February 13, 2013

THEΩMEGA

VOLUME 22ISSUE 19

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

TRU’s Independent Student Newspaper

WolfPack hockey loses a squeaker 14

Canadian literary giant on campus 10

Greatness overshadowed 2

InternationalDays 2013

February 13, 20132

ON THE COVER:Ekachai Srikaeo shows his skill in Muay Thai (Thai boxing) at the International Days Showcase Friday, Feb. 8.

—PHOTO BY JESSICA KLYMCHUK

It bothered her that her parents weren’t there.

Jen Ju, point guard of the WolfPack women’s basketball team, was playing in her final game at the Tournament Capital Centre, wrapping up a five-year university basketball career, but at the forefront of her mind was the fact her parents hadn’t come to watch.

To be fair, Ju hadn’t expected them to. It’s a long drive from Vancouver and the game was on a Friday so they would have had to work. But it was also because they’d never seen basketball as a significant part of her life, just a game she liked to play. That part made it difficult.

“Basketball is something that I think of as one of my life’s greatest accomplishments – being able to play university ball – but at that moment I didn’t feel proud at all,” Ju said. “I didn’t feel like it was an accomplishment, I didn’t feel like I wanted to feel proud of playing basketball, because my parents weren’t. So it was quite a saddening moment for me.”

She chalks it up to cultural differences. Her parents emigrated from China more than 25 years ago and felt she should be focusing more on working and getting an education than sports. She calls herself the “black sheep” of her family and though it’s upsetting how her family feels about her athletic career, she’s never questioned her decision to play – her love for basketball transcends everything else.

“I’ve always done my own thing,” Ju said. “It didn’t really matter to me a whole lot because I knew I was going to do whatever I wanted to do. I was driven enough

to accomplish whatever I needed to in order to play basketball.”

Ju says in recent years her parents, particularly her father, have grown to be more accepting of her decision to play basketball and have internalized her love for the game. It’s not a complete 180, but it’s a start.

Ju graduated from Britannia Secondary School in Vancouver and started her post-secondary career at Santa Barbara City College in California. Playing in the U.S. didn’t end up being a good fit, so she came back to Canada the next year. It was a good learning experience and she has a lot of great memories, but it didn’t align

with her personal or professional goals and the way people interacted with each other she was used to – everything seemed a little individualistic.

It was also incredibly expensive. In the end, things worked out

great for the WolfPack and TRU. Ju is a model teammate and a great player. She’s also made it a priority to do some pretty powerful things in the communities she’s lived in.

She grew up in Vancouver’s lower Eastside, in Strathcona, a community near Hastings Street. It’s an area that’s often mentioned in the same breath as poverty, drugs, prostitution and Robert Pickton, but that’s just one side of it. Unfortunately it’s the side that

tends to get the most attention.“There’s just no balance [in

the media coverage],” Ju said. “They fail to show the other side of it. There’s so much hope in the community. There’s community – like a true sense of community – and there’s real life down there. That, people just don’t realize.”

So while Ju’s focus right now is on basketball, she also has aspirations of working in some of the marginalized communities on Vancouver’s Eastside. She dreams of being able to bridge the gap between the east and the west of Vancouver, removing through education some of the animosity people have for each other.

She’s attacking the stereotypes academically. She’s currently waiting to hear if her proposal for TRU’s U n d e r g r a d u a t e Research and I n n o v a t i o n Conference has been accepted. Her topic: The portrayal of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver in literature.

“I think it’s a huge issue in our society that people refuse to help, or see people as human beings due to their status, how they

look, their level of income,” Ju said. “I really am passionate about things like that.”

But she doesn’t restrict her efforts to an academic approach. She’s also doing it with basketball, coaching inner-city youth. She works with a number of programs, most of which are aimed at those who wouldn’t be able to afford the financial commitment of youth programs at places like SFU or UBC. She works with other grads from Britannia and the Strathcona area, as well as the Real Basketball League. Jen Ju is paying it forward.

“We always have a philosophy as a women’s basketball program that we want to not forget where we came from and we want to be able to give back if we are able to do so,” said Scott Reeves, head coach of the women’s basketball team at TRU.

“For her to be able to do that back in her hometown where she came from, I think would mean a lot to her because someone did that for her when she was young and that’s the type of person that she is.”

Ju feels she’s able to relate to youth through humour and their shared life experiences – it’s a skill set she’s quite proud of. For her, basketball is more than just a game – it’s a sport that teaches a lot of life-skills youth don’t learn inside a classroom.

As the basketball season ends, much of the media attention has been on the end of Diane Schuetze’s career and for good reason. Schuetze is top-25 in all-time CIS scoring and has been a significant cog in the WolfPack’s

system throughout her tenure. Ju’s retirement, on the other hand, has gone relatively under the radar. For some, the lack of attention would be a source of friction, not so with Ju.

“Not at all, it’s well deserved,” Ju said of the attention paid to Schuetze. “She’s a hard-working person. She’s what makes me a good player.

“I couldn’t ask for the glory to be on another person, she really deserves it.”

Schuetze and Ju go a long way back – they played together on Team B.C. in under-16 basketball provincials before they met up at TRU. Schuetze says that playing her final few regular season games with Ju has been bittersweet, they’ll likely never play together again after the conclusion of this season.

It will be a difficult transition for both of them.

“Jen’s a very explosive player and very good on both offence and defence,” Schuetze said. “She’s developed into an incredible basketball player actually, so I love playing with her.

“She’s an awesome friend...She’s just a great person, she loves helping people.”

Now that her basketball career is coming to a close, Ju isn’t sure what the future holds for her – she calls it the golden question.

She has no shortage of options. She’ll be on campus for at least one more semester and has talked about continuing to train with the WolfPack in order to stay in shape. She is still toying with the idea of heading over to Europe to play – she just can’t imagine giving up the game right now. Coach Reeves has even floated the idea of her coming back to the WolfPack as an assistant coach, an idea she’s interested in but still has reservations about.

If nothing else, she’s looked at the education program at SFU, it would allow her to give back to her community in Vancouver, working with kids in the school system, where she feels she’s able to have the greatest impact.

“I think she would be great at being in a camp role or a teacher role,” Reeves said. “Kids would really gravitate towards her.”

So when Ju left the court at the Tournament Capital Centre Feb. 1 for what was likely the final time of her career, flanked by fellow seniors Diane Schuetze and Tracy Kocs, the crowd stood up and clapped for more than just three successful basketball careers. They clapped for years of hard work, sacrifice, and efforts to make the world a better place. They clapped for Tracy, they clapped for Diane and they clapped for Jen.

No matter how she felt in the moment, Jen Ju has plenty to be proud of.

Ω Sports EditorAdam Williams

A story to be proud ofFeature

Jen Ju, completing her final year of athletic eligibility, has grand plans to make at least her little part of the world a bet-ter place to live.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

“I think it’s a huge issue in

our society that people refuse

to help...due to their status,

how they look, their level of

income.” —Jen Ju, WolfPack athlete

and much more

WolfPack basketball’s Jen Ju makes a difference...and not just on the court

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

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As I’m sure most of you are aware — at least those who have classes scheduled on Mondays — the prov-ince of British Columbia observed its first ever Family Day on Feb. 11 this year.

Province wide, hourly work-ers either had the day off and got paid for it anyway — if they meet the requirements (see below) — or worked and got paid extra for do-ing so. Those workers on salary supposedly had the day off, as well, assuming their employers didn’t re-quire them to work, in which case they’re supposed to get a different day off. These are mandated em-ployee/employer criteria and are the case for every statutory holiday.

Section 45(1) of the British Co-lumbia Employment Standards Act (ESA) stipulates that employ-ees are entitled to a day off on a statutory holiday and those em-ployees shall be paid their aver-age earnings (calculated by divid-ing the total amount paid by the number of days worked over the past 30 calendar day period) for that day off.

This equation is used as long as an employee has “worked or earned wages for 15 of the 30 cal-endar days preceding the statuto-ry holiday,” according to section 44 of the act.

This is where it gets finicky. Actually, “finicky” is maybe the wrong word there — the bet-ter word is probably “cheap” or “greedy.” Actually, let’s just call it what it is: Capitalism.

You see, many employers pur-posely staff the majority of their workers on a part-time basis to avoid incurring extra costs man-dated by legislation such as the ESA and take full advantage of these sections.

I know I’ve personally worked in jobs where the manager in charge of staff scheduling was in-structed by the owner of the busi-ness to schedule employees very carefully leading up to a statu-tory holiday to ensure the fewest number were eligible to receive statutory holiday pay. They then

schedule the fewest staff possible on the actual day itself. You prob-ably noticed this phenomenon if you tried to go out somewhere to have dinner with your family on Family Day.

But most of you probably didn’t, in fact, spend Family Day with your family. Many of you couldn’t, because you aren’t any-where near them while you attend school and a three-day weekend just isn’t long enough for that (not to mention the financial cost of doing so).

But even for those of you who do have family here, you likely didn’t celebrate the newly-formed holiday as it was supposedly in-tended. There’s a reason for that.

For those of you who have jobs while you pursue your educa-tional goals — and let’s face it, for most of us it’s the only way to survive — think about how your thoughts coalesce as you ap-proach a statutory holiday.

You are probably either excited that you get a day off with pay or are excited to be working on a day for which you get paid more than usual. The reason for the day itself is likely inconsequential.

I got an email from a student over the weekend before Family Day expressing how important family is to people and how we should recognize that “Family is the greatest gift of nature. It pro-

vides an enshrinement like a nest in a tree where family members can feel protected and supported so that they may be able to gain foothold in the foundation of life, fulfilling all its aspects like self preservation, pleasure and pro-creation. If family is not there, living is much more difficult than we think.”

I completely agree. Unfortu-nately, a statutory holiday is not going to convince people of this, make people think about their family life or consider those unfortunate among us who are lonely due to family estrange-ment, etc. Statutory holidays are engrained into us as a financial benefit.

Maybe if the situation were such that there was enforceable (and enforced) legislation in place so that businesses were mandated to actually be closed instead of “punished” by staying open (by having to pay a bit more to those who they force to work but hav-ing loopholes they can work to avoid doing so), the first thought as a statutory holiday approaches wouldn’t be whether we want to work for bonus money or have the day off and get paid anyway.

Perhaps then we could turn our collective attention to the “why” of the holiday and not just the “how much?”

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What day was it on Monday?

Way back in October 2012, I wrote a little piece on the impor-tance of mental health and how students should always be aware of their own well-being as well as that of their peers.

After all, we’re all in this togeth-er, right?

With that being said, we are ap-proaching the mid-semester mark as the 2012-13 academic year f lies by. Maybe it is just me getting old, but it seems as though each semes-ter passes quicker than the last. Despite how fast time seems to pass, stress still builds and as mid-terms commence and projects start to loom, students need to ensure they manage their stress.

In an effort to help students cope with stress and manage anxi-ety, TRU Wellness will be hosting the first of weekly Therapy Dog Thursdays on Feb. 14.

If you are stressing about not having a date for Valentine’s Day, there is no need to worry. Wouldn’t you rather have a date with a fuzzy little furball that is going to love you unconditionally?

Therapy Dog Thursdays will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Thurs-day through April 11, with the first coming on Feb. 14 as mentioned. These fun-loving little critters can be found on BMO Student Street where students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to play with and walk the dogs.

During my time at the Univer-sity of Alberta, I was fortunate enough to organize an event simi-lar to this within the walls of my residence building. We booked out a room and for the entire day we had dogs of all sorts running around happily.

The most rewarding part of this experience wasn’t in seeing the dogs running for joy. It was in see-ing the faces of stressed university students elated, chasing these dogs around as if they were puppies themselves.

A 2001 study conducted by Sar-ah J. Brodie and Francis C. Biley in the Journal of Nursing cites a number of previous studies that discovered many widespread pet-therapy benefits for humans. From stimulating awareness and interac-tion to improving life satisfaction and reducing depression, the ben-efits of pet therapy have been well-documented over the years.

Relaxation is a word consistently found through some of these stud-ies, so it goes without saying that Therapy Dog Thursdays should be welcomed with open arms to a post-secondary campus where stress is bred in classrooms and as-signments.

If you have more love for dog’s evil counterpart, the cat, then maybe music therapy is more your thing. Sorry, this is an opinion col-umn and I think cats are evil. Alas, to each their own.

According to a model published in the Arts in Psychotherapy jour-nal by Shannon Sausser and Ray-mond J. Waller, therapy can be found in composing and playing music. This might sound shock-ing when you consider how many failed and successful rockstars have succumbed to drug or alcohol addiction, but Sausser and Waller prove its benefits. If you have al-ways dreamed about picking up the guitar or slugging away on a drum kit, maybe now is the time to try it out?

Maybe you aren’t musically gifted but still enjoy a good tune or show. If you check out last week’s edition of The Omega, our arts and entertainment editor, Bren-dan Kergin, previewed a few of the live music and entertainment options for students in the month of February. Right there you have a nice little buffet of options for music and entertainment therapy.

The Harlem Globetrotters are visiting the Tournament Capital Centre tonight and there are a few musical acts performing through-out town between now and the end of the month.

At the end of the day, the most important thing is to be aware of your stress levels and what you need to manage them. As much as slaving over the books is im-portant during your time in post-secondary, it is not worth killing yourself over. And I’m not joking when I say that.

Take a breather every now and then. Getting a B-plus on that exam rather than an A-minus won’t hurt that much in the long run if you are able to salvage your mental and physical well-being in the process.

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Many claim they could not live without their smartphones. For some, that may be true.

Smartphones act as a primary communication tool, arguably more so than face-to-face inter-action. For some, the invention of the smartphone was also the invention of a new kind of inde-pendence.

Stephen Love-ly, a student at TRU, relies on his iPhone to read assignments to him and to get him where he needs to go. It can even tell him what colour shirt he has on.

Lovely is blind. He was born only able to see lights and shadows, but no detail.

Visual impair-ment is defined by the Ameri-can Optomet-ric Association as “a functional limitation of the eye(s) ... A vi-sual impairment can cause disability(ies) by signif icantly interfering with one’s ability to function independently, to per-form activities of daily living, and/or to travel safely through the environment.”

Lovely can’t remember what he did before the iPhone.

“I guess I just did what I did.”

VoiceOver and Siri are iPhone applications that are essential in allowing Lovely to connect with the world.

VoiceOver is a tool that Apple developed with their sightless customers in mind. It is con-trolled by simple gestures that let users physically interact with items on screen. Users touch the screen to hear a description of the item under their f inger,

double-tap that spot and drag or f lick to control the phone.

Siri is also a clever resource created by Apple that Lovely uses regularly. He can ask her to do sim-ple tasks for him, as well as have a complete conver-sation with her, if he really wants to. One day he told her he was sad and she said, “Two iPhones walk into a bar. Does that help?”

Lovely at-tended a board-ing school for the blind (W. Ross Macdonald School) in Brant-

ford, Ont. for grades f ive to 12.He moved out of his parents’

home at 16. He attributes his ability to survive to Karen Sol-de, who has been a strong mater-nal inf luence in his life since he was just three years old.

With only one week’s notice, Lovely moved to Kamloops with Solde and her family in August

2011 from Oshawa, Ont. He was happy to come to Kamloops and now has no intentions of ever leaving.

At 21, he began his f irst year of post-secondary in Septem-ber 2012 at TRU. Though he is studying theatre, Lovely (like many students) is unsure of what he wants to do post-graduation.

“There is no point in looking towards the future. You’ve just got to live every moment.”

According to Lovely, he is by no means suffering because of his disability. At 18, he was entitled to start collecting Ca-nadian Pension Plan Disability Benefits. Through that funding he is now collecting $906 per month, which he can comfort-ably live off.

Government grants pay for Lovely’s tuition, books and the $50 monthly bill for his iPhone that is essential to Lovely’s suc-cess. This academic year, Lovely received $2,800 in grants for fall semester and $1,200 for winter semester.

Professors, students and ad-ministration haven’t been re-quired to make many accom-modations for Lovely. Lovely requires no more than two sim-ple modifications to the regular classroom in order to enable his learning experience. First, he wears headphones in class so VoiceOver can read his assign-ments to him. The only other variation sees Lovely write his exams in disability services.

“There aren’t many accommo-dations that I need. I’m kind of using more than I need to. I only need to be able to use my elec-tronics in class.”

The TRU community has been

kind to Lovely, though the dense population can cause issues for him.

“People get tripped. Not me though, because I’m the only one with a stick.”

Because sound plays an in-creased role in Lovely’s life, his appreciation for something as simple as television differs greatly from those who are for-tunate enough to be able to see.

Though described video is an option provided by most televi-sion stations, Lovely generally chooses not to use it. He said it interrupts dialogue and listeners can actually miss what’s going on. For this reason, he enjoys television that is narrative with-out the help of descriptive video.

Dexter, a Showtime series about a serial killer within the Miami Metro Police Depart-ment, is his favourite. Because it is told from the killer’s perspec-tive, a visually-impaired indi-

vidual is able to understand the setting and emotion within the story.

“It’s such a unique show,” he said. “It’s like descriptive video without being descriptive vid-eo.”

Aside from Dexter, Lovely enjoys TV shows that have en-hanced, suspenseful music.

“Just by the music you can kind of tell what’s happening.

“I like shows like The Walking Dead, Once Upon a Time. I am a sucker for the Vampire Diaries, I guess.”

Of course, blind people sur-vived before the innovative ap-plications created by Apple and enjoyed television before the sophisticated story-telling tech-niques employed by the produc-ers of Dexter.

But for Stephen Lovely, these tools have made it easier for him to enjoy and understand the world around him.

Blind student uses iPhone to enrich education

Ω Roving EditorCourtney Dickson

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“There is no

point in look-

ing towards

the future.

You’ve just got

to live every

moment.” —Stephen Lively

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What appeared to be a decline in attendance levels at International Days this year, was “not unusu-al” according to Adrian Conradi, member of the International Days planning committee. Events that coordinators expected to be low in attendance were and events such as the showcase on Friday afternoon, that coordinators expected to fill-up fast, did.

“Overall, attendance is way up,” said Conradi, who is also the as-sociate director of international student services and study abroad through TRU World.

Many lectures were poorly at-tended, partially because faculty had encouraged speakers to visit their classes prior to presentations, so some of the most interested listeners had already heard them speak.

Other factors for poor atten-dance included venue size and lo-cation, time of events, limited au-dience interest and the reliance on speakers to invite the community to listen to them speak, according to Conradi.

Advertising on TRU World’s part was not an issue.

“Marketing efforts were much better this year,” Conradi said.

Lectures were also live-streamed

online, primarily for TRU’s Wil-liams Lake campus to get involved in the festivities. Though few peo-ple tuned-in for lectures, it was no extra cost to TRU World so Con-radi believes it was worth it.

“We want the campus and com-munity to value the students we bring here,” he said.

The showcase on Friday after-noon was packed early. Conradi ex-pected approximately 3,000 would come in and out of the TRU Gym during the five-hour show.

Delhi 2 Dublin and Shred Kelly, the two musical events added to the program this year, were also very well attended.

More than 100 people attended The Games People Play art display in the gymnasium each day, which encouraged organizers to let the ex-hibition run for another week.

Ankur Sud, post-baccalaureate in international tourism develop-ment, attended various events and noticed fewer students compared to the number of Kamloops commu-nity members.

Sud said the Cooking Around the World session was especially popu-lar for students and community members, alike. Organizers even had to turn people away.

“We had to discontinue getting people in the room,” he said.

Sud also attended the Living Li-brary session and said, “It was just okay. Not many people were there.”

Puzzle of the Week #15 – Eight Eights

With eight eights and using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,and brackets as needed, write an expression that evaluates to 1000.

888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 is one solution. Now, get your own! There are atleast two others.

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The

full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize.

Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon next

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International Days attendance not surprising

Bionic eyes helping the blind to see

It sounds like something from science f iction, but the f irst ever prosthetic eye, being developed by California f irm Second Sight Medical Products, has been ap-proved for use by European reg-ulators. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to follow suit.

The eyes have two separate parts. The f irst is a series of electrodes and a chip that is sur-gically placed inside the eye and attached to the retina. Recov-ery time from this procedure is about a week.

After recovery, patients need to wear a pair of special glasses with a camera in them that wire-lessly transmits information to the chip planted inside the eye, which stimulates the electrodes attached to the eye.

The brain then interprets that as an image.

The results have not been per-fect, but all patients have seen some improvement.

“We had some patients who got just a little bit of benefit and others who could do amazing things like reading newspaper headlines,” Brian Mech, vice president of business develop-ment for Second Sight Medical Products, told Discovery News.

Where you can f ind out more: www.forbes.com

Will Sochi be ready in time?

The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics always cause large-scale construction to ac-commodate the inf lux of ath-letes and tourists, but doubts are being raised about whether it will be ready in time.

Russia is facing a lack of man-power in its construction efforts.

According to documents from the International Olympic Com-mittee, Russia needs an addi-tional 22,600 workers to com-plete construction on time.

In addition to manpower prob-lems, Russia is facing f inancial problems with the construction. Six of the 43 planned hotels have been cancelled so far due

to problems with investors.The Sochi Olympics are al-

ready over budget and set to be the most expensive in history. Costs are now estimated to be 1.5 trillion rubles, or $50 billion.

Where you can f ind out more: www.worldcrunch.com

Opposition leader assassi-nated in Tunisia

An unknown gunman killed Chokri Belaïd, a member of Tu-nisia’s political opposition par-ty, as he left for work on Feb 6.

Belaïd was a secular political f igure who had been openly crit-ical of the current Islamic ruling party, Ennahda. Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the killing.

Despite Ennahda claiming no involvement, supporters of Be-laïd set f ire to its headquarters.

“Criminals assassinated Chokri’s body, but will not as-sassinate Chokri’s struggle,” Belaïd’s widow told Reuters.

Belaïd spoke openly against the ruling government that has been in power since the Arab spring of 2010, claiming a lack of social progress.

Prime minister Hamdi Jebali has put forward a motion to dis-solve the government, name a non-partisan cabinet of techno-crats and hold early elections as a result of this tragedy. The motion has yet to be approved by parliament.

Where you can f ind out more: in.reuters.com

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International IntonationBionic eyes, manpower and financial issues for

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Despite poor attendance at some of the sessions, events such as the International Days showcase filled-up quickly. —PHOTO BY KARLA KARCIOGLU

Nancy Bepple, TRU career educa-tion coordinator and Kamloops city councillor, presented preliminary findings from her research on “how international students are preparing for career-related work in the Canadian la-bour market after graduation,” as part of TRU’s International Days.

More than 50 per cent of interna-tional students surveyed want to stay in Canada after their education, accord-ing to Bepple’s research.

Bepple focused her research, con-ducted through surveys and focus

groups, on two questions. First, what are international students’ strategies to gain “capital?” Second, what is the role of TRU and its career education pro-grams and services?

According to Bepple, capital can be divided into four categories. Human capital is knowledge and abilities such as language skills and work experience. Social capital is the relationships formed through university participation, work-place connections and academic con-nections. Cultural capital is ways of doing and communicating. Symbolic capital is what is valued, for example a Harvard degree may hold more sym-bolic capital in North America than a degree from King Saud University.

Bepple said while international stu-dents have several types of capital, it might not be valued in Canada.

English skills were most important and social relationships outside of Canada were least important for gain-ing employment in Canada, according to a survey of international students. They felt it was important to talk to people and get involved in the com-munity in order to get practice with language and cultural skills.

TRU international students ex-pressed desire for more work expe-rience, more volunteer experience, more access to the career education department and more program-spe-cific job fairs.

Ω ContributorKarla Karcioglu

Research shows how international students prepare for Canadian labour market

Since 2008’s financial crisis, Latin American’s political left has been rising, but that comes with ideological contradictions, said In-ternational Days guest scholar Jef-frey Webber.

Webber, political science lec-turer at Queen Mary, University of London, spoke to approximately 40 people on Feb. 5 in the International Building.

“In 1990, it would have been dif-ficult to foresee Latin American on the forefront of challenging [right-wing] neo-liberalism,” Webber said.

That’s because most of Latin America had just gotten out of dic-tatorships that actively oppressed left-wing movements like political parties, unions and human rights activists.

Around the time of the 1998 Argen-tine financial crisis, the left became an active political force. As regular citizens became worse off and social safety nets eroded, more joined forces with workers’ and indigenous rights movements.

As the movements became more powerful, they started contesting elec-tions and winning them. Examples are Venezula’s Hugo Chávez in 1999 and Bolivia’s Evo Morales in 2006.

These left-wing governments consolidated their power as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, helped by China’s demand for natural re-sources. Those revenues funded stimulus packages targeting the poor.

The left-wing governments have also moderated their ideological stance towards the centre to appeal to more voters. This has caused the more radical groups that had supported the government to form their own parties.

Webber is no stranger to TRU. He spent two years here as a student when it was known as the Univer-sity College of the Cariboo.

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It can be a lonely experience when you’re one-of-a-kind and that has been true at times for Vita Andersone, 26, who is the only Latvian international student at TRU.

“It is tough because I can’t really as-sociate with anyone,” Andersone said. “I’m not Canadian, I’m not anything else. I’m just on my own.”

Andersone pointed out she still has many people in her life such as her won-derful Canadian landlords and a fairly active social life so she isn’t always too lonely.

“Sometimes I wish to be alone,” she said. “So my alone time is when I go to the bus and I listen to music, that’s my alone time. And when I see someone who wants to talk to me I feel bad because I re-ally don’t want to,” she said, laughing.

The second-year bachelor of arts stu-dent from Jelgava, Latvia, displayed her country’s culture through song on Fri-day at the International Showcase. The song she sang is dear to her heart and in English means “flag of mother.” It was composed by Zigmars Liepins with lyr-ics by poet Mara Zalite. The song itself is charged with symbolism.

“For example a flag is being compared to the baby’s blanket in which [a] mother wraps her child in,” Andersone said. “It’s [an] extremely important symbol for any nation so any person can understand what that means.”

Andersone described herself as a very musical person and has been singing in choirs since she was a little girl in Latvia. She also plays the cello and even attend-ed music school while in high school. Singing choir music is also something she’s managed to continue to do while in Kamloops.

“Music has been quite a huge part in my life, although my family isn’t that musical, I’m the only one,” Andersone said.

As a singer she’s a first soprano, which is the style she sang in for Inter-national Days.

The urge to travel brought Andersone to Canada in 2009, but she first came to

Kamloops, not from Latvia but Van-couver. While living there she came across an opportunity to work as a secu-rity guard for the 2010 Winter Games, which was an exciting and new experi-ence for her.

“I’ve never been a part of such an im-portant event especially a sports event. I’m not much of a sports woman, my-self,” Andersone said.

Knowing she wanted to continue her post-secondary education, which she started back in Latvia, Andersone said she was attracted to TRU because of its low tuition fees and the dry weather of Kamloops, but pointed out she doesn’t like the mountains.

“I figured out after living here almost two years that I don’t particularly care for mountains,” Andersone said, adding she doesn’t partake in mountain sports or wish to continue residing in Kamloops.

She hopes to extend her stay in Cana-da to the point where she might become a permanent resident or possibly a citi-zen. The latter would be a tough decision as it would mean she’d be required to give-up her Latvian citizenship, she said, noting her country doesn’t recognize dual-citizenship.

Andersone said she doesn’t plan to continue her university education at TRU. She plans to transfer to a new university for the fall 2013 semester. With that, TRU’s Latvian student pop-ulation will go from one to none for the time being.

Lone Latvian lyrically inspiredΩ ContributorMichael Potestio

Life & Community

Monica Sanchez-Flores, professor of sociology at TRU, hoped those who attended her Diversity and Dif-ference workshop, at TRU Interna-tional Days on Feb. 5, recognized that “nobody is without prejudice.”

Sanchez-Flores explained to those in attendance, the com-plexities of individual identity and how we are conditioned over time through a number of primary and secondary factors.

Primary factors include race, sex, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, age, disability and sexual orientation. These factors can be divided further into specific sec-ondary factors, but neither primary nor secondary factors stay static through your lifetime.

Sanchez-Flores said identity is formed by how we build our sense of who we are, how others perceive us, societal constructs of hierarchy and status and the interlocking and intersecting of oppression.

According to Sanchez-Flores, identity is constantly revised, ne-gotiated and updated.

“In principle none of us are prejudice,” she said, “but those structures are deep in us.”

Sanchez-Flores also talked about the importance of social structure versus individual agency.

“There are social situations which inf luence our lives,” she said. “They inf luence our behav-iour, but they don’t determine our lives.”

“There is a little oppressor in all of us,” Sanchez-Flores said. “It’s about being aware of the prejudice.”

Workshop teaches students about own prejudices


Monica Sanchez-Flores discusses diversity and difference at TRU International Days. —PHOTO BY KARLA KARCIOGLU

TRU International Days created a little village Tuesday morning (Feb. 5) in an effort to send students away. That is, a series of booths were set up in the CAC’s Mountain Room, collecting all the different programs from across TRU which offer oppor-tunities abroad, from volunteering, to field schools, to study abroad.

“We get all the international op-portunities on campus to come to one event, so it’s centralized, so students can come here, learn about the opportunities that they can go on when they’re in school

or at TRU,” said Rebecca Purdy, a Study Abroad student ambassador who learnt in France last year and is currently a member of the TRU Intercultural Council.

The event included booths by department field schools with lo-cations in places like Cuba, tables about teaching English abroad and an area for Career Education. Career Education helps with in-ternational internship and co-op placements.

The village also included a bookstore to raise money for those going to Cuba with the field school and a photo booth for peo-ple wanting dress up funny and have their photo taken.

Global Village connects students with international opportunities

Ω Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin

Students check out thier options for field schools abroad at the Global Village in the Mountain Room of the CAC Feb. 5 as another part of International Days, the week-long event cel-ebrating multiculturalism held each year at TRU. —PHOTO BY BRENDAN KERGIN

TRU and the TRU Community Trust (TRUTC) will be hosting a University Village information and consultation session Thursday, Feb. 14 from 4 to 6 p.m. This is the first of three public consultations.

The consultations are open to all TRU students, staff and faculty, as well as members of the greater Ka-mloops community.

University Village is a part of TRU’s long-term campus master plan.

According to presentations and releases from TRU, the goal of the development is to create greater population density on campus through the construction of addi-tional housing and accompanying outlets such as grocery stores, en-tertainment, restaurants and other basic services.

“Having more housing and ser-vices right on campus will help with student engagement,” said Peter Hil-ton, former vice-provost students, in a release from the TRU newsroom Jan. 9, 2012. “The village concept

will make the campus more alive, especially when classes aren’t on. Students will stay on campus more during weekdays before, between and after their classes and will come to campus more on the weekends.”

Not only is this viewed as a way to build a more engaged campus, it is also intended to improve the overall sustainability of TRU by decreasing the commuter population.

“TRU and the City of Kamloops are working together to make alter-natives to car transit attractive to people and increase the walkability of campus,” Tom Owen, director of environment and sustainability, told the TRU newsroom on Jan. 9, 2012.

TRUTC was announced on Nov. 14, 2011 and is a corporate trustee that will oversee and manage the University Village development. TRUTC is a separate legal entity from the greater university, though it is owned entirely by TRU. This al-lows TRU to engage in commercial activity it would otherwise be un-able to do as a non-profit entity.

As the owner of the TRUTC, TRU will collect all revenue generated by the trust.

TRUTC is being managed by a

board of directors, consisting of 11 members, five of which come from the TRU community and six of which come from outside TRU.

In order to achieve the develop-ment goals laid out, the TRUTC board of directors will include TRU’s president, vice president ad-ministration and finance, a faculty representative, a student and one member of the TRU board of gov-ernors.

It has also been stipulated that the six external members of the TRUTC board of directors must collectively bring expertise and skill sets that will help focus and further the de-velopment of the project. The spe-cific expertise highlighted include property development, venture capi-tal, business and marketing.

The project is being based off a similar concept seen at Simon Fra-ser University’s (SFU) UniverCity. According to UniverCity.ca, SFU’s community is home to more than 3,000 people, 40 per cent of which are SFU students, faculty or staff.

TRUTC is also based off the SFU Community Trust, the separate cor-porate entity in control of SFU’s UniverCity community.

University Village public consultations set to commenceΩ Copy/Web EditorTaylor Rocca

Jelgava, Latvia, as seen from hot-air balloon, 2007. —PHOTO COURTESY IGOR JEFIMOVS/FLICKR COMMONS

Vita Andersone, the only Latvian student at TRU, sings at the International Showcase during International Days. —PHOTO BY KEVIN SKREPNEK

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Smiling merrily and calling over passing people above the roar of Student Street were three women amongst a crowd, handing out candy and promoting the new-ly formed Intercultural Council. Their participation in Interna-tional Days has gone far beyond promoting the council. Tiffany Rivette, Mary-Grace Maung and Tatyana Dikareva and Celo Pád-ua, were the first students in the history of International Days to contribute to the organization and operation of the showcase.

“I think the only thing we didn’t have a hand in was the food booths,” Rivette said.

Intercultural Council faculty advisor Craig Engleson recruited the students to assist four faculty members assigned to segments of the showcase -- the fashion show, the performances, volunteers and scheduling.

Invited to their first meeting in October, the girls were shocked to find only four students and two fac-ulty members in attendance.

They initially obliged when they were asked to focus on one segment each, but in the end worked together.

“We were under the impression we were going to take on a bigger role,” Rivette said.

They approached the Internation-al Student Advisors about a more ac-tive position and recruited perform-ers and volunteers.

Not only was communication an issue, but a f lood of late en-tries into the showcase created problems.

“By the time we closed the ap-plication deadlines everybody else wanted to join,” Dikareva said. ”It was really hard to say, ‘Sorry, we have no room for you.’”

Rivette acknowledged that the organization and execution was a challenge but said, “The thing with an event this size is, we get to watch it all pay off.”

Ω ContributorAllison Declercq-Matthäs

Students help organize showcase for first time

(Top left) A band of Filipino students play Simpleng Tao for the crowd at the International Days Showcase. —PHOTO BY KARLA KARCIOGLU

(Above) Sushma Sree performed a classical Indian song at the International Days Showcase. —PHOTO BY JESSICA KLYMCHUK

(Right) A group of TRU students perform a Bhangra dance from the Punjab region at the International Days Show-case. —PHOTO BY BRENDAN KERGIN

(Middle)Takudzwa Chiba-ya, a first-year computer science student, sings a traditional song from his home country of Zimba-bwe. —PHOTO BY KEVIN SKREPNEK

(Far right) Sarah Fitz-patrick (right) and Tarun Nayar (middle) of Dehli 2 Dublin take a turn on the drums while Sanjay Seran (left) plays a whistle. —PHOTO BY TRAVIS PERSAUD


International Days 2013“The good thing about being

in a hurricane is you learn from that hurricane and are better prepared for the next one.”

On Feb. 4, Colin Angus (above), author, adventurer and keynote speaker at this year’s International Days, told stories from his voyage as the f irst per-son to travel across the globe us-ing only human power.

During the trip back to North Ameri-ca, Angus and t h e n - f i a n c é e (now wife), were travelling some of the calmest waters in the North Atlantic Ocean when they found them-selves caught in the centre of not one, but two hurricanes. A phenomenon as likely as being struck by light-ning twice, An-gus said.

He detailed his journey with a mixture of sincerity and humour.

The logistical and f inancial planning for the trip took two years, but even the best planning can’t prepare you for everything.

Angus emphasized the impor-tance of maintaining perspec-tive, describing a particular day in Russia when he was feeling sorry for himself. As he walked along thinking nobody was as

bad off as him, having just lost his tent in the Siberian winter, he came across a gulag concen-tration camp marker and was re-turned to a sombre reality.

He also spoke about the subtle changes in landscapes as you travel across the globe and he realized how, “[countries] aren’t that far apart but they are facing very different challenges.”

One of the main messages in Angus’ story was to believe in your dreams. When he was young boy, child of a single

mother and not a lot of money, he read a book titled Dove and was immediate-ly certain that, like the boy in the book, he would one day sail around the world.

“I was so in-spired by this book,” Angus said. “This guy didn’t have a lot of money, he didn’t know the right people, he just had a dream and he made it happen, against all odds.

“When you have a dream, you get people saying you can’t do it. You start questioning yourself.”

He said it is important to be able to differentiate between good and bad advice and to not get caught up in warnings and false perceptions.

Angus’ wife travelled part of the way with him, becoming the first Canadian woman to row across an ocean.


Colin Angus prepares listeners for hurricanes

(Above middle) A trio representing China, Hong Kong and Taiwan perform using the dance style “popping” at the International Days Showcase. —PHOTO BY ALLISON DECLERCQ-MATTHÄS

(Left) Aliya Murtazina, from Russia, performs a belly dance for the multinational crowd at the International Days Showcase. —PHOTO BY BRENDAN KERGIN

(Above right) Vaitiare Carossi performs the Rapa Nui dance from her home of Easter Island at the International Days Showcase. —PHOTO BY KARLA KARCIOGLU

Delhi 2 Dublin (left) proved to be an auditory force Wednes-day, Feb. 6, in TRU’s Culinary Arts Training Centre.

Five people can make a lot of noise when armed with the right instruments hooked up to the right electronics. The Vancou-ver group chose an eclectic mix of musical means.

An electric sitar, a dhol (a double-sided Indian drum com-monly used in Bhangra music) and a f iddle were just a few of the choices, while a DJ mixed a variety of rhythms together to weave a world music electronica mash-up.

“I know it’s Wednesday, but this is Kamloops, baby,” shouted lead vocalist Sanjay Seran about halfway through the set. The crowd didn’t need much convincing though, as the rhythmic music made it nearly impossible for the audience to stand still.

The energy wasn’t just from the music on stage. As a group, Delhi 2 Dublin was incredibly active.

DJ and drummer Tarun Nayar made it into the crowd at least twice, encouraging the crowd to make party buddies and calling for the crowd to keep up. Fiddle player Sara Fitzpatrick made a foray out as well.

The music also often held a message, with most of the group’s lyrics calling for peace and understanding between peoples. For a group mixing two very different cultural styles with electronica, the message seemed fitting and the crowd was receptive.

TRU student Matthew Pf lug-felder, aka Era Core, opened up the evening with a mix of elec-tronic dance music including some original work.

The event, sponsored by the TRU Tourism Student Associa-tion and TRU faculty of adven-ture, culinary arts and tourism, drew around 200 people to the temporarily converted cafeteria.


Delhi 2 Dublin drums up a party

“When you have dream,

you get people saying you can’t do it.”

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A regularly underappreciated genre, ska still thrives in Canada with hubs in Montreal, Winnipeg and Vic-toria. Central to the Montreal scene is the Planet Smashers.

These vets have been skanking (a traditional ska dance) and singing since 1994. Despite the long career, the music they make is as goofy, fun and carefree as ever. The band’s latest release invites the crowd or listener to dance like a hippopotamus. For those really listening though, the simple fun lyrics often have double meanings,

though not usually too serious either.Apart from the bouncy, brass-filled

tunes, the band is heavily involved in the ska scene – in Montreal and the nation. Frontman Matt Collyer start-ed up ska label Stomp Records (now part of the Union Label Group) that produced albums and compilations specializing in third-wave ska (a sub-genre which includes Reel Big Fish and Sublime).

While not known as prolific song-writers, if one is travelling in Que-bec or Ontario, Planet Surfers play a bunch of shows close to home which are always a crazy, fun time. If not, try the track “Surfin’ in Tofino.”

When an artist makes the decision to tour, tough choices are made regarding who and what to travel with. Setting himself apart from the rest, Afie Jur-vanen, better known as Bahamas, has most recently toured solely with two vocalists and The Weakerthan’s drum-mer, Jason Tait. Jurvanen, with a Sil-vertone electric guitar in his seasoned hands, fills out any obvious potential for a flat live show playing with a mastered patience and respect for a crafted mini-malist sound.

Before forming Bahamas, Jurvanen had his roots firmly planted in the To-ronto scene, especially within the Bro-ken Social Scene and Arts & Crafts crowd.

He has toured and recorded with Ja-

son Collett and Leslie Feist, bringing his high school friends along for the ride.

These friends went on to play as Col-lett’s backing band while developing a band of their own, Zeus. Jurvanen’s career is a testament to the adage that it pays to have good friends.

Bahamas’ second release, Bar-chords, propelled Jurvanen to fame in 2012. Riding the success of the album, Jurvanen earned a spot on the Polaris Prize’s Long List, the closing spot on Spin’s top 10 shows at South by South-west and a reversal in roles with Jason Collett, seeing Bahamas securing the headlining spot on shows together.

From the grizzly beard and breezy acoustics seen on Pink Strat (Bahamas’ first release) to Barchords’ clean-shaven class of times gone by, Jurvanen is a smooth listen all around.

As a diving point, check out “I Got You Babe” off of Barchords.

Ω Resident Music GuyTravis Persaud


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The terms “indie” and “folk” are quickly losing all meaning with more and more artists laying claim to these genre tags. Everyone wants in on the scene, but what happens when they get there?

Ghost Lights’s new EP Saltwater tries to set itself above the crowd with distinct lyrical themes appealing to a moody Pa-cific Northwest traveler.

Ghost Lights is a project from Noah Cebuliak, a 23-year-old multi-talented musician based in Montréal. Saltwater is the first release and although just a taste, it’s more than promising.

The album’s opening track, “Fog Chief,” is a romantic 4.5 minutes that evokes images of natural beauty set in overcast and drenched with rain. It sets the tone of the album’s imagery and gives a well-rounded introduction to Ce-buliak’s style.

There’s no hard stance on tone throughout the album. Nothing is par-ticularly upbeat. Nothing is particularly

downbeat. But that doesn’t mean the al-bum falls into a monotonous trap, either. It remains compelling by mixing tones in almost every track. When the melo-dies turn remorseful, Cebuliak’s voice is hopeful.

Saltwater’s lyrics are a tribute to the wilderness. But they’re more than that – there are hints of history here. The old west frontier shines through more than a few times. Mining, logging, and long, harsh winters – it’s all there.

It’s not just what those on the frontier would have experienced, though. It’s the letters they wrote home, the poetry to lovers they never met and the stories they told their grandchildren long after they cleared their land and built a home.

The album’s standout track is “The Flask,” where Cebuliak is able to project so much more and the guitar and bass are so full of character that if they were on any other track, they would drown the lyrics.

Wherever this EP has taken you, “Heart of Wind,” the album’s last track, will bring you home in comfort. Cebuliak plays pia-no and returns to his more subdued lyrical style, but the track doesn’t suffer for it. In fact, none of them do.

At first, Saltwater feels like it blurs together. Every track has a similar pace and most of them share common musical elements. If one of your favourite parts of an album is the juxtaposition, the “party song” amidst the ambience, you might be disappointed. Don’t wait for the crescen-do – it never comes.

But if your approach to the album is the right one, expecting something you can relax to and be introspective by, you’ll find comfort in the wide open spaces and woody back roads Ghost Lights sends you to.

Ω ContributorSean Brady

Album review: Saltwater

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Margaret Atwood’s Twitter profile is simple; one word sits alone on the line reserved for the biography.

“author”All lower case, no grammar,

a simple term to describe one of the most famous, celebrated, discussed and dissected person-alities in Canadian culture and the written word.

For what many see as the icon for Canadian literature it may seem simple, but it is likely as to be as exact as anyone will get to describing Atwood.

As part of the Common Voices Lecture Series, TRUSU is bring-ing the lady of letters to the Campus Activity Centre’s Grand Hall Friday, Feb. 15.

“It’s very exciting, I think it’s wonderful that’s she’s com-ing to Kamloops. Her schedule is so busy that I think that the student union was very fortunate to entice her here,” said Thomas Friedman, a TRU literature pro-fessor and member of the Marga-ret Atwood Society.

While Atwood made her f irst big impact in 1969 with the nov-el The Edible Woman. Before that she had poetry published, but her f irst novel, started while she was teaching at UBC in Van-couver, is what introduced her to greater acclaim.

Since then she has been a pro-

lif ic writer, with many works held in high regard by the liter-ary world, including The Hand-maid’s Tale (1985), which is often a part of Canadian high school English curriculums, and The Blind Assassin (2000), a winner of the prestigious Booker Prize.

However, she is not only a cel-ebrated author, but also a noted commentator on society.

“I think her reputation, and this is another dimension of her, is as a social critic. She has been one of the most insightful critics of society, politics, reli-gion, science; I f ind that role is

something she has grown into,” Friedman said. “She’s become an advocate for a number of very important social issues.”

Those issues include promot-ing the use of libraries, bird con-servation and working with the organization PEN International, a global community of writers.

“She’s been a really strong advocate for freedom of speech, particularly for people who she feels whose voices have to be heard, like poets and creative writers,” Friedman said.

As of Feb. 6 there were still a small number of tickets left ac-cording to TRUSU.

Literary legend Margaret Atwood to speak at TRUΩ Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin

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Those that wandered over to TRU Residence on Feb. 7 were able to feast for free on an assortment of recipes from around the world.

At the event, called Cooking around the World, volunteers pre-pared cultural dishes and served them to those who attended.

Attendees watched via live-streaming video as the cooks ex-plained and demonstrated how to make each recipe. Including traditional Canadian butter tarts, Japanese sushi, Chinese fried rice, Mexican tostadas and Indian tan-doori chicken, 11 different interna-tional recipes were prepared.

The event was organized with the help of the Kamloops Multicul-tural Society.

Amit Goel, international student advisor at TRU World and one of the International Days organiz-ers, said this year was different. In previous years, students did all the cooking. This year, explained Goel, they wanted to bring a sense of community to International Days.

“We felt like this was the perfect event for community involvement,” Goel said.

The last recipe of the night was Chinese New Year cake, made from a mixture of eggs, red beans, sticky rice powder, brown sugar, flour and oil. All the evening’s recipes were available on leaflets to attendees at the end of the night.

Volunteers serve up global buffet


On Monday, Feb. 4, people were mill-ing around the exhibits in Old Main’s art gallery like they were the latest high-tech product. However, with the exception of an area tucked away in a cozy corner, all the displays were ac-tually products of ancient civilizations. So what had the visitors, ranging in age from youth to the elderly, so excited?

Games. Familiar toys like kites, jump ropes

and chess sets lined the walls with a variety of exotic games mixed in. Jux-taposed beside Congklak, humanity’s oldest game was an opening, which led to a small niche called Geek-eDen. The space featured a stereotypical geek paradise. Ben Eastabrook shaped the exhibit based on the house he shares with his roommates.

“Well, I was a little more carefree ¬– just throwing laundry around,” said Eastabrook. He led the installing of the show, titled The Games People Play.

Described as a multi-layered art-ist, curator Tricia Sellmer’s influence

could be seen throughout the show. The games were not only on display; visitors were encouraged to play with them.

“To see people play the games, even hopscotch, makes my heart sing,” Sellmer said at the opening. Each game featured a write-up documenting its ori-gin and history.

The original idea for the show was to contact various international artists and host their work, but Sellmer discov-ered a cheaper, better alternative. She integrated several pieces by local art-ists, creating a hometown game-store backdrop for the show. The organizers estimated the opening drew about 100 people.

“We didn’t know quite what to ex-pect,” said Sellmer. “This crowd [size] is quite unusual.”

Morgan Benedict and Kit Lang-field certainly enjoyed their game of crokinole. Neither realized the game originated from Ontario.

“It’s fun and frustrating,” Benedict said.

“You have to be really gentle,” Lang-field said.

This exhibition will remain open next week during the evenings.

Ω ContributorAllison Declercq-Matthäs

The Games People Play

—PHOTO BY ALLISON DECLERCQ-MATTHÄS


This year International Days organizers took the opportunity to show a small but respectable selection of foreign f ilms. Feb. 4 through Feb. 6, TRU World set up three Foreign Movie Mati-nees located in the Clock Tow-er’s Alumni Theatre. Each f ilm varied culturally and stylisti-cally.

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2004), directed by Zimou Zhang (House of Flying Dag-gers) and produced by William Kong (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon), was shown Monday, Feb. 4. Ken Takakura stars as Gouichi Takata, an aging Japa-nese man desperate to reconnect with his terminally sick son, Kenichi.

Takata learns of his son’s love for Nuo opera, which is a popu-lar folk opera in southwest Chi-na. In hopes of repairing their relationship he travels to China to f ilm this opera for Kenichi.

Throughout his journey, Taka-ta is at a linguistic disadvantage, his inability to communicate in China mirrors his inability to communicate properly in his native land, especially with his son.

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is a heartfelt voyage and captivated the audience.

With close to one billion us-ers, YouTube has become a tool in everyday life across the globe. On July 24, 2010, thousands of YouTube users worldwide were asked to upload videos of their day to partake in the making of

the 2011 crowd-sourced docu-mentary, Life in a Day (shown Tuesday, Feb. 5).

Acclaimed director Ridley Scott teamed up with documen-tary f ilmmaker Kevin Macdon-ald for what turns out to be a lengthy YouTube video.

Scott and Macdonald claim to have edited 4,500 hours of foot-age into a 90-minute feature. Al-though the worldly aspect of Life in a Day is admirable, it proves to be nothing but a shallow ex-periment treading in deep water.

Featured Wednesday, Feb. 6, My Name is Khan (2010) is a pleasant Indian drama, directed by Karan Johar.

Rizwan Khan, portrayed by Shahrukh Khan, is a 30-some-thing Muslim man with Asperg-er’s syndrome. Rizwan grew up in Mumbai, India before immi-grating to San Francisco, Calif., to join his brother, Zakir (Jimmy

Shergil). Despite having Asperger’s,

Rizwan makes a comfortable life for himself. He marries Mandira (Kajol Devgn), a beautiful Indi-an woman and dives into domes-tic life with her and her son.

The f ilm highlights Rizwan’s struggle, not only with As-perger’s but also as a practicing Muslim in a country growing in-creasingly fearful of anyone who “looks” like a terrorist. Shah-rukh’s performance is compa-rable to Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Overall My Name is Khan is long but it manages to deliver a strong message while creating a love story along the way.

With attendance at an average of 20 people per showing, the range of f ilms during this year’s Foreign Movie Matinee had the potential to leave the audience with a well-rounded image of the world.

Midday matinees make crowd mindful of world around themΩ ContributorJessica Duncan

During International Days, TRU had the honour of hosting the first Kamloops Global Film Festival Thursday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 9. The event was presented by the Kamloops Global Awareness Network (KGAN). The festival featured films from the Travelling World Community Film Festival.

“The Travelling World Com-munity Film Festival has trav-elled across Canada over the past 10 years and this is the first time it’s coming to Kamloops, so we’re very excited to share it with our community,” said Sarah Johnstone, KGAN regional coordinator.

Nine films were shown at this year’s film festival. Feature docu-mentary United States of Africa follows Didier Awadi, an African hip-hop artist, as he creates an al-bum highlighting black revolution-ary leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

Shorter films such as Ref lec-tions: Art for an Oil-Free Coast were shown as well. Ref lections is a British Columbian documen-tary showing the journey of 50 artists as they travel B.C.’s north-ern coast, an area central to the controversial Enbridge Northern

Gateway pipeline project.Formed in late 2011, KGAN is

primarily involved with global development issues such as pov-erty, gender, human rights, en-vironment, social justice, health and fair trade. KGAN is affili-ated with the B.C. Council for International Cooperation (BC-CIC).

The Kamloops Global Film Festival is hoping to return again next year as an annual event, but in a bigger venue with a bigger audience.

Kamloops Global Film Fest debuts at International DaysΩ ContributorJessica Duncan

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On the night of Wednesday, Feb. 6, TRU Residence & Con-ference Centre screened the doc-umentary Waste Land (2010) as part of International Days. Lucy Walker, a British documentary filmmaker, directed this film.

In Waste Land, Vik Muniz, a well-known New York artist, travels to Brazil to work among the people of Jardim Gramacho, one of the world’s largest land-fills. The facility is 1.3 million

square meters (about 247 football fields), employs 3,000 people while housing 30,000 people on and around it. The workers of Jardim are a close-knit commu-nity. Many have been there for 20-plus years.

Over a two-year span, Muniz, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, works closely with the garbage-picking community to create large-scale portraits using materials from the landfill. Muniz started this project as a way of paying hom-age to his homeland.

The finished results are as-tounding, with a few original prints auctioned off in London, while the rest are exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo. All proceeds from the art went directly back to the workers of Jardim Gramacho.

Waste Land has been featured at film festivals across the globe. At the 2010 Sundance Film Fes-tival it was awarded the World Cinema Audience Award for Best International Documentary. In 2011, it received an Academy Award nomination for Best Fea-ture Documentary.

Waste Land will mesmer-ize audiences with its honesty while they fall in love with the hard working people of Jardim Gramacho.

Ω ContributorJessica Duncan

Film Review: Waste Land

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The Root of Chinese Values: Confu-cianism, a workshop held Feb. 7 in the midst of the five-day long International Days festival, briefly outlined the tra-dition of Confucianism as well as how the philosophy can be practiced in to-day’s modern society.

“We are grateful for this opportu-nity to share about Confucianism and what it means for all our lives today,” said Warveni Jap, a TRU marketing professor.

The Panorama Room, located on the International Building’s third floor, was filled with chairs and bamboo mats for people to sit. There was tradi-tional Chinese music for the attendees to listen to and tea to drink.

A basic breakdown of the teach-ings of Confucius, an ancient Chinese teacher and philosopher, were read, which outlined the golden rule of the philosophy and a principle we’ve all heard before: Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

This was followed by a traditional Chinese tea ceremony and a brief dis-play of several historical Chinese arti-facts. The items featured included art and tapestry, and the history behind each one were described in detail.

Jap ended the two-hour workshop with a brief lecture, in which she left room at the end for comments and questions from the audience of ap-proximately 50.

Workshop summarizes ConfucianismΩ ContributorKassandra Mitchell

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Universities need to do more with less: scholar

Universities around the world need to provide a better education at a lower cost per student, said a guest lecturer from the Univer-sity of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.

Approximately 30 people gath-ered in the Campus Activities Cen-tre on Feb. 8 to listen to Markus Freiburghaus, the director of stud-ies of the university’s school of business, give his eight sugges-tions on how to achieve that based on his experiences.

First on the list is making sure universities grow in a controlled

manner so as to take advantage of the cost savings of being big while ensuring it doesn’t increase other costs too much.

“Finding that right size is one of the challenges of the future,” he said.

Freiburghaus suggested the use of more interdisciplinary programs to reduce duplication of program resources and establishing part-nerships with industry to help pro-vide funding and instructors. He also suggested shorter, more f lex-ible courses for busy students and less exams, saying students and professors alike hate them and they aren’t used in the working world.

He added it’s important to make

sure all parts of the university are governed in an autonomous and accountable manner and pro-fessors are paid for results – by credits awarded rather than hours teaching.

The final suggestion was to make sure the university has a consistent strategy, making sure everybody’s all going in the same direction.

Freiburghaus told the audience the public, like corporate share-holders, expect universities to do more with less.

“The public has the impres-sion that there are more resources expended than are needed to be spent,” he said.

Ω News EditorDevan C. Tasa

Before the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, hos-pitality was a staple of everyday life. Now with tourists coming back to the region, it has become vital once again.

Senija Causevic, an assistant profes-sor of marketing at the University of London, spoke to a room of approxi-mately 30 in the Campus Activity Cen-tre on Feb. 7 as part of International Days.

A first-hand witness of the Balkan wars, Causevic delved in to the re-percussion of this new-found tourism industry. When North American and Western European backpackers be-gan appearing on the streets and in the hostels of Sarajevo, a city that had been under siege for almost four years, the local residents knew the war was truly

over, she said. While some view travel to this re-

gion as “dark tourism,” an exploitative field trip to troubled areas by privi-leged foreigners, Causevic sees it dif-ferently. In her view, by opening their country to outside visitors and lying bare the atrocities that have occurred there, Bosnian-Herzegovians have be-gun to normalize and reconcile with the violence of their past. For many, the uncomfortable discussions that arise when guiding visitors through the former battlegrounds that form their neighbourhoods have become, in Causevic’s words, a “mechanism of catharsis.”

It’s her hope that the hospitality so ingrained in the region’s culture will ensure that outsiders are continued to be welcomed and continue to be made part of the healing process in this war-torn part of the world.

Ω ContributorKevin Skrepnek

Tourism helps heal scars of warSarajevo, May 2007. —PHOTO COURTESY DAVID DUFRESNE/FLICKR

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More International Days

TRU professor explains currency exchange rates

Foreign exchange rates gener-ally f luctuate based on the num-ber of people demanding a cur-rency, Belayet Hossain, a TRU assistant professor of econom-ics, told students.

Hossain spoke in the Alpine Room in the Campus Activity Centre on Feb. 6 as part of In-ternational Days. He explained to students the complexities of foreign exchange rates, why they f luctuate and what it means for Canada.

The f lexible exchange rate, used by Canada, f luctuates

based on market forces.“There are people who de-

mand foreign currency,” Hossain said, “and there are people who supply it.”

Suppliers of Canadian cur-rency include people who buy foreign goods, people who visit other countries and Canadians who invest in other countries.

With more demand, the price of the Canadian dollar goes up, Hossain said. When the Cana-dian dollar’s value goes up, or appreciates, Canadian imports become cheaper and more will be imported. However, export prices will increase and demand will decline.

This affects Canadians in two ways, Hossain explained. If im-port prices fall then most prod-ucts found on store shelves will become cheaper. The negative result is people in trade indus-tries are at risk as export de-mand falls.

“Canada is one of the coun-tries that depends heavily on trade,” Hossain said, adding trade is heavily affected by f luc-tuations in the exchange rate.

Other factors that can inf lu-ence f luctuation include trade policies, inf lation, political fac-tors, market psychology and in-terest rates, which for Canada has remained notoriously low.


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WolfPack lose shootout thriller to rival SFUΩ ContributorOwen Munro

There is an old adage that says, “hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Well the WolfPack worked hard Feb.8 at Memorial Arena but it still wasn’t enough. TRU lost an entertaining game, including a thrill-ing nine-round shootout, to the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Clan by a score of 7-6.

The WolfPack found themselves down 3-0 in the opening 10 minutes thanks to a couple of wacky bounces in their own end.

As the period wore on the men seemed to find their legs and the intensity continued to increase until Duncan Schulz caused a turnover in the neutral zone and deked out SFU goaltender Graeme Gordon.

The goal came on the penalty kill. It gave the WolfPack some much needed confidence and was the first of three shorthanded goals for TRU, a dominant display of energy, hustle and pressure playing with a man down.

“Credit to the guys, we had three shorthanded goals tonight, our penalty kill was outstanding,” WolfPack head coach Don Schulz said post-game. “We’ve worked hard at the penalty kill

because we struggled with it at the start of the year and we’ve really turned it around”.

It was evident throughout the final 40 minutes that TRU was outworking SFU and it finally paid off when they scored three of the four goals in the final frame to force overtime. Three of the goals came in a strange 51-second sequence that saw the two teams trade goals be-fore TRU’s Tyler Jackson scored on an SFU defensive breakdown to tie the

game. “The guys really came together as a

team in the third period, worked togeth-er, worked hard and cheered each other on,” said assistant coach John Bokla. “Going into overtime, we battled hard but just couldn’t find a bounce to go our way.”

Overtime was a stagnant period where both teams seemed content with heading to a shootout, but both struggled with no goals in the first eight rounds. It wasn’t until SFU’s ninth shooter, Kale Wild, walked in with speed and roofed

a glove-side rocket to give SFU the win. It was a disappointing way to end the game for the WolfPack, but Bokla believes the shootout loss isn’t indicative of the way the WolfPack played.

“You know, last weekend we took Selkirk to overtime and they’ve only lost one game all season,” Bokla said. “Taking SFU to overtime tonight, it’s a big mental push. It’s great to see them come back and build adversity and some character.”

Coach Schulz was also focused on the positives rather than the negatives.

“Credit to our guys, they didn’t stop. That kind of perseverance will pay off.”

As the playoff stretch begins, every game will be of the utmost impor-tance for the WolfPack,

something Schulz has been preaching for a few weeks.

“We’ve been looking at the schedule after the Selkirk game and we’ve been preaching proper rest, food and hydra-tion,” Schulz said. “Based on what I saw in practice I think the guys have properly prepared for the tough stretch of hockey still to come.”

The WolfPack has six games left on the schedule, including a home game against the league-leading Selkirk Saints on Feb. 22. TRU sits firmly in third place with a 7-8-0-3 record.

Shane Mainprize makes a pad save on a shot by the SFU Clan, Feb. 8. The WolfPack lost the game in the shootout, by a score of 7-6.. —PHOTO BY ANDREW SNUCINS/TRU ATHLETICS

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