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Janet's album is 20 years past its prime TH lu BYSSEY
FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006 JANET JACKSON in the listening, because 20 Y.O. out there already. "Show Me" and again I don't want to be pressing VOL.LXXXVIII N°27 20 Y.O. largely fails to deliver. "So Excited" has Janet coo-ing fast forward every four tracks.
Virgin Records Most of the tracks sound messy sexily in Cassie and Ciara fashion, If I'm making 20 Y.O. sound EDITORIAL BOARD and experimental without being while the mellow girlishness of nightmarish, it's not altogether bad COORDINATING EDITOR Erie Szeto by Anita Law innovative, the lyrics deal with "Daybreak" becomes grating after "Get It Out Me" is a great dance coordina [email protected]
CULTURE WRITER generic subject matter—love, sex, the first minute or two. Straddling track— fun but intense, with a lot of NEWS EDITORS Colleen Tang &c relationships—which would be fine, the line between hip hop and R&B, momentum. Nelly drops by in "Call Carolynne Burkholder Janet Jackson's newest CD opens if they were sung in new or catchy 20 Y.O. blends the two genres in an On Me," and the two voices sustain [email protected]. ca with the singer giving a short ways. The issue of originality is a big uninspiring fashion. As to the struc a great chemistry throughout. CULTURE EDITOR Jesse Ferreras retrospective about the heavy problem with 20 Y.O. Barring the ture of the album, I found the intro Perhaps my criticism stems from a [email protected]. ca themes her music has touched on weirdness of a 40-year old woman and the interludes self-indulgent— personal bias against the genre. For SPORTS EDITOR Boris Korby in the last 20 years. Of her current singing, "You know it makes the you in fact, "asides" in general annoy an up-and-comer, 20 Y.O. might [email protected]. ca album she says, "I wanna keep it know what come out," I can't get me, because: actually be a solid album, but from
light, I don't wanna be serious, I past the weirdness of Janet Jackson 1) I believe the music should an artist that has been so definitive FEATURES/NATIONAL EDITOR
wanna have fun." I hope she had opting, in her 'come back album' to speak for itself, and to pop music, I expected something Momoko Price [email protected] more fun in the making than I had sound like half of the hiphop divas 2) if listen to a CD over and over far more fresh and thoughtful. @ PHOTO EDITOR Oker Chen
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by Jesse Ferreras CULTURE EDITOR surprise! In 1994, I took a day trip with my family to catch the track competi URINETOWNJHE MUSICAL tion at the Commonwealth Games at the FirehallArts Centre in Victoria. The crowd went wild until December 10 over a victory by a sprinter from Sierra Leone, a country about rK by Christine McLaren which I knew nothing at the time. I CULTURE WRITER doubt strongly that Blood Diamond, a film about the civil war that rav Though the average theatregoer aged the country for a decade, would likely cringe in fear at the would have made me care. The film title Urinetown, the Musical, this pays lip service to its venerable Firehall production tops the charts intentions on screen, but ultimately on every level, despite its unfortu subjects them to the demands of nate name. A brilliant mix of paro unrealistic action formulae. dy, romance, tragedy, and delight Solomon Vandy (Amistad's fully dark humor, Urinetown tells Djimon Hounsou) supports his minerals across the border from Zwick is not committed to that as social consciousness. Here, it does the tale of a city devastated by family as a fisherman and refuses Sierra Leone to Liberia. Formerly a Blood Diamond's advance press n't work because he detracts too poverty, drought and Corporate to allow his son Dia (Caruso South African soldier, Archer sees would have you believe. Too often much attention from his humani America, where natural resources Kuypers) to follow the same path. the diamond as his way out of the violence is staged in a way that tarian message and doesn't make control money, and money con Despite their surroundings, living Africa and enlists Solomon's help, would find itself at home in a Jerry his audience care about it. trols human rights. in a straw hut along the coastline in promising him that he can help Bruckheimer film, with a hand Additionally, the character of Due to over consumption of the midst of a civil war between the him find his family. That, however, some, white hero dodging bullets Solomon had the potential to be water, the city's public washrooms government and the Revolutionary must be achieved against the rising with relative ease as he gets him the film's real emotional anchor, have been taken over by the Urine United Front (RUF), Solomon power of the RUF, who easily take self and his noble savage partner just as Ken Watanabe was in Good Company (UGC), a power- believes firmly that his son will control of Freetown, Sierra Leone's out of danger relatively unscathed. Samurai. Through no fault of hungry corporation that raises grow up to be a doctor. Their for capital city, and puts Solomon and Once it comes time for an action Hounsou's, it does not happen the fees of public toilets to heights tunes change completely when RUF Archer on the run to discover the sequence, the film seems less con here, and that has everything to do at which, according to Ms. forces invade his village, killing diamond before the guerrillas get cerned with stopping the diamond with the pathetic dialogue fed to Pennywise (Barbara Barsky), fee people at random, setting fire to their hands on it. conflict than exciting its audience. him by screenwriter Charles collector for the filthiest urinal in homes and mutilating civilians. I absolutely recognise what It is not helped by its constant need Leavitt (K-PAX). town, "it's a privilege to pee." Those who are spared, like Blood Diamond was trying to say, to incorporate totally inappropri A socially-conscious action film Strict laws limit urination any Solomon, are taken to the country's and in a number of scenes it does ate and unnecessary humour, such works when powered by a strong where else in the city, and if the diamond mines so that they can so effectively. The film's violence is as when Jennifer Connelly's ideal script— Blood Diamond falls miser laws are broken, the perpetrator is strain water and discover the pre just as brutal as it needs to be, par istic, action-junkie journalist wards ably flat on this count. Edward hauled away by police to the phan cious stones in order to fund the ticularly in the sequence in which off the threat of a guerrilla force by Zwick's insistence on turning the film tom Urinetown, the whereabouts RUF militia's activities. It is to Archer and Solomon are escaping huddling them into a photo-op. into an action blockbuster takes away of which are unknown to the peo Solomon's eventual salvation that from Freetown. Shots ring out This is not to take away from too much from its important mes ple of the city. he discovers a rare pink diamond loudly and blood spatters across the filmmaker's skill. As he sage and effectively blunts it midway Narrated by Police Captain and conceals it from the RUF. That walls, leaving very little to the demonstrated in The Last Samurai through. Film like this should be Lockstock (David Adams), the stone sparks the interest of Danny imagination. The film would have Zwick has a real knack for action found in the drama section at your story moves between the Rich UGC Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a benefitted, however, from more sequences and has attempted to local video store—not on the action workers and the Poor—homeless smuggler who has been moving the attention to realism— Edward use that talent in tandem with shelf next to The Big Hit. @ street dwellers occupying the slum around Public Facility Number 9. When the homeless Bobby Strong (Matt Palmer) and Hope Cladwell UBC author reflects on an age of secrets (Tracy Neff), daughter of the owner of UGC, fall deeply in love, by Jennifer Chrumka "Not for the reader, but actually txM ioidwdi* Strong is inspired, by the moving CULTURE WRITER for myself so I would keep [being] song "Follow your Heart," to start a interested in the writing process." revolution against the injustice he Brett Josef Grubisic puts forward The idea of hidden artifacts was and his fellow street-dwellers some big questions to readers of his inspired from Grubisic's own experience from day to day, beg novel The Age of Cities. For instance, childhood. ging a "penny for a pee." As the when fiction dresses up as fact, how "I was on the cusp of puberty revolution carries on and the good do readers' expectations of fiction when I decided that I needed some guys finally take over, one is led to adjust? And does a work of fiction where to hide things from the pry believe that, as in every musical, it undermine its own credibility? ing eyes of my parents, my father in will all turn out well in the The Age of Cities is a self- particular." end...but will it? After all, as described bildungsroman—mean So he hollowed out the pages of t ) \\A?y IXflUV oL \ \\\ Officer Lockstock continuously ing 'a novel of formation' in his father's hardcover and dense insists to the ever-adorable Little German. The book traces the moral journeyman's electrician textbook. Sally (Tracy Power), "this isn't a and social development of its cen He was drawn to the idea of 'happy musical.'" tral character, Winston Wilson, a being able to hide potential things. This delectably hilarious spoof reclusive high school librarian who "I really had nothing to hide; no is a gem of the stage that leaves the - » J« • lives in a fictitious town outside of cigarettes, no damning letters, no audience with more to consider Vancouver. drugs," he said. "Seeing it in plain than the average fluffy, cheesy pro Set in the 1950s, the plot sight though, on a bookshelf and duction. It provides frighteningly unfolds when Winston's ballooning knowing that it might contain realistic solutions to problems that foot forces him out of his closeted something that only I knew about, affect us all, even in Vancouver, rural life into the city to see a spe was quite a thrill." perhaps a Urinetown in itself. cialist. Once there, he stumbles into That was until his father finally Making its comeback once again in an underground gay subculture encountered an electrical problem. Vancouver's Firehall Arts Center, and over the course of the novel Besides raising questions in The the show has earned the theatre becomes irrevocably intertwined Age of Cities, Grubisic was also hop company two Jessie Richardson with its cast of characters. ing to explore a subculture of coded awards (outstanding production Grubisic is a professor with the behaviour and secret networks. and direction), as well as nomina English department at UBC. He "I love the whole idea of this tions for four others. The music is a edited Contra/Diction: New Queer twilight world of queerness," he phenomenally eclectic mix of multi Male Fiction and co-edited Carnal said. The awkward awakening of ple genres, and the astounding
Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions. Winston is symbolic of the repres ' f -_» .'-.?' dance numbers, choreographed by This novel is his first. sion and denial that haunts many there are those areas in Canada and "You have these secret places you the award-winning choreographer "I like writing that's simple and coming of age stories. the United States where that 50s can go to meet your kind, but for the Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, make that makes you aware of itself as "The gay world I live in, I never paradigm is necessary for survival." rest of the world they don't exist this a show that is not to be missed. being a literary artifact, not just a even think twice about being gay as The Age of Cities challenges the because they're little safety zones or Oh, and by the way, the bath story that's being told," Grubisic a thing," said Grubisic. "To me, it's format of conventional Canadian fic they're oases," Grubisic said. rooms are located on the upper said. The phony manuscript angle no different than being Canadian, or tion. It also forces readers to face the They don't exist until, as in The floor of the FirehallArts Centre. Be he uses makes the novel more intel being male, or being from BC. It's lifestyles kept secret by the social Age of Cities, what's hidden beneath sure that you go before the show lectually stimulating, he added. just one part of my personality. But conditions of any age. is eventually uncovered. @ begins. @ FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006 THE UBYSSEY NEWS THE UBYSSEY FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006
SNOWBUS DAILY EXPRESS BUS SERVICI Hugging BC Supreme Court rules to impeach VANCOUVER 4-f WHISTLER <—• RICHMOND New age becoming a snowdub member. "Members never pay tull price!". The SNOWBUS Is open to the general public, operating Seven SFU student society executive members forced to leave office daily scheduled during the ski season between Richmond/Vancouver and Whistler. Our on-Doard host will be servin up snacks, non -alcoholic beverages (sorry, you gotta be good) and tonnes of prizes. Snowbus and Snowdub were founde K "Ibcrt, President and CEO. After a lengthy bailie with BC's famous govcrnmcr epidemic socialising burcj "klotor Carrier Commission to begin scheduled bus service i by Eric Szeto Nov .average bus. LOW COST • GREAT SERVICE! Ou CUP WESTERN BUREAU CHIEF by Victor Liang goa '!... I| irndor. Founded an the idea thai the bit 1 VyUS was born. We current! NEWS STAFF I-... offering uniqu ite witn Tub hav VANCOUVER (CUP)-The BC been del hits UBC who hav? Supreme Court has ruled against A UBC researcher, Jennifer Shapka, edu schedu. an appeal launched by seven exec cation and counselling psychology and non-akH entrepreneur^ Students join Free Hugs utive members of the student soci special education assistant professor is from the BC MutorH Vancouver-Whistler. SndJ 0 I : GKEH 5EK1 ety at Simon Fraser University, embarking on a study that will investigate and real value to passeiT weling the; Campaign to cheer things up companies were not prov] he right servk • the rightmafl putting an end to a stormy and the relationship between how teenagers buses and have plans! ird as the si i season evolves. The ShSv? dedicated la brinj EW cxperT be tothc skiers and boarders heading to T tumultuous six months. are using the Internet and how this members-* liquet, I "^ pecial events and priority treatment at locaJ The ruling on December 4 impacts different aspects of their develop The Snowb] Been dcJ launched by a select team of very clcvl hu by Christine McLaren companic! • • p) who I ' s service a reality for our Olympic^JtyJ NEWS WRITER upheld the electoral results of a mental well-being. public, II i daily schei JringtT between Vancouver and Whistler.' ?r. 'W r I BardT serving ,,. y 1 tonnes of prizes-Snowbus and Snowdub were founde general student referendum held The study is mainly examining the social in ZO01 : • . tAfter a lengthy battle with BC's famous govcrnmcr bureai Hyirrter Commission to begin scheduled bus service i What started with one man, a black in October, in which students outcomes of online activity and interfacing, NL, lu* i.H NOT your average bus. LOW COST - Grca ingers traveling the Sea-to-Sky Corridor. Founded on th marker, a gigantic heart, and a piece voted to impeach the executives. said Shapka. idea' be riahl service for the right market - Snowbus was bort of cardboard in Sydney, Australia has As a result, the 'Group of Seven,' or "We know adolescents are spending We curre" J as the snow season evolves. The Snowbus is part of th Snowdub. Bcw experience to the skiers and boarders heading to Whistle become a worldwide phenomenon, G7 as they have been called, will most of their time instant messaging. That is vIhe Snowd| le discounts, access to special events and priority treatment i local dubs e been developed and launched by a select team of very deve sending a message of love and peace have to leave office immediately. the most popular online activity. That really people (thej who have made this service a reality for our Olympic City i open U lg the ski season between Vancouver and Whistler. Our on- around the globe, including UBC. Each one of the executives will suggests that they are socialising in a unique boar/' ttges and ions of prizes. Snowbus Love The Ridel wa EMBRACE ME: Morgane Cabot gave out a free hug as UBC students found d CEO. After a lengthy halite with BC's famous governmer Under the pen name, "Juan also have to cover the legal costs of way, different than when I was a teenager. burcai r Carrier Commission to begin scheduled bus service i Mann," he started a Free Hugs embraced the Free Hug Campaign. CHRISTINE MCLAREN PHOTO plaintiffs Jan Gunn, Titus Gregory So we want to see the impact of that" Novel wbus is NOT your average bus.Movies excitement an Campaign over two years ago, after paign, the students were over ing about Vanier's plans for down and Bryan Jones. It is believed that Shapka added that the study found a Round Trip coming back home to Australia and whelmed by the positive reaction town he quickly jumped on board, the group will have to dole out significant number of adolescents that for as low as Hosts, Food, Movies, Fun —Love The Ride! finding the place "miserable." He they received, including drivers of thrilled by the reception they imme $4,000 to $8,000 collectively. were not instant messaging were more took a sign with the words "Free cars and busses stopping traffic to get diately received. The court stated that the likely to go on social networking sites like 604.685.SNOW 11.866.SNOWBUS | SNOWBUS.CA Hugs" drawn on in black marker, and out and receive their free hugs, as "It was amazing how receptive and grounds of the appeal—the circum MySpace and Facebook. 'Membef price. Some restrictions apply. Please vH www srwwbus.ca tor details. Prices sutjfect io cfianoe GST not included walked around the busiest pedestri well as an appearance on CTV news open people were," he said. stances of the meeting prior to the "There were also 25 per cent of our an intersection in Sydney, with the the same evening. According to Herring, not every referendum—was not problematic. sample that didn't instant message, so I 1 simple goal of brightening some When asked about their inspira body was willing to open their arms The judge went on to say that even does that mean these kids don't have one's day. tion and reasons for taking part, the and embrace a stranger, the mere if there were problems with the ini friends? We don't know," she said adding : NEW YEAR, NEW TIME FOR NEWSIES! : According to Mann's official students' answers were simple. idea of it brought a smile to almost tial meeting, the results of the sub that there will be further investigation on
• • Free Hugs Campaign homepage, "The feeling you get when you see every passerby's face. sequent meeting and referendum, whether there is "a percentage of kids out I News meetings will be at a new time next term. They | "Sometimes a hug is all what we someone smiling as they walk away "Even if we just made people whose attendance exceeded over there that aren't engaging in this now nor need...to see someone who was after hugging you is amazing. It's smile, that's a mission accomplished. 700 SFU students, would still mal way of socialising." will remain on Tuesdays though. Stay tuned! once frowning, smile even for a something so easy, yet so effective," It's as simple as that." stand. Currently, Shapka has completed a pilot moment, is worth it every time." said Matthew Corker, international However, Sociology Emeritus "We were all very, very excited," study as part of the four-year research proj [email protected] • The movement started gaining business student, and residence advi Professor Brian Elliott points out that said Bryan Jones, a spokesperson ect, where she has set up an Internet service I . ._ I recognition and fame when up and sor in Korea House and Place Vanier. it is not always fun and games when it for Students for a Democratic provider that allows her to monitor what coming band, Sickpuppies, used video He organised the event with resident comes to hugging. Society. "When the judges walked participating adolescents of the study are footage from Juan Mann's campaign Laura Mehes. "I think one has to be a tad careful out it was pretty explosive, people doing online. for a music video to their song "All the "At UBC they're always teaching about that. You are making assump were shouting and yelling. It was "There have been some interesting find THE UBYSSEY Same," and posted it on Internet site us skills to go out into the world tions that are going to be universally quite a celebration." ings," she continued. "Mainly, we're very YouTube. Since its posting in and make it a better place. This is world received," he said. "The reign of terror is over," surprised in the range of the amountof time September 2006, the video has been finally putting some context into He added that while westernised said Jan Gunn, a SFSS member, kids are spending online, ranging from very viewed by over seven million people, the buzz words that are thrown cultures embrace this type of behav adding that the executives are little...up to eight hours a day. and has inspired thousands around around," he added. iour, not all cultures do. "It's culturally "completely done, they're out. The "We only have data about the Internet the globe to start their own cam Corker got the inspiration for the rather specific." society is moving on." use right now...The larger study with a larg paigns, including students at UBC. campaign after seeing the video on "You have a very diverse campus Joel Blok, a SFSS director, said er sample will allow us to see if that Internet Last Sunday afternoon, a small YouTube. Peter Herring, first-year here. I can imagine some of the stu there were major concerns about use is associated with different social, cogni Be one of the first to group of students from Place Vanier Arts student, was also inspired by dents I know that might be a little dis the lack of transparency and dis tive, or even physical outcomes." stop by SUB 23, to residence made their way downtown Mann's video and made his way comforted if some unknown character honesty within the old executive One of the indirect consequences of the pick up a free movie to take part in their own Free Hugs around UBC sporting his Free Hugs [gave] them a hug," Elliott said. and added that he is glad the soci study maybe to debunk public anxiety about pass to a preview operation in front of the Vancouver sign a few weeks before hearing "On the other hand there are lots of ety can now move forward. having adolescents communicating online. PROTEST: Students taking action against their student society, PHOTO COURTESY OF PAULMAN CHAN screening of: Art Gallery. They gave away hugs to about any organised movement on other people would say, 'that kind of The SFSS will have to hold "There is a poorly articulated concern any passersby who wanted them. For campus. There he began offering display is quite delightful and it made immediate by-elections for the began at the end of July, when to move to impeach the executives last summer, that somehow communicating online is the duration of their three hour cam- hugs to willing receivers. After hear my day'" @ seven executive positions, which actions taken by the executive stemmed largely from the investi- The impeached members of the not real communication. That it is some Perfume need to be filled by December 19. were brought into question. The gation and subsequent firing of student executive could not be how fake or less meaningful than, say, The SFSS executive controversy motion to call for referendum and SFSS staff member Hattie Aitken reached for comment. @ a phone conversation," said Leah on Tuesday, Macfadyen, research associate in the fac December 12 Big heart earns big props ulty of science, who has been studying the 7:00pm at culture of online learning. Granville 7 Theatre. UBC student applauded for volunteer work SFU rushing through executive by-elections "My feeling is that it's a new form of IN THEATRES by Brandon Adams helped him decide what he wanted communication. It is communication NEWS STAFF to do in the future. by Eric Szeto said Mark Warren, a UBC political there is hope the events of the past fourth-year student, echoed those regardless; it has a different culture, JANUARY 5 "It's made me realise that I defi CUP WESTERN BUREAU CHIEF science professor who specialises six months have sparked interest sentiments. norms, its own language. Kids learn differ On December 5, UBC student in democratic theory. in the upcoming elections. "Personally I think it's hard ent techniques, dialects, spelling, but lan While quantities last. nitely want a job not in academia Noah Alexander was recognised but with people and probably kids," VANCOUVER (CUP)-The decision "The student body knows guage evolves like that all the time too. by the Big Brothers of Greater he said. "It's made me realise I to hold immediate by-elections at what's going on," he said. "They've Teenagers speak to each other in different "PERSONALLY, BECAUSE "IF YOUR CONSTITUENCY Vancouver and Alma Mater Society want a job that you go home and SFU to fill the seats of seven certainly heard about the issue ways than adults speak to each other." (AMS) Volunteer Connections on you can feel good about what you impeached members of SFU's IT'S EXAMS, IT'S KIND OF over the last couple of months and IS A STUDENT BODY AND It is almost a given that students at all lev International Volunteer Day for his did." Student Society (SFSS) has some AT THE BOTTOM OF MY the possibility of people being YOU'RE HAVING THIS els of the school system now have computer exceptional volunteer efforts. Rebecca Saban, marketing and students concerned about whether impeached. OVER EXAMS, THE YOU and Internet familiarity, though some are Fourth-year biology student communications coordinator at Big those elected will be accurately TO-DO-LIST...I HAVEN'T "I don't think it should be a still skeptical that it is all for the better. CAN IMAGINE THE PEO Alexander has volunteered for hos Brothers of Greater Vancouver, representative of the school's PAID ANY ATTENTION problem in terms of representa "I spend a lot of time on the computer, pitals, care centres, recreation cen said that Big Brothers' In-School 24,000 students. tion and at the end of the day, the PLE'S ATTENTIONS but I'm more inclined to actually go out and [TO THE ELECTION] tres, children's organisations and Mentoring Program is a great fit for The December 4 decision by directors are still responsible to OWULD BE ELSEWHERE see people in person if I can," said Alfred even a Masai village. students. the Supreme Court to uphold the membership in one way or Ho, a first-year engineering student "I feel KESTREL WHATSOEVER." AND THAT WILL REFLECT "I've been doing [in-school men "It's school-based but it's non- the results of October's impeach -Jennifer Clune another." it's possibly hurting my social skills and just J BOOKS toring] for two years now," said academic, meaning you're not ment referendum prompted the Presidential candidate J.J THE LEGITMACY OF THE more socially isolating to be sitting there Alexander. "It's really rewarding. You tutoring the child," she said. SFSS election commission to hold fourth-year SFU student .McCullough admitted that the tim OUTCOME." staring at a monitor all the time." see a big difference in a kid's life." Instead of volunteers tutoring kids, by-elections during end-of-term ing of the election was question -Mark Warren But Shapka is not convinced that online Used/Rare/Fine Books "The first little buddy [I worked explained Saban, volunteers pro exams. "The more people that turn able, but contended that positions communication is detracting from face-to- Bought & Sold with] had some very serious prob vide a child with a positive role BIG BROTHER: Noah Alexander With previous SFSS elections out, the more you can say in student elections rarely get UBC Political Science Professorfac e communication—yet another aspect she lems...but that was really reward model. wants to pursue a career roughly averaging a voter turn the results reflect the will of the elected with the majority of the will be investigating in her project. * I.ITKRATURK » PsYCHOIOGI ing because [once I started] hang Saban said the programs used involving interaction with kids. out of six per cent, there's the constituency." popular vote. "Kids are still going to the mall, or get ;»• I'llll.OSOI'llV *ART ing out with him his teachers were in approximately 50 schools across OKER CHEN PHOTO expectation that the impromptu So far interest for the election has Others at SFU, like fourth-year enough to get people voting in by- ting together in groups, instant messaging i» I llSIORl saying he was behaving a lot bet the Lower Mainland and requires a by-election will yield an even been average as there is roughly student Jennifer Clune, are indif elections, but to have it this late in is just adding to this need to be in constant ter," said Alexander about his expe time commitment by volunteers of unteer on International Volunteer lower voter turnout. three people running for each posi ferent to the process. the semester—I don't know how contact," said Shapka. rience with Big Brothers of Greater one hour per week. Day December 5. "If your constituency is a stu tion. Campaign times will be trun "Personally, because it's great the turnout is going to be." "Watching my little brother growing up OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK UAM-8:30PM Vancouver's In-School Mentoring Ruth Situma, AMS Volunteer The call for submissions, Situma dent body, and you're having this cated—December 4 to December exams, it's kind of at the bottom Despite the campus-wide e- with the Internet and just thinking how his '5642 Wcsl 4lh Ave (ntiir Alma) Program. Connections coordinator, explained said, produced more people than over exams, then you can imagine 15—while voting will take place on of my to-do list," said Clune. "I mail sent out by the university, life might be different at that age, it came to (604) 872-2959 Alexander, who started volun that Volunteer Connections wanted were expected. the people's attentions would be December 18 and 19. haven't paid any attention [to the MacCavour said that she only me as I was very interested in this very con mw. kestrelbooks.ca teering with the program last to give an award not only to a UBC "We got so many and they were elsewhere and that will reflect on Joel Blok, a SFSS director, said election] whatsoever." found out about the election via temporary problem of what it means to September, said the experience student but also an exceptional vol- all quite exceptional students." @ the legitimacy of the outcome," that despite the short time-frame Jillian McCavour, another the popular weblog Facebook. @ grow up in an information age." @ OPINION & EDITORIAL FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006 THE UBYSSEY
LETTER/PERSPECTIVE
We did have permission
Thank you for pointing out that it is time Feliz Navidad, happy holidays again to look at the question of municipal gov ernance at UBC, in "The University who didn't need permission [Nov 28]." As you correctly indicated, the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) Board of Directors and UBC Board of Governors through the GVRD- UBC Joint Committee decided to request that the province initiate a dialogue with the GVRD, UBC, the University Neighborhoods Association (UNA), University Endowment Lands (UEL) and the City of Vancouver on an alternate governance system. This point, however, is the limit of correct ness in what is an otherwise poorly researched editorial. Regarding the Marine Drive Student Residences, UBC in no way ever violated GVRD bylaws in relation to the Marine Drive Student Residences. The Marine Drive Student Residences is being developed in strict accor dance with the UBC Official Community Plan (OCP); the UBC/GVRD Memorandum of Understanding (2000); and the GVRD Park Management Plan. Regarding the demolition of the old wings of the Main Library, the library was in dire need of seismic upgrade and did not have sufficient capacity to accommodate UBC's growing collection of materials now valued at over $1 billion. The fate of the Chancellor building was decided nearly ten years ago (during the OCP consultation process) when the Vancouver School of Theology decided it needed to develop its land for an endowment that would support its academic mission. Regarding UBC's OCP, it is a bylaw of the GVRD that was prepared pursuant to the pro visions of the Municipal Act and the Universities Act. UBC is the first university to adopt and dis close information according to the province's accountability guidelines for governing boards of BC's public sector organisations. Further, the actions of the UBC administra tion are accountable to the UBC Board of Governors (which has strong student repre sentation); the GVRD Board of Directors through the OCP and Joint Committee; the Senate and the Council of Senates; and the Universities Act. You seem to easily forget that UBC was established as a separate institutional entity to avoid becoming subject to inappropriate sectional interests. I would argue that our company of scholarship does have effective processes and a growing track record of con sultative decision-making with respect to our shared fabric of teaching, learning, research and community. Perhaps it is time for the Ubyssey to remember that the core purpose of UBC's development policy must remain the academic mission, which the citizens of this province have entrusted us. —Brad Foster is the Manager of Communications for UBC External and Streeters Legal Affairs What would you like for Christmas but probably won't get? Gay-MS not gay enough I was rather saddened when I picked up my copy of the Ubyssey satire issue last week (The Jubyssey). While greatly amused by the spoof article "GAY-MS deemed homosexist" [Dec. 5] on the frontpage and inside cover of the edition, I was disappointed to note that I was the only current AMS Executive not made fun of in the writeup. I cracked a grin at "Spanker Keys," chuckled at "Heff Friedrock," snickered at "Keevin Gallstone," chortled at "Sophie Hack," and laughed out right at "Iain Bitpillow." However, there was —Adam Spears —Eli Hutchinson —Fiona McDowell —Abdulah Luqman —Coree Tull no mention of anything that could be con Arts, 2 Sociology, exchange Mech Engineering, 4 Arts, 2 Geography, 4 strued as a mockery of my name. Hell, Spanker a.k.a. Spencer Keys was an execu "A new pink "An iPod. I've "A trip to Europe." "Nothing. "I want a pair tive LAST year. Yeesh. It's not as if it's diffi cult to come up with a spoof of "David snowboard for been wanting I'm content. Birk[enstock]s. I guess I'd like I asked for a Yuen"—"Gayvid Yuren" took me all of five Whistler'.' one for a while, seconds to come up with—or as if I'm not suf good grades.." pair so we'll see." but I'm saving ficiently gay to be included in the article. In to go skiing." fact, I contend that I am just as gay as the rest of the AMS Executive this year. I sincerely hope that, in future, when the Ubysseyrefers to the AMS Executive (satirically or other wise) that they will do so in entirety. —Coordinated by Mary Leighton and Oker Chen —David Yuen is the AMS VP administration THE UBYSSEY FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006 FEATURE 7
story by Andrew Lodge, The Manitoban Canaries in the Arctic (University of Manitoba) Getting up close and personal with climate change in the Far North
INNIPEG (CUP)-A few researcher Terry Prowse in a recent blame the lack of sea ice for pushing further increases in temperature in 2005 was 20 per cent less than W weeks back, University of CBC Radio interview. "That canary is them on land. above and beyond what is already the average sea ice cover in the Manitoba researcher Dan Leitch coughing. We've got to keep our eye "If you talk to any local in the certain to occur. He argued that not Arctic between 1978 and 2000. debarked from the Canadian Coast on it, because ten years in the Arctic North, there is no doubt that climate doing so could be catastrophic. The current rate of shrinkage is Guard's icebreaker, the CCGS is what we're going to get 30 years change is happening. They tell sto The Polar Regions are especially roughly eight per cent, meaning Amundsen, after spending six down the road [here]." ries of hunters falling through the vulnerable to changing environmen there will be no ice by 2060. The weeks at sea as part of an ongoing In the past several years Inuit ice because it is thinner, there is less tal conditions. Ice Data Center also notes that the mission to study climate change in residents of Nunavut have been of it, and it is much more unpre "The Arctic ecosystem is fragile rate is increasing, so it is entirely the Canadian Arctic. pointing to rapid and increasing dictable. They also talk of animals and heavily dependent on patterns possible that we will be ice-free A lot happened in the debate on changes to the world in which they that have shown up in recent years of temperature, snow and ice that before that date. global warming while he was away. live, an environment they are close that local languages have no word are now rapidly changing," said Positive feedback loops work in Most notable was the release of ly connected to. for, because they are usually only Leitch. "It is especially obvious to a similar way with Arctic per British economist Sir Nicholas found in warmer climates." the Inuit people who still live off mafrost, which is defined as land Stern's dire report on the econom The consensus on drastic cli the land and rely on ice for trans frozen continuously for two or more ics of climate change last October. mate change has now reached an portation." years. In the Arctic much of the per In addition to the disastrous ecolog unprecedented near-unanimity If the so-called tipping point is mafrost has been frozen since the ical consequences of an artificially within the scientific community. reached, it then unleashes what's last Ice Age, 8,000 to 10,000 years heated biosphere, the report pre Although it's been an ongoing known in biological systems as a ago. This is changing. dicted that global warming would issue for some time, climate "positive feedback cycle." Hidden in this permanently set off a 20 per cent drop in the change has gone mainstream. "Many effects of climate change frozen land are very high concentra global economy. According to the Polls, both nationally and on the are in fact positive feedback tions of carbon dioxide and methane, report, the result would be an eco Even for Leitch, a relative new global stage, repeatedly indicate loops, whereby a system responds which are constantly being produced nomic disaster exceeding that of comer to the Arctic, the signs of people share a growing concern in the same direction as a distur by natural processes yet trapped in the Great Depression and both change are visible everywhere. for environmental issues. bance which results in an amplify the ice. As permafrost melts, the land world wars put together. "I have seen areas of incredible And in recent years, the alarm ing effect," Leitch explained. "For releases methane gas back into the The Stern Review sparked con permafrost-melt and coastal ero ing concept of a "tipping point," or example, ice-melt leads to increased atmosphere at rates that dwarf cur troversy and concern worldwide sion, both of which have been a point of no return, has become ice-melt, because the open water rent rates of human emissions. and was yet another voice in a grow increasing lately. [Passing through] accepted parlance. Where that tip created will absorb solar energy Melting permafrost has the potential ing chorus of scientists, academics the Northwest Passage, we barely ping point lies (or whether it has which is normally reflected by the to let loose colossal amounts of car and activists calling for serious steps saw any ice at all, which I under already been passed) is still very ice and snow." bon dioxide, contributing to even to be taken to curb climate change. stand is quite rare for the end of much up for debate, but its exis more warming. In London, more than 22,000 peo October." tence is becoming increasingly In the past, ominous warnings ple marched in response to the Leitch and the ArcticNet crew recognised. about a changing climate and a report and in anticipation of the UN were aboard the last ship to pass Earlier this year, James Hansen, changing planet have been pegged conference on environmental issues through the Fury and Hecla Strait, NASA's chief climatologist, suggest as alarmist. Some politicians still in Nairobi, Kenya. "and we didn't even see any ice," ed in an interview with Time maga attempt to paint scientifically pro While all this was going on, Leitch said. zine that we are getting close to that duced scenarios in a similar light. Leitch was up North working "Normally the Strait is impassa tipping point, despite the fact that But the outcry from the scientific with ArcticNet, a multi-university ble even in the middle of the sum most people have barely noticed the community is mounting as never research group that gathers data on mer, according to our captain who's warming so far. before. From the point of view of the the Arctic's fluctuating environ been working up there for 20-odd "We have witnessed one degree Under normal circumstances, North, Leitch said the situation is a ment to better understand if and years. We also passed through the Fahrenheit warming in the past 30 ice reflects 90 per cent of the sun serious one. how it's changing. narrow Bellot Strait [the northern years," he said. "There is one more light that strikes it, removing ener "I think there should be genuine Leich says the planet's polar most part of continental North in the pipeline due to gases already gy and heat along with it. Ocean concern. Models predict that the regions are of great importance to America] which is also normally in the air. Still another degree is cer water acts in the opposite manner, entire Arctic could be ice-free in researchers who study a vast array packed with ice." tain because of energy infrastruc absorbing 90 per cent of the energy summer in the next few decades. of ecological trends. What occurs at Upon visiting several communi ture already in place, such as power it receives. The more energy the This will have huge impacts on ani the poles can be a looking-glass of ties along their voyage the crew of plants and vehicles on the road. open Arctic Ocean retains, the mals and the ecosystem, not to men sorts, through which they can pre the Amundsen heard many similar Three degrees will take us to a level warmer it gets—meaning that each tion Northern people." dict what will happen to the rest of stories. at or just above the warmest in the kilometre of ice melts faster than If these predictions are correct, the planet in the near future. "In Labrador, we saw 11 polar past million years." the one preceding it. that would mean the canary is in fact "We often refer to the Arctic as bears in one fjord. Locals tell us that Hansen noted that this level of According to the US National dying in the coal mine as we speak. the bellwether, or the canary in the even 20 years ago, polar bears were warming is inevitable, and that cuts Snow and Ice Data Center in By the time the rest of the world coal mine," said UVic Arctic almost never seen there. They in emissions today would only limit Boulder, Colorado, the sea ice cover takes note, will it be too late? @
From top to bottom, photos courtesy of: Dan Leitch; Martin Fortier; Laurel McFadden; Martin Fortier 8 SPORTS FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER, 2006 THE UBYSSEY NOMADIC ICE BIRDS PUMPED FOR SECOND HALF OF SEASON by Brent Mutis because we are just as unfamiliar SPORTS WRITER with each rink as the teams from out of town," says Dragicevic. At the midway point of the season, Consistently lighting the lamp UBC men's hockey coach Milan for the T-Birds has been Darrell Dragicevic is encouraged but not May, averaging a point per contest content. in league play. Marc Desloges UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO/ His club leads the Canada West leads a group often rookies and is YINAN MAX WANG in penalty killing, has allowed the third on the team with 12 points. second fewest goals, and has been Former Vancouver Giants stand the least penalised team this side out Mitch Bartley has chipped in Women's of Ontario. Even with the spotty as well and Dragicevic anticipates offence the team sits at 7-8-1, good he will heat up after the break. enough for fourth in the Canada "Mitch is making the adjust West. ment from the WHL. He's been Hockey faces All of this has been accom getting lots of chances and I think plished without a true home he'll be big for us in the second arena. With the Thunderbird half." uphill battle Winter Sports Complex currently One of the highlights so far was undergoing renovations for the a victory over perennial favourite i \ Olympics, the team has played the University of Alberta. The T- upon return home games everywhere from Birds skated away with a 4-3 win Surrey to Whistler. over the Golden Bears on October by Jessica JiYoung Kim In comparison with past 20 at Whistler Arena. SPORTS WRITER teams, Dragicevic feels this squad Fifth-year defenceman Chad is an improvement but knows they Grisdale said that win was just part The UBC women's hockey team cannot afford to get complacent. of the natural progression he has concluded the first half of their sea "We are better but we are not seen during the past half decade. son with a pair of losses against satisfied," says the fifth-year bench "Winning has become more of defending CIS champion the boss. "Brad Zanon and Kevin an expectation for us now. We see Alberta Pandas. The Thunderbirds Seibel, both defencemen, are two Alberta as being like any other currently share fourth place in of our highest scorers. We're usu team and we go in expecting to Canada West with Saskatchewan, ally a better second half team but beat them," said Grisdale. placing them just ahead of the last we'll need secondary scoring from The veteran blueliner is opti place Lethbridge Pronghorns. our forward group." mistic about the latter half of the But with ten games still remain And how has the lack of a home schedule as well. ing the regular season, head coach rink affected the T-Birds this sea "We go into the break on a high Dave Newson said the team has son? Not particularly well, accord note with a win and we have always been positive throughout season, ing to Dragicevic. been a better second half team," and will continue to hold its spirits "The guys spend a lot of time Grisdale said. high. traveling to and from different rinks UBC starts up again at Calgary on affair against Regina at GM Place on Canucks/Toronto Maple Leafs game "The girls are pretty positive not only for games but for practices January 5. Their first home series January 12-13, with the Saturday to be shown on the new multi-mil- about the situation but it is taxing too. There is no home ice advantage after Christmas is a Friday-Saturday game preceded by the Vancouver lion dollar jumbotron at 3:30pm. @ on them. November is a tough month as it is on top of school. It just becomes bit of a grind," explained Newson. "It has been up and down so far. I think overall, we need to make New netminder turning heads some changes, like add more wings and play with positions. We had a pretty demanding schedule in the First-year goalie competing for starting role despite still adjusting to CIS game first half. Even the home games were away games." by Jessica JiYoung Kim forces us to spend a lot of time The T-Birds have been hit hard SPORTS WRITER travelling." with the construction of their new Despite the stress and chal home; since the beginning of the At the start of the 2006-07 season, lenges that rookies face during season, the T-Birds took shelter at the women's hockey team welcomed their transition period, Choy has the Minoru Arena in Richmond, a handful of promising young play showcased superb athleticism and travelling there almost daily from ers to the line up. Among them was competitiveness, enough to put the UBC campus for practices and Melinda Choy, a rookie goalie join her head-to-head with third-year games. ing UBC from Victoria. netminder Lisa Lafreniere for Despite a rocky start to the and Only few months into her varsi starting duties. struggling right up to the season's ty hockey career, Choy has already "Her being there...it makes us half way mark, there remains a established herself as a star push each other to play harder. We sense of optimism about the team. between the pipes. After posting know we both want that number With the success of preseason back-to-back shutouts against the one spot," said Choy. "But I know recruitment efforts and a strong visiting Manitoba Bisons earlier in have a lot of adjustments to make. crop of NCAA transfers, there is no the season—a first ever in the his University hockey is a lot harder doubt that the T-Birds have the tory of Thunderbird's women's [than minor hockey]. The shooting potential to regroup and emerge as hockey and a distinction that and skating is faster...it's a faster a stronger team. If not in the sec earned her CIS women's athlete of game. It's not dump and chase ond half of the 2006-07 season, the week honours—high expecta anymore." than in the near future tions have befallen the first-year The T-Birds marked the halfway "We want to establish our identi standout. point of their season with a ty as a real hard-working team," "I felt really good about those pair of losses against Alberta, said Newson. "We went into the games. The team really backed and will resume league play in season hoping to be offensive with me up. The defence and forwards January. With a record of 5-9, UBC the new rules. It hasn't been so, so CHILL IN OUT: Melinda Choy has been on fire between the pipes in were fantastic. Just from that will have to start playing better far, but things take time." her first-year wearing aT-Birds jersey, OKER CHEN PHOTO I gained a lot of confidence," defensively if they hope to make a The T-Birds are not yet ruling said Choy, reminiscing about her education. Perhaps Melinda's skeptical playoff push. out the possibility of a post-season performance. "I thought about hockey beyond outlook has to do with the fact that Melinda Choy will have more appearance, and remain hopeful Despite just starting her univer UBC but I think it's unlikely I will the UBC hockey teams have been opportunities to prove herself as that the team will be able to turn sity career, Choy seems to already continue after school. I'm really orphaned with the construction of the number one goalie in the sec their game around for the second have thought about her future enjoying playing hockey here and the Thunderbird Arena, forcing ond half of the season. And with half. With Melinda Choy back in after her time as a Thunderbird. putting a lot of focus into it, but them to drift from one rink to her sister Alisha Choy—also a first- net after suffering an injury in She identified the difficulties with something like Team Canada, another in the interim. year with the team—watching her training camp and the return of Canadian athletes face upon it only takes you so far. After that's "Not having that arena is bit back, the rookie looks forward to fifth-year forward Kelly James, retirement from competition, and all done, you have to rely on your stressful because even our home completing her transition to the there is still plenty of optimism emphasised the importance of education to find a job." games are away games...and that varsity game. @ among the players. @