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COORDINATING EDITOR by V. Tony Hauser. • 6:30-9:30pm, drink of your choice, a ticket in top it all off, a DJ will spin tunes Justin McElroy: [email protected] CLASSIFIED 3250 Commercial Dnve, $40 stu the raffle for a 19" flatscreen TV to guarantee groovy moves on NEWS EDITOR dents, $80 non-students, tickets and your chance to ride the bull. the dance floor. • 7-11:30pm, ArshyMann: [email protected] ESSAY EDITOR available online at irsa.rezgo.com Call (604) 328-0913 or e-mail SUB Ballroom, $3 (includes ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR $20/hour, about 4 pages • orinSUB30-G. [email protected] for tickets. small tasters of international cui Sally Crampton : associate.news@ubysseyca sine), bring two pieces of ID to CULTURE EDITORS grammar, spelling, sentence WEDNESDAY, NOV 24 GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: PERSPEC purchase alcoholic beverages. Jonny Wakefield & Bryce Warnes: structure • 4 years experience culture@ubyssey ca TIVES OF A FORMER REFUGEE • Ve ASSOCIATE CULTURE EDITOR • GRADE20% BETTER UBC FILM SOCIETY: THE EXPENDABLES ronica Fynn, former WUSC stu RUBBER SOUL: ROCK FOR AIDS CON Anna Zoria: [email protected] [email protected] • The UBC Film Society will be dent and one of the founders of CERT* Rubber Soul is set to rock SPORTS EDITOR showing The Expendables, star the Africa Awareness Initiative, out for the first time in Vancou Vacant ONGOING EVENTS ring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Sta- will speak at UBC on Novem ver. Rubber Soul first began in FEATURES EDITOR tham and pretty much every ac ber 25. There will be a dynam 2008 in the Hongdae district of Trevor Record :features@ubyssey ca UBYSSEY PRODUCTION • Come help tion hero of the last 30 years. A ic discussion on the Farchana South Korea. Expats living in Ko PHOTO EDITOR us create this baby! Learn about team of mercenaries heads to Manifesto, a document from rea teamed up with local Kore Geoff Lister: photos@ubysseyca layout and editing. Expect to be South America on a mission to the women ofthe Farchana ref ans to promote awareness of PRODUCTION MANAGER fed. • Every Sunday and Wednes overthrow a dictator. • 9-11 pm, ugee camp in Darfur, Sudan de HIV and raise money for Little Virginie Menard: production@ubysseyca COPY EDITOR day, 2pm. Norm Theatre, SUB, $2.50 mem manding equal rights for wom Travellers and Grassroots Ugan Kai Green: copy@ubysseyca bers, $5 non-members. en. Light refreshments provid da. All proceeds from their con MULTIMEDIA EDITOR MULTIVERSITY GALLERIES CURATOR ed. • 5-7pm, Liu Institute for cert will go towards the fight Tara Martellaro: multimedia@ubysseyca TOURS* Learn about a different as THURSDAY, NOV 25 Global Issues, free. against HIV/AIDS. • 8pm-1am, ASSOCIATE MULTIMEDIA EDITOR pect of the Multiversity Galleries The Pit and The Gallery, $12 at Stephanie Warren: from a different curator every week. LINK DANCE: EXPERIMENTS (EX FRIDAY, NOV 26 The Outpost, $15 at the door. associate.multimedia@ubysseyca From the local to the global and the CERPT)* Dance collides with sci VIDEO EDITOR mundane to the arcane, let the ex ence in Experiments, Gail Loten- AUS FIRST-YEAR C0MMITEE PRES SATURDAY, NOV. 27 David Marino: video@ubysseyca perts introduce you to the objects berg's exciting new work for her ENTS: THE NO PANTS DANCE•The WEBMASTER that intrigue them most. Along the Jeff Blake: webmaster@ubysseyca company LINK Dance. A collabo AUS First Year Committee pres WREATH-MAKING COURSE* Guid way, you'll gain fresh perspectives ration with four ecologists, spe ents the No Pants Dance—yes, ed by the talented and expe Room 24, Student Union Building related to collecting, consulting, re cialists in the study of move you read that right. Give your rienced experts Moya Drum- 6138 Student Union Boulevard searching, interpreting and exhib ment and behaviour. The work jeans a vacation in the laun mond and Judy Newton, you Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 iting in the Museum. • Tuesdays combines fluent dancing with dry heap and come all dressed will learn tips and techniques tel: 604.822.2301 1-2pm, Museum of Anthropology sound, light and video, to in down! Featuring a photo booth for making your very own nat web: www.ubyssey.ca $14/12 included with admission, vestigate how two separate and the Pants Off Dance Off, ural holiday creation. Partic e-mail: feedback@ubysseyca free with UBC student ID. disciplines embrace logic, ex fun and surprises (possibly in ipants will leave with their perimentation and creativity. • the form of Spiderman boxers) own beautiful and handmade BUSINESS 12pm, Scotiabank Dance Cen are guaranteed for this exciting wreath to decorate their door MONDAY, NOV. 22 tre, 677 Davie St, $10 adults, night. • 9pm-12am, Mass Bu or to give to a friend. You will Room 23, Student Union Building $8 students. chanan D, $10, $12 at the door, be outdoors for brief periods print advertising: 604.822.1654 THE AMS ANNUAL GIFT FAIR • One- $1 for coat check, tickets avail of time, so please dress ap business office: 604.822.6681 stop shopping for great gifts and LACEUPF0RKIDS»Come lace up able at the Totem Park and Place propriately. Please bring your web advertising: 604.822.1658 e-mail: advertising@ubysseyca decorations from products im and make a difference in the Vanier residence commons and own pair of secateurs and gar ported around the world to locally lives of children living with a the bus loop by REC Centre. dening gloves. • 9am-12pm, BUSINESS MANAGER handcrafted items. There will be rare disease. Lace Up for Kids $60 public, $55 garden mem FerniePereira: business@ubysseyca new vendors each week. • Nov. is UBC REC's student-driven JADE IN THE COAL • In 1900, the bers and students, reserva PRINT AD SALES 22-Dec. 3, 10:30am-5:30pm, charity event that is a great hardships of Chinese coal-miners tion required, e-mail botg® Kathy Yan Li: advertising@ubysseyca SUB Main Concourse. opportunity for individuals or in Cumberland, BC are relieved interchange.ubc.ca to book. WEB AD SALES teams to give back. All pro by a Cantonese opera troupe. As Paul Bucci: webads@ubysseyca MAKE ART FOR AIDS + P0SE-ITIVE- ceeds will go towards the BC the actors rehearse, the mine's SUNDAY, NOV. 28 ACCOUNTS LY HIV • This event is part of the Children's Hospital Rare Dis ghosts stir and reveal a terrible AlexHoopes: accounts@ubysseyca World AIDS Week coalition to help ease Foundation Fund to sup secret from the past. Written by OPERA TEAS0NTHE STAGE* UBC port life-saving microgrant re CONTRIBUTORS UBC students gain awareness Governor General's Award-win Opera Ensemble presents their and speak out for HIV/AIDS. Help search. • 6pm-2am, Doug ning writer Paul Yee, with orig newest series, Opera Teas on make art for AIDS by completing Mitchell Thunderbird Sports inal music performed live by a Kalyeena Makortoff Miclri Cowan the Stage, with shortened ver Yara De Jong Marie Vondracek a picture or photo. Canvases, art Centre, register by Nov. 18. six-piece Cantonese opera en sions of operas in a cabaret set Fabrizio Stendaro Charles Depman supplies and camera supplied. In semble. • 7:30-9:30pm, Fred ting on the stage of their new David Elop David Marino cludes free hot cocoa, cupcakes UBC ROBSON SQUARE RODEO • Pull dy Wood Theatre, $102/78/48 theatre. • 2-4pm, UBC Old Au Jon Chiang Samantha Bullis and condoms. • 11am-2pm, SUB on your cowboy boots, iron your package tickets, $22/15/10 sin ditorium, 6344 Memorial Rd, Philip Edgecumbe Bijan Ahmadian Entrances and MASS lounge in best plaid shirt and shout "yee- gle tickets, e-mail theatre® $20 adults, $15 students and Buchanan D. haaaaaww" when you head to [email protected] or call seniors, reservations required, Front cover illustration by Indiana The Bourbon Country Bar, to at (604) 822-2678 for more call (604) 822-6725 to reserve. Joel TUESDAY, NOV 23 help find the best bull rider in information. town while raising awareness UBCFILMS0CIETY:AW0MAN,AGUN LEGAL NIGHT OF A THOUSAND DINNERS and money for United Way. Feel UBC ELI: INTERNATIONAL NIGHT • AND A NOODLE SHOP • The UBC
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