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November 26, 2014 to January 7, 2015Vol. 22 Issue 32
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Your student goverment has returned from their trip to Ottawa ready to spark interest in voting, and with a slew of new clubs preparing to add to the campus commmunity.
Kodie Cherrille speculates about the connection between the oil industry and the disturbing direction BC education is taking.
The boy band’s new album, FOUR, sticks to the same formula that brought them superstar-status success, but it works for “Direc-tioners.’” Check out Haley Borchert’s review.
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve competed in a race while sitting on top of a toilet chariot. Alex Rake tells us just what’s going on with a few of the world’s overlooked sports.
SUS brings new tidings to the second-last board meeting of the semester
Fighting the “learners to earners” mentality
One Direction only goes in one direction
Wacky sports you didn’t know were a thing
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Abbotsford band MALK is heading in to the semi-finals of UBC’s Shindig. Martin Castro sits down with members to discuss their creative process and songwriting style.
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National response to Ferguson injustice
Carleton students vote in favour of fall reading week
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OTTAWA — Following a grand jury vote against indictment of a police officer who repeatedly shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in August, people across Canada met in major city centres to peacefully protest the decision. Montreal and Ottawa in particular saw large attendance. In Ottawa, the Fulcrum reports that “Organiz-ers read the names of people killed by police brutality in Canada before observing a moment of silence.”
OTTAWA — The Charlatan reports that over 40 per cent of students voted in a referendum earlier this month, with over 85 per cent in fa-vour of continuing fall reading week. Over 70 per cent voted in favour in a 2012 referendum to create the mid-semester break. Faculty and teaching assistants are also mostly in favour of it continuing; however, the final decision lies with Carleton University’s Senate. Their decision will be made on November 28.
Library fine increase
With end of semester approaching, so too does the necessity of library fine payment. This time around, things are a little pricier: regular items like books have doubled from $0.25 / day to $0.50 / day, and the same goes for recalled items, from $1 / day to $2 / day. Periodicals remain the same, at $1 / day.
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“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of pro-test, a feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to.”
— George Orwell, 1984
Despite the feeling that many protests I have participated in or observed had few long-term effects, I still believe protest is an effective tool for social change.
There have been a num-ber of protests recently. Oc-cupy. Idle No More. There are protests about the economy, about education, about hu-man rights, about the envi-ronment. As close as Burnaby, students and activists are risking arrest by defying a court injunction to protest pipeline developments on the mountain.
Elsewhere, stakes are even higher. In Ferguson, violent demonstrations continue, especially after the Novem-ber 24 decision by a grand jury not to approve crimi-
nal charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in August. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Hong Kong, two student leaders in the months-long pro-democracy protest there were arrested.
High stakes and a lot to lose usually also means there’s a lot to be gained. But with so much conflict happening ev-erywhere that seems to go on forever, it can seem hopeless. The people in power (govern-ments and corporations, for instance) usually have time and resources that give them additional waiting power.
People can only stand in the street — or on the moun-tain — for so long.
On one hand, it’s encour-aging to see so many people standing for their beliefs, ris-ing against oppressive forces, and taking a stance to protect their vision of the world they want to thrive in.
It can also be incredibly dis-heartening. Protestors are un-justly arrested; discouraged with legislation, red tape,
and court injunctions; and in some cases killed for their ef-forts. After everyone inevita-bly leaves the site of protest, it often seems little has changed in the grand scheme, even af-ter small victories.
It can be a hard beating to take, even for someone who’s not caught up in the centre. I worry oppression will win. I’m afraid we’ll forget what the fight is about, that it won’t really matter in the end: some of us get a black mark on our permanent records, some of us die, and some of us turn off the TV and shut it all out.
I’m also afraid of protest. The ideal I’ve carried with me is an image of peaceful pro-test — but the violence build-ing up and spitting out in al-most every part of the world, from all sides of conflict, is something I don’t like to think about. I know I’m lucky not to be living it — at least not right now.
I think it’s important to stand and defend what we think is right, but I fear it’s a fight that goes on forever. Fol-lowing updates on protests
and conflicts on social media or even participating in pro-test feels almost futile — it would be easier to just turn away and focus on something else.
Instead, focus on that idea of social change. Social. That doesn’t have to mean literally standing on the mountain-side, even though that is one approach. It can also mean sharing it. Not on your Face-book wall, but in your con-versations with the people you surround yourself with. Spread awareness of injus-tice and create a movement for change — a movement through the collective spirit. Often those who turn away do so alone. Instead, turn to oth-er people. It’s not as immedi-ate or fiery as the movements happening in the centre of conflict, but it’s a positive ac-tion. It’s a good starting place, because at the centre of a pro-test is the strength, will, and vision of the collective.
KATIE STOBBARTEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The right fight goes on forever
Sodexo’s at it again!
Recovered from the library news? It gets worse. Anyone expecting cutlery or portable dining from the Abbotsford campus cafeteria will now have to pay for the “service.” While you’ll receive a utensil if you purchase a “meal” from Sodexo, take-out packaging and additional plastic knives, forks, and spoons will set students back $0.20 each. Happy holidays!
3NEWSWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2014
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Former gas station to be site of new development
UFV global development stu-dents Cydney Myers, Kara Hanson, and Carolina Silva have created a campaign called Share My Next Meal to encourage donations to local food banks. The challenge is based on the way people often post pictures of their meals to social media.
According to its Facebook page, “The challenge is to post a photo of your next meal with the hashtag #sharemynext-meal. Tell your friends who you will be sharing your next meal with what local food bank you are donating to. Then challenge three friends to do the same.”
The challenge asks people “to donate a portion of the
cost of their meal to their local food bank. They can donate in person at the food bank, or
online on the food banks’ in-dividual websites.”
The creators of the challenge
recognize that “the idea of this campaign is very similar to the popular ALS Ice Bucket
Challenge campaign that ex-ploded on social media in the summer,” and they “hope that this has the same effect.”
“Although created in Ab-botsford, we hope that this challenge will take off and help out many communities across the country.”
According to the Chilliwack Progress, Share My Next Meal has already spread as far as Ontario, even reaching the US in Colorado and Texas, just seven days after its launch. By comparison, it took 20 days before popular figures began participating in the ALS ice bBucket challenge.
More information, includ-ing updates on the food bank and homelessness situation in Abbotsford, are available on the group’s Facebook page.
ALEX RAKETHE CASCADE
Students create social media campaign to fight hunger
Image: Michael Scoular
The long-vacant Rise and Shine gas station at the King-McCallum Road intersection was recently demolished, leaving little more than a dirt pile. The building itself was unsal-vageable and was the site of a fire in August 2014, but it sounds like there are big plans for the space. Part of the City’s U-District vision put forward in 2012 marks the spot as part of development that will occur gradually in the area surrounding UFV, and a rezoning proposal suggests there may be mixed commercial and residential use of the land in the future. Furthermore, a hearing at City Hall in January 2013 provided an opportunity for residents to voice their opinions on having a six-storey building in place of Rise and Shine. There would be commercial space on the ground floor with 94 apartment units in the upper floors, as well as parking. More details to follow in January.
Image: Vanessa Broadbent
You know it’s a real social media campaign when it has its own logo!
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Every student can relate to the dreadful feeling that comes with thinking about finding a job after graduation, and this is no different for geog-raphy students. That’s why the department of geography and the environment, as well as the Career Centre and the UFV Urbanists, hosted a plan-ning and urban studies net-working event on Thursday afternoon.
The purpose of the event was to help students learn about their career options, as explained by Luke Garrod, fourth-year urban planning and geography student and treasurer of the UFV Urban-ists group.
“This is an event to get all of the urban planning students or anyone who is interested in the field of urban planning together to network, and to share ideas and also to get for-mer students here to discuss their transition from school to work or vice-versa and what it’s like to go into the field,” Garrod said.
The event featured a panel discussion of five UFV geog-raphy and sociology gradu-ates, including current City
of Abbotsford planner Amy Anaka, and was moderated by Derrick Swallow, president of UFV Urbanists. Guest speaker Matt Boyd was also there to discuss transit planning in the Fraser Valley. The panelists
were asked questions ranging from everything from getting a master’s degree to challeng-es faced while job-searching.
After the discussion, stu-dents could network with one another, an essential part of
every career, especially urban planning. Michelle Rhodes, associate professor of geog-raphy and the environment, explained that because urban planning is a “social kind of job,” it’s important that stu-
dents learn how to engage in those communications early on.
“The networking event is intended to get students com-fortable in that environment and to get them to a point where they can present them-selves in a job interview with some skills already in hand,” she said.
Networking can be essential to students, and UFV Urban-ists is trying to help students do so. Scotland Galloway, third-year geography student and secretary of the UFV Ur-banists, said that the Urban-ists group is trying to provide a group for students with sim-ilar interests to connect with each other.
“I think at the very least they get a sense of commu-nity, seeing students that are also interested in the same academic fields that they are, which can be difficult, I think, at UFV. It’s difficult to make those connections,” he said.
Although there are no more planned networking events in the foreseeable future, stu-dents can get involved with UFV Urbanists through their Facebook group to learn more about planning and to meet other students who are.
VANESSA BROADBENTTHE CASCADE
UFV groups come together to host planning and urban studies networking event
Image: Vanessa Broadbent
Geography students and graduates “networked” together under the A building boardroom lights.
Student Union Society’s (SUS) November board meeting fo-cused on preparing for the up-coming SUS elections, as well as various projects they are hoping to implement in the upcoming year.
A substantial part of the meeting was dedicated to up-dating the executive job de-scriptions for the upcoming student elections happening in February.
Student interest has been low in previous elections, but SUS is hoping to change that next year, not only in student elections, but also in next year’s federal elections. Dur-ing the SUS executive trip to Ottawa to advocate for stu-
dents with CASA, SUS presi-dent Ryan Petersen noticed that political parties appeared to be more interested in what student groups are advocating for.
“If we can increase the stu-
dent voter turnout, it gives them so much more reason to pay attention us,” he said.
With Christmas just around the corner, SUS will be taking over the Angel Tree Program. In the past, the program has been run by UFV, but due to complications, SUS will be taking over. Petersen feels the program is too important to not continue.
“SUS has stepped up to take on this program because we feel it is an important service ... it was last minute when we found that the university wasn’t going to do this any-more and we thought we need to make this happen,” he said. The only extra cost that will come as a result of running the program will be paying employees that get involved.
VP internal Thomas Davies
shared news of new clubs forming on campus including Gleegion (a glee club), Ath-letes in Action, and a possible hookah club. Davies said he doesn’t see anything wrong with the hookah club as long as restrictions are placed on what substances are used on campus.
“It would be fine, but ... if they are approved they will have some restrictions put on them to protect themselves and the university as a whole,” he said.
Students can also expect to see a SUS IT service in the fu-ture, or at least a referendum regarding one. Kwantlen Uni-versity’s student association offers an on-campus IT ser-vice (called Reboot), and SUS is thinking of doing the same at UFV. The service would be
focused on helping students with technological problems they may face, especially lap-tops or cellphones. The ser-vice would come at no charge for students, unless parts for repair need to be brought in. This would create around five jobs for students, as well as one outside professional.
Many of these changes are still in the works and not yet solidified. SUS says that stu-dents can expect to learn more details in the upcoming se-mester. Their next board meet-ing, the last of the semester, is on December 16, 6:30 p.m. in C1429 on the Abbotsford cam-pus.
VANESSA BROADBENTTHE CASCADE
SUS returns from Ottawa conference, shares details of new clubs, service idea
SUS will be taking over the Angel Tree Program this Christ-mas.
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SNAPSHOTS Curtailed commentary on current conditions
People die without our knowledge every day in every kind of horrific way. Right un-der our noses, the most heinous crimes are committed in the city we live in. Are you afraid?
The news and media mills live off the negative power of the public’s fear and it’s up to us to know what is real and what is rel-evant. If we listened to the media monster, few of us would leave our houses out of fear of being butchered. But the news is a poor substitute for reality, and even if you hear it, you don’t have to listen. (DON’T LISTEN!)
Lately everything’s a scandal, from Gho-meshi, to Sotloff, to Cosby. Like a cloud of noxious gas, the media’s fumes are creep-ing under the door, and I doubt there’s an app to help you filter the air. So just keep checking your phone and pretending the air’s fresh!
Media monster
Beau O’Neill’Tis the season of Christmas lights, snow, joy-filled holidays, and wrapping paper! Oh, the wrapping paper and the general junk that accompanies gift-giving. It’s a wonderful tradition, but a wasteful one.
We all remember the days of Barbies and Hot Wheels, and the packaging that came with them (and the horrid memories of try-ing to break into the boxes). As a society trying to be environmentally friendly, we use so much wrapping paper and other junk that goes straight into the landfill. This should be the first thing we start cutting out of our materialistic diet.
As an alternative, use cloth bags. Though the fabric may be a bit more expensive, and it takes time to make, think of all the money you’ll save on wrapping paper. You don’t have to worry about wrapping super awk-wardly shaped boxes, and the bags can be reused! If that’s not great, I don’t know what is. Spend the extra few bucks and make the recipient happy, as well as the planet!
Jasmin Sprangers
Wrapping reduction
“R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.” Aretha sang it because she felt the lack of it. And I’m singin’ it with her all the way.
What’s with kids and their clear lack for authority for adults? You raise your voice, they raise their voice; you play around with them, they treat you like a jungle gym. Kids need boundaries.
I’d say it’s due to too many options and negotiations. Kids have way too much say in the decisions that need to be made for them. They need to be told, not asked. Par-ents and adult figures should be the symbol of authority and kids have forgotten that what they say goes. End of story. But when authority figures lack consistency, waver, or give the child too many options, the adult’s authoritative voice loses its power in the eyes of the kid.
A four-year-old doesn’t need to be asked if they want macaroni or a hotdog, they need to be told to eat it.
Show some ‘spect
Brittney HensmanChristmas is approaching, and the stores are getting hectic. You may not have got-ten a lot of rest the night before, or perhaps you’re hungry and cranky. Regardless of whatever has got you in a sour mood, the last thing to do is take it out on your ca-shier. Oh, they didn’t hear you the first time, or even the second time, and you have to repeat yourself? Calm your tits and don’t breathe angrily at them before just stomp-ing out of there.
Do you really think people who work in retail are actually happy to see you? No. They’d rather be out enjoying themselves instead of putting up with your grumpy ass. In light of the holiday season — even though this should be an all-year-round kind of deal — be patient with workers who are only trying to do their job. They are human, just as you are, and they deserve some respect.
Catherine Stewart
Holiday jeers
A pep talk for preparing for finals
First of all — take a deep breath. Recognize you have made it through all your past semesters and you will make it through this one, as well. It’s a stressful time, but please don’t forget to take care of yourself. Study hard, but take bubble baths, drink multiple cups of tea, watch half an hour of a mindless sitcom, and then get back to work.
I have never felt more stupid than I do during finals time at uni-versity. It drives me nuts. I pay all this money, do endless amounts of assignments, go to class, do the readings — and then finals roll around and I am convinced I haven’t learned a thing. I will fail all my finals.
I’ve always been the type of student who strives for As, for that ego boost on the report
card that says, “You did it! You worked as hard as you could and here is your award.” That was
great, until the courses started getting harder and my priorities started to shift. At this point I have worked as hard as I possi-bly could and I know I won’t be getting any As this semester. This reality really bothered me until I had my mini end-of-the-semester breakdown, and then realized I had it all wrong.
I was totally consumed with the idea of my grade. In my mind, if I didn’t get an A, then I had failed — but that’s just not the case. I realized this wasn’t the reason I had started university. I had started university in an attempt to learn more, and to educate myself about things which would add value to my life.
I should be focused on walk-ing away from a course having learned everything the course has to offer me, and it may not neces-
sarily be represented as an A on my transcript. I have received As in courses that I don’t even re-member, and Bs in courses that have impacted me greatly.
So as you enter your finals, try to take away as much as you can from the courses, and throughout this process, don’t forget to take breaks: get enough sleep, and leave the house every once in a while. As good as an A feels, it’s not worth your health and well-being, nor is it worth the incred-ible amounts of stress we all put ourselves through.
So work hard, learn lots, and know, though finals are painful, you will get through them —hopefully, having gained valuable knowledge.
RILEY NOWLANCONTRIBUTOR
Image: Julie Kertesz/ flickr
An A is not always the mark of knowledge gained.
Do we have our priorities straight?
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Complaints related to rotting innards, study finds
Christmas music is linked to the gradual rise of bowel deteriora-tion in North America, according to a new study by the Deteriorat-ing Entrails and Bowels Technical Society (DEBTS).
“This is the fastest growing medical issue in Canada today,” said Dr. Julio Sturm, director of the study and head researcher at DEBTS, during a public announce-ment on Wednesday. “You often hear people complaining about having to hear Christmas music wherever they go after Halloween, and now, finally, we know it’s got something to do with the fact that they’re rotten inside.”
According to Sturm, despite this great leap forward, DEBTS still does not know whether deterio-rating bowels cause the aversion to Christmas music or if the com-plaining causes the deterioration.
“There seems to be a circular relationship between the music and your guts. If you can’t stand Christmas music, you’re probably dying; if you’re dying, you prob-ably hate the empty imitations of joy and the cheap, affected — oh Christ! My bowels!” he said, be-fore excreting everything in his body and dying immediately at the podium.
The study suggests that, while complaints about Christmas mu-sic have the most significant rela-
tionship with the deterioration of bowels, any complaining at all can affect and be affected by one’s innards. Sturm’s succes-sor as head researcher at DEBTS, Dr. Morgan Kinder, said to The Cascade in an email that “we can observe these effects in the cur-rent protests going on about this pipeline issue people seem so concerned about.
“If these people would only stop complaining,” Kinder con-tinued, “there would be fewer incidents up in Burnaby Moun-tain.”
Referring to the continued ar-rests of protestors on Burnaby Mountain, Kinder said this is a direct, positive result of DEBTS’ study. “Clearly somebody higher up understands the sig-nificance of our results. These protestors put their insides in se-rious danger by whining about business matters they couldn’t begin to understand,” she ex-plained. “We should thank the justice system for putting the safety of our people before the selfish interests of protestors.” Kinder concluded that protes-tors should focus more on real issues, such as the prominence of Christmas music in the mall.
DEBTS has created a scholar-ship in Sturm’s memory, eligible to any student who has been af-fected by deteriorating bowels, protesting, or Christmas.
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What is one of your family traditions that happens at Christmas?
“We have this broken Santa thing — it’s a tray that you put presents on and it drives around — it’s an inside joke in our family. It never works but we still bring it out ev-ery Christmas and try.”
Jon Miller
“Go to West Oaks Mall and buy like 36 cinnamon buns and cream cheese icing, and they’re all gone by New Year’s. One year my mom decided not to do it, and my brother, sister, and I went out, bought them, and surprised her.”
Cameron Pascoe
“Every Christmas morning we have Froot Loops for breakfast after presents. They are under the tree, wrapped, and we unwrap it even though we know it’s there.”
Ben Willms
“We get oranges at the bottom of our stock-ing and when we are done, we eat the or-ange.”
Kelli Whitehead
“My great grandma will repeat the exact same story about how she killed ‘the turkey.’ It used to taunt her as a kid, and when she finally killed it for Christmas dinner, it was the best turkey she ever had. It’s the exact same story every year and she tells it while we’re eating.”
Alexis Letkeman
“Ooooh, stay up late and play risk on Christ-mas Eve. It’s an all-out warfare — family break-ups!”
Chris Sakurdeep
“It’s terrible, but getting drunk with my mom on Christmas Eve. She’s a procrastinator so she is wrapping presents and has to get drunk just to get through it!”
Jessika Schmidke
“We open presents on Christmas Eve.”Titus Bozga
UFV SPEAKS
The best way to fight education revamp is to fight the pipeline
An education revamp threatens scholarship for the sake of trades. An already-famished post-sec-ondary institution has to “tighten its belt” once again after another huge cut in funding from the government. Habitual, incessant slashes to liberal arts and human-ities programs that, by the day, look more and more like the com-plete disembowelment of a whole way of life. It’s been a fiscal doozy of a semester for UFV.
Meanwhile, protestors have planted themselves on Burnaby Mountain, blocking Kinder Mor-gan surveyors from beginning their work on an expansion of the Texas-based oil corporation’s Trans Mountain Pipeline System. Those defying the BC Supreme Court’s injunction risk being ar-rested.
These two scenarios are very closely related — they are both a pipeline issue. While one scenar-io seems obviously so, the other might need some explanation.
To prepare the province for the pending jobs promised by the pipeline, the BC government has created a new education blue-
print, which intends to shift the emphasis of post-secondary insti-tutions from academic to trades-oriented. The slogan they came up with was “learners to earners” — a slogan inherently contradic-tory when used in the name of education.
That being said, the govern-ment is supposed to act in the best interests of its people. If it perceives the best interests for this province are those of the Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway pipelines, then it is their respon-sibility to make those prospects a reality. This includes giving citi-zens the means to acquire skills that will help them capitalize on the project. But is it really in the best interests of the people? Look-ing at the huge outpouring of crit-icism and protesting, I question how many people are really be-hind this project, and in whose in-terests the pipeline serves. If this government’s decision represents the best interests of the people, why is there so much dissent?
Is it possible the new BC edu-cation blueprint has a second mo-tive? Is it possible the BC govern-ment sees the amount of criticism they face in investing in these pipelines, and have deliberately shifted the education system to
stifle critical thought? Whether this is intended by the govern-ment or not, critical thought will indeed be stifled if there is no education that directly fosters it. This sentiment echoes an editorial by The Cascade’s editor-in-chief, which covers in more detail the educational implications of the revamp (“A university in name only: The re-engineering of BC education poses a significant threat to scholarship,” Volume 22, Issue 24).
Interestingly, the discussion on
education funding cuts has not, as far as I’ve seen, dwelled much on the pipelines. Rather, there is a sort of unfocused discontent among liberal arts students (or, at least, the ones I’ve talked to), as if it is directly the university’s fault. But no one at UFV wants to see programs fail, or get funding cuts. No one wants to see our pro-fessors — who have put so much into their students and commu-nity — be underpaid or let go.
It is of utmost importance we recognize the source of such a
feeling of alienation: the pipelines. The BC government is putting out policies that are influenced by the pipelines. In expectation of spe-cific jobs, the education system has been changed. If students are discontented with the change in education, it follows they should protest against the thing that ef-fects those changes.
This takes us back to Burnaby Mountain. It becomes clear, in this train-of-thought, why Kinder Morgan has singled out two SFU professors in the ongoing legal dispute. One professor teaches biochemistry, the other teaches literature. As such, they represent the two primary critical voices of the pipelines: environmentalists, and students with the capacity for interpretation and critical think-ing — students ostensibly left out of the government’s grand, gold-en plan for BC’s future.
Until we see that the promised pipelines are the direct influence of our declining state of aca-demia, the education system will remain locked into the “learners to earners” mentality. How many people does the government have to displace in the name of cashing in, before we see that the pipeline, as proposed now, must go?
KODIE CHERRILLETHE CASCADE
Image: Mark Klotz/ flickr
The pipeline controversy continues up the mountain and back.
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The approaching exam season has many students turning to the old tropes of de-stressing, whether healthy or not. Along-side the stress of daily life, end- of-semester papers and spec-tres of looming exams haunt our free time; we fall to carbs, cheap booze, TV escapism, and SUS-hosted puppy rooms to al-leviate the tension.
A series of workshops on the techniques of mindfulness, put on by UFV’s counselling de-partment, offer insight on tech-niques to relax the mind and body as an alternative to more destructive means to reduce anxiety. I found myself attend-ing in order to find a lower-cal-orie way to manage my end of semester stress, which is usu-ally based in dark chocolate.
The workshop had partici-pants experience mindfulness in a safe and instructive envi-ronment, run by Eileen Burk-holder of UFV’s counselling de-partment. We were first asked to assume a position with ears aligning with shoulders and shoulders aligned with our hips. Our necks were tilted down and our eyes were closed to shut out distracting stimuli. We were told to be a “sack of
potatoes” in our seats: solidly resting on our chairs, our ab-domens soft.
“This is not like a class,” we were reminded. Remembering is not the goal; rather simply “experiencing what [we] are in the moment.”
Mindfulness, we were told, is the “training of our minds to be in the moment,” says Burkholder. It is becoming aware of one’s mental and physical state by tracking and re-leasing thoughts in a meditative sort of approach; the exercise in-volves resting one’s attention on a specific focus, recogniz-ing when your attention has drifted and returning it to your focus.
We were guided through these steps via breathing ex-ercises. Our attention was brought to Burkholder’s voice, who told us to rest our focus on where our bodies touched the chair, and where our feet touched the ground. When thoughts or anxieties passed through our minds we were to envision them as clouds: take hold of them, acknowledge
their presence, and then let them drift past, bringing our awareness back to the guid-ing voice of Burkholder. Burk-holder directed our attention to specific areas of our bodies, channeling our breath through
our lungs to our abdomen, legs, toes, into our very joints and bones.
“You don’t have to like or want the expe-rience,” Bur-kholder said, “just feel what-ever you are feeling.”
This exercise, called a “body scan” according
to Burkholder, has been strong-ly correlated to increased job performance, productivity, and attention span, and is linked to empathy and decision-making processes. A study in the UK found that mindfulness-based therapy is as effective as taking medications in stress and anxi-ety reduction, Burkholder said.
The group later discussed their experiences with practic-ing mindfulness. The discus-sion focused on the experience’s ability to make individuals aware of their already pres-ent state of mind. Burkholder
spoke on the ABCs of mindful-ness. A is an event; her example was seeing a friend in the hall and saying hello with no re-sponse. C is our reaction, our interpretation of whether we are being ignored or the person didn’t see our greeting. Our re-action depends very much on B: mindfulness training. If we can acknowledge how we are feeling, if we are aware that we are in a sad frame of mind, we might work on keeping our in-terpretation of the event as pos-itive as possible. Mindfulness is based on being aware of our mood and on how this effects our interpretation and reality.
Participants were given mindfulness resources, ex-ercises to use at home, and homework for the next session, which includes mindful eating.
The workshop series will continue through the exam pe-riod, with sessions being held on Monday December 1 and 8, from 12:00 to 12:50 in B121. For more information and to regis-ter for the next session, contact Eileen Burkholder at [email protected].
The Circle K club, a sponsored leadership program of Kiwanis dedicated to helping the commu-nity through service projects, has officially come to UFV. The orga-nization is internationally known and has branches on every conti-nent, as well as in nearby univer-sities including UBC and SFU.
This is the first semester of the club, and so far they have host-ed various events on campus, including the Halloween and the Operation Christmas Child drives. UFV Circle K president Sahil Chawla has been busy plan-ning upcoming events such as Christmas caroling and a secret Santa project, which will be com-ing up in December.
“We’re still in the process of de-veloping the ideas, but basically it will be where we want to give students a gift. It will be like a random act of kindness,” he said.
Circle K is dedicated to rais-ing funds for various causes and charities, and the UFV branch has a goal to raise $4,000. Although all of their events have been focused on student engagement, Chawla
is planning on having more fund-raising events in the future.
“We really want to be able to fundraise a lot of money and donate all of that over the whole year, and actually raise $4,000 and be able to donate that much,” he
said.Not only are fundraising events
beneficial to the community, but also to the people involved. Chawla explained that by vol-unteering, “you actually feel like you’re part of the events taking
place and you’re having a contri-bution. Overall, when you look at it over the year, you’ll feel really good [about] it.”
While Circle K would love to have more members, Chawla un-derstands that it can be hard for students to find time to commit to clubs and associations.
“I noticed that in university, everyone’s really busy, so they won’t be able to come to every single meeting, and that’s fine,” he said. For the remainder of the fall semester, meetings are held in U-House at 10 a.m. on Thursday mornings. Chawla explained that students can still access meet-ing minutes and get involved if they are unable to attend. “We also have our Facebook group [where] we post the minutes up so if someone can’t come they can read up and see how it was and if they missed anything,” he said.
Students interested in joining can contact Circle K through their Facebook page. Chawla explained that the Circle K club is “a really good opportunity for students to get out and meet more people, as well as try something new.”
Circle K is currently planning a Secret Santa project for December.
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Non-profit organization Circle K comes to UFV
The visual arts department is holding an open house for the exhibition of visual arts students’ work. The students will present their work alongside a glimpse into their creative processes and spaces. A core theme of “mul-tiples” will unify the event, which takes place in the hallways of C building, in rooms C1403, C1042, and the S’eliyemataxwtexw Gal-lery (B136). Opening night is Wednesday, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
UFV’s theatre department will perform its unique adaptation of the classic Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol. The production, directed by Paul Gélineau, will premiere on December 12 at 7:30 p.m., with preview nights December 10 and 11. Tickets, which start $17 for matinées, can be bought online on the UFV theatre website.
The newly minted global lounge in B223 is dedicated to build-ing a global community at UFV and seeks your say on topics of global indigeneity and cultural representation. The lounge is hosting discussions from 11:30 to 1 p.m. every Wednesday. The afternoons will include free cof-fee, tea, and snacks alongside cultural events, food, discourse, games and music.
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Building a global community
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December 3Global representations of
indigineity UFV’s visual arts department will be hosting a screening of film exploring represenation of indigi-nous populations and communi-ties. The evening starts at 4:30 in B101 and is free to the public.
Workshop series explores mindful approach to anxiety reductionNADINE MOEDTTHE CASCADE
A study in the UK
found that mindful-
ness based therapy is
as effective as taking
medications in stress
and anxiety reduc-
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The Cascade sat down with members of lo-cal band MALK Alex Smith, who provides vocals and guitar, and Miranda Maria, who sings and writes songs. Other members of the band are Kyle Schick, Jaydee Bateman, and Lou Labbe-Bass.
Where did the name “MALK” come from?Alex: It’s a Simpsons reference … I can’t remember the name of the episode. I wish Kyle was here, he knows [the ref-erence]. It’s [something to do] with Bart.
How did all the band members meet?Alex: Well, we knew each other from the local music scene … a little over a year ago we all ended up moving into a house together, in Richmond, actu-ally, and we ended up starting the band there.
So how long have you guys been mak-ing music together for?Alex: We played in bands together be-fore this one.
Miranda: I think my first time playing with you was when I was 14.
Alex: We’ve all been making music on and off together for years. [MALK] is the final culmination.
How would you describe the type of music that you make?Alex: I like to call it “dark surf noise pop.” I don’t know what that means, exactly, but [our music has some] ’60s surf-y elements, but with a lot of ’80s and ’90s alternative rock. So a lot of ’60s sweet pop elements with a bit of frenet-ic psycho-ness going on.
Miranda: Frankenstein pop.
What makes you get up in the morning and say, “I want to make music”? Miranda: [laughs] Waking up in the morning and feeling like shit, probably.
Alex: That’s pretty spot-on …it’s the only thing that makes sense for me to do. Making music is itself the reason for getting up in the morning. It’s what I feel must be done.
If you weren’t making music, could you picture yourself doing something else?Both: No.
Alex: I think I’d be long-gone crazy by now.
What are your main musical influenc-es?
Miranda: Tori Amos … Lyrically, it’s just [things like] poetry, books, any-thing.
Alex: Musically, each member of the band brings separate influences … I mean, as a songwriter, the Pixies [are a big influence]. They’re one of the only bands that I’ve listened to since I was like 15 and I still get a kick out of them now. That means something, for sure.
With your music, do you aim for a par-ticular aesthetic?Alex: I feel like [our music] forms itself
quite naturally. I feel like when some-thing aesthetically comes along, and it just works, we’re all usually on board with it. So it just clicks with what we’re trying to go for … I think people will put their own meaning on [our music when] they listen to it. So I won’t give away too much on that aspect and let people make their minds up them-selves.
What’s your songwriting process like?Alex: Usually the music comes first … Kyle, Miranda, and I will usually get together. I’ll bring close to fully formed music or half-formed music to the table, and we’ll work out vocals, lead guitar, and the lyrics together, so that’s usually how [we do it]. I suspect as time goes on that the process will become even more collaborative.
What was the process of writing and recording your new record, and how is it different from your previous EP?Alex: Well, it’s a little bit of a spill-over … We re-recorded one of the songs [from the Prehistoric EP], and one of the songs we intended to put on the demo we ended up scrapping because we knew we were probably going to end up re-recording it. So the process really for this record is a kind of mixed bag.
Any upcoming shows?Alex: Well, we’re playing the semi-fi-nal round of Shindig, which is CiTR’s Battle of the Bands, which is on January 20. Farther in the future, we’re planning [on playing] on the island in February … and then recording.
Someone sits down, listens to your music for a solid 20-45 minutes, and then they get up and say one thing, what do you want that one thing to be?Alex: Crap. [Laughs.] Pretentious crap. [More laughter.] How can you sum that up?
Miranda: I hope that it just, touches them, in any way that it can, you know? It could be anything that they’re think-ing about or saying, as long as they feel it.
Alex: Yeah, I don’t know as far as a statement goes … but even though it’s fun and catchy and pop-sensible stuff, I definitely want people to be affected by it and recognize the passion that’s [behind it]. And also the effort that’s been put into the songwriting. I’d like it if it made people think a little bit, you know?
If you say one thing to any potential listeners or fans out there what would it be?Alex: Come to our shows. Buy our tape.
Miranda: Yeah, haha. Alex: Well, check it out … and if you
like it, support it. Come to a show and buy the record, or don’t, probably we’ll give it to you for free.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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Abbotsford band MALK is playing in the semi-finals of Shindig, UBC’s competitive battle of the bands, on January 20.
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A sneak peek at the new SUBBy Katie Stobbart and Valerie Franklin
Over the past few months, the exterior façade of the new Student Union Build-
ing (SUB) on the Abbotsford campus has seen the addition of glass windows, through which you can make out a suggestion of progress happening within — is that paint? A ladder tilted against the wall? A staircase! To dispel a little of the mystery and foster the anticipation building for the proverbial (maybe liter-al?) ribbon-cutting, The Cascade took a short tour of the inside.
Something about the atrium and multi-purpose room
To the untrained eye, the half-finished SUB still looks like a mess of construction equipment: there are buckets of paint here and exposed electri-cal panels there, wall cut-outs where air vents have yet to be installed, and wires every-where. It’s a chaotic mix of plas-ter and concrete, with a thick plastic curtain closing off what will eventually be the boule-vard entrance of the multi-pur-pose room, which faces the rear parking lot.
From there we entered the atrium mall: a large, long room whose ceiling, not yet decora-tively panelled in cedar planks, is three storeys high, balco-nies and offices stretching up overhead. This is where you can really see the vision for the building coming together. The airy, natural aesthetic is a blend of simple, modern ele-ments: concrete, cedar, glass, and light — similar to the re-cently constructed CEP cam-pus in Chilliwack. In the centre of the atrium, a wide staircase leads to the second floor, whose offices are all walled in glass windows. (I guess your student media sources will have to be especially careful about throw-ing stones in their new glass houses.)
SUS president Ryan Petersen is looking forward to having a
central communal space for stu-dents to chat, relax, and work. “We don’t have that on campus. We have lots of little nooks and crannies everywhere but noth-ing too centralized like that,” he says. “This campus is wonder-ful and I do love it, but one of its shortcomings is that it’s just so disjointed. Everyone is off in their own little corner and no-body has that centralized hub where everyone likes to hang out, so that will be a really great focus.”
The multi-purpose room will also provide a huge bookable space, which will offer a venue for seminars and events; Peters-en notes it can be hooked up for lights and sound, and would be a more elegant option for hold-ing banquets and events that have traditionally been held in the gym. He notes that every-thing from yoga classes to guest speaker lectures to kinesiol-ogy classes could be held in the multi-purpose room — even at the same time.
“It’s sectional. It’s one giant space that can be broken up into three smaller spaces, so it does have that flexibility, of having ... different things running at the same time,” he says.
Petersen adds that SUS is ea-ger to hear from anyone who has an idea of what they’d like to see in the SUB in terms of programming, guest lecturers, services, and amenities.
Eat, drink, and be merryCoffee-guzzling studyholics, rejoice: the SUB will feature an independent coffee shop run by SUS on the first floor. Upstairs on the second floor, you can expect a fuller meal experience in the new and improved After-Math restaurant, which will be moving from its current location in the Envision Athletic Centre. AfterMath’s new digs will fea-ture a new kitchen with a pizza oven, as well as a more spacious dining room, and — our favou-
rite part — patio dining with a full view of the Green.
“Think [of a] Whistler lodge feel,” says Petersen. “Stone and wood and warmer tones ... a little bit more rustic.”
The new restaurant won’t just look nicer — it’ll also feature a bookable dining hall in the back, industrial-grade kitchen upgrades, and more kitchen storage, allowing greater flex-ibility for the menu.
Petersen notes that After-Math’s current “awkward” lo-cation has hampered its busi-
ness, and the new restaurant is intended to be a central hub of activity in the SUB.
“I have loved AfterMath ... but we’re really limited by what can happen there because of the space and the layout,” he says. “I just think this new setup will just provide a much more welcoming environment for people.”
Like the rest of the SUB build-ing, Petersen intends to make AfterMath a comfortable hang-out space where students feel welcome to linger over their
homework instead of being rushed out as soon as they fin-ish their meals.
“We want to be able to build these really nice environments that are just comfortable for people to spend time in,” Pe-tersen says.
And while AfterMath cur-rently closes on Fridays due to a lack of traffic on campus, it may also see its hours expand if its new location is popular.
“I know the building will be trying to encourage people to be there all the time, because we’re looking to be open seven days a week,” Petersen says. “That’s one of the big, exciting things. And to be open later, as well.” However, he notes that the final say will ultimately come down to their services director, Shane Potter.
Finally, on top of all its other upgrades, the restaurant may get a shiny new name.
“We’re looking at different names for both the coffee shop and the restaurant,” Petersen says. “If we’re moving into a new facility it’s going to be a different set-up, it’s going to be a different feeling and atmo-sphere.”
Talk about transparency: your campus mediaOne touted benefit of the SUB is that it will be a hub for student activity, with CiVL Radio, The Cascade, and the Student Union Society all moving to new offic-es in the SUB from their current homes in C building.
But when we say transpar-ency, what we’re really talking about are those aforementioned floor-to-ceiling panes of glass. The idea behind this design feature resonates with the clas-sic portrayal of a radio station office (or a fishbowl, take your pick) in which you can actually see live, in-person interviews happening on the other side of the glass. The studio is right there. The invisible wall also
2008In a winter referendum, the $35 SUB fee was ap-proved
2012SUB design approved, to be LEED Gold Certified
2011 In December there was a referendum, which passed, to confirm $10 million loan for the SUB project over 30 years
2010, Funding was withdrawn for the SUB when govern-ment treasury suspended all provincial lending. This delayed the projected start date of 2011
2013In January, future SUB site still a flat dirt pile, allegedly good for ice-skating
Image: Ashley Mussbacher
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The restaurant’s future patio; the roof above it will be a garden.
The main entrance to the SUB’s atrium begins to take shape.
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separates the second-floor thor-oughfare from the new Cascade office, though instead of feeling like you’re watching a live in-terview, you may feel more like you’re watching the strangest sitcom you’ve ever seen.
The third floor also features floor-to-ceiling windows, which let you survey the spa-cious atrium from above.
A touch of greenOne of the coolest features of the new building is a “green roof” on the small, triangular overhang above the possibly-to-be-renamed restaurant’s pa-tio, where a garden will soak up the natural rainfall. It’s easy to imagine vines or moss cascad-ing down the wall of the build-ing past AfterMath diners.
The day of the tour was plant-ing day outside, and Jorge Can-dia, the project manager from Campus Planning who guided us through the tour, took some time to explain another effi-cient feature of the building: the permeable pavers being installed around it, which al-low water to penetrate the soil underneath and drain away to a shallow ditch surrounded by plants. Excess water will be directed to the water deten-tion centre (which is not, as it sounds, a prison for miscre-ant run-off but a water feature known by some as the swamp). Any overflow is then diverted to the storm drains.
Picking the right nameIn the past, there have been dis-
cussions regarding the name of the long-planned-for building, often circling around the pos-sibility of third-party naming rights — so, allowing a corpo-rate sponsor to influence the name of the building in the same way the athletic centre is named after Envision Financial.
In 2013, a tentative proposal was on the table from an undis-closed sponsor, but was unsuc-cessful at the time (“SUS turns down third-party naming rights — for now,” The Cascade Mar. 13, 2013). The deal would have been an exchange of $3 million from the sponsor for 10 years in naming rights on the building. Then-president of SUS Shane Potter said at the time students should be consulted on such a recommendation.
“I’ve got to reiterate the fact that the university students are putting in well over $10 mil-lion,” Potter said. “For me to unilaterally say yes to a frag-ment of that and allow a third-party company to name the building without [students’] consultation does not feel right to me.”
Petersen suggests the name is a consideration, but not the main priority.
“Right now ... it is the Stu-dent Union Building. Right now that is what the focus is. However, I think down the road we’ll definitely be [open to naming it after] members of the community if they want to donate money and have their name attached to the building,” Petersen says. “Maybe it’ll be
the Dr. Mark Evered building. Who knows?”
While Petersen wants the name of the building to reflect the student body, he acknowl-edges that there are other op-tions.
“If members of the com-munity want to step forward and show their support of the student community by donat-ing significant financial assets, which can be put towards bur-saries or grants or [whatever they choose], then maybe we can start that discussion,” Pe-tersen says. “Maybe we can have your name attached to the building for a number of years, or maybe a room.”
The SUB may even find itself with a corporate name.
“Personally, I would pre-fer not to see that happen, but when it comes down to it, I think you need to look at what would benefit the membership more,” Petersen says, adding that SUS would only consider that option if there was enough money involved.
“If maybe Envision steps up tomorrow and is like, ‘We’re going to give you $5 million and we want to see our name on that building,’ we’re like, yeah, sure, no problem. And then we could put that money to benefit our students. But if they’re like, ‘We want to give you $10,000,’ we’d be like, ‘Um, no.’”
He emphasizes that the nam-ing process comes down to a discussion with the member-ship about what they’d like to see. “That is their space,” Pe-
tersen says. “That is their stu-dent building. They contribut-ed towards it, and they should definitely have a say in what they would like to see.”
He urges students to contact their SUS reps if they have sug-gestions for how the naming process should be conducted.
More than lounges and officesSUS’s plan is to pack the SUB full of extra services and ame-nities that will encourage stu-dents to spend time there. Petersen is eager to see infor-mation kiosks from student in-surance provider Student Care, which provides the SUS Health and Dental Plan. Although the idea is still being discussed, Petersen feels it would be ben-eficial.
“The kiosk [would] actually be a face-to-face interaction with a Student Care representa-tive,” he says, noting that while students can access insurance information from pamphlets and the internet, face-to-face interaction is better for many people, especially new students intimidated by paperwork. The kiosks’ video screens would connect students to represen-tatives who could guide them through the processes of filing insurance paperwork, as well as providing reliable answers to their questions.
Even better is the idea of charging stations equipped with charging cables for the most popular devices — a place for any student to charge up their phone, laptop, or tablet
before it dies and takes their homework with it.
“I don’t know what the fea-sibility of that is, but I’m really excited if we can get those in,” Petersen says.
What happens now?The finish date is March 31, four months away — so what’s going to happen in the inter-im? Petersen explains students won’t have immediate access, since the process of services moving over still has to hap-pen.
“The physical building will be done in March, but that doesn’t mean that we’ll have full access to the building in April, because that’s when all the furniture and everything else starts getting moved into the building,” Petersen says. “So be patient. Even though the building is finished in March, we won’t really have full access [during the] summer months.”
If the SUB is complete by the summer, Petersen says that he would like to have it open for student use so that any kinks can be worked out during the slow summer months — but come autumn, SUS and the university plan to celebrate the building’s opening properly.
“It’s just such a milestone for the students here, and we real-ly need to be proud of that and acknowledge that fact, that we were able to come together and we built a building together.”
2013SUS turns down a proposal for third-party naming rights
2015Current projected completion date
2013In September, ground-breaking, complete with photo op
Image: Ashley Mussbacher Image: Ashley Mussbacher Image: Ashley Mussbacher Image: Ashley Mussbacher
The second floor is the future home of CiVL and The Cascade.
The SUB’s huge atrium promises to be a spacious central lounge.
Floor-to-ceiling glass walls on the third floor make it bright.
This alcove will be home to a coffee shop run independently by the Student Union Society.
2014Construction is fully underway with an end in sight
2013In May, ground-breaking was delayed when referendum set to confirm loan failed
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CROSSWORD Red and green
3. Don’t get this “incredible” green superhero angry. (4)4. The green-eyed monster — or what you might start feeling as your friends tell you about their Christmas vacations to Mexico. (4)5. Squishy red fruit popular in spaghetti sauce. (6)7. The planet which Curiosity is currently exploring. (4)9. Don’t roll past one of these red octagons – put the brakes on. (4, 4)10. If yours is said to be green, it means you’re a natural gardener. (5)12. In Flanders Fields these flowers blow. (7)13. Parts of a shirt that may be green, according to the old folk song / Christmas carol. (7)
1. You have about five litres of this red stuff in your body. (5)2. Key ingredient in guacamole. Mmm, guacamole.6. Powerful booze known as the Green Fairy. (8)8. According to this Muppet, it isn’t easy being green. (6)11. A clown, or someone who’s been out in the cold too long, might have a red one. (4)
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The Weekly Horoscope Star Signs from Moira Mysteriosa
Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18: All answers lie in the sacred Konami Code: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20: Go ice-swimming. You must nurture your inner walrus.
Aries: March 21 - April 19: “Normal” Christmas traditions will leave you empty; painting yourself red and green and dancing to Jimi Hendrix will be much more fulfilling.
Taurus: April 20 - May 20: Do not, under any circumstances, leave the house without a waffle iron this December. (You may want to invest in a carrying case for it.)
Gemini: May 21 - June 21: A Spongebob Squarepants tattoo may serve you well this week, if you have one. (If you don’t have one — why not?)
Cancer: June 22 - July 22: Don’t use Lysol wipes to clean your face. It burns! It burns!
Leo: July 23 - Aug 22: Where do all the spiders go when it’s cold? Answer: your basement. Invest in a flamethrower.
Virgo: Aug 23 -Sept 22:Patio dining under the stars is romantic ... when it’s not December. Buy a roof.
Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22: Your nightmares about giving speeches while naked are actually real. Seek help.
Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21: Wrapping your Christmas gifts in the cover of this issue of The Cascade will make the recipients love you even more.
Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21: Bilbo Baggins is your spirit animal.
Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19: Don’t hire goblins to babysit. Did we learn nothing from Labyrinth?
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Pretend fortunes came and went, with some people hustling the poker table with over $20,000 Friday at UFV’s Winter Formal. The night was hosted by several UFV clubs and associations at AfterMath and the north gym. Previously known as the Casino Royale, the Winter Formal is very much the same event, with the addition of a dance floor.
This year, the main attractions were the dance floor, the bar, two poker tables, three blackjack tables, and an unusual amount of empty space in the gym. After a while, it became rather difficult to join a game of poker, or blackjack, as the tables were mobbed by gambling enthusiasts.
Last year, there were one or two more poker tables, as well as a few more blackjack tables and two roulette wheels. There was certainly no shortage of space at the event this year, but hopefully the organizers will see how popu-lar the event was and will better accommodate the large number
of players next year.The casino itself was fun, as
always. Everyone who came was provided with $2,000 of play money to use on the game floor. I
found that the money went a little too fast; the smallest denomina-tion of chips was $100, so any and all mistakes were costly.
The dance floor was in the cor-
ner of the gym, and after the night was in full-swing, the dance floor was packed with dancers. Two at-tendees who were well-versed in the art of dance schooled the rest
of the dancers with a few stun-ning tangos, and then offered to teach them some simple dance moves to do together. Unfortu-nately, there were a number of people who were somewhat dis-appointed that the night neglect-ed to include any sort of formal dance music. But the music on the dance floor didn’t stop two stu-dents from swing-dancing, much to the amusement and bafflement of the other dancers.
AfterMath also catered the event with the usual high quality we have come to expect, but also a rather long wait time. This was understandable due to the size of the crowd, but logical explanation doesn’t do much to settle a growl-ing stomach.
At the end of the night, raffle tickets were sold at the price of $1,000 a ticket. The prize spread was actually pretty good, with three or four Doctor Who lots, as well as Lord of the Rings, Harry Pot-ter, Adventure Time, Star Trek, Game of Thrones, gaming equipment prizes, and others. One lucky at-tendee won three separate prize lots with her $22,000 in winnings.
image: Blake McGuire
image: Stewart Seymour
Dancing — and gambling — the night away at UFV’s Winter Formal DANIEL HOLMBERGCONTRIBUTOR
Participants left with winnings which ranged from Star Trek to Harry Potter paraphernalia.
Recently The Cascade’s coverage has reflected the lack of public art on the UFV campus, but C building has seen many examples of student artwork crop up in the last few weeks, including this mural by Julie Epp.
Impermanence Julie Epp
Graphite on paper/Ink, acrylic on drywall
The process of art is the collecting, sorting, designing, and the initia-tion of the actions and proceedings; the phases one has to go through to arrive at the final result. The actions one takes to create are, in fact, the art itself; these actions are pure and expressive. Large-scale work allows the artist to use their body, to move with the materials.
The wall was created without the intention of permanence. A piece of paper, the initial starting point, can be removed, but the remaining draw-ing will be destroyed. This notion of imperma-nence allows me to give less focus on the end result and instead on the process of art-making.
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If you’ve caught the humbug, UFV’s production of A Christmas Carol is looking to provide a cure for it with a dose of holiday cheer.
So much cheer, in fact, that the actors are stretching their smiles and doubling over in laughter to keep the winter whimsy fresh for the audience. Director Paul Gélineau notes that although this particular version of the story is bright and playful, he admits his original vision was more cryptic and enigmatic than it is presently.
“That balance is done with finding moments with the actors that allow the funny to become poignant. That’s just timing and good acting,” he says.
The A Christmas Carol set is a sizable multi-tiered house; some platforms are slanted to add a Seussian feel to the play’s quirky and fanciful atmosphere. Although the set is mostly fixed, actors move three portable lamp posts to set different scenes, and a door in the centre of the set changes position.
The costumes, undergoing final touches in time for “tech week,” are from a cooler colour palette, so the audience can expect lots of blues and greys.
But with no lights, props, cos-tumes, or sound cues at this stage of the rehearsal process, the ac-tors work on their line delivery, physical blocking, and the timing of their responses to each others’ gestures — while in their bath-robes and pyjamas.
Gélineau says that actors in professional theatre companies often look at the set and props at the beginning of rehearsals, which helps them adapt to the di-rector’s take. “You start looking at the play through those coloured lenses,” he notes.
“I was seeing it a little bit dark-er than it is in terms of where Scrooge is, and in the process he becomes more likeable quicker than I thought.”
Gabriel Kirkley plays Ebenezer Scrooge — a feisty businessman who undergoes a change of heart through a series of reflections by ghostly visitors of Christmas past, present, and future. Gélineau notes that Scrooge’s appeal with the audience is congruent with Kirkley’s approach to the role.
“It keeps it in the realm of what
the t h e a t r e wants to do with it,” he continues. “It’s fun, you can bring your family to it, you’ll have a great time, and you’ll laugh, and it’s not threatening in any way.”
The original adaptation for the massive Royal Shakespeare Company has the actors nar-rating the story as part of a chorus. However, given the size of UFV’s theatre department, Gélineau had to slightly manoeuvre the structure of the script. Three narrators, played by Eli Funk, Aaron Froc, and Dayna Tea, float in and between scenes, telling the story and watching as members of the ghost world.
In addition to casting UFV students, A Christmas Carol in-cludes young children and adult community members. “This par-ticular group is especially good at being a solid ensemble,” Gélineau notes, despite the age gaps.
“There seems to be a fairly good respect for everybody’s sort of experience and background — the stage management team is be-ing especially good with manag-ing the kids.”
The play will run December 10 to 21. Tickets are available online.
MEGAN LAMBERTTHE CASCADE
UFV’s A Christmas Carol to be a bright, whimsical take on Dickens’ holiday classic
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There have been numerous zom-bie survival games released in the last year, each with its own unique take on survival game-play. But sometimes, instead of surviving zombies, a game can push the player to survive the elements of human depravity. That’s the ever-constant chal-lenge of This War of Mine.
This War of Mine is a side-scroller survival game devel-oped by 11 Bit Studios. It is based on the Siege of Sarajevo, the longest recorded siege of the Bosnian War. You control a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged Eastern European city. But unlike most zombie survival games, these people are not soldiers. They have little to no combat expe-rience, and the few weapons to be found are unreliable. The supplies never add up to the amount you need, and you are often raided in the night and
robbed of the few possessions you have.
This War of Mine, oddly enough, captures the core team-work aspect and the constant-risk factor of Faster Than Light (FTL). Almost everyone is un-trustworthy and you are con-stantly forced into searching risky areas in order to survive the next day. But while FTL was admittedly a simple game, This War of Mine has many layers of complexity. While the charac-ters were merely tools in FTL, the characters in This War of Mine slowly reveal more about themselves through the actions and events they engage in. Giv-ing a face to these characters creates a deeper connection with them, enveloping you in their struggle to survive.
The game has two main as-pects: maintaining a living situ-ation and searching for food and supplies. The player can send out one group member each night to a single location to search for necessary items. But that member can only bring
back a certain number of items. The choice of either not going
hungry for the night or having enough components to build a water distiller or a makeshift weapon is a constant question you must ask yourself as a play-er. When you return, you must tend to your sick, try to make tools or food with whatever you could scavenge, and listen to the local radio to hear about how dire the situation truly is.
Questions of what you truly need also pertains to the people you meet. Sometimes you will come across violent looters and feel warranted for defending yourself. But then there will be times where you will steal from those who only wish to be left alone. 11 Bit Studios’ goal for
this game was to capture the horror and moral depravity of those who were trapped in Sa-rajevo. The game is constantly questioning the player about how much are they are willing to do and sacrifice to survive.
This War of Mine has fantastic survival gameplay mechanics and creates a realistic and heart-wrenching atmosphere. Rather than using the Siege of Sarajevo as a simple set piece, 11 Bit Stu-
dios creates a compelling world and captures the grit and the horror of such a situation. The game is very difficult to “win,” and it is quite emotionally dis-tressing, but it leaves the player with an experience that won’t be forgotten. This War of Mine is certainly one of this year’s big-gest surprises.
This War of Mine combines history with zombie survivalJEREMY HANNAFORDCONTRIBUTOR
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Over the Garden Wall begins with two brothers wandering through a dark and eerie for-est called Unknown. The eldest wears a cape and a red, conical gnome-hat. His young brother wears a teapot-hat and carries a large frog. They are lost, search-ing for their way home. They find a bluebird who talks and the rambling Woodsman, who warns them of “the Beast.”
Over the Garden Wall is a 10-episode miniseries created by Patrick McHale, creative director of Adventure Time. It aired on the Cartoon Network in early November, and you can be sure the Cartoon Network hasn’t seen much of shows like this.
It’s like something out of a British children’s fairytale, mixed with hints of Hayao Mi-yazaki. We don’t know who these boys are, and where they are going — and we don’t know if they themselves know. Over the Garden Wall is a wander through the forest, where ev-ery clearing holds mysterious cottages, creepy villages, or a leisure boat carrying well-to-do frogs. The brothers — Wirt and Greg — navigate the dan-gers of the forest with only one purpose: finding a way home
before they become lost forever.The gloomy and foreboding
Woodsman warns them of this. The forest, or perhaps the Beast that haunts its shadows, has a way of holding onto its lost travellers, but only when all hope is gone.
Wirt, the eldest brother, in his teens, is voiced by the master of trepidation — Elijah Wood. Wirt is a comical character in one sense; he is pessimistic and sometimes hysterical, prone to pausing to recite beautifully
angst-ridden poetic soliloquies. His brother, Greg, is no Sam-wise Gamgee. Greg could only be six or seven; he’s innocent, blithe, and basically the exact opposite of Wirt. There is an unexplained discord between them. Here is an interaction that sums it up: Wirt: “I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I’m a boat, on a winding river, twisting to-wards an endless black sea. Far-ther and farther, drifting away from where I want to be — from who I want to be …”
Greg: “Oh. I didn’t know that. Did you know that if you soak a raisin in grape juice, it turns into a grape?”
Wirt and Greg meet all sorts of creatures and people. Some are dark and evil, while some seem that way but are not. The brothers are stalked by the Beast and the Woodsman, who is — mysteriously — always near when the Beast is. Every episode brings the brothers to a new mystery, meeting new crea-tures. Most of the plotlines are
dark, and there is no buildup or even the slightest hint of who Wirt and Greg are or where they come from. The only unifying element of each episode is the presence of the Beast, and, in later episodes, the dialogue be-tween the Beast and the Woods-man.
It’s in the final episode (I’d say, without giving anything away, that it is for good rea-son) that we learn about Wirt and Greg’s past. Things fall into place. And then it’s over too quickly.
I watched the entire mini-se-ries in one night. Over the Gar-den Wall has a very particular mood, and once you get into it, you’ll want to stay in it. It’s a perfect fall/winter show: cold, dark, and foggy. I’d definitely suggest taking a gloomy, rainy evening and watching it all in one go.
SASHA MOEDTTHE CASCADE
Over the Garden Wall a dark, whimsical fairy taleTV
Elijah Wood voices the protagonist, Wirt, who is lost with his brother in the Unknown Woods.
“The game is constant-ly questioning the play-er about how much are they willing to do and sacrifice to survive.”
“Over the Garden Wall is a wander through the forest, where every clearing holds myste-rious cottages, creepy villages, or a leisure boat carrying well-to-do frogs.”
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I always thought Presto Cucina would go out of business. If you wanted second-rate Ital-ian, you’d go to the Old Spa-ghetti Factory; if you wanted something a bit fancier, you’d go to Paliotti’s, where they’d have some form of customer service.
I was surprised to see in Pres-to Cucina’s place at Five Cor-ners, a new sushi place: KoJan Sushi, which opened in early November. I think Abbotsford is getting to the point where there are more sushi places than churches, and that’s say-ing something.
Either KoJan really liked Presto Cucina’s décor, or they didn’t have time to redecorate. When you walk in, it looks like an interesting cross between rustic Italian and elegant Japa-nese. The brick-work and in-distinctly Italian pictures clash with the sushi bar and chef hats behind the counter.
I stopped in for lunch with my fiancé. The server was very friendly, and immediately sat us down. This might have been because the place wasn’t exactly bustling — there was only one other group besides us. They were playing classical music; I think I heard Schubert.
The location is really nice if you are seated beside the win-
dow. It’s bright, and
for some reason I like watching people wait at the slow lights of Five Corners, getting more and more annoyed ’til they fi-nally gun through on a green light. I’m sure I’m not the only one.
The menu boasted both sushi and Korean food, as well as in-teresting-looking burgers — a bulgogi burger, teriyaki burg-er, and a rice burger, all served with fries. The majority of the menu catered to sushi tastes, but there was Korean mixed in, and the menu was extensive. The lists of combos and party trays were very diverse; in ad-dition to the usual lunch and dinner boxes, combos catered to certain tastes, such as the Old Fashioned Combo (Cali-fornia, dynamite, salmon-tuna maki) and the Rainbow Combo (rainbow roll, salmon, tuna, and ebi nigiri) as well as a Veg-gie Combo for vegetarians.
I just came for sushi, though the burgers and Korean food looked so tasty that I resolved to come back and try them. The Chef’s Special section — es-pecially the basil chicken and sweet-and-sour pork — looked interesting, too. I was definite-ly impressed with the creativ-ity and variety of the menu.
The prices are decent: be-tween $4 to $8 for rolls, and up to $14 for the special rolls. The burgers were $11, and the teri-yaki was between $11 and $14. Not low prices, but I’d pay that
for good food. I
ended up ordering a box spe-cial. Their lunch box specials are sold all day, and range from $12 to $16.
My miso and sunomono salad were good, though there could have been more tofu in the sunomono. They came in funny dishes, white with the words “give thanks.” This was the subject of speculation for my fiancé and I.
I was surprised at how much food eventually came out. The rolls were big, and the teriyaki was heaping. The server came back again and again to refill my green tea. The chicken teri-yaki was delicious; the sauce was rich and dark. I was on the fence about my Califor-nia and dynamite rolls. They were big, but the proportions were a little off — there was too much rice and not enough stuff inside the roll. Not only that, but the rice didn’t have enough sushi vinegar on it, so it ended up tasting a little bit bland. I dipped my rolls into the teriyaki sauce a lot. I think my order was just too boring, and that’s why the food was a little bit boring. Next time, I’m going to try the interesting-looking menu items, like the ja-lapeno tempura, the feta cheese roll, the kimchi and bacon fried rice, or the lobster roll.
I left very full and with a lot of leftovers. The service was great and the food was plenty — I just need to find the right
menu item.
Prince“1999”When this song was written, it was predicted that people would party differently in 1999, or, for some rea-son, 2000 and beyond. Do we? I don’t know … Will Smith predicted that we would do the same, and then, hold up, it was 1999, and it was, well, the same! Methinks … Black Mountain“Bright Lights”From the album In The Future, a closer that lasts over 15 minutes and is per-fect for campus/community radio bathroom breaks or programmers who are late for their programs to get settled in. Do not use in this fashion. Lightning Dust played at UFV’s 40th Celebration, BM members included. Run the Jewels“No Crown” “Can’t pick up no crown holding what’s holding you down.” Michael Render wants to remind you to let go of the past in order to be comfortable with your future, and beyond that to be able to prosper in that future. Limp Bizkit said, “Heavy is the head that wears the crown.” Sublime“Hope”“Wait for someone who can turn you on, he’s gonna make you feel the way you wanna feel.” Some rare mid-late era Sublime that’s more punk than ragga, Mr. Bradley Nowells imagines a future where his day comes, and he stops being that boy who girls don’t want a future with. Matthew Good Band“Symbolistic White Walls”“I’ve got a psychic, and she says I’m lonely, she says my destiny inside of me is turning out all wrong” – the pre-chorus from MG’s first “hit” sin-gle post-C-Fox and his early Seeds competition showing. Apparently at the time he was already telling people to expect him to be cheap and see-through.
CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy is excited to hear the first broadcast of Un-locking Your Truth with Dr. Lesley, a psychic call-in show airing Tuesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. on 101.7 FM and CIVL.ca! Here are some future and past songs for your pre-exam week listening.
CHARTS ShuffleAARON LEVYCIVL STATION MANAGER
Monkeys in DragHated at Home1
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5
3
7
2
10
14
12
16
11
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6
4
8Judas PriestRedeemer Of Souls
CowardsRuins
Where Giants Once StoodLive Above
IncognitoAmplified Soul
ViathynCynosure
Flying LotusYou’re Dead!
Return for RefundReturn For Refund
The Rebel SpellLast Run
Buck 65Neverlove
Cheap HighEgo Wholesale
TV On The RadioSeeds
Devin TownsendZiltoid 2
Andy StottFaith in Strangers
LaikaSomnia
New Jacobin ClubSoldiers of the Mark
The NailheadsFinish ‘em Off with a Bat!
Kill Matilda#Punk#Zombie#RocknRoll
KoJan Sushi offers a creative menu and huge portionsSASHA MOEDTTHE CASCADE
Dine & Dash
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We Were Prom-ised Jetpacks — Unraveling
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Unraveling is We Were Promised Jetpacks’ third studio album, released exactly three years af-ter their last album, In the Pit of the Stomach. WWPJ has not only moved on from the fuzzy, punky indie rock of In the Pit of the Stomach, but lead singer Adam Thompson has apparently shed his ridiculously thick Scottish ac-cent, which I always found suited the band quite well.
There’s a lot of angst in Un-raveling, characterized by the constant drum beat and the in-strumentation. The record has an all-encompassing feeling of odd melancholy throughout (see “Peaks and Troughs”), which is great; there’s a feeling of uneasi-ness which makes for a very en-joyable and immersive listening experience. Songs like “Keep it Composed” and “Bright Minds” are also funky in comparison to WWPJ’s previous work. Overlap-ping instrumentation also plays a key role in the composition of tracks on this record, which is highly reminiscent of bands like Foals, while at the same time be-ing original.
This is a great record for nights, or really any time when one is able to calmly observe one’s surroundings. The record very strongly conveys a feeling of isolation even while you’re sur-rounded by its packed, full in-strumentation and vocals. There’s a lot going on in this album. Even the vocals add to the loneli-ness of the record. It’s not a sad loneliness, however; it’s a very warm, very personal loneliness. Sometimes it’s good to be alone with your thoughts; it’s good to let your imagination wander off into its more sombre parts. This record, particularly songs like “Night Terror” and “Moral Com-pass,” facilitate that beautifully.
MARTIN CASTROTHE CASCADE
One Direction, the insanely popular boy band from the United Kingdom, has released yet another album, entitled FOUR. It is a fitting title as it is their fourth album and they have been together for four years.
This seems like a long time for a boy band to stay at the top of the charts, or to stay together at all. Most people do not un-derstand the One Direction craze sweeping the world right now and wish it would end, but as a lover of boy bands and One Direction, I can tell you it is not going anywhere.
Harry, Liam, Louis, Zayn, and Niall began their career on the hit TV show X-Factor in 2010. Even though they didn’t win, they still managed to achieve impressive international suc-cess. Because of devoted fans and social media, word spread of the music group all over the world and they were able to de-velop a cult following known as “Directioners.” The band has now reached mega-superstar status and is worshipped by millions of girls (and I am sure a few boys) everywhere.
One way 1D has remained successful is through Twitter. With over 21 million follow-ers as a band (Harry Styles has over 22 million alone), they keep in constant contact with the fans that jump-started their success, while promoting their new music and merchandise. On top of that, they have re-leased two movies, a book, and a perfume line — they also give back to charity regularly. Last year, they released “One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)” for Comic Relief, and this year they teamed up with Band Aid 30 to sing “Do They Know it’s Christmas?”
Their good looks, laid-back personalities, and talent have also helped to keep them in the limelight, obviously. While 1D has an edgy, bad-boy vibe that is very appealing, they are also surprisingly relatable, goofy, and ordinary to go with their in-credible charisma. The fact that they were regular people before X-Factor makes them even more likeable. Some people love to disagree, but they are also vo-cally talented (some members
more than others), and every-one knows that boys who are good-looking AND musically talented are untouchable.
While it is true that I’m swayed by their good looks, charm, and angelic voices, I was disappointed when I heard their first single from FOUR, “Steal My Girl.” I was hoping it would be a little different than their previous music, but FOUR feels strikingly familiar and of-fers nothing new. The songs talk about the same issues as before — girls — and they have the same light-hearted, overly pop feel that wears thin after too many listens. Love is the all-encompassing topic of the album; every song deals with it in one way or another. In a few songs, the idea of feeling young is intertwined with the idea of love, but the repetitive, corny themes and metaphors make the album seem dull and uncre-ative.
Some songs, such as “Where
Do Broken Hearts Go” and “Girl Almighty” are extremely catchy and danceable, while other songs like “Fool’s Gold,” “Night Changes,” and “Ready to Run” drone on and leave the
listener wanting more. “Change Your Ticket” and “Clouds” fea-ture surprisingly enjoyable gui-tar sections and sound more pop-rock than pop. The only
song I found interesting and original was “Act My Age.” While it is overly synthesized, the group sings as one voice, harmonizing nicely. The upbeat musical interludes sound like an Irish jig, while the choruses are slowed down with heavy bass and the verses are backed by a bluesy piano. It also isn’t strictly about girls, giving a much-needed and enjoyable change.
If you don’t like pop music targeted to young females, you probably will hate this album. As a Directioner, I am content with FOUR. It is the same kind of music that I enjoyed from them in the past, but I am dis-appointed there is nothing fresh in hardly any of the songs. It’s a decent Top 40 pop album that holds its own alongside 1D’s previous stuff. So far, the re-ception of FOUR has been very positive among fans, showing that the One Direction Infection will not be cured anytime soon.
Love it or hate it, One Direction sticks with their usual pop aesthetic in FOURHALEY BORCHERTCONTRIBUTOR
Album Review
“Most people do not understand the One Direction craze sweeping the world right now and wish it would end, but as a lover of boy bands and One Direction, I can tell you it is not going anywhere.”
What 1D lacks in album-naming creativity, they make up for in candid goofiness.
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The UFV wrestling team, the newest addition to athletics, has quietly dominated in their first few tournaments of the year. The limited competition available for the team in Cana-da has given them the opportu-nity to travel south and show-case their talent against top-tier American talent.
Fortunately for the Cascades, they have Jasmit Phulka. He’s one of the best wrestlers, not only in BC but in all of Canada, and has dominated in early ac-tion this season.
It began with the Cascades’ first national tournament at the University of Calgary, where Phulka won his first gold medal of the year in the first-ever tournament in Cascades’ wrestling history. Phulka was dominant in the first weekend,
securing three victories in his three fights, and giving up only one point to his competition in the 82 kilogram weight class.
Coach Raj Virdi commented on the skill and talent of Phul-ka, stating to Cascades Media, “I
expect him to be one of the best wrestlers in the CIS, regardless of who he faces. I expect him to crush his opponents, and he did.”
Second was a tournament at the wrestling capital of BC: Si-
mon Fraser University. SFU is a historical wrestling power-house, and has always been the staple of wrestling in Canada. Again it was Phulka leading the way for the up-and-coming UFV wrestling team. He domi-nated in the 86 kg weight class, winning the gold medal again and putting his name out there as the dominating force for UFV wrestling.
The tournament also saw UFV wrestler Rohit Thandi impress in the 61 kg division, earning himself a fourth place finish in the tournament.
Coach Virdi had high praise for his squad after the tourna-ment, saying to Cascades Me-dia, “The whole team wrestled well. For their age and experi-ence, they did fairly well. It was a tough tournament — it’s not just for university students, it was for any athlete aged 18 and up. Some of them were world team members from the US and
Canada.”The third and biggest tourna-
ment so far this year recently passed in Forest Grove, Or-egon. The first international tournament of the year for the Cascades saw them pitted against their toughest competi-tion yet. For the third consecu-tive tournament, the Cascades were represented by — at this point, their star player — Ph-ulka, who stormed his way to a semifinal contest before he was forced to pull out with a ham-string injury.
The discrepancy in athletics between American and Cana-dian schools is apparent in a lot of sports; the American school often dominates its Canadian counterpart. However, the UFV wrestling team is the excep-tion, and following their return to action after the Christmas break, we can expect big things from this squad.
NATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
Image: UFV
The wrestling team dominated in their first national tourna-ments, and will be back in action after the break.
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Walking through the gym feels like trespassing on sa-cred ground reserved only for athletes who represent the UFV Cascades and the coaches who mentor them. The new in-tramurals program gives stu-dents the opportunity to join in athletically while having something fun to do.
The program is open to all students, and costs only $2 to participate in certain events, while others are even free. But even if students can’t pay the $2, the athletics department will be accepting donations of two cans of food or non-per-ishable food items. Although the action has already begun, students can still join in.
The 1st annual ping-pong tournament is an event that looks to bring in plenty of students, taking place Decem-ber 2. With both tournaments costing only $2, it is likely we will see a large number of stu-dents competing for the title of best ping-pong player at UFV.
Other events include soc-cer, pickle ball, and basketball. They occur on Monday, Tues-day, and Wednesday nights. The last soccer game of the se-mester was scheduled for No-vember 24, while pickle ball was on the 25, and basketball was on the 26. Note that pickle ball is the only event of the three that will require the pay-ment of $2 or two food items.
Any students wishing to get involved in the brand new in-tramural program need only bring their form of payment and their student ID.
If students are interested in getting involved with the school and meeting new peo-ple, the intramural program might be one of the best ways to kick-start the full university experience.
The end of the month prom-ises stress and a lot of hard work for students, and the intramural events is a way to blow off steam. Intramural participants can expect to have many more events coming up during both the exam period and the winter semester, in-cluding perhaps the Canadian staple: hockey.
With many events upcom-ing, students looking to get involved have every chance to see some action in a competi-tive athletic forum on campus with the intramural program.
Many people find that no mat-ter how hard they try, staying healthy and active will always be a challenge. The key to suc-cess might not be as hard as people think. An interview with Morgan Hodge, a strength and conditioning coach at En-gineers Bodies in Port Moody, helped prove this theory true.
He divulged that his posi-tion as trainer and coach goes beyond the physical. He says, “I am more of a counselor or psychologist, as opposed to a trainer.”
The best approach for some people to get motivated is to be dragged to the gym and get-ting screamed at until they’ve abandoned their lazy ways. This isn’t the best way for ev-eryone. Some people require different techniques to get properly motivated. A nurtur-
ing and encouraging approach instead of the up-in-your-face drill sergeant approach is more fitting for some.
Morgan had not alluded to a specific exercise combination or calorie count that would equal that perfect body. In-stead he believes clients need to make their minds strong in order to reach physical strength.
“I follow two principles: pur-sue excellence and the notion of ‘getting your mind right,’” Morgan explains.
He says that everyone should be trying to pursue excellence. As we reach one goal, we should create more. This really makes sense; even if we fail in our fitness goals, we should continue to make new ones. You may not be in the amaz-ing physical shape you see with bikini competitors, but exercising is not only to look good, but to feel good. You can
achieve better endurance and physical strength the more you keep at it.
Morgan wishes more people accepted the journey. There will be ups and downs, suc-cesses and failures, but with a strong mindset and a longing for excellence, goals will be reached.
“It’s going to be fucking hard! It’s going to take a lot of hard work and energy, and you will feel like quitting many times,” Morgan sympathized. “But if you have worked on getting your mind right, and respect the journey of excel-lence you are on, then deep down you will love every sec-ond of it.”
The tips to success taken from the conversation with Morgan are the following:
1) Train your mind. When we give up on a workout, we blame it on the physical. Our muscles are sore, we are tired,
but we are a lot stronger than we allow ourselves to believe. When we give up, it is because of a weak spot in our mindset. It’s not our body lacking en-durance.
2) You gotta move! It’s what we are made for. Exercise should be our go-to mood en-hancer, yet most of us reach for the remote or computer in-stead. Life is about growth and experiences, not screens and fast food.
3) As Morgan would say, “Once people understand and respect it’s a journey, not a des-tination, then they will be suc-cessful in their fitness goals.”
The secret has been uncov-ered, and truthfully it wasn’t a secret at all. The things that lead to success in fitness are the things that lead to success in any aspect of life: a clear, focused mindset, acknowledg-ment of the journey ahead, and a desire to pursue excellence.
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Tips on a successful fitness journey from a personal trainer
NATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
RILEY NOWLANCONTRIBUTOR
Popular games like hockey and football are great, but they are so prominent in our culture that it is easy to forget that there are other sports out there, some of which are de-lightfully weird.
Learning about the unusual not only helps to contextualize the usual, but it can refresh a bored mind. The following are some of the more wonderfully weird sports of the world.
Chess boxingFirst developed by Dutch per-formance artist Iepe Rubingh in 2003 after reading Froid Équateur (a French graphic nov-el by Enki Bilal), chess boxing is a hybrid sport intended to test both the brain and brawn of competitors. The World Chess Boxing Organization’s motto is “Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board.” Players alternate be-tween four-minute rounds of chess and two-minute rounds of boxing until somebody is KO’d or checkmated. Canadian filmmaker David Bitton is cur-rently exploring the history and controversies surround-ing the sport in a documentary called Chessboxing: The King’s Discipline, which he is fund-ing through a Kickstarter cam-paign.
Dunny Derby The Dunny Derby is a 250-me-tre toilet race held at the Out-
back Festival every second Sep-tember in Winton, Australia. Teams of five design and build their own outhouse-chariots, which one person rides while the rest push and pull. Teams usually have a theme and dress up in costumes. Prizes are awarded to the winner of the race, the team with the best presentation, and the fastest or the slowest in what is called the “Constipation Stakes.”
There have also been similar Dunny Derbies in the US and UK.
OctopushLove hockey but hate ice? Un-derwater hockey, called “Octo-push” in the UK, is the game
for you. It is played in a swim-ming pool, between two teams of six. Players wear snorkels and handle a heavy puck at the bottom of the pool with tiny, paddle-like sticks called “pushers.” Because the game is played underwater, Octopush is not very spectator-friendly; organizers have been working to solve this problem recently.
A man named Alan Blake in-vented the sport in England in 1954 in order to keep his diving club active in the winter, and the first world championship was held in Vancouver in 1980.
Buzkashi No longer will you have to let your leftover goat carcasses go
to waste, thanks to the sport of buzkashi (literally “goat-bash-ing”). Usually consisting of two teams of four to five play-ers on horseback competing to drag a goat carcass through a goal, there are many variations of this polo-like game; some-times it’s a free-for-all where individual players compete for points, and the length of the game can be set anywhere from about an hour to several days. Played mostly in Central Asia, it is the national sport of Afghanistan. Interestingly, the Taliban banned buzkashi in Afghanistan during their rule, deeming it too cruel a game.
Chess-boxing, goat-bashing: weird sports you’ve never heard ofALEX RAKETHE CASCADE
Image: Richard West
In the Dunner Derby, teams of five design and build their own outhouse-chariots.
