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February 5, 2014 to February 18, 2014www.ufvcascade.caVol. 22 Issue 5
Following the three laws of robotics since 1993
What can we learn from Ukraine’s riots? p. 6Homeless housing proposal fires up Abbotsford p. 3
THE RED PLANET
p. 7, 10-11
Paradise or pipe
dream? Two colony candidates weigh in.
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MLA David Eby visited campus with his presentation on the bleak landscape of student loans and student funding in B.C. Complete with bar graphs and charts, the hard numbers don’t lie; students can’t afford to go to school in this province.
What does Mars mean for our future? A possible candidate for the Mars colony weighs in, turning to Asimov, Hawking, and Kennedy to explore the connotations of living among the stars — and the criticism surrounding those trying to get there.
The majority of our student population are trapped in an unhealthy sugar and carb cycle. The 21 Day Sugar Detox explains why food is so complicated this day and age, and what it means to you. Check out the book review.
All four Cascades court teams were in action at the Envision Athletic Centre February 1-2. The sports section keeps you updated on volleyball and basketball.
B.C. has the worst student loan program
The Martian chronicles
Do you NEED coffee?
Cascades athletics takes to the court
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The Cascade is UFV’s autonomous student newspaper. It provides a forum for UFV students
to have their journalism published. It also acts as an alternative press for the Fraser Valley. The Cascade is funded with UFV student funds. The Cascade is
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Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Mission. The Cascade is a member of the Canadian University Press, a national cooperative of 75 university and college newspapers from Victoria to St. John’s. The Cascade follows the CUP ethical policy concerning material of a prejudi-
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With board reform on the horizon, the Student Union So-ciety gears up for another elec-tion season. Nomination pack-ages are due by February 12 and then candidates hit the pave-ment for their campaigns. Get informed on the issues and ask them the tough questions: Bud-get? Health coverage? Student engagement? Exercise your democratic right and shape the new SUS. Polling period begins February 26.
SUS election season kicks off
B.C. liquor in grocery stores?
Following a lengthy review process of B.C.’s liquor policy, the provincial government has endorsed all 73 of the recom-mendations. Among these include liquor being sold in grocery stores, the de-fencing of beer gardens and allowing hard liquor to be sold openly in stadiums. While these are still just recommendations, B.C. is taking steps to update liquor laws and join the rest of the country.
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Following a January 31 an-nouncement from MP Ed Fast, Abbotsford will receive $6.3 million in federal funds to focus on crime prevention among at-risk youth in the city. Abbots-ford Police Department and the Abbotsford School District will work in conjunction with Ab-botsford Community Services to expand or complement pro-grams geared toward at-risk youth. According to the Abbots-ford News, Fast said the amount represents the largest crime-prevention funding Abbotsford has ever received.
Federal funding for crime prevention
Wondering if Abbotsford was always as exciting as it is today? Want to dig through the changes that brought crime in the Valley to where it is today? The Reach’s archives answers these questions, and Taylor Breckles has a primer on the place.
Reaching outCulture 12
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We asked. Some voted.The Cascade ran a referendum
from January 29-31 asking for a $1.50 raise to the current $4.50 student fee. 148 students voted against the question and 141 voted in favour. The increased fee would have allowed the stu-dent newspaper to increase its campus coverage and keep up with inflating costs of produc-tion.
The Cascade referendum fails
A brief introductionThe week before reading
break is always difficult. It ’s not because courses are start-ing to get harder, or because professors are starting to as-sign more, but because the looming freedom of a week off is incredibly distracting. One half of the brain is dreamily considering what it will do with an entire week off. The other half is scrambling as it tries to calculate if the whole brain has done enough work this semester to actually mer-it an entire week away from school.
One half of the brain war-ring against the other half of-ten results in nothing getting done at all. Reading break, I can tell you right now, will neither feel like a break nor feel productive in the slight-est. Ironically, it might be more like Spring Breakers than anything else: you’re expect-ing something sexy and awe-some, and instead get James Franco in corn-braids in some kind of art movie.
While you ponder that im-age, here are all the thoughts that came to mind when faced with the task of creating an editorial this week, sorted un-der handy sub-headings. Ap-parently I’m unable to come up with any cohesive ideas either.
Referendum: the grieving periodAs some of you might know,
The Cascade was at referendum at the end of January, asking students to approve a $1.50 raise to the newspaper student fee. I was pretty confident that it would pass; that’s the kind of spare change you can dig out of your couch cushions.
But it didn’t pass. It failed.
It failed, in fact, by seven votes.
The numbers are 141 stu-dents in favour, and 148 against.
This sucks, because it was so close. But it could also be a lot worse, because if we can convince four of those “no” students to become “yes” stu-dents, we can pass a referen-dum.
No matter how you feel about it, feel free to contact us. We’d love to hear your rallies both for and against The Cas-cade.
Either way, we’ll be back with a new referendum sooner rather than later. Stay tuned.
Once upon a reading break…
Two years ago I spent my reading break in Austin.
Austin is a pretty interest-ing cultural hub hiding out in the misshapen pie piece that is Texas.
Three of us went altogether, and although it sounds like a relaxing trip to take over spring break, our reason for going was enough to raise the border guard’s eyebrows both on the way there and on the way back: we went to read.
The three of us were en-rolled in a directed studies course, and we found out the University of Texas had a spe-cial collection of manuscripts, drafts, and personal library of the author we were studying.
It was a pretty cool week, but the coolest part was that UFV was 100 per cent behind us: we were awarded a grant through UFV financial that paid for the flights, the drive, bus passes while we were there, and food.
Sometimes we take UFV for granted, or only talk about it to complain that the cool parts of the cafeteria are only open for three hours a day.
But UFV has your back. Maybe they’ll help fund you to do something cool, be it a study trip to Texas, a confer-ence in Seattle, studying over-seas, or presenting your work to students across the country.
Radio killed the news-paper star
Did you know The Cascade has a radio show? It plays on CIVL radio 101.7 FM on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. If you hate reading but still want to hear about what’s in the paper, this is the show for you.
Last week we talked about Bitcoin for a really long time before remembering there was an entire paper we were sup-posed to be showcasing.
Finally, a joke that is somehow less funny now that I have an Eng-lish degree
How do you get an English major off your porch?
Pay them for the pizza.
DESSA BAYROCKTHE CASCADE
ScattershotAssorted vignettes from my head to yours
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Despite passing board reform and updating elections poli-cies, the Student Union Society (SUS) January 22 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) left some business undecided.
Before approving the agenda at the beginning of the meet-ing, Biology and Chemistry Student Association (BCSA) president Jennifer Martel re-quested to have a motion add-ed to the agenda which would see 55 per cent of the SUS bud-get mandated to go towards student services.
Martel explained to the members in attendance that she tried to bring her motion forward at the original EGM before it was cancelled in De-cember, and that she was never contacted to have it placed on the January agenda.
Under SUS bylaws any spe-cial business must be present-ed at least 14 days prior to an EGM, which barred the addi-ton of this motion to the EGM without proper notice.
SUS VP finance and chair of the EGM Ryan Peterson ruled that Martel’s motion would not be added to the agenda.
Following the EGM, Martel described the communication
between her and SUS in the weeks leading up to the EGM.
“When I found out about the last EGM that was happening I sent an email [and] I gave the nature of the motion,” she said. “I got a reply saying, ‘We need to see the motion.’”
She added that her under-standing of the B.C. Society Act is that only the spirit of a mo-tion is required ahead of time. “Obviously you want to be in-formed going into an EGM ... my wording wasn’t ready.”
The B.C. Society Act indi-cates in section 13 that
“Notice of a general meeting must specify the place, day, and hour of the meeting, and, in case of special business, the general na-ture of that business.”
Peterson explained that SUS requests motions be presented in full so the student body can be fully informed, although this is not indicated in their bylaws.
“We always try to strive [for] more complete, concise ideas. Otherwise, that doesn’t really give people enough to debate or think or find out more about it,” he says. “An idea is vague; it can change ... so it’s very con-fusing for everyone involved.”
He went on to note that SUS offered help in drafting the motion prior to the first EGM,
but nothing came of it. “We always encourage peo-
ple to come forward to us,” Petersen said. “I think we did even offer help on completing a full draft of it, but then no further response was made, at least to my knowledge.”
Martel’s motion was present-ed in full on January 22, but it was deemed special business and not added to the agenda.
SUS bylaws define special business in section 16.
“All business conducted at an Annual General Meeting, except the following:
16.2.1 The adoption of rules of order
16.2.2 The consideration of the financial statements
16.2.3 The consideration of the report of the Directors
16.2.4 The consideration of the report of the auditor, if any
16.2.5 The appointment of the auditor, if required
16.2.6 The other business that, under these Bylaws, ought to be conducted at an Annual General Meeting.”
Special business is also de-fined in section 15 of the B.C. societies act.
“All business at an extraordi-nary general meeting except the adoption of rules of order.”
“Because we have bylaw 16 right now, it makes everything
at an EGM or an AGM special business, so you have to have it 14 days before,” Martel said. “The problem is a lot of the EGMs aren’t announced until that 14 days. Sometimes they’re on the website ahead of time.”
At the end of the EGM, rep-resentative-at-large Thomas Davies suggested that a callout period prior to the 14 day no-tice for a SUS general meeting would be beneficial to students wanting to bring ideas to the table. Peterson confirmed SUS is considering the idea going forward.
“We’ll have to draft some sort of policy for that so it doesn’t just disappear after this one shot,” he said. “That way peo-ple ... know that an AGM or EGM is coming up, and they have X amount of days to have any ideas, any input that they want to submit to us.”
Martel’s motion is designed so that SUS budget allocates 55 per cent of their funds to stu-dent services.
“As a student I want to see that my money’s going toward something useful ... I’m put-ting all this money into it and I feel like I’m not getting enough out. I feel that at least ... 50 per cent of what we put in should come back to us,” she says.
Martel is now on the SUS
budget committee and will be working with Peterson and other members to draft the up-coming 2014/2015 budget to be presented at the March AGM.
“I think that’s possibly the best model to engage them at, is to help them have their voice at a very real level,” Peterson says.
With files from Dessa Bayrock.
JESS WINDTHE CASCADE
A motion to mandate that SUS spend at least 55 per cent of their budget on student services was never addded to January’s EGM agenda, but students haven’t seen the last of it
The Martel motion
In Volume 22, Issue 4 of The Cascade, article “Arguing about the rules before the meeting even starts,” The Cascade re-ported “Robert ’s Rules would allow them to suspend bylaws.”
Robert ’s Rules allow mem-bers of a society to suspend Robert ’s Rules, not bylaws.
It was also reported that Martel’s motion would require SUS to put “at least 55 per cent of its total budget directly to-ward student clubs, associa-tions, and events.”
The motion encompasses all SUS student services, including but not limited to clubs and as-sociations.
Correction
Abbotsford is no stranger to controversy when it comes to the city’s homeless population.
So it was no surprise when more than 300 people packed City Hall to discuss the pro-posed development of a low-barrier 20-man housing unit on Monday night.
Prefacing the discussion by acknowledging the “hotbed” nature of the topic, Mayor Ban-man warned the crowd, both those in favour and those op-posed, that there would be no tolerance of any form of intimi-dation including clapping, or the meeting would be “termi-nated” immediately.
As soon as the mayor opened the floor, a line wrapping around both sides of the audi-torium formed and remained constant throughout the entire five-hour meeting.
Presenters ranged from those speaking on behalf of organi-zations, such as Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) and the Abbotsford Downtown Business Association (ADBA),
to regular citizens and self-professed poets voiced con-cerns on and support for the proposed housing.
ADBA president Paul Mc-Clouden recognized the value of ACS and the housing project, but remained adamant that it would have “damaging effects to the growth of Downtown.”
“For the city now to approve this housing project … this would remove the very fibre of confidence that the busi-ness community has in our city,” McClouden said. “Why would the city abolish bylaws that prove to make the historic downtown what it is today?”
ACS director of operations Nadine Power spoke to the importance of maintaining community awareness and on-going responses to the needs and changes in Abbotsford’s society. She believes the hous-ing project and the provincial government’s $2.6 million com-mitment to the proposal will address these.
“Before you at the moment is an opportunity for mayor and council to act here and now, to take advantage of the funding
that is available to our com-munity,” Power said. “Funding that will not likely be available should [council] choose the op-posite.”
B.C. Housing director of re-gional development Naomi Brunemeyer also asserted that the property on Montvue pro-posed for this project had been thoroughly assessed and was considered among two oth-er options. Property on both Clearbrook and Emerson had also been discussed; however, it was the ACS proposal for Montvue that had proved the most viable option.
Concluding her address, Brenemeyer appealed to the audience, assuring them that “B.C. Housing [is] not here to create a wedge in [Abbots-ford’s] community — we’re here to help you address your homelessness issue.”
Council’s decision regarding an amendment to the C-7 bylaw will be made Monday, Febru-ary 17.
KATHERINE GIBSONTHE CASCADE
Homeless housing project debate packs City Hall
ADBA reacts on Twitter
Five-hour meeting on contentious subject solves nothing; council to announce decision next week
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Considering it hasn’t changed since its implementation, the time has come for a revamping of UFV’s bachelor of arts pro-gram.
The current design, which was inherited from Simon Fra-ser University, is undergoing a review to look at breadth requirements and whether courses adhere to UFV’s newly developed learning outcomes.
Indigenization of the cur-riculum is a key value in these learning outcomes, and is tak-ing priority during the review.
“If indigenization is some-thing that our university is committed to then we also have to be committed to, mak-ing sure that all students have some exposure to these things,” says associate dean of students in arts Susan Fisher. “If that’s what we value, then we’ve got to put it into practice.”
According to Fisher, the draft for the new bachelor of arts framework could come into effect September 2015 at the earliest. Input from various departments is needed to draw up the new criteria for breadth requirements. With each course evaluation, the ques-
tion of whether consideration has been given to indigenizing the curriculum is posed; they were developed in a time when proper consideration may not have been given to indigenous content.
“If [courses] were developed during a time where we weren’t as aware or as committed to indigenizing, then as [the pro-gram comes] through the revi-sion process it’s an opportuni-ty to check whether indigenous content is appropriate, and if so how is it being supported,” says Fisher. “As courses come up for revision, now in a way that might not have been asked before, this question is asked.”
Questions of what a student should glean from a BA are brought to the forefront — what is the role of science, for instance, or history, or ecologi-cal awareness and literacy?
“There are a lot of differ-ent values that we might have here,” Fisher says, “but how do we build them into the pro-gram?
Arts 100 is one course that contains a fair amount of indig-enous content. Students read indigenous-inclusive texts, at-tend sessions on “ideas of ter-ritory and homeland” with elders while spending time in
the gathering space in Chilli-wack, and watch a screening of “Meaning of Life,” a film by UFV’s Hugh Brody.
Another addition to the BA is the new indigenous studies de-gree. The proposal, worked on by associate dean Ken Brealey, senior advisor of indigenous affairs Shirley Hardman, and program coordinator Sylvie Murray, has been under con-struction for several years, and will potentially be available to students in September 2015.
“There have been indigenous studies degrees around in oth-er places for a long time, so it’s time for us to catch up. And we
are doing that.”The degree, according to
Murray, is based on a selection of indigenous people’s knowl-edge (IPK) courses, in addition to a sample of courses in vari-ous disciplines. Courses in his-tory, criminology, social work, political science, anthropology, and Halq’emeylem are a few of the departments involved.
“It’s a combination of cultur-al awareness and more applied, hard skills,” Murray says. The degree could include commu-nications and media studies content and would offer cours-es on both the Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses.
Potential careers after gradu-ating with this specialization vary widely, from government agencies and band offices to non-profit organizations and resource management with First Nations communities.
“The program is designed for indigenous and non-indig-enous students,” says Murray. “It is shaped to speak to stu-dents who are interested and want to work in these areas and be well versed in the issues.”
She concludes saying the degree would be “a very im-portant part of UFV’s effort to educate ourselves and our stu-dents.”
NADINE MOEDTTHE CASCADE
BA review part of ongoing indigenization process at UFV
Eat garlic, kill cancerScience on Purpose
What do vampires and cancer have in common? Both can be defeated by garlic.
Garlic is one of the world’s most potent foods and is com-monly associated with a long lifespan, but it has also been a great aid to scientists conduct-ing lab work.
Cancer cells have high me-tabolism and require a lot of energy to grow, and garlic can provide them with said energy. Through an oxygen reactant compound, garlic essentially suffocates cancer cells by over-loading them with energy.
A study at Washington State University demonstrated that garlic is 100 times more effec-tive than two common anti-biotics in defeating disease-causing bacteria, proving those “Not All Bugs Need Drugs” commercials may have a point.
“This research highlights the great promise of plant-originated compound as natu-ral medicine for controlling the malignant growth of hu-man brain tumour cells,” says Swapan Ray, neuroscience and neurology associate professor, in Cancer, the American Cancer Society’s journal.
Glioblastoma, for example, is the most common, as well as
the most aggressive, variety of brain cancer. It accounts for 52 per cent of all functional-tissue brain tumour cases as well as 20 per cent of all intracranial tumours. The typical treatment for glioblastoma is chemother-apy and radiation, which are known to kill brain cells and offer an average survival rate of 15 months.
However, for the first time, organo-sulfur compounds — which are found in garlic — have been recognized as ef-fective against glioblastoma. This discovery will allow for non-invasive and less harmful cancer treatment.
“Our basic studies will even-tually be translated to clinics for patient care. We may have
to wait several years before its application to humans, but the significance of this discovery is enormous,” says Naren Ban-ik, neuroscience and neurology professor in Cancer. “The bene-fits from this research to brain cancer patients will bring great satisfaction to researchers and clinicians who are trying to find a successful treatment for
this devastating cancer.”In addition to garlic-derived
compounds being healthier for the body, these organo-sulfur compounds are also small and would most likely not require complex delivery methods in order to treat patients.
The National Cancer Insti-tute’s hypothesis is that “[pre-ventative] effects from garlic may arise from its anti-bac-terial properties, or from its ability to block the formation of cancer-causing substances, halt the activation of cancer-causing substances, enhance DNA repair, reduce cell prolif-eration, or induce cell death.”
In order to take advantage of these cancer-killing benefits at home, there are a few steps in-volved if one wants to gain the full potential of garlic healing. As Ray recommends, peeling and cutting fresh garlic and letting it rest for 15 minutes be-fore eating it, or cooking with it, is preferred as it allows time for the release of the enzyme alliinase. This is the enzyme that produces anti-cancer com-pounds, so letting garlic rest is a small price to pay in ex-change for the benefits.
That said, gorging on gar-lic can cause diarrhea, aller-gies, and internal bleeding, so choose your meals carefully.
TAYLOR BRECKLESCONTRIBUTOR
Image: Richard North/ flickr
Garlic has been found to be a useful vegetable in the fight against brain cancer.
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The latest forecast from oppo-sition critic for advanced edu-cation David Eby shows little new hope for students.
“B.C. students can’t afford our own education system any-more,” Eby told a small crowd in UFV’s dimly lit campus lounge on January 31.
Shortly after 11 a.m., a mix of students and graduates gathered in AfterMath to hear Eby’s evaluation of B.C.’s edu-cational climate and to share their own experiences funding their degrees. Visiting a num-ber of the province’s publicly funded post-secondary insti-tutions, Eby hopes to bring his findings and students’ stories to the legislature in Victoria in February.
He explained one of his early stops at Thompson Rivers Uni-versity during a student orien-tation day revealed a sobering reality. He spoke with 15 stu-dents in line before he met one from B.C. It raised an impor-tant question. Why were there so few B.C. students there?
“I started looking for real-world impacts we can see as a result of the failure of the stu-dent loan system in B.C.,” he said.
One of the first things he found was that B.C. residents are least likely in Canada to
pursue full-time studies. In actuality, B.C. residents were more likely to enroll in part-time studies and programs, de-spite the fact that the student loan program does not cater to those students.
He also pointed out that government-held student debt is on the rise, and asked rhe-torically how such an increase is possible when B.C. lends the least amount in student loans in the country. It boils down to interest.
“B.C. and New Brunswick both charge prime plus two per cent,” he explained, noting the extra two per cent on top of
what it costs the government to loan the money in the first place generates $36 million per year for the provincial govern-ment.
“The government has actu-ally imposed a two per cent tax on the people who need to bor-row the most,” Eby concluded.
Another trend he noticed on his university visits is some-thing he never encountered when he attended school more than a decade ago: student food banks. These have become a necessary resource for stu-dents struggling to study and eat; UFV’s Student Union So-ciety implemented one on the
Abbotsford campus in October.Eby also raised the issue
of youth unemployment in B.C., citing that the province dropped to last place with the highest rate in 2012. They were in second place six years before that.
In 2012, one in 10 residents aged 15 to 19 was not working or in school; one in seven 20- to 24-year-olds and a startling one in five 25- to 29-year-olds were in the same situation.
“How do you correlate the fact that we have the most peo-ple not in school, not in work, and not in training with the fact that we have the low-est participation rate for full-time studies in Cana-da?” he asked.
One of the ways these figures manifest themselves is in social assistance. The largest increase in new welfare recipients is in residents aged 55 to 64, who Eby explained would have the most difficulty reentering the economy after losing their jobs in an economic downturn, and would benefit most from part-time training programs.
“The second highest increase in welfare cases in B.C. is among 19- to 24-year-olds, and this is the cohort that presum-ably would be most likely to go to school rather than receive
welfare,” he said. “For some reason in B.C. that’s not hap-pening, and there’s a massive spike in social assistance cases among that group.”
The other consequence of low access to education is migra-tion. Eby presented a graph of net migration in and out of the province, which showed B.C. losing people of prime working age. 2012 was the highest point in youth migration out of the country since 1990. Meanwhile, people at or nearing retirement age were migrating into B.C.
“If this trend continues, B.C. will be a won-derful retire-ment commu-nity, but we’re really under-mining the future of the
province in terms of economic development,” he said.
Of course, Eby admitted to his audience, largely com-prised of students, that he was preaching to the choir, but said he hopes to get feedback on whether students agree with his assessment, and wants to hear their experiences.
“It’s pretty dark right now for young people in British Co-lumbia,” he determined, then opened up the floor for stu-dents to weigh in.
KATIE STOBBARTTHE CASCADE
B.C. a great place to retire, not a great place to make a living
“The government has actually imposed a two per cent tax on the people who need to borrow the most.”
Image: Katie StobbartEby laid out the hard numbers of B.C.’s education system.
Just weeks away from its planned opening on February 15, UFV’s new Centre of Ex-cellence in Agriculture is sur-rounded by excitement and an-ticipation by students, faculty, and members of the industry alike.
These buildings will provide a central location for UFV stu-dents and others interested in the field to study and receive training relevant to the agri-culture industry.
“We’re in the heart of the bread basket of B.C., so there’s some sense to UFV being a hub, especially when we’re right in agriculture central,” explains facilities and campus develop-ment executive director Craig Toews.
“We have a program in ag-riculture that is fairly [broad] and we do have connections with a lot of these other in-stitutions,” he says. “We also have the ministry of agricul-ture right across the highway and there are a lot of high-end research labs there.”
While learning the ins and outs of the industry is impor-
tant, Toews also notes that it is integral for UFV’s agriculture training to remain relevant to the industry.
“There’s a lot of economic fo-cus on agriculture within the municipal areas that we have campuses — so we have really strong connections with the industry,” Toews says. “If we don’t have industry involved, we don’t really have a real check and balance in terms of [whether or not] we are train-ing students with the skills
that the industry really needs for jobs.”
For Toews, one key feature that will allow UFV to remain relevant comes in the form of technology. From “warm barns,” which simulate the dif-fering environments needed for raising livestock, and spe-cially designed greenhouses on campus to the mechanized milking of cows, Toews high-lights the advanced ways UFV students will be able to use their technological training lo-
cally. “Farmers have this tech-
nology; [they’re] partnered up with someone to give it to them, but who do they have lo-cally to maintain, operate, and program these things?” asks Toews. “We want to train auto-mation technicians … who can actually get out there and do this [locally].”
While the agriculture indus-try is full of job opportunities for UFV students, Toews be-lieves that in order to better en-
gage students, the stereotypes surrounding farming need to be broken.
“We need to go back into high school and ... start breaking the myths around agriculture ... it ’s not just about muddy boots and Mom and Dad losing their shirt on a farm where it’s very difficult to make a living,” he says.
“We need to break that myth because there are all sorts of exciting careers and opportu-nities in agriculture now.”
KATHERINE GIBSONTHE CASCADE
New agricultural building links UFV to agriculture industry
Image: Katherine Gibson
Craig Toews speaks to technological advancements coming with UFV’s Centre of Excellence in Chilliwack.
Warm barns and milk machines
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What would it take to make 200,000 Canadians walk into the streets and protest? Budweiser shutting down its production line? Another humiliating hockey defeat? How about losing our legal right to pro-test, like in Ukraine?
To recap: since mid-January, Ukrainian citizens have taken to the streets against their govern-ment’s draconian new anti-pro-testing laws. These so-called “dic-tatorship laws” outlaw motorcades and mask-wearing, legalize trial in absentia and internet censorship, and slap six-year prison sentences on protesters who block access to residential buildings or engage in “extremist activity” — a chillingly vague term.
As if that’s not enough, a cease-and-desist message from the government appeared on mobile phones across central Kiev when the riots began, seemingly straight out of Orwell’s 1984: “Dear sub-scriber, you are registered as a par-ticipant in a mass disturbance.”
In response to their govern-ment’s actions, Ukrainians took to the streets en masse and started burning Kiev down.
The photos are terrifying: smoky
rubble-strewn streets, bloodied photographers, rioters whipping armoured police officers with chains. The sheer scope of the protests, combined with intense pressure and criticism from the in-ternational community, forced the government to backpedal. The an-ti-protesting laws were repealed, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned in shame, and amnesty was offered to the arrested protest-ers on the condition that the other protesters clear the area. For once, things started looking up for the little guys — but you’d better be-
lieve they suffered and bled for it.But what if this had happened in
Canada? Would we have reacted with
that kind of visceral, teeth-kicking survival instinct if the Harper gov-ernment had tried to outlaw pro-testing? Or would the stereotype of the genial, unexcitable, beer-swilling Canadian turn out to be closer to the truth than we’d like?
We should be keeping a closer eye on the state of our own free-dom of speech and knowledge, especially as university students who have an active interest in the
role of the arts and the sciences in society. In the last few years we’ve watched the Canadian govern-ment muzzling scientific research, invading the privacy of our per-sonal communications, crawling into bed with enormous corpora-tions, and trying to restrict our ac-cess to the internet. We talk a lot about how much we dislike our politicians on both a personal and an ideological level, but we don’t do anything about it. We post a Facebook status and forget about it.
To be clear, I’m not condoning
the kind of violence that Ukraine has seen in the past few weeks. To date, four protesters have been killed in the riots, others are miss-ing, many others have been badly injured, and untold damage has been done to innocent people’s ve-hicles, homes, and businesses. But we’re not talking about rioting, which is violent and destructive — we’re talking about protesting. Too often the two are confused or deliberately blurred together.
At what point do we decide that enough is enough? Would it take a Canadian set of “dictatorship laws” for us to show the same pas-sion for free speech, knowledge, and information? There’s a time to stop talking and start marching. When writing articles and repost-ing social media campaigns don’t work, we always have the option to physically occupy a space. We can fill the streets, stop traffic, make noise. We can use our bod-ies to tell the world, “I am here.” Nothing should be able to invali-date our right to make that basic statement.
What should we be learning from the way the Ukrainian pro-testers have refused to accept op-pression?
That it works.
SNAPSHOTS This week’s theme: “What goes up must come down”
I can’t figure out this whole business of colonizing Mars. Have we given up on this planet? Have we admitted failure? I would like to know how we have the technology and willpower to live on a planet which is inhospitable to life, yet cannot seem to find a way to live in a place of fertility and growth without destroying it.
I guess there’s just no glamour in it. We want the new, the challenging, the danger-ous, the unexpected. Adventure. Drama. We want to watch it all in real-time and HD.
The allure of the elusive is our greatest im-petus for both growth and destruction. That we would prefer a red wasteland to what we have — or could have, if we smarten up — is ridiculous.
The time, money, and innovation going into a one-way trip to Mars could be put to a much better use. Unfortunately, it seems that no matter what happens, we’ll still arrogant-ly refuse to acknowledge the basic truth: you can only go so high.
But I guess that must be what makes us human.
Mars: must we?
Katie StobbartGrades.
Just reading that word, some of you may grimace. I cringe right along with you.
I’ve been told it’s normal for your grades to drop once you enter university because of the different work load, different professors, different teaching methods, etcetera.
But that knowledge doesn’t make it any less irritating when you see that you’ve gone from being practically perfect to, shall we say, less than ideal.
Yes, studying is good and should be prac-ticed in abundance, but it’s a hard shift go-ing from not needing to study whatsoever to having to study every day.
Plus, as I’m sure many of you have no-ticed, it can be really difficult to focus. Sud-denly even that little spot on the wall is more interesting than the pages upon pages of words in front of you.
Because of this problem, I have come up with a study system. I listen in class, then recopy all of my notes before exams. Wilt-ing marks be revived! Wingardium leviosa, grades!
Mark woes!
Taylor BrecklesBad news for wannabe urbanites: Vancouver was recently named the second-most expen-sive city in the world to live in, losing only to Hong Kong.
This isn’t news to anyone. Vancouver has been jaw-droppingly expensive for a couple of decades now. You can actually buy a man-sion in southern France for less than a Van-couver Special crack shack.
But the saddest consequence of the city’s insanely inflated cost of living is that an en-tire generation of talented starving artists are cut off from the city’s vibrant cultural scene. If you work in industries like film, business, journalism, or the arts, you’ve gotta be in Vancouver to make it happen — but even a leaky, bed-buggy basement suite is out of the average person’s price range. It means that only people who are already successful can be where the success is.
I know, I know — the world’s a big place, and there are many, many other places where a penniless liberal arts grad can make a career. But I’m still hoping someday I’ll be able to live in the city. Vancouver wasn’t al-ways this expensive, and what goes up must come down, right? Right?
Vancouver: no artists allowed
Valerie Franklin
As reading break approaches, the idea of doing actual work becomes less and less ap-pealing.
This is a feeling I’m sure many students can relate to, and that often grows on a larger scale over the course of a year, or degree. We start eyeing the finish line.
The workload is too much! The second classes let out for reading break, I foresee a horde of students running for the hills to be-come hermits and tend goats — a simpler, kinder existence that will never, ever involve reading a textbook.
I welcome the urge to hermitize; it’s im-portant to leave school sometimes, whether it’s for an hour, an evening, a weekend, or a season.
But just like that old saying about needing darkness to see the light, it’s important to re-member the shadow value of leaving work behind — coming back to it. As surely as we climb those mountains to make friends with goats, we’ll be crawling back down the hill again to hit the books.
We’re better off remembering how nice it is to come down from the mountain, and not just how nice it is to go up.
You can’t be a hermit forever
Dessa Bayrock
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Riots leave the city of Kiev in a burning heap of rubble and smoke.
What we can learn from Ukraine’s riotersVALERIE FRANKLINCONTRIBUTOR
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SASKATOON (CUP) — Mars One is a start-up space company based out of the Netherlands, founded by entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp. The company intends to send a group of astronauts on a one-way journey to Mars in 2023 to estab-lish a settlement.
The question that everyone should be asking themselves is whether the impediments of such an undertaking too great for Mars One to conquer in just a decade. We must be critical and optimis-tic if an undertaking such as Mars One is to accomplish their mission.
Of course, I have good reason to be hopeful. Out of the approxi-mately 200,000 eligible applicants worldwide, myself and 1,057 other hopeful astronauts have been ac-cepted.
We all need to perform a rou-tine medical examination and go through an interviewing process. If we meet the standards and pro-ceed to the next round of selection, our subsequent training and final selection will be televised for the world to see.
But this article is getting ahead of itself. The introductory para-graph reads like the opening to a science fiction novel. Isaac Asimov accurately predicted in 1964 that we would only have sent un-manned missions to Mars by 2014.
On the other hand, Asimov pre-dicted that we would have a lunar colony at this point as well — and the only “colony” in space at the moment is the International Space Station.
Though we hardly live up to Asimov’s predictions when it comes to space exploration, one cannot help but share his enthusi-asm for what is beyond our planet.
The challenges facing Mars One are many. ***Wired broke down the inevitable obstacles in an ar-ticle published in May 2013.
Mars has no magnetic field, meaning the surface of Mars is constantly barraged by deadly interstellar radiation. Radiation poisoning is one of the largest chal-lenges facing the Mars One colonists.
Additionally, Mars has dangerously high-wind dust storms that would impede both landing and living. And then there’s the physical and mental strains of living in a small compartment for years with only a few other companions.
The most overwhelming ob-stacle to the program, however, is an economic one: Lansdorp’s pro-jected budget for the program is a mere $6 billion dollars.
To put this into perspective, the
Viking missions sent to Mars in 1975 and 1976 cost $1 billion USD. Adjusted for inflation, this is over $4 billion USD today. Also keep
in mind the Viking mis-sions didn’t need to train a large number of astronauts to be prepared to colonize a new planet, nor did they need to con-sider life-long accommoda-
tions. How, then, can we expect our red-planet colonists to survive indefinitely?
Although this skepticism may seem daunting to the average indi-vidual, I find it hopeful. In fact, I find it encouraging. I would want no part in a program like this if people were not willing to ques-tion the logistics of it.
To pursue what is good and nec-essary without the constructive criticism of your peers is to face no adversary, and therefore to over-come no challenge.
“We choose to go to the moon,” U.S. President John F. Kennedy said in his famous speech, “not because it is easy, but because it is hard.”
This mentality of progress was harboured during the space race of the mid to late 20th century, but has not continued — there have been nearly four de-cades between the last soft landing on the Moon’s surface and China’s recent soft landing of their first lunar rov-er Yutu.
Where has the energy for space exploration gone? Who, if not gov-ernments, will push humanity into the stars?
During a tour of a L.A. medi-cal centre in April of last year, Stephen Hawking said that hu-manity would likely not survive another thousand years on our Earth “without escaping beyond our fragile planet.” If we are to consider Hawking’s assumption at face value, it should motivate us as to the imperative of beginning hu-man colonization of the solar sys-tem as soon as possible.
This is a matter of working ahead of our obstacles, rather than when they present them-selves. Many may believe that it is too soon for Mars One; I believe that
there is no such thing as too soon.So we should remain skeptical.
A program such as this will require skepticism before acceptance if it is to succeed. Skepticism produces critical thought, which is a neces-
sary component for such a techni-cal undertaking.
We may not understand how we will overcome the difficulties fac-ing Mars One now, but constant criticism of the details will lead to a better understanding of our jour-ney to the stars in the long run.
Regardless of the logistical prob-lems associated with the program, just think of what the Mars One program implies about the hu-man race. We are, after all, practi-cally planning to colonize the solar system — to reach out and travel through space and time.
Carl Sagan would be proud, but not surprised, to see where we are. After all, it was Sagan that said in his Cosmos documentary series, “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
Hopefully, that day is fast ap-proaching.
ANDREW COOPERTHE SHEAF
Can life exist on another planet?Why we need both skepticism and hope for Mars One
Image: Pascal Lee / flickr
“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” — Carl Sagan
“I have good reason to be hopeful. Out of the approximately 200,000 eligible applicants worldwide, myself and 1,057 oth-er hopeful astronauts have been accepted. “
“Many believe that it is too soon for Mars One; I believe that there is no such thing as too soon.”
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What would be the look on your face if you were going to Mars?
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CROSSWORD La langue d’amour
Aries: March 21 - April 19: This week is going to be bad for you, but only until you learn to drink more coffee.
Gemini: May 21 - June 21: Tout semble plus attrayant si vous le dites en français. Deux mégots! Mouettes caca sur votre tête! Cet horoscope est parrainé par les capacités de traduction d’un moteur de re-cherche populaire d’Internet!
Cancer: June 22 - July 22: Irish dancing will be lucky for you this week, but only if you watch it on VHS.
Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22: If you can avoid using the vowel “i” in your next paper, you are basically guaranteed an A.
Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21: You think you should be studying, but the universe thinks you oughta be club-bing. Who are you going to listen to?
Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21: You will have a dream that you are the famous philoso-pher Descartes, but you’d bet-ter wake yourself up before you sleepwalk yourself into an oven.
Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19: Your parents have been lying to you your whole life. Your astral sign is actually Aries!
Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18: Dreaming about the coming apocalypse is actually a sign of the coming apocalypse. Invest in a water purifier and a couple hundred kilos of beef jerky.
Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20: Subway is going to be bad luck for you this week, and I’m talking about the can’t-leave-the-bathroom sort of bad luck.
Leo: July 23 - Aug 22: Well, out with the old and in with the new! (A motto that manufacturers of Valentine’s chocolates don’t follow; make sure you check the expiry dates on discount sweets.)
Virgo: Aug 23 -Sept22: Bed bugs are your spirit animal. Sorry.
The Weekly Horoscope Star Signs from January Jones*
Taurus: April 20 - May 20: If you get a bad grade, maybe learn to study instead of giv-ing into the temptation to toilet-paper your professor’s house.
2. This is a great way to brighten up your place with some plant life. Upside: you don’t have to water it. Downside: Pretty sure it doesn’t do that oxygen supply thing. But potted plants are so much work.4. Jet away in one of these, hopefully to a warmer climate, if you’re not hurting for funds. (I know, that’s not even funny.)6. Write some of this for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day.7. Groundhog day has come and gone, which means a new month.8. It’s hard to imagine settling down with one after all the class reading you’ve had to do.9. Ensure you have plenty of this when you finally sit down tonight to study — otherwise you may damage your eyes!10. You can get all your apples, oranges, and bananas here! Or, you know, a bag of chips and a magazine.12. Students don’t tend to get much of this, but reading break is as good an opportunity as any. Who reads over reading break, anyway?13. The opposite of a parasol.
1. No, it’s not spring yet.3. You get a big, metaphorical, gold one of these if you get all the answers to this crossword without using a dictionary or translator.5. If you do want to get some shut-eye, you should think about turning this off and avoiding all your other devices, too.11. This is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, that thing a hard semester slowly bleeds out of you.
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*No, not that January Jones
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Can I ask you a little about your background? You graduated with honours psychology from UFV. What are you up to these days?
Right now I’m working as a general labourer in a warehouse. But I’ve ap-plied to graduate school and am wait-ing on that. I applied to SFU’s quanti-tative theoretical history department in psychology.
And where would that take you?Well, that would end up being a
PhD in psychology focusing on theory and history, sort of looking at the phi-losophy of science side of psychology, so why is it that we do psychology the
way we do.
Can you tell us about the Mars One application process?
Anybody, all over the world, had the chance to apply, as long as they were 18 or older. There was no up-per age limit, there was no other requirement; it didn’t matter what country you were from, age, gender ... then you had to make a video where you had to answer three questions: “What’s your sense of humour?” was one of them, also, “Why you want to go to Mars?” and “Why you think you are a good candidate for the mission, for a colonization mission, a one-way trip?”
There was a part where you had to upload a resume or CV with all your educational and vocational ex-perience along with any credentials that you’ve got and awards you’ve won. And then there were some es-say questions, things like “Tell us the most stressful experience of your life and how you dealt with it,” [or] “An example of a time where you came in contact with a different culture and what happened” … It was their way of gauging if you had all the qualities they were looking for. So they were looking for things like adaptability, resilience, reliability; they wanted to know you had a sense of humour; they were looking for curiosity.
Why do you think yours stood out?That’s really hard to tell! I’m sim-
ply under the assumption that me, along with the other 1058 people that got picked, demonstrated fully the qualities they were looking for ... I think what allowed me to do that has a lot to do with my psychology background. It has given me a lot of insight into who I am as a person as well as the tools to constantly be look-ing at myself.
Why do you want to go to Mars?My answer to that question is kind
of long and complicated. You know, a lot of people were like, “oh, it’s al-ways been my dream to go into space, I’ve always wanted to be an astro-naut,” or “I grew up watching Star Trek,” or what have you. Those are very cute answers. But we are going to colonize another planet. I see this as a huge opportunity for everyone in the world to come together to do this mission for humanity. This isn’t about going into space … This isn’t some-thing that should be for a country; this isn’t something that should be for one organization, this is humanity’s mission.
Did you always have this dream to live on another planet? As a child
did you have astronaut role models? Did you watch Star Trek?
My dad is very much the space nerd, just like me. You know, he has a lot to do with why I have such a love of space and astronomy ... I grew up as the international space station was being built and as I came into my adulthood I thought, well people are going into space, that’s all well and good but I didn’t really see myself [having] a space there, space in space. What I always looked forward to was sort of a futuristic mankind type of thing, working together, a very Star Trek type of universe. I never expected that in my life time, the aspirations I had were sort of 200 years away may-be. But here we are.
What do your family and friends think of this dream? Are they gener-ally supportive?
It was my dad actually who told me about the mission in the first place. I don’t think he is regretting it, I mean everyone is being really supportive, very proud. I don’t think they are too surprised that I applied because I’ve always been so ambitious. I’m always seeing how far I can go, where my limits are.
They don’t want me to leave. I think they want me to get to the very end and then decide to stay on Earth and use my fame to do something good on Earth.
If you do go, what are you giving up for the sake of the mission?
When I first had applied I had thought, I’m applying to leave the
Alex Marion is one of 200,000 candidates who might just be
in for the trip of a lifetime: a one-way ticket to the red planet.
Marion, along with the other 1,058 applicants who made the first
cut, hopes to be part of the Mars colonization process through
a Netherlands-based non-profit known as Mars One. Of the
200,000 applicants around the world, a total of 75 Canadians, just
two of these from B.C., were deemed suitable. Of the applicants,
six groups of four — 24 individuals — will be selected to begin
the gruelling eight-year training process which would eventual-
ly lead to their permanent departure from earth starting in 2024.
The Mars One website states that the technology to support
human life on Mars currently exists. All that is needed, then, is
“public interest.” The organization will broadcast the applica-
tion and training process as well as the candidates’ departure
and life on Mars for advertising revenue.
It’s not your typical post-graduation plan. But for Alex Marion,
life on Mars would be a dream come true.
Alex Marion hopes to die on MarsFEATURE
The 26-year-old UFV graduate is shortlisted for the Mars One colony, and if all goes well he will live on the red planet for the rest of his life
“I see this as a huge op-portunity for everyone in the world to come to-gether to do this mis-sion for humanity.”
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Alex Marion hopes to die on Marsplanet, until I find out if I’m going or not I can’t do all these things, then I decided, well ... chances are I’m not going to go. It was out of 200,000 peo-ple. I’m just one psychology student working at a warehouse in Surrey, you know? Who am I, really?
In terms of the future ... you are essentially changing your entire life. You have to move to the Netherlands to become employees of Mars One, and a lot of the training involves liv-ing in simulation settlements here on Earth to test whether or not you can live with three other people in a tiny confined space and all get along.
Do you actually have the mental, emotional, and physical capacities to do this? Can you do what you have said you can do in your application. Obviously you wouldn’t be able to see your family very much, if at all. You wouldn’t have a personal life; your personal life would be the three other people that you’re with. Of course in going to Mars you don’t ever come back. It’s a colonization mission; you’re giving up everything for that. All you’ve got is what you take with you to Mars and then what’s on Mars.
Does that scare you?Not really. I’ve never been the type
of person that needs things. I’m a bit of a minimalist. I have a very select group of friends, I’m an introvert. I’m not worried about the three other peo-ple. We are going to more or less pick who we go up with, who we get along with. I am an easy-going person, I do get along well with people easily, so hopefully the other people will be like that as well.
If you do make the final cut, how do imagine your life in 30 years?
Well, in 30 years, if I’m within the first four, I would have been living on Mars for about 18 or 19 years. At that point I would anticipate the settle-ment to be quite expansive. By then they’ll have sent a few more groups of four ... The living quarters would
have been expanded, the hydroponics bay would be well established, you would be producing your own atmo-sphere at that point. There wouldn’t be a whole lot to do in terms of setting up the settlement. So I would see a lot in terms of research, looking at what’s on Mars, looking for evidence of past life and possible current life. There’s a lot we can do as people that the rov-ers can’t, so our visual field is much greater ... We’ll have the ability to construct and design things on Mars; the plan is to have a machine that can make plastics and a 3-D printer of sorts. I anticipate by that point a lot of tools will have been sent. That sets it up for things like asteroid mining; there’s a whole economy that could be set up by then.
What would make this mission a success in your eyes?
For me there’s two types of suc-cess. Obviously first and foremost is getting people there and having them survive, creating a sustainable community in which they don’t need [anything] to be sent from Earth ... Hopefully, the first success would be sustainability. Everything that we need we can get from Mars.
But my personal hope is really to inspire people. We have to be sustain-able, we can’t be producing waste on Mars, we can’t contaminate it. We don’t necessarily belong there natu-rally so we have to find our place there ... So hopefully that will inspire people here on Earth, to see a colony of 15 to 20 people that produce no waste, that recycle 95 per cent of all water that they use, and they have comfortable, productive, meaningful lives.
Do you consider yourself an envi-ronmentalist?
Absolutely I am an environmental-ist. I live minimally, I try to reduce my waste, I recycle and reuse whenever I can. I believe in protecting the en-vironment ... The big question I keep getting is why are we sending people
to another planet when we’re screw-ing this one up so badly? And I think the reason we’re screwing this one up so badly is so many people don’t care, or at least they’re not willing to make changes ... They think, what differ-ence can they really make [individu-ally]? I think people really need some-thing like this to really motivate them.
The Mars One mission is going to be filmed closely. Are you comfort-able sacrificing your privacy for the sake of the mission?
People have called it a reality show. Reality shows focus on people’s ev-eryday drama but it’s not like that. It’s more of a live documentary. It’s not reality TV, it’s just reality. Nobody is going to be playing things up for the camera. The focus is going to be on the mission ... We still have our own private lives that people won’t see, and it will be up to us if we want to show that part of ourselves. There’s no paparazzi on Mars. There’s no me-dia hunt. They can’t invade your pri-vate life. I would easily have more privacy than I would as a celebrity on Earth. You’ve got so much more con-trol over what people get to see.
If you could bring one personal item to Mars, what would it be?
The best answer that I can come up with is an Amazon Kindle. Something that I can upload and have tons and tons of books ... There’s going to be a lot to do on Mars, but I’m going to want some down time, and I want to make sure that at least for the trip to Mars I’ve got a lot to read ... I’m going to want entertainment.
What would be your spaceship playlist — your anthem for going into space?
I have been thinking of what kind of songs would be really cool. I have a list, it’s not very long, but here’s what I have. “Rise,” by Skillet. “Wherever
I May Roam,” by Metallica. “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi, “Through Glass,” “Do Me a Favour” and “Influence of a Drowsy God” by Stone Sour. And then “Indestructible,” “Ten Thousand Fists,” and “Darkness” by Disturbed. I’m mostly into new metal, that’s kind of my digs.
What is on your Earth bucket list, or your list of things that you would miss most about being on Earth?
Well, the things that I would miss most would definitely be my family and friends. I think the personal con-nections we make with people are one of the most important things in life ... We’ll still get to send emails and vid-eo messages back to Earth. One of the communication satellites will be ded-icated to transmitting internet feeds. There will be a delay of [between] three and 27 minutes depending on the position of Earth and Mars...
In terms of a bucket list, though, I’m really hoping I get to travel more. As much as I’m looking to leave Earth, it really is a beautiful place and a great place to live. I especially want to see more of Europe ... I definitely want to go diving off Australia, see the Great Barrier Reef, hopefully go swimming with the whale sharks. That would be totally awesome. I want to backpack across Asia and safari in Africa. So there’s definitely a lot to see before I would pack up and leave. Of course I would miss Earth ... There’s a lot of beauty and good things on Earth, and I think if you can’t see the good here, you’re not going to see the good on Mars.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Editor’s note: since this interview, Marion has withdrawn his candidacy, re-alizing his colour vision deficiency would later bar him from the program.
The 26-year-old UFV graduate is shortlisted for the Mars One colony, and if all goes well he will live on the red planet for the rest of his life
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You might like to imagine that the gym is a place where you can wear whatever you like and not be judged for it. Everyone is sweaty, dishevelled, and gener-ally unpresentable. Who’s going to look twice if you arrive in a wife-beater and sweats?
However, gyms are a place where presentation matters. What do you think everyone is thinking about while on the treadmill or lifting in front of the wall-to-floor mirrors? Their ap-pearance, and yours. Gym rats are fit, well-dressed, and judg-mental.
So how do you dress for func-tion and fashion? You don’t need Nike, Lululemon, or Under Ar-mour; expensive workout wear is not required to be dressed gym-appropriate.
More than anywhere else, what you wear should reflect functionality. (I don’t mean lit-erally reflective — bright green and pink neon is meant for run-ning out of doors, where you actually need to be seen.) Your
clothes should strike a balance between allowing active move-ment — not too tight — and fit-ting your form so excess fabric doesn’t impede your workout. Low-hanging, boxer-exposing basketball shorts, for example, tend to be a bad idea, as are re-strictively tight push-up sports bras.
Take into consideration the activity you intend to do when dressing; if spinning is your pri-mary cardio, don’t wear wide-legged yoga pants. If you are
more into stand-alone exercises, such as lifting free weights or pilates-type movements, wear relaxed, stretchable materials.
The material you wear should emphasize breathability. Ly-cra and spandex tend to do the trick, and if you’re willing to spend a bit more, material con-taining polypropylene such as Coolmax and Supplex won’t ab-sorb sweat, leaving your clothes feeling light and cool. Cotton should be avoided, as it sticks to your skin, preventing natural
evaporation of perspiration. As for the colour, material that
doesn’t give a tell-all of how much you’re actually sweating is only polite. Light grey tends to show the dampness and white turns yellow fairly quickly.
T-shirts and sweat pants with snarky comments on them —“your workout is my warm-up” and the like — should be left at home. Gym-goers don’t want to be reading what’s written on your backside.
People go to the gym for very different reasons. There are the gym bros, who tend to social-ize while showing off the up-per limits of their bench press abilities; the sport athletes, who deftly perform exercises most of us have never even considered attempting; the cliques of gos-siping Lululemon-clad girls; and nervous gym newbies. As gyms are fairly enclosed spaces, we need to respect the diversity of all our fellow gym attendees.
Dress appropriately, be con-siderate, and leave the peacock feathers at home.
Fashion Forward
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What not to wear to the gym
Don’t do this.Image: Wikimedia Commons
Striking a balance between fashion and function
The former UFV grads are showcasing visual arts linking history and memory to the future’s inherent uncertainty. This is the first time Laura and David Saito will have done an exhibit together. Check it out in the UFV gallery.
UFV’s graphic design pro-gram can be found on the institution’s Mission campus, where anyone who’s inter-ested in pursuing an extended minor or diploma or is just fill-ing out a sketchbook on the side can find out more about opportunities in the field and receive feedback on any work they want to bring. Info ses-sion begins at 6:00 p.m., and the portfolio workshop gets started at 7:30 p.m.
American solo classical and jazz pianist Chris Jarrett will be performing as part of the Valley Concert Society’s series of classical music, but with a twist: he’ll be providing a live score for a screening of the landmark silent film Battleship Potemkin. Held at the Matsqui Centennial Auditorium, single tickets are $25, or a season’s subscription (Jarrett is the third of six that would be cov-ered) is $35 for students (regu-lar price $110). A pre-concert talk begins at 6:50 p.m., and the film starts at 7:30 p.m.
Laura and David Saito Exhibit
Graphic Design tour
Battleship Potemkin with live piano score
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Upcoming
Events
Kwantlen Polytechnical University is hosting the 17th annual Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival from February 13-15 at their Langley campus. Events include workshops on composition and technique, high school student perfor-mances, and an evening con-cert featuring world-class acoustic guitarists. This year’s festival guests include two-time Grammy winner Lau-rence Juber, Van Django, Ari Lahdekorpi and Kent Hillman.
Tickets are $15 for students and seniors in advance and $20 at the door.
Feb 13-15
Located by City Hall in Ab-botsford, the Reach is more than an art gallery and museum. It also houses the largest commu-nity archives in the city, holding multitudes of information and pieces of local history.
Every photo is an archive in miniature, and the Reach’s collection is estimated at over 60,000, with around 16,000 of them available online. Until they can be digitally catalogued, the photos in print form are viewable on microfilm. Archi-vist Tricia Taylor explains that many of them come from public events, like old parades and is-sues of newspapers.
The Reach has issues of the Abbotsford, Matsqui, and Sumas News as far back as 1923, the Abbotsford Post from 1901 until 1922, and the Abbotsford Times up to 1996. All of these sit wait-ing to be perused for simple cu-riosity or to serve as the basis for comprehensive inquests into the past.
The Reach is currently in the process of digitizing their pho-tos, but unfortunately not their newspapers. Currently they are looking for a grant in order to begin the digitization process. The archives hold a lot of pri-mary sources, the type many professors look for in “A” pa-pers, so if this should happen in the near future it could open
up many opportunities for UFV students.
The archives can also be a source of personal joy and dis-covery. Take, for example, one of the many stories that came about because of the archives.
“A man lost his wedding pho-tos in a flood or fire and he was able to retrieve all of them [from the archives],” Taylor says. “He surprised his wife with them for their 25th wedding anniver-sary.”
The archives can also be a tool used for genealogical tracing, as they hold many records of lo-
cal family histories and rarely-glimpsed photos.
Revealing the history of a place is possible through the archives as well; tax and land records are also part of the da-tabase. This means any property can be traced back to its original origin. Who knows, your house could have been originally owned by a felon or former po-litical agent; anything could be possible.
If there is still doubt about the possibilities that are held within the archives, take the fact that people from all over the world
come to the Reach specifically in order to access the archives. Researchers have come from as far away as France in order to access the wealth of Fraser Val-ley knowledge.
Currently, the archives are only open during afternoons Tuesday through Friday. All oth-er times need to be scheduled by appointment. It’s a place of vari-ous details and images, but also one that has the potential to be rediscovered by students in the future.
TAYLOR BRECKLESCONTRIBUTOR
Department of what you don’t know about AbbotsfordThe Reach’s archive holds thousands of stories from the past
Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival
More than just the “gallery museum” on the front door, The Reach also has historical photos and records.Image: Kimberly Strain / The Reach
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“I’ve fallen back in love with the human face, and how you can come at it many different ways. It’s just so beautiful. It doesn’t matter who the person is.”
I’m talking to professor Shel-ley Stefan in her tiny UFV of-fice. Although it can’t be more than a dozen feet square, it’s at least twice as tall as it is wide. The walls are covered with char-coal sketches and other media, spreading out collage-like from top-to-bottom. She invites me to sit on her squashy pink sofa as I interview her, but warns me not to lean back — the charcoal is still alive, ready to smudge on clothing and walk out of the of-fice.
“In the ‘90s, as a university student, I did hundreds and hundreds of portraits, and lots of self-portraits,” she says.
She talks with her hands, and upbeat marimba music plays in the background.
“It’s all about the human face, and artwork that is able to get something across of the human spirit, just through the human face. You can draw or paint a face, and it’s just representation-al. But this was more about the essence of the human inside.”
Two of Stefan’s tiny one-foot-square self-portraits are part of a larger exhibit, About Face, in North Vancouver’s CityScape Community Art Space. They share the space with the work of 28 other artists — all faces.
“It was neat to see my work in a family of other works that were all really different,” she says. Hers were some of the smallest, but others were large, provoca-tive. Where Stefan’s are realistic, others are abstract.
“Range,” Stefan says, conclud-ing. “A wide range.”
The exhibit is a North Van-couver Community Arts Coun-cil project, which put a call out for works to western Canadian artists after a member pitched the idea for a show based only
on portraiture. Stefan submitted five works, and received a letter of acceptance for two of them.
The process, she says, was a lot like applying for a job.
“They looked at your artist statement, your CV, your experi-ence in the arts,” she lists, count-ing off the documents on her fingers.
“Also — obviously the most
important part —” she adds, “the work.”
The small oil-on-canvas self-portraits the council accepted, she says, are a part of a larger project. She hopes to have maybe a hundred self-portraits painted by the end of this year.
Stefan has a cabin by a lake in the valley, where she retreats to study and paint. It sounds
idyllic, and it is – she stokes the wood stove, puts on CBC Ra-dio 2, and returns to old-school methods of painting; oil, canvas, mirror, light.
“No photography, just hand-eye coordination and on-site ob-servation,” she says. “It’s harder that way. It’s harder, and it’s old-school, but it’s really enjoyable.”
“Sometimes when I paint,
even self-portraits, I feel I can see my ancestors, and my ances-tors’ ancestors,” she adds. “It’s just this really powerful sort of sublime, introspective, academic exercise.”
Her passion for and interest in portraiture was rekindled in part when she began to teach at UFV.
“If I’m telling students how to draw or how to paint, you can’t really learn that way — you have to learn through doing. You have to learn through watching and being done,” she says. “It’s visu-al; it’s experiential; you have to do the artwork but you can also watch someone else do it.”
She’ll often “whip up” a study of a face using herself, or a stu-dent, or a model, showing her students how to draw the lines out of a face. If you capture the gaze just right, she says, the por-trait will come alive.
It’s these works — the ones that capture the human spirit — that most speak to Stefan, and this is part of what About Face tries to show.
She hopes that her two small portraits pull the viewer into the moment of a single breath — the moment as she paused and turned from mirror to canvas.
“All they’re doing is looking at you,” she says, a small and pleased smile hovering about her mouth. “But there’s this level of connection — like when someone gives you eye contact, the whole feeling changes. You can walk by a person, but if they stop and give you even three seconds of eye contact, some-thing shifts.”
This is something in a portrait that endures; decade after de-cade and century after century, artists return again and again to the humanness of a face.
“When you see paintings from the 1200s or the 1400s and they’re so full of life that they could be alive right now ... it’s unbeliev-able that they were done so long ago,” Stefan says.
“I really like that: the breath-ing human.”
Image:: Shelley Stefan
Shelley Stefan with the two oil-painted self-portraits currently on exhibition in North Vancouver.
The breathing humanDESSA BAYROCKTHE CASCADE
Visual arts instructor Shelley Stefan on self-portraits
“I’MMA BEAR” by Jeff Smyth
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I’m not one for fad diets. I tried Dr Oz’s smoothie cleanse, and it was awful. How can you sub-scribe to anything that doesn’t seem like common sense when it comes to what you eat?
I came across The 21 Day Sugar Detox while researching a diet that does make sense to me – the so-called Paleolithic (Paleo) diet, or “caveman” diet. While the terms for this diet are flawed (as any anthropologist will argue), the rationale behind it is logical. Avoid processed foods, and eat what a hunter-gatherer would eat. No refined sugar, no refined carbohydrates (bread, pasta), no flours — basically, anything that you couldn’t get from the natu-ral world and prepare yourself, you shouldn’t eat. Your simpli-fied menu would look like this: meat, fish, eggs (preferably or-ganic), nuts and seeds, fruits and vegetables.
The author of The 21 Day Sugar Detox, Diane Sanfilippo, is also the bestselling author of Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle. Her follow-up book — Sugar De-tox — can be seen as a gateway into the world of Paleo, a way to ease yourself into it.
Sugar Detox is sectioned into three parts: the science, the pro-gram, and the 90-plus recipes
that make up the program. The most important thing I took away is essentially this: my body is always telling me things, and it’s important to listen. I usually just take an Advil for a stress headache, grab a coffee if I’m tired, and pop another pill if I
can’t sleep. But by treating my symptoms with quick fixes, I’m muting my body’s voice, and it’s not really safe. Why do I always crash in the afternoon? Why do I always get headaches? Why am I always stressed out? Why can’t I sleep?
Sanfilippo says it’s all about food.
Pretend every time you eat, you are depositing nutrients into your body’s “bank account.” Be-cause the process of digestion takes micronutrients, you need to take out a withdrawal to leave a deposit. By eating nutrient-dense food, you are making a valuable deposit. When you eat nutrient-poor foods, you are asking for a withdrawal without making a deposit because the de-posit doesn’t make up for the nu-trients taken away by the with-drawal. Your body gets hungrier — begging for food with more nutrients — so you eat more low-nutrient carbs. Your body only gets more tired and hungry. The vicious cycle: eat bad carbs; dopamine hit (rewarding neu-rotransmitter response to eating sugary foods); craving more; low nutrient stores; eat bad carbs. The cycle goes on.
The program itself is very straightforward. You pick what level you are according to your lifestyle. If you’ve never tried anything like this, and you eat pasta every day, level one is for you. There are three levels in to-tal, advancing in difficulty. Each level has a “yes” food list and a “no” food list. It’s very basic. Sanfilippo also has meal plans that you can follow, with modi-fications for pescetarians, if you are extremely active, etc.
There is an information sheet on what to expect day-to-day that I found pretty interesting. Apparently the hardest days are from day four to 11, when you have withdrawal-like symptoms.
The recipes themselves are surprisingly affordable for stu-dents. Often cookbooks that cut out all the cheap processed stuff we thrive on replace it with ex-pensive specialty health-food-store foods. But if you’re okay with buying lots of proteins (meats, but also with an em-phasis on eggs), vegetables, al-monds, and spices, it’s not bad at all. A couple of gold stars to this book for bringing me jalape-no bacon burgers, meatza (yes ... the crust is meat), and rosemary salmon with cabbage (the sau-téed cabbage is so good!)
The 21 Day Sugar Detox is an interesting read. The nutritional explanations are clear and com-prehensive (even for an arts major!). The detox program it-self isn’t ridiculous; it’s doable. If you’re interested in making a change health-wise, or even if you’re interested in thinking about making a change, this book is very non-threatening. For food for thought, give this book a read.
January is only just over and we’ve already had several bad movies this year.
Certain “bad” movies that can be enjoyable if taken from a certain perspective; the horrible acting and ridiculous storytell-ing can make a concoction of en-grossing drivel. Sometimes, you don’t even want it to end.
I, Frankenstein could have been one of those films if it wasn’t so boring.
Based on a graphic novel of the same name that is somehow non-existent on the internet, the movie takes us back to the time of the monster’s creation. It starts out entertaining with Aaron Eckhart trying his best re-interpretation of his role in The Dark Knight.
The original Mary Shelley is glossed over in less than a min-ute. Then we are taken on a new and terrible adventure involving demons and gargoyles, which are basically angels. Why they can’t be angels isn’t really ad-dressed even though they fight for God, use angelic references, and ascend into the sky when they die.
But this weird departure from the base text does lead to some hilarious dialogue. When Miran-do Otto arrives to judge the fate of the monster, she serves as the queen of exposition and basical-ly explains the entire backstory, plot, and obstacles to come.
Despite some lacklustre CGI,
the full-scale battle halfway through the film is quite en-tertaining. The look of the gar-goyles may be simplistic, but the basic colour palette works to subtly hide how cheap they are. It’s at this point when the mind-less violence and terrible acting can work together and you can
actually have fun watching this movie.
Afterward, it tries to delve deeper into the “I” monster, called Adam in this film. I, Fran-kenstein only gets worse in its second half as a result. Charac-ters are introduced, then killed 10 minutes later, even when we
are supposed to care about them. People like Yvonne Strahovski’s scientist character are blasted with absolutely absurd and com-ical dialogue about gargoyles and demons and take it like it’s an average day at the job .
Though the film moves quick-ly, sometimes skimping on de-
tail, it still drags later on. The bad dialogue isn’t funny any-more, the action isn’t captured properly, and it just becomes boring. This says something as the film is barely over 90 min-utes long. When you make a film of this campy calibre, the main focus should be to entertain the audience, at the very least. In-stead we are given some terrible dialogue between Strahovski and Eckhart as they try to show-case the fact that the monster has “feelings.”
Aaron Eckhart’s choice to star in this film is not surprising. He has become accustomed to star-ring in campy action films like Battle Los Angeles, The Core, or Paycheck. It’s odd because Eck-hart is otherwise a decent actor with some standout performanc-es, like in Thank You For Smok-ing. He’s certainly dedicated to his craft; for his role in I, Fran-kenstein he spent three months learning the Kali fighting style. He even said in an interview with Collider that “Frankenstein is an intelligent, evolved man, and that’s how he is portrayed in this movie, for sure.”
You know your film is bad when your lead actor’s descrip-tion of his character exceeds anything you will get from the overall movie.
I, Frankenstein could make a great party movie if you have nothing else to watch, but it will likely be forgotten well before the year is over.
Film Review
I, FrankensteinJEREMY HANNAFORDCONTRIBUTOR
The 21 Day Sugar Detox by Diane SanfilippoSASHA MOEDTTHE CASCADE
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Usually I don’t pay much at-tention to the ads I see in the movie theatre, but this time I did. That’s right, this band was featured on one of those artist interviews that play before you movie starts, and it piqued my interest. Because the same inter-view played a few times, I was able to jot down the name of this band, and it was worth it.
Although this album only has nine songs on it, all of them are great. That’s not an exaggeration either. Usually, most albums — even the good ones — have at least one song you hesitate on before skipping it or don’t like it outright, but none of those exist on We Still Move on Dance Floors.
The first song on the album, “Sailing” — the one that was previewed in the theatre clip — is extremely catchy and hooked me instantly, as did many others, the common theme being gentle progression. The first song of-ten sets the tone for the rest of the album and can give a sign of the quality and likeability of all
the songs to come. That’s true for this album as well, with the overall impression being fun and catchy with an air of folk.
The last song on the album, “The Fire,” is a slower song with only vocals, acoustic guitar, and violin. It is an interesting choice to end the album on such a som-
bre note. Regardless of the mel-ancholy feel of the last song, it leaves the listener wanting more, particularly since the album as a whole is upbeat.
Although it’s hard to decide, I would argue that one of the best songs on the album is “Home Sweet Home” because of its toe-
tapping beat, meaningful lyrics, and the feeling of joy you get when you listen to it.
The Strumbellas are a relative-ly new band — We Still Move on Dance Floors follows 2012’s My Father and The Hunter as their sophomore release. Although We Still Move on Dance Floors is only
30 minutes long, it is worth ev-ery second.
Although the folk aspect might turn some people off, the music is not stereotypical folk. There are some songs that include banjo and violin, but they’re undertones rather than the main instruments.
Honestly, I haven’t even had the chance to fully register the lyrics because I find myself get-ting so lost in the music. Once you’re listening, you start sway-ing or tapping along and get lost in a different world.
From what I have retained, the instrumentals and lyrics are quite good, holding poten-tially sad yet realistic messages such as asking a father for help in life, wanting to fulfill life ad-ventures, and losing a loved one. The songs may be considered sad, but the instrumental accom-paniment helps the listener to feel positive and hopeful.
This is a great album and I would recommend it to anyone. The Strumbellas are also Cana-dian, so we can establish more Canadian pride and be one step closer to compensating for Justin Bieber!
The Strumbellas — We Still Move on Dance FloorsAlbum Review
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For DJs (as in, digital-file jockeys), the album can be a challenge — many place 10-minute tracks in an indiffer-ent row, but a recent not-quite-wave of internet-burgeoned artists have seeked to fashion it into something less insular than a club atmosphere. Jerome Potter, who contributed to the widest-ranging and arguably the best example of this type of transition (Elite Gymnastics’ Ruin), has a pop-omnivore sensibility. He knows how to lay out spaces and push layers of sound to let vocalists in, something evident from last summer’s LOGO mix (which charted from Paul Simon to Purity Ring), something that he shares with mixers like Ryan Hem-sworth. Like on Hemsworth’s Guilt Trips, Potter invites collaboration, leaving the lyric calligraphy to Sara Zagarino and Angelina Lucero, keep-ing step with the marching, shaking (and on album standout “Fool,” over-loaded) sounds he’s become known for. It isn’t a tremendous leap forward, but a fitting of tricky drum patterns and cool piano into the form of a pop song, a discipline that’s always more difficult than it sounds.
How exactly do you classify Thee Sil-ver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra? Experimental indie post-rock? Or-chestral prog punk? Neo-classical art rock? All of the above? Whatever it is, it apologizes to no one. TSMZ’s new album is noisy, abrasive, uncontrolled — and it works. With its driving beat and dark, ringing melodies, Fuck Off doesn’t lack power. Its ability to swing between softness and heaviness is ad-mirable; the real fireworks are in the tender, delicate harmonies of tracks like “Little Ones Run,” which offer some relief from the electro-fuzzed angst that dominates much of the al-bum. Even though many of the tracks descend into passionate, thundering jam sessions that sprawl over the ten-minute mark, it feels well-paced. But this album is far from perfect. While the lyrics are probably just as fascinat-ingly poetic as their long, artsy song titles, they’re completely unintelligible. And then there are the noticeable technical fumbles: unsteady rhythms, sour notes, flat vocals. Is this just slop-piness, or does it add to the deliber-ately-messy art-kid aesthetic? Fans of Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor will love this album. Most other people probably won’t.
Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is the third collaboration between Damien Jurado and producer Rich-ard Swift. This time, Jurado and Swift are more eager to experiment with the standard singer-songwriter sound that Jurado has relied on since the late 1990s. Jurado’s departure forms an exciting album that adds to his gently strummed, Nick Drake-esque storytelling. Jurado’s Christian sym-bolism remains plastered throughout Brothers and Sisters, most of which is easy to interpret. On “Silver Kath-erine,” Jurado ends the track singing, “Roll away the stone.” The ominous and intimate opening number “Magic Number” not only gets the listener’s attention, but also sets the mood for a record that weaves like a river, and the closer, “Suns In Our Mind” is a layered track that fades out the flow of music. The standout here is the upbeat “Silver Timothy,” which Swift arranges with a gorgeous rhythm section. Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is a record the listener can experience, even if you don’t follow the spiritual and surreal imagery, all of which speaks to Jurado’s ability to create music that conveys deeper meaning.
Editors previous album, In This Light and On This Evening, was seething with grit and drenched in the dirtiest of synth while having amazing hooks. The Weight of Your Love is quite a departure. Yet it still carries some of what made the band stand out, mostly in Tom Smith’s dark vocals, heavy tones, and an absorbingly suffocated atmosphere. This album coves a lot of ground with a fairly wide arrangement of varied, but generally guitar-driven sounds. Certain tracks such as “Sugar” have industrial resemblances, while “What Is This Thing Called Love” demonstrates Smith’s decently tuned falsetto, and where “A Ton of Love” could have easily been lifted out of U2’s discography. The song “Nothing” offers a beautifully orchestrated an-themic rise. It’s the best track on the album and pulls at the heart with lyr-ics of “Every conversation within you / Starts a celebration in me / Till I got nothing left / I got nothing left.” Since this is such a departure for the Edi-tors it’s hard to determine where this album falls for them, but at the end it is a solid listen.
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In the last two years of gam-ing news, Microsoft and Sony have been at the forefront butt-ing heads. While waging their next-generation console battle, gaming sites were overloaded with news, controversies, and opinions. All the while, Nin-tendo was absent from the spot-light.
Nintendo was once the pin-nacle of gaming ingenuity. The company brought life back to the industry when the original Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1983. It became the standard for handheld gam-ing with the Game Boy in 1989. The Wii system became a cul-tural phenomenon, eventually ending up north of 100 million units sold.
Last year, Nintendo forecast-ed it would sell nine million Wii U systems by March 2014. However, in a recently revised earnings report just released by Nintendo, that number is down to 2.8 million.
Even more surprisingly, the forecast revealed that the 3DS was a disappointment. Despite it selling more units than any other console in 2013, it came up 4.5 million units short of its 18 million estimate.
Nintendo will fall short of projected earnings by $750 mil-lion, which many game colum-nists say is the wake-up call Nintendo has needed for years. The company has always been
a marvel in terms of a financial standpoint. Keeping many of its big-name titles to themselves, Nintendo has maintained its status in the industry as a soft-ware developer through its reg-ular rotation of franchises like Mario, Link, and Metroid and has been successful with it. Un-til now.
While Nintendo has been able to pull itself out of the fire be-fore (the lacklustre sales of the Gamecube being one example) Nintendo looks like it may have to shake things up if it wants to stay alive.
The company’s continued reliance on expensive, games-centric portable devices has been a source of sliding rev-enues in a culture dominated by smartphones. Nintendo’s presi-dent Satoru Iwata was quick to comment about Nintendo and phones at a news conference: “The key is to figure out a way to use smartphones to make people aware of Nintendo’s games, and encourage them to try out the console version of the games. It doesn’t mean that we should put Mario on smart-phones.”
In my opinion, Nintendo needs two things right now. First, a better marketing team. The Wii U had horrible market-ing, which is one of the main reasons behind its failure. The second thing that should be on Nintendo’s mind is making a new system. The Wii & Wii U systems have offered ingenious ideas but they have also been a generation behind graphics-
wise. Along with lacklustre on-line support, has compounded the company’s trouble attract-ing third-party developers. Un-like Sony and Microsoft, who have released an overabun-dance of premiere games from publishers like EA and Ubisoft, Nintendo has been slow to react and unable to keep up.
Even its own creations have had these problems. Super Smash Bros Brawl went from announce-ment to release over three long years and the same develop-ment cycle appears to be hap-pening with the Wii U/3DS se-quel. Nintendo doesn’t seem to understand how to handle mar-keting its title characters.
The main bright spot right now is the 3DS, where Nin-tendo continues to release de-cent games. And even though Nintendo is supposedly disap-pointed with the 3DS’s overall sales, 13 million units is still a huge number. It’s only with the addition of the Wii U’s colossal failure that the numbers plunge.
Nintendo certainly has to think of something fast and an-nounce it soon rather than slip into obscurity. Even if Nintendo was to spread out into some-thing new like mobile gaming (which remains much larger in Japan than North America), that alone won’t be enough to save the company.
While it could seem as though this is just another hurdle for the company, something needs to change for Nintendo to have much of a future.
The original DS might be the last of its kind: a super-successful portable gaming console.Image: ASHTONZANECKI/Wikimedia Commons
Jay Arner — “Nightclubs”
Feeling hopelessly lost is a recur-ring theme on Arner’s debut solo record. This song is about dreary Vancouver nightlife (though less explicitly than the opening track, “Midnight on South Granville”) and its ability to eat away at you. If you can’t relate, check out the #19 NightBus, where new strains of influenza are being bred as we speak.
B.A. Johnston — “Certified Cold Is the Way to Go”
“Am I a waste of skin? ... ‘cause I am drunk and I’m still day-drink-ing.” Johnston’s trademark self-deprecation comes across more like self-loathing in this jaunty tune about staying home all day with Sonic the Hedgehog and too much beer. Although, haven’t we all been disgusted with ourselves on our slovenly days off? Shearing Pinx — “Sufferer”
An unexpected track from the long-running Vancouver noise rock outfit; Erin Ward’s vocal takes the place of usual frontman Nic Hughes’ in a blazing rock song that jumps out from a largely aton-al album that scarcely incorporates traditional song structures. Aaron Read — “Gold Head” Okay, I actually only saw this guy perform improv comedy as part of the Sunday Service in Vancouver. It was the best comedy show I’ve ever been to, and I went to look up his music immediately afterward. I was kind of taken aback by this goofball comic, whom I had only seen improvise a rap about pop-corn, making these introspective, heady rock songs. Melt-Banana — “The Hive” I got really dehydrated from being in a particularly thrashy part of the crowd and was in a state of de-lirium when Melt-Banana played this song. I was hypnotized by the flashing lights on lead singer Ya-suko’s sampler for the duration of it. Great guitar parts!
Brandon Greaves hosts Pacific Trash Vortex every Monday at noon. Here he lists songs from his favourite concerts attended in the Lower Mainland from the past year and assures you none of them are trashy.
1Mac DeMarco Salad Days
2The CourtneysThe Courtneys
3Jay ArnerJay Arner
4KetaminesYou Can’t Serve Two
Masters
5The DarcysWarring
6Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness
7AnamanaguchiEndless Fantasy
8Oneohtrix Point NeverR Plus Seven
9M.I.A. Matangi
10New Vaders Dynamic Traxx Vol.1
11Hag Face Hag Face
12 The Pack A.D. Do Not Engage
13PerturbatorSexualizer
14Jordan KlassenRepentance
15Tough AgeTough Age
16Ryan HemsworthGuilt Trips
17Teen Daze Lost Songs
18Said The Whale Hawaiii
19N.213 Rejectamenta
20Harma White Harma White
CHARTS ShuffleBRANDON GREAVESCIVL DJ
Nintendo’s sales slide
JEREMY HANNAFORDCONTRIBUTOR
Cascade Arcade
Come to a writers meeting!It’s not just for writers!
We also need artists, designers, photographers, ad salespeople, and really anyone who drinks a lot of coffee.
Join us Monday mornings in C1421 at 8 a.m. or email michael@ufvcascade for details.
(But not next week. Next week is reading week. Take a break.)
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HBO is known for developing quality television entertainment, so it’s no surprise that True De-tective is already amazing at the three-episode mark.
But it’s what makes the show amazing that is surprising.
The show is based on a 1995 murder investigation in Loui-siana that turned into a 17-year manhunt for the killer. The show offers a form of double narra-tive as it follows two detectives, Martin Hart and Dustin “Rust” Chole, as they recount the in-vestigation. The interviews are engrossing and have their share of humour and humility. They provide narrative to the events unfolding as well as insight into the characters.
True Detective’s premise may resemble that of most cop shows on paper. But it breaks those routines and gives a whole new meaning to the genre. This is be-cause of powerhouse acting from Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. Both have com-plex, enriching, and extremely compelling characters.
Matthew McConaughey truly has turned his career around in the past five years with a change in roles, and True Detective is the icing on the cake. His character is dark and brutally realistic with his views of the world. What
may seem like social awkward-ness is actually his own bleak opinion of society. These odd and depressing views, however, heighten his senses; he’s able to find clues or think of options no one else would consider. He is mocked as “the Taxman” for carrying a ledger rather than a notepad, but with it he unfolds his observations from random notes to beautiful drawings of the crime scene. When not on the case, his bleakness pushes away any want for human interaction. He lives in a small apartment with nothing but a mattress, a small collection of non-fiction
murder novels, and a cross on the wall even though he believes faith is absurd.
Half the reason I watch the show is just to see what McCo-naughey says or does next. Like when he spouts stuff like, “I be-lieve every human being should just hold hands and walk togeth-er into extinction.” That’s when his partner Hart enforces the no-talking rule in the squad car.
Harrelson provides a great performance as Hart, who has his own dark secrets. Unlike his partner, he respects faith-based ideologies, so it is impressive how much they still get along.
He gives a deeper look into the life of some men on the police force who have to find means of dealing with the job.
But sometimes those means aim to destroy him. His affair with his wife begins to control him; he becomes jealous and displaced while his wife’s suspi-cions grow. He tries to make nor-mal conversation with Rust but it always turns into a debate of convictions, although that does add some amusing dark humour to the show.
While it is his first time ever as a show runner, novelist Nic Pizzolatto has stepped up to the
plate and delivered a fantastic and engaging television experi-ence. One prevailing comment about the show is how slow it is in some episodes, but that’s because it is following a similar pacing method to that of HBO’s The Wire. Both shows follow the investigation in depth and in a realistic time frame. This isn’t like Criminal Minds or CSI where murders are solved every week. We are being taken on a journey not only to find the killer but to discover who he is and what influenced him to commit such a bizarre and ghastly murder. The primary focus of the show is a character profile of Rust and Hart and their opposing views of religion, police work, and social awareness, all the while trying to solve a murder that is slowly bringing about the downfall of both men.
Even though I’m only three ep-isodes in, I already believe True Detective to be one of the best television shows I have watched in years. It offers a gritty new look on the cop vs. killer genre and holds more mysteries as to how the season will end and how it will continue afterward. Each season will be a different version of the case with new lead actors, so I’m enjoying McConaughey’s odd but intriguing performance as it unfolds.
True DetectiveJEREMY HANNAFORDCONTRIBUTOR
Channel Surfing
I recently attended a work party at EXP Restaurant + Bar. Considering I work at a game store, this was certainly an ap-propriate theme. The restaurant, only a block or two away from the Chinatown Skytrain stop, almost always has a wait, and considering it was a weekend it was longer than usual. When we finally entered we were put on a list and left to admire the colour-ful room full of glowing lights, screens with video game play, and weapons from what looked like Final Fantasy or Gears of War hanging on the walls. Once we had taken everything in and gotten used to the blaring Leg-end of Zelda “Song of Storms” dubstep remix, we picked up controllers to play Metal Slug on an Xbox set up at the front of the restaurant hooked up to a flat screen.
The wait was only around half an hour or so, but the crowd in the room definitely kept things interesting, from one guy ar-guing with himself, to a large crowd leaving the restaurant dressed up as characters from different games and shows. Once the cosplaying crew had left, we were brought over to our table and greeted by a waitress who looked almost identical to Lily from How I Met Your Mother (ap-parently she prefers “that chick from Buffy”). She was extreme-
ly friendly, in fact the whole staff were very accommodat-ing despite how busy the place was. After some chit-chat they brought out our main “quests and potions” menus then left us to order.
The names that had been giv-en to the different drinks and entrées were quite amusing: the popular anime show Attack on Titan had been changed into “At-tack on Tacos,” and there was the legendary Triforce burger which had the symbol burned onto the patty.
We started off with some “First Person Shooters” each buying rounds of starter Pokémon shots, which were $5.50 each. Colour-ful shot glasses were brought to the table with Charmander a bright red, Squirtle a deep blue, and Bulbasaur a neon green. Charmander was a mix of Rasp-berry Sour Puss, Jack Daniel’s, and Fireball. It was far too strong for my liking but certainly fitting for a fire Pokemon. We all agreed that Bulbasaur was the best tast-ing out of the three, a Smirnoff Red Label, Bols Melon and Lime Juice mix.
Super Smash Nachos was our first order from the “multi-player” menu to munch on while waiting for our main quest. Af-ter ordering, we watched the Resident Evil gameplay that was being shown on multiple screens around the room. Whoever chose the gameplay deserves props, considering the guy in the video
played through the entire game only kneecapping zombies. His struggle was quite amusing to watch from a fellow gamer’s perspective.
Our appropriately named Su-per Smash Nachos finally ar-rived: a mix of cheese sauce, corn tortillas, jalapenos, toma-toes, green onion, sour cream, and salsa — I would definitely recommend them. While munch-ing on nachos and having fantas-tically nerdy conversations, we finally decided on what to order for the main course. Considering I’m a fan of the game and love poutine I ordered the “Prince of Poutine” burger for $12, a beef patty with fries, cheese, and gra-
vy on top. To make it even better, for an extra two bucks I added bacon. What more could a girl want in life?
While I can’t perfectly review what my co-workers ordered, we agreed the best items were the “Mach Pizza Fries” (skinny fries with pepperoni, spicy Ital-ian sausage, mozzarella, pizza sauce, and fresh basil for $12 and the classic Triforce burger (beef patty, crispy chicken breast, ba-con, lettuce, tomato, and roasted garlic). According to the menu it’s “a burger that requires Cour-age to order, Wisdom to ap-proach, and Power to defeat” and $15 to buy.
Overall this restaurant has put
a lot of effort into making the ultimate nerd experience. They also host trivia nights and game tournaments. I give mad props not only to the creativity of it all but to the phenomenal service and food as well. One last thing: I would have mentioned dessert if I could put into words how delicious it was. The best advice I can give you is to go with a large group of friends and try it all! Questing is always easier in groups, and the restaurant gives an EXP share, so you and your friends will level up in no time!
EXP Restaurant + BarLAUREN SOUTHERNCONTRIBUTOR
Dine & Dash
Super Smash Nachos are covered in a mix of cheese sauce, jalapenos, tomatoes, sour cream, and salsa.Image: EXP Restaurant + Bar/Facebook
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The Cascades men’s volleyball team seems to be picking up their stride at the perfect time in the season.
The team, who has been blan-keted in a series of changes over the winter break, used their time off to unify. They’re poised to make a late run into the playoffs, and at that point who knows what could happen.
The men, in seventh place going into this weekend’s tilts, faced the Capilano University Blues, fourth place at the time. The Blues are one of the best defensive teams in the league, boasting four players in the con-ference’s top 10 in digs.
The Cascades, however, have a strong offensive unit led by brothers Josh and Anthony To-geretz, both in their fourth year.
The first game of the weekend was a back-and-forth affair as the Cascades split the first two sets with the Blues. In the third
set, the Cascades began to taste victory with a steady climb to the magic 25 points. The Cas-cades reached their mark, but knew their work was anything but done.
In the fourth set, both teams were persistent in their attack, but it would be too little too late for the Blues. The Cascades were relentless, taking the match with a final roof-rocketing spike.
The second of the two games was a blowout from start to fin-ish. The Cascades made a point of attacking at every available chance, taking three straight sets, their second win over a tal-ented Blues team.
The weekend puts the Cas-cades in a position to return to the playoffs for the ninth con-secutive season.
The upcoming weekend’s home games against the Camo-sun College Chargers will be crucial. Camosun sits at second in the conference with 22 points, eight more than the Cascades.
Men’s volleyball getting hot at the right timeNATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
The Abbotsford Heat were fresh off a pair of home losses to the Hamilton Bulldogs at the start of January. Goaltending was key in both those games; the Bulldogs got stellar back-to-back performances from Dustin Tokarski. This past weekend, however, it was the Heat’s own Joni Ortio who stole the show, turning away 60 of 61 Bulldog shots for back-to-back victories.
The two clubs remained score-less after the first period of Fri-day night’s matchup, but Ortio woke his team up in the second period, making a huge save to give his team the momentum moving forward. On the odd-man rush, Ortio had to slide all the way from his right post to the left in order to rob Bull-dogs forward Martin St. Pierre. The puck then made its way onto the stick of Joel Chouinard, who had a wide open net, but Heat forward Drew Mackenzie stood tall in front of the net, making a few saves before the goalten-der dove back to his net to stop play. A somewhat nasty scrum followed the play, as Ortio and Bulldogs forward Gabriel Du-mont had words and looked poised to drop the gloves, but cooler heads prevailed.
About midway through the second period, the Heat potted their first tally when Max Rein-hart spotted Markus Granlund streaking down the left side and fed him the puck for a partial breakaway. Within the next five minutes, Corban Knight (who had struggled in the month of January with only two assists in nine games) scored a pair of even-strength markers to give his team a 3-0 lead heading into
the third period.Despite a valiant effort from
the Hamilton Bulldogs, out-shooting the Heat 14-9 in the fi-nal frame, it was the Heat who added three more goals to seal the victory. Blair Jones, who was recently sent down to the Heat after a short stint with the Cal-gary Flames, scored an even strength and powerplay goal in the period. Along with Josh Jooris’ other marker, the Heat cruised to a 6-0 win.
Knight talked about his three-point, slump-busting game by crediting linemate and former teammate at the University of North Dakota Evan Trupp.
“We played two years to-gether, and we’re really good friends,” Knight said. “The fact we were put together, I think we were both pretty excited about it. We were able to get some chemistry going tonight, so hopefully we can keep it going as we move forward.”
On Saturday night the Heat completed the weekend sweep with a 4-1 victory. The Bulldogs’ only goal this weekend was a tip by Stefan Fournier. It was a play where Ortio really had no chance, but still joked after the game that he “could have been better.”
Jooris, who scored in both
games, had nothing but praise for his net-minder after the game. “He has a competitive edge to him that I think sets him aside from other goalies,” he said. “You see him battling in the crease ... [and] that gives our team confidence knowing that we have a real competitive goalie back there. He stood on his head and kept us in games this weekend.”
Ortio, who now has 19 wins on the season as well as a 2.08 goals against average and a .930 save percentage, may get his first shot with the Flames within the next few days. Calgary Flames starter Karri Ramo went down
with an undisclosed lower-body injury against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday, meaning that the goaltending tandem of Ortio and Reto Berra that started the year in Abbotsford could make its way to Calgary this week.
Halfway through their eight-game home stand, the Heat are 2-0-0-2, picking up six out of a possible eight points in those games. They return to action at home on Tuesday against the Charlotte Checkers. Puck drops at 7 p.m.
Heat Report
The Heat’s January: fresh faces, a pair of wins
Image: Clint Trahan
Joni Ortio shut out the Bulldogs, nearly repeated the feat, and packed his bags for Calgary as a reward.
TIM UBELSCONTRIB UTOR
Image: University of the Fraser Valley / Flickr
Connor Nickel and Anthony Togeretz are trying to turn their team’s season around into playoff contention.
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The Cascades women’s basket-ball team has been able to con-trol their home court all season long. They entered a weekend of games against the University of Regina and Brandon University sitting at seven wins and one loss at home.
The first game of the weekend matched the Cascades up with the powerful University of Regi-na Cougars, a game between two top-10 nationally recognized teams: number four Regina and number seven UFV. Both team’s have been powerhouses in wom-en’s basketball, and entered the game playing some of their best basketball of the season.
The game started slow for the Cascades, who had problems adjusting to the big, fast, and athletic style of play that teams from the interior dominate with. The Cougars had achieved their goals in the first half, forcing the Cascades to play the way the Cougars wanted, straying from thier own style of play. UFV trailed at halftime 30-23.
The coaching of Al Tuchscher-er has kept the Cascades as one of the best teams in the country and helped them get multiple blowout wins. At halftime once again Tuchscherer did an in-credible job of making changes to reverse the fortunes of the first half and give his team the upper hand. It worked splen-didly; the Cascades led the way in a massive third quarter where they closed the seven-point gap and took the lead by one head-
ing into the final quarter. The game’s final minutes
were an incredible show for the hometown fans at the Envision Athletic Centre. Back and forth the game went with neither team caving in. It wasn’t until the last minute of the game that the Cougars hit a big three to put them up 63-60 with 30 sec-onds left. The Cascades called a timeout and drew up the play
they hoped would keep them in the game. The ball was in-bounded to Nicole Wierks, and she held everyone’s attention as the play developed. In the blink of an eye, Wierks dished the ball to a streaking Kayli Satori who finished the layup to bring the Cascades within one point.
The next 20 seconds was pain-ful for almost all in attendance as both teams took turns turn-
ing the ball over. Eventually it landed in the hands of the Cou-gars, who connected one of two free throws to give the Cougars a two-point lead with 3.4 sec-onds left. The Cascades were left with no timeouts, forced to throw a prayer from half court, which missed. Regina won the game, but the Cascades had proved that they were capable of playing with the best.
Sasquatch player of the game was the Cascades’ Kayli Satori who registered 19 points and five steals.
The second game of the week-end was against the Univer-sity of Brandon Bobcats, the sixth-best rebounding team in the country, averaging 43.2 per game.
But it didn’t matter against the Cascades, who dominated the game on the glass, out-rebound-ing one of the best rebounding teams in the country.
From the beginning of the game it didn’t look good for Brandon. Every time down the floor the Cascades were getting two or three looks at every pos-session, chasing down balls bet-ter than their prairie opponents.
The final score was 68-52 for UFV, who did not let Brandon catch them in the aftermath of a tough loss the night before.
Tuchscherer said after the game “We talked about re-bounding before the game ... to keep them off the boards. We kept a lot of possessions alive tonight, and [Courtney Bartel, Shayna Litman, and Kaitlyn Brink] kept a lot of possessions alive. Usually when you out-rebound a team by that many … the score is going to be a little bigger.”
The Sasquatch player of the game was shared between Bar-tel and Sarah Wierks who had 12 points each.
The Cascades will look to se-cure first place in the division next week as they travel to Prince George to play two against the UNBC Timberwolves.
Women’s basketball team’s hard work pays offNATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
The reigning national cham-pion women’s volleyball team have dominated 2013-14, moving into the new year without miss-ing a beat.
This past weekend the Cas-cades matched up with the Capilano University Blues. The Blues sit at fourth place, the Cas-cades in a tie for first.
In order to defeat the Blues, UFV would have to keep the ball away from Capilano’s defensive anchor Jacqueline Caverly, the league leader in defense, aver-aging more than a dig per game more than the Cascades’ own statistical leader Mallory Donen.
The Cascades had a tough time putting away a squirmy Blues team. The Blues had just enough persistence to make it to a fifth set where the Cascades would eventually put them away.
But the Cascades struggled in both games to deliver the final blow, allowing the Blues enough breathing room to get back into the game when the Cascades should have been poised to de-liver the final blow.
The second game was a lot tougher for the Cascades as they looked slower and out of sorts early, dropping the first two
sets, which left them in a big hole going into the third. But the Cascades avoided getting down on themselves and instead chipped away at the Blues’ lead bit by bit, winning the third set and setting up a big fourth.
The Cascades dominated the fourth set, but not without a couple snags. Late in the set, the Cascades left the door open for a comeback as the Blues scored four points in quick succession to tie the game at 24. Head coach Dennis Bokenfohr called a time-out and reminded his team the game was not over. The Cas-cades responded, immediately scoring two points to send the game into a fifth and final set.
Failing to make the plays they executed earlier in the game, the team would end up losing the fifth set and the game. But the Cascades will take the loss as a learning experience that doesn’t endanger their future playoff run.
If 2013 is any sign, although the Cascades did lose to a lower-ranked team this past weekend we can expect great things from them in the coming months.
The Cascades are matched up with a tough back-to-back next weekend as they’ll play host to third-place Camosun College.
Women’s volleyball dealing with inconsistent resultsNATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
Image: University of the Fraser Valley / Flickr
The women’s volleyball team remain at the top of their conference, but no longer sport a flawless record.
Image: Tree Frog Imaging
Kayli Sartori ascends during play against the out-rebounded Brandon University Bobcats.
Varsity Sports
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Kevon Parchment, Klaus Figeuredo, and Jasper Moedt assume formation.
UFV’s men’s basketball team is doing something this year they have never done before.
Entering this weekend’s con-tests against the University of Regina and Brandon Univer-sity the Cascades were riding an eight-game winning streak, crashing through their previous record of six.
The first contest of the week-end was against the University of Regina Cougars. The Cougars, who are a big, strong, and physi-cal team, made it a point from the outset of the game to attack the Cascades defense, dictating the physical style of game and keeping the two team close on the scoreboard.
Ten lead changes in the first three quarters put the Cascades in a rough position going into the fourth only up by three points. However the Cascades didn’t give up and worked hard to widen the gap, outscoring the Cougars in the fourth quarter by a 10-point margin.
The UFV win was highlighted by a breakout performance from leading scorer Kevon Parchment who registered an incredible 36 points, shooting 13-22 from the field and 50 per cent from three-point range. He earned Sas-quatch player of the game hon-ours, grabbing seven rebounds and three steals to go along with his scoring outburst.
The second game of the week-end against the University of Brandon Bobcats was set up as a far more difficult task, owing to the Bobcats being a far more athletic team than the Cougars.
The Cascades were not pre-pared for the speed the Bobcats brought and had a rough first quarter. The Cascades had to deal with 6’5 Jordan Reaves and 6’6 Ali-Mounir Benabdelhak, who both registered 14 points and did a good job of control-ling the key for the Bobcats. However, it was the resilience of the Cascades that would prove the difference; they out-scored the Bobcats 44-21 in the second and third quarters, and glided across the court in the fourth, capturing the win 83-71 and ex-tending their record-breaking run to 10 straight wins.
The Cascades were led by Manny Dulay and Jasper Moedt (Sasquatch player of the game). Dulay registered 18 points while knocking down six threes to go along with his six rebounds. Moedt once again led his team in a big, big way; he came close to registering a rare basketball feat in a 20-20, coming one re-bound shy.
Despite the statistical heroics, head coach Adam Friesen saw room for imporvement.
“I don’t think we played very well for very long,” he said. “I think we played good enough to get a win tonight, but overall I think we played about half a game of good basketball.”
Next week the Cascades will travel to Prince George to face the UNBC Timberwolves. The Timberwolves sit at seventh in the division and hold a dismal record of just four wins and 14 losses.
“I am planning on us playing better then we did today,” Fri-esen remarked.
Men’s basketball reaches historic heightsNATHAN HUTTONTHE CASCADE
Image: Tree Frog Imaging
The men’s basketball team faced a particularly formidable opponent in the Brandon University Bobcats.
