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MELISSA FRASER // THE RUNNER

Free Freezee Day!

WHERE: Langley Campus - Courtyard

WHEN: Afternoon

WHAT: Swing by the courtyard for a free Freeze e, brought to you by the KSA.

KSA Executive Board Meeting

WHERE: Surrey Campus - KSA Office

WHEN: 12:00 p.m.

WHAT: Come out and have your opinions heard on importance student issues.

Open House: Horticulture Information

Session

WHERE: Langley Campus

WHEN: 9:30 a.m.

WHAT: Learn about Langley’s exciting horti-culture program and meet with faculty.

Surrey’s Fusion Festival

WHERE: Surrey - Holland Park

WHEN: 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

WHAT: BC’s largest multicultural festival will be taking place at Holland Park. The festival will feature food, music and cultural exchange from over thirty countries.

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STUDENT JOURNALISM

Harper: We cannot be effective unless we work together

[DANIELLE WEBB][CUP NATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF]

TORONTO (CUP) — While the G20 leaders have committed to

halving their defi cits by 2013, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada will meet this goal as early as next year. At the summit’s closing press conference on June 27, Harper announced that the G20 countries had agreed to Canada’s agenda for making the global economy stable once again. “As we strive to build strong, sustainable and bal-anced economies, that is the issue we have had to tackle head on,” said Harper. “We have arrived at fi rm targets for advanced economies on debt reduction.” But fi scal consolidation is not the only answer, the Prime Minister said. “There will be a continued role for ongoing stimulus in the short term as we develop the framework for strong, sustain-able and balanced growth.” In his opening statement to the G20 earlier in the day, Harper emphasized the fragility of the global economy. “If we fail to take decisive,

co-ordinated and balanced actions, a bleak scenario might emerge where millions of people could lose their jobs,” he said. “This is the responsibility we have.” “The whole world is watch-ing us because the fate of mil-lions of people depends on our actions.” In addition to cutting defi cits in half, G20 countries also promised to stabilize their debt-to-GDP ratio, or have it on a downward trend, by 2016. The Prime Minister praised the efforts of the U.K., whose recent budget addressed their defi cit, the Chinese for allow-ing fl exibility on exchange rates and the U.S. for its new Wall Street reform law, which would impose stricter regulations on the fi nancial sector. Harper expressed his confi -dence that every G20 country would be able to fulfi ll their promise by the deadline despite French president Nicholas Sarkozy’s remarks about the goals being merely a sugges-tion.

CFS to launch higher ed-magazine: Intent to work with student journalists raises concern

[ALEXANDRA POSADZKI [CUP ONTARIO BUREAU CHIEF]

TORONTO (CUP) — The Ca-nadian Federation of Students plans to start a national maga-zine on post-secondary educa-tion issues, sparking concerns among editors at some of Canada’s existing student-run publications. A motion passed at the CFS’s semi-annual general meeting in May cites the absence or mini-mization of student voices from the mainstream press as the ra-tionale for starting a magazine. It will focus on “trends and changes to educational policies, issues and events that have a national scope and other issues that are of importance to the college and university system.” Some student journalists, in-cluding Gemma Karstens-Smith at the University of Victoria, are offended by the implications of this statement. In an editorial dated May 13, Karstens-Smith — editor-in-chief of her university’s

student-run newspaper, the *Martlet* — questioned wheth-er the motion is meant to imply that student newspapers aren’t part of the mainstream media, or, worse, that the CFS believes that student newspapers are not adequately representing student voices. Krisna Saravanamuttu, president of York University’s students’ union — the group responsible for drafting the motion — said the publication is meant to target the absence of student perspectives from larger, daily newspapers like the *Toronto Star*, the *Globe and Mail* or the *National Post*. “This publication will focus on issues that are happening across the country in a way that mainstream media doesn’t refl ect, and we will do this collaboratively with campus newspapers and with the Ca-nadian University Press,” said Saravanmuttu. Canadian University Press is a co-operative organization of

almost 90 student-run newspa-pers across the country. “The fundamental goal is to make sure that we’re work-ing in collaboration with one another, to make sure that issues around post-secondary education are being properly covered,” said CFS deputy chairperson Shelley Melanson. Nicole Elsasser, editor-in-chief of the *Ontarion* — stu-dent newspaper at the Univer-sity of Guelph — is skeptical. “It’s diffi cult to interpret what exactly they meant when they were deciding to start this magazine,” said Elsasser. “I think it’s very convenient for them to have their very own magazine that can have infor-mation specifi cally showing them in a way that they’d like.” Karstens-Smith labeled the existence of a CFS national magazine “problematic” as it may result in pro-CFS biases fi ltering in to independent uni-versity newspapers.

The Runner BBQ

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WHEN: 1:00 p.m.

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AROUND CAMPUS

Kwantlen is just one of the several public, post-secondary institutes to receive funding from the provincial government to create gathering places that reflect Aboriginal culture in B.C.

Aboriginal Gathering Place off to a slow but steady start

[KRISTI ALEXANDRA][CULTURE EDITOR]

Kwantlen’s new Aboriginal Gathering Place, located in the main building of the Surrey Campus, has received signifi-cant attention for its contempo-rary design and architecture—having won both the 2010 British Columbia Wood Design Award in interior beauty design from the Canadian Wood Coun-cil and the 2010 Innovation Award from the Architectural Institute of British Columbia—but students want to know how the 110-square-metre space will benefit them.

“Something we have in mind [for the space] is utilizing it as a hang-out space,” says Josh Mitchell, director of student life and advising. “It’s already a space where students can access advising support, tutoring, and library support.” He added that the long-term plans for the Aboriginal Gathering Place include an elder-in-residence program, workshop facilita-tion, and Continuing Education programs.

The space, which was named Xthum in honour of the Coast Salish language, meaning “bas-ket and drum”, held its open-ing ceremony on May 28 and was celebrated and attended by members of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Semiahmoo and Tswas-sen First Nations communities, along with representatives of Kwantlen Polytechnic Universi-ty. The idea, according to Mitch-ell, is to “focus on the Aborigi-nal students who are attending Kwantlen,” of which there were over 470 in the past year—a 26 per cent increase since 2003.

Although the amount of Ab-original students seem to be on the steady incline, that number is still just a fraction when com-pared to the other 17,000 non-Aboriginal students currently attending Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The B.C. provincial government donated $600,000 to have the gathering place

built in hopes to heighten First Nations representation within the University community.

“Gathering places like this one encourage Aboriginal students to start, stay in and succeed in higher learning, and ensure all British Columbians have access to advanced educa-tion and training,” says Moira Stillwell, Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development.

But with all the press about the prestigious awards the space has won for architectural design, students might won-der if the focus on the design somehow reflects an Aboriginal or learning philosophy that Kwantlen wishes to convey.

“The space itself is taking significant cues primarily from regional First Nations culture, architecture, history and art,” says Mitchell, “all the while meeting the modern needs of any University. What I think is a very striking and beautiful space, you’ll also see comput-ers, wireless, projectors, and even a small kitchen because hopefully, we’ll have student groups using the space for small events and those kinds of things.”

Mitchell adds that the space “is a real blending of [histori-cal and modern values]. The University is absolutely inter-ested in creating more student-centred spaces outside of the classroom than we currently have, and I think this is a good example of that—albeit a highly specific one.”

For the time being, the space is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday but Mitch-ell says that he anticipates the hours of operation to change as dictated by student feedback. The summer, he reassures, is a slow academic season and says the school won’t be able to gauge the ABP’s success until September when more students are on campus.

KRISTI JUT // THE RUNNER

Top: The recently opened Aboriginal Gathering Place will serve as more than just a beautiful space, long term

plans include a elder-in-residence program. Bottom: First nations art is displayed in the Gathering Place to

showcase local Aboriginal culture.

TUITION PAYMENTS

No Credit Cards: Proposed tuition payment changes may come into effect as early as fall

[CHRIS YEE][STUDENT AFFAIRS BUREAU CHIEF]

The Kwantlen Board of Governors approved draft budget amendments this spring which may entail restrictions on the use of credit cards for tuition payments.

Under these restrictions, domestic students may only pay their tuition with Interac debit cards, cheques or cash.

According to an email sent to the Runner by KSA Director of Academic Affairs Brad Head, the online payment system has been changed to accept

payments using Interac. Head also said the use of credit cards for tuition payments may potentially be phased out by the fall semester.

Last year, Kwantlen paid between $400,000 and $500,000 on credit card fees, according Head.

The savings from discontinuing domestic tuition credit card payments (and the associated interest fees on the transactions) are expected to be $250,000 for the 2010-2011 year, according to the April President’s Newsletter.

The University plans to

use the savings to help fund a $450,000 increase to student scholarships and bursaries.

Head said that credit card tuition payments by international students would likely continue because it would be difficult for some international students to pay their tuition in cash, in light of visa restrictions.

In response to the impending restrictions on tuition payments by credit card, Head said, the KSA adopted an “Access to Educational Payment” policy.

The policy, according to a report by the KSA’s Academic

Issues Committee (AIC), expressed the KSA’s support of “the use of multiple systems of payments including credit cards and the improved accessibility for students to use alternative payment procedures for tuition and other campus services,” and urged “credit card companies to remove transaction fees for credit card usage at post secondary [sic] institutions, or provide those fees in the form of bursaries... and scholarship donations.”

The KSA’s AIC had also investigated the use of credit card tuition payment services

such as pay4unow.com; however, Head considers this a less than ideal option, saying that it would “not [be] fair to charge students on top of their other fees”. Pay4unow.com charges a handling fee of $16 for every $500 paid using the service.

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RIDING FOR A CURE

TRANSIT

[CHRIS YEE][STUDENT AFFAIRS BUREAU CHIEF]

Early last month, the pro-vincial government announced they would be offering the U-Pass for $30 per month to all post-secondary institutions in September. The announcement seemed too good to be true – and in a way, it was.

To start, how are the students going to get their U-Passes? In an interview with the Runner, KSA Director of Exter-nal Affairs Matt Todd stressed the importance of setting up the infrastructure on Kwantlen’s (or any other post-secondary institution’s) side to support the logistics of the U-Pass – things like printing and distributing the actual passes, opt-outs, and contracts with TransLink and the university administration.

Furthermore, differences be-tween the campuses need to be accounted for – and this means a transportation plan that in-volves “more than just buses”. “The whole point of the U-Pass is helping students get to school cheaper and easier,” Todd said. “We’re going to need a lot more than a U-Pass”.

Obviously, it takes time to account for all these consider-ations.

Todd said that the earliest date for any school to imple-ment this new U-Pass would be

[MATT LAW][MEDIA EDITOR]

On July 24, Gavin Johnston and wife Laura, along with 11 other riders, will embark on a 1,300 kilometre ride through much of south western B.C. to raise money for Parkinson’s disease.

Kwantlen named as a 2010 Progressive Employer of Canada[MATT LAW][MEDIA EDITOR]

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is the only Canadian university to be named as a 2010 Progressive Employer of Canada.

The Progressive Employers of Canada List is a survey done by Connect Moms, momcafe and Lisa Martin International.

It names employers across the country who offer flexible employment for women and moms with tough schedules.

“The university was recognized for its generous maternity benefits package as well as having the flexibility to accommodate employee leave of absences. The university also makes accommodations for

Just Giver for Parkinson’s

faculty, staff and employees to move from full-time status to part-time as their parenting responsibilities demand,” said a July 8 Kwantlen press release.

Kwantlen has also received recognition as being one of B.C.’s top employers and greenest employers for 2010.

“This acknowledgement, coupled with the recognition as one of B.C.’s 2010 Top Employers and one of Canada’s 2010 Greenest Employers for 2010 clearly demonstrates Kwantlen’s commitment to be a workplace of choice for our communities of the Fraser region of British Columbia,” said Deborah Harkin, vice-president of human services for Kwantlen, in a Kwantlen press release.

The Just Giver for Parkinson’s ride began in 2006 organized by Kelly Jablonski and Bronco Radmilovic.

The ride has gained more support and distance in the five years it has run. Starting at just 400km, the ride now covers 1,300 km in 10 different stages, starting in Vancouver and

COURTESY OF GAVIN JOHNSTON

heading north to Pemberton, over the Duffy Lake Road to Lillooet , then on to Kamloops, Kelowna, Osoyoos, Merritt and back to Vancouver.

This is a new route for what will be the final year of the Just Giver ride.

Johnston has been involved

with the ride at some level for the past five years but has only been able to ride in last year’s tour.

“A friend of mine David, who is a friend of Bronco’s, told me about this ride. These two guys were going to try raising money for Parkinson’s and they were going to have this big send off at the Safeway out in Langley. So we wanted to just go out there and support them. We rode with them out to Mission and we turned off and came back. That was the first year,” Johnston said.

“Finally last year we were able to just jump in and do the five days of the trip and this year is going to be the final year and we are going to do the whole thing,” Johnston added.

Johnston has been riding bikes for most of his life, participating in the master’s race series in B.C. and training on a regular basis with a number of local clubs.

In preparation for the ride Johnston has had to put in more than a few training miles.

“Right now I’m up to about 400-450 km, I brought it up from about 200-300 km, the weather this year has been pretty bad so I just get out when it’s nice, I know I’ll be fit

enough,” said Johnston.The group tries to train

together as much as possible, riding Saturdays and Sundays as well as climbing Cypress Mountain on Tuesday nights.

“We’ve been working on bringing our times down and every week we seem to beat our last times,” Johnston said regarding the 80km ride that starts at the Arthur Laing Bridge.

Over the course of the 10 day ride the team receives a lot of volunteer support including a masseuse who is donating four hours a day to keeping the riders’ muscles fresh.

Many of the communities they stop in come out to support the ride as well.

“In Kamloops they had the TV camera set up for us when we rolled into town and you ride down the street and everybody is lined up clapping, so it is pretty emotional. In salmon arm they had a big BBQ dinner set up and everybody pays by donation, they have a live band and square dancing and the mayor was there,” Johnston said.

The ride will leave on July 24 from Stanley Park at 9:30 a.m. and will finish at the Langley Safeway on Aug 2 around 1 p.m.

January 2011. An issue specifi -cally concerning the KSA is the question of implementing the U-Pass opt-outs for Kwantlen students. Todd says the KSA estimates there are about 1,000 Kwantlen students who live more than a kilometre – that is, about fi fteen minutes on foot - away from a bus stop.

According to Todd, fi fteen minutes (corresponding to a distance of one kilometre) is the maximum amount of time transportation planners con-sider to be practical to spend travelling by foot.

Todd also mentioned other factors affecting the practical-ity of paying for the U-Pass for Kwantlen students taking 6-week programs.

Some other elements of the KSA’s U-Pass plan include an intercampus shuttle and a car sharing program for those who need a vehicle to get to class, whether because of time constraints or supplies too unwieldy to carry on the bus, as well as a fi tness pass.

Todd also said the KSA wants a “toolbox of options” but also wants to “fi nd ways of doing this without making the U-Pass [too] expensive.” In his email, Todd mentioned that he is considering Kwantlen’s U-Pass program the “multi-pass” to refl ect this diversity of options.

The KSA has been engaging in collecting student feedback in support of this goal, having used feedback posters early this semester and during the Canada Day events earlier this month.

While posters used early this semester were to collect sugges-tions from students, the posters used during the Canada Day events contained a variety of choices that had been narrowed down in the planning process, which students from each of the campuses could indicate their support by placing stickers on the poster (they could also continue to suggest additional ideas, as well).

The KSA also attended a meeting with TransLink, the Ministry of Transportation, and “all Metro Vancouver schools” on June 25th to work on the U-Pass contract – including working on tying the price of the U-Pass to service levels (as is the case at SFU), an issue that concerns not just the KSA but the rest of the post-secondary institutions in the meeting as well.

“The regional U-Pass con-tract continues to be a work-in-progress that all schools are anxiously trying to complete as quickly as possible, while being careful to not rush into some-thing that we could regret in years to come,” said Todd.

KPU

U-Pass more than just a bus pass

A hundered per cent of donations to the ride go toward Parkinson’s. Visit: just-giver.com for more info.

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OPINION: CAFETERIA

Vuvuzela: horn of the Devil

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WHAT IT MEANS

Pride is more than a parade[MATTHEW DIMERA][CONTRIBUTOR]

In June of 1969, the New York police raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village. This in itself wasn’t news. At the time, raids on gay establish-ments were commonplace. But, this particular night was different; the patrons decided to fi ght back. The incident triggered a series of violent demonstra-tions over several days that would come to be known as the Stonewall Riots and would

usher in the modern gay-rights movement. A year later, marchers com-memorated the riots in the fi rst pride parade, and the rest is history. Forty-one years later, we’ve come a long way. Pride parades span the globe and are represented on every continent, except Antarctica. In Canada, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have fought long and hard for and have won many of the same legal rights as hetero-sexual citizens. For many Canadians, Pride celebrations are just a reason to party and to have fun. Outlandish costumes, mas-

sive fl oats and plenty of bare skin have become long-stand-ing traditions. But, the fi ght isn’t over yet. Transgendered Canadians are still not fully protected under the law and homophobic vio-lence continues to be a wide-spread problem. Around the world, LGBTQ people continue to struggle for basic rights that we take for granted. In many countries, they fi ght just for the right to exist. Fittingly, this year, the Van-couver Pride parade’s theme is liberation. On Sunday, August 1, 2010, Kwantlen students will join

the thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer people and their allies march-ing in the Vancouver Pride pa-rade. We will celebrate who we are and how far we have come as a society. We will remember those who came before us. We will stand together in solidarity with those around the world who continue the fi ght for equality and acceptance. And of course, we’ll have fun.

Kwantlen students interested in marching in the parade can contact queer@kusa.ca for more informa-tion.

Students won’t have to spend their hard-earned, student-loan cash on Chartwell’s anymore. The school has hired Sodexo Catering which, believe it or

not, has a salad bar. We at the Runner can’t wait to try them out. See our August issue for a review.

ABBY WISEMAN// THE RUNNER

[KYLE BENNING][CONTRIBUTOR]

The 19th World Cup has brought a lot of controversy to the world’s game. There has been a lot of ter-rible offi ciating and the loss of South Africa’s most famous politician’s granddaughter. Many doubted that Africa was ready for a World Cup after the terrorist attack on the Togolese team at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations. But if there is anything that has pissed me off, it is the “sound of South Africa”. I won’t lie; it is hard to stay awake during a soccer game when it is live at four o’clock in the morning. But what’s even more frustrating is when you

can’t hear the commentary. I don’t mind hearing the roar of the fans after a goal, or the songs they sing when they are winning a match. But why are vuvuzelas constantly being blown? You don’t get the full experi-ence of the game. I miss the times when the crowd goes silent after someone misses a penalty kick, or when they curse the referee after he makes a bad decision. The emotion of the game is being lost in thanks to these plastic cone-shaped noise mak-ers from Hell. FIFA considered to get a ban on them, but claimed they were part of the South Africa’s “his-tory”. I’m sorry, what soccer his-

tory does South Africa have again? How is a player supposed to concentrate when his team is in a penalty shootout and he has to score to keep his teams hopes alive? It’s absolutely ridiculous.And it’s not like the noise comes in bunches. It is as con-stant as the game clock. At times, I can’t hear myself think. I have watched all but one of the games, and I can say there are only two sets of fans who can drown out the vuvuzelas: the English and the Spanish.The English because they are drunk off of their asses and singing “God Save The Queen”, or “England ‘till I die”; the Spanish because they are a very proud nation of the game

(plus they have a decent team this year). The reigning Euro-pean champions have never won the World Cup, and many including myself feel that this is the year they can break the drought. The Brazilians were also very loud, but I don’t think enough fans could afford to fl y to South Africa for them to drown out the bee hive sound that 40,000 vuvuzelas make. I pray that no one keeps the vuvuzelas going, because after a month of listening to them, I have just about had it. If the vuvuzela has brought anything positive, it is that we can make insults like, “Why don’t you blow on my vu-vuzela?”

OPINION: WORLD CUP

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ART

D.I.Y.BBQ’IN

Build your own board[MATT LAW][MEDIA EDITOR]

Want to go surfi ng but too poor to take a ferry? Like the idea of skateboarding but not eating pavement? Missing your snowboard? Skimboarding is the perfect summer answer for those want-ing to try a board sport around Vancouver’s beaches. Sure, you can pay close to $200 at some of the fancy boarding stores, or $25 at the convenience stores on White Rock Beach. Why not spend some time and make your own custom board? There are many ways you can make a skimboard–this is just one that has worked well for me.

You will need...

A sheet of plywood (at least 5 ply and minimum 150 cm x

80 cm). Paint and varnish Jig saw with a fi ne tooth blade

How to Start

Trace out the size and shape of your board on the plywood (103cm x 53cm) in a thin egg shape. You may want to make a larger size board if you are taller than 5’9 and you can be creative with the shape.

Cut out the board with a fi ne tooth blade jig saw.Makes sure to sand the edges and apply a coat of white primer. Paint whatever design you may want, stickers work well too.Place the ends of the board on two chairs (or whatever you can fi nd)

with the painted side facing up and place a weight (around 20 lbs) in the middle of the board. Let it sit over night. This gives a slight curve to the board and will help when using it in the water.

Apply at least four coats of varnish to the entire board and let dry.Go fall on your face.

[AGATHA ENTOTE][CONTRIBUTOR]

Hot sauce. Liquid fi re. Dyna-mite. Call it what you want but it doesn’t change what this nefarious condiment can do to the uninitiated. It has the power to reduce even the burliest men into sniveling children. It can elicit everything from hacking coughs to watery eyes and yet we all can’t help but splash the precious liquid gold on pretty much everything. A plant as humble as the chili pepper can create a myriad of condiments and sauces, with each varying by country and even region. The following list may not be representative of what the whole world has to offer in terms of “fi re power” but I hope it persuades you to sample some of the more exotic hot sauces.

Tabasco Tabasco isn’t exactly the most exotic of fi nds but nevertheless deserves a mention. Tabasco belongs to the class of hot sauces primarily made with vinegar, salt and chili peppers. Aged in oak barrels for up to 30 years, or so the bottle says, the red pepper slurry is mixed with some distilled vinegar then fi ltered to get rid of the larger pepper chunks that might remain. The famed sauce is also the perfect thing to add some fl avour to your next barbecue. Why? Chances are if you’re using either store-bought barbecue sauce or the real deal, it probably has vinegar in it to give it that tang that makes us hungry like wolves. A few drops of a vinegar-based hot sauce of choice into your BBQ

mix will liven up any “grilled grey steak” and “hockey puck of beef”.

ShichimiYou may have already seen Shi-chimi at a Japanese restaurant, either in their original bottles or in these small lacquered containers that include a long thin scoop to keep every one's grubby paws out. Shichimi tog-arashi is a mixture consisting of mainly crushed red peppers, Sichuan peppers, orange peel, white and black sesame seeds, and the occasional addition of seaweed, hemp seeds and ground ginger. “Orange peel?” you might ask. Yes, and it is probably this lone ingredient that gives Shichimi its distinc-tive fl avour.

SambalSambal is an umbrella term re-ferring to a family of chili-based sauces prevalent in South East Asian cuisine. The one thing that really unifi es these sauces, if anything, is that the chilis are ground fresh as opposed to be-ing fermented. Anything from lime juice to fermented shrimp to garlic is added and the ad-dition of an ingredient or two can easily make the difference between any two sambals. The more common sambal you’ll see at your local Asian grocery is either sambal oelek (the one with the rooster) or sambal belacan, which is chili peppers made more interesting with toasted shrimp paste. Either of the two are a good addition to your next stir-fry or as an all–around condiment.

Hot for Sauce

MATT LAW // THE RUNNER With so much shoreline but so few waves at our fingertips, skim boarding

has taken over our beaches. Take a read and make your own board.

ANTONIO SU // THE RUNNER Beach

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DIDGERIDOO

[JEFF GROAT][LIFESTYLE BUREAU CHIEF]

Despite having a new album out and a new band to tour with, Xavier Rudd is doing more of what he’s good at: playing music.

When asked what the difference is between playing an indoor show versus an outdoor venue,

Xavier Rudd has a

simple response.“It’s like...” he takes a long

pause.“Home.”Xavier Rudd played in Van-

couver, his second home, this past June, hitting the Malkin Bowl for a sunset show un-der the tress in Stanley Park’s Malkin Bowl in support of his newest release, Koonyum Sun.

Rudd is no stranger to Vancouver, having played here numerous times over the past

few years, though this time he brought a couple of fresh faces with him.

Those faces also appear on the cover of Koonyum Sun. Tio Moloantoa and Andile Nqube-zelo make up Izintaba, Rudd’s rock-solid rhythm section.

“Playing with these guys is amazing,” he said.

“I feel like in a few short steps, I’ve gone from being solo to playing with the most incred-ible rhythm section I could

probably fi nd.”The two are former reg-

gae star Lucky Dube’s backing band, having seen their careers come to a tragic halt after the murder of Dube.

“They’re something else, it’s an honour to play with them, I feel very blessed,” he said.

“I think there’s a mutual respect between us and we’re just having fun,” he said.

Rudd is known for his Australian take on folk and rock music, incorpo-rating didgeridoo into his earthy slide guitar and honest vocals.

Koonyum Sun is no different, despite the additions.

“I’m really stoked for this record,” he said.

“It’s been a journey, prob-ably my proudest work.”

When Izintaba joined Rudd on-stage at a Euro-pean festival for

Rudd thankful for “good-hearted” fans

the fi rst time, Rudd pointed out the instant chemistry between the three.

“We met in Austria at Nuke Festival a few years ago,” he said. “We had a heavy respect for what each other was doing, musically.

“It’s probably about a year after that that we got together and rehearsed.”

“Once we rehearsed, we were done – we’ve played together ever since.”

It’s a quality of attitude.“People’s egos sometimes

get outta control, and that’s evident.

“You know as soon as some-one’s got a fat head, the people that listen to him are going to

realize it,” he said.“I’ve gotten more success-

ful so I’ve got more people comin’, but I’ve found that the groups of people that come to my shows is the same as it was when it was fi ve people.

“I’m so lucky, that’s the luckiest thing for me, that I have such good people that come to my show.”

No surprise, since most of his audience found his music through word of mouth.

“Me, I’ve never really relied on album sales so much - I’ve always been a live artist,” he said.

“I chat with ‘em and it’s like good-hearted, solid friendly, loving people, and I’ve never seen that change in my world.

“But I’ve never had a radio song,” he jokes.

UNDER THE STARS

Freshair Cinemas take over the city

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Australian musician says he is more of a live artist than a recording artist because of the love he feels from his audience

The Goonies

Ceperley Meadow,Ceperley Meadow,

Stanley ParkStanley Park

Jul

149 p.m.

Aug

089 p.m.

Cloudy With a

Chance of Meatballs

TBA,TBA, Surrey Surrey

Aug

148:30.

E.T.

Grimston Park,Grimston Park,

New WestNew West

Jul

17Dusk

The Princess Bride

TBA, DeltaTBA, Delta

Aug

128:30

The Last Song

TBA, SurreyTBA, Surrey

Aug

218 p.m.

Karate Kid

Ceperley Meadow,Ceperley Meadow,

Stanley ParkStanley Park

Jul

299 p.m.

TBA

Langley EventsLangley Events

Centre, LangleyCentre, Langley

Aug

138 p.m.

How to Train

Your Dragon

TBA, Surrey TBA, Surrey

Aug

288 p.m.

Blue Hawaii

East Beach,East Beach,

White RockWhite Rock

Jul

30Dusk

Happy Feet

Central Plaza, Central Plaza,

White RockWhite Rock

Aug

148:30

Hairspray

Five Corners,Five Corners,

White RockWhite Rock

Aug

28Dusk

Back to the Future

David Lam Park,David Lam Park,

YaletownYaletown

There’s nothing like spending a summer evening under the stars, especially when there’s a free movie involved. This summer, a number of cities have hired Freshair Cinema’s to all sorts of movies in their parks and on their beaches. We’ve listed a few of our favourites but check out freshaircinema.ca for updates and more event listings.

Under the sweet kiss of the warm July sun on a Monday evening, two of the Vancouver Ultimate League’s Division 4 teams, Random Fling and In My Pants, are set to take to the fi eld. For those who are unfamiliar with the sport Ultimate Frisbee, or ‘ulti’ as it is affectionately referred to by the players, it’s a fl ying disc sport. The objective of the game is simple: score goals. A goal is scored when a player throws the disc to a teammate and it is caught in their opponents’ end zone. Players can not run with the disc, but must advance the disc with successive throws to other teammates. In the VUL, fi rst team to score 13, wins. While winning is always fun, the most important part of Ulti-mate is the spirit of the game. Ultimate Canada, the govern-ing body for Ultimate in Can-ada, says that the “Spirit of the Game is at the heart of Ultimate and is a defi ning characteristic of the sport. With no referees, ultimate relies on the spirit of the game, placing the onus of sportsmanship and honourable play on the players themselves.” “Highly competitive play is encouraged, but never at the ex-pense of mutual respect among competitors, adherence to the agreed upon rules, or the basic joy of play.” The idea of spirit might seem outside of the realm of sports and its win-at-all-costs mental-ity, Ulti players take it seriously. “It’s why I play––spirit, and the whole theory and phi-

losophy behind the game,” says Mark Godard, a veteran of Random Fling. “There’s a spirit score award-ed at the end of the game and there’s also a spirit game played at the end of the game.” A spirit score is awarded to the other team based on a set of criteria designed by the VUL. For instance, spirit points can be awarded for outstanding sportsmanship or spirited reso-lution of disputes. At the end of the year, the VUL recognizes the teams with the top spirit scores with a party and award ceremony. Spirit games are played at the end of the game to further the idea of community. “I think the community spirit is an important part of recre-ational ultimate…and I think that’s the most important thing the VUL offers,” says Paul Niel-son, nine-year Ulti veteran and captain of Random Fling. The VUL began in 1986 with only a handful of teams. Within a few years it had grown to 12 teams. Today the VUL boasts over 230 teams with its members numbering over 4,000 during the busy summer season. “We are the largest adult sport league in Vancouver,” says Art Hawkins, Executive Director of the VUL. The VUL hosts numer-ous clinics and introductory programs for new and novice players, various tournaments throughout the season and a big year end barbecue to celebrate the end of the summer season. But while the VUL has devel-oped a great sense of commu-

nity spirit, there is a feeling that things are changing. “Between the community spirit and the spirit of the game, it’s a different experi-ence than you’d get from any other sport. It’s what differ-entiates the sport from others and what attracts people to it,” says Nielson. “But, over the past two or three years there’s been less of an obvious feeling of com-munity spirit. I think it’s been eroded a bit,” says Nielson. “We’ve had our fair share of teams over the past couple of years that just haven’t got it and have been less fun to play against.” Roger Lum, captain of In My Pants, agrees with Niel-son and the VUL’s waning spirit. “The game is built around spirit and self-refereeing and I think some players take advantage of that. Being a self-refereed sport it’s impor-tant that players maintain the spirit of the game,” says Lum. According to Lum, as the VUL grows, it takes in younger players, many of whom have played competitively with high school teams, where winning is more important than spirit. And because of that, Lum believes that both the “spirit of the game” and VUL community spirit are becoming increasingly hard to maintain. “It’s always been a recre-ational casual sport and that’s worked up until now, but I think at some point it has to be organized differently,” says Lum.

Hawkins acknowledges that the league is changing, but be-lieves strongly that recreational Ultimate has the potential to be even greater than it is. “Now the challenge will be to meet the expectations of mem-bers with regard to multiple formats: 7-on-7, 5-on-5, single gender play, developmental leagues, etc,” said Lum. But even with these chal-lenges facing the VUL, both

Lum and Nielson couldn’t see themselves playing any other sport. “Yeah, these are the perfect days to be playing Ultimate. It’s 18 degrees, it’s sunny, you’re out having fun with your friends and the team we just played against was a good time and that’s what tabout,” says Nielson.

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ULTIMATE FRISBEE

Extraordinary spirit of game sets Ultimate Frisbee apart from traditional team sports

Name: Savir Bains

Program: Marketing Management Diploma

Favourite beach to frequent?:“I’d say White Rock beach because there are a whole bunch of people there, and the water is so much clearer. You just play football or frisbee, or you can lay down and enjoy the sun.”

Names: Jessi DeLosiere and Rama Brar

Program: Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing

Favourite beach to frequent?:Jessi: I like going to Cultus because I live in Aldergrove. It’s not full of drunk and rowdy people, so that’s kind of nice, too.Rama: Cultus. Probably because it’s local, nice, and the waterslides are close enough.

Name: Jared Josue

Program: Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing

Favourite beach to frequent?:I go to Jericho beach because I live right there and it’s pretty quiet.

e asked you: Which beach is your favourite to frequent in the summer?W

[JEFFREY YIP][CONTRIBUTOR]

Matt Lebourdais (left) and some friends play beach volleyball in Kitsilano on

Friday July 2. Lebourdais says he plays up to five times a week, which helps

him stay in great shape. Everyone should play a little beach volleyball, he says,

because “sunshine makes everyone happy.”

ABBY WISEMAN//THE RUNNER

Vancouver ultimate teams, Random Fling and In My Pants, take advantage

of the July weather with a game of “Ulti”.

JEFFERY YIP// THE RUNNER

VUL encourages competitive play and respect among competitors

AT KWANTLEN BUMP, VOLLEY, SPIKE

CREATIVE The Runner | www.runnerrag.ca

Resonant Echo[JARED VAILLANCOURT][CREATIVE WRITING BUREAU CHEIF]

The city was alive; there was no longer doubt of that in his mind. Ironic, he thought, how he had doubted everything else out of his thoughts. He watched the people on the street as they laughed, sang and danced the night away, their banners and paraphernalia proclaiming something social. It was a holi-day of some kind, he remem-bered vaguely; some celebration of someone or some god that no longer meant anything to him. He relaxed, cigarette in hand, as he settled onto his stool. A long time ago he would have been amongst them, sing-ing and laughing, allowing alcohol and jubilance to fl ow through him as readily as his own blood, caught up in the oblivious bliss of the fools who called this city home. He would have bowed his head to honour their gods with his prayers and dressed like some fl owering plant to impress the ladies. A long time ago, he would have joined them. A long time ago he was hu-man. He checked his watch. There was still time. He looked around the bland room; save for his stool and the windows engulfi ng each wall, the bare concrete was gray and, to the fools below, oppressive in their drabness. Such trivial things no longer mattered to him. He sat quietly on his stool, smok-ing his cigarette, enjoying the company of the silence around him. He watched as the smoke

rose to the ceiling and dis-persed against the gray ceiling, forming swirls and wisps that, to the fools would look like animals or vehicles or whatever popular culture was fl owing through their screens these days. He closed his eyes as he took another puff, smirking as a stray thought of the warnings abundant everywhere. It didn’t matter. Death was such a trivial thing, too. The elevator behind him fl ared to life. He continued to smoke, the gloves coming out of his pocket as he waited for the sound of the approaching car to come to a halt. He lit a new stick as the doors opened and the only person who knew he was here stepped into the room. “John?” a voice asked. He allowed his face to become a mask of stone-cold indiffer-ence. The woman behind him swallowed and repeated the name. He cocked his head to one side, the sign to summon her forward. The sound of her swallowing on refl ex, followed by her obligatory footfalls, served only to allow him time to take another drag. She stood to his left. He inclined his head to consider her. “Mary,” he replied smoothly, acknowledging the name he had told her to use. Mary was a shorter woman, not particularly attractive but showing off her heritage on the street through her lean, muscular build. Razor-sharp tattoos adorned her bare arms, fl owing like his smoke up to either side of an otherwise frighteningly purple Mohawk. Between her distinct appear-ance and the tank top and cargo

pants she wore for effect, the fools on the street would have worn expressions of concern and fear in her presence. Expressions, he thought amusedly, like the one she wore now. Mary looked down at the duf-fel in her hands. “I… brought your package, John,” she said meekly, her husky voice quiv-ering. She swallowed again. “Where, uh… where…” “By that window,” John said without another look in her direction. Mary hesitated, but walked over to the window and set the duffel down in front of it. She turned to him and attempt-ed a smile. After a second or two of seeing no expression on his face, her smile faltered. She scratched the back of her neck. “You… got my money?” she asked. John replied by looking briefl y over at the window to his right. She followed his gaze, spotting the small plastic bag with its bundle of paper within it. She hurried over to it and quickly snatched it up. “Out,” he said simply. Mary gave him a shocked look, but without another word, she hurried for the elevator and pressed the down button. He waited until the descending car had faded away to a muted humming before he stood up and dropped his cigarette on the fl oor. The amount he had paid Mary had been generous, not that it mattered much; in a day, she’d by high out of her mind with her payment spent. Long ago he would have cared. People like Mary were just statistics to him now. He walked over to the duf-

fel and carefully unzipped it. Quietly, with practiced, precise motions, he went through what was now more instinct than chore and assembled the auto-rifl e. The plasma battery had enough juice in it to wipe out an army, but on the setting he was planning to use, the gun would be spent after one shot. The parallel reminded him briefl y of Mary, before she inevitably faded into the generic blur of all the street urchins he had used for the same task. He suspected several underworld drug lords owed their entire empires to him. He checked his watch. It was nearing time now; the celebra-tions on the streets far below were beginning to ascend to an apex of sorts. Soon, he thought, their gods will smile upon them. He hefted the heavy black weapon. Taking a breath, he opened the window, lay prone, and joined eye to scope once more. The world below became an up-close visit to his carefree past; faces that were little more than dots became full and alive as dots became people, full and alive, in his omnipresent glare. He searched the crowd; fi nally spotting the fi gure he assumed was Mary checking over her shoulder, her hand on a nonde-script door in the alley opposite his building. He smiled as she was ushered in. Something in the back of his mind had memorized Mary’s face for him. He frowned briefl y; it was the same part of his brain that memorized the faces of his past kills, a multicultural parade of people whose crimes he didn’t know

and whose deaths he had dealt without hesitation or mercy. He switched the scope to high frequency and scanned through concrete and asphalt, through the ghostly skeletons of the peo-ple on the street, fi nding Mary as larger-than-possible bouncers escorted her down into the den of the man he’d been assigned to kill. “Five hundred and forty-six,” he said casually, adding his face to the parade right after Mary. Why was she in there anyways, he wondered? He smirked. “One,” he whispered, surprised that in this day and age he hadn’t been assigned a woman before. Long ago, that would have comforted him. Mary was between the barrel and the mark, anyways. Long ago, he’d wait for her to move. Long ago, he allowed the smirk to vanish. He lined up both of their heads. Long ago, his mind echoed. His fi nger tensed on the trigger. He narrowed his eye. “Long ago,” he said for some reason. He pulled the trigger. He calmly put away the auto-rifl e as the people on the street panicked and screamed at the sudden crater that used to be the side of a building, the falling red mist reaching even a hun-dred stories up to his window. Long ago, he would have closed the window by now. Long ago, he thought. He pressed the button for the eleva-tor. He hesitated. Long ago he would have never hesitated. Never.

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Tainted Lungs

The sky was the color of ash on the day of Dad’s funeral and I stood apart from the crowd dressed in black surround-ing his grave. Although the weather was bleak and grey, I was sweating and my breath choked under the Windsor knot of my tie. I wanted to untie it, but I didn’t want to disrupt the service. Like crows, the crowd scat-tered and my heart beat loudly knowing this day was near-ing its end. When the crowd cleared, Mom kneeled down in front of Dad’s grave, her head lowered down in prayer. I rolled my eyes away. How could she do such a thing? I felt a knot in my stomach and it only tightened even more when I thought of Mom sanctifying my old man who was beyond God’s mercy. I took out a pack of cigarettes, placed one of them in my mouth, and lit the white stick with my lighter. I then blew into it, and puffed out a jagged, thin ring of smoke. Breathing in, I swallowed down the ghastly vapour. It offered me such pleasure since I was a teenager,

but now the promise of respite and solace was gone. The knot tightened into a noose.I held the cigarette in between my fi ngers as its tip burnt, char-ring the white paper. I should tell her. She deserves to know. I touched Mom’s shoulder, which was cold and sturdy as a gar-goyle, her pose frozen in stone. The silence broke with the click of my words. “Mom, there’s something I have tell you.” “Seth, I already know.” “Did the clinic call? I told them not to. I didn’t even sign your name on those damn forms I had to fi ll out before I had my check-up.” “I know because you’re just like your dad. What brand are those cigarettes?” “Marlboro.” “Those were your dad’s favourite. Every time, I came home from the convenience store and bought him a pack of those, he wouldn’t hit me for the rest of the day.” “Well, he’s gone now,” I said. “That’s all that matters. You’ll be safe now.” Inserting the cigarette in my mouth, I grinned as I swal-lowed the blissful, dark smoke, but then Mom stood up and

turned around, anger ablaze on her pruned face. Without a second thought, she slapped me across the cheek, branding my skin as the cigarette fell out of my mouth. She glared at me, her sight fi xated with contempt towards the words I casually slipped out, but for me there was no remorse in my action. Below me, I saw the half-burned cigarette lying on the grass and my stomach churned. The crimson blemish on my cheek faded. All I wanted to do was to punch her in the face, but our relationship was teeter-ing on the edge of a knife. “Tell me Seth,” Mom an-nounced. “How long have you known that you’ve had can-cer?” “Four weeks. I rather you not worry about me... I...” I couldn’t continue speaking. I didn’t want to. I drifted my gaze away from Mom and rubbed my fi n-gers against the bony frame of my chest. My eyes were drowsy. If I closed them here and now, would I ever be able to wake up? I crossed my fi ngers. “I did this to myself and I should be the one to deal with it.” “Your dad was scared when he fi rst learned he was sick. He

begged for my help” We both stared at Dad’s grave, but my sight levelled down to the mound of dirt below the stone slab. I imagined his body rotting as earthworms burrowed their serpentine bodies into his eye sockets and nostrils. Delightful. However, my thoughts became irritated with a bothersome itch that I couldn’t scratch away. “I’m nothing like him. Why did you even come to his fu-neral? He treated you like shit.” Mom sighed and glanced at me. Her breath hung in air long enough for me to listen to her sad song. “At least he didn’t run away. He still stayed. You’re the one responsible for breaking this family apart. I lost your dad, now I’m going lose you. He asked for help. Why can’t you?” Her sharp tongue buried my vulgarities in the hollow earth, alongside the corpses and skeletons. She walked passed me, but didn’t swat the cigarette out of my hand as she use to when I was younger. No words exchanged. As we grew more distant, a thread snapped, sepa-rating our fi lial bond. There was a rose lying on

the grass in front of the arch-shaped tomb. Once I glared at its crimson petals, the itch in my thoughts became a rash and scorched inside my head. I stomped on the rose, fl attening the petals. A force tunnelled up from my lungs, as I clenched onto my chest and I coughed out a rainfall of saliva onto the lime-green grass. Kneeling down, my throat burned from the coughs, but soon everything slowed down and I regained my breath. There was one word carved into the face of the tombstone that caught my attention. Beloved. Sneering at the word and turn-ing around, I backed up against the stone. I pulled out another cigarette and barred it down between my lemon-yellow teeth. My thoughts drifted off and wondered if I should’ve ended things differently with Mom. I lit the white stick; my regret chased and burned down by fl ames. The fi re incinerated the tip and scorched it a charcoal black. I swallowed the smoke as it dropped down my esophagus and tainted my lungs.

[WINSTON LE]

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

PROCRASTINATION

THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T SAY TO MEN — KAYLIN METCHIE

HOROSCOPE

WEIRD STUFF: RHYMES AND FART BOMBS

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

Your HST bill has arrived

Turn every job interview into an episode of Maury and you’re bound to have a ton of offers.

Grab a pack of lifesavers and a bouquet of roses and hit the streets. It’s gonna be a scorcher.

Six years ago you met a man selling meat. This week you will meat that man again.

Sometimes six plus eight equals two sweet and low packages. Sometimes it equals a fur hat.

Don’t put gas in your car. You should know that dog hair and relish are good enough fuel.

Someone you know has a fancy new look. Chances are they won’t talk to you anymore.

You’ve dreamed of being on the ocean in a tobaggan and now your dreams will come true.

You saw that hole in the beach but you fell in anyway. Think about what this really means.

It’s a good thing you have a tarp and an air mattress handy, you might need it while blogging.

You are an enabler. There is no need for your best friend to have a butter chicken addiction.

GEMINIMay 21 - June 20

CANCERJune 21 - July 22

TAURUSApr. 20 - May 20

SAGITTARIUSNov. 22 - Dec. 21

CAPRICORNDec. 22 - Jan.19

SCORPIOOct. 23 - Nov. 21

VIRGOAug. 23 - Sept. 22

LIBRASept. 23 - Oct. 22

LEOJuly 23 - Aug. 22

PISCESFeb. 20 - Mar. 20

ARIESMar. 21 - Apr.19

AQUARIUSJan. 21 - Feb. 19

If you wake up and you’re still tired, blow off your plans to eat chicken with your uncle.

Your life is a duet and it features Dolly Parton and the lead singer from U2, whatever his name is.

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