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Sept. 04 – Sept. 17 VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENT PRESS Volume 45 – Issue 1 14 06 21 A LIFE LIVED ON STRIKE THREATENS MARINERS PREPARED THE FRINGE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TO DEFEND NATIONAL “I’ve been testing myself my whole With the Professional Association TITLE of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) life. Whenever life gave me a fork in strike still ongoing, some of Vancou- the road, I took the hard way.” Nanaimo’s Acme Painting Senior B ver Island University’s international Timbermen will be heading to the students fear they will not be able President’s Cup. to attend classes this semester. NEWS FEATURES ARTS SPORTS 03 09 15 19 Editorials Farmers Appreciation Week Ashta Cormier: The Sweet Yoga Helps Students and Sour Variety Hour Relieve Stress, Find Balance 05 Nanaimo caps off Farmers Appreciation Week with its Intramural Leagues, Summertime Blues Celebrates 16 own celebration: Tournaments and Events a 8th Year Harvest Festival Review: Great Way to Experience The World’s End Campus Life Local Farm Contributes to Community Growth 10 Book Launch: 20 Recipe: The Price of Silence 06 Classic Banana Bread with Sr. B Timbermen Headed to Yogurt National Tournament Is That Degree Getting You a Culture Bite Television: Job? University: No Sure Path Breaking Bad finale is coming My Evening with a Prostitute Doing the best you can for to Employment your athletes 17 Strike Threatens International 11 Students Coal Moon 21 The Interview: Bathtub Racer You Can’t Have The Blues in Mariners Prepare an Indian Summer 07 Solitude, Secret Beaches, to Defend National Title and Exploration Community Fights to Save 18 Schools 22 12 UBC Theatre and Film Graduates Re-work Odds and Ends 08 A Life Lived on Shakespeare into Modern Day Comics, Sudoku and More! 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Danielle Pope Dr. John Yim 900 Fifth Street • Bld. 193, Rm. 217 • Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5 • T: 250-753-2225 • F: 250-753-2257 NAV STAFF Blake Deal Drew McLachlan Leah Myers Glenn Mathieson Amanda Key News Editor Associate Editor Managing Editor Web Editor Art Director Kelly Whiteside Denisa Kraus Kimberly Kemmer Christine Franic Jeremy Unrau Copy Editor Arts Editor Production Manager Business Manager Graphic Designer Jay Smitka Molly Barrieau Darian Hart Rio Trenaman Sports Editor Sr. Copy Editor Ad Sales Associate Graphic Designer 02 Vol. 44 / Issue 1 / Sept. 04 – Sept. 17 / THE NAVIGATOR Welcome Leah Myers A Brief Editor-In-Chief The Navigator History of Olympic VIU Boycotts While sitting in my bedroom a couple weeks Throughout the summer I heard a lot of discus- ago, I hear my roommate heave a sigh, followed Drew McLachlan sion on the upcoming Olympic Winter Games by a bang on the kitchen counter. To cut costs, Associate Editor in Sochi, Russia. Few of those discussions how- we rent a one bedroom and separate our space The Navigator ever, had anything to do with the games or ath- with a black curtain that divides the living room letes themselves. What seemed to be the core of (my room) with the kitchen, and successfully the conversation was whether or not to boycott blocks visual access — though auditory privacy is unheard of in our little space, and basically the games, and it’s not hard to understand why. Unless you’ve been distracted by the Snowden everything we do is heard by each other. fiasco, the only media attention Russia has received in the past few months has been attached Anyway, so when I draw the curtain back to see what trouble my roommate is having, I to recent laws prohibiting the spread of information on homosexuality to those under the age see her standing beside a plate of leftovers on the kitchen counter and a mess of plastic wrap of 18. In our proudly pluralistic society, singling out a certain lifestyle as immoral is without covering just about everything other than her dinner plate. Discontented, she looks at me and a doubt unacceptable (and rightly so.) exclaims something along the lines of “One day I’m going to just splurge and buy cling wrap That being said, I won’t be participating in the Olympic boycott. I agree with the senti- that sticks to something other than itself!” ment of the movement, but no matter how noble a kneejerk reaction is, it’s still ineffective The joys of student living! The quality of discount brand cling-wrap is up there with dollar at best. If you feel so passionately about international gay rights that you can’t comfortably store Q-tips that bend in the middle as soon as they make contact with your ear cartilage, and watch a televised sporting event taking place in a country whose head of state is a homo- cheap vacuums that spit up more dust than they collect. phobe, then by all means skip the games, but don’t call it a boycott. Unless you were planning But as students we hold hope in our hearts that after a degree-length time (is it four years, on travelling to Russia or at the very least subscribing to a Russian sports network, the only or six?) of living frugally, that we’ll settle comfortably into a career that makes us enough to monetary loss during the three weeks will be for CTV. It’s also important to note that Ste- pay back our “debt sentence”. phen Harper’s views on marriage equality aren’t that far off from Vladamir Putin’s, so moving During the summer, I flipped through The Maclean’s Book of Lists, the Vol. 2 edition. the Olympics to Vancouver as some people have called for won’t make a huge difference. In the midst of all sorts of Canadian fun facts, such as “Where People Are Most Likely to Others have expressed concern for the safety of gay athletes. I agree that Sochi’s population Have Had Sex in a Canoe” (British Columbia standing proud at number 2) I came across the contains a number of homophobes, racists, and misogynists, who may have a problem with “10 Most Stressful Jobs in Canada” (sourced by Careercast.com). And wedged between “Top any number of our athletes, but to be fair these kinds of people can also be found in London, Corporate Executive in Any Field” at number 5 and “Taxi Driver” at number 8 — “Photo- Vancouver, Beijing, Turin, Athens, and any number of former Olympic hosts. On top of that journalist” and “Newspaper Reporter” sit at numbers 6 and 7. I have yet to meet anybody willing to pick a fight with a world-class athlete, regardless of Journalism isn’t exactly known for being the most lucrative career choice either. In sexual orientation. a recent BuzzFeed post titled “31 Undeniable Truths That Journalism Majors Can All A personal boycott on the Winter Olympics is unlikely to make an impact, but a national Agree On” the second “truth” reads: “The horror of being asked why you decided to ma- boycott will likely do more harm than good. The boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in jor in a “dying profession.” Interestingly enough though, I was excited to discover that Moscow was observed by 65 countries, including Canada, to show disapproval of the Soviet this year VIU has implemented an optional Journalism Minor in the Creative Writing Invasion of Afghanistan. Despite the mass protest, the USSR continued the invasion until degree. In recognition of any CREW students who decide to pursue the minor (and to 1989. The USSR and their allies responded to the 1980 boycott by staging their own boycott quote the Buzzfeed article) please remember that even though “You’re not doing it for the of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, which they claimed was in protest of the anti-Soviet, money” and that “It’s more fun to gouge your own eyeballs out than transcribe an inter- anti-socialist sentiment in the United States. Once again, this had little effect on the United view” you know it’s all worth it, “Because you know you have the chance to tell stories States’ policies (Red Dawn, a strongly anti-communist film depicting a Soviet invasion of the for a living. Which is pretty cool.” U.S. was released during the Olympics.) The cost of withholding from the Olympic Games But I’m not going to ramble on about how much I love journalism and why everybody is felt most strongly by the would-be competing athletes. Some athletes miss out on the op- should contribute stories (hint), but I will say that whether you’re a new student or a return- portunity they’ve been training their whole lives for, while others are stuck with a gold medal ing student, I sincerely hope you find similar joy and motivation in the career path you’re that they may feel they did not earn.