Proposing to Canucks SINCE 1918 mmm,m\ June 7, 2011 SUMMER VOLUME 28, NUMBER 3 ROOM 24, STUDENT UN30N BU3LD3NG r PUBL3SHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS mi mm J -.mi EU BYSSE Y [email protected] i i Page 5: CiTR makes changes N Page 6: Wilson steps down as women's hockey coach 2/UBYSSEY.CA/E VENTS/2011.06.0 7 JUNE 7, 2011 SUMMER VOLUME XXVIII, N°III EVENTS COMICS EDITORIAL COORDINATING EDITOR ONGOING EVENTS fustin McElroy: [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR, PRINT UBYSSEY PRODUCTION • Come Jonny Wakefield:[email protected] help us create this baby! Learn MANAGING EDITOR, WEB about layout, editing, video pro­ Arshy Mann: [email protected] duction and more. • Sundays- NEWS EDITORS Fridays, 11am-5pm. Kalyeena Makortoff & Micki Cowan: [email protected] NOON Y0GA$1 • Led by the UBC ART DIRECTOR Yoga Club—all skill levels are Geoff Lister: [email protected] welcome. Bringyourown matand CULTURE EDITOR enjoy this invigorating session. Ginny Monaco: [email protected] RSVP on the Facebook events SENIOR CULTURE WRITER page. • Tuesdays, 12-lpm, UBC Taylor Loren: [email protected] Bookstore, $1. SPORTS EDITOR Drake Fenton: [email protected] BARD ON THE BEACH • Join the FEATURES EDITOR many Shakespeare lovers on the Brian Piatt :[email protected] waterfront in Vanier Park right VIDEO EDITOR next to the downtown core for David Marino: [email protected] another season of Bard on the Beach. This season sees the WEB WRITER Andrew Bates: [email protected] comedy As You Like It and the classic drama The Merchant of GRAPHICS ASSISTANT Indiana Joel: [email protected] Venice on the main stage. Bard on the Beach continues their WEBMASTER third year of "The Kings" with Jeff Blake: [email protected] Henry Viand Richard III. • June 2-Sept24, Vanier Park, $21-40. Room 24, Student Union Building More info afbardonthebeach.org 6138 Student Union Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3 tel: 604.822.2303 PLAYLAND* Playland is open again web: www.ubyssey.ca with all of your favourite rides e-mail: [email protected] waiting for you. Grab some cotton candy and play the midway, or hit C0MICMASTER BY MARIA CIRSTEA the links and play minigolf. Come BUSINESS monkey around on the climbing wall or just simply absorb the fine BUSINESS MANAGER FerniePereira: [email protected] fair culture that Playland provides. AD SALES The fair is always best with the Alex Ho opes: advertising@ubyssey,ca sun shining! • Now-Sep. 25, Wam-3pm (6pm on weekends). 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Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager Development Services, C+CP ~ TJ^ Canadian Canada Post T-V c-i -^ University Sales Agreement email: [email protected]. FSC Press #0040878022 2011.06.0 7/UBYSSEY.CA/NEWS/3 NEWS EDITORS KALYEENA MAKORTOFF & MICKI COWAN»[email protected] UBC student dies in swimming accident TIMELINE: HOSPICE ARSHY MANN finally recovered on Monday [email protected] morning by the RCMP Under­ water Recovery Team. A man who drowned Sunday Odera, a Kenyan from Nai­ at Kawkawa Lake near Hope, robi, began studying at UBC in BC, has been identified as 24- 2007, majoring in political sci­ year-old UBC student Felix Ri- ence. According to his personal aga Odera. blog, which he started in April, Odera was visiting the lake he was interested in socialjus­ while on a trip with the Inter- tice, entrepreneurship and spir­ Varsity Christian Fellowship— itual understanding. He had a an AMS club. full scholarship to attend UBC According to the RCMP, and was the VP Finance for the Odera was staying at a bible Africa Awareness Initiative. camp on the lake. He jumped in His final blog post, written on The UBC Board of Governors the water on Sunday afternoon April 30, described the month- is set to approve the construc­ from a floating dock that was long missionary trip called the tion of a 15-bed hospice on approximately 70 feet way from Vancouver Urban Partnership campus on Wednesday. The the shoreline. Four or five oth­ that was to start shortly after his decision has been a long time er students were on the dock trip. It involved a week of inten­ coming. at the time, and when Odera sive bible study in Sundre, Al­ did not resurface, they called berta, followed by three weeks February 2008: The Order the RCMP. of scripture studies, lectures of St. John and the Vancou­ "The early stages of the in­ and internships in the Down­ ver Hospice Society present a vestigation point to the young town Eastside. proposal to the Board of Gov­ man being unable to swim," Cst His body has been sent to Roy­ ernors (BoG) to build a sin­ Tracy Wolbeck told the Hope al Columbian Hospital for an au­ gle-story hospice on campus, Golden Star.