THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR SINCE 1918 SEPTEMBER 17,2012 | VOLUMEXCIV| ISSUE V )espite massive overcrowding at the current location, University -p0 Hill Secondary's new home may noi open until December *- 3 UBC staffers criticize gym for 'slippery contracts Owner says he can't be blamed if people don't read what they sign Ming Wong for 52 bi-weekly payments — a Senior News Writer two-year membership. "I just wantfed] to try out Staff at the UBC Faculty of Medi­ for a year, then they said, 'This cine are frustrated with the way [membership] is the one that you Out of the they've been treated by the Gold's should then go for,'" said De Silva. Gym in the University Village. "I should have read my contract They argue that the gym is a little bit more, because it says archive being "slippery" about how it [it ends in] 2013." De Silva admits enforces its high-priced multi- she did not read the contract year membership contracts. But carefully before she signed it. the gym's owner is adamant that But she argued that the struc­ everything Gold's does is within ture of 52 bi-weekly payments the law. was confusing. Karminie De Silva, an office Victor Newman, owner of assistant at the UBC Faculty of this Gold's Gym and two others, Medicine, signed up for a gym argued, "Out of our thousands of membership with Gold's Gym in members in here, there might be September 2011. She was under one or two people [who] are not the impression she was signing a happy. I cannot please 100 per one-year membership contract. cent of the people in here. But we Two weeks ago, when she have a government [approved] thought her one year was almost contract in there that is legitimate up, De Silva went to Gold's to [and] approved by the B.C. Con­ cancel her membership. But an sumer Affairs Office." employee told her that instead of AMS puts permanent collection signing up for a 52-week pro­ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 paintings on show for the first time gram, she had instead signed up in more than 30 years »Page 2 MONDAY, SEPTEMB What's on HIS WEEK, MAY WE SUGGES1 OUR CAMPUS ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC Public Lecture: 4-6 p.m. @ Hennings 202 Dr. Angela McRobbie from Goldsmiths, University of London will give a public lecture on "Post-feminism, Neoliberalism and The New Gender Regime." RSVPatmcrobbie.eventbrite.com. Visitangelamcrobbie.com for more information on her work. |P ssc» Final add/drop date This is the final day to drop your classes, switch into a new section or request Credit/D/Fail grading, all with no impact to your record or losing any money. Make sure to speak with an advisor if you have any concerns about your classes. YOUSSEF BASHA/THE UBYSSEY Marco Ciufolini says his introduction to chemistry was "like a revelation.' He now studies the use of toxic compounds in the treatment of breast cancer and HIV. THEATRE» Chemist engages outside the lab Opening night of The Duchess: Marion Benkaiouche buy for your soil at the garden lectures "HILARIOUS!" and Clubs Day: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. @ a.k.a. WallisSimpson: 7:30 p.m. Contributor store. You mix it in and it oxi­ "Funny as hell." One student @ the Telus Studio the SUB Concourse dizes the tannin. After a while, quips that Ciufolini has the Don't miss Theatre at UBC's The Join a club! Clubs Day runs from When Marco Ciufolini first you get this pitch-black stuff. ability to smell chemicals in Duchess, an irreverent, highly September 19-21intheSUB learned what he could do in a "I mean, here you are, the air — ozone, specifically. theatrical take on the turbulent re­ Concourse and second floor. chemistry lab, he was shocked. putting water and cabbage Ciufolini started his science lationship between King Edward Score free food or swag, and find It all started in Rome, Italy, together. That's omnipotence," career in 1978, when he gradu­ VIII and Wallis Simpson. Student something new that might be for when eight-year-old Ciufolini he joked. ated with a bachelor of science tickets $5 at the door. you! found a high school chemistry His lab's current work — in chemistry from Spring Hill textbook. "Reading this book making nitrogen compounds College in Alabama. "We were BOOZED was like a revelation — no, with possible applications in holed up on campus, very shel­ really, like a biblical revela­ medicine — is a tad more com­ tered. But it was great," he said tion," said Ciufolini. "I can plicated than cabbage-based of his years as an undergrad. take stuff and turn it into ink, but Ciufolini hasn't lost He continued on to a Ph.D. at AUS BBQ + Bzzr: 6 p.m.-12 something else through chem­ his rapt interest in the subject. the University of Michigan and a.m. @ Buchanan Courtyard, then worked as a postdoctoral MASS istry? Holy smokes! That's He said that organic chemistry what God does. So that was it. excites him because there are fellow at Yale. He came to UBC The Arts Undergraduate Society At age eight, I was hooked. always unexpected discoveries. in 2004 after spending seven will host a BBQ from 6-9 p.m. in years as organic chemistry Buchanan Courtyard and bzzr "I pestered my parents until As Ciufolini explained, they got me a chemistry set." cutting-edge organic research chair at the University of Lyon garden from 9—12 a.m. in MASS. in France. Entry is $2 and beer/cider will be Ciufolini, now an organic has recently demonstrated that 2 for $5. chemistry professor at UBC otherwise-toxic compounds can Unlike many university and the Canada research chair be used in treatment of breast researchers who see teaching in synthetic organic chemistry, cancer and HIV if they'e sur­ as a secondary part of their Got an event you'd like to see on this page? Send your event recalled the first experiment rounded by a thin layer of lipids. job, Ciufolini said his calling he ever did. "It was a recipe On top of his research work, is inside the classroom. "I just and your best pitch to [email protected]. to make ink.... I had no idea Ciufolini teaches a number of teach," he said. "That's what why it worked at the time," he organic chemistry courses for I'm here to do." Xi confessed. undergrads. Student responses This Week at The Norm "[You] take any kind of cab­ on RateMyProfessor.com -With files from Will McDon­ Wednesday12-Sunday16 bage [and] make a broth. It'll characterize him as an en­ ald and Laura Rodgers be rich in tannins. Now you gaging speaker who's tough but The Avengers: 7 p.m. take tetrasufides, the stuff you fair. Some call his rapid-fire The Hunger Games: 9:45 p.m. Tickets are $5 for students, $2.50 for FilmSoc members. Learn n -.oc.com! 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