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NORAH JONES Soon." While it is perhaps a strange style for To put this in perspective, consider Jones, though a highly acclaimed singer, Not Too Late Jones to dip her voice into, she makes it her "Thinking About You." This track has a bizarre has an underlying problem in her musical EMI own. Two tracks later, we come across the gospel feel to it, except for the fact that it is direction: she is not yet big enough to create strongest of the entire album, "Until the End." accompanied by a jazz orchestra and an her own genre and needs to spend a bit more This track oozes folk, but with a light jazz unimaginative keyboard solo. It is incoherent, time looking at how she is crafting her tempo. It would seem that this is the genre in to say the least, and given altogether too much albums. If she (or a better producer, perhaps) by Isabel Ferreras which Jones performs best; it showcases her fusion. If she were to rid the song of its hints of had lent a few more months of editing to this CULTURE WRITER voice in the most effective way. The range is gospel and add a guitar accompaniment, it compilation, it might have been that much slight and she sings an effortless alto with the would have been far better. better. It is one thing to toy with different Because previous successes such as Come Away soft grace for which she has become known. Throughout the rest of the album, Jones genres. It is another to make them. with Me and Feels Like Home reached epic pro­ The album contains 13 tracks, and unfortu­ toys with the bluegrass twang for which she Jones' biggest fans will love this album portions, much was to be expected of Norah nately becomes increasingly incoherent. One has become famous, but never quite achieves all the same. Her voice is undyingly pure, Jones' latest release, Not Too Late. While the would hope that more than three would be her desired effect. Nothing matches up, for and every track on the record is perfect for album can be perfectly coupled with a rainy strong, especially when Jones has been blessed example, to "Sunrise," likely one of Jones' a relaxing afternoon setting. However, Sunday afternoon, cup of tea, and a newspaper, with such a beautiful voice. Unfortunately, it best tracks ever. "Wake Me Up" starts with before audiences can once again give her it still leaves something to be desired. would seem from this album that she has been great bluegrass instrumentals, but once the thumbs up for creativity and skilled The album begins with some strong tracks. swayed too much by current musical trends. Jones starts to sing, she emits a sound simi­ songwriting, she must figure out which gen­ "Wish I Could" is simple, upbeat, and catchy, She is trying to do too many genres at once, and lar to Joni Mitchell. Once again, a lack of res actually work well on the same album. and is followed by the saloon-esque "Sinkin' that makes the album rather unfocused. unity shown on this album. Because here, they just don't.®

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VANCOUVER (Special to CUP)-When governments Get in the zone "[It's] not surprising given the world we live in," began cutting post-secondary funding in previous At most campuses, however, it's immensely diffi­ says Garaza. "How sexy is it to write a story about decades, cash-strapped universities quickly learned cult to convince under-funded university administra­ what a terrible company Coca-Cola is? Isn't that more that exclusivity contracts with beverage companies tions not to sign exclusivity contracts. But student sexy, than to say 'They're doing a really good job?' could be a lucrative way to stay out of the red. unions have begun passing motions of their own to "At the end of the day, it isn't in our best inter­ At UBC, a secret deal signed between Coca-Cola render the deals null and void on the parts of campus est as a company to operate in a manner that is and the university's administration in 1995 meant under their jurisdiction, such as graduate and under­ perceived to be unethical or perceived to be students had to quaff 3 6 million cans of Coke or Coke- graduate student union buildings. unfair," says Garza. owned brands for eight years, during which time no The result is that when a given administration "It's so easy to point a finger at the Coca-Cola other company could set up shop. When it didn't hap­ wants to sign a deal with Coca-Cola or any other cold- Company and make it the target of all of society's pen, the $8.5-million contract was extended for two beverage provider, the contract has to be zoned to fac­ ills." years—at no extra cost to the beverage giant—while tor out the student-run parts of campus. This stipula­ students were held to drinking up the administra­ tion severely devalues contracts, which fetch millions Colombia's 'bad situation' tion's end of the bargain. less than what a university could get if they had cam­ Leslie Gill, a professor at the American University But over the past half decade, a pattern has pus-wide exclusivity. It also makes it a hassle to devel­ in Washington, has been going to Colombia for the emerged at post-secondary schools across North op a contract in the first place. past three years to investigate the matter herself. She America. Student societies, upset about Coke's UBC's undergrad and graduate student society, says what she's found has been appalling. )\ alleged human rights and environmental abuses in the Alma Mater Society (AMS) and Graduate Student Paramilitary leaders continue to intimidate developing countries, have started taking matters Society (GSS), for example, passed a motion last those who attempt to unionise, she says. Union into their own hands to cripple the deals. The result October that would not allow for any further exclusiv­ leaders, she claims, fear for their lives and have is one of the world's largest activist movements since ity contracts with cold-beverage providers after UBC's to be escorted around some areas in armoured the anti-Nike effort of the '90s, and it's costing the $8.5-million, ten-year deal with Coke ends this year. cars with bodyguards. company millions. The university is slated to make a decision over "Last summer in August a member of Sinaltrainal the next couple of months. If they were to re-sign the was murdered. He wasn't a Coke worker but he was 'Conscience of society' contract, the campus would have to be zoned. Since in a union and he had recently come to a protest Over the past two years, Canadian student unions the undergraduate and graduate student societies against Coke and was active," she recalls. at McMaster University and the University of Guelph run the areas delivering food and other service-relat­ Coke employees, Gill says, have provided her with voted to sever Coke contracts or leave them unre­ ed business—arguably catering to the highest volume eyewitness accounts about paramilitary coming into newed. They join a total of 3 3 post-secondary schools of people—access to that product will be sharply cur­ plants and talking to plant managers. in North America that have made some kind of tailed compared to what itwas. "It's a very bad situation," she says. "It's a very motion to drop or hinder contracts. "There may be some areas that have more choic­ undemocratic company, to put it mildly." According to a report by the Polaris Institute, es [in the new contract]," says Brian Sullivan, a vice- Coke, however, continues to deny any culpa­ an Ottawa-based think-tank, 13 of the 48 post-sec­ president for the administration at UBC. "More zones bility, referring repeatedly to the two dismissed ondary institutions that have exclusivity deals may be part of the agreement; the more zones like court cases in the U.S. with Coca-Cola are Canadian. that, the less valuable the agreement is." Ray Rogers, a 62-year-old activist from There is a tacit consensus that the ethics allega­ Massachusetts and the director of the global anti- tions against Coke are just too hard to ignore, says 'Ebb and flow of business' Coke campaign, sees otherwise. Becky Wallace, University of Guelph student execu­ The University of Alberta's (U of A) student union He feels that the devalued contracts and the ban­ tive, who cites the labour abuse allegations in may follow UBC's lead. ishment of Coke from campuses are forcing the com­ Colombia and murders of unionised bottle workers U of A's student union president, Samantha pany to change its tactics, demonstrated earlier this as the principal reason for the student union's deci­ Power, believes that student council, still bitter about year by Coca-Cola's national, open-letter ad campaign sion to abolish their Coke contract. having to tack on two extra years to its contract at no addressing the alleged human rights and environ­ Wallace is referring to the accusations that para­ extra charge when students didn't consume enough mental abuses in Colombia and India. military groups have been complicit in the kidnap­ Coke, is leaning towards a similar decision. While Rogers thinks the ads have evidently done pings, murders and threatening of workers and "We have control over our building and that's little to lift the company out of the fog of suspicion union leaders for the past 15 years at Coca-Cola's pretty advantageous in that regard," says Power. that surrounds them in students' minds, he says the Latin American bottling company. Nevertheless, Power figures that the university, company's motive is clear. In India, it has also been alleged on several occa­ regardless of the student union's input, would go "One of the most important markets is the student sions that farmers have lost their livelihoods when ahead and sign a zoned-type contract with Coca-Cola marketbecause Coke says, 'if we get a student hooked wells near Coca-Cola factories dried up. The most in 2008. on Coke or the brand name, we've got a customer for recent incident was the ordered shutdown of a Coke Diane Garza, a spokesperson for Coca-Cola, dis­ the next 50 to 60 years,'" says Rogers. bottling plant in Kerala in 2004, after numerous agrees with the idea that students can curtail sales reports from local farmers and villagers claimed and product exposure by cutting them out of certain Truth, unbottled their water supply was being polluted and was slow­ areas of campus. She says that people tend to forget Despite Coke's denials, skepticism is still run­ ly disappearing. that there are many more channels through which ning rampant. With so many accusations, it's hard Coke scored a victory when the ban was over­ Coke markets its product Zoning contracts, she con­ not to think that these claims about Coke bear turned by the high court in Kerala in September tinues, is completely up to the school. some truth, says Power. 2006. "You're presuming that channel is the only chan­ "I can't understand how those allegations haven't Wallace, however, said her student union was nel to the consumer," she says. "We're multitasking. been proven, but when you have a number of allega­ not satisfied with these and other rulings in favour It's the ebb and flow of doing business." tions from different organisations, then you have to of Coke. They opted for pulling the plug based on The company can make up for lost sales through start questioning if they're true," said Power. "You principle. "Universities are supposed to be the advertising or off-campus sales, she said. have to at least look at them." moral and social conscience of society." Mirroring Power's opinions, Wallace ques­ McMaster University's student union also Guilty until proven innocent tioned why thousands of people in India would go recently voted not to renew a contract with Garza admits that something did go on in on marches if the claims didn't have some merit Coke but will have to wait until the end of 2007 Colombia, but denies that Coke had any involve­ to it. "I don't believe that people would go on before they can open up for other brands on their ment with it. hunger strikes for these fictitious claims when premises, says student union president John "We don't say there's nothing going on," says their rights or livelihood are taken away from Popham. Garza. "But you have two independent court cases them," said Wallace. And in a watershed moment in December 2005, investigating and have found that there's no truth to With so many contradicting stories, it's hard to tell the administration at New York University (NYU), this whatsoever. Coke and its bottlers had nothing to where the truth lies. One certainty, however, is that the largest private not-for-profit university in the do with the violence." until students are satisfied with Coca-Cola's attempts United States with 15 campuses and over 40,000 The most recent court decision, made on October to reconcile these alleged abuses, they will continue students, issued a ban of Coca-Cola products on 3, 2006 by the Florida Supreme Court, dismissed the to find ways to make it difficult for the company to get their premises. lawsuit the Sinaltrainal union filed against Coca-Cola exclusive on their campuses. NYU's senate passed a resolution calling for an because the court lacked jurisdiction. A similar "The ultimate goal is not to have Coca-Cola "independent investigation into allegations of the charge was dismissed in 2003. banned from campuses," says NYU's Yakacki. "The Coca-Cola Company's complicity in human rights Sinaltrainal is the national food and beverage goal is to force Coca-Cola to recognise basic human violations" in Colombia. workers' union in Colombia, and the principal insti­ rights worldwide, not just in Colombia and India, "We're having a say in how the global econo­ gator of the lawsuits against Coca-Cola. The union but all over the world." @ my and global politics enact themselves," says intends to appeal the 2006 decision. Crystal Yakacki, a former NYU student involved Garza said people tend to gravitate towards head­ This story originally appeared in The Tyee in the fight to kick Coke off campus. lines that paint things in a bad light (www.thetyee.ca) on Tuesday, February 6, 2007. 8 FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY, 2006 THE UBYSSEy FEfflrtJRE THE UBYSSEY FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY, 2006

by Boris Korby, photos by Oker Chen Expecting nothing less than success UBC's Thunderbirds prepare for a full ten years of victory

ITS i;30 AM ON A MONDAY MORNING and ahilfamto Barryi Rudolf diving in and swimming the races we swim It'i never easy and this ye su­ he deals with mis—win or lose—is going to he Is al the pool about to get in a quick two-hum practice before hurrying to it's going to he more of a challenge than in other years.* the measure of him,' says Tom Johnson, class. For every merabeT of the team, winning has meant S :30am practices Monday Schoof s predecessor and the current head, He's not alone. The entire men's and women's varsitf swim team— to Friday, 25 hours total in the pool every week, plus five to ten hours of dry-land. coach of the Vancouverhased National 20 of thorn in total—are there, just as they've been almost every day for It's meant sacrificing almost everything the average university student takes for Training Centre. the last prix months, preparing fur "what for many of mem Is the moat granted. Now, everybody is looking to him to important swim meet they wiE ever be a part of. No keggers, no birthday hinges, no Friday nights at the club or bar. continue the legacy left behind by] No spontaneous road tops. Johnson, a 12-time CIS Coach of the No weekends at Whistler. Year, seven-time Olympic team coach, • No Wednesday* at fee Fit eight-time World Championships and1 No team in the history of university sports lias ever had the success While other students have social lives, they hate swimming, and each other. Commonwealth Games team coach, and a UBC's swim program bos enjoyed in the last decade: The two teams not only go out together on team functions, but can also be man Schoof behoves is 'one of the best, if Nine straight men's CIS dumpcmiBhipa, found together when it's time to relax. not the beat in the world.* Nine straight women's (3S rihairtpjonBliips. They go bowling, or watch, movies, or play poker. They have each, other's It'd be a tough ad to follow at any time, but Countless CIS, Canadian and even world records. hacks; they keep each other on track. They give each other rides to the pool at now, with rhampionahip number ten looming, the Over the last nine years, two djatttuot generations of imivBisity nwrmmCTa • 5:00am, and "bank home at 7:00pm. expectations are astronomical. have come together to produce one of the greatest sportmg Host importantly, they motivate each other to keep swimming, Anyone else in his shoes might well accomplishmentB in Canada, ever. *]|[ ii a tough sport' says Landry, It's hard to wake lip in the morning, to go whelmed by all the pressure, hut Schoof is But along mm al the success comes an ten times'a week in the pool, but being part of a team atmosphere, and having a everything in stride. unprecedented amount of pressure and bunch of Mends on ateam who are "there foryou and will always he there for you *ls mere more pressors? There is, yes. 11 ectation on the team chosen to in life has slot to do wfth why we're here,* , - ,,.T,, not to let anyone [on the team] know that complete tlie story, to bring home - "We're doing what we love to do. Everyone is getting along and towing a good there's more, but I've always feffc'a bit of pres­ number ten. lime and after five years, Tva rsalsod thai that's He most important part, and sure to win and that's something that keeps After all fhers ii the that's why we've always tame out on top. We just go out there and we have a good me going and that I thrive hi* tradition to continue, the time together, and we support each other.* 1 iMnk what I try to do is not show mat Tm legacy to tiplirilrlj ae "well Beyond the medals andtrapblsB, the banners and the records, there's a level feeling it I'm going to show [the swimmers] a throng of ffltnfly,: of cuinLoitment for what they do anil who they do it for; a sense of pride that mat I'm confident and I'm going to instil] a friends and alumni rivals anymihe country. It is flu reason they've acMevrfso*much already. belief in them that we're going to win." to make proud. And His confidence is reflected in his coach­ even, though many ing style, which is more Jaidback than Ms of them haws "been predecessor's, through it be­ The banner wai mp in the Aquatic Centre almost two weeks before the meet 1 try to have as much fun as I can while stall gs fore, theyll al teH , was oven set to begin. Ten years aFsmintming ameflance* it reads, in big bold tingthe job done/he says. It's too hard to ask these you this year ii letters. Beneath, the name of every champion of the past nine years, glaring down to come in and do something that's not fun. It's 25 hours different at them, imamdmg (bam of meir duty. week If itwas five hours they might be able to grin and bear it, but To many, after Not to those names are then owfk They—al 29 of iiem—represent the final you don't get up at five in the morning and go and do something you don't like almort • decade installment of a atopy tenyiars in (be making. They are the ones everyone expects to do/ of dominance, a to win, and flu ones who can't lose because-despite evarything else they might But for all the fan, he also knows that the success of this team, this year, tenth win seems accomplish in the pool at UBC-they wfll be remembered far this meet is now squarely on him for the first time, something that he doesn't take almost a given. Even before their first Jap in the TJBC pool, every thunderbird swinimer lightly. It isn't knows of the legacy that ftey will be expected to continue. "I've been here a long time, but when you're the assistant it's a little 1 Hurra friends "When I came on„,right away it definitely felt pike] there was something different,' says Schoof. The biggest change...is not more work or less come up to me ipeoial with this team,' says Rudolf, now captain of the men's team and in work, it's the responsibility and knowing that at the end of the and they're like. Tint his fifth year. "Every year now we put it into the rookies and second-years we perform, the accolades will go to me, or else if we don't I'll be •ii always "win,'* says that we want to get five more titles. Every year it's: 'Okay, you're our number the one responsible/ women's team captain nine, you want to get to 13, that's your goal.* I definitely knew when 1 came Michelle Landry. *We try to this team that there was this legacy and this tradition of winning, and BOW to tell people yon lay and instill it in everyone who comes in.* it's not really On top of their own expectations are those of their parents, more than half of 17 years ago Tom Johnson took over UBC swimming and, like that. whom wfll be flying out to Hahfiot this year to cheer the team on and be there for vowed to change the culture and mindset of a program that had: It's not the big moment Past swimmers, too, virtually all of whom have, their name up seen limited success in it's first 70 years of competition. In the -^ easy on that banner and many of whom still train at UBC, have been checking in on late 90s—as the achievements began to accumulate—the goals of; the team this year, wishing them hick, giving them advice, and subtly reminding the program underwent a siinilaT transformaSion. Success at the"'; ?Sjsj^ tbem just how many people are counting on them. CIS level was no longer the ultimate goal. It had evolved to simply ",«*-';§. "When the athletes go ani they race, they know they're not just racing "being the beet* ^Ni for themselves, they know they're not just racing for this year's team, they Johnson's mentality wasn't understood by most within tte^§Nr.»2[ know they are racing for all those swimmers that are up on that banner Athletic department until shortly after fifth-year swimmer Brian'?h-:--r-iA' from the past nine years as well," says Derrick School, the man who—in his Johns broke the world record in the 400m individual medl first year as head coach of the UBC swim team—is responsible for making in 2003. Being the best, by Johnson's standards, meant sure that banner won't need to be taken down. placing any Emits on the swimmers, or the team. "They're mere,* says 'Landry, referring to "the swimmers whose contributions Though no longer the head coach, Johnson says are already hangmg from the caffing. They look over atns, they help us out, and he remains heavily invested in his old team and they push us along the way." students, both on a professional and personal level. For Rudolf, Landry and the other senior swimmers on the team, they "It's different for me now. I'm going to the meet and know their contribution to the legacy wil be defined by what is accom­ I'm going to watch the competition but it's not nry team. plished in the coming weeks. I'm stiU very much interested to see what goes on, but "Just because it's number ten, because it's double digits, there is this it's just different.* huge significance,* says Rudolf, 'But this is whatthe whole year we've been Now with new priorities, he getting ready for.* believes the best is yet to come from the.UBC swim program. *I miss that part of it a lit­ tle bit, but I'm also very! Current head coach Derrick Schoof knew what he was getting himself interested in the challenge! into from the start of seeing if we can get these] For five years he'd been an assistant coach at UBC. But to those kids on the podium in on the inside, he was the driving force behind the program, the Beijing and London. It's a dif­ The CIS Swimming Championships man who was there for each and every swimmer in the pool when ferent part of my life, and life rem February 22-24 at DaJhoume they needed him, goes on.* l&nverafty, Halifax, JVova Scotia. 'He's always been there for a lot of these guys,* says Rudolf. 'It's But the mentality he forged in his "'- been a really easy transition for a lot of the guys on the team because 16 years guiding the program remains we've always thought of Mm as me head coach,* Only now it's a new group of swim­ But it was never reaJh/hto team. Not until now. mers, and a new coach's turn to keep the This iB his first real opportunity and real point of being measured, and how legacy alive. © 10 SPORTS FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY, 2007 THE UBYSSEY FRIDAY COMMENT PLAYOFFS ARE WHERE THE ting as far away as possible from volleyball fans know what I'm highest scoring teams in all of ating at the end of this year, this the Point Grey campus to kick off talking about. For the uninformed, Western Canada going head to head will probably be one of the last ACTION IS THIS WEEKEND reading break. But for those of you Christoph Eichbaum has been, for up to three fast-paced games. opportunities in quite some time by Justin McElroy sticking around Vancouver this week-in and week-out, a joy to 5. Thunderbirds and Cascades to see such a high caliber women's SPORTS WRITER weekend, there are plenty of excit­ watch this year on the War Battle Again: Last weekend, team represent UBC. ing games to look forward to at War Memorial court. He could be play­ the Thunderbirds women's team 7. Beer Garden: I know, I know, I'll be blunt: Students on campus Memorial Gym—as many as nine, ing professionally this year in cruised to a twenty-one point victo­ this isn't technically a reason to have had a rough time of it when it in fact. Therefore, in anticipation of Germany—instead he's terrorizing ry over the Cascades of Fraser watch the Thunderbirds in action comes to seeing their UBC a best-of-three series against opponents at universities across Valley. Cynics who would dismiss over the next three days. But it is a Thunderbirds play this year. The Manitoba (men's volleyball), Canada. This is the last chance this this series as a foregone conclusion well-known fact that 93.6% of uni­ hockey teams traveled to the exotic Trinity Western (men's basketball), year to see his spectacular spikes. should take note however: This versity students enjoy what is locales of Whistler, Prince George, and Fraser Valley (women's basket­ 3. Trinity-UBC Rivalry Continues: UBC team has a penchant for play­ known as a "cold one" on Friday and Port Alberni to play "home" ball), here are seven reasons— Nearly four months ago, UBC and ing down to the level of their oppo­ and Saturday nights. So if you are games. The big UBC-Uvic basketball because nine would be too formula­ Trinity kicked off the season with an sition for long stretches of games indeed one of those aforemen­ game happened two days before ic—to head to War Memorial and epic, 130-128 UBC win in triple before stepping it up in the forth tioned students, why not partake in exams began. The cross-town bas­ watch the Thunderbirds in action overtime. That alone should get any quarter. If they do that against this this refreshing activity while cheer­ ketball showdown against SFU was this weekend: fan excited about this best-of-three young, hungry Fraser Valley squad ing on your fellow classmates? played four days before classes 1. Two Wins and They're In: The series. The Thunderbirds will have that has nothing to lose, they could Frankly, if none of that gets you started up for 2007, and the foot­ goal at the beginning of the year for to buckle down and play consistent­ be in trouble. excited, then you just plain don't ball home opener went before coach Richard Schick and company ly for four straight quarters—a rarity 6. Drive for a Dynasty like sports (or possibly beer). And classes even began in September. was to send the men's volleyball this year—if they hope to advance to Continues: Not a lot has been assuming both basketball teams And let's be honest: It's hard to team to the CIS championship tour­ the Pacific Division final next week. made about the astonishing run advance, next weekend promises get worked up for volleyball games nament for the first time since 4. Explosive Offenses Collide: I the women's basketball team has to be even better, with series against such rivals as Brandon 1989. And if they win two games know there are some fans out there been on. That's a shame, because against SFU (21-2 this season, and Regina. against Manitoba this weekend, that enjoy an old fashioned, grind it this group, going for its third same as UBC) for the women and With this in mind, it should they will have done just that. Win or out, half-court, defense-first strug­ championship in four years, can Uvic (20-3, also the same as UBC) come as no surprise that the first lose, this is their final series at gle. Those fans should stay away play a level of basketball that is as for the men looming. An exciting round of Thunderbird playoff home this year —nerves are sure to this weekend: The men's series high as any women's basketball weekend of university sports is action falls precisely at the same be high as they try to seal the deal. against TWU promises to be an team you will see anywhere in the upon us. I know I'll be watching. time that most students will be get­ 2. 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by Brent Mutis SPORTS WRITER Four to watch in 2007: Andrew LaFleur When you go out to Nat Bailey A left-handed pitcher Stadium this spring to take in a T- from Ancaster, ON, Birds ball game, be sure to pick up a Andrew emerged last program on the way in. After 13 sen­ season as a go-to iors graduated from last year's guy out of the UBC World Series team, there will be a lot f bullpen. Now in his of new faces to get to know. junior season, LaFleur has a chance to This turnover comes in a season crack theT-Birdsrotation.Gives the team a where the NAIA's Region One has quality lefty arm and can fill any role on become much tougher with the addi­ the pitching staff. tion of perennial powerhouse Lewis- Clark State College and the subtrac­ Fletcher Vynne tion of doormat Eastern Oregon The first American to University. On the season opening suit up for UBQFIetcher trip to California and Oregon, head will get a chance to coach Terry McKaig will quickly be the everyday first have to learn what tools he has and baseman this year. Paid what buttons to push if the team his dues the last two hopes to duplicate last year's suc­ seasons behind some talented players cess. and has tremendous work ethic, on top of "We have a lot of young and being an academic All-Canadian the past unproven guys but I'm actually quite two years. happy with their development," says Jon Syrnyk McKaig, noting this year's recruiting ^^•^ A sophomore from class is very talented, which should ^} Langley, BC, Jon was BATTER UP: UBC ball-players Sam mie Starr, Craig Leebosh, FletcherVynne, andTylerWillson have set the team up well for seasons to able to occasionally been working overtime in preperat on for the upcoming season, which gets underway Sunday against come. crack the UBC lineup Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, OKER CHEN PHOTO Grooming young talent takes last season as a fresh­ patience, but McKaig, along with ers get their first look at college com­ each player has become very famil­ Angeles to open the season on man on a team loaded assistant coaches Cav Whitely petition, but it's not as though the iar with the Bird Coop as well under February 18 against NCAA Division with seniors.With a chance to see regular and Shawn Corness, sees this as a team lacks veteran leaders. There the tutelage of strength and condi­ III opponent Occidental College. action this season, it should be fun to positive. are seven seniors on the roster, tioning coach Mike Wilson. The road trip should be a good watch what the fleet-footed outfielder "I've really had to do a lot more which gives the T-Birds good bal­ "This is probably the most we opportunity for the players to forge can do for the'Birds. coaching this year than I've had to ance and also a steadying influence have prepared for a season and the bonds that will sustain them the last couple of years but that's a for when times get tough. Fourth- the most structured too," says through this season and beyond. Brett Murray good thing." said Mckaig. "It ener­ year T-Birds include right-handers catcher Kornberger. Like the team, Nat Bailey One of the most expe­ gizes me as a coach." Doug Grant and Paul Bruder, infield- Obviously, the 2006 squad is a Stadium has undergone a facelift. rienced players on the Some young players to look for er Brett Murray, and catcher tough act to follow but the coaches It will be sporting a new outfield roster, Brett will be in 2007 are second baseman Brendan Kornberger. and players feel the tools are there. fence that is 20 feet closer than last ^^^^ counted on to provide Craig Leebosh of Montreal, pitcher The team is leaving nothing to It is just a matter of how long it season and is to be ready for UBC's some leadership and a Greg Chong of Toronto, and pitch­ chance as it goes through its offsea­ takes players to ascend the collec­ home opener March 20 against dangerous bat in the er/designated hitter Scott Webster son routine. Hitters are getting plen­ tive learning curve and gel as a Lewis-Clark State. middle of the UBC lineup. Don't be of Coquitlam. ty of swings in the team's indoor team. The best way to go about You can foUow the team live all surprised if this third baseman also sees There will likely be some grow­ facility. Pitchers are seeing lots of doing it is to get out on the field and season long via webcast; details at some time on the mound this year. ing pains this season as many play- time on the indoor mounds and play, so the team will head to Los www.gothunderbirds.ca @ Looking forward: recruiting key to future football success by Jordan Chittley where, Goveia doesn't have to elim­ recruiting trips, but almost always SPORTS WRITER inate anyone. At this point in the tries to get them to pay their way. season, the team is already down to With a lack of funds, few oppor­ Football season may have ended 260 student-athletes still interested tunities to fly athletes out to see last November, but this is the criti­ in playing football for UBC. the school and high academic stan­ cal time of the year for UBC head "Our goal is to get about 150 dards, Goveia needs to rely on coach Ted Goveia. He has spent the guys to apply to UBC," said Goveia. other strengths of the school to sell last 35 days in the office working The application deadline is two his program. well into the night not devising new weeks away and Goveia has a good His hook is the idea that you plays, but recruiting. idea of how many people have can be anything you want to be at "I think the number one thing applied. The team uses recruiting UBC. With so many departments, in building sports teams at the visits, alumni phone calls and an good professors and some of the university level in Canada is being aggressive mailing campaign all best weather in the country, able to attract the best student ath­ designed to convince high school Goveia said he's pushing a product letes," said Goveia, who is con­ football players that UBC will be the he believes in. vinced that if the team wants to get best place for them. "I'm lucky it's a little easier to better, he needs to go out and get Athletic scholarships are avail­ recruit to Vancouver, BC than it is to better players. able and limited by the team's abil­ recruit to Sackville, NB," said Goveia. "Once the season ends we spend ity to fundraise. Goveia currenty "If you are interested in business, if NEW FACES: UBC will need to replace running back Chris Ciezki a lot of our time meeting and greet­ has three student athletes receiving you are interested in kinesiology, if (33) and his 16 regular-season touchdowns to continue their Shrum ing student athletes and parents...we full tuition on his roster. In com­ you are interested in engineering, Bowl dominance next season, UBYSSEY FILE PHOTO/KELLAN HIGGINS travel across Canada looking for tal­ parison to UBC's counterparts in why would you not go to somewhere ented student athletes who have the Clemons to give me two tickets for UBC, Goveia believes that if you sit the NCAA division I, they are limit­ [when we] have everything in place?" grades to get in." him and his brother, and then I flew back and hope good athletes will ed to 80 full scholarships by league He admits that there are days It may seem like a game to fans the kid out for a recruiting weekend come to you, you will lose. rules and they usually give them all when he would like to get a good during the season, but it is no game and took him to a dinner where "If you want to build a winning away. The fact that only 60 players football player who may only have a to Goveia, who pulls out all the stops Pinball was speaking. This particu­ program, especially in football, dress for games means 20 student 67% average, but said that even if to get the best players. lar student-athlete went on to dress you need to reach out and get athletes who receive a full ride in he got that player, he wouldn't be "Last year when recruiting a in every game as a freshman." involved in the community." the NCAA don't play. doing him a favour. player I drove in a blizzard to "Was it worth it? Absolutely," said The off-season begins with the Goveia also has to watch his Despite the limitations, UBC foot­ Kingston in the middle of February, Goveia. "We need to take the time team actively recruiting over 400 budget when recruiting. While he ball fans can look forward to a very I had dinner with his family, I and spend the money to get the best players, who slowly eliminate wouldn't share numbers, he said strong freshman class, according to coached him in the summer at a student athletes." themselves. Because players are that the recruiting budget is not Goveia, who said the program is camp in Toronto, I guest-coached While he gets tons of DVDs from offered scholarships to other enough. He usually has five or six enjoying one of the best recruiting with the Argonauts and got Pinball hopeful athletes wanting to come to schools or simply choose to go else­ players come to visit the school on years they've ever had. @ 12 NEWS FRIDAY, 16 FEBRUARY, 2007 THE UBYSSEY XXX films not all fun and games vm

by Eric Szeto According to the FCO, examin­ breaks you down," he said. "You CUP WESTERN BUREAU CHIEF ers have come from UBC, Simon watch four hours of hardcore porn a Fraser University, and the day for the better part of a year, it VANCOUVER (CUP)-He suffered University College of the Fraser really forces a lot of reflection." such a visceral reaction to his work Valley and are expected to spend And despite what you might think, that in order to avoid throwing up, he 50 per cent of their day classifying watching porn all day isn't stimulat­ had to leave and go for a walk. adult films. They are trained to ing—he often got bored. "When you Itwas the first time UBC student look for anything depicting coer­ watch that much of it, you eventually Tim Louman-Gardiner, newly hired cion, incest, necrophilia, bestiali­ realise how empty it is." for the co-op position as adult ty, explicitly violent sexual acts. The treat, he said, was being able video examiner for the BC Film The urination and defication for to watch fringe porn. Classification Office in 2002, sexual gratification rule also "You start to develop these coping watched bukkake pornography—a applies, Louman-Gardiner said. mechanisms," he said. "And you look type of group sex that involves a During his time, Louman- for some fun stuff—midgets, food." man or a woman being ejaculated Gardiner said he never encoun­ While Louman-Gardiner believed on by multiple men. tered anything egregious like child he suffered no apparent psychological "That was the grossest thing I porn or rape but regularly censored damage, Telton said health officials saw," he said. "It was just one of something that was questionable. are always on hand if there is ever a PRON ANYONE? $19.50/hour to watch bukkake. OKERN CHEN PHOTO those things that [is] incredibly dis­ University students, said Steve need—which there hasn't been, so far. "I would predict some very seri­ only reaction for the adult film exam­ gusting. I just couldn't take it." Telton, manager and deputy direc­ Jason Winters, a UBC PhD stu­ ous negative consequences," Winters iner would be boredom. Louman-Gardiner, now a third- tor of the FCO, are ideal for the job dent in forensic psychology who is said. "I can't imagine the large major­ "Based purely on speculation...I year law student at the UBC, is one of because "they provide fresh per­ researching sexual arousal regula­ ity of people becoming desensitised would guess that somebody made a handful of post-secondary students spectives as well as a diversity in tion, said prolonged exposure to to that type of content I also highly to watch hours of porn for work hired to work an eight-month stint thought and opinion." pornography would only have doubt that a person made to watch would become desensitised and examining films for the BC Film Louman-Gardiner said in retro­ adverse psychological effects if the hours of non-consensual violent bored by it," he said. "I have spent Classification Office (FCO), a govern­ spect the job was definitely worth­ job required watching non-consen­ and/or child pornography would hours vetting porn for my studies mental body that regulates all films while—but not initially. sual porn that was violent or con­ eventually begin to like it." and to be honest, it gets boring before distributed and exhibited. "If you do a job like that it sort of tained children. For the most part, he said, the really quick." @

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by Christine McLaren lar undergrad students and account for that," said Wehrung. more scholarships and bursaries they're trying to attract interna­ NEWS STAFF received money in subsidisation He also explained how the provin­ despite the hikes. If the university tional students, but then constant­ from the provincial government. cial government puts a restriction is serious about its mission to ly raising the fees," said Tanner International students, who Therefore, funding of internation­ on how high the university can internationalise UBC, they need to Welsh, a second-year Arts student already pay over four times more al students was being paid by BC raise cost of living fees for domes­ start thinking of creative ways to from Berkley, California. He per credit than their domestic taxpayers," explained Wehrung. tic students, which currently sits lessen the burden." mentioned that although there counterparts, can look forward to He went on to explain how this at two per cent. are scholarships available, even higher tuition starting this made it very difficult for interna­ In regards to the December- they're very elite and difficult summer as the University sent tional students to be accepted into approved hike, the Alma Mater "PRIOR TO THIS TIME, to get, and also not always based international students notification the university, as itwas only possi­ Society (AMS) is not pleased with entirely on need. "I wish they of the change last week. ble at the time if they could prove the actions of the BoG. "The AMS INTERNATIONAL had more scholarships to kids The 3.05 per cent increase themselves more worthy of a posi­ didn't hear anything about the STUDENTS WERE from other countries too, especial­ is part of a resolution approved tion than any domestic student. By hike until after it was approved," ly those not as wealthy as the COUNTED AS REGULAR by the UBC Board of Governors taking away government subsidies explained Kevin Keystone, AMS United States, for example. I (BoG) on September 24, 2001 from international students, it president, "and we're unim­ UNDERGRADS AND would feel better about the hikes as an "annual fee adjustment effectively leveled the playing field pressed with that." in that case." RECIEVED MONEY IN to reflect changes in the UBC for international students to come He also added, "the AMS does Other students wonder about education price index," as stated to UBC. not necessarily oppose tuition SUBSIDISATION FROM THE the future of UBC's international in the letter addressed to all inter­ "They no longer had to be bet­ increases due to inflation. That GOVERNMENT." community at the rate things are national students affected by ter than a Canadian student. They being said, we are also aware that going. Although Wehrung claims the increase. still had to be up to par, but not international fees have been hiked that the BoG is "well aware not to Yet, according to Don Wehrung, better," explained Wehrung, who by several thousand dollars in the —Don Wehrung put tuition rates so high as to although this may seem like a new added that the removal of subsidi­ last few years." Director of International inhibit international students' installment, international student sation proved to be an effective Keystone feels that high tuition Student Recruitment ability to come," some students tuition fees have a decade-long his­ way of internationalising the rates already pose a significant remain skeptical. tory of hikes. Wehrung, who is the university- going from 450 encumbrance to international "If the cost of living keeps going executive director of International international students in 1996 to students, and suggests that up, so will the fees," said Nives Student Recruitment and a profes­ 2800 in 2006. although the International Student He also mentioned the Bogad, first-year Arts student from sor at the Sauder School of Over the next few years there Initiative (ISI) already puts for­ $650,000 recently taken from the Vienna, Austria. "The tuition Business, acts as a consultant on were no increases to any tuition ward a percentage of international ISI reserve as part of the prices are one of the attractions of tuition rates to UBC's VP Students fees, until in 2001 the BoG agreed student tuition toward financial 2007/2008 budget cuts to help rid Canadian universities for us com­ and various faculties. The history to a 12 per cent increase for inter­ aid programs, more scholarships the university of its $36 million pared to American ones, but if this of tuition hikes for international national students, to make up for and bursaries are needed to help deficit, and staked it as "another continues it doesn't seem like students, Wehrung said, began the cost of living increases over subsidise the costs. example of international students there will be that competition." when international and domestic the past few years. "We're disappointed," he said. being targeted." She added that although it's frus­ students first became differentiat­ "The small yearly increases we "We're disappointed that we Many international students trating, she was aware that the ed in terms of subsidisation and are seeing now are to avoid a large weren't informed, we're disap­ are as unhappy as Keystone about hikes were inevitable upon enter­ tuition fees in 1996. increase such as that in 2001 all at pointed that it's becoming a bur­ the hikes in tuition, both recently ing the university. "Prior to this time, internation­ once. The cost of living goes den on students, and we're disap­ and in the past. "All I want to know is: when is it al students were counted as regu­ up every year, and we need to pointed that we aren't seeing "It seems pretty unfair that going to stop?" @ SJTIS nTERFETIVE www.ams.ubc.ca

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by Brandon Adams during the 2010 Olympic and than the estimated $49,500 the was not with the amount of money If you look at the entire budget HEWS EDITOR Paralympic Winter Games. Lodge would make over that tit™ that VANOC was offering, but the of the AMS, the amount of money According to Haque's presenta­ period otherwise. desire to keep that space open for you would get in it would be almost Thanks to a recent decision by the tion, VANOC wanted to rent the The BOC recommendation to students during the games. peanuts, compared to the amount Alma Mater Society (AMS) UBC Lodge from mid-January to mid- turn down the proposal wae Engineering Undergraduate of our total budget' Whistler Lodge will be open over March of 2010—encompassing passed on to the AMS council Society (EUS) President and AMS "The decision is basically a judg­ the 2010 Olympics, but at the both the Paralympic and Olympic which, after some discussion, Council Member Ryan Clare said ment call between taking the expense of a quarter million dollars Winter Games. The Lodge, which voted with a strong majority to he was pleased with the decision money and using that money to in revenue for the AMS. VANOC hoped would house trades­ proposal and that it was well discussed. benefit students," said Graduate On February 7, AMS council people and volunteers, would have "The [business operations] It's probably the best thing Student Society (GSS) representa­ was asked by VP Finance and been closed to student rentals committee had, amongst our­ that's been discussed at AMS tive Darren Peets, "or having the Business Operations Committee throughout the entire period. selves, decided it would be in the council during the time that I've lodge available for students during (BOC) chair Sophia Haque to voice Haque said that VANOC's pro­ AMS' best interests to reserve been sitting on it—if s definitely the Olympics, which is a bit of an their opinions regarding a propos­ posal would have supplied the AMS those...beds for students,* said the most interesting because it's intangible.* al by the Vancouver Organising with anywhere between $128,000 Haque. really hard to weigh those costs," Whistler, he said, will be com­ Committee (VANOC) for rental to $224,000—mgnificanth/ more Haque explained that the issue said Clare. pletely unaffordable for students. © Lansbridge University ordered to close May 1 by Eric Szeto Lansbridge are international stu­ for a shutdown, Murray Coell, the finds Lanabridge's explanations also said students attending CUP WESTERN BUREAU CHIEF dents, mostly from China and BC minister of advanced education, "completely unbelievable.* Lansbridge will be eligible for India. A full four-year degree at the said in a written response. And despite nlnfma from stu­ graduation as long as it's before VANCOUVER (CUP)-Kaahyap Ahya school can cost up to $40,000 for The state of the student files at dents that Lansbridge offers a legit­ the May 1 closure. came from India hoping to get an international students, while an Lansbridge raised serious ques­ imate education, he addeded that "As of getting dawn to the education and a head start on his MBA can cost up to $27,000. tions about the administration, management malpractice has total­ may-gritty [of transferring cred- career. Butwith the recent decision Kingston College-like admissions standards, credit ly discredited the institution. itsL..that is something that will to shut down Lansbridge University Lansbridge, a private post-second­ transfer criteria and other issues. "If a restaurant that served be assessed individually/ said in Vancouver, bis plans are hang­ ary institution in the Kingston The inspector found some of the hamburgers was full of rat drop­ Jennifer McCrea, communications ing in limbo. He's already out Education Group—was shut down students* official files photocopied pings [and] the people didn't wash director at the Ministry of $15,000 and will likely have to go in October 2006 when reports sur­ on used paper. their hands when they cooked the Advanced Education, adding that a back to India this September when faced that the school was offering David Ze, program head for gen­ fbad...but nobody got sick, it's still liaison officer is being placed at his student visa expires. degrees from unaccredited out-of- eral education at Lansbridge, operating in a way where some­ the school to handle each case He's not alone. Ahya is among province universities. admitted that mistakes were made, thing is going to go wrong." individually. the 250 Lansbridge students who The Ministry of Advanced but said they weren't enough to Lansbridge had until February Ahya, who is organising a peti­ will be searching lor a new school Education ordered an inspection warrant a closure. 14 to provide a progress report to tion to the BC government to starting May 1, now that an inspec­ of Lansbridge when students from *We have administrative mis­ the province. If the provincial gov­ protest the closure, said that thou- tor's report has found numerous Kingston College claimed they takes,* he said. 'One example is ernment doesn't feel the school sands of dollars win be going to accounts of management malprac­ were offered Lansbridge degrees printing some documents on used has complied satisfactorily with its waste. tice within the institution. as compensation for being denied paper. We had an internal policy requests—not to enrol new stu­ "We called up Lansbridge Many of the students are in the Kingston degrees. that is actually for any documents dents, to arrange for the students University New Brunswick same boat as Ahya, facing the possi­ The inspector recommended for internal use only, we use used to be enrolled in other institutions and—they've taken Lansbridge bility that they have squandered either suspending operations or paper to save paper.* and to refund students who have [British Columbia! off the transfer their families' savings for the revoking the school's ability to Eobert Clift, executive director paid for courses past May 1—fur­ list," he said. chance to study in Canada, grant "degrees altogether. The viola­ at the Canadian CTniversflyFacult y ther action may be take taken. "No one is taking credits fiom TWc-thirds of the students at tions were serious enough to call Associations of British Columbia The provincial government Lansbridge University." ©

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