THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA VOL 54 | NO 7 | JULY 3, 2008 UBC REPORTS 3 Sports doc 4/5 Swimming Team 6 Rowing Team 7 Field Hockey 8/9 Coaches 10 The team THIS SUMMER, nearly 40 members of the UBC which began in 1928 and includes 109 medals and 240 community will participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympic participants. This special edition of UBC Reports tells and Paralympic Games as athletes, coaches sports the stories of students, alumni, faculty and staff who doctors and staff. embody the Games motto of “higher, farther, faster.” In UBC’s Centenary year, the 2008 Games are an exciting For complete current and historical UBC coverage, see new chapter in our rich Olympic and Paralympic legacy, www.ubc.ca/beijing. BEIJING OLYMPIC EMBLEM: AMSTRONG DESIGN PHOTO: MARTIN DEE From Maui to the Yellow Sea, Nikola Girke competes on worldwide winds. Riding the waves to success BY MEG WALKER from sailing to windsurfing. she was a five-time Canadian bachelor’s degree in Human ask good questions.” Girke had a chance to show Women’s Windsurf Champion. Kinetics and a business minor in At the end of June, Girke goes If there’s a good wind up, West off her sailing talents when she She loved the adrenaline of the 1995. “I loved the program and I to Mexico for three weeks to Vancouverite Nikola Girke can competed in the 470 class sailing solo sport and decided to take did well because I was interested continue her rigorous training. usually be found on the water. competitions in the Athens on the new challenge of training in it,” she recalls. “I definitely Conditions there – light wind, That’s not unusual for a sailor. Olympic games in 2004, placing for Olympic competition in used what I learned in my sports lots of current and waves, and But what is unusual is that Girke 13th. windsurfing. career. When I go to a physio, or hot, humid weather – will help is one of the few athletes who But Girke had started Her challenges are supported when a trainer explains things her acclimatize to what she can has successfully switched from windsufing in her early 20s when by knowledge learned at UBC, to me in the gym, I know what expect when she goes for gold in one Olympic sport to another: she was living in Maui. By 2005, where Girke completed a they’re talking about and I can Beijing. Rolling for gold UBC alumnus Jaimie Borisoff (No. 11, front row) will go for his third consecutive Paralympic gold in wheelchair basketball this summer. PHOTO: COURTESY OF CANADIAN WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | UBC REPORTS | JULY 3 , 2 0 0 8 IN THE NEWS Highlights of UBC media coverage in June 2008. COMPILED BY MEG WALKER BE SMART. BE SURE. BE SET FOR LIFE. Call or email today for a complimentary retirement analysis Don Proteau “Frank and Don made me feel very BComm, CFP Senior Financial comfortable with their advice and long-range Planner planning. Their knowledge of the faculty Assante Capital Management Ltd. pension plan is also a plus for UBC professors.” Member CIPF A1_humphries_k08b.pdf 5/23/08 3:27:24 PM Dr. J.H. McNeill, PHOTO: COURTESY BILL UTLEY Frank Danielson Professor Emeritus, An original billboard for the now-restored 1914 Edward S. Curtis film In the Land of the Head Hunters. BEd, CFP Senior Financial Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC Planner Landmark sex exploitation The Vancouver Sun. Many research and engage in panel Assante Financial Management Ltd. study finds surprising number highlighted the work the TI discussions in 4,000 sessions at of female abusers has done in drawing attention the university’s four campuses. (604) 678-3442 • [email protected] • [email protected] The results of Canada’s to potentially dangerous drugs The May 31 to June 8 largest study into the sexual like Vioxx, which was later conference was the largest exploitation of street kids and withdrawn from the market. Congress in the organization’s runaways were reported by history, and the biggest event CanWest News Service and The Human trafficking in Canada UBC has ever hosted. Vancouver Sun. UBC law professor Benjamin Their research was gathered Elizabeth Saewyc, associate Perrin was widely quoted for his under the umbrella theme, professor of nursing at UBC comments on a recently released Thinking Beyond Borders. and principal investigator for U.S. report on human trafficking. Multiple stories about ideas the study, said researchers were Canada looks good on paper, but presented during the Congress surprised to find that many has much more work to do. were picked up by The Globe abusers are women seeking sex “We know that human and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, with young males. trafficking is continuing to The National Post, The Times Results were drawn from flourish in Canada and that it’s Colonist and papers across B.C. interviews with 1,845 youth one of the most serious crimes – some as young as 12 – in in our country,’’ said Perrin, Rare Edward Curtis film surveys taken across the province founder of The Future Group, a restored and on tour between 2000 and 2006. non-governmental organization A restored and expanded dedicated to ending human edition of the 1914 film “In the Status of Therapeutics Initiative trafficking. Land of the Head Hunters,” the under heavy discussion Perrin’s research and advocacy only feature-length film made by A review of Therapeutics work was discussed by media acclaimed photographer Edward Initiative (TI), a UBC-based outlets across the country Curtis (1868-1952), played in Accommodation for UBC visitors group that independently including CTV, Canoe.ca, Los Angeles and Seattle before evaluates drug trials and Victoria Star, Chronicle Herald, coming to the UBC. C provides recommendations to Vancouver Province, Metro, Aaron Glass, a UBC M doctors and to the government, CKWS, Miramichi Leader, anthropologist who worked on Y Business Family & was released as the Report of the Bugle-Observer, Canadian Press, the four-year restoration project Pharmaceutical Task Force. Canwest News Service and The and who found the film’s original CM Guests Friends The report’s recommendations Vancouver Sun. score at the Getty Institute in MY to overhaul TI were met 2004, said the original work CY with more than a month’s Congress of the Humanities was very much a collaboration CMY Point Grey Guest House worth of discussion about, comes to UBC between the Kwakwaka’wakw K and defense of, the watchdog More than 9,500 academics people of B.C. and Curtis. 4103 W. 10th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. 604-222-4104 organization in The Canadian met at the Congress of the Stories appeared in The www.pointgreyguesthouse.com [email protected] Medical Association Journal, Humanities and Social Sciences Vancouver Sun and Los Angeles The National Post and at UBC to present cutting-edge and Seattle newspapers. NEXT ISSUE: AUG 7, 2008 Victoria Bell UBC REPORTS Executive Director Scott Macrae [email protected] UBC Reports welcomes submissions. Your University Guest Editor Basil Waugh [email protected] For upcoming UBC Reports submission guidelines: Area Specialist Designer Ping Ki Chan [email protected] www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/about.html. Principal Photography Martin Dee [email protected] Opinions and advertising published in UBC Reports Web Designer Michael Ko [email protected] do not necessarily reflect official university policy. Contributors Lorraine Chan [email protected] Material may be reprinted in whole or in part with My real estate goal is to build Brian Lin [email protected] appropriate credit to UBC Reports. Letters (300 integrity based relationships Catherine Loiacono [email protected] words or less) must be signed and include an address backed with an extremely high Ben Schach [email protected] and phone number for verification. commitment to professionalism Meg Walker [email protected] Submit letters to: and accountability. I offer 29 Basil Waugh [email protected] years of success and experience. The Editor, UBC Reports Don Wells UBC Public Affairs Office (address above); Please call me for any university Advertising Sarah Walker [email protected] by fax to 604.822.2684; real estate market information, Publisher UBC Reports is published monthly by: or by e-mail to [email protected] current evaluation of your Top Volume Producer UBC Public Affairs Office or call 604.UBC.NEWS (604.822.6397) property or any real estate Dunbar Office 310 – 6251 Cecil Green Park Road assistance that you may require. 1999 – 2007 Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1 Printed on 30% post consumer paper. Member MLS Medallion Club DEXTER ASSOCIATES REALTY 1999 – 2007 PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT NO. 40775044 604.228.9339 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT. 310—6251 CECIL GREEN PARK ROAD, VANCOUVER, B.C. CANADA V6T 1Z1 EMAIL: [email protected] UBC Reports is printed by Teldon Print Media which is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Certified. FSC Certification is a code of practices developed by the environmental movement as if they were the various government agencies that regulate logging, pulp and paper making practices. These environmentally www.victoriabell.ca sound practices have been taken out to the industry, adopted where possible and consequently there is FSC Certified paper available today. Companies operating in all three aspects of the industry have a distinct advantage over those that don’t because FSC Certification is a “chain-of-custody” cell 604.209.1382 process that follows the virgin fibre from the forest to the finished paper product. The real value of FSC Certification lies in this ability to track the fibre from the source and audit all the industrial processes used from tree to paper and then finally to brand the finished printed product with the appropriate FSC logo.