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Over a dozen pairs of scissors were needed Sept. 6 when poli-ticians, lawyers and other local dignitaries came together in the Irving K. Barber British Colum-bia Centre for speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony to cel-ebrate the opening of TRU’s new law school.

“This is both a happy and historic day for Thompson Riv-ers University, the city of Kam-loops, and the province of British Columbia,” said the Honourable Chief Justice Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia. He was one of the many legal heavyweights who attended the opening.

The day started with a proces-sion led by a bagpiper, a prayer from TRU Aboriginal Elder Jimmy Jack and greetings from the founding dean of law, Chris Axworthy.

This is the f irst new law school in Canada in over 30 years and only the third in B.C.

With the other schools located in Victoria and Vancouver, it is hoped graduates of the TRU pro-gram will stay in the Interior to serve the needs of smaller com-munities.

“People are at the centre of all we do,” said Axworthy.

Like other highly educated professions there is worry there will be a lack of new lawyers outside metropolitan areas.

As young lawyers graduate, some will move into more rural areas to become important parts of those communities.

Many of the speakers touched on the need Canadians have for lawyers in less populated areas. While these positions don’t car-ry the glamour of working at a big f irm, they are integral to the well-being of a town.

“The increased supply of le-gally trained professionals comes at a time when access to justice in B.C. has become a se-rious problem,” said Finch.

The school came about with a great deal of effort from com-munities in the area which were concerned about their access to legal services and politicians like MLA Kevin Krueger, who spoke as well.

Officially announced in 2009, the school has been running on a small staff, with a great deal of the work being done by Axwor-thy and founding administrator Anne Pappas.

Some positions weren’t f illed until this summer.

The school is focused toward

issues facing the area as well, especially concerning First Na-tions and environmental/natural resource issues.

It will also be looking at sports law, an area not well covered by other Canadian law schools.

It is a signif icant moment for TRU as it enters an arena f illed with established schools that hold historic importance.

With only 16 other law schools in Canada, there will be an im-pact on the nation’s legal com-munity when this year’s incom-ing class graduates in 2014.

The school plans to take ad-vantage of its newness, looking to stay on the cutting edge of the legal world and running a more technologically advanced pro-gram.

TRU’s law school has part-nered with the University of Cal-gary and is using the established school as a base for its f irst-year courses.

“We have a special relation-ship with Calgary,” said Axwor-thy.

Law students from the Uni-versity of Calgary even travelled out to help with orientation.

Other visitors to the opening included representatives from UVic and UBC.

The opening reached as far as the University of Zimbabwe, where Emmanuel Magade, dean of law at UZ, visited from.

MP Cathy McLeod brought messages from Ottawa as well as her own praise of the school and community.

“You look at the students in their blue shirts having orienta-tion, you look at this phenomenal building which we just opened for the f irst time a couple months ago, and now the law school, this is just becoming such an impor-tant part of the fabric of Kam-loops and an incredible institu-tion,” said McLeod.

Other speakers included for-mer Attorney General of B.C. and TRU Chancellor Wally Oppal, MLA Terry Lake and Chief Shane Gottfriedson of the Tk’emlups Indian Band.

Senator Nancy Greene was also in attendance. She was chancellor of TRU when the idea of the law school was f irst com-ing about.

Congratulations were also tweeted by Premier Christy Clark.

The opening took place in the Brown Family House of Learn-ing, the newest building on cam-pus (see sidebar on right side of this page) which is also where the program is based.

TRU School of Law opensNews EditorBrendan Kergin

First new law school to open in Canada in 30 years is located in the Brown Family House of Learning

ABOVE: Prominent local figures, including Kamloops mayor Peter Milobar (far left) and TRU president Alan Shaver (grey suit, middle) cut the ribbon at the opening of the new TRU School of Law on Sept. 6. —Brendan KerginBELOW: The Brown Family House of Learning is the home for the new TRU School of Law, as well as many other ammenities for students. —Mike Davies

Many returning students have no-ticed the giant new building beside the Campus Commons.

It’s the Brown Family House of Learning and it opened in May. A LEED Gold Certified project, it has many environmentally positive as-pects and is a state-of-the-art learn-ing space.

The project was made possible by the Brown family, which is why it’s named after them.

Mark and Ellen Brown are a local couple who’ve had success starting, running and selling a local company called Northern Trailer.

Northern Trailer started in 1981 and is based in Kamloops. It serves much of Western Canada.

Though he sold it recently, Mark has stayed on as president of the company.

The couple’s $2 million contribu-tion to TRU is the largest private donation the school has received to date.

With $750,000 donated last year, Mark will discuss with the school on a regular basis where the remaining $1.25 million will best benefit stu-dents over the next few years.

Brown called the donation a thank you to the community for its help in both his and Northern Trailer’s suc-cess.

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Thousands of Canadian wom-en have been murdered over the last four decades, and hundreds, if not thousands, more are miss-ing. Walk4Justice, a non-profit organization committed to raising awareness of this epidemic, says the number of missing and mur-dered women is as high as 4,200, with a disproportionately large percentage of aboriginal women represented.

Although the RCMP hasn’t re-leased information about victims’ ethnicity in the past, it is estimat-ed by Walk4Justice that at least 75 percent come from First Nations, Inuit, or Métis ancestry. There have been many detailed reports, commissions, and hearings on the subject, but human rights organi-zations such as Amnesty Interna-tional Canada say the need for ac-tion is urgent.

An interim parliamentary report released in April by the Standing Committee on the Sta-tus of Women, titled Call Into the Night: An Overview of Violence Against Aboriginal Women, out-lines the root causes of violence against aboriginal women in par-ticular. According to the report, the vulnerability and mistreatment of aboriginal women is due to both a history of colonization and overt racism on the part of media, law enforcement and the justice sys-tem, and the indifference of so-ciety to the violence faced by ab-original women.

The increased vulnerability of women in remote areas is also ap-parent. A disproportionately high number of missing or murdered

women have been reported around Highway 16 in British Colum-bia, commonly referred to as the Highway of Tears, between Prince George and Prince Rupert. Statis-tics from the Sisters in Spirit ini-tiative, an education and research project of the Native Women’s As-sociation of Canada, show almost half of the aboriginal women mur-dered in B.C. are killed by strang-ers; the rate is much lower among the non-aboriginal population.

Stolen sisters

In October of 2004, Amnesty International Canada released a report, Stolen Sisters: Discrimina-tion and Violence Against Indig-enous Women in Canada, which helped bring political awareness to the subject.

According to the report, young indigenous women in Canada are five times more likely than non-indigenous women of the same age to die as the result of violence. Stolen Sisters describes a pattern of racism, decades of oppressive government policy, and a lack of accountability within police forc-es.

The report details that although this is a political and a social is-sue, it is also a human-rights issue. “Indigenous women have the right to be safe and free from violence,” states the report. “When a woman is targeted for violence because of her gender or because of her indig-enous identity, her fundamental rights have been abused. And when she is not offered an adequate level of protection by state authorities because of her gender or because of her Indigenous identity, those rights have been violated.”

According to RCMP corpo-ral Annie Linteau, victims aren’t

discriminated against because of their race.

“Regardless of someone’s na-tionality or racial background, we promptly investigate any reported missing person or instances of vio-lence against women,” she said.

Linteau also said two major, ongoing projects in B.C. are dedi-cated to apprehending the people responsible for these crimes.

One is Project Even Handed, which was responsible for the Robert Pickton investigation, and the other is E-Pana. E-Pana is a government-funded, approximate-ly 70-person team dedicated to investigating disappearances and murders.

“The project has a very specific mandate,” Linteau explained. “It’s looking at the disappearance or homicide of women who meet spe-cific criteria: they have to be fe-male, they were involved in high-risk activity such as hitchhiking or the sex trade, and they were last seen or their body was found within a mile or so from Highway 16, Highway 97, or Highway 5. The purpose of E-Pana was to try and establish if a serial killer was responsible for any of the deaths.”

Currently, 18 cases are being investigated under E-Pana as ho-micides, although the remains of some women have not been found. Using databases, the team’s re-viewers are now able to see simi-larities between cases, follow leads, and hopefully discover new evidence that may lead them to making arrests.

But controversy surrounds E-Pana. Some families whose loved ones aren’t on the list feel they are being neglected. Others feel that the team isn’t doing enough, or that it’s too little, too late.

“In many cases, some of the evidence that had previously been looked at foren-sically has been resubmitted for analysis, because of technological advances,” said Linteau. “The oldest case dates back to 1969.”

With state-of-the-art technol-ogy like DNA sampling and seemingly limit-less government-funded resources, some victims’ families have a hard time under-standing why all 18 cases remain unsolved.

“In some of them, we may be able to deter-mine what hap-pened to provide a bit of closure to the families,” team commander RCMP staff-sergeant Bruce Hulan said in a December 2009 interview with the Vancouver Sun.

“Is it likely that we will be able to charge on all 18 of them? I’m doubtful about that.”

Winds of change

In 2006, Gladys Radek partici-pated in a walk along the Highway of Tears for her niece, Tamara Chipman, who went missing near Prince Rupert in 2005.

“I knew there would be no jus-tice for Tamara, or any of these women,” said Radek, who drew up a petition demanding a public inquiry into the disappearances. The petitions collected thousands of signatures but didn’t draw the attention of politicians.

In early 2008, Radek made a call to Bernie Williams, a long-time community issues advocate who has worked to bring attention to women missing from the down-town east side of Vancouver since the mid-‘80s.

That year, the pair created the non-profit, non-governmental or-ganization Walk4Justice in 2008.

“Our aim is to bring aware-ness to the plight of murdered and missing women in B.C. and na-tionwide, which has been ignored in the past,” said Radek.

“Awareness helps the families of the lost women. It incenses the public to ask questions.”

This year marks the fourth Walk4Justice. They have walked over 3,000 kilometres through all kinds of weather, including the re-cent storm produced by Hurricane Irene.

The walkers don’t travel in a straight line; instead, they follow a route that takes them to communi-ties where families have lost loved ones. Some families travel from across Canada, including the Yu-kon and Northwest Territories, to meet the walkers.

Walk4Justice has a grassroots approach to research. Together with the families, they share sto-ries, hold vigils, and add names to their growing list of missing and murdered women. A core group, plus some who joined to walk partway, will reach their final des-tination on Sept. 17, after leaving on June 21. On Sept. 19, Walk4Jus-tice will hold a rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

“When will the government do something about the lives be-ing lost? These are hate crimes,” said Williams, who has also been directly affected by the violence that persists against women in this country; her mother and two sis-ters were murdered in the down-town east side of Vancouver.

“We want a national, aborigi-nal taskforce that’s transparent and open to communities and fam-ilies,” she emphasized. “We want health, healing, and wellness cen-tres for aboriginal women only.”

The group is also calling for a national missing and murdered women’s symposium to be held in Vancouver.

“We need to take actions to provide better safety nets and to stop this ongoing violence against our women and children, and all women,” said Williams. “These unnecessary, heinous crimes have to stop.”

Strength in numbers

Walk4Justice is only part of a growing number of organizations dedicated to bringing justice to the women affected by violence in Canada. Sisters in Spirit (SIS) has researched 582 cases of miss-ing and murdered women across

the country over the last several years. According to the SIS, cases in B.C. make up almost a third of the cases in their national data-base.

Of these cases, almost half are between age 19 and 30. The SIS is concerned with the intergenera-tional impact these cases have.

“When you kill off a nation of women, you kill off a future gen-eration,” said Williams.

Relatives often struggle to care for children of the missing and murdered. Radek’s niece had a young son who’s now growing up without his mother. Families with missing women who aren’t considered by the RCMP to have met with foul play are ineligible for legal aid and other resources such as victim services, because there’s no evidence that a crime took place. When women disap-pear without a trace, their fami-lies are often left to deal with the aftermath on their own.Findings from the Missing Women Com-mission of Inquiry will be submit-ted by Dec. 31.

One purpose of the inquiry is to look into the conduct of police forces that launched investiga-tions between Jan. 23, 1997 and Feb. 5, 2002 on women missing from the poverty-stricken area of Vancouver’s downtown eastside.

Each police official involved has been given their own publicly funded lawyer, while the families of victims and women who were involved have had to provide their own lawyers.

Although the federal govern-ment claims they are doing as much as they can, pleas for a na-tional missing person task force have been rejected. As of July, the federal government has allo-cated approximately $2 million to create a missing person database that will allow all levels of law enforcement to share information, but it’s not yet operating.

At this point, the RCMP hasn’t released information about wheth-er or not victims are aboriginal. This doesn’t sit well with Radek, who suggested they’re essentially denying that a problem exists.

“It is only through awareness which people start to ask ques-tions, and it is only through ac-countability that we will find jus-tice,” said Radek.

None of these are new con-cerns. Several commissions, in-vestigations and human rights groups have identified many of the issues and outlined recom-mendations for change, but many argue that not enough is being done.

Both Williams and Radek feel there’s an injustice in the inaction of law enforcement to bring the offenders to trial; they see an in-equality in our standard of living in Canada.

“This country has a dark side,” said Williams. “It’s beautiful, but there is a dark side.”

Considering that the vast ma-jority of missing and murdered women are aboriginal, Williams suggested the high percentage of unsolved cases is due to systemic racism within government, law enforcement and the judicial sys-tem.

“If it was me, I would bring a class action law suit against the country,” she said. “These are crimes against humanity.”

A deadly silenceNexus (Camosun College)Ali Hackett

Uncovering the epidemic of missing and murdered B.C. aboriginal women

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Editorial

On the day that will be remem-bered forever in human history as one of huge tragedy and loss of life, one family and their small, tight-knit community in south-east B.C. will remember it quite differently.

For four days last week the public was on the lookout for 46-year-old Ran-dall Hopley, who was believed to have abducted t h r e e - y e a r - o l d Kienan Hebert from his Spar-wood home in the middle of the night on Wednes-day, Sept. 7.

As the report of the missing child came out, some were hopeful that the boy — who had a history of sleep-walking — had merely wandered off in the middle of the night.

As frightening a prospect as that would be, the alternative was even more so.

The public was then made aware of the manhunt happening for Hopley, who allegedly spirit-ed away with the boy in the early morning hours.

The public immediately went on the alert, using social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook to spread the word, but after three days — and several “sight-ings” reports — the boy was still

not with his family.We then woke on the morning

of Sept. 11 — the day that will always be remembered as the one on which the World Trade Cen-ter towers fell killing thousands of innocent people — to find that one innocent child was found on

his couch at home holding his blan-ket, excited to see his Mom and Dad.

So often these stories end in sad-ness and despair.

So often we hear of a body rather than a reunion.

But while the hunt continues for Hebert’s alleged abductor — at least as of the writing of this piece mid-morning on that most infamous of days — I can wear a smile and share in the relief and

happiness felt by the Heberts, the town of Sparwood, and all the concerned citizens who were fol-lowing the story.

I do hope that his abductor will turn himself in peacefully to authorities, but so be it if he doesn’t. The important part has concluded.

The Heberts are together on this solemn day, sharing the joy that is family.

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Sparwood boy safe at home after manhunt

Like many administrators here at TRU and other universities across the country, I start my day sweeping Twit-ter, Google Reader and other sites to learn about what is going on at col-leges and universities around North America.

And so it was in this online space that I found myself last Thursday — in the midst of orientation ceremonies and barbeques.

My heart sank as I read the first story.

“Acadia student dies after binge drinking” read the headline.

The student is reported to have been

playing a drinking game earlier in the week and may have consumed an en-tire 40-ounce bottle of liquor.

This comes during the same week that Queen’s University enforced a new policy that forbids any alcohol in residences during Frosh Week — a response to two alcohol-related deaths last year.

It’s something we all worry about: students testing new limits and find-ing themselves in over their heads. We all dread calling parents to inform them that something horrible has gone wrong.

Dear students, have a great time here at TRU. Enjoy meeting new people. Celebrate with them.

Get a little crazy sometimes. But

please take care of each other. If you’re worried about how you or

a friend are handling alcohol or drugs, know that there are all sorts of smart, caring people here on campus to help you figure it out.

The Counseling Department (250-828-5023) and the Wellness Centre (250-828-5010) are good places to start. The Phoenix Centre in Kamloops (250-374-4621) is another place to turn.

This is the first of a weekly col-umn to be written by Christine Adam, TRU’s dean of students. You can find her in person in 1631 Old Main and fol-low her on Twitter:

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I read the news today. Oh boy…TRU Dean of StudentsChristine Adam

There’s a new group of well-dressed, good-looking scholars on campus this year — and I’m not talking about this fall’s import of Russian exchange students.

These people are the law, or at least they will be.

The only law school to form in Canada in the last 33 years officially opened its doors last week to a group of 75 enthusiastic and sexy students.

With a brand new building to study in, some of the most expensive professors on campus and the simple prestige that comes with being a law school, it’s clear that this is a large step for TRU.

The question is, in which direc-tion?

Will the faculty’s if-you-build-it-they-will-come attitude draw law-yers wanting to pay top dollar for a Juris Doctor (law degree) at one of Canada’s smaller universities?

Or will it negatively affect the university’s small, tight-knit-com-munity feel and harbour resentment among staff and students both with-

in and outside the program? I caught up with law student and

friend of the Omega, Amy Ulveland, to get her first impressions on the program and ask about the legality of calling law students — and Rus-sians for that matter — sexy.

“There’s just this palpable energy. Everybody is excited to be here,” she said.

As for the cost of her education, Ulveland remains optimistic.

“Yes, it is absolutely high when you compare it to other law schools’ tuitions, but at the same time you have to keep in mind that it sort of goes hand-in-hand with the start of a new law school and all the resources that requires. It’s a huge undertak-ing.”

Though the students and staff have come from across Canada and even as far as Australia, the faculty hopes that most of the lawyers will stay in B.C. after graduation.

Ulveland, for one, plans to stay in the Interior.

“There will be some who return to the bigger centers like Calgary or Vancouver or wherever,” she said, “but I think the law school will pro-

duce lawyers that will stay in the area.”

Locally grown lawyers does sound like an appetizing addition to TRU’s metaphorical farmer’s market, and the program’s focus on legal issues involving energy, socio-economic issues facing First Nations communities, and natural resources is well suited to the Kamloops area.

Good looking and useful? We should be begging these people to stay!

Still, some people believe lawyers play a crooked game. We all know the stigmas. Have you heard the one about the lawyer who walked into the campus pub? Well, apparently he had a drink, was very respectful and charming to his waitress, and tipped through the roof.

All stereotypes and hypotheticals aside, TRU is lucky to have a pro-gram as prestigious as the Faculty of Law. And if the quality of the education lives up to the price, the expected prestige should follow.

Want to chime in on this discus-sion? Comment on this story online at theomega.ca.

Law school will benefit community, hopefullyOutgoing Editor-in-ChiefColeman Molnar

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BOTTOM: Daniel Wesley and others rocked the Campus Commons on Satur-day, Sept. 10 as part of the Tunes Against Tuition Concert. —Brendan Kergin

LEFT: The WolfPack cheerleaders show some school spirit at the back-to-school barbeque on Sept. 9. —Coleman Molnar

September 14, 20118

Arts & Entertainment

D.O.A. has been around since before the majority of the student body was born, and they aren’t showing any signs of slowing down.

I was able to catch up with Joey “Shithead” Keithley in be-tween the two shows he played in town recently — one solo perfor-mance downtown and one with D.O.A. at Pogue Mahone — and he sat down on a curb behind the venue to have a chat with me while he waited for his dinner.

Talk Minus Action = 0 is not only the name of Keithley’s new book but also of D.O.A.’s new al-bum, the second one they have released under that name.

This slogan, which is almost synonymous with D.O.A., has its origins in the cover of a Van-couver-based anarchist magazine called Open Road.

D.O.A.’s manager asked if the band could use it on the back of their War on 45 album in 1982.

“We just tried to live up to it,” said Keithley.

The idea behind the slogan is that if you want to change things you have to take some action.

“It doesn’t have to be violent action but it has to be some sort of action that gets people think-ing,” said Keithly.

“Be your own boss, think for yourself [and] try to affect some positive change in this world.

“If you have an idea that is any good, you should talk to your friends, your neighbours, the people in your town, and try to convince them that it’s a good idea and that it’s how things should change, because change really starts from a local level.

“A lot of people think that change starts from big business, from captains of industry and politicians and famous actors or whatever.”

D.O.A.’s message is that change really starts from the people.

“Politicians, they just read the polls and react to them,” he said.

To change things, “you have to get the ideas out to your friends and neighbours, spread it across your town, across your province,

across the country, or around the world. If it’s a good idea, it will catch on. Sometimes bad ideas will catch on too.”

He gave examples of various forms of fascism – Nazi Germany and Italy, and Communist China.

My talk with Joey Kieth-ley was not what your mom and dad would expect to come from a punk rocker, and the show that followed would probably have sent them running for the hills.

I don’t believe for a second that the problem would be with the message he has, though.

Keithley was voted one of Vancouver’s 150 most inf luen-tial people by the Vancouver Sun in 2008, and D.O.A. has been honoured by former mayor of Vancouver Larry Campbell who declared December 21 ‘D.O.A. Day.’

When it comes to delivering a positive message, my guess is that Joey “Shithead” Kiethley is an ambassador we could all get behind.

Talk – Action = 0.

Talk – Action = 0Arts and Entertainment EditorCory Hope

Joey “Shithead” Kiethley of D.O.A. takes the stage at Pogue Mahone for the first show of their latest tour. —Cory Hope

KELOWNA, B.C. (CUP)

In the beginning, I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be doing in Terraria.

There is no tutorial — in-stead the developers plopped my 2D self onto the surface of the world and left me to fend for my-self.

My character was equipped with nothing but an axe and a pickaxe.

I wandered around for a bit saving bunnies from hostile jelly monsters, and then f inally real-ized I could probably use the axe on a tree.

Before I knew it, I was mak-ing my first house out of wood.

The way construction works in this game is fascinating, be-cause blocks of dirt, wood, or whatever you happen to have do not conform to the laws of grav-ity.

Your work doesn’t have to make gravitational sense — rarely does it ever in Terraria.

After slapping a door and a workbench onto my house, I started making a huge staircase out of dirt into the sky for kicks.

I was hooked!And then the zombie came.I tried to build faster, but the

zombies knew what was up. They were climbing my

stairs, and before I knew it, I was swinging my pickaxe in their general direction with little success.

I got knocked out of the sky and fell to my doom.

After my collision with the hard earth, my disgruntled char-acter respawned outside the crude wooden house I had aban-doned earlier.

I went inside and opened my inventory, and realized I had a copper shortsword sitting at the bottom of my inventory.

Those zombies (now outside my house, waiting for me to come outside) were going to get

served.Fighting monsters with the

equipment you have made (or earned) is satisfying.

The number of items players can make with the workbench, the anvil (which comes later), and other crafting stations is continually expanding as the Terraria staff continue to dish out new patches.

There are many weapons and pieces of armour to collect and use, and there are useful acces-sories to f ind around the world.

Some weapons and other precious items are exclusively found in treasure chests, which are scattered underground and on f loating islands high in the sky.

Finding those treasure chests is never a cakewalk, because different types of monsters will spawn depending on your loca-tion.

For example, a man-eating plant kept eating my face off whenever I explored an under-ground jungle-like area.

I learned from the guide (a strange NPC who seems to be living in my house) that if I have enough vines and jungle spores, I can make a thorn chakram, which does a lot more damage than my sword.

Vines drop off of those face-eating monsters, so I’ll have to make my way back down there and show them (eventually) who is boss.

Terraria also sports a very fun multiplayer mode whereby you or a friend can host a Ter-raria server and invite who you want to join in.

The maximum amount of players per server is eight.

I managed to hook up my world onto a local server, and my brother joined in.

He laughed at my terrible wooden house and then proceed-ed to mine his way underground.

We found some veins of iron and silver, which we later used (with great satisfaction) to make an anvil.

Unfortunately, Terraria serv-

ers can be a real pain to set up, especially if your friend isn’t on the same wireless network as you are.

There is confusion in regards to f irewalls, IP addresses, port forwarding and all sorts of head-ache-inducing traumas.

I managed to get it going by reading through some help fo-rums — reassuring, considering I am not much of a techie whiz.

Terraria is available to down-load for 10 dollars on Steam (ste-ampowered.com).

It is well worth the money, considering the gameplay is ad-dictive and debatably endless.

You can make as many worlds as you want and move your char-acters between them with ease.

Treasure chests can be used as storage, so the amount of stuff you can keep from your travels is infinite.

Ultimately, Terraria is a fun and immersive experience that will leave you mining and chop-ping for hours on end.

Terraria is the new Minecraft The Phoenix (UBC-Okanagan)Amber Choo

New indie action-adventure/RPG release worth the $10 download

The Omega · Volume 21, Issue 2 9

Puzzle of the Week #1

You have quite a mess of socks in that drawer: five white,five yellow, six black, four brown, four blue, and one limegreen. Except for colour, they are indistinguishable.

You need to select matching socks. There is no light. Thatsummer job was really weird, and you have grown a thirdleg, so rather than selecting a matching pair, you need toselect a matching triplet. “matching” means all the samecolour.

What is the minimum number of socks you have to take tobe sure of getting a matching triplet? What about if youwant to be sure of getting two matching triplets?

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. Submit your solution (not just

the answer but also why) by noon next Wednesday to Gene

Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>. Submissions by others are also

welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that

in the Math Centre (HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

Now is the time to get out and see how beautiful the Kamloops region is. Find this view of Kamloops and win the first geocache prize of the year. —Cory Hope

Outside, that is! I know that your classes are now in ses-

sion, and you might even be living out of boxes for now (some of you might just con-tinue living out of boxes for the duration of the school year), but the weather is in your favour to go outside and play when you manage to sneak in a few spare minutes be-tween doing all of the things you’re doing to avoid doing what you should be doing.

Kamloops has a lot to offer anybody who likes outdoor activities, except perhaps deep-sea f ishing enthusiasts or whaling hobbyists (note: if you like these types of activities pick up a map of British Colum-bia — we keep the ocean on the left).

In an effort to introduce you to some of the beautiful areas we are surrounded by, I’ve devised a little geocaching action for you.

We’re going to start out nice and close, and hopefully we’ll have you f inding your way around some of the trails, beaches, riv-ers and other fun things in the area.

Here’s how it works:Every week or so, I’m going to go on a

hike, and I’ll give you the GPS co-ordinates to the location of some f lag tape I’ll be marking.

You don’t need a GPS to play, either. All you need to do is type the numbers

into Google Maps and it will show you the location you’re looking for.

With a little luck, we’ll be able to con-tinue to offer prizes if you are the f irst one to f ind the tape and email me the message written on it.

Are you ready?Up behind New Residence there is a hill

that, for reasons I can’t comprehend, is used very little.

An easy walking trail can be found by the Trades Building, and it leads to an area that overlooks a good part of the city of Kamloops, both the Thompson River and the North Thompson, and when visibility is good you can see snow-capped mountains in the distance on the hottest of days.

You’ll f ind this week’s f lag up at the top of one of these hills, located at N 50° 40.529, W 120° 22.407 (ac-curate to within six metres), and you’ll also f ind one

heck of a nice view. It’s a great place to sit down and read, have a coffee,

or generally waste an afternoon.A few words of caution before I set you loose, though. First off, if you’re a smoker, please be careful with

your butts, and bring them back down with you when you’re done. There’s an ashtray just outside of the Trades Building you can use.

Second, if you happen to have allergies to any of the small, yellow, stinging variety of pests, this might not be the best time of year to be hanging around up there.

There are also probably better things you could do with your day if you have any serious aversion to snakes.

If I haven’t lost you already, good luck on being the f irst one to get back to me with the message on the tape, and I’ll get your prize out to you as soon as possible.

Don’t take the f lagging tape, though. We might have a few consolation prizes for those that put in the effort.

Tell Cory what’s written on the f lagging tape at:

cory.hope@gmail.com

Welcome To Kamloops. Now, Get Out.Arts and Entertainment EditorCory Hope

Life & Community

BURNABY, B.C. (CUP)

In an attempt to increase the f inancial assistance available to post-secondary students, B.C. university administrations called upon the provincial government Sept. 8 to bring student loan interest rates in line with other provinces.

Four presidents from the Research Uni-versities’ Council of British Columbia, including Andrew Petter of Simon Fraser University, Stephen Toope of the Univer-sity of British Columbia, David Turpin of the University of Victoria and George Iwama of the University of Northern Brit-ish Columbia raised concerns about the province’s skyrocketing interest rates on student loans.

Currently, B.C.’s interest rates sit at 2.5 per cent above prime — effectively the highest in Canada. Collectively, the four universities spend approximately $120 million in f inancial aid a year for stu-dents, which they claim is not enough.

The presidents argue that interest rates may force students to think twice before

attending post-secondary institutions and that providing attractive f inancial assis-tance is necessary if B.C. is planning on reaching out to under-represented groups.

“If we’re going to be serious — as the province says we should [be] — about reaching out to under-presented groups like indigenous people, the disabled com-munity, socio-economically challenged areas, and ethnic populations, the current resources we have, and the government has, on the table are just not going to be adequate to do that,” Petter told the Van-couver Sun.

The presidents also drew attention to the work of other provincial governments such as Newfoundland and Labrador, which eliminated interest rates on student loans in 2009.

The universities have since submitted recommendations to the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education, which is in the pro-cess of a review.

According to Minister of Advanced Ed-ucation Naomi Yamamoto, the ministry is conducting a review of the current f inan-cial assistance available to students.

The Peak (Simon Fraser University)Kendra Wong

B.C. university presidents unite to improve financial aid for students

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Sports

The WolfPack men’s volleyball team ran through drills together last Thursday with the new sea-son quickly approaching. It was a busy summer for a team head-ing into 2011-2012 with a weight of expectations.

One of the big moves made by head coach Pat Hennelly came at the end of the summer when he grabbed left side Krzysztof Orman of Czestochowa, Poland.

Orman played in Toronto last year for the Na-tional Beach Vol-leyball program and is excited to be in Kamloops helping the Wolf-Pack.

“It’s great,” he said. “I’ve only been here five days

but the atmosphere is amazing.“Pat is an amazing guy and a

great coach. I’ve heard lots of good things about him from my last coach.”

The six-foot-five, 24-year-old Orman will bring some experi-ence to the lineup and said that is why he chose Thompson Rivers.

“My ball control and my experi-ence from beach vol-leyball and from playing in Poland’s second divi-sion at a very compet it ive level should be benefi-cial for this team.”

“It will be a fun [sea-

son]. We don’t know each other very well right now but we are going to hang out more and learn about each other.”

Second-year hitter Casey Knight, a native of Salt Spring Island, B.C., said despite his off-

season injury, he is looking for-ward to the new challenges the team will face.

“My serving has become more consistent, my jumping is getting better,” he said.

Knight suffered a stress fracture in the metatarsal bone in his foot while exercis-ing and says he will be out for the next two to three weeks.

“I haven’t been able to train much toward the end of the summer due to my injury, so right now it’s all about getting back into shape.”

He added that right now the team’s main task is getting familiar with one another.

“It’s coming together, we got a whole bunch of new guys and ev-

eryone has to come together as a team.”

The WolfPack used the week-end of Sept. 10 and 11 to head to a re-treat to work on team b u i l d i n g e x e r c i s e s . They used it as an op-portunity to get to know each other. Six new re-cruits give the men’s v o l l e y b a l l team a new look.

A l o n g with Orman,

the team has brought in six-foot-seven right s i d e - s e t t e r

Brad Gunter from Courtenay, Nick Balazs, a six-foot-five mid-dle from Prince George, Chris

Osborn, a six-foot-eight right side-left side from Phoenix, Ari-zona, Mohamed AbdelMoniem, a six-foot-eight middle from Cairo, Egypt, and Jacob Tricarico a six-foot-seven middle from Hunting-ton Beach, California.

One of the weaknesses the men’s team faced last year was playing away from the Tourna-ment Capital Centre (TCC). They won only two of a possible eight games on the road. The WolfPack was however among the best in the Canada West division at home with a seven and three record, which was good enough to put them in sixth and get them a play-off spot. The WolfPack then lost in the first round to the Trinity Western Spartans in three straight sets to end the year.

The first chance for fans to see the ‘Pack will come at an exhibi-tion game on Sept. 23 at the TCC when they host the UBC Thunder-birds.

The team will open the 2011-2012 regular season campaign at home on Oct. 28 against the Cal-gary Dinos.

New-look men’s volleyball team comes togetherSports EditorNathan Crosby

Krzysztof Orman is one of the many new faces of the WolfPack men’s volleyball team. —TRU Athletics

“I’ve only been here five days but the atmosphere is amazing”—Krzysztof Orman

The Wolf Pack women’s soc-cer team used the 33 degree weather on Thursday to practise for the regular season — a sea-son that began with a loss to the Kwantlen Eagles 2-1 and a 3-3 draw with the Douglas Royals over the weekend.

The f inal practice before the regular season happened on the scorching hot afternoon of Sept. 8, with the women scrimmaging at Hillside Stadium.

Head Coach Tom McManus said the biggest improvement made from last year’s team is the emphasis he’s placing on more scoring.

“Last year, [goal scoring] was our biggest downfall. We were possessing very well, knocking the ball down and we out pos-sessed everybody, but we got to certain areas and just didn’t shoot and that’s what I’m look-ing for this year.”

The injury bug has also hit the team forcing McManus to make adjustments.

He said most of the injuries happened to players during their summer play leading up to the regular season.

First team all-star and second-

year defender Sarah Gomes suf-fered a concussion on Sept. 3 against the University of Fraser Valley Cascades and did not play the follow weekend against the Douglas Royals or the Kwantlen Eagles.

First-year Madison Wells also sat on the sideline.

McManus added that although adjustments to the roster had to be made, the team played hard and disciplined in the pre-sea-son.

The team went 0-4-1 in pre-season play against CIS and NCAA Division II programs.

In 2010, the Wolf Pack women tied Douglas on the road and won at home to win the season series.

The team lost both matches to the Kwantlen Eagles. They went on to f inish third in the BCAA “A” division with three wins, three draws and six losses.

Captain Abbey McAuley said the team is f inding chemistry despite injuries and other set-backs.

“The girls that came in came with team spirit and we’ve really been gelling together, and if they weren’t at f irst they are now.

“Everybody seems to be on the same page,” she said.

“We definitely lost a lot of tal-ent with the graduating players and the players that didn’t come back, but I feel the rookies came in and knew the shoes that had to be f illed beforehand.

“I feel the talent we’ve got is great, especially for how young our team is this year.

“We’ve all come in with good

heads on our shoulders.”The Wolf Pack have one game

scheduled for the coming week-end when they’ll visit the UBCO Heat on Sept. 18.

They won’t return to Hillside Stadium until Sept. 24 for their home opener, a rematch against UBCO.

That game will be highlighted

by the players wearing pink T-shirts during warm-ups in sup-port of the CIBC Run for the Cure and Breast Cancer Re-search.

The shirts will also be avail-able for purchase before and during the game with partial proceeds going to the charity.

Women’s soccer kicks off another seasonSports EditorNathan Crosby

Tom McManus’ team braves the Kamloops heat to prepare for their 2011 season. The team opened with a loss and a tie on opening weekend, and will not show their stuff to the home fans until Sept. 24 against the University of British Columbia Okanagan Heat. —Nathan Crosby

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