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OPINIONS—WHERE ARE THE WAFFLE FRIES?PAGE 6
NEWS—UNIVERSITY FOOD BANK SETTLES INTO NEW SPACE
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CULTURE—CHEESECAKE BURLESQUE IS POSITIVELY BAWDYPAGE 13
FEATURE—ONE STUDENT REMEMBERS BRIAN HENDRICKS
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October 16, 2014 MARTLET • NEWS 3
MICHEL GHANEM
On Sept. 30, the UVSS Food Bank & Free Store quietly reopened its doors, and is now operating in the Student Union Building basement, room B007. The relocation comes after a decision to combine the food bank and free store, and is currently in its soft launch phase, with an official launch to come on Nov. 3.
“Our intention here is to create a very inclusive community space. The free store and the food bank combined are starting to generate that sort of community,” said UVSS director-at-large Kenya Rogers, who spearheaded the free store project with volunteers Emily Bellinger and Kelly Toots.
Also involved are UVSS Chairperson
Kayleigh Erickson, Food Bank & Free Store Officer Samantha Scott, and assistant Jasmine Robertson.
“The food bank is a really essen-tial service on campus,” Robertson said. “It’s important to recognize that although we’re all students in univer-sity and we have a certain degree of privilege, there are a lot of various cir-cumstances that students are living in, and it can be a very challenging time in peoples’ lives.”
“We encounter so many reasons why [a student would use a food bank],” she said, including everything from time management, to financial need, to accessibility issues.
The food bank has been in service for over 10 years, providing canned and fresh goods, bread, pasta, grains, and more. The service is funded by the
UVSS through student fees. According to Robertson, this creates a commu-nity of students helping students. “Even if they’re not aware they’re sup-porting students, they are,” she said.
On a student’s first visit, they fill out a form with their student number, undergraduate or graduate status, and if they are supporting themselves or a family. Then, they fill out another form with the items they took in order to help volunteers keep track of the most popular items, and when the food bank reaches its highest student traffic. “We have limits on certain things you can take just so we have enough for everybody,” Robertson said.
On the other hand, the free store is also comprised of donations that are replenished by students on campus.
Last year, Rogers and her team set up a donation booth for students leaving residence to “leave gently used items they wouldn’t need anymore.”
The project began to gain momen-tum after a discussion at UVic’s environmental roundtable in March 2014, when people came together to share ideas for change on campus. The project promotes sustainability and reducing consumption on cam-pus, Rogers said.
The free store offers school supplies, household items, small appliances, home décor, and more, with the hope of adding clothing to the inventory in the near future. Unlike the food bank, there are no restrictions on how much can be taken, prompting a sense of trust between students and the organ-izers of the space.
Although the food bank only moved down the hallway from its previous location, the new location is larger and allows for the “harmonization of the free store and the food bank,” Rogers said. “We felt they worked really well together, and combined efforts with our co-ordinators.”
In the midst of their research, the free store worked with the University of Ottawa’s free store, which has grown over the past few years to offer donations and space to the greater Ottawa community. “I’d like to see the community here expand, [and] I’m excited to see where it goes,” she said.
If you would like to volunteer with the UVSS Food Bank & Free Store, email
UVSS Food Bank & Free Store relocates in SUB
ADRIAN PARADIS
On Sept. 29, 13 UVic theatre stu-dents departed for India to embark on the department’s first field school. The students—including Matthew Gusul, the PhD candidate organizing the trip, one masters stu-dent, and 11 undergrads—will stay in the elder village of Tamaraikulam until Dec. 5, organizing a self-sus-taining intergenerational theatre company, meant to create social change by bringing members of two demographics together, celebrating the stories they have to share.
Warwick Dobson, University Scholar in Applied Theatre and the
supervisor for Gusul’s project, says, “The idea is to get people to share, not the horrors of what happened, not the trauma of displacement, but the kind of successes that they’ve had since.”
The southern coast of India has experienced an extremely try-ing time since the 2004 tsunami. Younger citizens could relocate, but the elderly and the orphaned were incapable of evacuating the endangered coast due to physical limitations. With the aid of HelpAge India, the elderly were airlifted out of the affected zones and into a des-ignated safe space, which became the elder village of Tamaraikulam.
In the past, there were few pro-grams in India for senior care, but Tamaraikulam has become a model. The village is self-sustaining and is run by the elders who live there.
While conducting his thesis on intergenerational developmen-tal theatre, Gusul learned about the newly incorporated village; in January of 2011, he made his first trip there to meet the elders and propose the idea. On Gusul propos-ing the idea to the elders, Dobson says, “It was presumptuous of us to go there and say, ‘This is how you do it.’ They have their own theatre tradi-tions.” To avoid this cultural conflict, Gusul hired two Indian directors to
work alongside the company, direc-tors who will continue to work with them after the UVic contingent leaves.
The goal of an intergenera-tional theatre company, as Dobson explains it, is the same with most theatre: to bring people together. In a unique township with opposing demographics—elders and youth—the idea is to celebrate the lives and the triumphs of the community.
The company hopes to take the shows on tour and visit at least a few Canadian cities. This depends on both the success of the show, set to start at the end of November, and the amount of funding available.
After sending off their first field school, the theatre department hopes it will happen again. “It would be a shame not to build on what we’re doing with this trip,” says Dobson. Similarly, Allana Lindgren, the chair of the theatre department, says, “We’re really proud of them as they move forward. We’d like to see this as the foundation for future projects.”
“Theatre brings people together all the time,” says Lindgren. “In our department, when we put on our main-stage production, it’s largely the whole department working towards an end goal, and this is comparable to that.”
UVic theatre department takes on first ever field school
UVSS director-at-large Kenya Rogers organizes the move of the food bank and free store before it opens on Sept. 30. –Hugo Wong (photo)
4 NEWS • MARTLET October 16, 2014
ADRIAN PARADIS
Meeting in her campaign offi ce on a rainy Saturday afternoon, Marianne Alto pulls out a platform pamphlet after about 10 minutes and says, “I’m going to do something that politicians rarely do; here’s what I said I was going to do [last cam-paign]. Now let’s review.” As she is happy to point out, Alto froze council salaries to 2012 levels and put amalgamation on the ballot. Elected to the city council in a 2010 byelection, Alto was re-elected for her position in 2011. Her name will now appear on the ballot for a third time in the next municipal election, slated for Nov. 15.
Though not native to Victoria, Alto states, “I’ve lived in Victoria now longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. My parents moved around a lot as a child, but this is my home.” With a father in the Air Force, Alto never attended a traditional school. “I had an unusual approach to insti-tutionalized learning,” she says. Despite the fact that she was only in a conventional academic insti-tution for seven years, Alto holds a degree in natural research man-agement and cartography from UVic, as well as a law degree from Dalhousie University.
In addition to her other accom-plishments, Alto spearheaded an initiative to provide raw data from city departments to individuals who could turn that data into meaning-ful applications, like apps to remind residents the day before their gar-bage is collected. Other public
data sets include expense reports from elected offi cials, and mapping data for local bike racks, parking spaces, and other city amenities.
Keeping with her theme of bal-ance, Alto plans to invest back into communities around the Capital Regional District. She wants to provide living wages to those who need it, and wishes to limit the increase of property taxes to one per cent above the rate of infl ation.
When asked what she likes about working with the community, Alto responds with a giddy sense of admiration for her own job. “You hope you’re doing the right thing, and making the right decisions that affect people the right way,” she says. “But a big part of it is just so joyful. I love my job.”
“I have a little key card that opens the city hall door after hours,” she says in near disbelief. “Every time I go there, I laugh and think to myself, ‘I wonder if they know they gave this to me?’”
As she wants to revitalize Douglas Street and generate more business growth downtown, her platform seems to remain a realis-tic one. She admits that it’s not a politically popular concept to raise taxes; however, she hopes that by raising wages as well, she will be able to strengthen the community and, therefore, strengthen the local economy.
Alto seems confi dent of her future position. “It’s a key and an opportunity to change and I’m very hopeful to do it again.”
Marianne Alto strives to find balance in her community
Adrian Paradis (photo)
SENICA MALTESE
UVic President Jamie Cassels wel-comed students, faculty, and other members of the university commu-
nity to discuss the future of UVic on Oct. 7 in the SUB’s Michele Pujol Room. Cassels began his Campus Update by outlining the challenges that University of Victoria currently
faces in the wake of competitive research conditions and cuts in gov-ernment funding.
Addressing a room of mostly faculty and staff, Cassels said that the University of Victoria is a learn-ing destination of choice, in part because UVic is large enough to offer students a comprehensive education, but small enough to provide a sense of community and camaraderie between students, fac-ulty, and the broader community. UVic’s faculty is amongst the best in the country, and even the world, in their chosen fi elds.
Cassels stressed that the UVic community must actively consider how to maintain the size and pres-tige of the university in the wake of fi nancial cuts. Some of the cur-rent solutions to these cuts are to increase the number of incoming students and increasing interna-tional student enrolment, who pay higher tuitions fees; however, Cassels and other members of UVic’s faculty view these solutions as temporary.
There is a projected decline in B.C.’s youth population and, as a faculty member from the science department pointed out, interna-tional students often return to their home countries once they have
completed their education. The uni-versity reserves the right to increase tuition by 2 per cent a year, but Cassels said this does little to fi ll the gap left by government cuts. During the question and answer period, he mentioned that philanthropy was becoming a more important part of the university’s budget, and that diversifying UVic’s sources of income would likely be an ongoing process.
Since job success is a topic of great importance and concern for the government, 25 per cent of the university’s government grant money must be aligned with this area of interest. For this reason, UVic has been forced to consider the job success of students and sharpen the university’s strategic focus. Cassels addressed the growing skepticism regarding the value of a university diploma.
“I think that this is our opportunity not to be defensive,” he said, “but to get in front of the curve, and to reaffi rm our social mission and to continue to prove our social value.”
According to Cassels, and some impressive bar graphs, UVic has had incredible success in terms of job preparedness; however, for some of UVic’s programs, job suc-cess simply isn’t at the forefront.
Cassels stressed that these degrees are equally valuable, though their results are harder to quantify.
For this reason, Cassels believes that the university must not only expand the defi nition of job pre-paredness, but also redefi ne the concept of making a difference. If making a difference is more than just job success, he said, UVic needs to formulate ways to quantify the university’s contribution to the com-munity and the world outside of the parameters of job creation and acquisition.
Cassels acknowledged that there is a rising frustration among stu-dents and faculty as they struggle to be fully engaged in the increasingly complex nature of the university. For this reason, he said that communica-tion and creating an open dialogue is incredibly important as the univer-sity moves forward with its strategic planning. For Cassels, projects such as the Strategic Research Plan and the Enhanced Planning Tools Initiative are meant to encourage open dialogue, while sharpening UVic’s strategic approach as it faces these challenges.
A complete video of the update is available on UVic’s offi cial YouTube
channel and through The Ring.
President’s campus update: a look into UVic’s future
COLIN GRAINGER
The David Suzuki virtual classroom got off to a bit of a late start on Oct. 6 as over a dozen spectators waited patiently at Cinecenta to hear his insights. Suzuki was lectur-ing on sustainable food production as part of a panel that included co-author of The 100 Mile Diet J.B. MacKinnon, and food justice expert Utcha Sawyers.
After a few technical diffi culties, Cinecenta projectionist John Ho came to the rescue, tuning the crowd into the international classroom hosted by The Undergraduates of Political Science (UPS). UPS took donations at the door to fund their trip to the Canadian Political Science Students’ Association con-ference next year, which will focus on sustainability and energy. UVic students tuned in as questions were being taken from a live audi-ence and from students around the world via Twitter and live video feeds. Questions touched on broad aspects of how countries are managing their food systems and whether or not these practices are sustainable and ecologically friendly.
“How much water is being used in agriculture,” asked Ming, a girl from Winnipeg via live video, “and how does it affect our water use?”
One of Australia’s major exports is rice, Suzuki explained, despite the
fact that it is a water-intensive crop, and Australia has signifi cant water shortages. Canada has more water per capita than anywhere else on earth, yet there are 1000 boil-water advisories every day. Suzuki men-tioned that major industries have the attitude that “the solution to pollution is dilution.” Fracking uses enormous amounts of water which is sent underground, contami-nated, and consequently must be left there forever. Suzuki concluded that we need to start using water in ways that make ecological sense.
Amelia, a member of the live audience, then asked if it would make a difference to take the one-stop-shop big-box stores out of the equation when it came to buying our food.
MacKinnon gave an economic answer, citing that twice as much money stays in the economy when food is purchased at a farmers mar-ket compared to a big box store. Sawyers added that purchasing the non-local food of grocery giants perpetuates problems with trans-port costs and the mistreatment of global farm labourers.
Britt from Niagara College in Ontario wanted to know if human populations are simply getting too big to be supported by the earth’s resources. Suzuki explained that population impacts are not just based on numbers, but on levels of consumption. Rich countries,
such as Canada and the U.S., over-consume, and our economies are utterly dependant on that fact. However, Suzuki continued that it is too early to start talking about population control of any kind.
The virtual classroom allowed schools around the world to par-ticipate in a lecture that would otherwise be reserved for a lucky few. Suzuki will be treating high schools across Canada with another
virtual classroom in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada on Nov. 1 and 2.
For more information, visit david-suzuki.org.
October 16, 2014 MARTLET • NEWS 5
David Suzuki sows grassroots support for food security
Rebecca Comeau (graphic)
OPINIONSEDITORIAL
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6 OPINIONS • MARTLET October 16, 2014
ADAM HAYMAN
After being kept in endless sus-pense, the brand-spanking-new centre cafeteria has been revealed in all its airport-lounge-esque glory: seven food outlets and a general store. For those of us old enough to remember the Centre Caf of yes-teryear, the crowded banquet-style seating feels like a distant memory.
One Centre Caf staple is still crisp in my memory: the waffl e fry. With ridges ready to collect a spicy seasoning salt snowfall, the waf-fl e fry was a must with any wrap, burger, or grilled cheese. Its chip-like shape was ideal for scooping, and its crispy surface area deliv-ered a perforated crunch. It also absorbed more fat, transmitting the salty goodness loud and clear. Such a perfect potato was expected by many to return to what is now the
Flamin’ Good Grill. Sadly, it seems we made one too many assump-tions.
“Unfortunately we won’t be serv-ing waffl e fries in Mystic Market,” said Sarah Dusterbeck, Marketing and Communications coordinator for University Food Services in an email, “as we felt it was time for a change and wanted to try some new options.” These new options feature trendier foods like “jalap-eno onion rings and sweet potato fries” and “complementary corn” (I’ll admit this is a nice touch), replacing the apparently dated waffl e fry. The closest substitute to waffl e fries are normal french fries, which cost a blistering $3.50.
You can of course get waffl es and waffl e cones at Berries in Mystic Market, but even if you were to put them through a seasoning salt snowstorm, they would come
nowhere close to their potato coun-terpart. And that’s just wrong.
So is it an end of an era? Is the waffl e fry falling the way of my 30-pin iPhone charger? Thankfully no—they can still be found in the Cadboro Commons dining facilities (Caps and the Commons dining room) for the fi rst years who never had the chance to experience their legacy. But alas, it seems the new Mystic Market is too good for waf-fl e fries.
UnwrittenRevolution, a mechani-cal engineer on the Uvic subreddit page, stated it simply: “I just want my damn chicken strips and waf-fl e fries, is that too much to ask?” I don’t think it is.
Is Mystic Market too good for waffl e fries? Let us know on our
Facebook page, or @TheMartlet.
Is Mystic Market too good for wa� e fries?It would appear so
Samantha Crawford (graphic)
Emily Thiessen (graphic)
For those branded as “millennials,” or those with children and grandchildren in this category, take a moment to think of the young adults sleeping on pavement in the heart of Hong Kong. They are dreaming of democracy, and their dedication has defi ed those who have diagnosed that generation with fl eeting desires and chronic apathy.
The unrest is understandable, particularly in the face of increasing wealth dis-parity and skyrocketing real estate prices in a place already infamous for its high cost of living. Ultimately, though, the protesters want what Canadians take for granted: universal suffrage. Hong Kongers are currently represented by a 1 200 person committee representing different interest groups, but that committee is nominated by the Chinese central government, and favours rich and powerful Hong Kongers loyal to Beijing.
The Chinese government promised citizens the right to choose their own chief executive by 2017, but this summer, it was revealed that voters could only choose between a maximum of three candidates vetted by the existing election committee, with no open nomination process. For the protestors, the choice between two or three Beijing-approved candidates isn’t really a choice at all. After all, the current chief executive, C.Y. Leung, is deeply unpopular as he is perceived to be a puppet of Beijing instead of an advocate for the region. What’s more, the autonomy that Hong Kong enjoys under the Basic Law, their mini-constitution, is slated to expire in 2047, with no assurances that Hong Kong residents will keep their freedoms.
It is too early to say whether or not the protests will have any effect. While Hong Kong’s citizens enjoy the right to free speech, assembly, and fair tri-als, they are up against a Politburo Standing Committee that stands united in opposition. No members of China’s most powerful decision-making body have come out to support the protestors, unlike the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, where general secretary Zhao Ziyang famously tried to compromise with student demonstrators.
To the naysayers, it’s worth mentioning that at one point, North American students our own age were fi ghting against tuition hikes, South African apart-heid, the Vietnam War, and racial segregation; it’s not a foreign concept. Our freedoms today are built on the victories of protesters before us.
Hong Kong remains the mostly likely place for democracy to take hold. The protests, coupled with an emerging scandal about questionable payments from an Australian construction fi rm, are eroding whatever legitimacy that Leung has. They have galvanized Hong Kong’s youth, building a political con-sciousness that cannot be openly explored on the mainland. Such change is hard-won, and the Hong Kong protests are just the start, but those on the streets show courage, patriotism, and an admirable desire for change; they deserve our support.
Love and peace in the streets
October 16, 2014 MARTLET • OPINIONS 7
ADAIR NG
In the aftermath of any major environmental disaster, it is crucial to look back and figure out if any human errors contributed to its occurrence, and use this knowledge to prevent future disasters. We, the voices of B.C., have a distinct opportunity to learn from the errors of others as we stare the $5 billion Kinder Morgan pipeline, a possible disaster waiting to happen, in the face. Thankfully, the mayors of B.C., including Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson, saw the same opportunity.
If we take a look at the BP oil spill in the U.S., the warning becomes blatantly obvious. Oil may no longer be visible on the surface of the Gulf Coast, but its impact has certainly not diminished. Since the 2010 spill, over 900 dolphins have been found dead; researchers also linked the BP oil spill to heart problems in embryonic and newborn tuna. Sadly, it doesn’t stop there.
BP began to pay out $9.2 billion to those who made claims for restoration
efforts, but went on to demand repayment on a number of claims citing the payments as “absurd”. To them, this was merely a blip on their quarterly profits (the demand for fuel from Asian countries—predominantly China—remains high). No matter the outcome of the payments, their hands are essentially clean by default, and they can continue to party it up in the Hamptons, while the claims hold up the courts of New Orleans for years to come. This is not a scenario that should burden the people of the West Coast.
The B.C. government stands to earn a windfall from projects like Kinder Morgan’s or the proposed $5.5 billion Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, but some economists have found that the majority of new jobs are temporary and will vanish with the pipeline’s completion. For the most part, jobs will be created on the other side of the world in Asian markets. We are shipping minimally processed bitumen, thus limiting secondary job creation (the processing of bitumen)
on Canadian soil. But more important than these
minor economic setbacks is the fact that we are playing Russian roulette with B.C.’s land and waterways in areas that, for the moment, are pristine. Would we really be able to face future generations and say, “Yes, it was worth it. Such a piddly amount of money most definitely balances out the fact that we cannot fish the oceans or lakes”? I think it’s highly unlikely. If—when—a spill occurs, do we really expect a large capitalist corporation to care about what might become of the land their pipeline occupied?
There is just too much risk involved with going ahead with these projects; they are not safe and certainly not foolproof. Realistically, no amount of money can ever restore the environment after a spill. Only when the B.C. government begins to look at this decision as an environmental issue, rather than an economic one, can a clear headed decision be made.
Opposing pipelinesA wise choice for our future
Mary Robertson (graphic)
Mary Robertson (photo)
VERONICA ROBERTS
Sustainability was the buzzword on the UVic campus last week, and it made me think more the sustainabil-ity challenges we face on campus. It was the Sustainability Photo Contest itself, with its $250 reward in each of three categories, which highlighted a glaring obstacle in our efforts to address the environmental crisis.
If the organization charged with addressing sustainability on cam-pus conceptualizes “reward” as increased consumption in the form of a bookstore shopping spree, I fear we are doomed.
At first glance, a gift certificate seems like a logical prize for a stu-dent contest — after all, we all need to buy textbooks, right? Well, maybe not. Textbooks are relics of a time before Google, before online peri-odicals, Khan Academy, PLoS (the Public Library of Science), and the copious high-quality university lec-
tures available as podcasts or videos. After all, why should we be
required to purchase an expensive textbook when the same information can be found on Wikipedia? While many professors on campus will tell you that such sites are not reli-able sources of information, a quick visit to Google Scholar will tell you otherwise. A search for “Wikipedia accuracy” informs me that in subjects as diverse as pharmacology, political science, and nursing, the accuracy of Wikipedia entries is comparable to more traditional pedagogical tools such as textbooks.
Alternative resources can also address another issue highly relevant to most students: affordability. In 2012, BCcampus, a project funded by the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education, was asked to release 40 open source textbooks for the most highly-enrolled first and second year classes on university and col-lege campuses across the province.
They have since received funding for 20 additional texts. While the initial impetus was to make higher educa-tion more accessible and affordable to B.C. residents, it also addresses sustainability as students can access books in digital form.
The high cost of textbooks, cou-pled with their limited utility outside of class, means that many students choose to sell their used textbooks back to the bookstore at the end of the semester—at least until a newer edition renders that glossy, expensive text obsolete. Each year a massive pile of books is collected and shipped off to Africa, where knowledge of Canadian history or politics, or North American literature is expected to be celebrated.
Perhaps it represents yet another form of imperialism: “Our knowl-edge is better than yours; here’s what you need to learn.” Additionally, this constant cycle of buying and selling normalizes the student not so much
as a learner than as a consumer. The purchase and sale of used books offers a false solution to consump-tion, and stands in the way of truly innovative solutions.
Unlike traditional textbooks, online resources present lower barriers to engagement and encourage sharing and socialization, allowing mem-bers to contribute in meaningful ways. Any wiki project, for example, includes two essential elements: the textual artifact and the community producing it.
In my mind, textbooks represent unnecessary consumption, anti-quated thinking, hierarchical social organization, and a reinforcement of an imaginary divide between legiti-mate and illegitimate knowledge. Perhaps most importantly, they rep-resent an individualistic approach to producing and reproducing knowledge. These same problems pervade too many approaches to campus (and global) sustainability. It
is this focus on the individual, and on individual solutions, such as choos-ing to bike rather than drive, that will prevent us from making impactful changes. We can’t forget the impor-tance of community when solving a shared problem.
We need to move beyond the obsolete ideas that lead us to irre-sponsible ways of being in this world. We need to think of reward structures that are not based on the improved ability to consume. And we should stop thinking that textbooks are necessary, and start thinking of alter-natives to such waste.
Next week: Veronica continues the discussion on open source text-
books as she talks to two UVic profs, Dr. William Little and Dr. Bruce Ravelli. Both profs have written
textbooks: one open source (Little), and one that is sold in the UVic
Bookstore (Ravelli.)
Becoming a Google scholar
8 FEATURE • MARTLET October 16, 2014
A former student muses on death of a UVic legend
October 16, 2014 Martlet • FeatUre 9
I have a confession to make: I wasn’t one of Brian Hendricks’ better students. I didn’t film the outside of his house in the dead of night and drop the film in the mailbox to get an A. In fact, I used to heckle him, and honestly, he gave as good as he got. I was that student for him. But, heckling aside, I was a follower.
It took maybe two or three rounds of his courses, but somewhere between the Writing 412 class about Stanley Kubrick and the one about the Coens’ (many writing students took it several times, including one speaker at Brian’s life celebration who said she took it 10 times—well after it counted for credit), I started to see what he was saying about “Golden Paths,” “Following One’s Bliss,” and all that other stuff he’d picked up with Joseph Campbell’s “Hero with a Thousand Faces” as a text/bible. My copy of Campbell’s book is often close, as is Tom Chetwynd’s “Dictionary of Symbols”; I have used them in film analysis and even with dream work throughout my journey since.
When I heard that he’d passed, I wasn’t devastated. He hadn’t adopted me as a surrogate father as he had done with my colleague, Brick Blair, or done me any other favours for that matter, but he had affected me greatly. Whenever I have flashes of deja vu in rather innocuous moments I feel his philosophy strongly. It’ll feel as though I’m “exactly where I’m supposed to be,” or on my own “golden path”. I had that feeling again about a month ago (the 19th of September to be exact) as I gathered with his family, friends and devotees at Lucky Bar for a celebration of his life.
It is hard, as I sit down to write out my experiences of Brian’s life celebration, to not pour a finger of fine scotch in honour of the self-proclaimed “Best Teacher in the World.” Of course he was joking when he said this in his final film collaboration, The Beauty of Certainty. That was Brian’s way; boastful and self-deprecating, honest and yet cunningly sly, brilliant and yet deeply shadowed; anima and animus, as he would fondly point out, at the same time.
The Beauty of Certainty, full of artsy endeavour, took up the first act of the proceedings. Self-disclosure, low angle shots and painful audio—courtesy of Brian himself—abounded. Brian put it together with my once-classmate Brick after his more serious diagnosis last year. To be honest, Times Colonist movie critic Michael D. Reid is far more forgiving in his review, particularly of Brian’s singing voice.
Lucky Bar was auspicious for many as a screening room, it seemed, as that’s where Brian ended up hosting screenings of the student film night (I think 2002 was the last year we held it in David Strong’s lecture theatre) and it makes sense because honestly, a beer or two is required to get through all that angsty, artsy stuff. Lucky kindly hosted at the Hendricks family’s request, with Sandy, his wife of 33 years, wearing a veil to help those of us who didn’t know her to get it.
After saying hello to a few friends, I spoke with Nick Galichenko, the Russian Studies professor who would get Brian to fill in for him on the Russian film courses. Somehow Nick remembered me, vaguely, from when he spoke to the section of post-war Russian film (Russian 304, I think) I took with Brian in the summer of ‘98, right after Nick got back from Georgia (the country, not the state).
He spoke of being escorted in armoured vehicles and how, somewhere in there, he did something with a film festival.
It was the reality of it that really highlighted the meaning of the films we had been watching, especially the ones about the continued militance and anxiety in the former Soviet states. Even today as we see these frustrations manifest on the world stage in the Ukraine, Nick and Brian’s course gave me a deeper sense of appreciation for a people’s revolution betrayed. Seeing Nick there, relaxing and sharing his time with all of us, showed me that Brian’s personality was one that broke barriers, especially in academia.
After the film, Brian’s son Dylan, his wife and baby son in tow, along with Kuba Oms (yes, the local singer sensation) , invited us all to share our remembrances of him.
I helped my friend Tim find his way to the mic, and was cast back into my own remembrances, helped by those who remembered him best: friends, family, near-family, golf buddies, and many, many students. At least 10 people spoke; some were long-winded and rambling, some teary, some short and to the point. Tim invited us to “pass the peace” and to “give a great big fucking hug” to whoever was next to us, because for many of us, it was church.
I nearly got a chance to speak. I was going to speak of teaching, of mentors, of educational scholar Ted Aoki, but I didn’t get the chance, so maybe here is the place.
The “Dr.” thing stuck with me. I ran into him one week in
2009, the year Brian “retired”. He had confessed his early cancer diagnosis to a few at first, then to whole classes as I found out later, and was off to South America. When he told me, I think I smiled on the diagnosis as something “probably survivable” and wished him well in his new adventure. He was honoured with the front page of the Martlet in 2010 and I’ve asked that the current staff bring that article out for us to read, because it’s relevant. The teaser was, “Danger: Not all professors teach,” which is appropriate to what some said on the open mic. At that meeting with me, however, and later in the Martlet interview, he shared something that he couldn’t back when I wanted him to write letters recommending me for jobs in Japan or for Masters programs: he never got his MA, let alone PhD. He was just a sessional instructor. He was top tier at that point—he’d been a fixture since the mid ‘90s when I first started my BFA, and taught so many students that he might have been the most profitable sessional in the university, but he was still just a sessional.
Here is where his Rate My Professors rating and I strongly disagree. He was indisputably the most impressive sessional instructor UVic has ever seen, by far, hands down. To misquote Vincent Vega: I’ll take the Pepsi Challenge on that one any day of the week.
His classes were always full, and he taught like a machine. Where many professors had a hard time keeping up with research and committees and five classes a year, Brian would teach 10 or 12, often three or four classes a semester. I know: I took seven with him and they were almost always full. Not 30-people full, or 90-people full, but basically as-many-as-the-department-could-book-into-a-room-with-a-projector
full. He wouldn’t kick out waitlisters, either; some classes students filled the aisles until someone would get a whiff of his crazy and drop.
The amazing part was that it wasn’t just Brian’s movie picks that everyone came to see, although that was certainly part of it (I mean, who doesn’t want to watch The Big Lebowski for credit?). But rather, as I heard again and again at the open mic, it was Brian: his thematic analysis, his take, his readings of other student’s work, his performance art as teaching, his humanity—that’s what they really stayed for.
I have heard differing opinions from some still in the department hazarding that others taught WRIT 412—his course, as he called it—better than he did. I will contend that while they may have taught it better, he was it better. Brian predates Rate My Professors, but had it been up in his heyday rather than the sunset of his career, someone would have found a way to hack it and give him a score over 5.
One such colleague, Jeremy Lutter, director of short films “Joanna Makes a Friend” and “Floodplain,” sadly missed the celebration. His shorts have taken him to Cannes twice now, rubbing elbows with Cronenberg and the other Canadian film contingent. He was asking on Facebook for a good roof to shoot on for an upcoming project called “Caw”, and I suggested the roof of the Elliott building (of happy-
face fame), as I filmed there back in 2002. I sent a link to my WRIT 320 project wherein I hokily kissed my not-yet-wife out behind the HVAC pipes, after being scolded by Brian in a classroom and finding my way out of the labyrinth of the school. His one word reply said it all: Hendricks!
As the evening was invaded by millenials, as the bar went
back to being a bar, another round of “Amazing Grace” was struck up, probably so we could join in and find key better than Brian did in his farewell film, and I found myself amongst his family, next to Kuba, harmonizing in bass to his tenor, celebrating a light we could all blindly see.
To quote noted scholar Ted Aoki, who mused on the death of teacher Christa McAuliffe in the 1986 Challenger disaster in his seminal Curriculum in a New Key,
“She is the teaching… [Her] absence speaks to me with a strong presence of what her teaching essentially was and is.”
For many, especially those who couldn’t believe that Brian was the great teacher that so many claimed because he wasn’t a noted, peer-reviewed scholar or professor — to them he was ‘just’ an awesome uncle, or great golfing partner and a very dear human being — he, like McAuliffe, was the teaching. Brian was a being brave enough to stand in a university and be himself: a consummate connoisseur of film, a father, and even a failed writer. He laid his foibles bare, and shared generously of himself with others. By doing this he implicitly invited others to share to do the same as honestly as they could. By modelling that first, he did for many what they could not do for themselves. He gave them a reason to bleed on the page. Many sat at the back with their arms crossed, but given an opportunity to set cynicism aside and be honest, some came around, opened up, and made good art. Keep an eye out for them—the cult of Hendricks. All out there following their bliss.
Following Brian’s Bliss
Story by Kier Robins Photo by Josh Thompson
Brian was a being brave enough to stand in a university and be himself: a consummate connoisseur of film, a father, and even a failed writer. . . By modelling that first, he did for many what they could not do for themselves. He gave them a reason to bleed on the page.
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Burlesque used to be an art form involving extravaganza, parody, caricature, and even elements of vaudeville now and again. Now that vaudeville is largely dead, that sort of burlesque seems quite rare. I once worked a burlesque show in Halifax as a magician and mentalist to do fi ller in between classic striptease acts, but that group is no longer active. Other burlesque acts I’ve seen were just striptease. Yes, the tassels made it nominally burlesque, but the acts themselves had no satire, no panache, and most of the moves were reminiscent of the traditional strip-pers’ moves one might see at the Fox.
Though the burlesque of yore is rare, it is still very much alive. On Oct. 4, the Cheesecake Burlesque Revue performed a show at the Roxy to mark their upcoming trip to Europe. This group, however, incorporates much of the old satirical or extravaganza elements of the old style burlesque, but with their own modern twist.
“[We take] very much from the history of burlesque,” said one per-former going by the stage name of Wild Honey, “and from the perform-ers all the way from the early days in the ‘10s and ‘20s and ‘30s, from Minsky’s [Burlesque] and other things like that, but adding our own modern fl air.”
When asked what their own modern fl air entails, Wild Honey elaborated on what the idea of “cheesecake” was, saying that while it’s open to
interpretation, “it’s fun, it’s fl irty, it’s a little bit heavy sometimes.”
The troupe “absolutely [has] a mes-sage of body positive,” she says, “so that all shapes and sizes are on stage and often our audiences are actually women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who come. So we fi nd it [a] very pleasant, loving, funny kind of event.” She also spoke about how they use both old and new songs, and tells audiences to expect a variety of different perfor-mances and styles.
Wild Honey kept her promises; striptease was the medium and not the message. Granted, traditional fi llers such as ventriloquists weren’t there. However, the event made up for it in the sense that almost all of the acts were not simply stripteases, but dance performances with a story. The variety aspect of burlesque extended to the stories being told in the dances, the singing acts that joined in, and the different body types on stage. There were performances that could elicit laughter, tears, and surprise—all in a few seconds.
One such act from the fi rst half was entitled “Blue Moon”. A young lady danced to Frank Sinatra’s rendition of the song with a giant blue balloon that was supposed to be a blue moon, all while a young man was wooing her. Unfortunately, the blue moon prema-turely burst into glitter, and she cried and stormed off the stage. It was heart-wrenchingly funny.
In the second half, there were three acts about marriage that moved me: one about a lady gutting a fi sh and
fi nding an engagement ring, another about a jaded woman at the altar, and fi nally, one featuring a woman with a ukulele singing “Let’s Do It,” a song about a wife trying to get busy with
her husband. I got to see both magic (well, pranks) and singing in a span of three burlesque acts in ways I never expected.
After the show, I felt a little let down
because it was over, but I’m confi dent that as they travel through Europe, the Cheesecake Burlesque Revue will keep the art of true burlesque alive.
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OWEN HANN
“Can’t Do Without You,” the opening track of Dan Snaith’s fourth release as Caribou, Our Love, is liquid MDMA. It is a titanic song that takes one stark, simple loop, “I can’t do without you,”
and builds it up to a song that could shake a dancefl oor. Its repeated refrain is endlessly explorable, taking over your entire concentration for its four-minute run.
Unlike most modern dance tracks, you can listen to “Can’t Do Without
You” a hundred times without get-ting sick of it, even though it never reaches a climax, or even a chorus. It’s the sonic equivalent of getting ready; it builds and builds, without really ending up anywhere. EDM-heads that are all about the drop will
wonder what the point is, but Snaith has carved out a very different kind of electronic music that echoes life: it’s not about the drop; it’s about the build. “Can’t Do Without You” has only been around for a couple of months, but it already feels like one of the best songs of the decade.
The rest of Our Love proves that Snaith is worthy of high praise. Married with children, Snaith is an unlikely character to be creating some of the most forward-thinking electronic music today. Though 2010’s Swimwas considerably dance-infl uenced, Snaith’s background is in alternative rock bands, and he holds a doctorate in mathematics. A Canadian, Snaith moved to London in 2001 where he took cues from his close friend, Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet). Since then, Snaith has been quietly creat-ing some of the most astonishing electronic music of the last decade under his Caribou moniker as well as his dance alias, Daphni.
Our Love fi nds Snaith at the height of his powers. “Silver” is an undulat-ing, synth-based burner that fl oats above itself as though in a dream, and the percussive “Mars” recalls Swim’s dizzying “Sun.” The title track “Our Love” perfectly thema-tizes the album, both in its depiction of “our love” and in its rhythmic thud: the fractured bass and snare that defi nes the genre, and makes
those in the room want to dance. The sexy “Second Chance” features Jessy Lanza singing “Tell me if you really want it / Cause boy you know I do,” and the two-minute long “Julia Brightly” sounds like it arrives from another planet, looping just a couple of words into its soundscape so many times they become incomprehensi-ble. “Back Home” and “Your Love Will Set You Free” offer a compelling conclusion and a soundtrack to the end of the night.
But Our Love fi nds its whole through its simple but effective theme: group love. Dance music has never been this inviting, this share-able, and this appreciable among a wide audience that ranges from indie to electronic lovers. This is music that brings people together, and some of its most prolifi c tracks could be stretched out to seven or eight min-utes to give you more time to dance. Songs like “Can’t Do Without You” never want to end, and “Our Love” is a post-disco classic, but they’ll get the remix treatment, and have already been given extended mixes by Snaith’s Daphni persona. Our Love is a dance album that feels club-ready, and yet so real that it echoes daily life. It’s the kind of album that you dance to with your best friends at the end of the night.
New Caribou album simply indispensable
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KLARA WOLDENGA
Living on the island it’s easy to forget that Vancouver is a part of Hollywood North and is only a ferry ride away, but trying to get your foot in the door can seem daunting. With so many avenues to gain exposure, particularly with the YouTube and independent film industries booming, it’s hard to know where to start, particularly when it comes to funding.
With many independent film-makers skipping traditional routes in favour of crowdfunding, the last day of the 29th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) Industry Conference, dubbed “Totally Indie Day”, included crowdfunding workshops, panels, and networking. I decided to make the trip to learn from those who have done it before and meet those who were trying to make it in the industry.
I sat and listened to Jay Duplass, director of Jeff, Who Lives at Home and The Puffy Chair, discuss how his philosophies changed since he started his career. He explained how, when he was younger, he and his brother Mark tried to copy the Coen brothers’ style, but to no avail. Then one day he wrote a personal short film called This is John, in which a man unsuccessfully attempts to change the greeting on his answering machine, leading to an emotional breakdown. This short film was well received at Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and encour-
aged him to create more personal movies in his own style.
“The best thing [you can create] is the thing that just falls out of you,” said Duplass. He stressed to fellow filmmakers to not get stuck in their head, and instead to “make movies, not meetings.”
Emily Best, founder of Seed&Spark (a funding and dis-tribution platform for filmmakers) held a workshop on the impor-tance of crowdfunding and online networking. “It’s not about getting your film made,” said Best. “It’s about getting it seen.”
Seed&Spark was created spe-cifically to help filmmakers build an audience while allowing them to keep 80 per cent of the streaming revenue from the website’s rental format ($2.99 for a feature, $0.99 for a short), and 95 per cent of crowd-funding revenue. Sponsors are also able to help pay for the film’s website fees that would allow the filmmakers to potentially receive 100 per cent of their funding back. Seed&Spark calls this model “Free Trade Filmmaking”, which lifts the veil between the filmmaker and potential distributors.
Best also stressed the personal relationship between filmmaker and audience the internet has allowed to develop, as it can create career-lasting relationships down the road. Best offered ways to uphold that relationship with offering potential audiences FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). “Offer, don’t plead [to your audience],” said Best.
Following the seminars were two panels featuring Guardians of the Galaxy screenwriter Nicole Perlman, Bones creator Hart Hanson, and many others connected to the film and television industry. Although the panels didn’t offer many tips on how to get into the industry, they made me realize these writers and creators are people too; they get tired, inspired and frustrated. Just like all creative people, they want
to produce good work while mak-ing a living.
Following the seminars and panels was an industry mixer that offered those who attended the ses-sions time to meet and exchange business cards. Interacting with other creatives who were trying to make it in the industry was inspiring and helped put the wind back in my sails. It reminded me that those who want create great works aren’t my
competition—they are my potential networks and allies. Totally Indie Day changed my perspective on filmmaking from something daunt-ing and unobtainable to something that takes a village to create, whether those people are other creatives, or simply an audience that is excited about your work and willing to send a few dollars your way.
Vancouver film conference provides insight to future filmmakers
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According to Lark & Sparrow bou-tique owner Willow Hillard, there are two types of women that shop at her store: a lark, and a sparrow. The lark is edgy, a little goth and tomboy, and the sparrow is feminine, sophisticated and elegant. “Sometimes women go from one extreme to the other, and some-times they’re somewhere in between,” she said. Hillard is both a lark and a sparrow—“it depends what day you catch me on.”
She describes the Cook St. Village womenswear boutique as “a folky, magical, white, soft place—like a luxurious forest.” The location is cel-ebrating its fi fth year of business since its opening in March 2010. “I wanted ,when people walk into the space, to see birch trees, soft light, sparkle, and to feel inspired by their surroundings,” Hillard said.
She has been surrounded by bou-tique-type businesses her entire life. “I come from a long family history of owning boutiques, and it’s a bit of mentorship within our family,” she said. Hillard creates her own logos, business cards, and is completely immersed in her business’s direction.
Growing up in Courtenay, she used to skip school to work at her mother’s business, learning about visual mer-chandising, sales, and ordering stock.
Her family now owns four individual stores on the island in Sidney, Oak Bay, Broadmead, and including her bou-tique in Cook St. Village. “We’re very ambitious women,” Hillard said.
After graduating from UVic with a fi ne arts degree, Hillard opened Tiger Tiger, a vintage boutique in Vancouver. After her third child, she moved back to the island, but never gave up her vintage roots. Ark, a Vancouver-based brand, provides Lark & Sparrow with reworked vintage. By making altera-tions like replacing buttons and shortening the hem, the garments are made to look “less costume-y, more ‘transcending time,’” Hillard said.
The other brands that populate the racks in the minimalistic, whimsical space are predominantly smaller, U.S.-based designers. “They’re not big labels,” she said. “They’re people who are starting in the industry, or put more money into the quality of the garment as opposed to marketing and public-ity.”
When Hillard opened her business, it was one of a kind. “It was a bit of a risk because there wasn’t anything here,” she said. The neighbourhood-based business appealed strongly to her sense of community, which Hillard believes contributes to her boutique’s success. For instance, she knows her clientele by name.
“I know what you bought for the last
six months. I’m going to give [a cli-ent] a call when a blazer comes in that works with the t-shirt and jeans she bought last month,” she said.
The integration of Forever 21, H&M, and other fast-fashion retailers in the city did steal a portion of her younger clientele, she admits. However, Lark & Sparrow brings a quality and unique-ness to the clothing that “throw-away fashion” pieces lack, and manages to keep a price point of under $100. “When we get a cut of six things, that’s it. You’re never going to see it again. That’s something we’ve always done from the very beginning, and we will stick with, always.”
“Where I think it’s bad is when local, smaller communities feel threatened by it. It’s not a threat; it’s a different market,” she said. She compares the boutique experience to McDonalds and fi ne dining. McDonalds will always provide the quick, inexpensive burger, but will never replace the experience of eating at a fi ne dining establish-ment.
“I’m an artist—I like to express myself through my clothing, my art, and my business,” Hillard said.
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SENICA MALTESE
UVic’s Phoenix Theatre celebrated the opening night of its two-person pro-duction of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on Oct. 9. Starring two UVic theatre department graduates, Kaitlin Williams and Mack Gordon, the Phoenix production of C.S. Lewis’s classic children’s novel pays tribute to the magic of childhood despite the pressure of the outside world.
Adapted by Artistic Director Ron Reed, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe takes place eight years after the children’s adventures in Narnia. Peter (Mack Gordon) and Lucy (Kaitlin Williams) have returned to Uncle Digory’s house as adults, where they relive all the magic of their fi rst trip to Narnia.
Making use of a simple set—two lamps, an armchair and footstool, a wooden chest draped in a blanket,
and, of course, a wardrobe—the two-person ensemble played the entire cast of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by donning different fur coats and blankets.
Shifts in location and emotional atmosphere were portrayed to great effect by the warming or cooling of the stage lights, which shifted from warm auburn for locations such as Mr. Tumnus’s cave, to cool blue tones for the White Witch’s castle and the winter environment of Narnia. This manipulation of light was by far the most inspired and clever technique in the production. Kudos to Lauchlin Johnston, the lighting designer, for his expert use of colour, which sprinkled the production with a hint of magic.
Though the play was limited by the two-person casting, both actors dem-onstrated their talent. Mack Gordon’s humorous renditions of Mr. and Mrs. Beaver provoked spurts of laugh-
ter from the audience, and Kaitlin Williams displayed astounding versa-tility in her performance. In particular, her voice portrayal of the White Witch was haunting in its authenticity.
Unfortunately, the Phoenix produc-tion, though successful in its chosen style, may not be for everyone. Lovers of C.S. Lewis’s work may fi nd them-selves a hidden gem, but for the average playgoer the pace could feel a little slow. Clocking at 90 minutes, including an intermission, it was hard for the play to sustain its storytelling method, which relied heavily upon nar-rative exposition and the audience’s willingness to imagine what the actors could not clearly portray.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe will be at the UVic Phoenix Theatre until Oct. 25. For more infor-
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TAYLOR MCKEE
It may not have happened precisely the way they planned it, but the Vikes women’s fi eld hockey team clinched fi rst place and are ready to avenge last season’s painful cham-pionship defeat.
With a victory in the last of two back-to-back games against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds this weekend, the Vikes wrapped up their regular sea-
son by claiming fi rst place in the Canada West conference heading into the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championships in Toronto from Oct. 30-Nov. 2.
Last season, the Vikes were exceedingly successful, captur-ing the CW title and reaching the fi nal of the CIS championships— a tournament that UVic hosted. After breezing past the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo, the Vikes came up
against a powerhouse UBC squad that beat them in the CIS champi-onship game 4-1.
Heading into last weekend’s matches, the Vikes had man-aged a pair of 1-1 ties against the Thunderbirds and were looking for a way to prove that they could beat UBC before the national champion-ships.
On Saturday’s game, things didn’t exactly go as planned. The Vikes struggled to capitalize on chances generated in the fi rst half of the game and ended up losing 3-1 at the hands of the Thunderbirds. The Vikes now needed to win to secure the top spot on Sunday.
In the rematch, the Vikes—led by two goals from CW leading scorer Amanda Kurianowicz—defeated the Thunderbirds 4-1, the reverse of last season’s CIS fi nal.
After the match, it was unclear if the Vikes had clinched fi rst place as the Thunderbirds play next week-end against the currently winless University of Calgary Dinos, but according to the rules of the tie-breaker, the Vikes had secured fi rst even if the Thunderbirds win both games against the Dinos. The Vikes will now have nearly two weeks off while they set their sights on their fi rst game of the CIS championships against the University of Toronto.
Vikes head coach—and three time CW Coach of the Year—Lynne Beecroft believes that at this year’s CIS championships, her team can compete with UBC by using their depth.
“I think overall, player for player, our athletes are starting to recog-nize that it takes 16 players to be successful,” said Beecroft. “We really rolled our lines today and we were able to get everybody off the bench whereas I don’t think they [UBC] has that same supporting cast.”
If the Vikes are going to be successful in the national cham-pionships, they will likely need Kurianowicz to continue her lethal offensive production from the sec-ond half of the regular season. In her fi nal four games of the regu-lar season, Kurianowicz scored six goals, compared to one in the fi rst four games of conference play.
“I think her technical skills have caught up to her foot speed,” said Beecroft. “She’s getting some really good shots and scoring opportuni-ties and she’s putting the ball in the net.”
The Vikes will play a few exhibi-tion games in the two-week lull between their fi nal regular season match and their fi rst CIS champi-onship game. However, the road to a CIS championship likely runs through UBC again in Toronto, a challenge that Beecroft says her team is ready for.
“I think that we showed UBC what we can do and hopefully we can carry that same momentum into Nationals.”
The Vikes begin play at the 2014 CIS Championships on Oct. 30 in
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During Beecroft’s coaching career at UVic, she has won 11 CIS gold medals, 8 silver, and 7 bronze as well as 11 CW titles.
Beecroft’s all-time record at the CIS tournament: 71-29-13.
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Dressed in a Team Italy climbing shirt, Ali Funk fi nishes another train-ing session on the wall at Boulders Climbing Gym in Victoria. Last month, while wearing her Team Canada gear in New Caledonia, Funk wasn’t just training: she was fulfi lling a dream.
Funk fi rst took to the wall when she was 10 at her brother’s birthday party. “My brother and I both really liked it. Then my dad took a course so that he would know [about climbing] and he could teach us,” said Funk. “We started doing youth programs and then we got better than my dad. Then we just progressed up the youth pro-grams at the [University of Alberta].”
She started to compete in local and regional rock climbing competitions at the age of 12, with her fi rst com-petition in Calgary. Funk laughs when recounting the experience. “I didn’t even have a harness at that point!”
“From the beginning, even when I wasn’t very good, I always wanted to make the national team. Even though it was not really a reality in my earlier
years,” said Funk. “Then each year I got progressively closer and closer and [expectations grew] as well. So it’s always really stressful and I’ve had a few really heart-breaking nationals. But my last nationals were really awe-some so it was nice to end on that [note].”
While at the IFSC World Youth Championships, Funk climbed in a type of competition called lead climb-ing. The goal is to climb higher than the other competitors before falling, with the ultimate goal of reaching the top. Each climber is given an assigned route and can only use the holds on the route. The judges scorecard includes a picture of the route and the holds on it. They mark how high the climber gets and score based on how the climber uses their body to reach the hold.
Initially, Funk was disappointed when she didn’t make the team, as it was her fi nal opportunity to qualify for the youth team, but with a team-mate unable to compete, she was on her way. For the next four months, she spent endless hours at a climb-
ing gym in Edmonton and training with Team Canada, fi nally making it to Noumea, New Caledonia (a French island off the coast of Australia) for the competition from Sept. 19-23.
Funk made it to the semi-fi nals and placed 24th in Female Junior Lead category. “I defi nitely was very over-whelmed. I said to myself ‘Oh my God, I fi nally made it. I’m so happy.’”
Funk credits climber Sasha DiGiulian as one of her many inspirations. She admires DiGiulian’s ability to balance a career as professional climber and as a student at Columbia University in New York. DiGiulian’s example seems to infl uence Funk’s own life as well. Aside from climbing, Funk is also committed to her education: she is in her second year at UVic as a social sciences student, but hopes to enter the recreation and health education program.
Even with the IFSC World Youth Championship complete and her youth-level climbing career over, Funk is not done climbing. “It’s been a big part of my life and I’m sure it will con-tinue to be.”
Ali Funk in profile
HIKE OF THE WEEK
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Gowlland Tod Provincial Park is a great place for a hike, located almost inside Victoria City limits. While the Park offers over 25 kilometres of hik-ing trails, some areas are used more frequently than others. For a short to medium length hike in a quieter part of the Gowlland Tod Range, try accessing the park from the Caleb Pike Road access, which can be accessed from Millstream Road near Langford. Hiking the Ridgetop trail towards Jocelyn Hill provides rewarding views of Saanich Inlet, Mt. Finlayson and the Malahat.
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HAYLEY COPPERTHWAITE
Dear That One Guy/Gal,You are very intelligent. We are all
aware of that, and we all appreciate you gracing us with your presence in class. Moreover, we are all aware that you know more than anyone in the class, the professor included. Clearly, you should be the one getting paid. Your insights on how Plato’s theory that knowledge is based on recol-lection and not study is riveting—so enthralling, in fact, that it likely means you should be exempt from all further assignments. However, being humble is also a thing that people do.
Though we mere mortals can never truly fathom your brilliance, we accept and respect that your insights are superior and innately true, but why not remain silent for a class and chuckle to yourself in regards to our inherent stupidity?
Yes, it is true that you are smarter than the professor. It becomes bla-
tantly obvious when you recite back the exact thing they just said in more . . . eloquent language. We all watch as the professor’s ego slowly recoils at the majesty of your bril-liance. Envy is a powerful drug. I’ll bet the professor goes home in the evening, sips on their tea, and writes each of your impeccably abstract yet informative comments in a little journal, which they then lay under their pillow at night in an attempt to absorb your superior knowledge. They never will though. Poor fools.
And as for us, your classmates, it must be immensely satisfying to know that we will never reach your cognitive level. Do I know that Milton’s sonnet “When I consider how my light is spent” can be looked at as a critique of the blindness of “today’s society” because we are all blinded by pretense? No, I do not know this, because I will never be able to understand the world the way you do, nor will your other class-mates, whose brains clearly scurry
around like hamsters on a wheel. If I were as brilliant as you, it would be hard for me to resist fl aunting my brain in class to drown out the noise of us ‘regular people.’
The purpose of this letter, how-ever, is to help you out, hopeless as that may seem. We know that the idea of help is foreign to you, as you are omnipotent and can spot an
issue from a mile away and spew out a philosophically charged conclusion that will likely bring us to tears.
But honestly, you deserve a break. Yes, I know this will leave us, the unwashed, bereft of your nuggets of brilliance, but, go for it! Treat your-self! Take a break! We are all giving you permission to sit silently as the rest of us participate in what you may
see as ‘psycho-babble.’ So, That Guy/Gal, sit back and
relax next class! And enjoy the ridicu-lousness that ensues. You may even fi nd the professor is smiling just a bit more than usual.
Sincerely,Your Adoring Classmates (and
probably the Professor too)
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