JANUARY 19,2015 | VOLUMEXCVI | ISSUEXXXIII LICKING ABSSINCE1918 HOUSING OFFERS RESPONSE ADVICE: HOW TO ASK OUT DIANA ON PONDEROSA YOUR CLASSMATE BANG Andrew Parr, managing director Natalie gives tips on dealing with UBC alumna and The Interview of SHHS, says they are improving homesickeness and romantic star sits down with The Ubyssey Ponderosa conditions. interests in the classroom. to discuss her role. P3 P7 P9 t I UBYSSEY WINTER CLASSIC Record-breaking hockey game was a success in every way but on the ice. PIO The Right Honourable KIM CAMPBELL From Brock Hall to Parliament Hill // Page 2 axmn felallfclsml EVENTS '/ THIS WEEK, CHECK! OUR CAMPUS// ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE AND BUILDINGSTHAT MAKE UBC TUESDAY ' 20 ARRANGED SCREENING AND DISCUSSION 6:00-9:00 P.M. ©VICTORIALEARNINGTHEATRE/1KB Sponsored by the UBC Muslim Students Association, St Andrew's Hall and Hillel BC, this film tells the story of a friendship between two young women: an Orthodox Jew and a devout Muslim, and the commonalities they discover. Free WEDNESDAY ' 21 from tk creators af The Clean Bin Project JUST EAT IT: DOCUMENTARY SCREENING ^ =HOTO AUSTEN ERHARDJ7THE UBYSSEY 4:00-6:00 P.M. @ UBCGLOBAL LOUNGE Brett Gilley is using his position at Vantage College to try out innovative teaching and grading methods. Common Energy UBC is kicking off their 'Chew OnThis' campaign with a screening ofthe documentary, Just Eat It'. Learn about the effects of food Vantage College prof Brett Gilley is transforming classroom learning waste on the environment and what you can do to make it better. Free Leo Soh College has sparked intense international students and ofthe Senior StaffWriter debate, with some castigating whole campus community. WEDNESDAY/ 21 In an ideal world, professors the use of 'Canadian Money' on Students who enter the college would be passionate innovators, international students. To quote meet the university's academic researchers and dedicated a CBC article, "while UBC pours requirements, but do not have teachers, with the ability to money into Vantage College and the necessary level of English give students motivation to look its 1,000-room tower, it faces a proficiency for direct entry. Some forward to finals week. At UBC, student housing shortage with criticism has been directed at this Brett Gilley is turning this ideal 5,200 people on the waiting list. admissions system, as domestic into reality. Students are also looking at a students who meet these require­ A professor on the tenure 20 per cent increase in housing ments are not able to enrol. track, Gilley teaches at UBC in fees." "The trick is, if they're a do­ the department of earth, ocean Gilley believes that much of mestic student, they're probably and atmospheric sciences (EOAS) this criticism is ungrounded and not going to want to pay the UBC CHOIR PERFORMANCE and at Vantage College. His time self-contradictory. international student rates," Gilley 7:30 P.M. @ BARNETT HALL (MUSIC BUILDING) as a student was spent entirely at "Buildings are expensive. said. This performance by the U BC chamber, men's and women's choirs features Simon Fraser University, where EOAS just had a new building Tuition at Vantage costs music by such composers as Faure, Debussy and Dufay. The choirs will be he completed his bachelor's and built and it was in that ballpark $33,000, five times what the led by UBC graduate students. Free master's degrees, and went on to [$100+ million]," Gilley pointed domestic first year student pays. earn a doctoral degree specializ­ out. He understands that such a Add another $20,000 for living ing in sedimentology, his thesis large investment geared towards costs, and any domestic student focusing on the sandstone bed­ international students is upset­ would balk at the price. "Vantage rock that lies beneath Vancouver. ting news to many, but points out is run on a cost-recovery basis. So that the new building will serve the money that the students are ON People seem concerned the whole community. paying in tuition is what's paying THE for Vantage College." about the huge capital My big class [EOSC] The college offers immense COVER investment of the educational value to UBC as well, building, but the 114 has 700 students, since it serves as a testing ground so you don't want to for innovative teaching methods. building wont be try new things there. "My big class [EOSC] 114 has The last of many ideas, this cover only used by Vantage 700 students, so you don't want to was one to lose hair over. College, it will be used But I have another try new things there," Gilley said. -Illustration Nick Adams class with 29 [Vantage "But I have another class with 29 by everybody" [Vantage College students], so I College students], so can try these things with 29. And Want to see your events listed here? Brett Gilley I can try these things if it works with a small group, it EOAS and Vantage College prof with 29. And if it works can work with a large group." Email your events listings to <*- with a small group, it The best example of this to [email protected]. Gilley started teaching courses date is the two-stage exam. during his graduate degrees, and can work with a large "They're really cool. The became an instructor at Douglas group." students write their individual ^^*f^ ¥ • < -v T • « UBYSSE Y College, where he was involved exam, just like normal. They then \JTHE •*- JANUARY 19, 2015 | VOLUMEXCVI | ISSUEXXXIII with teaching workshops. From "People seem concerned about hand that exam in, and get into EDITORIAL STAFF BUSINESS CONTACT there, he joined an initiative to the huge capital investment ofthe groups of four. 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