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A few months after a fee referen-dum that the AMS claimed was needed to save them financially, the society is continuing to bud-get for the worst.

The preliminary budget, which will be presented to AMS Coun-cil this Wednesday, plans for a $100,000 deficit despite an ex-tra $400,000 in revenue that stu-dents will pay in fees over the next year.

The financial hole is a result of flagging business revenues and increased administration costs. A few unforeseen events had to be accounted for, including the rise in the provincial minimum wage and the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) attempt to tax the AMS’s businesses as for-profit.

According to VP Finance Elin Tayyar, this budget is consider-ably more cautious than any oth-er over the past few years.

“We’re adjusting our expecta-tions for our businesses to a more realistic level,” he said. “Last year we were expecting $900,000 [in revenue and] obviously we didn’t get anywhere close to it.”

The budget also lowers expect-ed revenue from sponsorships, allows for higher legal fees, ex-pects a combined $48,000 loss from First Week and Welcome Back Barbecue and sets aside $149,000 as a contingency fund.

However, if the contingency fund is not spent, then the AMS will not run a deficit.

“That’s kind of important to understand [that] we’re not nec-essarily signing ourselves up for a $100,000 deficit. But we did want to be conservative.”

According to Tayyar, the AMS’s goal is to stay afloat until the new SUB is completed, when they ex-pect business revenues to rise, due to the new building’s appeal, rebranding, increased size and capacity of food outlets and lon-ger hours.

However, with the Whistler Lodge bleeding money and the AMS expecting less traffic in

the current building when con-struction begins on the new SUB, Tayyar expects that in the short-term, the AMS’s businesses will continue to struggle.

“We’re looking at a multi-year deficit,” he said.

The AMS is also adding a num-ber of administrative positions this year that will contribute to the deficit, including a director of operations, a director of stu-dent government and an extra po-sition for their human resourc-es department. They will also be reinstating a policy analyst.

no taxation Vacation

Earlier in the year, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Lab-rador ruled that the Memorial University Student Union had to pay taxes on their student pub and copy centre.

The CRA is now questioning the AMS.

“The CRA this year did an au-dit of our account and they came back saying that we would need to pay tax on our profit centres,” said Tayyar.

Although the AMS plans to fight the CRA, they have bud-geted enough to pay their tax-es if they lose.

Budget Woes, years Past

Tayyar doesn’t expect a repeat of last year’s budget drama, when AMS Council held the budget up for a month over concerns regarding Block Party and ex-ecutive spending.

“We sent it out and we’ve had open consultation sessions. Very few councillors have actually showed up for that, so that’s a little bit of a concern. If there’s a huge problem with the bud-get as is...it’s because council-lors haven’t actually done their homework and approached us with their issues.

“I don’t foresee too many prob-lems. But never say never.” U

—with f iles from Kalyeena Makortoff

eye on the PrizeMark Rogers takes the reins from soccer legend Dick Mosher as head coach of the UBC women’s soccer team. Meanwhile, the team keeps up their game in the off-season against seasoned amateurs in the Pacific Coast Soccer League.

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Two years after UBC initiated its Aboriginal Strategic Plan (ASP), the number of aboriginal profes-sors has nearly doubled.

UBC had 11 Aboriginal profes-sors in the 2007/2008 academic year, the year before the ASP was implemented. Today, UBC em-ploys 21 aboriginal professors across a number of faculties, including Education, art histo-ry and zoology.

“At various points for much of Canada’s past and in the Univer-sity of British Columbia’s histo-ry, Aboriginal people have been effectively excluded from par-ticipation,” said Linc Kesler, Chair of the First Nations Stud-ies Program.

“So seeing at this point a change—not only for access for Aboriginal students to study at the university, but to continue on to advanced education and become professors in various disciplines—is really an overdue development.”

The ASP never set up a target number for its professorial hires.

“We’ve been very careful, for ex-ample, in our Aboriginal Strate-gic Plan to not say things like, ‘we will recruit this many facul-ty by this date’,” said Kesler. “Be-cause UBC is a research-intensive university, faculty here operate at a very high level in their field and our purpose is not to recruit

anyone we can who fits a certain ethnic profile.”

Anna Kindler, Vice Provost and Associate Vice President Academ-ic Affairs, co-chaired UBC’s Ab-original Strategic Plan with Kes-ler. She explained that there are certain challenges to attracting and retaining aboriginal faculty.

“Much remains to be done in or-der to create the kinds of environ-ments and the kind of opportuni-ties that the plan purports to cre-ate for Aboriginal students and Aboriginal faculty...we are very committed to continuing on this track, but we realize that we still

have a long way to go,” she said.Kindler added that a grow-

ing cohort of aboriginal profes-sors at UBC create role models for students who identify with Aboriginal backgrounds.

aBoriginal research

Maija Tailfeathers, an Aboriginal student from the Blood Reserve in southern Alberta and the in-digenous Sami of Scandinavia, recognizes UBC’s efforts but says that under the ASP, the universi-ty should continue working with existing faculty members.

“I definitely think it’s important and it’s a step in the right direc-tion. However, I also think that if UBC really plans to implement and properly gauge this Aborig-inal Strategic Plan, that the ex-isting faculty, whether they be Aboriginal or not, are kind of brought up to par on Aborigi-nal issues,” she said.

“It’s kind of a heavy burden to carry as an indigenous student in the classroom when these topics come up and the faculty or the professor, the staff, isn’t able to really properly deal with the discussion, and they often get out of hand.”

Jordan Wilson, a recent gradu-ate from the First Nations Stud-ies Program and a member of the Musqueam band, said that “there is resistance in certain

areas to recognizing whose land we’re on, recognizing the Aboriginal history, listening to an Aboriginal perspective, spe-cifically a local perspective,” al-luding to the unceded Musqueam territory on Vancouver’s coast, which includes UBC.

Wilson said that while he wants to see more Aboriginal faculty hired, it is the work—not neces-sarily the background—of pro-fessors that counts.

“I’m more interested in fac-ulty that are engaged with com-munity and community inter-ests [and] while, I think, in many cases it would be Aboriginal fac-ulty who are doing that [research], at the same time, I don’t think non-Aboriginal faculty should be ruled out.”

Kindler said the next step is to continue supporting Aboriginal graduates who will pursue aca-demia as a career, increasing the limited pool of qualified scholars in light of competition with oth-er institutions.

UBC has made significant progress, said Kesler.

“We’re certainly in the fore-front...UBC has always had some very strong programs and schol-ars but I think that in terms of a university-wide approach, we’re now increasingly being recog-nized as people who are doing some interesting work in this area.” U

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“We’re now seeing people study across a lot of different disci-plines,” said Kesler. “So the representation of aboriginal schol-ars is changing quite rapidly.”The following professors have been hired since the plan was implemented in 2009.

Faculty of ArtsDana Claxton: art history, visual art and theoryGlen Coulthard: First Nations studies, political science

School of JournalismCandis Callison

Faculty of EducationMark Aquash

Department of ZoologyDavid Close: Fish Centre

Department of Curriculum and PedagogyPeter ColeTracy Fiedel

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BURNABY (CUP) — After more than two fruitless years of nego-tiations, the Simon Fraser Stu-dent Society board of directors has voted unanimously to lock out their unionized office staff. The board alleges that compen-sation costs have ballooned out of control and restricted the soci-ety’s ability to fulfill its mandate; the union claims that the lockout is ideologically motivated.

The lockout affects the 15 full-time, five term and student mem-bers of CUPE local 3888 unit five. Groups affected include the SFSS office staff, who are responsible for managing clubs, departmen-tal student unions and day-to-day operation of services like the

women’s centre and Out on Cam-pus, a queer-support group at SFU. The lockout will not apply to SFSS Food and Beverage Services em-ployees or any other CUPE-union-ized staff at the university.

SFSS President Jeff McCann argued that the massive finan-cial burden of staff compensa-tion meant that the board had no other choice.

“We have faced budget deficits in the last four years, and mas-sive cuts to this year’s budget to accommodate the union,” he said. “It is clear that if we cannot real-ize reductions we will be unable to fulfill what our constitution mandates: fund clubs and depart-mental student unions.”

“We think that the reason that they’re trying to gut the collec-tive agreement is a philosophical

thing on the part of Jeff McCann,” retorted CUPE 3888 business agent John Bannister, who con-jectured that McCann’s real goal is “to get rid of all the long-term employees and the collective agreement.”

According to McCann, the 12 permanent full-time employees are paid an average of $30.48 per hour, which, together with ben-efits and lower wages for tem-porary workers, cost the society more than $700,000 this year. McCann said that the most re-cent offer to the union was a wage rollback to an average of $26.66 per hour, plus a four per cent raise over the course of the agreement and improvements to the dental plan.

CUPE did not explain their demands in detail, but said in a

press release that “the union’s proposals, including suspend-ing cost of living increases [cur-rently applied quarterly to a max-imum of 3.5 per cent], have been rejected by the SFSS. In return, the SFSS has proposed only dra-matic wage rollbacks and cuts to staffing levels.”

Bannister added that “we think our compensation is on par with not only workers here [at SFU] but other student soci-ety workers.”

He said that because of the lockout, “the students will be de-prived of the services of the so-ciety that our members provide them,” including distribution of money to clubs and departmen-tal student unions, women’s cen-tre peer support and crisis refer-rals and the SFSS copy centre.

SFU student union locks out unionized staff

uBc researchers maKe Progress on ParKinson’s

For the first time since 2004, a gene that causes Parkin-son’s disease has been discov-ered—and it’s been done by UBC researchers.

Members of UBC’s Centre for Molecular Medicine & Ther-apeutics have published a study showing the link between the mutation named VPS35 and late-onset Parkinson’s.

“This new finding provides another piece of the Parkinson’s puzzle that will allow us to in-vestigate what’s going on in the brains of people with Parkinson’s–and to work towards developing and testing novel therapies to halt, treat and potentially cure this ter-rible disease,” said Matthew Far-rer, the senior author of the study, published in The American Jour-nal of Human Genetics.

Farrer and post-doctoral re-search associate Carles Vilariño-Güell used exome sequences to isolate the gene, which was found in the DNA of 11 members of a Swiss family, all of whom have Parkinson’s. “This conclu-sively proves that this mutation is the cause of disease in these pa-tients,” said Vilariño-Güell.

rumana monzur Will not regain eyesight

Rumana Monzur will not regain her eyesight, despite undergo-ing four surgeries since her arriv-al on July 5. Monzur was vicious-ly attacked by her husband on a trip home to Bangladesh in June, her eyes gouged and nose bitten.

“I am very grateful for the med-ical care I have received,” said Monzur in a UBC press release she asked to be shared. “It had been my wish to recover my eye-sight so I could see all the peo-ple who have been helping me. I want you all to pray for me. My family and I will need some time to adjust to this news.”

So far, individual donations and community events have helped raise the equivalent of $61,000 towards the $70,000 goal, which will cover health and living expens-es over the next six months, and the cost of finishing her studies.

The UBC master’s student ar-rived in Canada with her father and will soon be joined by her mother and daughter.

former uBc official accused of stealing $450,000

John Mwotassubi, a former finan-cial manager in the UBC depart-ment of pediatrics has been ac-cused of stealing over $450,000 from the university.

A search warrant filed by Rich-mond RCMP alleged Mwotas-subi of used a chequing scheme. According to a Vancouver Sun article, he wrote 75 unauthor-ized cheques to JHM Consult-ing, his own private company. Mwotassubi admitted to writing the cheques after he was con-fronted by UBC-hired auditors in June 2010. He was subsequent-ly suspended with pay and later fired, after serving his post for eight years between 2002-2010.

Police continue to investigate the case but no charges have been laid.

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Many students could go their entire time at UBC without once logging into their In-terchange account, the free email service provided by the university. That may soon change, as the university rolls out a new platform in hopes of improving the service.

Interchange will be gone come Septem-ber 2011, ushering in a newer email ser-vice under first.last@alumni.ubc.ca. The old email service, under the domain @interchange.ubc.ca, is both outdated and has reportedly low user-rates. Interchange is also used as the Campus Wide Login wireless service.

“The hardware and software of the current email service has reached its end-of-life,” said Winnie Wan, Market-ing and Communications Specialist for UBC Information Technology (UBC IT).

“The features and functionality no lon-ger meet the needs and demands of stu-dents. In response to valuable feedback gathered through focus groups, a student survey and information sessions, UBC will be providing students with a much improved email service.”

Wan said that the email inbox storage limit will be increased and will remain free of charge.

Students surveyed by UBC IT felt that that a UBC-based email address is still an important service to maintain. How-ever, many users find Interchange to be more trouble than it is worth and have turned elsewhere for the lion’s share of their emailing needs, mostly to Gmail and Hotmail accounts.

Having a UBC account—for many stu-dents—means staying associated with the university. In the past, Hotmail-based ac-counts would not properly receive UBC

emails, which can be mitigated by hav-ing a UBC email address.

“We will be using an external email ser-vice provider for the opt-in mailbox ser-vice, the service will provide a technolo-gy and layout that students are already fa-miliar with,” said Wan. While a final deci-sion has not yet been made, UBC is plan-ning on creating its own email applica-tion and then tying it to an email service from a company like Microsoft or Google.

Faculty, as well as students, have avoid-ed using the interchange platform.

Dr. Catherine Rawn, professor of psy-chology, has not used her Interchange account for over seven years. Finding it “cumbersome to use and not easy to navigate,” she now relies on the email address given to her by the psychology department.

Third-year science student Simon Wang is happy about the change. “I don’t like

using Interchange, but I still want an email that has ‘UBC’ in it. Hopefully the new email system will be better.”

However, student Steve Quilala was confused by the new domain name.

“Why alumni of all things? I’m sure there’s really smart people here at UBC who can figure out a better naming con-vention than “alumni.ubc.ca.” That’s just way too long.”

“For someone who’s still an undergrad, that just makes no sense.”

“UBC would like to offer a reliable email service and a UBC-branded email address to students for life,” said Wan.

Students will be updated through email communications shortly, said Wan, but students with questions can visit, www.students.ubc.ca/email/ or con-tact student.email@ubc.ca. U

—with files from Kalyeena Makortoff

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Come September, students will no longer have to decide whether they want to login to the open wireless “ubc” connection or the safer “ubcsecure.” The former will no longer be a choice.

UBC IT will withdraw its support for the campus open connection on August 15, citing security concerns and technological strides that have enhanced the secure network’s performance.

In terms of impact to the users themselves, the one difference will be that the “ubc” net-work will simply no longer be available—no other alterations are expected to be made. In practical terms, this means every student and staff must run the AutoConnect tool to access the secure connection, although

the setup takes only a few minutes and af-terwards the user can login to the network automatically.

“The problem is that the ‘ubc’ SSID [ser-vice set identifier] is not secure,” said Mi-chael Thorson, UBC IT’s Director of Infra-structure. “So if you’re transmitting things that you think are secure, like passwords and bank information, someone could be in-tercepting those.

The insecurity of the wireless network was noted after the provincial government did an audit of the system.

“The removal of the open SSID is part of our response—it just wasn’t safe for its users.

Now, the traffic on the wireless system is encrypted, and while Thorson said it’s not failsafe, he confirmed that it’s much safer.

“As long as ‘ubc’ existed, the SSID was un-encrypted. Originally, encryption used to be

a performance distracter and slow things down, but with better speed, processors, memories and everything else, it’s no lon-ger a road bump.

“By removing the unsecure network, overa l l safet y wi l l be increased,” said Thorson.

The upgrade in safety trumps any in-convenience in setting up “ubcsecure” for students, said Albert Konig, a second-year student at UBC.

“It’s good to have a network where your identity or information won’t be stolen. It’s safer for people to be connected in a secure manner and ensure their privacy is preserved,” Konig said.

The login “ubcvisitor” will still be available for guests. U

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The UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) is phasing out WebCT Vis-ta—the current Learning Management Sys-tem (LMS)—and replacing it with Blackboard Learn by January 2013.

Vista is an online system used for distance education and to supplement on-campus class-es, allowing students to access class materi-als and communicate online with peers and professors.

The decision was partially spurred by Black-board, Vista’s provider, announcing that it would cease supporting Vista within the next few years.

“Blackboard Learn will be an improved ex-perience. Vista is a ten-year old technology, and we’re going to be implementing new tech-nology which takes advantage of new develop-ments in web publishing and LMS,” said Rob

Peregoodoff, Manager of Learning Technolo-gies at the Sauder School of Business.

After lengthy deliberations and trial runs, the university narrowed down its future LMS to Blackboard Learn, from the same providers as Vista, and Moodle 2.0, an open-source LMS.

The biggest worry amongst staff is being able to use Blackboard Learn in a similar way that they use Vista.

“When we moved from the old version of We-bCT to Vista, it was not the smoothest trans-action,” said Michelle Lamberson, Managing Director at the CTLT.

“So people are concerned about the transi-tion from one system to another—they want to make sure that it’s smooth and it’s one of the things that we’re trying hard to do”

Sauder professor Kafui Monu noted frustra-tion with how long it takes for the whole univer-sity to properly integrate a new online program.

“Just now we’ve gotten used to Vista and figured out how to work out the little things

and use it the way we want to,” she said.

Whi le CTLT sta f f in technical services are well versed in Vista’s operations, said Lamberson, that knowl-ege will be irrelevant once the system is switched over.

“The most indifferent person is hoping that nothing screws up and the most involved person wants his needs to be met by the system, but most of the colleagues I’ve talked to don’t care so long as it works.”

Pilot courses featuring Blackboard Learn 9 are expected to be introduced in May 2012, with a large-scale changeover occurring in September 2012 and a com-plete switch by January 2013. U

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Party This Weekend, created by UBC Theatre alumna Laura McLean, is defintely not your usual sit-down-and-be-quiet play.

Located on 518 Kaslo St, the house looked like any other. In the backyard a stage manager explained to the audience how it was going to happen. We had to sign a waiver to participate and were then given the ground rules. We were each assigned to a character and were told to disregard personal space and to follow them, no matter what.

It joins the rank of other “envi-ronmental theatre” —also known as “site-specific” theatre—where a play is produced in a specific place. In this case it’s a house party, where the audience fol-lows one of four characters.

I didn’t know what I was get-ting myself into. The play had already started the moment I walked into the backyard. I rec-ognized the guy selling me beer, and when he introduced him-self as the next door neighbour, I scoffed and said, “Yeah, not in real life.”

I complimented a girl on her se-quined clutch and immediately regretted it; she went on and on about her purse in extreme detail. Later, I recognized the same girl leading a group of people, and was dismayed to realize that she was one of the characters. My friend sniggered at my daftness.

Unlike a regular play, you don’t have the safety of your seat. In Par-ty this Weekend, you never know when the character is going to talk to you, and that uncertainty keeps you on your toes. The ini-tial awkwardness didn’t last very long though. You sort of get over yourself in the first ten minutes and just let yourself go with the flow. Some might be uncomfort-able with the voyeurism. In a real party, a couple making out is your cue to get the hell out. When your character does it, you have to stick around to avoid missing important plot points.

Though there were some in-teractions between the charac-ters and the audience, they were sporadic and always initiated by the character. There was never an opportunity for the audience to ask questions or strike up a conversation.

Despite that, it was a well-co-ordinated show. McLean’s story was compelling, and I at times forgot that what was happen-ing wasn’t real. I think the beer might have also helped a bit. U

—Party This Weekend runs Fridays and Saturdays through August 27. Visit liveat.ubc.ca for show times.

For once, even the weather cooperat-ed and allowed last weekend’s Sum-mer Live in Stanley Park to live up to its name.

The three-day celebration of Vancou-ver arts and culture, which featured sev-eral events by the three host nations, began on Friday with a joint Welcoming Ceremony from the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam peoples.

Approximately 900 volunteers were on hand to guide festival-goers to and from the park, help with sorting at the

Zero-Waste Waste Station and acting as valets in the free bicycle storage on site.

The programming, with over 180 free activities and performances, show-cased Vancouver-based artists and mu-sicians including Mother Mother, The New Pornographers and the Vancou-ver Symphony Orchestra.

Following Spirit of the West’s early-evening performance, Singer-songwrit-er Dan Mangan closed out the weekend with an enthusiastic set. Mayor Grergor Robertson was on hand to sing “Happy

Birthday” to Vancouver with Mangan and his 15-piece band.

“Vancouver is this incredible hotbed of unbelievable talent,” Mangan said be-fore inviting a host of musicians and Mayor Robertson onstage for the final verses of the crowd-pleasing “Robots.”

Robertson later tweeted, “Huge thanks to our stellar @Vancouver125 team—900+ volunteers, sponsors, city staff + artists for a great bday party!” U

—Ginny Monaco

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and The New Pornographers performed at Summer Live. duncan cairns-Brenner Photos/ThE UBYSSEY

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Taking over for a legend is no easy feat, but the transition is going relatively well for UBC women’s soccer head coach Mark Rogers.

That legend would be former coach Dick Mosher. During his tenure as the women’s head coach, Mosher took the program to nationals 11 times, and won the title three times. For multi-ple years Mosher also simultane-ously coached the men’s squad—a team he led to six CIS national titles. By the time he called it a career he had a combined over-all record of 244-54-50.

Following Mosher’s retire-ment, Rogers was asked to take over the program. In his debut season he led the ‘Birds to a sil-ver medal at the Canada West championships and a sixth place finish at nationals.

“As a new coach you sort of inherit a group, but I was real-ly pleased with how they bought in and how they realized that some of the stuff we were do-ing was a little different from what they had done in the past,” said Rogers.

“In the end to qualify for na-tionals was a good accomplish-ment for us.”

Though pleased with his team’s success last season, Rog-ers wants more.

“UBC has a foundation of ex-cellence in the soccer program and I would like to build from there,” he said. “That means challenging for the trophies and the titles. You always want to be in the mix, and the re-ality is if we put all our piec-es together we have a chance, and then you just have to hope that things work out for you in those big games.”

Rogers knows that winning those big games is easier said than done. The level of compe-tition in the CIS, and specifical-ly the Canada West, is intense. To have a chance to “be in the mix” Rogers felt that his team needed a different preseason program.

The team is playing in the Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL), a highly competitive summer league for teams in the lower mainland. Trinity West-ern and the University of Fras-er Valley both have teams in the league, and it also plays host to the Whitecaps prospects squad.

The ‘Birds are currently in first place and have yet to lose a game. In the 13 contests they are 10-0-3, and have only con-ceded five goals.

“They’ve played very well and I am really pleased with their progress,” said Rogers. “Playing teams like the White-caps and Trinity is tough. Most of the teams [in the PCSL] are very strong teams so I think it is very valuable and beneficial for us to be playing them now.

“You need to have experience to win in the Canada West. Hav-ing played the Whitecaps and other teams of that ilk will pre-pare you for the Albertas and UVics of the Canada West.”

With nine new recruits be-ginning their UBC careers this summer, the PCSL has also given the team a chance to bond before the start of the CIS season.

“Now they are not coming in August and just meeting each other,” Rogers said. “At this stage the result isn’t the most impor-tant thing. Though everyone wants to win games, meshing as a group right now is just as important as getting the result.”

The PCSL will conclude this week and the ‘Birds will have a brief break before training camp starts on August 13.

“We will see how this [off sea-son schedule] will translate in the Canada West in the fall,” said Rogers. “We’ll see, but I think it will be beneficial.” U

There must be something in the water at Thunderbird Stadium, because former UBC linebackers Nathan Kanya and Shea Emry are both making noise in the CFL.

Kanya was a team captain and a defensive standout with the T-Birds, but last year he was ham-pered by a neck injury and con-sequently was not selected in this year’s CFL draft. Despite this, Kanya was able to sign a free agent contract with the Hamilton Tiger Cats during the off-season.

He was invited to training camp to try out for the team, but few expected him to make it. At best, it was thought he had a chance to make the seven-man practice roster. But following a stellar camp, Kanya was able to crack the 42-man opening day roster as a special teams player. Three games into the season, his

four special teams tackles have him tied for third in the league.

“Kanya was working really hard in the weight room and doing extra work,” said Jerome Erdman, UBC’s defensive co-ordinator. “Once you get up to the pros it’s about being in the right place at the right time, but saying that, he had an opportunity and he took it. He played well on special teams and that’s what you have to do as a rookie.”

Emry has met similar suc-cess since he entered the league as the 7th overall pick of the Montréal Alouettes in the 2008 draft. Recently, Emry signed a two-year contract extension with Montréal. In 2009, in his second season, he became a starter and has since helped the Alouettes hoist the Grey Cup in 2009 and 2010. Last year he had 58 tackles, one sack and one intercept ion. He has seven tackles in three games so far in 2011.

“We knew [Emry] was spe-cial when he was here,” Erd-man said. “He is a very instinc-tual linebacker, but smart too. He is great from side-to-side and he can real ly run. And when he gets there he’ll put a hit on you.”

Kanya and Emry will be re-united on the field very soon as their teams will square off on Friday, July 29 in Hamilton. The game will be broadcasted on TSN at 3:30pm.

Sophmore soccer coach starting his own legacy

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footBall alums Kanya and emry face off

Hoping to build off of last season’s sixth place finish, Mark Rogers has women’s team in fine form

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In March, students narrowly voted to in-crease the amount of money they fork over each year, giving more money to services provided by students—groups like the AMS, CiTR, and The Ubyssey. Because of the extra dollar of funding you’ve provided, for the entire summer we’ve been able to staff our newsroom and put out issues—a first for us.

More than that, it’s allowed us to spend the last few months planning a number of ways to better serve our readers this year. Our videos, website and print prod-uct are set to make giant leaps forward. And by “set,” I mean “will begin to hap-pen in two weeks.” The future for The Ubyssey is tremendously exciting, and we’re fortunate to be improving in a time when our industry is in transition.

While other papers have scaled back—the last two years have seen the campus papers in Alberta and Toronto reduced from twice-weekly to weekly publica-tions—we’ve been expanding. In an age where journalists feel the constant pres-sure to value speed and web-traffic over

accuracy and breadth, in the last three years we’ve won more awards for out-standing campus journalism than any other paper in Canada.

They are distinctions to be proud of (otherwise I wouldn’t mention them), but they didn’t happen overnight or out of thin air. Institutions survive and thrive because of leaders who have a vision, ar-ticulate it clearly, and see it through. The Ubyssey wouldn’t be where it is today, or contributed to UBC as it has for 93 years, without plenty of people who put in long nights and stressful days while sacrific-ing school and social life.

Which brings me to Paul Bucci.Paul was an 18-year-old hurricane

when he blew into our office in 2006, long before I came around, and over the last five years has torn down any section of the newspaper he’s gotten his hands on, only to build it up to new heights. As Production Manager, he saw through a redesign that made us the visual, colour-ful product you know today. As Coordi-nating Editor, he pushed the paper to embrace our online potential like nev-er before. The past year in our business office, when he wasn’t being a mentor to

our younger editors, he developed our online ad strategy.

Paul sparred verbally with AMS Pres-idents and physically with his fellow ed-itors (the latter was always friendly, the former was not), would work until 2am and be back in the office at 8, fright-ened and inspired all with his intensi-ty, would jump through fire or take off his pants if he thought it would help the cause, and always believed The Ubyssey could be better.

Two weeks ago he left for Toronto, bare-ly telling a soul, not wanting to cause a fuss or be the centre of attention. Which is laudable. On the other hand, I think he deserves a better send off, so he’s going to be publicly embarrassed. Sorry, Paul.

I bring this up because if this paper ends up being as entertaining and in-formative as we hope this year, they’ll be plenty of people that deserve cred-it. You’ll see their names continually in this paper—hundreds of dedicated stu-dents who write, shoot, draw, code and edit for a publication with a strong tra-dition and future.

Paul’s name may be gone from these pages. His legacy won’t be. U

The Bucci is dead. Long live the Bucci.

raeVen geist-deschamPsContributor

It’s summer. There’s sun, festivals and island hopping. And if any of these are calling out to you, you might also be in-clined to say hello to all kinds of planes of consciousness. With this in mind, here’s a really basic intro on how to get high safely, with a few college favourites, namely MDMA (Ecstasy), LSD, mush-rooms and amphetamines. Because if you’re thinking of breaking the law and taking drugs anway, you should know how to do it as safely as possible.

Before taking drugs, give yourself the space to enjoy them. Namely, take them in the right frame of mind. If you’re up-set, they can increase that sensation and you’ll find yourself more depressed the following day. Before you go, know how you’re getting home and surround your-self with friends who’ve had experience with the drug you’re taking, especially if it’s your first time. Find a safe space to escape to if you start having a bad trip (visions, paranoia, etc.), even if it’s a bathroom at a club. Give yourself time afterwards to recover, eat and hydrate.

Amphetamines (Aderall, Ritalin) and MDMA are stimulants, giving you eu-phoria and a sense of connection, while making you grind your teeth. MDMA lasts between 2-6 hours and overdose is due to mixing with alcohol or dehy-dration. Scientific studies have shown that it takes 2-8 weeks for your brain to recover to normal serotonin levels (the “happiness hormone”), so spacing out your hits is a good idea. Speed is in-credibly addictive due to its depressive come down. Prescription drugs are saf-er, because they won’t be cut with oth-er chemicals. Large amounts will make you paranoid. Mixing amphetamines and alcohol can severely damage your dopamine neurons, which control your blood pressure, heart rate and level of oxygen in the brain. LSD and mush-rooms are hallucinogens and similar in many ways.

The experiences from both can stay with you a few days, neither of these are addictive, nor can you physically overdose from them, unless you eat an unreasonable 20 lbs of mushrooms. LSD lasts for 10-12 hours, can cause hallucinations, laughter and profound

spiritual experiences. The only side effects are mild fa-

tigue, but if you are in a negative mind frame, unpleasant memories can pop up. Flashbacks during the following week are likely. Mushrooms will en-hance your perceptions, make you feel disconnected from your body and laugh uncontrollably, but a poor choice if there is a history of schizophrenia in your family.

A final word of caution: mixing is bad news bears. Much like shooting drugs directly into your veins, it increases the risk of overdose. Our bodies do not like contradictory messages. If you are on antidepressants trying to level your brain chemistry, taking drugs can off-set that equilibrium. If you mix uppers and downers, your heart and liver could fail. Remember, every body is different, so it can be difficult to anticipate the ex-act effect of the drug. Know your source and yourself and set your evening up for an ecstatic high. U

— Robyn Maynard’s Trippin’: A Head and Hands Drug Guide is a good resource for further consciousness expansion.

Getting high without losing your mind

news of the world scandal Brings out the Worst—and Best— in JournalismWith the recent resignation of the top two offi-cers in London’s police force, the phone hack-ing scandal in Britain has reached new heights of sensationalism and intrigue. Senior News Corp. executives who were once thought un-touchable have been arrested. The largest-cir-culation British Sunday paper has been closed down. A multi-billion dollar purchase of BSkyB has been scuttled. There are MPs and journal-ists seriously speculating that this may cause the government to fall. If this were a novel, the editor would reject the plot as being too fantastical.

The scandal has brought out both the worst and best of the newsmedia. Phone hacking is for journalists who are too lazy and immoral to conduct honest investigations into impor-tant matters. It is hard to think of a journal-istic crime more disgusting than the revela-tions that the News of the World was breaking into the voicemail of a girl kidnapped by a se-rial killer. The messages they deleted gave the family false hope that the girl was still alive. Yes, these actions were committed by a tabloid long recognized as being especially tawdry—but it was owned by an extraordinarily power-ful media company that runs many notable pa-pers, including the Wall Street Journal and The Times. And the New York Post.

Meanwhile, a few extremely hard working journalists at The Guardian are responsible for bringing the sordid details to light. Allegations about phone hacking first arose in 2006, but a subsequent police investigation was quashed due to a nefarious combination of bribery and political horse-trading between News Corp. and the Metropolitan police. The Guardian journal-ists, led by Nick Davies, refused to give up on the scandal.

Although the scandal has exposed a horrible level of corruption and collusion among the Brit-ish political and business elite, it has also shown that if a reporter sticks to a story long enough to determine the facts, even the most power-ful figures can be successfully held to account. This, at the very least, is worth celebrating. U

next time you pick up the paper, you may notice a few changes. please do not be alarmed.

Ubyssey editors have spent the summer redesigning the news-paper to fit a a smaller, glossy tabloid size.

today, we say good bye to the berliner, the newsprint size that has served us since 1963. few know this, but when us presi-dent John f. Kennedy boldly declared “ich bin ein berliner” before and adoring crowd in the divided german capital that year, he was actually throwing his support behind the size of paper—slightly smaller and narrower than the popular broad-sheet favoured on the dark side of the iron Curtain.

taken with the young president and fearing the soviet scorge, The Ubyssey of the day decided that they too should be berlin-ers. and so the paper became the size you now hold.

but the times have changed. editors have cooled of JfK’s legacy, and have decided the sleek new tabloid size is the way to go.

so today, we say to you “ich bin ein tabloid.” at least we will two weeks from now.

Fig. 1 The Ubyssey’s current “Berliner” sized paper.

Fig. 2 The Ubyssey’s new “Tabloid” size, debuting August 2!

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the ams Budget isn’t Pretty, But at least they’re getting real

The AMS budget is in, and the numbers have never looked more, well, realistic.

The glaring truth isn’t pretty. $103,579. That’s the amount that the AMS is falling short, ac-cording to last weeks draft budget. For the AMS, that’s a pretty big number, especially after go-ing to students for a fee increase. Not only that, but VP Finance Elin Tayyar indicates this isn’t a problem that’s going to be solved in the next few years.

It’s the same old story with a few twists. AMS businesses have been doing poorly since stu-dents began spending less. More recently, the businesses were dealt a double-blow this quar-ter: having to budget for BC’s minimum wage increase while the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) attempts to revoke AMS businesses’ non-profit status—subjecting their profits to taxes. And the AMS prepares to move into a new Stu-dent Union Building with a hefty restructur-ing price tag.

The AMS budget is usually fraught with is-sues, but this time the numbers seem to line up. The budget committee tossed last year’s rev-enue numbers out the window. They’re also be-ing much more wary of overspending this time, which a $149,000 contingency fund proves. That’s on top of the $83,000 tax contingency put in place for the CRA headache.

It isn’t often we give the AMS a free pass, but for once, maybe budgeting a deficit is a good thing. It shows that the AMS is looking at in-come and expenditures realistically. Their long-term outlook depends on business revenue dra-matically increasing in the new SUB to pick up the slack. AMS leaders today are counting on tomorrow’s leaders to be extremely fiscally pru-dent. Let’s hope they figure out something be-tween now and the new SUB’s completion—it’s easier to spend reserve funds than it is save up for tough times ahead. U

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Justin mcelroy sports@ubyssey.ca

It wasn’t quite the Tour de France, but that didn’t stop hun-dreds of curious Vancouveri-tes from coming to campus last Tuesday to watch the inaugural UBC Grand Prix, part of the “B.C. Superweek” series of cycling events in the Lower Mainland this month.

The men’s race was won by Carlos Alzate. The Colombian and 2008 Olympian won the 40-lap, 52-kilometre race in a time of one hour, 15 minutes and 8 seconds, defeating Victo-ria native Marsh Cooper by three seconds. Alzate earned $1,500 for the win, and an additional $1,000 in prizes.

The total purse for the week of races was valued at $65,000. U

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