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ul9 WE HAVE WEB COMMENTS! Visit us at ubyssey.ca ^THEUBYSSEYca YOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY • VOLUME 91, NUMBER XXII • ROOM 24, STUDENT UNION BUILDING • FEEDBACK@UBYSSEYCA 2/UBYSSEY.CA/EVENTS/2009.11.19 ONI INI CULTURE • PUMP TROLLEY VIDEO • MOA MONK NOVEMBER 19, 2OO9 S0UNDCLIP VOLUME XCI, N°XXII rvrinciv/r LAU-UOIVL IDEAS • STREETERS VIDEO EDITORIAL EVENTS Go to ubyssey.ca to see our online content. COORDINATING EDITOR ONGOING EVENTS get involved in your community • 11am- they will be auctioning off these pieces how they plan to put their ideas into Paul Bucci: [email protected] pm, between the SUB and Brock Hal, All proceeds go towards building an or action. Event will be followed by some NEWS EDITOR Ubyssey Production • Come help us more info contact rwprojectscaubcca or phanage in Nigeria in 2010. • 5pm-8pm, sparkling wine and cheese. • 6pm-8pm, Samantha Jung: [email protected] create this baby! Learn about layout and visit learningexchange.ubcca Pacfc Pal'sades Hotel, 1277 Robson St, BUCH 313, free, part of ELU Week, more CULTURE EDITORS editing. Expect to be fed. • Every Sunday free admission, cornplemertary snacks. info at eelubc.com. Kate Barbaria & Trevor Record: and Wednesday starting at 2pm. THURSDAY NOV 19 culture@ubyssey. ca MONDAY NOV 23 FRIDAY DEC 4 SPORTS EDITOR The Dance Centie presents Discover CfTR takes over the Gallery • Peace Justin McElroy : [email protected] Dance! • Discover Dance! is a series {myspace.com/peacevancouver) and AMS Elections Information Meeting The AUS presents: frAUStbite • IDEAS EDITOR shcwcasing BC-based companies. • Unti \Afelter TV {myspace.com/waltertv) will • Come learn about nominations and Winter may be well upon us, but it sure Trevor Melanson : [email protected] May 27, more info go to thedancecentreca. play • Cover $4, doors at 8pm, band proper electoral procedure (new and is warm in here! In festive celebration of PHOTO EDITOR plays at 9pm, will be broadcast live on old). Meet current executives to learn the end of semester, the AUS presents 1019 fm at 9pm, more info at citrca. about their positions and what their jobs frAUStbite, a semi-formal evening of GeraldDeo :[email protected] Monday Night Community Music & Meal • Like to play fun music? Just entail. Occurs one week before elections dancing and drinks featuring live per PRODUCTION MANAGER nominations open. Everyone is welcome! formances from UBCs own trombone Kyrstin Bain :[email protected] want to listen? Looking for a sense of The Cuntalicious Coffee House and community? This is for all members of Open Mic • Coffee provided by The • 5pm-6pm, SUB 212 quartet, Slideshow, and dub mixes by COPY EDITOR the UBC community who want have Boulevard. • 7pm-11pm, MASS, open DJ Supafiy. • 8pm-12am, Chan Centre, Katarina Grgic: [email protected] a good meal and great conversation. mic sign tps begin at 7pm, $2 entrance, Fatal Enlightenment—Rousseau's tix sob in the SUB & the AUS offte in MULTIMEDIA EDITOR All meals are home cooked and are refreshments by donation Discourse on the Origin of Inequality BUCHD Tara Martellaro : [email protected] vegetarian-friendy • Every Monday, • Come join Brandon Konoval (Doctor in 6:30pm-8:30pm, Chapel of the Spartacus Youth Club Class • Discuss Musical Arts) and other UBC students If you have an event you want listed Room 24, Student Union Building Epphany (6030 ChanceSor Blvd), more capitalist anarchy. V\fes Kari Marx was as they explore this fascinating and here, e-mail us at events&ubyssey 6138 Student Union Boulevard info revnathanwrightcamac.com. right for workers revolution? Class challenging text! • 10am-12pm, Victoria ca. This means you, campus dubs! Vancouver, BCV6T lZl number four: The Russian Revolution: Learning Theatre (Rm 182), IKE tel: 604.822.2301 Drippytown: Vancouver's comic artist How the Bolsheviks Took State Power • fax: 604.822.9279 on display • V\fent a different take on 6:30pm, SUB room 42T Leave Them Laughing • Sneak-peak web: www.ubyssey.ca Vancity? The collection features contribu at a new documentary. A comedian CORRECTIONS tions from six local comic artists whose rolls toward doomsday (due to AI_S) e-mail: feedback @ubyssey. ca FRIDAY NOV 20 In the October 13 column "The best we work provides a look at life in Vancouver vowing that humor will be the last sense have is inadequate," it was claimed that • Continues until Jan 31, Rare Books and to go. Ninety riveting minutes of songs Mr Jim Taylor said he would like UBC to BUSINESS Special Collections located in IKE, more Free the Children's Vow of Silence • about life and quips about death from merge with Vancouver in a past issue of info at puddngsocklivejournal.com. Place a piece of black (or red) tape over the wheelchair of a woman who vows the Hampton Journal However, IVr Taylor Room 23, Student Union Building your mouth to represent the silenced to exit laughing. Q&A with director John was skeptical of the merger option for advertising: 604.822.1654 voices of youth due to poverty, oppres Zaritsky following the screening. • 6pm, Donate your Aeroplan Miles to Mede- UBC, instead preferring to investigate business office: 604.822.6681 sion, and violence. • All day, part of ELU Norm Theatre, donations accepted, more cins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors options such as special municipality fax: 604.822.1658 week, more info at eelubc.com. info at leavethemlaughingfilm.com. Without Borders • Booking flights with incorporation, and modifications of the e-mail: advertising@ubyssey ca Miles saves MSF thousands of dollars, status-quo, and did not make this state money that they use to deliver life-saving Transgender Day of Remembrance THURSDAY NOV 26 ment. The Ubyssey and author of the BUSINESS MANAGER : Fernie Pereira medical humanitarian assistance to the • Jamie Lee Hamilton speaks, followed column regret this error by a candlelight vigil, and a Pride UBC AD TRAFFIC : Sabrina Marchand people who need it most. By donating, Jean Barman Comes to UBC • In you're supporting MSF's medcal humani Beverage Garden for UBC's Transgender AD DESIGN : Chibwe Mweene 2008, BC celebrated the founding of tarian aid work and helping reduce the Day of Remembrance. • Speaker at In the November 16 article "First-Year 6pm, SUB 212/214, v'igi at 7:30pm out the Crown Colony of B.C. and BO years Seminar program postponed," we said amount spent on air travel. • Nov 5-Dec of cultural dversity community and LEGAL 4, donate at msf.ca/beyondmiles, contact side the SUB, beverage garden 7-Hpm, that AMS Council "defeated a proposal SUB 207/209. achievement. In British Columbia, Spirit to fund the program." We would like msfubccagmail.com for more info. of the People, historian Dr Jean Barman The Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the to clarify that Council deferred the University of British Columbia. It is published every delves into the region's history, from motion, not defeated it, and that it was Monday and Thursday by The Ubyssey Publications WEDNESDAY, NOV 18 Dreamweaver Level 2 • An introduc the first humans to arrive in B.C. to the only about whether they would like Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run tion to the language of web design, promises and hopes of the 21st century, to endorse the proposal for funding student organization, and all students are encouraged HTML Get aquainted with panels and including the first contact between officially. Council deferred the motion to participate. Amnesty International UBC presents tools. Learn directory structuring for Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey Indigenous Peoples and newcomers. • because they felt it was not their Drink to Justice • Come out and listen HTML linking and how to set up your staff. 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Gallery, must be +19, $3 entrance Stories, opinions, photographs and artwork contained SATURDAY NOV 21 herein cannot be reproduced without the expressed, ELU Helps the Homeless • Help On page 15 of the November 16 issue, written permission of The Ubyssey Publications Society Dreamweaver Level 1 • An introduction empower Vancouver's most vulnerable we attributed a quote to Emily Griffiths, The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian Dan Savage—Savage Love Live • Student Legal Fund Society president. University Press (CUP) and adheres to CUP's guiding to Dreamweaver 8, web-usability and community the Downtown Eastside. We principles. good practice. Learn tried tested and Savage talks sex on campus. • 8pm, will be delivering sandwiches and care This is should have been attributed to Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. true site-building styles and how to Chan Centre, tix $27 at Ticketmaster, packages to the homeless and DTES Dave Morphy, VP students at the Univer Please include your phone number, student number and setLp and structure your worksite. • Free, more info at chancentre.com/whats-on/ shelters. • 12pm-5pm, SUB 42T/DTES, sity of Manitoba signature (not for publication) as well as your year and dan-savage-savage-love-live. faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when \2pm-1pn, Buchanan B125, mroe info free, more info at eelubc.com. submissions are dropped off at the editorial office ol contact arts.iscaubc.ca.