was the groups in charge of props, costumes, into a battle of the brains against challenge I faced with Woyzeck: The set, lighting, sound and more. When Choreography of a Murder, a play that putting on a production, it’s a difficult 24,000 other students in November was performed at the Phoenix Theatre in task to create the right atmosphere for and returned triumphant. Dan the original German last month. the stage. Changing a single part of the Sanders, Jen Debroni, and I was nervous at first, but my set means the actor has to learn new Leon Senft placed third, and classmates made my job rewarding stage blocking, the transition between a team comprising Tim Song, and easier to do. Although I’d been an scenes has to be redesigned, and I have Jesse Short-Gershman and assistant stage manager before, this to create a new stage diagram for that Cory Binnersley finished 15th was my first time in the key organizing scene. After weeks of rehearsals, it in the 2011 Pacific Northwest role as the stage manager, so in some was up to me to integrate the lighting Regional Association for Computing ways, this was new to me as to the and sound cues into the performance German students. and finalize the prompt script for our Machinery (ACM) Programming Dr. Elena Pnevmonidou’s experi- public performances. Contest on Nov. 5. Part of the mental class, Performing German Since everything on stage was in The captain (Bryan Gibbs), left, lectures Woyzeck (Ovidiu Ratiu). Photo: Fiona Mortimer world’s longest-running and most Drama, an interdisciplinary theatre German, I needed to listen particularly prestigious programming contest, and Germanics effort, was the perfect carefully to ensure that I understood was a long one, sending out slews of ing out of their shells until they spoke the ACM regional competition place for a theatre major like me to get what worked and what didn’t. The emails, solving problems one at a time and gestured with confidence and included over 8,000 teams from more experience. English translation of the script as they emerge. There is nothing like energy. The play travelled so far from 2,070 universities and 88 countries. The script presented many chal- helped those of us who didn’t know the craziness of putting on a show. what I originally thought it would be According to computer science lenges, both in language and subject German but needed to know what was Spending hours together every day, like. We sold out both performances matter. is based on the happening to do their part of the play. working to make the show a success, and received a great reception from professor Frank Ruskey, “All credit Woyzeck true story of a German soldier who Each classmate brought his or her the class has naturally grown close. the audience, both German-speaking for this epic performance goes to is driven mad and murders his lover particular skills to this production. A Stage managing Woyzeck has and otherwise. My cast and crew were these six students. Unlike other in a jealous rage. The arrangement of music student designed the sound. been a unique experience. My initial terrific and it was wonderful work- teams, they organized their the play presented unique difficulties. The more advanced German students discomfort with staging a show in a ing with them. We had a lot of fun practices, their travel, and their There are many settings and short coached the actors on language and language I didn’t understand has been together. This was a great experience entry into the contest on their own.” scenes in different locations, which pronunciation. Despite the long replaced by a sense of accomplish- that I won’t soon forget. Both Sanders and Debroni have required careful planning for scene hours, meetings and rehearsals, the ment and a new respect for taking on received job offers from Google and transitions and set changes. I had a lot class worked because the students something outside my comfort zone. Sinead Hughes is a fourth-year will be starting their new jobs in to learn and much work to do. put their hearts into it. A typical day I witnessed the actors gradually com- theatre major. Mountain View, CA, in the new year.

Dr. Budd Hall (public administration) will receive an Dead language, lively learning honorary doctorate from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS, By Jean Macgregor on Dec. 10. This tribute honours Hall’s outstanding academic Not many high school students think service in the area of international of learning Latin as a way to impress girls, but for Alexander Lam, it’s as development, community-engaged good a reason as any. research and community-based Lam is a member of the Victoria adult education. Hall is a professor High School Latin Club. Founded by Dr. in the Master’s in Community Greg Rowe (Greek and Roman studies), Development program and the Latin Club is comprised of enthusi- secretary for the Global Alliance astic students largely from Esquimalt on Community-Engaged Research. High and Victoria High School, and is He was the founding director of sponsored by UVic’s Department of Greek and Roman Studies. Now in its UVic’s Office of Community-based second year, the Latin Club appeals to Research, a research and senior students who love learning. fellow in the Centre for Global According to Rowe, there are three Studies and recipient of the UVic primary reasons for learning Latin. Community Leadership Award in Knowledge of Latin gives learners ex- 2009. He has served in leadership posure to the different worlds of Latin, roles on the Canadian Association such as medieval traditions; students for the Study of Adult Education, learn the roots of English words as International Council for Adult they learn Latin; and learning Latin is one of the best ways to learn how a Education, Canadian Network for language works. According to Rowe, Democratic Learning, the Canadian “It’s been proven time and time again Commission for UNESCO and the that learning Latin forces you to Coady International Institute be explicitly conscious of grammar. L-R: Rowe with High School Latin Club members and Mt. Doug students Lam and Aiyana Skye. Advisory Board. He is a member of Grammar becomes a piece of cake the International Adult Education once you have studied Latin.” for the course, according to Anita UVic’s Department of Greek and the Age of Augustus and their role in Hall of Fame and was selected But Rowe’s Tuesday night Latin Roberts, Esquimalt High School Roman Studies also brings classical cultural and political revolutions that for the 2005 Canadian Bureau of class isn’t all grammar drills. The teacher. “Dr. Rowe really is offering studies to the community through accompanied the re-establishment of International Education Innovation students are reading the world’s first these students a unique and enrich- the Classical Association of Vancouver monarchy at Rome. “comic strip”: The Bayeux Tapestry is ing experience. It is so wonderful to Island (CAVI). CAVI, founded by the As Lam notes, besides Latin’s in International Education Award. a 70-metre-long embroidered cloth see this type of intellectual generos- department, hosts a special lecture at cachet for impressing girls, the real with inscriptions or tituli depicting ity and vision extended to our young its monthly meeting, and everyone is reason for learning Latin is in its roots. events leading up to the Norman people. It is also wonderful to see a invited. CAVI was established in 1971 “The idea of knowing a dead language conquest of England. Created in the professor so inspired to teach that to foster connections between the de- that is seen so commonly in history is 1070s, this is one comic with true he would venture into the realm of partment and members of the general extremely appealing,” he says. retro appeal. the public high school on his own public interested in classical studies. An annual CAVI membership is $10 Latin Club students receive four time,” she says “This truly is educa- Last month, Rowe presented a lecture for non-students. independent directed studies credits tion at its best.” on ancient Roman inscriptions during Info: [email protected] Experience the difference! State of the art dentistry right on the UVic campus, in the Student Union Building. Offering the most comprehensive dental services available.

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Page 4 The Ring December 2011 VIEWPOINT Bringing community values into our economic life ringers By Dr. Ana Maria Peredo The people in Liberty Square were Dr. Scott Hofer (psychology) saying it better than I could. They has been elected President The ‘Occupy’ movement seems to be seemed to be calling out, in lots of dif- of the Society of Multivariate losing its place in the public eye as ferent ways, for a kind of economic life Experimental Psychology (SMEP) it is removed from city squares and that involves us as people-in-commu- for the 2013 year. Hofer is highly public spaces. But the initial response nity and citizens, not just customers respected for his contributions to suggested they were onto something or consumers. Some were pointing to the understanding of cognitive that we had better not lose. alternatives we already have. I talked and social functioning over the life I happened to be in New York at with one group who were calling on course, with special emphasis on the beginning of November, and I people to move their bank accounts to spent a bit of time visiting Liberty credit unions, where “customers” are creative approaches to the design Square where the main encampment members, with democratic rights of and analysis of longitudinal data was. There was lots of bustle and con- governance where one person has one that are informative about stability versation, and signs up everywhere vote, not a number of votes depending and change in later life. He is also advertising people’s concerns. on share capital. recognized for the service he has It’s been said that the movement I couldn’t help admiring the way provided to SMEP in the role of didn’t have a point, and lacked focus that people were calling attention to coordinating officer. Election to on a single issue. It’s true I saw signs different ways we have of carrying on the presidency of this 50-year- with a huge range of issues. But I think our economic life, and a lot of it had to old society is one of the highest it is right to say that there was a strand do with accessible, democratic ways honours that one can receive in running through the protests: there is that involve us as citizens as well as quantitative psychology. something wrong at the heart of our buyers and sellers. Credit unions and economic system. It has to do with co-ops are one important alternative, Norah McRae, executive director obsessions about profitmaking, and but there are many others. Peredo and the Occupy Wall Street encampment of UVic’s Co-operative Education the fallout in terms of gross inequality I stumbled into a meeting an Oc- and crumbling social arrangements. cupy group was having in a subway legislatures, operated in something that we need to make our economic Program and Career Services, It all resonated with a keynote I station, and the way they conducted like this way! life different, not just productive, but has been named president of the was in New York to give at a confer- their conversation was impressive. A couple of years ago, early in the connected to values of well-being Canadian Association for Co- ence on social enterprise held at It was, in a way, highly organized, economic crisis, we at the Centre for in our communities. If we don’t stay operative Education (CAFCE). She NYU. I was arguing in my talk that with ways of indicating who was Co-operative & Community-Based plugged into that, we will be missing kicked off her tenure by hosting our business and commercial life has speaking and maintaining respect Economy had a public forum called something big and basic. the CAFCE AGM at UVic on Nov. 17, become increasingly “disembedded” for what was said. But it seemed “Remaking the Economy Through followed by a diversity conference from our ideals of community and almost anything could be said, and People’s Eyes.” It had a great response Dr. Ana Maria Peredo is director of the attended by co-op institutions concern, expecting markets driven given a hearing. There was lots of from many sectors of Victoria and Centre for Co-operative & Community- from across Canada. Seventy- by the profit motive will look after disagreement, but there was a basic beyond. In talks and workshops, Based Economy, and a faculty member seven Canadian post-secondary the goods we need to make societies civility about it all. Working arrange- many different ways of organizing in the Gustavson School of Business. institutions are active members work. We have been learning that ments were agreed on and progress our economic life were discussed and Views expressed in this article are the of CAFCE, which strives to foster doesn’t work. Social enterprise, I was was made. explored. I think we were connecting author’s and do not necessarily reflect those and advance post-secondary suggesting, can be one attempt to I couldn’t help wondering what with something the Occupy move- of The Ring or the University of Victoria. co-operative education in Canada. bring community ideals back into the it would be like if our academic bod- ment later tapped into at a very deep centre of the picture. ies, let alone provincial and federal level across many societies: the feeling McRae will serve as CAFCE president until November 2012.

Dr. Andrew Weaver (earth and ocean sciences) is the 2011 Claiming the rights to the city recipient of the Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science. By Kayla Pepper He often drew upon the thought The award cites Weaver as “an of Henri Lefebvre, a French Marxist international leader in ocean and On Nov. 17, the David Lam Auditorium philosopher, to examine how citizens climate modelling and analysis and, saw many students and community engage and claim rights to a city. As in particular, as a foremost expert members gather to hear Dr. Warren the city is constituted now, it only on the role of the ocean in climate Magnusson (political science) deliver belongs to the people in a nominal way. variability and change.” Weaver’s a lecture entitled “Occupy Victoria: Magnusson made a parallel be- research involves multiple aspects Seeing Like a City” sponsored by tween the 1968 May events in France UVic’s Centre for Co-operative and and the Occupy movement as move- of ocean, climate and paleoclimate Community-Based Economy. With ments where people claimed rights modelling. Presented annually Occupy Victoria participants facing to public spaces in their cities. When by the Royal Society of Canada, an injunction to end their occupation Lefebevre wrote about the May events the award is administered by the of Centennial Square, the lecture pro- he, like the Occupy movement, was A.G. Huntsman Foundation at the vided political theory to contextualize looking at issues of revolution versus Bedford Institute of Oceanography the social movement. reform and state versus capital. in Nova Scotia. While the theme of his recent “Nobody could figure out what it book, Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like [May ’68] was about,” Magnusson ex- The Vikes men’s soccer team a City, connects to the Occupy move- claimed. The audience responded with won its fifth national title in team ment, Magnusson didn’t offer easy laughter as people drew a comparison history on Nov. 13 with a 3-1 win judgements about the global demon- to the mainstream media coverage of over the Saint Mary’s Huskies from strations. Rather, he challenged his the Occupy events. Halifax at Centennial Stadium, audience to engage critically with the Magnusson then described the Magnusson wrapping up a strong season city and urban spaces around them as concept of the global city. Thinking of period that followed the lecture. to the Occupy events at Centennial a way to understand modern politics the world as a whole city means that Questions ranged from “what would Square during the question period. for the squad in the finale of the and the Occupy movement. people need to pay attention to how a state look like as a city?” to “at what Magnusson and participants alike 2011 CIS men’s soccer national “I don’t like easy answers to ques- places around them operate in order level is self-transformation a solution highlighted the complexities of claim- championship. UVic’s women’s tions,” Magnusson told the audience. to “understand the world well enough if people are inherently capitalist and ing public spaces. rowing team also won another Magnusson’s delivery was ani- that [we] can act in it.” This concept greedy?” “The interesting thing about this national title—their 10th in team mated and thought provoking. He also ties into how thinking local can Magnusson addressed all ques- phenomenon [Occupy] is the mani- history—in a dramatic conclusion posed questions to the audience to lead to acting globally. tions with depth and insight but did festation of people that was totally to the 2011 Canadian University challenge how the state is character- “The global city is everywhere, we not hesitate to acknowledge limita- unpredictable, and it surprised the Rowing Championship on Nov. 6 in ized in everyone’s imagination. He all live there,” Magnusson explained. tions within his work as it is “only one people themselves. Suddenly there’s Welland, ON. defined “seeing like a state” as looking He pointed to social media and in- way of thinking.” this phenomenon in the world and at the world as divided into a bunch ternet technology as a way to foster Overall, his theories on cities and what’s it about? It’s about claiming Three University of Victoria Vikes of sovereign states that are governable that sense of a global community, urbanism were closely linked back the right to the city.” cross country runners and two by bureaucrats—top-down power especially in relation to the Occupy coaches will be part of the Canadian structures. “Can you think about movement. Interuniversity Sport national team things otherwise?” he asked. He posed more questions about de- to compete in Poland in April for the “Think of the city through the termining the rights to claim a life and 18th FISU (International University everyday fabric of the world,” he sug- livelihood in a city. What is the right Sports Federation) world university gested. “Ask yourself, how is this space to public space? Who is included and cross country championships. Vikes configured?” He pointed out that in a who is excluded? What does it mean city people manage to engage in com- to confront undemocratic authorities? associate coach Keith Butler will plicated patterns of self-organization He said that although the Occupy be joined by Ingrid Ruys, a Vikes and there is always a multiplicity of movement hasn’t provided answers coach based in Alberta, at the event authorities. This relates to structures to these questions, he’s encouraged along with runners Stephanie established in the Occupy movement that the questions have been asked. Trenholm, Cliff Childs and Dylan through efforts like the general as- Magnusson invited his audience to Haight. semblies. There isn’t just one state formulate their own opinions. power that governs every facet of our Some of those opinions were daily lives. expressed during the lively question

The Ring December 2011 Page 5 NEPTUNE Canada achieves world-first subsea repair job When there’s a power failure in our the network to flow in the opposite neighbourhoods we know that hy- direction around the 800-km loop dro crews will repair the problem as while arrangements were made to quickly as possible. But what hap- get a ship to the site. pens when there’s a massive power In late November, a repair mis- outage on the world’s largest subsea sion successfully replaced the faulty cabled network? How do you fix branching unit using a remotely something that extends hundreds operated vehicle. All instruments of kilometres into the deep ocean? on the network are now back online. On Sept. 20 a faulty connection “Faults such as this are to be caused a complete shutdown of the expected on subsea cable networks, NEPTUNE Canada ocean network, and they underscore the pioneer- part of UVic’s Ocean Networks ing nature of our work,” says Dr. Canada Observatory. Within 24 Kate Moran, director of NEPTUNE hours, engineers had traced the Canada. “Experience gained from problem to the Folger node site this repair will be shared with near Bamfield. They then rerouted builders of similar systems all over power and data from the rest of the world.” United Way update

If you’ve been thinking about do- has given to the campaign so far and High school students at the UVic Forensic Anthropology Day examine a real human skull to determine the person’s gender. PHOTO: Heather Stewart nating to the United Way this year, participated in the campus events,” now is the time to help ensure the says UVic campaign co-chair Charles UVic campaign reaches its target McQuade. “The next few weeks are of $290,000. going to be critical and I’m confident High school students As of Dec. 5, the campaign had that we’ll be able to reach our goal raised $250,316 from pledges and again this year.” fundraising at campus events in- Campaign organizers urge staff investigate UVic “crime scene” cluding the VW Bug Push, Hearts and faculty to keep the coins com- On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 26, a It was all part of a Forensic Anthro- Other grisly learning activities for and Hands Craft Fair, Plasma Car ing to fill the jars located in many group of local high school students pology Day free educational experi- the 40 Grade 10–12 students included Race and That Chemistry Show departmental offices. “One depart- were duct-taped into white Tyvek ence organized by the Department of mapping a simulated grave containing performance. ment has already raised more than coveralls and got down and dirty sift- Anthropology and Let’s Talk Science, actual human bones and learning to The UVic Libraries Book and $200 in small change, so all the ing through leaf litter along a UVic a national outreach organization that identify personal traits from skeletal Record Sale raised an impressive pennies and dimes really do add chip trail investigating a simulated supports educators teaching science remains. $19,924 by selling donated books, up,” says McQuade. crime scene. to children and youth. records, CDs, DVDs and a silent Although pledges are welcome auction of vintage typewriters. at any time, only those received Combined with $5,966 from July’s before Dec. 31 will be included in United Way record sale, UVic Li- the 2011 campaign. 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Thursday, December 15 at the galleries ■■ Lecture/Seminar 12 p.m. Finding uvac.uvic.ca Answers for Patients through Collaboration 250-721-6562 with Lab Scientists—A Geneticist’s Work. Dr. Linlea Armstrong (UBC). Medical Sciences ■■ Exhibit Images of Internment: 160. 250-853-3129 Paintings by Henry Shimizu. Until Feb. 2. Shimizu presents a series of paintings Friday, December 16 documenting his experience as a ■■ Music 8 p.m. Handel’s Messiah. teenaged internee at the New Den- Timothy Vernon, guest conductor. The ver, BC, Japanese internment camp Victoria Symphony’s annual presentation. from 1942–46. Maltwood Prints and $25-45. Univ. Centre Farquhar Auditorium. Drawings Gallery, McPherson Library. 250-381-7618 250-721-8480 ■■ Exhibit The Emergence of Ar- Sunday, December 18 chitectural Modernism II: UVic and ■■ Music 2:30 p.m. Handel’s Messiah. the Regional Aesthetic in the Late Timothy Vernon, guest conductor. The Vic- 1950s and 60s. Until late Feb. Legacy toria Symphony’s annual presentation. Art Gallery and Café. 630 Yates St. $25-45. Univ. Centre Farquhar Auditorium. Images of Internment Painting #3 250-381-7645 250-721-8480 Images of internment Friday, January 6 ■■ Lecture/Seminar 3 p.m. Inventing In 1999, Dr. Henry Shimizu created in this camp; they are the memories to widespread despair and depres- Iron Man: Where Is the Line Between Human a series of oil paintings based on of a teenager and his friends. sion. Instead, says Shimizu, they and Machine? Dr. Paul Zehr (UVic). Cornett his life as a teenager in the New According to Shimizu, despite came away from the experience Friday, December 9 Denver, BC, Japanese Internment isolation from mainstream Cana- more determined to be successful ■■ Lecture/Seminar 12 p.m. A Risky A228. 250-721-7551 Camp, from 1942 to 1946. They are dian Society during this time, the Canadians, contrary to the inten- Business: Novel Approaches to Modeling Wednesday, January 11 now featured in the exhibition “Im- development of young Japanese tion of those who promoted and Decision-making in Rats Based on Risk, ages of Internment” at the Maltwood Canadians progressed in almost the carried out this injustice of intern- Reward and Cognitive Effort. Dr. Catharine ■■ Music 12:30 p.m. The Music of the Night. Prints and Drawings Gallery on the same pattern as that of any other ment and exile. Winstanley, Michael Smith Foundation for Lieder at Lunch with Sharon & Harald Krebs. lower level of the McPherson Library, Canadian teenager. This free exhibition runs to Feb. Health Research Scholar, UBC. Medical Sci- MacLaurin B037. 250-721-8634 University of Victoria. One would have thought that 2, 2012. ences 160. 250-853-3129 The paintings highlight the ac- this internment experience would For more information visit uvac. ■■ Studies in Religion & Society tivities and lifestyle of the internees have embittered this group and led uvic.ca ■■ Lecture/Seminar 3 p.m. Bringing Lecture 4:30 p.m. The Extermination of the Cognitive Neuroscience to People Who Need Canaanites: Effects of Violence on the Develop- It. Aaron Newman (Dalhousie Univ.). Cornett ment of a Biblical Tradition. William Morrow A228. 250-721-7551 (Queen’s Univ.). Engineering Computer UVic teams bring home major Science 124. 250-721-6325 Tuesday, December 13 Friday, January 13 ■■ Lecture/Seminar 7:30 p.m. Victoria IBM CASCON Awards Natural History Society—Natural History ■■ Music 12:30 p.m. Fridaymusic. Take By Jean Macgregor education. The researchers dem- CASCON back to UVic is the re- Night: The Flathead River Valley. Sponsored an afternoon break to enjoy a concert of onstrated applications of Smart- search team from Ocean Networks by the Dept. of Biology. Fraser 159. varied repertoire and instruments featuring Instrumented, interconnected, in- erContext with IBM’s WebSphere Canada’s Center for Enterprise and School of Music students. MacLaurin B125. telligent. Themes from this year’s technologies, a suite of technolo- Engagement (ONC/CEE). The team 250-721-8634 IBM Canada Centre for Advanced gies widely used in industry. won the People’s Choice Technolo- Studies conference (CASCON) also In computer science terms, gy Showcase Award for their poster describe two UVic award-winning context characterizes changing presentation, “Ocean Networks Helping the hungry research teams. situations in which people find Canada: Leveraging Parallelism Dr. Hausi Muller and PhD stu- themselves, including their pref- in Deep Sea Video Analysis.” NEP- dent Norha Villegas (computer erences, social networks and the TUNE’s Maia Hoeberechts, ONC co- Forego fees, fines for food science) are the winners of the IBM weather conditions around them. op students Daniel Conti and Josh Reduce your fees and fines by almost $4,000 in fines, and Campus Canada Centre for Advanced Stud- Muller and Villegas’s approach Erickson, and MA student Alyea supporting local food banks this Security Services collected over 100 ies (CAS) Research Technology provides a way of tracking and Gebali presented at the conference. holiday season. UVic Libraries pounds of food for UVic students Incubation Lab Project of the Year managing information about these The researchers’ poster pres- and Campus Security Services in need. 2011 as the CAS research team who changing contexts so that it can entation describes the first phase are waiving fines in exchange According to Jaraad Marani, best exemplifies the CAS mission. be used in web and mobile ap- of the ONC/CEE, which imple- for donations of non-perishable UVSS Director of External Rela- Their project, “Managing Dy- plications to help people perform ments new software for real-time food items for the Mustard Seed tions, student need for food bank namic Context To Optimize Smart everyday tasks of different kinds. analysis of video data from the Food Bank, the UVic Family Cen- items increases every year. The Interactions and Smart Services Motivated by on-the-ground needs ocean. tre and UVic Student Society’s UVSS Food Bank received over (SmarterContext)” paves the way in society, the researchers’ goal The IBM Centre for Advanced Food Bank. 800 unique visits in the month of for the use of software systems is to apply SmarterContext to Studies (CAS) was established in A donation of one food item September alone. with context-aware capabilities other application domains, such Toronto in 1990 and brings togeth- reduces your library fine by $2 or Food for Fines runs until Dec. 9 in service-oriented systems, as health care. er IBM, academic and government reduces your parking ticket fine by at UVic Libraries and until Dec. 16 such as shopping, banking and Also bringing honours from research organizations. $5. Last year, UVic Libraries forgave at Campus Security Services.

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The Ring December 2011 Page 7 UVic spreading great ideas via TEDx day in Several University of Victoria faculty well (political science), Shawn Slavin members and students were featured (UVic Lipdub, science) joined a host the life at two TED events last month: TEDx- of others to speak at this occasion, Victoria and TEDxYouthDay. The designed to empower and inspire first event included presentations on young people. biological hackerspaces, rogue wave theory, and the evolution of storytelling. The second event was part of an annual series hap- pening all around the world on Universal Children’s Day. On Nov. 19 at the TEDxVictoria UVic is no stranger to TEDTalks. conference, Dr. Jim Tanaka, professor In July 2011, UVic PhD candidate of psychology and director of UVic’s Genevieve von Petzinger (anthropol- Centre for Autism Research, Technol- ogy) gave a TEDGlobal Fellow talk ogy and Education (CARTe), discussed in Edinburgh, Scotland. On Nov. 12, how the use of interactive media can NEPTUNE Canada director Dr. Kate help children with autism spectrum Moran spoke at the TEDxVancouver disorder develop their social and conference on the theme of “The emotional abilities. More: http://bit. Frontier: A Living Boundary with ly/t5tMZI the Unknown.” Marx. PHOTO: UVic Photo Services David Leach, director of UVic’s TED is a nonprofit organization professional writing program in the started as a four-day conference in Department of Writing, examined California in 1984. The TED Con- how the successes (and failures) of the ferences invite the world’s leading kibbutz movement’s 100-year experi- thinkers and doers to speak for 18 ment in communal life offer lessons to minutes, and the TED Talks are help all communities evolve. A UVic then made available, free, at http:// grad and former managing editor of www.ted.com/. In the spirit of ideas explore: Canada’s Outdoor Magazine, worth spreading, TEDx is a program Leach’s work has appeared in a variety of local, self-organized events that Marx. photo: uvic photo services of national and international publica- bring people together to spark deep tions and is the current president of discussion and connection in a small By Jean Macgregor to encourage students. And it has world like it. Imagine a student the Creative Nonfiction Collective, a group. been wonderfully rewarding.” who comes in and she’s upset—she national writers’ organization. More: When videos of any of these TED A day in the life of Dr. Rossi Marx As a senior lab instructor, Marx knows she’s not getting it. You ask http://bit.ly/pRGfbS presentations are posted online, The often ends on the 11:30 p.m. bus develops and coordinates first-year leading questions and you build On Nov. 20 at the TEDxYouthDay Ring will provide links. out of Ring Road. “I’m not a nine-to- general biology labs and third-year that confidence—I have literally event, UVic students Lilia Zaharieva More: http://tedxvictoria.com fiver,” says Marx, senior laboratory ichthyology, animal behavior and seen it: the eyes go out—there’s the (child and youth care), Jacob Heli- instructor and sessional lecturer in chordates labs. As a sessional light bulb—and pling! You see it. It the department of biology. lecturer, Marx teaches fourth-year makes you float for the remainder Marx, a neurobiologist, is pas- neuroethology and third-year ani- of the day, I swear.” sionate about fostering a learning mal behavior. On top of her job at Marx’s lab abounds with glow- environment for students. With UVic, Marx is the chair of the Van- ing tanks and undulating, gelati- Student, business school undergraduate degrees in math- couver Island Regional Science Fair, nous beings. She studies jellyfish, ematics and biology from Germany, which is held at and supported by and her enthusiasm for the crea- an MSc in neurobiology from the UVic. According to Marx, the need tures is infectious. win big at Monopoly University of Saskachewan, and for people in the science and tech- For Marx, jellyfish are exciting a PhD in neurobiology from UVic, nology sector is increasing. “The because their ancestors were the By Dianne George winner would receive a prize was a Marx is no stranger to going the kids who participate in the science first animals to have a full nervous surprise feature. extra mile for the love of teaching fair are the people who are going to system. “Evolutionarily speaking, The last thing Sophia Garza expected Garza was surprised and delighted and learning. take care of all of us in our old age,” the group goes back almost a bil- to be doing as part of her MBA studies to win the game and find herself the “Throughout my career, I always she says. “They are the people who lion years,” says Marx. “If we look was playing Monopoly—for money, recipient of a $5,000 cash prize. “I had to fight to be allowed to get my are going to come up with the next at the fossil records and compare not the faux dollars you usually find enjoy playing games; my favourite is education,” says Marx. “As a pupil in CanadaArm.” these ancestors to animals that packaged with the game board. But Rummikub, although Monopoly has high school, I was told by a teacher The diversity of her roles doesn’t are around today, we find that things are different at the Gustavson stolen a piece of my heart,” she said. that girls did not need to know sci- faze Marx. the forms are very similar. And Business School’s Sardul S. Gill Gradu- “At first I was shocked to win be- ence, since they were going to get “Above all, I am an instructor,” if we can assume that form and ate School. cause my opponents were really good married. Just before I graduated she says. “I try to give students function go hand in hand, and we Garza and a team of MBA and players. Then I realized that a good from high school, my father was the skills that go beyond book observe that nerve cells in jellyfish BCom students put aside their strategy with a little bit of luck had diagnosed with leukemia, and he knowledge that they need for their and in humans function in similar traditional studies on Sept. 30 to helped me win the game.” died a few months later when I was professional lives. For me, the most ways—how humbling is that? How participate in a Monopoly tourna- Garza, who is very thankful for the in my first term of university. I was important skill is critical thinking.” interesting is that?” ment, a unique event designed to opportunity, says she “learned how to told by a relative that I couldn’t and Sometimes, says Marx, criti- Making connections—from build their strategy and negotiation negotiate with other players and that shouldn’t stay in university. But look cal thinking happens right before invertibrates to humans, between skills. The tournament was the idea patience is a virtue.” at me now: I am a continent away, your eyes. instructors and students—at the of David Ritchie, founder and chair The game was a success on many not only in science, but teaching it, “I swear I’ve seen the light bulb end of the day, that’s what it’s all emeritus of Ritchie Bros. Auctions, levels. Ritchie left behind a $95,000 and rather than discouraging, I try go on. And there’s nothing in the about. and a 2005 Gustavson School of Busi- gift to ensure that future business ness Distinguished Entrepreneur of students could benefit. The funds will the Year. be used to establish an endowment The fact that the game would be for an annual David Ritchie Monopoly played with actual dollars and the tournament. in memoriam Danielle Forster, UVic’s rare books and information services Prices Current Exhibition Award. Cy Fox, now living in Toronto, librarian, passed away suddenly on Aug. 28. One of the many sent his condolences to library staff in a letter where he projects Danielle was working on with colleagues at the time wrote, “hers were a safe pair of hands working forcefully but of her death was an exhibit based on WWI materials from without fuss and with an instinctive sense of exactitude and UVic Archives and Special Collections. This exhibit, “The World comprehensiveness.” of Mary’s Wedding,” which opened Oct. 24 in the Maltwood A Danielle Forster Special Collections Endowment Fund has Gallery at the McPherson Library, was dedicated to the been established to commemorate Danielle’s dedication memory of Danielle. and promotion of learning. The fund will provide Special Danielle also acted as a subject librarian for the departments Collections and the University Archives with the means to of English, French, women’s studies and religious studies. For hire a student to assist with priority projects. The goal is to these departments, she maintained blogs for her subjects, build this fund to $25,000 at which time it will be endowed took French classes to improve her command of the language, and remain with the library in perpetuity. An online donation worked on many collaborative projects with faculty and form is available through the UVic Libraries’ website (http:// taught many library research classes to students. bit.ly/vn3z6a). In 2009, she coordinated the Cy Fox/Wyndham Lewis Danielle will be greatly missed by her colleagues at the library Collection exhibition and symposium, and edited and and throughout the university. published The Lion and the Fox exhibition catalogue, which Submitted by Susan Henderson, UVic Libraries won the 2010 Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Leab American Book

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