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UBCO’s Student Newspaper January 6, 2013 | Vol. 25 Issue 9 ...Yelling timber since 1989
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Welcome back, UBCO. It’s a new year, and we wanted to greet you with a reflection on some of the top stories from 2013. Time flies so quickly that it’s easy to forget some of the events that shaped our year, and what they meant to us.
You’ll also find stories that analyze the successes and failures of our sports teams and our students’ union.
We’ve also had some exciting changes to our staff and plans for 2014. Our feature on the HEAT basketball league changes (CIS) will be followed up by a look at the HEAT soccer teams and their upcoming entry into the CIS league, and how the higher level of competition will affect them. We’re going to profile the lovable pups used in the B.A.R.K. study,
and we’re looking forward to publishing our party issue soon to show you the shape of the party scene in Kelowna and UBCO, and how its changed over UBCO’s eight years.
From our team at The Phoenix, thanks for reading, and if one of your new years resolutions is to get any job experi-ence through writing, illustration, design or the business side of a paper, we’ve got jobs open and would love to
welcome you to the team. Stop by the office or shoot us an email. Have an awesome 2014.
Ed Dane Medi pos-es seduc-tively for testicular cancer
Scorch debuts as the HEAT’s new mascot
UBCO’s annual transit woes
UBCO’s annual transit woes
The highs and lows of the SU
AUBCO professor in Egyptduring turmoil
The year in party photos
UBCo saw its largest Frosh this year
NASH in Toronto a year ago & now Ed-monton
UBCO’s very own Harlem Shake brings out 100s
The first ever drag show at The Well
UBCO artists created the Keloha Pyramids
February’s 6th annual Ecotone Festival started off the year with a bang. Organized by the CONDUIT collective in partnership with the Okanagan Greens Society and featuring art installations, eco-activism, and music & spoken word performances, Ecotone is a gathering of local emerg-ing artists coming together to celebrate the budding arts community here in the Okanagan.
It has served as a platform for young UBCO art students to showcase their work to the greater arts community in
the Okanagan, and the interdisciplinary performance students’ acts are amongst the highlights of the event.
While there is no word on the event re-turning in 2014, Ecotone will be remem-bered as one of the best arts events of 2013.
ARTS spring 2013THE YEAR in local ARTS
UBCO’s first -ever Drag Show event
ECOTONE music & arts festival
2013 was a year of glamour and glitz here at UBCO. Early in Janu-ary, The Well was taken over by drag queens for UBCO’s first ever Drag Queen show: Embodiment.
Organized by MFA student Shan-non Lester and Dustin Dufault featur-ing their alter egos, Sasha Zamolod-chikova and Ella Lamoreux as well as Angel Di Avolo, Cissy Avarice and Sparkle. The show was a massive suc-cess, becoming the biggest turn out event in The Well’s history and receiv-ing support from UBCO students, or-ganizations and faculty.
The show was followed up by a second event in March and eventually migrated to the downtown core estab-lishing Kelowna’s Drag scene.
You can check out Kelowna’s Drag at the Habitat’s #2MUFFS1COLLAR featuring Ella Lamoureux.
Right: Ella Lamoreux dances the night away at UBCO’s first ever
drag even at The Well.Photo by Ali Young
Above, top: Ella Lamoreux channels Florence Welch as she
performs Sweet Nothing at the S.W.A.G. party hosted by the
Okanagan Pride Society. Photo by Hanss Lujan.
By Laura Sciarpelletti & Hanss Lujan
Left: A toddler takes center stage during perfromances.
Right: Scott Mendonca as “The Red Bastard”
Photos by Hanss Lujan
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Above, bottom: A quick pho-toshoot with Sasha and Ella before they take the stage at S.W.A.G. Last year, Events Editor Laura Sciarpeleti and Photo Editor Hanss Lujan were invited to follow the queens for their full day as they got ready to go out on a Saturday night at their headlining event. Photo by Hanss Lujan
Keloha Waterfront FestivalOn July 5th to 7th the Keloha Music and Arts Festival returned to waterfront park
for a second year. The festival drew several thousand entrants per day and featured sets from The Trews, Cults, The Arkells, Shad, Matt & Kim, Current Swell, Capital Cities, and MGMT (see left), although the best performance may have come from the 3-year-old girl we saw at the karaoke tent aimlessly wailing “I love youuuuu I love youuuuuu I looove youuuuuu I love youuu I loooove song I love youuuuuuuu” as the beat of Selena Gomez’s “Love you Like a Love Song” and a small crowd clapped along for encouragement.
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Left: The Keloha pyramids, created by UBCO Fine Arts students / graduates Dylan Ranney, Brit Bachmann, Liz Du-montet, and Lucas Glenn. Below: Hula girls on the Sandbar Stage with The Boom BoomsPhotos by Laura Sciarpelletti
Headliners MGMT perform in front of psychedelic screensavers At Keloha the crowd and the band had very different ideas of what an MGMT show should involve. For the crowd, it was “Time To “Pretend” and “Kids.” For MGMT, it was everything but their radio hits. When the band ended without playing “Kids,” the crowd chanted until they re-turned for an encore. The encore was not “Kids.” As the show ended the caudience continued to shriek “Kids!” and pelted Power 104 host Tim Allen with bottles as he came onstage and tried to end the festival. In May MGMT had announced they would no longer play “Kids,” although the Keloha radio ads had continued to use the song prominently.
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October marked Kelowna’s first official involvement in Culture Days, a nation-wide weekend of shared cul-ture and art that was originally founded in 2009. Orga-nizer Jolene Mackie, a resident artist at the downtown heART School, launched the non-profit event in hopes that it would help to build culture and art in the com-munity. Participating businesses for the first Culture Crawl included the Alternator Gallery, Kelowna Art Gallery, and Studio 113, which premiered exhibit sneak peaks and artist greetings. Downtown coffee shops like the Bean Scene and Blenz, to name a few, displayed art pieces, and local vintage consignment store Georgie Girl held a speakeasy prohibition party night.
“I think that [the crawl] makes things more acces-sible, which has really been lacking in Kelowna,” said Mackie. “In the cultural district, it’s easy to see the big buildings and be a little intimidated. I think it’s an idea that’s been brewing in the community for a while and
it hasn’t taken root yet. But I think once the space has been created, people will become more comfortable with getting involved with artists and the events.”
While Mackie stated that she hoped the crawl would be a monthly event, a follow up crawl has yet to be or-ganized. The October evening had a modest crowd, but did not spawn a second event to build the hype. The heART School continues to generate success as it serves as a gathering space for artists to pursue their craft and mentor others in the process. It is an environment for art, learning and collaboration and always fills Bernard Ave. with the sound of music. Making Culture Crawl a regular community event will require continued efforts from the people at heART School, as well as local artists and businesses.
It’s no secret that the Kelowna music scene is very close-knit. Many artists and bands that we have spoken with this year say that they have found their Kelowna peers to be very supportive and col-laborative, which makes for some great music. The Habitat venue on Leon Avenue—in partnership with Cariboo beer—launched its Booyah Thursdays series in the fall, a weekly event that showcases lo-cal talent. There have been big local names like Van Damsel, Wild Son, Honest Woods, and My Kind of Karma, as well as smaller up and coming acts like Erika Jane Nielson, Nils Loewen, and Darian Soul-samurai Saunders performing on the Habitat stage. While the series has yet to have a sold out night—with competition across the street in the form of Level College Night—it has given artists collabora-tion and networking opportunities, many of which have lead to bigger shows at popular venues like Fernando’s and Doc Willoughby’s. the Habitat is currently preparing to go through renovations, but hopes to continue the series, or something similar to it, after The changes to the venue have been made. In the meantime, open-mic nights like the one at O’Flannigan’s Pub continue to draw in many of the Booyah artists.Above: Honest Woods performing at Booyah Thursdays at The HabitatPhotos by Laura Sciarpelletti
Habitat introduces Booyah Thursdays
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2013 in Review
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Above: At the Georgie Girly speakeasy. Right: The Trips at heART schoolPhotos by Laura SciarpellettiBelow: Culture Crawl performances at the Streaming Cafe
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KELOWNA JOINS NATIONAL CULTURE DAYS
The fourth annual UBCO Art Party, a fundraising event for and hosted by the theatre department, was held in Novem-ber. The art collective—originally the brainchild of interdisci-plinary performance alumnus Kevin Jesuino—has drawn in large attendances in the past, but generated less than impres-sive numbers in 2013. The evening featured visual art, spo-ken word, theatre performances and musical performances. Despite having popular local acts like Windmills and Honest Woods at the event, the Art Party’s initial lack of advertis-ing and promotion brought in a disappointing attendance. In 2012 the halls of the Fine Arts building were filled with
dancing attendants and music up until the very end. The Art Party, while primarily functioning as a fundraiser for the the-atre department, has also been great for artists to network with each other. As an art collective, it encourages writers, visual artists, actors and musicians to meet each other, and has spawned collaborations. As a result of lower attendance and a shorter duration, those possible collaborations may show to have suffered as a result. The theatre department has a lot to improve on for next year, but in the meantime art enthusiasts can look forward to the annual Art on the Line event in February.
UBCO Art Party
Acclaimed Canadian photographer Jonathan Hobin visited UBCO on November 4th as part of the Art and Controversy event on campus, a Tuum Est Student Ini-tiative Fund event organized by Fine Arts student Kel-sie Balehowsky. Hobin’s work has been deemed contro-versial by many — his photos are of children acting out traumatic news stories such as the 9/11 twin tower at-tacks and the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. The event was a response to the controversy surrounding some artwork on display around campus last year by the UBC Public Art Collection. The intention of this event was to create a conversation between viewers and artists in order to determine what is tasteful, what is not, and how we as a society go about discussing serious issues through art.
“Art is not always aesthetically pleasing or comfortable,” said FCCS Dean Wisdom Tettey. “It can also be about the uncomfortable, the bizarre, the grotesque, the troubling or the unpalatable. Art allows us to access where we need to be based on an assessment of our current reality.”
The event’s panel discussion had a great turnout, with audience members on both sides of the argument. The or-ganizers hope that students will continue to question and discuss controversy brought up by art, and take action to include others in those discussions.
“I’m hoping this has brought to light how attainable and realistic this is to do,” said Balehowsky. “Anybody can ap-ply for this fund, bring an artist in, and make something like this happen.”
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2013 saw the end of Creative Writing professor Sharon Thesen’s time at UBCO. The Canadian poet was a charter member of the first Creative Writing cohort in 2005 during UBCO’s birth, and has played a large hand in the growth of the Fac-ulty of Creative and Critical Studies department. Along with her impressive teaching career, The-sen is also an accomplished author, having pub-lished nine books of poetry, most recently The Good Bacteria and Oyama Pink Shale. As an editor she has published The Vision Tree—the Gover-nor-General’s Award-winning edition of Phyllis Webb’s poetry—two editions of The New Long Poem Anthology and numerous other reputable publications. Along with fellow Creative Writing professor Nancy Holmes, Sharon co-edits Lake: a journal of arts and environment.
Thesen emerged as a poet during the first days of the Canadian literature movement, along with peers like bill bissett and bpnicol. Her experience with poetics, teaching, and publishing has been invaluable to her students, and her presence will be missed on campus.
“I’m going to really miss interactions with young people, colleagues, [and] companionship in thought and in writing,” said Thesen. “When you are interacting with young people you tend to stay a little younger yourself. What’s being re-flected back at you in your work is youth; a new-ness. What is really exciting is getting to nurture new writers. That’s so rewarding; you feel deeply privileged and humbled to have been in a posi-tion to help someone enter the world of writing in a very serious way. I think that’s a very exqui-sitely privileged thing to be able to do.”
Thesen Retires
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Photo by Kelsi Barkved
Kassy Davis’s “Pageant” series, which was removed from the EME after complaints.
Photo by Laura Sciarpelletti
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Photos by Cam Welch
Claude Guerette, the previous General Manager (GM) for the UBCSUO, has filed a civil suit against the UBC-SUO after they fired him at the end of March 2013.
In response, the UBCSUO responded with court docu-ments that alleged an investigation had been conducted upon receiving complaints of Guerette’s behavior to-wards staff and students. Guerette was informed of these allegations at the time, which included calling students “fags”, throwing a pride flag in the garbage while saying
“this is fucking bullshit”, called asian students “chinks”, and remarked that the UBCSUO was out of yellow toner “because it’s the toner for all our Chinese students” and Asian students are “cheap.” There were many more, and if they are true it paints a very uncomfortable working environment within the UBCSUO.
There have not been any days in court yet, but media-tion is ongoing. Extra student money has been budgeted in case court fees take a toll on the UBCSUO as a result.
The 2013 election results came in after 13 hours of counting 860 ballots total. The election was historic in that it was the first of UBCSUO’s history after slates were banned (slates are a team of individuals running a campaign together).
Tim Krupa was elected Financial Coordinator, Nick Dodds was re-elected Services Coordinator, Shaman McLean was elected Internal Coordinator, and Alex Gula was elected External Coordinator.
On the board, Sara Wahedi, Sarah Trudeau, Alejan-dra Garcia, and Layne Richardson were elected to the Directors at Large.
Curtis Tse was elected to Board of Governors and no
one was elected to Advocacy Representatives (yikes).Since then, Tim Krupa has resigned and Rocky Kim
was appointed to take his place. Both Sara(h)s have stepped down, replaced in December by appointments of Simon Bullock and Jagmeet Khabra. Sarah Reilander and Olver Eberle were appointed to Advocacy Repre-sentative earlier in the year and Kelly Panchyshyn was just appointed in December.
Positions are now filled, but there has been a lot of turnover and appointments in lieu of elections, which has affected the momentum and success of the UBC-SUO. And that isn’t even taking into account the staff changes like the GM and Organizer (see below).
2013 UBCSUO elections and ensuing turmoil
Former GM sues UBCSUO
Left to right: Alejandra Garcia, Nick Dodds, Shaman McLean, Tim Krupa, Sara Wahedi
Photo by Hanss Lujan
Former GM Claude Guerette working at his computer Photo submitted anony-
provincial, national, & international issues
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the year in UBCO student and student union
Elizabeth May and a panel of involved parties discuss the Northern Gateway Pipe-line at a summit in Kelowna before the Joint Review Panel visited to allow citizens to speak their mind on the topic.
The Joint Review Panel transcripts showed that no one spoke in the project’s fa-vor, and the speakers ranged from students to professional engineers, one of which submitted a full report on why the pipeline should not go through.
If anyone doubted Trudeau’s near celeb-rity status they only had to stop by the UNC ballroom on January 24 to see it packed with 300 people and him negotiating his way through line ups of people hoping to speak and get a picture on his way out when the event ended.
Trudeau was eventually successful in winning the Liberal Party Leadership
Trudeau!!! was here
Enbridge panel
Dr. Ashraf Farahat, Ph.D. is a former physics instructor here, and we interviewed him to get his insight into the political strife around the Morsi presidency. He explained that Morsi’s campaign had seemed promis-ing, but after the election he had given the Muslim Brotherhood the upper hand in everything, which he says was a betrayal. He also explained the army “coup” as the people’s will.
UBCO Prof in Egypt
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Clubs went through the ringer this year with a series of problems throughout the year. First, they came back to a brand new club policy that required changes such as mandatory membership fees, 15 members to start a club instead of 4, and high level accountability such as minutes, transition plans, and more.
Many felt overwhelmed and blindsided, since this wasn’t run through a committee, and only 6 out of 90 clubs were consulted. There were prob-lems everywhere. Some clubs left the UBCSUO.
And then club day was pushed back a month, mak-ing it harder for start-ups to fi nd interested students to sign up for their club. A group of clubs protested and held their own club day.
The Services Coordinator, Nick Dodds, then tried to consult course unions for a similar policy. They all said no. He also faced impeachment this year, and part of that defi nitely had to do with clubs. Things have settled now, but the policy still exists and clubs are ex-pected to deal with it. The long term effects will begin to show in 2014.
The second impeachment in two years hit the UBC-SUO this year, and it targeted three executives instead of one: Nick Dodds, Alex Gula, and Shaman McLean.
The impeachment was spearheaded by Blake Ed-wards, a heavily involved student, who had lost the Services Coordinator election to Dodds in the elec-tion. He said it was not personal, nor would he run for any of the positions that became available were the motion successful.
The impeachment motion claimed these executives were at fault for an overall lack of progress and organi-
zation thus far in the semester. Parts of it rang true: the UBCSUO had lost meeting minutes over the summer, there weren’t any clear campaigns being pursued, and the board seemed even more disorganized than previ-ous years. Many were upset over a variety of things, but the overall consensus seemed to be that impeach-ment would do more harm than good at this point.
Edwards repealed the motion before it was voted on at the Annual General Meeting. His reasoning was that he had seen it do its job: provoking student interest and lighting a fi re under the executives.
Club Day in EME, held in October, a month after school began Photo by Ali Young
CLUB & COURSE UNION DEBACLE
UBCSUO execs answer questions at an open Town Hall Photo by Ali Young
impeachment motion fizzles
The year in Toope
UBC’s president, Stephen Toope, cut his fi ve year term short when he announced his resignation in April.
Toope will stay on until June 2014. He has been president since 2006, and this was his second fi ve year term. The notice was given to allow a committee to conduct a search for UBC’s new president.
Toope’s fi nal year was marred with con-troversy: the Sauder frosh rape chant, the campus assaults, and the “Pochahantas” chants all garnered negative media attention.
In his last town hall at UBCO, Toope fi eld-ed questions from bike access to MOOCs and the animal testing center here, which has not opened yet. He also admitted ‘mea culpa’ to the failure on administration’s part to have a tuition consultation at UBCO, like there was at UBCV. They promised a “robust student consultation” moving forward.
Toope is leaving to pursue his passion of international law. Some of his fans recently dubbed him “Toope Lion” in celebration of his rebirth of positive energy (above), as re-ported by the Syrup Trap.
At UBCO this marks another signifi cant administration change, as Deborah Buszard only recently replaced Doug Owram as Dep-uty Vice Chancellor, and Wesley Pue stepped down this year as Provost, replaced by cur-rent Acting Provost Dr. Cynthia Mathieson.
Town Hall photos by Ali Young
UBCSUO execs answer questions at an open Town Hall
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This year we lost Claire Jones, a second-year human kinetics student, to a tragic car accident on her return from visiting family in Hinton Alberta over the No-vember break. The school organized a candlelight vigil for her on November 16.
Jones’s favorite quote was shared during the vigil: “All I’m after is a life full of laughter,” which is from a Chris Daughtry song. “Claire loved quotes,” said Me-
lissa Federson, who said she’d had them plastered all over her room.
Throughout the vigil, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers stood up to share stories and condo-lences with the crowd. One of Claire’s roommates laughed about how Claire would drive them crazy with her post-it-note reminders of chores, and that “[Claire] immediately brought us together as a family
UBCO’s campus has been without safe cycle access since its founding, and the is-sue continues to be unsolved.
Curtis Road, which accesses the campus from Glenmore, is illegal to use for most of the campus as a result of a recent legal rul-ing. The other option is the highway over-pass, but there is no cycle lane and any-one who uses it rides inches away from 80km/hour traffic. Previously this year, a pedestrian overpass on Highway 97 that was supposed to solve hte problem, was delayed indefinitely.
Paul Shipley, a chemistry professor from UBCO and avid cyclist, began a peti-tion on October 4 2013 to have the school implement a route to the north of Robert Lake Road. It now has 874 signatures. The administration has said they are working on a solution, but this proposal has a lot of parties involved that need to sign off on the route before it can begin.
After a long and often comical crusade by Rocky Kim, Financial Coordinator, the UBCSUO board was convinced that the $49k of theater improvements would be money well spent.
According to the General Manager Bob Drunke-molle, the new theater is supposed to have quality that equals the Grand 10 on McCurdy Road, and will be used for events ranging from thesis presentations, to
video games, to movies. Some of the problems with the theater were demonstrated by accident during the AGM when it was impossible to read the budget pre-sentation that was up on the screen.
Improvements were promised by the start of Janu-ary, but no word on if they were successful on their timeline yet.
Aramark is the business students love to hate. The food services giant provides food for over 400,000 university and high-school students in Canada, and is also known for its prison catering side of the business.
The contract that UBCO inherited from OUC is now up for renewal as of June 2014, however. UBCO is now looking for different options and they’ve hired an external consultant to survey the current state of food services on campus, which is now complete and bids are out.
On the university’s wish list are 7 a.m. - 11 p.m. operating hours, renovation sug-gestions, a Subway, a Mongolian grill-style restaurant and a degree more control than their last contract. We’ll know soon if food services are to improve.
Campus cycle access
Changing food services
Major changes coming to
UBCO is at a turning point. It is under-going a massive re-evaluation of its stra-tegic plan - you may have seen the white-boards around campus collecting student input for a week or so last semester. A ton of significant decisions are being made, but two of the ones on students’ minds however, are cycle access and food.
The table set up in Claire’s memory for the candelight vigil on November 16 Photo by David Nixon
Claire jones candelight vigil
Theater improvements of $49k go throughThree positions on the UBCSUO vacant since the beginning of the year are now appointed Photo by David Nixon
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Kim took office near the end of the summer when Tim Krupa resigned to head to UBC Vancouver. Kim took over at a difficult time – the summer is the best time to pursue big projects since executives don’t have the same day-to-day work they have when the university is full of students. And his previous arrest from participating in the Vancouver riots sent up red flags. But he has proven to be a strong member of the executive, and has been spearheading initiatives such as the $40k in theatre improvements, campus food ser-vices consultation, and the library consultation. Like McLean, he has taken on a bigger role in external ad-vocacy. When we talked to Rocky after his apointment about whether his riot conviction would raise doubts
among students, he asserted that he would prove that he was the right man for the job, and his passion and competence for the position has shown that.
Kim’s talking points during the appointment process in the summer were about using student money for real, tangible change. And he’s conducted himself as such since then by pursuing those types of projects: library expansion, theatre improvement, and food services. He was also the only executive to escape the crosshairs of the proposed impeachment motion this year.
Kim already has things he can point to as his own, despite having many months less than the other execu-tives. He’s been a competent leader and has represent-ed the student voice well.
Dodds is in his second term as Services Coordina-tor, having been appointed to replace Jesse Baxter in late 2012, and is the most experienced out of this year’s executive. Dodds identified the incumbent UBCSUO policies and bylaws as outdated, meant for a pre-UBCO campus. He has used his second term to try to make significant changes to these, such as the club policy earlier this year. And that’s the least of his aspired changes. But execution of his new club policy was a PR disaster.
Dodds also continues to demonstrate confusion around policy and bylaw when he’s in board meet-ings, which becomes less amusing when it’s during a second term.
He has also been in the crosshairs of two im-peachment motions. The first was voted down in the SGM when the speaker’s list couldn’t fill up fast enough with people either decrying the im-peachment motion or speaking in support of Dodds. The second was withdrawn when the mo-tivators felt that it had done its job to provoke in-terest from students and action from executives.
Dodds evidently ruffles a lot of feathers. He seems to have a need to respond to all of his critics in depth, in person or on Facebook.
As far as his platform goes, he has had some suc-cesses. The executive has accomplished positive changes in the Well such as more outlets, lower food prices, and being involved in the process for selecting a new food services contract. He’s had some interest-ing Well parties and has increased flexibility for club funding. But he’s fallen down on most of the other promises, such as lists of study locations on campus, turning city homes into collegia spaces, increased communication, monthly newsletters, “Profs in the Pub” and many others.
Dodds’s big ideas come from somewhere though – he really does want to make a positive change in the UBCSUO. He has tons of enthusiasm, energy, and hope for the UBCSUO. He has now been tasked by council, by his own prompting, to design an entirely new constitution and by-laws. If Dodds pays atten-tion to the image, organization, and detail needed for such a big job, we might see him finish his second term on a stronger note.
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Gula’s heart is in the right place and he has admi-rable goals for the year. He’s helped support programs like the food kitchen, and has helped raise awareness for a variety of sustainability issues on campus. But we haven’t seen much at all from him as far as his own initiatives, campaigns, or external advocacy go. We’ve also heard reports about him being absent at important times and events such as office hours and key external advocacy dinners.
Gula has taken on part of the Services Coordinator role. And the executive is working as a team to make sure external advocacy happens. Great. So Gula’s time is taken up helping organize events, and yet we still haven’t seen a proportionate benefit from Dodds hav-ing the free time to pursue other projects. The Phoenix still sees all of this as a serious problem. But we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Gula ran on a campaign
of issues that he had no control over, such as the bike overpass (which is now stalled indefinitely, by the way), the elimination of bottled water on campus, re-ducing pollution by improving the transit system, and reducing student fees at recreation facilities (gym fees went up this year after construction of the Hangar). And he was elected on that. So, a big part of this is the fault of the electorate for voting for that platform.
Gula is a welcoming person who is easily approach-able and he’s excellent at going out and talking to stu-dents. He’s active in event organization and he has big hopes for various sustainability issues on campus. The UBCSUO has also received $1,000 more from external sponsorship than previous years, which is part of his portfolio.
Overall Gula is a very strong and passionate UBC-SUO board member, but not a strong External Coor-
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DSMcLean hasn’t done anything bad or anything too
noteworthy either. There seemed to be some lack of direction in September, but that also appears to have been quickly fixed, especially under the heat of an im-peachment motion. McLean was a proponent for cut-ting funding to the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) when he learned that they had thousands in their ac-count and no one was actually using that money. We don’t agree that cutting the funding was the right route given that it’s the only WRC in Kelowna, and perhaps focusing on it and proactively using the WRC with the help of the UBCSUO would have been a better strat-egy. He brought to attention a serious issue though: we still haven’t seen or heard anything from the WRC
despite it now having people in key positions who seem keen on doing good things with it. We hope to see some movement there this semester.
McLean has spent a lot of time working on the Peer Support Center for the first semester, and pushing through a variety of small policy changes through the policy committee.
McLean is the youngest and least experienced mem-ber of the executive, and he’s had a lot to learn. He’s interested in politics and with the Financial Coordina-tor Rocky Kim has appeared to take on a bigger role of external advocacy. He hasn’t done particularly badly given his circumstances.
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Recaps by Cam Welch and Dave Nixon
In March the Minsct crew of UBCO grad Justin Pellet-tier and current student Yaw Obrenu Yamoah brought their brand back to campus for a Well party launching their spring collection. In this shot by Hanss Lujan the pair act out their line’s motto of “finely chopped threads” in a butcher-shop-themed photoshoot.
FROSH WEEK CONCERTSThe Back to Business bash put on by
the Management Student’s Association (MSA) was the most successful party over Frosh week, and the largest struc-tured party to date on campus.
“We couldn’t have done it without the volunteers,” said Simon Bullock, the VP Finance.
The crowd was also respectful, in contrast to what you might expect from a Frosh concert. There was a point that the fences almost fell over but instead of pushing it further the people in-volved helped security keep it up.
The MSA doubled up on security in comparison to last year’s concert, and they got at least 2,000 people in out
of a possible capacity of 2,700. Twit-ter exploded with enthusiastic fi rst years who conveyed their excitement throughout this huge party.
These concerts provide a more struc-tured party atmosphere than UBCO used to have as it was starting out. Street parties in the lower cascades used to be huge, but they have with-ered under more security and police presence. The Back to Business Bash may have been the largest offi cial party in UBCO history.
After the party wound down, the Jane Doze tweeted about noise com-plaints (see p18 for the tweet), and the MSA later confi rmed that one police
offi cer had told them there were noise complaints. But other offi cers had said the opposite, and none of the student groups had been notifi ed of citations. We’re not sure what the Doze were talking about when they said “500 noise complaints, $1,000 fi ne.” But that may only help to increase the reputa-tion of this party were it true.
The other big night time event, UBC WOAH!, had its triumph too, but it paled in comparison to turnout of the B2B. Since the population of UBCO will likely stay relatively stable for the next few years, these parties will have to grow in organization, outreach, and frequency, rather than in size.
One student drank too much and had to be evacuated by paramedics, but she was okay and no others were seriously injured.Above photo and lineup pho-to [far right] by Dave Nixon
To get our issue 2 cover pho-to we cut out giant “FROSH” letters and gave them to the crowd during the fi nal con-cert of the week. The crowd quickly destroyed the letter HPhotos by Hanss Lujan
The lines were enormous in fi rst week. Lines for the parties, lines for student cards and tuition, lines for barbecues, lines for the book-store. The Phoenix gives lines a score of 0/10.
The Jane Doze put on a great set for the 2,000+ students in attendance at the MSA Back 2 Business Bash, with Management Student Association Reps running across stage and popping bottles of fake champagne at the edge of the crowd. The Jane Doze later tweeted about getting noise complaints, but we checked with every organization and agency in Kelowna that would take noise complaints, and none of them could confi rm. Photo by Hanss Lujan
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UBCO ADDS second MASCOTThe Heat unveiled their new mascot January of 2013 and launched a contest to name the
new addition. Some suggestions included Heatwave, Torchy, The Burninator, and
Sparky (and of course... Scorch). The Phoenix suggested Okanaga Flocka Flame, Burnt Reynolds, Gymferno and Burnie Madoff.
We’re still not sure why they didn’t pick one of ours. Scorch is already a staple of the
campus, making the rounds at important events and waving to students.
Right: Scorch, then Ogi Ogopogo, wave hi
THE PHOENIX AT NASHLast January, The Phoenix 2013-2013 staff journeyed to Toronto (a city in Eastern Can-ada that you may recognize from this year’s Rob Ford saga) for the Canadian University Press’s 75th annual NASH conference. NASH brings together student journalists from across the country for five days of seminars, guest speakers, and turning up. This week we head to NASH 76 in EdmontonLeft: The staff pose at the JHM award gala. Photo by Alex Saumier DemersRight: [clockwise from top left] Jesse Shopa, Aidan Whiteley, Laura Siarpelletti, Cam Welch, and Janelle Sheppard have fun with friends. Photo by Hanss Lujan
UBCO’s harlem shakeOn Thursday February 14th, UBCO jumped on the Harlem Shake bandwagon with a massive dance session in the EME build-ing. Hundreds of people came out to the calling that Layne Richardson and his friends sent out via Facebook. Richardson was elected as a UBCSUO Director-At-Large shortly after organizing the Shake. The video got over 42,000 views total, and a separate shake filmed in the UNC cafeteria received another 17,000.
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Photo by Ali Young
UBCO GOES TO TofinoUBCO students Alex Gula, Aaron McKinney, and Aiden Docherty organized a Tofino trip over the Remembrance Day Week-end. Our photographer Ali went, along with 80 other students. She surfed for the first time and managed to stand once. She summed the trip up by: bon fires, running on the beach, dancing in the pouring rain, corn rows, Tofino brewery growlers, jam sessions, greasy food, bears, and senior citizens doing keg stands.
Beer festLocal bands My Kind of Karma and Wild Son played at the UBCSUO’s “Beer Fest” in September. Above, External Coordinator Alex Gula sings with them on stage.Photos by Ali Young
Engineers honor int’l day for eradication of violence against womenThe day, November 25, was hon-ored by our engineering faculty when they painted the E outside of EME white and painted messages of love and support on it.Photo by David Nixon
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Jan 10Alterknowledge Dis-
cussion Series: Global Citizen
7-8:30 p.m. / Alternator Centre
Undergraduate students from UBCO will present their primary findings of a collab-orative reserach project ana-lyzing the events associated
with Global Citizen Kelowna’s “Global Citizen Week” How is the Global South represented in these events? Who can be
a global citizen? Discussion of the research report, as well as the larger issue of global
citizenship, facilitated by David Jefferess.
Jan 15Change of degree
deadlineEnd of day / No location
Deadline for current UBC students to apply for a change
of degree program.
Jan 20Last day to drop
courses with a WEnd of day / No location
Last day to drop without a W standing - Term 2
Jan 8Opening Exhibitions:
GONE and COMPELLED TOWARDS LIGHT6-8 p.m./ Lake Country
Art Gallery
Two companion exhibitions: Gone - a collaboration between
artist Jane Everett and poet Anne Simpson
Compelled Toward Light by Pippa Dean-Veerman
Both run from January 8th - February 14th, 2014 and con-template transition – mirroring our transition from 2013 into a
brand new year.
Jan 14The Literature Re-
view: From Research to Writing
5-7 p.m. / LIB 111
Working on your lit review? This workshop will get you
started, beginning with advice on serach strategies, then an
introduction to RefWorks, and concluding with information on
the writing process.
Jan 15FCCS Research Se-ries| Emerging
Visions: Digital Media and Culture
2-3:30 p.m. / CCS 142
Future Delta is an immersive and interactive virtual envi-
ronment that makes climate change science more under-standable to the public by by
combining climate change mod-eling, socioeconomic scenario analysis, and 3D image model-
ing of real places.
FCCS Visiting Artist | Helen Haig-Brown
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. / The-atre26
This talk explores the power of meida to regenerate Indig-enous knowledge, truths and language through storytelling.
Jan 9SoTL Workshop
Series #5: Writing a Research Proposal
5-7 p.m. / SCI 331
This session will focus on applications for the in-novations in Teaching and
Research grant.
Graduate studies colloquium
5-7 p.m. / EME112
Current grad students are invited to meet faculty and discuss the graduate pro-
gram. A cross section of grad students will be sharing their research/capstone projects in 3-minute presentations. RSVP to [email protected]
Jan 13Starting a scholarly research project
5-6 p.m. / LIB 125
Research, analytical and rhetorical modes, scolarly writing conventions, and
strategies for beginning a re-search project and organizing
your writing process will be discussed. Suitable for grad students from all disciplines. Register at csc.okanagan@
ubc.ca
Jan 14Breast Cancer
Prevention Work-shop
12 - 1 p.m./ UNC 334
No Cost. Wondering about your breast cancer risk?
Join the Cancer Prevention Centre to learn how to pre-vent breast cancer through
healthy life changes. Pre-reg-istration is required: debbie.
MD Admissions Info Session
12 - 1 p.m. / RHS 129
Interested in Medicine? Check out their montly MD Admissions Info Sessions.
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Bunnies and doggies oh myWe all need a little more cute in our lives. Sarah Vanpeteghan, a third year fine arts student, did so with a relational aesthetics exhibit on October 9 for her Advanced Sculpture class. Think bunnies can’t be part of a sculpture? Think again. Additionally, Dr. Ty Binfet of the education faculty is working on the B.A.R.K. study to see the effect of trained dogs on stress. He also opened it up last semester every Friday to students for a drop-in.Photos by Kelsi Barkved
ANOTHER ONE RIDES THE BUS Jackson Stoski wears the scorpion Drive jacket and carries a duffel bag full of bus schedules for “Ride,” our Issue 3 feature on students and transit. Photo by Hanss Lujan
lated the be the biggest Frosh week in UBCO’s eight-year his-tory, this year’s Week of Wel-come, while successful, was weakened by some setbacks. The MSA concert, main concert, and Blacklight Party did well, some of the main secondary events either ell through or fell flat. The foam party underwhelmed by being under-foamed, while weather conditions caused the cancellation of Carnivale, the all-ages companion to the Blacklight party.
UBCSUO Services Coordina-tor and Executive Chair Nick Dodds explained to us how it went down: “The event was ac-tually Campus Life’s, but the SU was helping to support it by pro-viding equipment. On the morn-ing of, there were thunder show-er warnings for that evening and I was informed by Greg, from the Campus life office, that Facil-ities would not provide power if there were to be thunderstorms. Campus Life was unwilling to risk the financial losses of pay-
ing for equipment and services that they would not use, so they cancelled security (a compo-nent that had been delegated to them) that morning. Without security the UBCSUO couldn’t host the event, so we canceled all of our equipment as well.” Dodds went on to say that while it would have been a strong ad-dition to the week’s event ros-ter, he doesn’t think Carnivale’s “absence was an enormous det-riment to the development of strong student community.”
This year’s Frosh was expand-ed from last year’s, but even with larger events the hit-and-miss success rate prevented it from surpassing WOW 2012. On one hand, many of these issues were due to unexpected circum-stances. But on the other hand, Frosh seemed to have difficulty absorbing the setbacks, and the uneventfulness of Create and the first few nights seemed to dampen the enthusiasm of sev-eral first-years we talked to.
That said, we also saw and
heard other first years singing the praises of UBCO by the time the weekend was underway. And when we were up on stage taking the cover photo during Saturday’s concert, the crowd was turned up as all heck and seemed to be living the ideal frosh experience.
So going forward, what will UBCO’s first week become? Are these one-time setbacks, or growing pains, or indicators that UBCO doesn’t yet have the infrastructure and tradition to carry a full-scale Frosh the way larger universities can? Since our student population is going to be static for years now, leaders on campus will have to work hard-er at outreach and organization in order to continue growing a successful Frosh. We may also be seeing some changes coming down from UBC Van, as a result of the Sauder rape chant, that may affect UBCO as well. UBC President Stephen Toope specu-lated that Frosh would have to change as they move forward
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From left: Scorch, Simon Bullock, Nick Dodds, and OgiPhotot by Dave Nixon
The winning photos from our #firstweekUBCO photo contest
Semester-end well partiesThe Well played host to both the MSA Movember Wrap Party and the usual Semester Ended Bender during the last week of school. This year’s Bender / Full Moon Party featured face-painting, blacklight, glowsticks, a DJ tourney, & a Minsct pop-up shop.Left: Nick Dodds unleashes the animal within, removing his shirt and biting down on a can of the popular energy drink “Red Bull”Right: Take a wild guess which event this wasPhotos by Ali Young
Big white gets some serious snowJake Sherman began doing some regular reporting on Big White and its condi-tions this year. But in the big picture, Big White has been very successful early on in the season. Other mountains like Mount Baldy and Apex have struggled to get enough snow to stay open.Left: Jake Sherman rides the Powder Chair on its first day openPhoto by Jake Sherman
The heat balls caMpaign
UBCO students Miriam Hazhir and Emily Braun paired with
the mens HEAT teams to create the “Have You Played with your Balls?” campaign. It’s a comical angle designed to open up con-versation about the uncomfort-
able topic of testicular cancer. Left: Yassine Ghomari
poses lying down Right: Ed Dane Medi
poses equally seductivly Photos by Ali Young
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Men’s Soccer
The Heat Women’s Soccer team leaves the BC-CAA as a dominant team, but one that had a few cracksin their armor exposed in 2013. Their record fell from 8-1-2 and 7-1-6 in previous seasons to just 7-3-4 in 2013, finishing 3rd in PACWEST of the BCCAA. They also didn’t achieve the post-season success Claire Paterson’s team had long been chas-ing, missing the gold medal once again and finish-ing with bronze. It will be interesting to see how the team transitions from BCCAA to Canada West play.
Context is important when evaluating the Men’s Soccer team and how they performed. It’d be easy to give a team that is moving into CIS next year a fail-ing grade for missing the playoffs in BCCAA com-petition, but that judgment would be missing cru-cial information, like how young the team’s average age is compared to their competition, their winning record against the best teams in PACWEST, and how poor they had been in previous years, showing a steady improvement every season. They should be in tough next year, but could be a surprise sleeper pick if recruiting goes well and the young core of the team takes a step forward in their development as student athletes.
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SPORTSHEAT TEAM REPORT CARDS
All photos courtesy of UBCO HeatMarissa Klees goes for the ball.
Logan Ellis dives to make a save.
While their start to the 2013-14 season hasn’t been great, the Heat Men’s Basketball team gets bonus points for picking up four wins in league play to end the 2012-13 season, two each against UFV and TRU. � e Men’s Basketball team had a rough go the � rst half of their season, ending up second from the bottom in the Canada West division of CIS. Winning their last two games before Christ-mas against UNBC placed them above Mani-toba, sitting at 2-8 in the conference. � eir opponents in the November and the begin-ning of December did include some of the best teams in the conference, namely Alberta and Saskatchewan who crushed UBCO Men’s Heat in the � rst two games of the 2013-2014 season. Like the other basketball team and the Men’s Volleyball team, Pete Guarasci’s group shouldn’t be judged too harshly because of their relative newcomer status to Canada West. With an easier schedule set to open up 2014, things are looking bright for the team on the court.
� e UBCO Men’s Heat Basketball team faces more compatible opponents in the 2014 season, beginning with two away games against Regina and Brandon consecutively. Both teams are sitting at 2-8 also and if these bballers are all warmed up from their tourna-ment in California, they could score a couple more wins in chilly mid-western Canada. � e following weekend, UBCO will be hosting Trinity Western who is sitting at 5-5 from the � rst half of the season. Trinity will be a chal-lenge for the Heat, yet nowhere near the level of competition Men’s basketball had to face in the � rst half of the season.. � e following home games include Winnipeg and Manito-ba, the latter being an easy win to gain for the Heat. � e season will end with a home game against TRU which is a toss-up as UBCO will have the advantage of homeground yet TRU is in second place going into 2014 in the pa-ci� c division. It is also rumoured that Brad Quevillon, a senior player for the Heat, will return to play which will provide more senior leadership for the younger players to learn from. � e biggest challenges for this team will be working together, defensive strategy, and not breaking down against stronger teams such as TRU.
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“We have younger guys on the team that needed to gain some experience [...] The first half of season helped to es-tablish the roles of each of the players and we should each be able to contribute more effectively in the upcoming second half of season.”
Landry Ndayitwayeko
MEN’s BASKETBALL
“Temperature Rising” indicates a young palyer who is rapidly improving. Cam Friesen is a rookie player for the Heat but demonstrated early on that he is a force to be reckoned with. Friesen le� the court on November 29th, scoring seven points for UBCO vs UNBC; two free throws, a jump shot, and a three-point jump shot to top it o� .
“On Fire” designates a veteran player who helped the Heat a lot in 2013. Landry Ndayitwayeko aver-ages 28 minutes a game for the Heat. Landry scored a game-high of 26 points against Leithbridge in the � rst half of the 13-14 semester and helped the Heat obtain their � rst win against UNBC with 22 points.
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� e Women’s Basketball team picked up four wins in 2013, two to end o� their 6-16 record in the 12-13 season, and two more in what has been a disappointing 2-8 start for a team hoping to take the next step in its de-velopment. With the new divisional system coming up in 2014, the Heat faced some of their Canada West opponents, such as Al-berta and Calgary, for the last time in regu-lar season play for what could be a very long time. UBCO Women’s Basketball struggled throughout their � rst ten games of the season, leaving the court with two wins, one against Mt. Royal in Calgary and again against UNBC their last weekend of play in December. � e Women’s team obtained their � rst win prior to the Heat Men’s team which set hopes high for the gals but the level of competition they were placed against in the fall was tough to beat. Saskatchewan, Alberta, Calgary, Victoria, and Lethbridge are the best teams in Canada West and unfortunately, the schedule pushed all of these teams into the � rst half of season. Much like the Men’s teams, the Women’s Basketball team is su� ering from being in a bit over their heads at the Canada West level, expected of a newcomer team. � e winning ways should become more of a reality as the team enters its 4th season coming up in 2014.
UBCO Women’s basketball is sitting at 2-8 mirroring the stats of the Men’s team yet they are third from the bottom in the paci� c divi-sion, placing them in a slightly better position in the upcoming second half of the season. Mt. Royal and Trinity Western are following the UBCO Women’s team, tied at 1-9. � e � rst home games in the third weekend of Jan-uary look hopeful for the ladies as they play Trinity in Kelowna a� er they blasted them in pre-season, 73-66. Unfortunately though, pri-or to these games UBCO will ring in the New Year with an away game against Regina and this will be a di� cult win to obtain for UBCO. Regina is sitting at 8-2 and is the fourth team in Canada West at this moment. Brandon will be a better match for UBCO as they are also sitting at 2-8, similar to the Heat. TRU will be the last game for the Women’s team on homeground and they will be a challenge for the gals as they are sitting at 6-4 currently, but TRU is moderately leveled competition and this � nal game will be a toss-up on who takes the win. Overall, the second half of the season will showcase the UBCO Women’s Basketball teams skills and we should see more wins for these gals than in the � rst half of the 2013-2014 season.
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Krystal Schouten is an essential player to the UBCO Women’s Heat Basketball team. She is in her last year of play and consistently demonstrates her strong playing abilities on the court. Schouten obtained a game high of 13 points last semester against Mt. Royal and averages 24 minutes of play.
Jessica Jazdarehee is a second year rookie and demonstrated strong playing abilities in the � rst half of the 13-14 season when she earned the op-portunity to start when one of the key players, An-gela White, sprained her ankle. Jessica played well as a starter against Mt. Royal and Victoria, scoring 11 and 12 points respectively.
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NATE SPEIJER
Men’s Volleyball
Most teams new to CIS take about three years to � nd their competitive legs, so it’sunderstandable to an extent that the Men’s Volleyball team has struggled. A� er making the playo� s in their � rst season of play, the team has careened back to earth, 2013 being evidence of that.
Finishing the back half of last season without a win in 2013, the men have picked up just two wins in play so far this season. � e Men’s Volleyball team have had a rough fall 2013, coming out with two wins and eight losses. � ey won one game against Mt. Royal and scored another win against Winnipeg, interestingly both home games. � is Volleyball Heat team sits second from the bottom with Regina behind them hav-ing no wins thus far in their season. Im-portantly, the in� ux of young players on the team contributes to their relative lack of success thus far in the season. Expecta-tions will certainly pick up in 2014, where Greg Poitras and co look to rediscover the success they had very early in Canada West play.
� e good news is that the Men’s Vol-leyball team will be playing their � nal two games against Regina in the UBCO gym which will most likely result in some well-needed wins. Now time for the bad news, prior to these � nal games, the boys will have to play against Trinity Western, UBC and Alberta, the three top-ranked teams in Canada West. Manitoba should be a more compatible team with UBCO as they are ranked at 5-7 currently. It will interesting to see how UBCO responds to these di� cult teams in the New Year.
Nate Speijer is de� nitely deserved of the title of team captain for the Men’s Volleyball team.Nate scores dou-ble the amount of points from any other player on his team and was essential to the two wins that this Heat team earned against Mt. Royal and Winnipeg. He ob-tained his career best of kills the past semester with 31 kills against Calgary on November 30th.
Jim Bell is a second year player who consistently contributes to the UBCO Heat Men’s Volleyball. He had a game high of 17 points against Winnipeg and his stellar performance in this game helped the team gain a win. Bell is in 9th place for block assists in CIS and demonstrates strong defensive strategy alongside consistent scor-ing ability. Bell will be an e� ective player in the second half of season.
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“Exceeded expectations” would be put-ting it lightly for the Heat Women’s Volleyball team, as they spent the � rst half of 2013 surg-ing to 4th place in CIS’ Canada West con-ference. � ey’ve picked right up where they le� o� , too, keeping warm during the winter months by singing their opposition to the tune of a 10-2 record in the 2013 section of the 13-14 season. UBCO Women’s Volleyball has done an outstanding job in their � rst twelve games of the 13-14 season. Volleyball Heat fought their way to the top and are currently sitting in second place in Canada West. � ey are currently sitting 10-2, only losing to Bran-don, November 8-9th, sitting in third place just behind UBCO. � e only thing keeping this grade from an A+ is the relative lack of success in the post-season, as their 2013 play-o� run came to a short end with a � rst-round upset loss. Steve Manuel took home coach of the year, and for good reason.
Heat Women’s Volleyball is coming into some intense competition in the last ten games of their season in 2014. � ey be-gin the season on home court in Kelowna against UBC, currently undefeated in Can-ada West at 12-0. � is will be a di� cult win for the women’s team as UBC won against UBCO in the West Coast Classic Tourna-ment in October 2013. � e games against UBC are followed by Trinity Western, Al-berta, and Manitoba who are currently in the 4th, 5th, and 6th spots in Canada West respectively. � is is followed by the � nal two games on home court against Regina, who occupies the 2nd last spot in the league with 3-9. � e Heat are coming up against some di� cult competition though, and it remains to be seen if the girls can get past these equally strong teams. Overall though, it must be stated that the UBCO Women’s Volleyball team is the pride and joy of Varsi-ty athletics, and currently sitting at 8-2 is an amazing accomplishment for such an early CIS team to join this league.
A“It’s always such a great opportunity to play UBC, they’re a strong team with some great play-ers but I think we have the team to beat them this year. We definitely have a tougher second semester but we’ve only gotten better since the beginning of the year.”
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Brianna Beamish is a senior level player who has proven herself to the UBCO athletic community. Beamish is consistently one of the top players for UBCO Heat alongside her teammates, Given and Klomps. She has a game score high of 14 points in the 13-14 season against Winnipeg.
Kaitlynn Given is a rookie who will help carry the team to playo� s. She is an amazing o� ensive player, scoring 18thfor Team Canada’s 2013 games along with Beamish and two other players on the Women’s team due to her exemplary skills in her second year of play.
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This is the first year for both men’s and women’s rugby teams to register as independent clubs vs. through the Kelowna Crows. The Men’s Heat Rugby team are in Okan-agan Springs 1st Division in a 15’s team that plays until February. They also have a division two team that plays with the Kelowna Crows and several university players compete on that team as well. The 1st division team com-peted to the best of their ability this past semester as they are a new team and are competing at a higher level of play as an independent club. The Men’s Rugby team will take part in the National Invitational University Sevens Cham-pionship in early March and will play exhibition games to prepare for this CIS tournament in March. Many players on the Men’s rugby team will also play on the Kelowna Crows Division 1 and 2 teams in the spring. These op-portunities in 15’s and 7’s will be helpful to this team as it gives the athletes the experience needed to contribute effectively to the new rugby club in next year’s season.
The Heat Women’s Rugby team played last semester as a 15’s team in the Fraser Valley Rugby Union, 2nd di-vision. They had six wins and one loss, gaining them a silver medal in Delta, B.C. This is the first year that the Heat has had a fully UBC Okanagan women’s team, rather than being combined with the Kelowna Crows, and they did amazingly well considering how fresh this team is. The only defeat they suffered was against the Gold Medal game against Abbostford who had been playing together for several years.The UBCO Women’s Rugby team have high hopes in the National Invitational University Sevens Championship in early March 2014. They will train for these 7’s games with exhibition games prior to playing in Langford B.C. This will be an exciting opportunity for the women to exemplify their extraordinary skills as a fresh and talented team in a CIS sanctioned event.
The Women’s Cross-Country team dominated this past season, winning 1st place at CCAA National Championships! Sandra Kilmartin and Michelle Blackburne both took home Team All-Star med-als from the championships also. This medal was a first for the cross country team and represents a stel-lar performance on a part of these ladies. The Men’s cross-country team placed 10th in the National championships yet placed 1st in the pre-qualifiers, the 2013 Provincial BC Championships alongside the women’s team.
The Men’s Golf Team obtained 3rd place in PAC-WEST out of seven teams in the league. Will Decker obtained first place in Men’s Individuals in the PAC-WEST league. The Women’s Golf team also obtained 3rd place in PACWEST with leaders Carolynn Lee and Kelsey Mcgillis. Carolyn Lee placed 4th in PACWEST Women’s individuals. Overall, the Golf team was fairly successful in PACWEST and has talented players that will help this team hopefully be very successful in fu-ture years.
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Nick Dodds- Services Coordinator and Executive Chair
Proposed Bylaw ChangesCurrent Structure Proposed Structure
The current structure of the UBCSUO Board of Directors was designed when our school was a regional university/college with just over 3000 students,. The primary objective of this struc-ture is to implement campaigns and services developed by the CFS. Di-rectors at large would be managed by the services coordinator to implement campaigns and services, Advocacy Representatives would address the needs of minority groups under the direction of the Internal Coordinator and the Grad rep would be the voice for graduate students. The External Coordinator would liaise with exter-nal parties, usually by lobbying using the CFS rhetoric and tactics. The Fi-nancial coordinator would oversee all fi nances. And lastly the meeting chair would oversee meetings. This struc-ture was highly effective for its pur-pose, but it has been made clear that the students of UBC-O are no longer interested in the specifi c aims of the CFS, and as a result this structure is ill suited to meet our students needs.
The Board of Directors is affective at making decisions because it in-corporates diverse views. With the current system however, Directors at large and advocacy representatives are in power relationships under ex-ecutive members that inevitably af-fect how they perform their duties in Board of Directors meetings. The
Board of Directors is meant to have power over the executives, but if more than half the members are in-fl uenced by executives (even when it is not intentional), the effective-ness of the Board is diminished.
Next, the board does not necessar-ily represent the entire student body equally. Minority groups are theoreti-cally over represented, while at the same time some faculties may have no representation at all. Not only does this mean that important issues may not be taken into consideration, but it also results in our members feel dis-enfranchised with their Union if they don’t believe their voice has a place.
The most Signifi cant issues, and the most signifi cant changes, are to the executive. The old structure did not have a central authority to maintain and oversee the direction of the Union. This is because that responsibility was fulfi lled by the CFS. However, now that we are parting from that di-rection it is becoming necessary that a central leadership position is created.
So what is being Proposed to fi x these issues: First, to prevent the executive members from having such a strong infl uence over the board of directors , the Board of directors duties will no longer include tasks outside of Board or committee meetings. Board
members may choose to volunteer, but it will not be a requirement.
Second, to represent the diversity of students on campus the membership of the board will be changed. It will include a representative from each faculty, as well as 4 directors at large who will voice the concerns of mi-nority groups on campus. IN addition a place is being made for a Senate representative to sit on the board in order to keep the board informed on academic issues the universities ad-ministration is currently addressing in an effort to make the board work more cohesively with the institution. And the most signifi cant change; the introduction of a president. This change will allow the other execu-tive members to focus on their spe-cifi c areas, while still maintaining a cohesive and effective executive team. Many of the issues raised dur-ing the withdrawn impeachment will be prevented due to having a posi-tion that oversees the big picture of the Students’ Union. The change in language, to VP’s instead of co-ordinators, is to make a distinction between staff and elected positions.
The changes discussed here are not a complete list of amendments made in the proposed bylaws. To get a more full understanding of all the issues with
the Bylaws and changes being made to address them, keep an eye on our fa-cebook page (UBCSUO) for updates and links to more info on our website. Before these proposed Bylaws are passed they must be recommended by the UBCSUO Policy Commit-tee and by the UBCSUO Board of Directors, before going to a SPE-CIAL GENERAL MEETING where YOU, the members, vote to adopt the new Bylaws or not.
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
WednesdayJanuary 29th
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