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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

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Matt Meuse VALERIE WYNSPHOTOfTHE UBYSSEY Boxes crowd the hall of the old University Hill Secondary School as students and staff await the move to the new building. Contributor There might be a new, cheap watering hole on campus starting New campus high school delayed this January. The Graduate Student Society Emma Windsor-Liscombe gave other reasons: "We had trouble a waiting list at the old school," proper and attends Queen Eliza­ (GSS) is hammering out a con­ Contributor with the weather and the chal­ said Laquian. beth Elementary, said that the tract with a third-party operator lenges of renovating an existing The wait to finish the new high students coming from UBC campus for Koerner's Pub. The pub could The high school on UBC campus, building from one use to a totally school isn't only affecting high to Queen Elizabeth caused some be up and running by January University Hill, is overcrowded. The different use." school students and their families. overcrowding. "VSB [the Vancouver 2013, and the GSS is commit­ school was set to move into a new, The current school is operat­ The elementary school for families School Board] decided to start a ted to making sure drink prices larger building at the beginning of ing at more than double capacity, on campus, also called University new elementary school for the UBC don't rise. this school year, but construction of with more than 1,600 students Hill, is too small to meet demand. population before an actual building "We don't want the price to the building has stalled. enrolled, accordingto data released Currently, many young children was created," said Katrusiak. be so high that students [can't] The new site, a retrofitted Na­ by the Vancouver School Board in living on campus bus to portables The population of UBC's campus afford it. That's also part of the tional Research Council building April 2012. This means that the at Queen Elizabeth Elementary in neighbourhoods has risen consider­ negotiations," said GSS President beside Save-On-Foods in south 1,000-student capacity at the new West Point Grey. ably in recent years. This resulted in Conny Lin. campus, may not open until Decem­ school, as given by Heinrich, may "The old high school will be a formal letter from the Vancouver The GSS is working out a ber 2012. not be large enough to hold all of the knocked down once the NRC School Board to UBC in 2010, ex­ contract with HK Commerce and "When the construction contract students hoping to go there. building is completed to make room pressing concern about the planned Industry Suppliers Limited, but started, they were projecting an Prod Laquian, chair of the for [more space for] the elementary increase in on-campus housing the GSS task force working on opening date in time for the start of University Neighbourhoods As­ school," said Heinrich. "We've and how this would affect ele­ the project won't release much the 2012/13 school year," said Paul sociation (UNA) — which repre­ been concerned about getting new mentary and high school facilities information about the terms Young, planning and design direc­ sents residents of the campus's elementary school facilities opened on campus. until negotiations finish. tor with UBC Properties Trust. He non-student neighbourhoods — said in the catchment area as soon as As it stands, Laquian and campus "It's going to have fantastic said that the construction hold-up that the UNA's main concern was possible so that elementary students parents in UNA neighbourhoods are food and it's still going to main­ was caused by a delay in the supply whether the new school would be will no longer need to be bussed to anxiously awaiting the completed tain the student atmosphere with of structural steel. big enough to absorb the growing out-of-catchment facilities." building. "We hope that this com­ reasonably priced drinks," said But Kurt Heinrich, spokesperson number of high school students Diane Katrusiak, parent of plete high school will be finished Joel Atwater, a GSS councillor for the Vancouver School Board, living on campus. "There had been a child who lives in Vancouver and opened soon," Laquian said. Xi and member of the task force. "[We'll] really have a campus pub that people will really want FIRST NATIONS » to go to. Right now the options UBC Law students now are drinking in a hole [at] the Pit, or paying 20 bucks a pitcher at required to study aboriginal Mahony's." treaties and rights The GSS is confident that having an outside party run the Jordan Irwin "I don't think you can pub will help avoid the problems Contributor practice law in Brit­ Koerner's has experienced in the ish Columbia without past. UBC's Faculty of Law is encountering [aboriginal "The GSS - and I believe any the first Canadian law legal issues]," said Darlene student group — is not the best school to require a course Johnston, a professor spe­ suited for making day-to-day on aboriginal legal issues. cializing in aboriginal and decisions on the operation of a Beginning with the treaty rights at UBC. Law pub," said Atwater. class of 2015, all first-year faculty realized that very In the past, the pub was law students will receive few students were actual­ temporarily shut down by UBC a more thorough back­ ly graduating with any due to liquor licence infractions, ground in aboriginal and grounding in the subject, dealt with drawn-out negotia- treaty rights. despite the prevalence of tons with unionized workers and The reconfigured LAW aboriginal law in the field. was eventually forced to close in 100 course (Canadian Amelia Boultbee, a the spring of 2011 because it was Constitutional Law) will second-year law student losing money. place greater weight on who took LAW 100 last The abrupt closure of the pub Section 35 of the Can­ year, said there was a void in 2011 was a source of tension adian Constitution, which when it came to learning between the GSS and CUPE deals with aboriginal about aboriginal rights. 116, the union representing the rights. The course's new "It's been very con­ pub's staff, but the two parties focus is intended to better tentious. I was on the reached a new agreement in May prepare students for ab­ =HOTOCOURTESYOFUBC academic issues commit­ Gordon Christie and Darlene Johnston both specialize in aboriginal legal issues. 2012. The GSS will not be a key original legal issues. tee last year when these player in staffing decisions going The new curriculum changes were being de­ "We give them the curriculum building. Clayton Gllant. "It's not forward; these decisions will was partly in response to bated. I can tell you there first steps," said Gor­ "You can choose to an onerous requirement be made between the union and the National Federation of was a contingent of people don Christie, director of slice this however you and it shows students the the external operator, according Law Societies, which re­ who felt very strongly the First Nations legal want, but it's just really different practice areas to Atwater. cently outlined "core com­ that it [aboriginal rights] studies program at UBC. hard when you have so they can pursue." Once the the contract is drawn petencies" (including ab­ wasn't being covered "Because without those many vast areas of law As for the future, there up, it will be brought before original and treaty rights) enough by some profs," first few steps, they can [and] you only have three are no immediate plans to GSS Council to be ratified. for graduates to fulfill in said Boultbee. easily go off in the wrong years of law school," make additional courses But Atwater expects that the order to practice in any The complexity of this direction." said Boultbee. on aboriginal law manda­ council will be behind the task common law jurisdiction. area of law, coupled with Boultbee said that with Students have also re­ tory. Rather, Johnston and force's recommendations. The change, however, was a current lack of aborig­ the limited amount of sponded positively to the Christie are hopeful that "The process has been very also an opportunity to ad­ inal lawyers, further time in law school, aborig­ curriculum change. "I'm the new requirement will positive," said Atwater. "We're dress a growing concern stressed the need for inal rights can sometimes glad they're having it," increase interest in First excited to open early next year." among faculty. foundational training. get lost in the shuffle of said first-year law student Nations legal studies. tJ NEWS I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

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WOMEN'S - TOP SIX TEAMS 1. Regina 3-0-0 2. TWU 3-0-0 3. Victoria 2-0-1 KAIJACOBSON/THE UBYSSEY UBC played their best game of the season on Saturday, but still couldn't do enough to slow down Saskatchewn and fell 39-34, remaining winless on the season. 4. Alberta 2-0-2 FOOTBALL» 5.UBC2-1-O Deja vu on the football field 6.Sask2-i-o UBC plays better, but still can't do enough to record a victory remember what victory feels yards and rushed for 83. First- passes and the fumble with less like. Instead, they took another year Daniel English emerged as a than three minutes left in the step backwards. receiving threat, as he was con­ game that sealed the Thunder­ SEASON OF PROMISE The best case scenario now stantly able to get himself open birds' fate. byCJ.Pentland is finishing the regular sea­ and tallied seven catches for 126 "We need to do a better job of ML son with a 5-3 win-loss record, yards. The defence also forced a adjusting to what they're trying Looking at the big picture of which would probably give UBC fumble, picked off one pass and to do, especially in game ... within Saturday's 39-34 loss to the Uni­ a playoff game on the road. But recorded one sack. A win usually the schemes that we're playing," versity of Saskatchewan Husk­ five straight wins kind of seems accompanies stats like those, but said Olson in regards to the de­ ies, it's hard to see where it all like a lot to ask for right now. UBC just couldn't do those small fence. "But some of that's young went wrong for the UBC football Calgary, ranked No. 2 in CIS, things that put away a game. players; we still have a lot of team. Overall, the Thunderbirds comes to town next weekend, It's little things like not get­ young guys or first-time guys on put forth a solid effort for the and away games against Mani- ting any pressure on first-year the field and in the secondary." big crowd who showed up at How long can that be the homecoming and played by far We still have a lot excuse, though? It was that youth their best all-around game of the of young guys or and inexperience that cost UBC a young season. first-time guys on victory and a chance of redeeming The effort was there, the their season on Saturday, and it's running game was extremely the field and in the the main reason why they are effective, the passing game was secondary without a win on the year. In a looking like its old self and the regular season that's eight games defence came up with some big Shawn Olson long, time can't be wasted on plays that haven't been made all UBC football head coach, gearing up new faces. Every game year. You'd think that that would in response to his team's is crucial, especially when every be a recipe for success, yet that slow start team in the Canada West is elite. was not the case. There was still a toba and Saskatchewan end the It's turning into the same story. little bit wrong. season. Things need to be turned The Thunderbirds play pretty UBC head coach Shawn Olson around quick in order to salvage well for the most part and show knew exactly what went wrong, the season. flashes of brilliance, but a few and in the postgame scrum he had But they've had to turn it mental lapses on offence and to repeat what he's been saying around since week one, and still shoddy defensive coverage leads all year. "Too many mistakes, haven't been able to do it. It was to a loss. They have more than still too many mistakes," he said. expected at the start of the year enough chances to seize victory, "That's been the story, and a little that it would take a while for but it always slips through their bit of it is guys trying to do a little the new defence to gel and the fingers. bit too much or not listening to offence to really get going, but With Calgary coming here details. But that was a team that the fact that it still hasn't all next weekend, UBC will have fought today." meshed by now raises serious to be next to perfect to get into But there isn't a column in the questions. Can you still call them JOSH CURRAWHE UBYSSEY the win column. And if they standings for effort and heart, mistakes if the same things have Saskatchewan quarterback Drew can do it, maybe that will mean and there is one for losses. So been happening for three straight Burko and allowing him to have that they've finally got their even though they may have made weeks? They might just be bigger all the time in the world to find game together. progress, a third straight loss issues, and ones that strong receivers downfield and end up "We're just trying to get a means that the T-Birds remain at individual performances simply completing 26 of 31 passes for win," said Olson. the bottom of the Canada West can't overcome. 328 yards and four touchdowns. The season started with high standings. The 'Birds ran for 276 yards Things like failing to adjust hopes and visions of playoff Now, the climb to the playoffs on the ground, led by Brandon to the actions of Huskies wide games. Now all they want is a gets even steeper. Saturday's Deschamps with 122 on 19 car­ receiver Kit Hillis, who continu­ win. Xi game could've turned around ries. Quarterback Billy Greene, ously burned UBC's secondary UBC's season and given them despite having a bad knee and and ended up with 14 catches for For a more detailed account of the momentum they need to not knowing until Tuesday if he 224 yards and three touchdowns. the game, see our recap online at string some wins together and would actually play, threw for 290 And obvious things like dropped ubyssey.ca. SPORTS + REC I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

SOCCER» Men's soccer proves they're one of the best UBC knocks off the No. 1 ranked team in the nation, beats UVic 1-0 Rory Gattens Contributor can only dream of hitting, and it was one which completely deflat­ When a defending national ed the Victoria team. champion is in town, there's UBC then smartly kept pos­ always an extra bit of incentive session for the remainder of the to knock them off their perch. game, frustrating the Victoria Saturday night at Thunderbird side. They were able to keep Stadium's David Sidoo Field, things under control and pre­ the UBC men's soccer team did serve the one-goal victory. just that. Dosanjh said his team had The Thunderbirds knocked off nothing but positives to take the CIS No. 1 ranked University away from the game. of Victoria Vikings by a score of "It was an excellent perform­ 1-0 in a clash of CIS titans, solid­ ance by the boys. Playing against ifying their status as one of the a tough, hard-working opponent country's most elite teams. like Victoria is never easy, but UBC striker Gagandeep Do­ we battled the entire game to get sanjh created problems for the the result. The goal by Milad was Vikes defence the entire night something very special, which with his pace and intelligent runs boosted our morale. He was across the backline. His first excellent coming off the bench chance of the game came in the today and proved to be our match second minute, when he found a winner. I think our character pocket of space in midfield and really shone through today in the rushed towards the goal. Dos- win." anjh's strike tested Vikes keeper Goalkeeper Luke O'Shea Elliot Mitrou, but the goalie recorded his third shutout of reacted brilliantly and tipped it the season as the Thunder­ over the crossbar. birds capped off another Both teams looked hesitant on six-point weekend. the field, almost more concerned

ams t Culture I ANNAZORIA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,2012 FRINGE 2012 ROUND UP] VISUAL ART » AMS art collection on display after 37 years

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Prabhi Deol Contributor Some of the oldest paintings in the Alma Mater Society (AMS)'s art collection are on display for GEOFF LISTER FILE PHOTO/THE UBYSSEY Ingrid Nilson.a UBC theatre alumus seen here performing outside theSUB, rattles off her bucket list in the show Welcome to my Wake. the first time in over 30 years. "From Brock Hall with Love is the Alma Mater Society's most Profs, students, alumni dazzle at Fringe Fest recent show highlighting works from roughly the collection's first the idea of imagination; while the Joanna, played by UBC acting 20 years," said AMS Art Gallery TWO BLONDES WITH A cast (as well as the children who THE BIKE TRIP graduate Maryanne Renzetti, seems commissioner Kathleen Hand- PASSION DO DEATH IN actually play on the tugboat every the more mature of the two, yet her field. "It was housed in Brock VENICE day) use the tugboat as a vehicle Martin Dockery's performance may calm demeanour is ruptured by brief Hall during 1948 to 1969 until its for their fantasies, the audience not be what you expect. For a live flashes of rage. Lawrence, played move to the Student Union Build­ Have you ever wished that one of itself becomes a participant in the monologue act about LSD, there's by Langara graduate Jason Clift, is ing after its construction." your professors would start singing imaginative act just by watching the a serious lack of hippie outfits and foolish and naive, but must adopt Concerning the AMS's deci­ in the middle of an otherwise performance unfold. psychedelic light shows. the father role in the family. The sion to hold off on selling any dull lecture? Two Blondes with a Making an audience suspend Instead, The Bike Trip is an auto­ duo are harmonized; their near-per­ of the pieces from the perma­ Passion Do Death in Venice indulges their disbelief is difficult enough, biographical account that is potent fect timing and delivery evokes a nent collection, Handfield said, that fantasy. but making a static playground ob­ in its simplicity. Armed with noth­ nauseating tension. "We just wanted to open up the The cabaret-style production, ject come to life is a challenge of its ing but a tall stool and his bottle of Home Free! succeeds because discussion and see what other which is less about Venice and more own. When only one or two actors water, Dockery storms the audience these interactions between brother possibilities we have for the art. about the pains of unrequited love, use the space, they sometimes strug­ with his unrelenting energy and and sister, or husband and wife, feel An elected group of us will be stars Stephen Heatley, a theatre gle to manage this task; conversely, storytelling skills. disturbingly natural. The audience meeting to discuss this." professor at UBC, accompanied by the strongest moments of Pirates? Through voice and gestures laughs because it recognizes the sil­ "These paintings haven't been his friend Richard Link on the key­ occur when the entire cast convin­ alone, he sweeps you through liness of the siblings' behaviour, but displayed since approximately board. Decked out in full professor cingly uses the tugboat to full effect, California, Switzerland and India, underlying this laughter is a deep 1975," said Diana Zapata, one garb (complete with a blue UBC navigating the waves of their world all places where LSD helped shed sense of revulsion. of the volunteers at the AMS logo-patterned tie), Heatley belts out with hilarity. During these brief light on his relationships with Art Gallery. "It's good to have stories of youthful romance while moments, the audience shares in the friends, lovers and strangers. Over —Rhys Edwards them out to show the students poking fun at academia. dream of their fantasy. the course of 70 minutes, audiences what famous works we have, and This curious intersection meet a six-year-old girl who claims LOON hopefully generate interest." The between academic lecture and —Rhys Edwards to possess psychic abilities, follow AMS aspires to attract students straightforward musical cuts out a Dockery on a moonlit bike ride Specializing in classic make-believe, from all faculties to the AMS lot of the pretentiousness that can WELCOME TO MY WAKE through the Indian countryside, The Wonderheads (the physical Art Gallery, and possibly inspire mar Fringe theatre; such transpar­ marvel at LSD's discovery by Dr. theatre ensemble behind Loon) them to sign up for future events. ency is refreshing. The performance Welcome to My Wake is not so Albert Hofmann, and shed some have already taken a whimsically One of the gallery's upcoming itself is intimate, honest, charming much a performance as it is an tears over the loss of Dockery's best Pixar-esque look at death with last workshops is on canvas painting and clever. Both Heatley and Link experience. In a parking garage friend. season's Grim and Fischer. What is — an activity that's for everyone, can carry a tune; although the venue opposite Emily Carr School of Art, The experiences are so honest there to do but examine that other from novices to artistes. is small-scale, their stage presence Ingrid Nilson enthusiastically and personal as to transcend the human mystery, love? The exhibit comprises nine could just as easily demand the shares her bucket list: a list of tasks barriers of place and time. TheBike In Loon, Kate Braidwood works, ranging from landscapes attention of a large audience. to accomplish before death. Given Trip is wonderfully spontaneous, portrays a lovable sadsack who to human portraits. All of them Link's superb musical accom­ the morbid nature of the show's very real and absolutely irresistible. falls head over heels for the moon. are by famous Canadian artists, paniment complements Heatley's subject and the frigid setting, one Without the benefit of dialogue a fact which the AMS hopes delivery. Excepting a few pleasant might think that Welcome is a —Cynthia Chou and behind a full-faced mask, she will foster a sense of identity theatrical detours, however, stu­ sombre production. In fact, it is manages to convey a stunning and pride in UBC students. For dents may find the gentle pacing and the total opposite. HOME FREE! array of emotions. Every hunch of example, one of the pieces by Joe overt similarity between each song Through song, dance, incred­ the shoulder and tilt of the head Plaskett shows the Fraser River repetitive. The downtempo charac­ ible feats of physical prowess and If it weren't for the incest, Home speaks volumes. as seen from the historic Sapper- ter of Two Blondes is better suited eloquently spoken word, Nilson, Free! would be among the more Though adorable to the audience, ton neighbourhood, located in for older audiences looking to wax a graduate of the UBC theatre conventional offerings at the Fringe the slumping protagonist has little New Westminster. nostalgic about their youth. department and former presi­ Festival. luck in love — and it's no wonder. "These two pieces create a dent of the Player's Club, fills the The one-act play stars Law­ Occupation? Janitor. Favourite per­ nice dialogue," said Handfield, —Rhys Edwards cavernous garage with joy. From rence and Joanna, a young couple son? Mom. Favourite colour? Plaid. comparing Northern Image (1952) beginning to end, Welcome is struggling to prepare for their But the plaid exterior belies a by Lawren Harris to Untitled PIRATES? an absolute pleasure to behold. future while raising their children. bustling inner life. In his imagina­ (2003) by Lawrence Paul Yuxwe- Under the able direction of Chris The pair may strike audiences as a tion, the character moonlights as a luptun, the only aboriginal artist Pirates? is the first major production Robson, himself a student in charming couple at first. Their dot­ fantasy hero, fighting intergalactic in the AMS's permanent collec­ of Quimera Collective, a consortium UBC's MFA directing program, ing displays of affection reflect the battles and romancing Ingrid Berg­ tion. "The Group of Seven purged of young performers whose ranks Nilson breathes exuberance into idealized, happy-go-lucky attitude man a la Bogart. After nights and their paintings of any sort of include several UBC undergrads. everything she does, whether it's of sixties-era United States. nights of gazing at the moon, our politics or changes to the natural Staged on the kids' tugboat near the reciting Shakespearean sonnets or Mixed in with their reverie, hero begins to pine for it. When he landscape through human con­ entrance to Granville Island, the giving tips on bicycle safety. however, are childish exchanges tries to bring the glowing orb home tact like industrialization. They short performance follows a group Although Welcome is experi­ that reveal the sordid nature of their with him, the results are by turns wanted to show Canada's terrain of friends as they embark on an mental in nature, it never felt like relationship. For underneath their uproarious and heartbreaking. in its purest form. Lawrence adventure set in their imagination. a novelty. Audience participation couple dynamic, Lawrence and Joa­ Andrew Phoenix, the other half Paul's work, on the other hand, Though their fantasy world seems is not contrived, but a natural and nna feel like quintessential siblings. ofThe Wonderheads duo, directed is heavily influenced by people, limitless, they must defend their beautiful element in the show. In They argue, tease and annoy each this well-crafted yarn. His clever politics and industry." imagination from the evil machina­ all her eccentricity, Nilson never other; moments later, they forget soundscape and set completed the The SUB Art Gallery is the tions of everyday reality. acts; she inhabits the space as their quarrels and start playing magic, and, together with Braid- perfect location to display a small As one of this year's Fringe naturally as a fish in water. The together. Under the direction of wood's moonstruck bachelor, left number of complex works of Onsite productions, the perform­ results are authentically touching. UBC MFA graduate Brian Coch­ even the most cynical misty-eyed. Xi art; it allows students to con­ ance is, conceptually, well suited rane, the cast performs their roles sider each piece without feeling to the space. Pirates? toys with —Rhys Edwards all too well. —Catherine Guan crunched for time. Xi 8 I CULTURE I MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,2012

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Astrid Tentorio Contributor Screen Institute Drama Prize, and has produced shorts for the Comedy At the ripe age of 37 years, the Network and Movieola. International Film Festival At TIFF, Macleod presented (TIFF) proved that it can still pick Asian Gangs, a film that he de­ up the best of international and Can­ scribed as a Daily Show-esque com- adian film talent — including some edic documentary. The plot involves UBC alumni. a 10-year-old boy, who, after getting Throughout the first two weeks involved in a schoolyard fight, is of September, the festival showcased warned by the principal that he is 289 feature films and 83 shorts, destined to join an Asian gang. as well as lectures, discussions, Macleod and his co-director workshops and presentations by Lewis Bennet said that they submit­ filmmakers from all over the world. ted the film and completely forgot Calum Macleod and Lauren about it; they were both surprised Grant, two UBC graduates whose and excited when they got a call films made it into the lineup, had back from TIFF. a lot of positive things to say about Despite his recent good fortune, being involved in TIFF. Macleod seemed to have little faith "Getting into TIFF has given me that his cinematic pursuits would a boost of confidence and energy to ever put bread on the table. His pursue my ultimate goal of becom­ advice to UBC's film production ing a feature film director," said undergrads? "Marry a pharmacist. Macleod. That's worked out pretty well for me!" For Grant, it was all about"[...] =HOTO COURTEY DAVID LEE meeting people, discussing pro­ The Toronto International Film Festival showcases many Canadian and international films Grant had a more pragmatic jects and learning about funding outlook: she attributed her success­ opportunities in all of the different for the young producer, leading to comedy that "features a smart-ass she said. es to "a mixture of hard work and countries." a Genie Award for Best Live Action girl who would rather hang out For Macleod, the program was a luck" and stressed the importance Aside from presenting her two Short Drama. In addition, Grant is in limbo between the two worlds similarly inspiring experience. "It of making good connections in the feature films, Frost and Picture Day, currently involved in a number of [adolescence and adulthood]," was during my years at UBC that industry. Grant, who graduated from the UBC feature films, documentaries and said Grant. I was able to take all the disparate "The best advice I received film production program in 2004, short film projects such as Public The UBC film production pro­ ideas I had about filmmaking and heading into TIFF was make two was also a participant of the Pro­ Service, Get Happy, The Millennials, gram allowed Grant to learn the turn them into a set of skills that good connections instead of being ducers Lab and the inaugural TIFF Last Day and 24 Hours. basic elements of creating film, but I would put to use in the years to worried about meeting 100 people. Studio Program. Grant's film Frost is a sci-fi also to grow and expand in the field come." It doesn't take much, but a few She is also the head of her own adventure flick about an arctic of cinema. After graduating, Macleod went solid meetings, conversations or company, Clique Pictures, which hunter who wants to prove herself "[The program] taught me how on to create, write and host his own introductions are better than being focuses on feature films and docu­ to her father and ends up discov­ to make films and it also introduced TV show, Road Hockey Rumble. another business card that someone mentaries. The company's short ering a new world. Picture Day, on me to a lot of talented filmmakers Since then, he's won a number of can't remember." 'ffl film, Savage, was a breakout project the other hand, is a coming-of-age that I continue to work with today," awards, including the 2005 National

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STUDENT RADIO » Ryerson student radio station loses FM bid Jeff Lagerquist The Eyeopener (Ryerson University) tion, and primarily, in all the cases, the quality of the application." TORONTO (CUP) - The licence While the denial of the appli­ for Toronto radio frequency 88.1 cation takes away the possibility FM was granted to indie music of a student-run FM frequency at station Rock 95, accordingto a Ryerson, Jackie Harrison, a former decision released September 11 by CKLN manager that was brought the Canadian Radio-television and onto manage the application, said, Telecommunications Commission "Volunteers are keen to keep doing (CRTC). local talent initiatives, even without The decision to approve Rock 95 an FM frequency." followed a public hearing from May Bouchard said that while no 7-16,2012. It also denies applica­ decisions have been reached on the tions for the licence from 21 other future of the organization, there applicants, including the commun­ will be no shortage of opportunities ity radio project born from previous for radio enthusiasts to get involved frequency owners CKLN, Radio in activities like the department's Ryerson Inc. radio program, Spirit Live, and the "Of course, when you have any school's television program, RUTV. sort of competition [over radio], you're going to have a winner and Volunteers are you're goingto have a lot of losers," keen to keep said Kolter Bouchard, a radio-tele­ doing local talent vision arts student who helped to spearhead the movement. initiatives, even "It's unfortunate for the other 21 without an FM applicants... and it's unfortunate frequency. that New Ryerson Radio was unable PHOTO COURTEWTHE EYEOPENER to get the 88.1 frequency." Jackie Harrison New Ryerson Radio lost its bid for the 88.1 frequency, which means student broadcasts will be restricted to internet radio, Scott Hutton, a spokesperson for Former CKLN Manager the CRTC, said that the decision the CRTC last fall after an October "The Rock 95 did propose to play said his support would not be lim­ was finalized after much consider­ Ryerson President Sheldon Levy referendum on campus voted over­ 40 per cent Canadian content and ited anytime soon. ation. "Rock 95 made its way to the also felt the decision did not spell whelmingly in favour of adding I think that was a key to their pro­ "I'm hugely confident in our top of the list, you know, primarily the end of New Ryerson Radio. an annual student fee of $10.35 posal," said Hutton. "Sixty per cent students," Levy said. by looking at the factors that we had "It raises the stakes," he said. that would go towards the radio would be emerging artists. So, those "If they come asking for help, I set out to look at," he said. "Now we have to have the world's station. Rock 95 hopes to bring a are folks who are walking around will be behind [them] 100 per cent.' "[They] included a new voice to best internet radio station." voice and exposure to Canadian with demo tapes." the market, what's the impact, is Radio Ryerson made a bid for artists who are not signed to a Levy, a key supporter of New —With files from Ian Vandaelle there room for that type of radio sta­ continued use of the frequency to major label. Ryerson Radio from the beginning, and Sean Tepper

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You probably wouldn't Nevertheless, this $4.6 million think of the Guinness Tower, in investment threatens the integrity the heart of Vancouver's financial of UBC and its students. To preach district. Unlike CIRS, it has no so­ environmental sustainability while phisticated energy monitors, innov­ at the same time investing in some ative rainwater collection systems, of the most environmentally de­ or "living walls." Rather, this tower structive corporations on the planet is home to dozens of nondescript is blatant hypocrisy. corporate offices. After months of record-setting One of those offices houses UBC temperatures, unprecedented Arctic Investment Management Trust Inc., melting and overwhelming ocean or IM ANT, a wholly owned cor­ acidification, it is becoming clear porate subsidiary of UBC. IMANT that climate change is intensify­ is responsible for managing UBC's ing far faster than scientists have enormous investment portfolio, expected. Bottle-saving water including the staff pension plan and fountains are great, but they are not the endowment fund. It is in this nearly enough; it is now the time for office that UBC made a Faust- drastic action. UBC should divest ian bargain with the oil and gas itself completely from the oil and gas industry, investing $4.6 million of sector, and it should then write eth­ our endowment into Baytex Energy, ical and environmental investment Ensign Energy, Talisman Energy policy into IMANT's Statement of Investment Policies and Procedures. N DIANA JO EULLUSTRATION/THE UBYSSEY and the Encana Corporation. Baytex Energy (UBC's invest­ Divestment campaigns led Graduate Student Society copyrighted material is fair game of Vancouver. ment: $1,127,731) operates primar­ by universities and other large right to hand over Koerner's for teachers. The decision on fair As the highest-ranking public ily in the Peace River Oil Sands institutional investors were in­ management to third party dealing clears this up, and allows secondary school in the district, and around the border between strumental in toppling the South teachers to create copies for the U-Hill (currently located in an Alberta and Saskatchewan. En­ African apartheid regime, and The process for reviving Koern­ purposes of "a student's research overcrowded building on Acadia sign Energy (UBC's investment: they could be as effective here. er's Pub is heading in the right and private study." Road) draws students from all $1,332,492) is Canada's second-lar­ With UBC's firm commitment to direction, as long as students are UBC's clash with AC was a across the Lower Mainland. Its gest drilling contractor, with over sustainability, it makes sense for kept at the forefront. high-minded gamble that seems University Transition Program, 300 rigs, mostly in the oil sands us to play a leading role and be the Handing off the beloved cam­ to have paid off. The Supreme which offers gifted students an and around southern Saskatch­ first university to divest. It would pus pub to a third party is clearly Court decision clears up any accelerated curriculum and early ewan. Talisman Energy (UBC's send a strong message to the world the only way to save it from confusion around the creation of admission to UBC, is envied investment: $1,043,566) specializ­ that institutions of higher learning mismanagement by the Gradu­ course packs. across the province. While the es in shale gas extraction through will not be complicit in the de­ ate Student Society (GSS). The But despite the university's UBC Official Community Plan, the controversial drilling practice struction of the planet. What good pub, which has been shuttered claims that everything is just adopted in 1997, outlined a plan known as hydraulic fracking. is it to mould future leaders if our for a year and a half, was barely peachy, anyone who has either for an influx of young residents, The Encana Corporation (UBC's investments ensure that there will compliant with liquor laws under taken or taught a class post-AC it did not formally begin the pro­ investment: $1,108,242), which be no future to lead? Xi GSS management. has an outlook that's a little cess of expanding and renovating When it comes to Koerner's, less rosy. For the most part, old schools until 2008. It seems the GSS is caught between only professors seem to be aware as though the Vancouver School Iranian students stranded having so many resources to that UBC is undergoing huge Board is struggling to adjust to engage in so many issues and changes in how it deals with the fact that new families mov­ having such a time-consuming copyright. But for all UBC's ing into most parts of Vancouver after embassy closure flagship service. The fact that investment and mass emails, don't have school-aged children, while areas such as UBC are confirmed by the authorities. staffing issues will now be out of most professors don't fully Undoubtedly some had planned for the GSS's hands sounds positive understand how it affects them. experiencing the opposite and PERSPECTIVES begging for better programs. increases in the price of the Can­ to us. We've all had profs tell us that by Kiyan Abhari adian dollar, but no one predicted a It's important, however, to they're no longer using certain All parties are eagerly 300 per cent increase. People who ensure that whoever takes over texts because they're unsure awaiting the completion of the Can you imagine being an have worked hard all of their lives keeps the bar student-focused. about its copyright. Others send new building. But ensuring that international student and having in order to attend university in Iran, That student focus is why Koern­ students to a page of links, and future children at UBC will have a budget that fluctuates wild­ saved money while studying and er's is remembered so fondly, and say that if students want a paper adequate access to schooling still ly based on foreign exchange were accepted into universities such why the 2010 rejig with raised copy, they have to take care of appears to be years away from markets? Can you imagine being as UBC based on their merits are prices didn't work. It's always it themselves. fruition. an international student whose now at risk of having to leave their tough to deal with the high The impact of copyright chan­ military service exemption needs studies unfinished. These are the expectations of bringing back ges has been felt most acutely by Makes sense for UBC to lead to be renewed every year? What if very same people who do their best an establishment like Koern­ faculty and students, who UBC the way on treaty law you want to visit your old grand­ to stay in Canada once they receive er's, with its rosy memories and was supposed to be protecting mother, who will not be allowed their Ph.D.s and master's: assets that rocky past. from big, bad Access Copyright. All Canadian law schools require into Canada, but you have no pass­ we have not had to pay a cent for. This Supreme Court decision, a cursory treatment of Aborigin­ port to be able to visit her either? It is not just the international Have we figured out what's and UBC's subsequent full court al law as part of their curricula, On September 7,2012, Canada students either. Those of us who going on with course packs press on the issue, should clear but UBC has gone above and severed any and all diplomatic were born here or have lived here long enough to be Canadian are yet? things up. beyond by requiring students to relations with Iran. It is not the take an entire course dedicated UBC Persian Club's place to argue in trouble too. Men over 18 are to the subject. Not only does whether or not this was a good or now essentially unable to enter The Supreme Court of Canada's The problem with having Iran without risking jail or forced decision last July to expand the a magnet school in the this give students a more solid valid course of action; we are not background in the issues, it's an well versed in politics. But more "mandatory military service." We "fair dealing" provision of the University Endowment are denied the ability to attend Copyright Act to cover teaching Lands important symbolic acknow­ importantly, on a human level, it ledgement that the issues exist does not matter whether or not this weddings, funerals or simple is vindication for UBC. family gatherings to see people we UBC has been in limbo since Delays in the construction of the at all. unprecedented action was justified. The issue we're primarily concerned have not seen for years. According it opted out of a deal with Access University Hill Secondary School Of course, UBC has always to Citizenship and Immigration Copyright (AC), a copyright have got us wondering why the been a little more tuned in to with is how Iranian-Canadian students, who depended on services Canada, having dual citizenship licensing agency. In 2011, it was Vancouver School Board didn't these issues than some of its is an assigned right. If the Iranian announced that fees for the ser­ take action sooner to account for other post-secondary peers in of the Canadian embassy in Iran, are now left without a viable alternative. embassy is closed and there is no vice would be subject to a $1.35 the mass influx of residents of Canada, since it's located on other way to obtain or renew a million annual increase. The U-Town. Musqueam land and all. But if The Iranian government allowed passport, how are the students university reasoned that they According to a strategic knowledge is power and students international students to buy expected to exercise that right? already owned the vast majority report published by the Van­ are the future, then educating fu­ Canadian dollars in Iran, at the ad­ We understand the realities of of the copyrights covered in the couver School Board, the UBC ture lawyers in the complexities vertised rate by Iranian banks, at a the situation. We just want to make AC deal, and that students would community is one of few areas of treaty law is an important step third of the market price, contingent sure that authorities are aware of essentially be paying twice to in the city that is actually toward avoiding another Oka. As on proving that they had their en­ the costs, and how this action hurts access the same material. So experiencing a growth of ele­ any elephant who has spent time rolment confirmed by the Canadian the student population. UBC told AC where to put it. mentary-school-aged children, in a living room will tell you, pre­ embassy. The average international Since then, it's been unclear while the same demographic is tending a problem doesn't exist is student now has to live on a third whether the photocopying of declining in the vast majority a terrible way to solve it. Xi of their original income because Aayan Abhari is a member of the they cannot have their enrolment UBC Persian Club. 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