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Dalai Lama visited UBC this weekend. • NEWS BRIEFS Page 5 & 7 UBC GETS MORE MEDIA PLAY THAN FRASER INSTITUTE

The Fraser Institute, a conservative think Dalai Lamarama! tank that conducts international and local educational reports, the most famous be­ ing its annual "report card" of BC schools, can't beat UBC for media play. But it's not as far behind as you would expect. Even though the organization only has a very limited amount of money and persons at their disposal, a recent survey ^THEUBYSSEYca has showed that they rank as one of the top quoted institutions in virtually all YOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY • VOLUME 91, NUMBER IIX • ROOM 24, STUDENT UNION BUILDING • [email protected] Canadian media outlets, but especially in the Vancouver Sun. In total numbers, UBC still ranks highest with almost double the amount of quotes, but in relation to re­ sources available, the university has some catchinguptodo. The success is being attributed toth e Fraser Institute's extensive media pro­ gram, which provides for a continual bar­ AMS loses power rage of cut-and-paste ready press releases, special public events and social media play to UBC advertising. TWITTER APPRAISED AT $1 BILLION

SUB Renew Project to be managed Five major companies will be investing a sum of $100 million into the micro-blog- by UBC Properties Trust, architect gjng website Twitter in its second round of Oops. funding, bringing Twitter's total funding to to be chosen by AMS $155 million this year. The new funding gives Twitter a value of $ 1 billion. PAUL BUCCI The site has more than 45 million users feedback(?>ubysseyca worldwide. The investors include Insti­ tutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital as well as Insight Venture Partners and T Rowe Price—two new additions to Twitter's investment opportunity. fter a year of negotia­ governance structure for the Although Twitter use has grown expo­ tions, the project to build management for the project," nentially since its creation in 2006, there a new SUB, known as the said Sullivan. is still uncertainty about how profit can be ASUB Renew Project, is to Frederick spoke differently: gained from a social networking firm. be managed by UBC Properties "Council hasn't voted on Prop­ Trust, according to VP Students erties Trust being the project UBC ACCOUNTS FOR FIVE PER CENT OF Brian Sullivan. The project has manager." BC'S ECONOMY the largest investment of student In addition, Frederick also funds in the history of UBC, with asserted that despite having UBC President Stephen Toope had a mes­ students contributing $85 mil­ Properties Trust as the Project sage last week for all those politicians who lion in student fees to the $ 110 Manager, the AMS still has want to cut funding in education—the million project. control over the specifics of the institution makes up five per cent of the "The SUB Renewal Committee project. province's economy. The workforce be­ AMS PRESIDENT has decided to include Proper­ "UBC knows that we are going VP STUDENTS ing generated, employed or educated at BLAKE FREDERICK ties Trust on the governance to be presenting an account­ BRIAN SULLIVAN UBC provides a bonus of $ 10 billion every chart that we're working with ability agreement that reassures year to the provincial economy, putting "The SUB Renewal right now," said AMS President us that Properties Trust will be "We have agreed on...[a] the institution above oil and gas mining Committee has decided to Blake Frederick, though he ad­ involved in the project under our operations. mitted it "is due to the fact that terms. They agreed to that. So we governance structure for The study, conducted by Walter Sudma- include Properties Trust... the Board of Governors has said are very confident that they are the management for the nt, UBC's director of Planning and Institu­ due to the fact that the Board that we cannot build the SUB if going to accept the accountability tional Research, found that apart from the that is not the case." agreement," said Frederick. project." $1.9 billion that directly flows into local of Governors has said that The AMS has been in ne­ The SUB Renew project has businesses because of university spend­ we cannot build the SUB if gotiations with UBC since last also influenced the controversial ing, it is the "dissemination of knowledge" year over the level of control debate surrounding the con­ that provides the biggest influx into the that is not the case." each party has over the project, struction of an underground bus economy. which was approved by students loop. Students argued that the through a referendum in April proposed moving of the grassy UBC RECEIVES THE LARGEST DONA­ ACCOUNTABILITY | FREDERICK 2008. knoll outside of the SUB in order TION FROM A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION The AMS had argued for many to build the bus loop was a clear months that they should retain affront to the opinion of students "Properties Trust will be UBC Learning Exchange and UBC Faulty $85 MILLION OF YOUR MONEY exclusive control of both the ar­ on campus. involved in the project of Medicine received $2.17 million from chitect selection process and the "The official position of the under our terms. They HSBC Bank Canada in support of their The project has the largest project manager. As of now, both AMS is that we oppose the con­ community initiatives in Vancouver's investment of student funds parties are going ahead under struction of the underground bus agreed to that. So we are Downtown Eastside (DTES). the assumption that Properties loop," said Frederick. very confident that they The donation to be received over the in the history of UBC, with Trust will be the project man­ The AMS conceded to allow next seven years, will enable UBC Learn­ students contributing $85 ager, and the AMS will choose the bus loop to move forward, as are going to accept the ing Exchange to bring more UBC student the architect. long as they were able to build a accountability agreement," volunteers into inner-city schools and million in student fees to MHPM, a project manage­ SUB over top of it, according to non-profit organizations to continue of­ the $110 million project. ment company which has been Frederick. said Frederick. fering free educational resources to DTES advising the AMS during the con­ So what does this all actually residents. sultation process, will continue mean? Additionally the money will be used to to advise the AMS on how the "We are all confident that we support the UBC Faculty of Medicine for a project should proceed. have a project," said Sullivan. world class addictions research program "[MHPM] will work with the "It's going full steam ahead." in the Downtown Eastside in partnership AMS as their client...but they will said Frederick. with St Paul's Hospital. work with Properties Trust as the The AMS is now going to The sum is the largest ever received by project manager," said Sullivan. choose an architect for the proj­ the UBC Learning Exchange. DOUBLE TALK Despite such concrete terms, ect through a series of consulta­ BUS LOOP | FREDERICK "We applaud this exceptional commit­ UBC and the AMS are using dif­ tions with students over the next ment by HSBC Bank Canada to community Despite such concrete ferent language to describe the few months. They are scheduled "The official position of engagement and mental health," said UBC agreement. to have selected one by January President Stephen Toope. "Through this terms, UBC and the AMS "I'd say that both parties 2010. ^ the AMS is that we oppose gift, 'the world's local bank' will make an are using different language are quite encouraged that we —with files from Samantha the construction of the important positive impact here in BC and to describe the agreement. have agreed on an overall Jung and Stephanie Findlay underground bus loop." around the world." vl 2/UBYSSEY.CA/EVENTS/2009.10.01

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"I chose video and image process­ ing from the beginning, because it was new and nobody else was do­ ing it," said Dr Panos Nasiopoulos, "I wanted to do something new." That was the kind of attitude that propelled Nasiopoulos to develop DVD technology. Nasio­ poulos brought the world the DVD after completing his Bachelor, Master's, and PhD in Electrical The Forestry Undergraduate Society's logger sports team happily practice at their new field three times a week on the south side of campus, GERALD DEO PHOTO/THE UBYSSEY and Computer Engineering at UBC. And after developing the video processing technique, he SAMANTHA JUNG president who restarted the logger Kit Burke, representative for FUS under our arse, [graduated] so returned to UBC. news(?ubysseyca sports team in 2007, was displeased logger sports, said he received the [they] never really had a logger He currently teaches an under­ with Kavie Toor, associate director of e-mail in July announcing comple­ sports field beyond the one that we graduate course in Digital Design Forestry students will no longer have Facilities and Business Development tion of the space, and some con­ had over there." and a graduate course in Multime­ the axe fall far from the tree—UBC for UBC Athletics. crete proof through photographs in The logger sports team practices dia Systems in the Electrical and Athletics have finally come through "It seems as though [Kavie] is an­ August. three times a week on Sunday after­ Computer Engineering Depart­ with their promise to provide a noyed every time I manage to get a re­ "I'm totally sympathetic to them noons and Tuesday and Thursday ment at UBC. He is also the director practice space for their logger sports sponse from him," said Morben at the for taking a long time," said Burke. evenings. Burke added that the of the Master of Software Systems team. time. "He doesn't seem to care that we The new logger sports field is located sport was a "pretty specialized kind program, designed to give software Tensions built in April 2009 when have thousands of dollars of gear and in Thunderbird Park beside the of thing," considering the fact that knowledge to students with degrees UBC Athletics removed the team's students waiting to use the field." Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Winter only about ten people come out to not in computer sciences. logger sports field at the southwest Toor told The Ubyssey lastyear that Sports Centre. practice. Daikin, a company with an corner of the athletic fields in April poor soil conditions, cold weather Burke believes that the delays in For Burke, he's just pleased that advanced software division, was 2008 to put in a baseball diamond. and management issues contributed reinstatement of the field did not the team can gather once again. approached by Toshiba to help Athletics said that a new field was in to the delays in completion. cause the sport to fall out of favour "Logger sports isn't about com­ develop the software prototype the works, and that it would be com­ "I was surprised to hear the [com­ among his peers. petition, it's about hanging out and for the DVD. Daikin's team from pleted in five months, but a year later plaints] last year," Toor said. "Much "It's one of those things that geting to know people in your fac­ Japan moved to San Francisco the team was still left in the sawdust. of it was that there were no new people always come back to," he ulty," he said. "There's only 500 of to build the software and Nasio­ Melinda Morben, former For­ updates, we were still constructing said. "The people who originally us—you'll [find] someone you like." poulos was offered the position estry Undergraduate Society (FUS) [and] there were still some delays." got logger sports going, got a fire "It's a really good social thing." tl of Chief Technology Officer. For months, Nasiopoulos flew to San Francisco every morning for work and flew back to Vancouver in the evening. He was made president Deans vie for superiority at annual Dean's Debate of the DVD division of Daikin US I in 1999. BETTY ZHANG Nasiopoulos was heavily in­ Contributor volved in building the DVD software and player after the first proposal, On Tuesday, the deans of seven pres­ deciding exactly what it would be tigious UBC faculties gathered by the comprised of, how it would work stage at the Norm Theatre, shaking and how it would interact with the rain from their jackets and chat­ consumers. He explained that the ting amicably amongst themselves DVD player is like a small com­ before going head-to-head in the puter, in which the movie is like third annual AMS Dean's Debate. an operating system. The software According to AMS VP Aclministra- they designed not only allowed the tion Crystal Hon, the event was first player to play DVDs, it also allowed held two years ago by former VP studios to create DVDs. Administration Sarah Naiman. Its Besides the technological as­ intent was to show students a differ­ pects, Nasiopoulos had to convince ent side of their respective deans, and Hollywood studios and the rest to determine that lingering question Seven deans battled it out in front of an enthralled audience at the Norm Theatre on Tuesday afternoon, SHAWN U PHOTO/THE UBYSSEYo f the world that the DVD was a from Imagine Day: who has the better good technological investment. Al­ degree? Hon pointed to her purple the importance of Arts. Personal cheer as Dean Brian Bemmels gave who can't teach, teach PE," he said, though not easy at first,onc e others tights and said "Arts, of course." fulfillment, professional success and students impressive statistics. The before proceeding to compare Sauder began to see how the DVD could A number of other students would contribution to society are just some average salary of a Sauder BComm graduates to "7-11 night managers." revolutionarize the distribution beg to differ. Second-year pre-pharma- advantages of an education that fo­ graduate is $47,000, and 91 per cent When asked who "won" the de­ of film and video, the technology cy student Jennifer Nguyen held up a cuses on the human condition. She of the grad class of June 2009 were bate, students across faculties agree spread like wildfire. "Simon Says" sign on blue paper as also offered impressive statistics: the employed by August. that the dean of Applied Science When asked why he chose to Dean of Science Simon Peacock took average instructor rates a 4.2 out of 5 When Dean of Applied Science had it "hands down." The energetic come back and teach, Nasiopou­ the mike first. He spent three minutes on teacher evaluations, and the typi­ Tyseer Aboulnasr stepped up to the crowd of Engineering students ex­ los said, "I did what I did and was or so defending what he believes is cal salary of an Arts grad is no less podium, the entire midsection of the plained that they came to the debate extremely successful and I don't the "coolest faculty"—since science is than that of a Commerce grad. theatre exploded with cheers and ap­ to support their "awesome dean." think I can repeat it. It was a good all about "cool discoveries" and "cool The director of the school of Hu­ plause. With references to engineers The debate ended on a friend­ run." people" like the Nobel Prize winner man Kinetics showed spectators the from Mr Bean to Jimmy Carter, Tyseer lier note as the deans unanimously Nasiopoulos is currently con­ on staff in the science faculty. "sexy element" of his faculty—he Aboulnasr had the audience laughing. agreed that to truly prepare our­ ducting research on high dynamic Associate Dean Kathryn Har­ busted some dance moves upon the The rebuttal portion of the debate selves for the future, the faculties range video, which aims to capture rison offered a more extensive use request of a student in the audience. saw Peacock "taking the low road" have to help each other out and work much better contrast and produce of language in her description of Sauder students gave a half-hearted with insults to every faculty. "Those together, ti | more lifelike images, vl

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Don't what happens when oil interests are Island of Dreams is not packed with expect a fast-paced culinary adven­ threatened in a post 9/11 world. dense symbolism and indecipherable ture—Eatrip instead delivers a hum­ The subject matter is riveting and dis­ messages; it almost resembles Hayao bling respect for the art of harvesting turbing, and innovative editing exposes Miyazaki's old animations in its and creating the delicious necessity media spin at its most malevolent straightforwardness and simplicity. of life. The routine action of eating is —Greg Ursic It follows Alan, a young garbage cmcouver exposed as the unifying ingredient to collector who works at an artificial friends, family and celebration. Jour­ MIDDLE OF THE PACK island made of garbage who moon­ / Chamber Choir ney through the Tokyo fish markets, lights as an eco-terrorist. 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