24 ^THEUBYSSEYca YOUR STUDENT NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY THROUGHOUT AUGUST • VOLUME 2.6, NUMBER I • ROOM 24, STUDENT UNION BUILDING • [email protected] 2/UBYSSEY.CA/EVENTS/2009.08.24 AUGUST 24™, 2009 VOLUME XVI, N° I EDITORIAL 4 7 COORDINATING EDITOR EVENTS Paul Bucci: [email protected] NEWS EDITOR 4 6 5 2 8 Samantha Jung: [email protected] If you have an event you want listed CULTURE EDITORS here, e-mail us at [email protected]. Kate Barbaria & Trevor Record: culture@ 3 9 ubyssey. ca SPORTS EDITOR Keegan Bursaw : sports @ubyssey.cza 2 6 1 August 24 against local rivals SFU. Wear IDEAS EDITOR blue! Be noisy! • August29 @ Trevor Melanson : [email protected] Final Destination Movie 2-4:30pm, Location: Thunderbird PHOTO EDITOR 1 3 Marathon • A marathon of the Stadium, $10. adults, $5 youth, $2 Gerald Deo : photos @ubyssey.ca first three Final Destination films in students. PRODUCTION MANAGER preparation for the release of Final Kyrstin Bain :[email protected] 9 5 1 Destination 3D. • August 24 @ Dan Mangan with Meatdraw * COPY EDITOR 6:30pm, The Norm Theatre, SUB. The second night of Dan Mangan's Katarina Grgic: [email protected] Free Admission. CD release party for his album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice. • August 29 @ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR 6 7 August 25 7:30pm, Location: The Cultch, 1895 Tara Martellaro : multimedia@ubysseyca Venables Street, $18. Room 24, Student Union Building 6138 Student Union Boulevard Linking E-Learning with the 7 5 6 1 9 August 30 Vancouver, BCV6T lZl e-Library • Hands-on workshop tel: 604-822-2301 where you can learn how to easily fax: 604-822-9279 and conveniently link from your Rent • Last night of Fighting web: www.uhyssey.ca 5 8 WebCT Vista course directly to Chance Productions' musical resource material from the UBC e-mail: feedback @ubyssey. ca adventure • August 30 @ 8pm, ibrary. Bring your own citation lists Location: Presentation House The­ BUSINESS HARD #66 and/or reading lists. • August25 atre, 333 Chesterfield Ave, North Room 23, Student Union Building @ l-3pm, Location: Room 460, Van., $25. advertising: 604-822-1654 Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. business office: 604-822-6681 SU do ku Ongoing Events fax:604-822-1658 © Puzzle s by Pappocom August 26 e-mail: advertising@ubysseyca Malcolm Lowry Exhibition * A BUSINESS MANAGER : Fernie Per-eira How International Norms are showcase of one of BC's most fa­ AD TRAFFIC : Sabrina Marchand Built, Maintained and Destroyed: mous writers. Lowry was a British AD DESIGN : Isabel Ferreras The Case of Torture • Special poet and novelist and best known LEGAL Green College lecture by UBC for his novel Under the Volcano The Ubyssey isthe official student newspaper of the University President Stephen Toope; to kick Curated by UBC Ph.D. Student of British Columbia. It is published every Monday and Thursday off 2009/2010 academic year Mark Diotte. • July 20-September by The Ubyssey Publications Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run student organization, and all students are Wine and cheese reception to 30, Location: Rare Books and Spe­ encouraged to participate. follow. • August 26 @ 5-6:30pm, cial Collections, Irving K. Barber Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They Location: Coach House, Green Learning Centre. are the expressed opinion ofthe staff, and do not necessarily College, 6201 Cecil Green Park reflect the views of The U byssey Publications Society or the Road. Free admission. University of British Columbia. All editorial content appearing TATAU: Samoan Tattooing and in The U byssey is the property of The Ubyssey Publications Society. Stories, opinions, photographs and artwork contained Global Culture • Contemporary herein cannot be reproduced without the expressed, written Xwi7xwa Library Summer Films significance of Samoan tattoo permission ofThe Ubyssey Publications Society. • Three films for the Xwi7xwa's traditions in what the Museum The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University final film event of the summer of Anthropology is calling an "in­ Press (CUP) and adheres to CUP's guiding principles. Letters to the editor m ust be under 300 words. Please Showing: Indigenous Plant Diva, sightful and provocative exhibit." include your phone number, student number and signature Teachings of the Tree People, and Features over 40 photos by Mark (not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with all a people's choice. • August 26 @ Adams, New Zealand artist. • July submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The U byssey; otherwise verification 1:15-4:15pm, Location: Xwi7xwa 29-September 30, Location: Mu­ will be done by phone. "Perspectives" are opinion pieces over Library Seminar Room 205, 1985 seum of Anthropology. $11 adults, 300 words but under 750 words and are run according to West Mall. free for UBC students, faculty and space. "Freestyles" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff staff with ID. members. Priority will be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles unlessthe latter istime sensitive. Opinion August 27 pieces will not be run until the identity of the writer has been verified. The U byssey reserves the right to edit submissions Jump Start • Provides new for length and clarity. All letters must be received by 12 noon Spectral Theatre's Late-Night nternational students with a the day before intended publication. Letters received after this Double Feature • A hapless scien­ two-week academic preparation point will be published in the following issue unless there is for university life. Comprised of an urgent time restriction or other matter deemed relevant by tist's attempt to develop a secret the Ubyssey staff. weapon in the fight against crime lectures, classes, workshops, socia It is agreed by all persons placing display or classified goes horribly awry and he un­ and cultural activities. • August advertising that if the Ubyssey Publications Society fails to 19-September 1. publish an advertisement or if an error in the ad occurs the leashes a terror beyond imagina­ liability of the UPS will not be greater than the price paid for tion upon an unsuspecting world the ad. The UPS shall not be responsible for slight changes or Madness and musical numbers Campus for Christ • Weekly meet- typographical errors that do not lessen the value or the impact unfold in From Beyond and Gigan- ofthe ad. ng of UBC's Campus for Christ ticle • August 27-29 @ 9: 30pm, for worship time, scripture and CONTRIBUTORS Location: 350 Powell St, $ 10. discussion.* Thursdays @ 5-7pm, Last Friday Gerald Deo, Keegan Bursaw and Samantha Jung Location: SUB 2147216. Free. went to see District 9, a newly-released art-house flick. Sarah Chung, Cynthia Khoo, Kyrstin Bain and Justin McElroy, followed The Class • An innovative teacher by a less-than-pleased Kathy Yan Li, took issue with their attempts to use his methods on UBC Power Walking Club • Power abrupt departure.Tara Martellaro (who did not watch films), a mixed race class in an inner-city unch walks every Friday, rain or Katarina Grgic,Trevor Melanson and Kasha Chang decided to school in Paris. • August 27-30 @ devote the evening to drinking instead. To spite the rest ofthe shine. Just 30 minutes of brisk clan Steve King, Caroline Harris, Kai Green, Ricardo Bortolon, 7:30pm, Location: The Norm The­ walking a day can produce mul­ Brendan Albano, Cel Rince and Trevor Record drove to Alberta atre, SUB, $4 general admission, tiple health benefits. Open to UBC packed like sardines into Paul Bucci's Nissan Micra (which had $2 for members. staff and faculty only. • August 28 been reinsured). Kate Barbaria and Craig Mewis had the best weekend of them all. @ 12- 12:30pm. August 28 Anime Club Summer Informal Dan Mangan with Aidan Knight Showings • Anime showings, pos­ sibly cute girls in seifuku. • Fridays GERALD DEO PHOTO/THE UBYSSEY • One of two CD release parties for Dan Mangan's new album, @ 5-1 Opm, Location: Woodward Living dead walk the streets of Vancouver Nice, Nice, Very Nice. • August 28 6. @ 7:30pm, Location: The Cultch, The streets of Vancouver were daubed a sticky, chemical red as 1895 Venables Street, $18. Christianity Explored • An infor­ hordes of the staggering undead moaned and stumbled their way mal course for people who would across the city on Saturday, August 15. From the initial five hundred August 29 ike to investigate Christianity or writhing, limping bodies that kick-started the zombie invasion in brush up on basics. No previous 2005, more and more have been infected with the zombie spirit knowledge of the Bible required, UBC Football vs. SFU Clan • as over two thousand participants came together for Vancouver's coffee and snacks required. • Sat­ Come support your UBC Thun­ urdays @ 9-11am, Location: SUB annual Zombie Walk. derbirds with their season opener 113, Free. Mcditcrra Ubyssey love campus. SUB LOWER LEVEL • (604) 221-4044 Come write for us. We're in Fresh Mediterranean Food SUB 24. You can also e-mail • GREEK SALAD • PASTA SALAD Canada Post Sales us at: [email protected]. Agreement •GYRO/DONAR PLATTER Number 0040878022 • FALAFEL V •BAKLAVA Canadian printed on^100s% University 'reeycledpaper Press \!_\Q Healthy Mediterranean Food 4/UBYSSEY.CA/CULTURE/2009.08.24 There will always be women in rubber flirting with me! Give me a break! % —Maureen Johnson, Rent Culture • • PLAYING @ THE Hiking Vancouver NORM THE CLASS/COURTESY SONY PICTURES The Class TREVOR RECORD culture@ubyssey. ca Just when you thought you'd es­ caped the petty frustrations of high school, they get dragged into your university. The Class, known as En­ tre les Murs (between the walls) in France, will be playing in the Norm from August 27-30 at 7:30.