The Mark - February 2015 Issue

THE MARKVolume III . . . No. 2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015 FREE-ish

ELISE PEARSON

For many students at Quest University Canada, an on-campus pizza delivery service felt like a godsend. Cheesus Crust Pizza was the answer to a prayer recited by countless students who dreamed of ordering late night food without being accosted by Panago employ-ees who refused to deliver to the Atrium. Alas, for its sins (namely not being a registered business nor holding itself to industry health and safety standards) Cheesus Crust was forced to close its ovens by administration in late November but Crust shall rise again. The sec-ond coming is expected to happen sometime in March in partnership with Black-Katz Catering.

The idea for Cheesus Crust was immaculately conceived in response to the absence of a com-mercial food outlet on campus past 7:30 pm. Fourth-year students Jor-dan Ross and Tom Madden, and third-years Colin Lancashire and Nicki Magill, the students at the pulpit of the operation, say that the idea was one rooted in the concept of neighbourly love. According to Lancashire, We used to make piz-zas together on weekends. It was a family style thing and we thought if we could bring that to the Quest community, it would be an awe-

some experience. And for many Quest students,

it was an awesome experience. From their launch on October 8, 2014 to their closure a little over a month later, Cheesus Crust de-livered around 150 pizzas, created an online ordering form for ease of purchase, and began expanding their menu from strictly pizzas to desserts. Their online marketing was a hit amongst students and their clientele was steadily increas-ing.

But it was not to last. Darren Newton, Manager of Housing and Student Life, who has been shep-herding the resurrection process

since the initial shutdown, was also the one to mount Cheesus on the proverbial cross. After discovering the operation on Facebook, New-ton was forced to stop the business due to food safety reasons. Initial-ly my concerns were with health and welfare. When you produce a commercial food product, you have to use a lot of very tight regu-lations to ensure that food safety is monitored, said Newton.

Newtons other concerns were business related, When you start to exchange money for a prod-uct, its technically a business, and you have to have a business administration number, you have

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New System to Streamline Housing Placement

By ANA RUTH DIFFLEY & LAU-REL SALE-HOOK

New Faculty Hires Announced

After years of filling out hous-ing applications by hand, Quest is finally getting with the times. Be-ginning this year, Quest will most likely be utilizing a new program called StarRez. Ninety percent of colleges and universities in North America already use it.

StarRez will work a lot like a dating program you make a pro-file, answer some questions and get matched up with your most eligible roommates. Students who know who they want to live with do not need to use this aspect of the program, but will use it to se-lect a unit. As romantic as this may sound, it also means there will be some fundamental changes.

Housing director Darren Newton has been working with a project manager from StarRez to get the program up and running. In general, housing assignments will still work the same way, with a rolling registration for each type of unit. Seniority will be based on the average amount of credits earned by the students in each room. Transfer credits will most likely be included as well.

There are also some changes in the prices of housing units, in an attempt to narrow the price gap

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By ANNA GLASER

As the student body con-tinues to grow, Quest adminis-tration has been busy trying to hire enough faculty to meet the increasing diversity in student ac-ademic interests. As the 2015-2016 academic year draws near, this issue is more pressing than ever, as the 203 students in the Class of 2017 will be entering the Con-centration Program this coming September.

Many of these students have expressed fears that courses offered in their areas of interest are few and far between. What is Quest doing to account for this influx of concentration students? Earlier this year, Ryan Derby-Tal-bot, Quests Chief Academic Officer, started a hiring search committee in hopes of finding candidates for six new full-time faculty positions as well as a va-riety of Artist-in-Residence posi-tions.

With the exception of one search that was closed due to a lack of viable candidates, Der-by-Talbot assures that, all five [active] searches are likely going to yield. Quest may soon be home to tutors in physics, cultural anthropology, Canadian studies,

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Residence team plans switch from analog to digital with room assignmentsmicrobiology, and sociology of religion.

Two of the five positions already have candidates who have accepted offers of employ-ment: Ian Hoffman, a physicist from Wittenberg; and Kaija Bel-frey-Munroe, who will be return-ing full-time to teach Canadian studies. Additionally, Jess Reeves, a geophysicist who was hired last year and deferred for a year, will also be joining us in the fall of 2015. Each of these new hires will bring unique concentration classes to the roster, bulking up the arguably lacking course slate of previous years.

Derby-Talbot has also se-cured five new Artists-in-Resi-dence, each of whom will teach one block next year. These artists include a graphic designer, a visu-al artist, a poet, a filmmaker and get this a cobbler. Derby-Talbot says that Quest is aiming for at least one creative arts course per block for next year, but that num-ber may increase in subsequent years if the response is positive. The program will evolve from year to year, he says, Were get-ting more and more applicants for the Artists-in-Residence pro-gram so well see how it goes.

between single and double rooms. These new figures are now public on Quests website. In addition, ma-ture housing (the new term coined by Student Affairs for Riverside and Swift Creek) has a set fee that is divided evenly by the number of occupants. While all occupants will pay the school the same amount, if they wish to split the cost different-ly they can give each other money outside of the schools billing sys-tem.

The final major change is that incoming students will be in charge of choosing their own roommates using the StarRez system. Cur-rently Student Affairs does this all by hand and they assured us the pairings would be just as accurate with the new system. The majority of incoming students will be in Red Tusk and Ossa.

With the growing student population, a culture shift is un-avoidable. Combined, Riverside and Swift Creek have a total of 160 beds. In the past, class sizes were small enough that almost all third and fourth years could fit into the mature housing. Many current stu-dents still assumed this to be true. Second-year Jason Clark said, We thought that was the norm. But with incoming class sizes as big as they are now, students will experi-ence a reality check.

This means that the students with the highest combined average credit as a room are the only ones who will be living in mature hous-ing. This will most likely change the trend of these buildings to consist of mainly fourth-years and a few rooms of third-years. Newton said that in the coming years third-years need to stop thinking they will be living in Riverside. Stu-dents are worried about qualifica-tions to live in mature housing. As second-year student Lila Stanners put it, People who have to take an emergency leave are consid-ered lower priority due to fewer credits. Others mentioned that age, community involvement, or room damages should be incorporated.

Living in mature housing gives students more independence, with a full kitchen and other utilities not found in the other residence build-ings. One of the biggest pushbacks to this shift is that upper years liv-ing in the Villages will still require at least a half meal-plan.

Newton said, The social sci-entist in me is fascinated to see how the Quest culture changes and reacts.

Newton is eager to hear stu-dents opinions and ideas. More information is coming soon, as the residence team figures out the new system.

By ZACHARY KERSHMAN

Cheesus Crust Pizza plans partnership with Black-Katz Catering in tentative reopening

to have accounting, you have to submit taxes to revenue Canada. When you start to run a business on campus, these things become complicated.

While his first concern was avoiding liability on behalf of Quest, Newton recognized the students passion for food and community and wanted to help them operate their business legitimately. New-tons own passion for the Crust led him to the idea of a partnership with Black-Katz.

Though representatives from Black-Katz have refused to com-ment on any partnership with the

pizza service, according to Newton and the students behind Cheesus Crust, Black-Katz has been very re-ceptive to the idea. Newton said he sees this as a teachable moment all of the pieces are there, its now a matter of making them fit. We have students who want to learn about food services, we have a ca-terer whos willing to teach them, he explained. I see this as a great opportunity for students who have an interest and a passion to do food service, to learn from our ex-isting contractors.

According to Newton, Black-Katz has agreed to allow Cheesus Crust to work with their staff, fa-cilities and resources to make the pizzas. Cheesus Crust will use the catering services health-and-safe-ty-approved food providers, and run their business through Black-Katz. However, there are some details yet to be worked out, like whether or not the pizzas will still be delivered, or how exactly the payment process will work.

Ross said that while nothing is set in stone, an announcement will be made sometime in March. For the time being, students must put their faith in the creed of Cheesus Crusts mission. As Madden put it, We believe that theres a little bit of Cheesus in everyone, or at least we want it to be that way.

JORDAN ROSS

A2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015THE MARKNEWS

Sports Updates

By KEVIN BERNA

Hey, Stir-fry: Theres a New Kid in TownBy MICHAELA SLINGER

Richard Hoshino Releases Math Novel

New Hires Cont.

It was the first night of Feb-ruary block. You walked into the cafeteria envisioning your soon-to-be stir-fry with steaming veg-etables, hearty tofu chunks and a smothering of teriyaki sauce. This was your go-to dinner the Black Katz cooks always gave you a knowing smile as you stepped up to the station. That night, how-ever, something was different. Where the menu once said stir-fry, there was now a foreign, in-timidating, radically new option staring you in the face: tacos.

Its something we always had in mind, to flip that station every block, explained Eric Lamon-tagne, Black-Katzs general man-ager. In Quests past, Lamontagne had that same station flip between a pasta bar and a stir-fry bar. Af-ter mixed student reviews, Lam-ontagne decided to combine both options to provide stir-fry along-side pasta options. The taco bar flip is viable for the current cafe-teria equipment, and comes nat-urally to Black-Katzs head chef Jamie Campbell, who ran a Mex-ican restaurant in Banff for years.

Lamontagne said that taco bar reviews have been mixed, but the cafeteria has sold more tacos than they did stir-fry. However, even Darren Newton, co-chair of Quests Food Committee, was taken aback by the sudden switch: I feel students pain, because I eat there every day too. It caught us all off guard. Despite the lack of communication, Newton noted that the tacos were awesome re-gardless of the emotional depar-

ture of the stir-fry station.The relationship between

Black-Katz and the Food Com-mittee is not streamlined; Lamon-tagne has only had one informal meeting with the committee this year. He also noted that member turnover is annal, which compli-cates connection between the two bodies. The co-chairs of the com-mittee are Newton and Krystle tenBrink. The two are joined by faculty member Annie Prudhom-me-Genereux, SRC minister Aida Ndiaye, and students Alayna An-nett and Laura Finkler.

The committee gave their input to tenBrink and Newton regarding the food survey, which was then sent out to the student body. From students feedback, Ndiaye noted themes that re-volved around quality, variety, price, and availability of healthy options. tenBrink compiled an executive report of the survey findings, which was shared with Lamontagne at the aforemen-tioned meeting. I see a lot of things in that survey where peo-ple are not knowing what we do, or [Black-Katz] not necessarily communicating the restrictions, said Lamontagne.

The meeting between the food committee chairs and Lam-ontagne resulted in two strategies to enhance communication be-tween the cafeteria and students. The first is a Did You Know? campaign, where Black Katz will post information about their food and what services they of-fer. The chicken that they serve [in the cafeteria] is actually grain-fed, non-antibiotic, better quality

nity is really special, which is why I wanted to have my inaugural book launch here, because this community has been so good to me.

Following the event on March 2nd, Hoshino will be holding a second launch at the Squamish public library and selling cop-ies of the novel at the Squamish Farmers Market throughout the year. In the summer, Hoshino will attend the National Math Educa-tion conference in New Bruns-wick, where he hopes to engage his target audience.

The story follows Bethany, a teenaged girl from Eastern Cana-da, on her journey to compete in the International Mathematical Olympiad. As Hoshino puts it, Thanks to the support of inno-vative mentors, combined with her own relentless perseverance, [Bethany] discovers meaning, purpose, and joy. Hoshino says that his purpose in writing the book is to inspire high school and university students with the message that, math is beautiful, applicable and relevant to every-thing in this world.

Hoshino has been using man-uscripts of The Math Olympian as the textbook for his foundation course Mathematical Problem Solving since he began teaching at Quest in 2013. He says that his students were a big help in mak-ing the book what it is today. The first iterations [of the book] were

Black Katz makes sudden shift from teriyaki to salsa with taco bar implementation

Quest tutor self-publishes first novel; launch set for March 2nd at Quest.

chicken than what youd get if you went down to Save-On, Newton said about the unknown quality of cafeteria food.

The second is a Just Ask cam-paign. [Black-Katz] seems so amenable. I think the challenge is that people dont know that they can just ask for [certain things], Newton explained. The caterer does things, but they just dont tell anybody, and the students want it, but they dont ask for it.

Once the taco bar has its run, it will take a siesta while the stir-fry makes a reappearance. After that? [Future flips] depend on market price. Beef is 30% up, and were thinking of taking it out as an option too, Lamontagne mused. We have no idea what our pricing will be next year, whats available, or what disease [will be] in the world. In the meantime, students with cafeteria inquiries can get in touch with the Food Committee, check out Black Katzs new website at www.black-katz.ca, or... just ask.

As Quest continues to grow, Derby-Talbot says he hopes to keep hiring new and exciting faculty members. Were gaug-ing how many courses would be valuable, he says. So far all the courses this year had waitlists so it seems like theres demand.

This success in hiring is unprecedented, Derby-Talbot says. This is the first year were going to hit our target. Usually a full third of our searches collapse because its hard to find a candi-date. While Quests innovative model has many merits, it cer-tainly makes hiring more difficult. Its hard to find a Quest faculty member, Derby-Talbot says, be-cause there arent other Quests for faculty members to come from.

By ANNA GLASER

Third-year student-athlete Oliver Bennett signed a contract to play soccer for German club SV Oberzell. While spending this spring semester on exchange at Zeppelin University, Bennett will be playing center midfield for the club that competes in the Lande-sliga, the sixth division of German football. Bennett says that al-though hes amongst the fittest of the team, there are other aspects, unique to German football, that take some getting used to. They play a smarter style compared to Canadian soccer, says Bennett. Its quick, one or two touch soc-cer, very much in an attempt to replicate the Bundesliga (first di-vision) pros. We wish Oliver the best of luck in his scholastic and athletic endeavors.

wwwThe Quest mens soccer

team faced quality competition in exhibition play this month. The Kermodes travelled to Vancouver on February 7 to play a friendly game against the UBC Thunder-birds varsity squad, who finished first in the Pacific Division of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) league last season. Quest put up a good fight but lost to the Thunderbirds (1-0). The Kermod-es had a goal called back because of a questionable decision by the referee, so the game was even closer than the results indicate. The team then travelled to Trinity Western University on February 18 to battle the third best team in the CISs Pacific Division in anoth-er exhibition match. This game ended in a 1-1 tie, and newly ap-pointed captain JB McEown is al-ready excited for next year. Were still missing a few key players who are on exchange or taking some time off, so these results are very positive looking forward.

wwwThe Quest women are play-

ing great basketball that empha-sizes tough defense and efficient offence, and theyre dominating the opposition. The biggest chal-lenge facing coach Dany Charlery who should win Coach of the Year is keeping the team fo-cused on post season competi-tion. They have already secured first place in the Pacwest. Another conference champion banner and a trip to the national tournament look to be in their future.

wwwTwo losses this past weekend

was not what the mens basket-ball team was looking for, but they remain in third place with two games left. The men hope to end the season on a high note when they play VIU and Camosun next weekend. Being the last weekend of the season, Saturday February 28 is Seniors Day for both pro-grams. Be sure to congratulate all our seniors for their efforts in the classroom and on the court over the past four years.

disastrous. The students were re-ally gentle in saying that the book had potential, but before it got published, the voice of the main character Bethany needed to ac-tually sound like a 17-year-old girl, rather than someone like a carbon copy of me, Hoshino ex-plained.

To address this issue, Hoshi-no began working with then-second-year student Anna Har-vey-Vieira during the summer of 2013 to give the central character a more authentic voice. The fol-lowing academic year, at Har-vey-Vieiras suggestion, Hoshino hired two students Sophia Mat-thew and Diana Kronenberg, to work with him on the novel once a week as a work-study job. They tore apart the manuscript, cut it by 20 percent, and introduced freshness, Hoshino said, speak-ing on the role these students played in shaping the novel.

Hoshino says that for the foreseeable future, he doesnt have any plans to write another math novel, and hopes to make a meaningful impact with this book before considering starting on an-other. Im not writing a Danielle Steele or Dan Brown book thats meant to have a very superficial impact on a large number of peo-ple. My hope is that I have written something that will have a very deep impact on a small number of people and change their percep-tions of math.

MORGAN HILLIS

FRIESENPRESS

By ZACHARY KERSHMAN

Quest mathematics tutor Richard Hoshino has released his first novel this past month. The Math Olympian, self-published by Hoshino with the assistance of book manufacturer Friesen Press, was released in late January.

While copies of the book are currently available online, Hoshinos novel will be officially launched at Quest on March 2nd, following Community Update. Hoshino feels he owes much of the books development to the support he has received from the Quest community, making it the ideal place for its inaugural launch. To share a 5-year project with the Quest commu-

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By MORGAN HILLIS

Quests First Violence Prevention Team Ready for Action

By MACKENZE ERLANK & AYLA RAABIS

The Quest Mentorship pro-gram finally began last month, after the original September 2014 start date was pushed back to accommodate logistical issues. The program connects Quest stu-dents with young students from Stawamus Elementary, and runs every Wednesday from 4:00-5:30pm. Students usually begin with games in the gym or get-to-know-you activities, and then split into their buddy groups. Though the program is running smoothly now, the evolution from initial idea to program implemen-tation was not all smooth sailing.

The idea was conceived last year, as Maya Greenberg, Gra-ham Streich and Robert Beaulieu discussed the need to connect

Quest Students Launch Mentorship Program with SES

In January, Quest saw the completion of its first Freirean Pedagogies: Community Educa-tion for Violence Prevention and Culture Change course, leading to the establishment of Quests own Community Education for Violence Prevention and Culture Change Program. The course was designed by students Vrindy Spencer, Andrea Prudencio Caria-ga and recent graduate Elise Scrib-ner and implemented by Quest tu-tor Jessamyn Smyth. It was put in place to prepare a volunteer group of students to co-facilitate work-shops on violence and oppres-sion prevention, to be accessed by request. With the course now completed, 22 Quest students are equipped to facilitate requested workshops on campus as well as in the Squamish community.

The groups vision statement reads, This program facilitates workshops and community events for violence prevention and cul-ture change. Using critical reflec-tion and action, facilitators strive to create social change through trans-formative, liberating, and anti-op-pressive dialogue. Working with shared values of love, authenticity, and solidarity, we seek to build

bridges, open gates, and create a more inclusive and celebratory culture. By facilitating connection, we aim to create opportunities for radical responsibility, humility, and joy-based community growth.

The class explored the sourc-es and effects of everyday oppres-sions and discriminations, which often go overlooked. Rather than addressing a certain number of spe-cific issues, Maya Greenberg, who completed the class, explained, in the class we read and talked about the basic mechanisms of oppres-sion... weve gotten these broad skills from taking the class that al-low us to facilitate workshops that adjust to different needs. Learning such skills have enabled facilitators to research and design appropri-ate workshops to fit any request.

The collaborative pedagogical approach taken by Scribner and Smyth gave students the opportu-nity to witness co-facilitation, which is at the core of the Community Ed-ucation programs philosophy. It was beautiful to see co-facilitation modelled by Jessamyn and Elise, said class participant Ayla Raabis. Mari Piggott, another class mem-ber, explained the importance of this educational strategy: Co-facil-itation allows us to lead from mul-

Allens Anatomy

Big and little buddies finally pair up after logistical complications

A Q&A with Cline Allen who has been accepted to

Boston University Medical School

By MICHAELA SLINGER

tiple perspectives. With more than one perspective represented in the workshop facilitation, we have dou-ble the experiences and double the knowledge base to work from.

So what does a co-facilitated workshop look like? They totally varied, explained Greenberg. It depends on who the audience is, how many people are there, what the workshop is about... were try-ing to make them really interac-tive... [our aim is] allowing it to be more organic, ...not being struc-tured. The January courses goal was for facilitators to learn the skills and gain the confidence neces-sary to moderate healthy dialogue about oppression. This enables facilitators to tailor workshops to fit a communitys changing needs.

Joe Sway, a member of the class, says, Im really excited for this opportunity that Quest has to consolidate the wisdom that is on this campus and to give it an outlet for everyone to benefit from... I sure hope people will re-quest workshops and help this program grow to its full potential because if the community accepts it, it will be a wonderful thing, not just for this immediate Quest com-munity but for the Quest com-munity as a whole in the future.

with Squamish youth. As the idea evolved, Greenberg took re-sponsibility for the program and collaborated with her mentor, Me-gan Bulloch. Greenberg linked up with Sea to Skys Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) organization, who was already linked with schools throughout Squamish. BBBS then connected Greenberg to Stawamus Elementary in the Hospital Hill area.

It was decided that the little buddies, as Greenberg referred to them, would be limited to grades 3-6. Those are grades where you can have kids together doing similar activities, Greenberg ex-plained. Kids younger than that bring a whole set of challenges, and having kids older than that would make the mentoring relationship a bit more complicated. Forty Quest

students had expressed interest in getting involved in the program as a big buddy, and by the end of last school year it looked like Sep-tember could be the start date.

Upon returning to Quest in September, however, Greenberg faced a variety of obstacles. A multitude of BBBS staff members who were working on the applica-tion intake, forms, and overall logis-tics for the program had to take time off due to personal issues. As the start date got pushed further back, Greenberg lost 30 interested Quest students as they made other commitments. She ended up with only 10 big Quest buddies, render-ing a one to one ratio impossible. Despite frustration throughout the fall semester, the big buddies and little buddies finally met in January.

Its super nice when you feel like [the little buddies are] con-nected to you, which I think has been happening for a couple of us. Theyre excited to see us...and its cool that theyre enjoying it, and not just feeling like they have to do this, said Greenberg about the program thus far. Theres kind of an academic focus with the pro-gram, so theyve created academ-ic goals, but theyve also created other goals, explained Greenberg. For instance, my little buddy is into soccer and math, and so were try-ing to find ways to combine the two so that it can be more interesting.

After leaving Stawamus on Wednesdays, Quest students are not allowed to contact their lit-tle buddies until the next session to ensure safety. Its kind of sad,

because you create a connection with a kid...but you get to be in their life and they get to be in your life for that time, and thats good, noted Greenberg. She would be interested to eventually see the mentorship program become in-dependent of Big Sisters and Big Brothers, although it would be challenging to work through liabili-ty issues without the help from an already-recognized organization.

In the meantime, Quest stu-dents already have authority over the weekly program design, and feedback from involved students has been positive. For anyone wishing to join, Greenberg will be posting information around campus and online next Septem-ber for new big buddies to ap-ply to the mentorship program.

SRC President. Peer tutor. Emergency response team mem-ber. Future president of the world, probably. Now, Cline Allen has a new accomplishment to add to the list: Quests first successful medical school applicant. Would we have expected anything less from our fearless leader? We sat down with Cline in her cozy, Swift Creek liv-ing room to find out more.

Q. Why medical school?A: Ive wanted to become a

physician since about grade 10. I wanted employment in an area that was recession-proof, and I liked the idea of interacting with people everyday. I took a co-op course during the summer at my high school, and after that experi-ence, I was really taken with it.

Also, the body is so cool we will never know everything about it. I really like the idea of lifelong learning.

Q.What school did you get into?

A: I have gotten into Boston University, and Im still waiting to hear back from other schools in Canada and the US.

Q. What qualities were you looking for when you were choos-ing schools?

A: In Canada, you dont get that much choice. Some schools have in-province bias, and some have a rural bias, so that helped me narrow it down. In the states, you look at GPA and MCAT (Med-ical College Admissions Test) stats of past classes, and that guides you.

Q. What were the strengths and weaknesses you felt you had coming from Quest?

A: At Quest, letters of recom-mendation are above and beyond because you really get the oppor-tunity to get to know tutors here. Quest also helped with MCAT

preparation, because it helped me develop critical thinking skills.

It was challenging to do some of the pre-reqs at Quest, and it was also challenging not really having a staff member whose sole purpose is to do pre-med advising, like they do at a lot of other schools.

Its harder here than at other places, but that doesnt mean that Quest is a bad choice for pre-med. But youll have to be flexible; you wont be able to do everything that you want to do.

Q: Similar to the standardized tests American universities require (SATs), all med schools require that you take the MCAT and include your score with your application. What did you think of the MCAT?

A: Its a necessary evil. It was important to do well on the MCAT because Quest isnt known, so it was a way of showing that my good grades at Quest actually mean something.

Q: What exactly made you a competitive applicant?

A: My GPA and MCAT are fair-ly strong thats the main thing for a lot of schools. Theres a certain amount of box-checking, which is unfortunate, but I tried as much as I could to spend my time doing things because I actually wanted to do them instead of doing them to get into med school. My philos-ophy was, people will take me if they want me.

Q: You have so many commit-ments but you still seem to lead a pretty dynamic life. How do you do it?

A: Its funny people ask me this a lot. I dont think theres a se-cret. I think a lot of the time people can take on more than they think. I found a good balance in the things I do. Im also the most productive when I have a lot of things to do. Especially in my fourth year, I prioritized things like spending time with friends none of the other things would be worth it if I couldnt do that.KENDRICK DETTMERS

B2 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015THE MARKOPINION

Why Dont We Care?

Getting Off: Movie Review

By ROSS DENNY-JILES

By TARI AJADI

Over the last couple weeks, campus has fallen apart. There have been break-ins, thefts, mul-tiple counts of vandalism and littering, and even one instance of egg-assault. Quest prides itself on being a high caliber academ-ic institution with the intimate feel of a low student population, described by many students not just as a school, but a home. But with an increasingly large student body, is this still true?

While students only ever see campus for four years at a time, campus staff see several genera-tions of Quest students. This gives them the unique ability to recog-nize trends in student behaviour.

Diana Neville, who has worked at Quest as a cashier for seven-and-a-half years, has no-ticed a distinct lack of steward-ship on campus. Neville believes that while most students are re-spectful, the few who arent really make an impression. Its the mi-nority, theyre the ones that tend to stick out more, said Neville. She remarked Students have said to me that they pay a lot to go to this university so they should have the run of it. They imply that simply because they pay tu-

There is a disturbing lack of stewardship among Quest students

ition they should have control of every aspect of the schools oper-ations.

Head of custodial services Angela Robinson has grown in-creasingly frustrated with the lack of attention paid to disposal bins around campus. The bins, which are colour coordinated with signs explaining what to put in each, are contaminated every day with missorted waste. Its understand-able that Robinson would be per-turbed. The disposal system is in-tuitive; she was not exaggerating when she only half-jokingly said, five-year-olds would do a better job of sorting the bins than stu-dents.

Quest Alumnus Jake Hender-son who now works on the facili-ties operations team, has a differ-ent take. Henderson thinks that this lack of stewardship isnt new; its just more noticeable with an increased population. He points to a lack of accountability as the cause to the dearth of respect shown to the campus and its com-munity members. When Quest first started, almost everyone lived in the Villages. You knew everyone and where they lived. Henderson explained that when all the students were so closely sit-uated to each other, students were forced to take responsibility for

their actions. When people are that close together, accountability is inherent. Now that anonymity has become prevalent, its easier not to care about the place when not all eyes are on you.

Henderson thinks that bring-ing widespread accountability back would be a huge step in the right direction. Im totally for people using tools like the Quest Students Facebook Page to create accountability. Accountability calling people out on social media is incredibly important. He might be right.

Whatever the solution, its not going to happen overnight. There is a serious problem at Quest with students not taking ownership of their campus. How to inspire stu-dents to be accountable for their space is an issue that will contin-ually need to be addressed as new students arrive on campus each year or Quest could lose the com-munity-oriented reputation it has cultivated. Everyone needs to play a part. Help by inspiring those around you. Take the extra sec-ond to sort your trash. Be brave enough to call people out who are disrespecting the property or staff. Make campus your space and get defensive when someone threatens its sanctity.

Over the past few weeks, much of the media across the world has been focused on a singular phenomenon: the Fif-ty Shades of Grey franchise. The new movie, based on the epon-ymous novel, broke records on

Valentines Day weekend, making $158 million worldwide. The story centers on a relationship between Anastasia Steele, a young, virgin-al college student, and Christian Grey, a reclusive and handsome multi-billionaire with a penchant for vintage floggers and red up-

holstery. In the interest of science, your

intrepid reporter reluctantly trav-eled to see the film on February 16th, accompanied by a compan-ion who was excited for the mov-ie: Well, the trailer looked hot.

Neither of us was prepared for the horror that would befall us.

There are thousands of ways any viewer could criticise this film. The dialogue sounds like it was written by someone trapped alone in a forest for ten years, while the cinematographer seemed intent on shooting every-thing in near-grayscale because get this the lead characters surname is Grey. The only possi-ble explanation I have for Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornans lack of chemistry is that their families are in some kind of century-long blood feud. Speaking of Dornan, he manages to switch accents multiple times in the same sen-tence from Scottish, to Rus-sian, to American, to what can only be described as squawking bird and back again.

But, as this is a Getting Off article, and yall are only here for the sex, Ill review the film based on that. Simply put, this film is the least sexy, most abusive, derisive, inane and idiotic take on a BDSM relationship I have ever seen. And Ive experienced a fair few. Again, for science.

For many, Fifty Shades of Grey will be their first encounter

with the world of BDSM (bond-age and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and mas-ochism). Yet this film has little to do with the actual practises of much of the BDSM community, which has an excellent model for all sexual encounters in terms of ongoing, extensive consent. In-stead, Fifty Shades of Grey chron-icles horrific abuse that the BDSM community at large rejects.

The film does mention con-sent in the central contract-sign-ing scene, made famous by its brief discussion of vaginal and anal fisting. However, nowhere do the makers acknowledge that consent needs to be enthusiastic and ongoing. By sacrificing these crucial elements of their sexual relationship, Christians sexual desires flatly reveal themselves as abusive tendencies.

To their credit, the filmmak-ers do give Anastasia a shred of control over the affair: she rebuffs Christians request for the afore-mentioned fisting, as well as his desire to control everything she eats and drinks. Yet, somehow, this possessive, sociopathic be-haviour isnt a gigantic red flag for her, and she continues to try and save him from himself. She discovers towards the end of the movie that his preferences stem from horrors in his childhood. This plot point falsely casts ev-eryone interested in a dominant/submissive (D/s) relationship as a victim, and perpetrator, of some

kind of trauma.Worse still, the movie cli-

maxes in Christian administer-ing punishment to Anastasia by whipping her six times with a belt. This scene is atrocious: Anastasia weeps in pain and recoils in pow-erlessness while Christian merci-lessly beats her. If the abusive ten-dencies in the relationship werent explicit before, they certainly are after this moment.

The opposite is typically the case in any healthy D/s relation-ship. Both partners should be caring and communicative. The submissive is the person who actually holds power - ze deter-mines the type and intensity of any sexual act performed during play. Dominants must frequently check in with their partners, and should always engage in aftercare, where they tend to their subs cuddling them, making them tea, giving them a massage you name it.

I could go on for another 1000 words about the fucked up dynamics between Christian and Anastasia. To quote the great Roger Ebert on North, I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid va-cant audience-insulting moment of it. The fact that this film, for many people, represents BDSM in the popular consciousness makes me miserable. Theres no grey here: this movie is 50 shades of monstrous. Avoid.

Missing cookie dough photo: JACK LAMBERT

Art torn from wall photo: DAYNE SABO

Egged windowphoto: CAT MORRISON

Stolen Planterphoto: ADRIENNE DALLA-LONGA

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THE MARK THE MARKC1MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015 ARTS & CULTURE

Tales from the Newsroom A Painfully Beautiful Collection of Gorgeous Nonsense

By KEVIN BERNA By JOHN SLOAN

By IAN GREER

For my experiential learn-ing, I didnt have to apply for that $500 housing credit or buy a plane ticket to a city that I dont know anything about. Instead, I took the most inconvenient bus route every morning to the down-town office of The Squamish Chief newspaper, where I spent this past month as an intern.

Originally, I was excited to use my experiential learning block to get off campus for a while. I opted to take my language here at Quest in my third year because it hap-pened to fit my schedule, so this requirement was my last chance to study abroad. But through a combination of procrastination and actually, just procrastina-tion, I was left scrambling to ful-fill this graduation requirement in my final semester at this school.

Luckily, the good folks down at The Chief were willing to help me out. I hadnt organized any concrete assignments with my advisor and site supervisor (who, in my case, was the editor of the newspaper, Christine Endicott). I would simply learn what its like to work in a newsroom; albeit an outdated, hole-in-the-wall office in a tiny town, but a newsroom nonetheless. At least when pro-duction day arrives The Chief s computers (all equipped with InDesign) are linked through a

Experiential learning block leads to more questions than answersserver, so the team doesnt have to huddle around a single laptop to input stories one at a time like we do for this paper (ahem).

I arrived for my first day and was immediately handed a galley the first printing of a complete page that is proofed by a copy editor. I sat at my desk that kind of desk that stalls your pen as you move over the grooves made by years of prior reportage and quietly marked up my first of many galleys.

So, you really want to be a journalist? inquired one of the newspapers reporters, fol-lowed by a cynical chuckle from the rest of the staff in the room.

In true Quest fashion, I ex-plained that journalism is just something that I decided to focus on for my last two years of study. Reflecting on the experience now, the answer to the above question has still not revealed itself to me.

I learned that running a small town newspaper is much harder than working for a daily paper, according to multiple ac-counts from my co-workers. The Chief has only three contracted reporters who earn a salary and they produce all the newsworthy stories for the week. Guest con-tributors write the rest of the sto-ries and are tossed a few dollars as compensation for their work.

The way things run at The Chief makes the jobs of those

three staff members very de-manding. Their schedules are dependent on those of others; they work many more hours than their timesheets record. Staff reporter Jennifer Thuncher personally spends hours at town hall meetings every week, writ-ing one story as she keeps her ears perked to listen for another scoop. Pulling double shifts as a news reporter and the resident sports guy, Ben Lypka religiously covers all of Squamishs athletes from the towns Atom A hock-ey team to the Quest Kermodes.

My time with The Chief was a very fitting way to end my years of study at Quest. Being a part of the story meeting each week where scoops are exchanged and articles are framed allowed me to understand what really matters to the citizens of Squamish. Writ-ing a few of my own pieces and re-ceiving professional feedback was both humbling and motivating. Seeing them published in the end was a very rewarding experience, and also a necessary one if I do decide to pursue this in the future.

Which brings us back to the question: do I really want to be a professional journalist? Long story short: the people are awesome, but the pay isnt. Kind of like The Mark, where we have even more writers (who are also awesome), but zero pay. I have a lot to think about.

Copies of an unexplained magazine with a minimalistic design can be found scattered around campus; the only fully fledged poetry publication on campus WERD has been circulated again. With prose showcasing the many significant points on the multifaceted spec-trum of Quests writing culture, and with messages ranging from illustriously mystifying, mildly intimidating, politically motivat-ed, passive-aggressively offensive, deeply personal, and, at points, even constructively optimistic, WERD 2.1 is a veritable cacoph-ony of voices, each with some-thing different to contribute to a chaotically graceful, if nebulous, art statement. Reading through these pieces is a surprisingly har-rowing task; many of the poems and prose works strike the reader across the face, leaving one with a lingering impression of having been disparaged, though with a sentimental and exhilarating fla-vour. Combined, the prose works and poems successfully convey a powerful message to all those who read it. (But dont ask me what it is.)

Often, writing is a means of grasping for organization in the midst of chaos, and many of

the pieces in WERD 2.1 do in-deed seem to be written with the goal of reinforcing or expressing confidence in a certain mindset. Though this mindset is obvious-ly disjointed, on the whole it re-flects the blind confidence and complex egoism which is charac-teristic of Quest writers. But this observation does not apply to all the pieces contained in the maga-zine. Some are stories about play-ing video games. Some are about how to raise grandkids. Some are poetic lists of advice about how to live as a feminist. Some are abstract poems about sentimen-tal reminiscences. And some are about basketball.

The magazines seems to be organized based on the emo-tional vibes of the pieces. The most positive pieces are in the first few pages; towards the end it gets spooky, morally repre-hensible, and a bit gross. The magazines thesis, written by the publisher, Andrew Wood, ap-pears on the final page alongside a graphic sketch of somebodys mother being slaughtered alive in the woods. Wood proclaims that Quest is a triangle of wealth based in three forms of physical, mental and emotional health, which is as accurate and poi-gnant a statement summarizing Quest as Ive ever read.

Our Bodies, Hors DOeuvresFood for thought from the Body Love Gala

Body love is about empha-sizing positivity with creativity, said Abby Lawson, minutes be-fore the opening of the first an-nual Body Love Gala. The event, which took place on the night of February 6, was home to some of the most honest and beautiful work to come out of Quest this year. Dozens of sharply dressed students packed the third floor of the Atrium to eat, chat, and cele-brate body love through art, writ-ing, and song.

Among those smiling faces were Lawson and Maya Green-berg, co-presidents of Quest Body Love and main organizers of the Gala.

Greenberg exuded happi-ness as the Gala began. We al-ways bond over body shaming, she said, but there is rarely any talk about body positivity. The evenings art and performance proved that the latter is not only possible, but powerful.

Talia Martz-Oberlanders opening piece, a humorous and heartfelt ode to breasts, complete with a hand-knit hat and bra com-bo, drew cheers and laughter. So did Jack Zaros carefully curated follow-up, a clever comedy rou-tine that continued Martz-Ober-

landers theme of light-hearted-ness.

In the acts that followed, sev-eral stood out.

Bianca Wagner delivered a short fable imploring the audi-ence to look to nature for their inner strength: You, luminous woman. See how you are like the moon . . . You wane, but you can-not be defeated.

Hannah Yeringtons poem, at once self-effacing and proud, documented her personal trans-formation: [That] day I learned I am a quiet radical . . . that I will always wear this body proudly.

Ali MacKellar commanded a written rebellion against body- and sex-shaming: My desires dont define me; they refine me.

The evening culminated with several members of the Quest Body Love club taking the stage. The group performed a piece that was both welcoming and fiercely personal, closing the night with an assertion of courage that left the audience rapt and the Atrium full of thunderous applause.

The events art selection was equally thought-provoking. A se-ries of paintings, drawings, and sculptures addressed issues such as body image, self-perception, and unrealistic body presentation in the media.

Tristan Kline contributed a number of pieces exploring self-perception. In addition to several small paintings, he cre-ated a sculpted clay bust, hand-stamped with scores of perceived facial imperfections; a Mount Rushmore of minor insecurities that drew viewers throughout the night.

Robin Payne lamented the

stigmatization of smokers via a clever illustration and original poem, questioning the need for people to assert their opinions on the choices of others. His piece, which could be just as easily ap-plied to body modification or drug use, touched on an element of body shaming that is rarely dis-cussed.

The first annual Body Love

Gala started an important con-versation about the way we ap-proach body appreciation in our community. The themes explored throughout the night positive self-perception, non-judgment, and diversity should inspire students to continue to promote acceptance and pride, both of others and themselves.

BARBARA FERNANDES

Although the day is tradition-ally reserved for loving, the Quest Rugby team dished out some pain at Simon Fraser Universi-

Sports cont.By KEVIN BERNA

tys rugby sevens tournament on Valentines Day (February 14). Coached by Quest alumnus Mi-chael Luba, the team has quickly

learned how to play together and compete against quality compe-tition. Theyre always looking for more players too, so if you feel up

to it, goose step your way out to the field on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights for practices. All are welcome!

THE MARKSCIENCE & HEALTH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2015C2

BY MAYA GREENBERG & AYLA RAABIS

Co-edited By KENDRA PERRIN & ANDREW SIMON

A Healthy Dose: How to Exercise For You

Part II: Helfand on Science & HumanityA provocative question about whether science could furnish a moral code led into discussion about the rift between science and the humanities and the state of our intel-

lectual culture at Quest.

What do you picture when you think about exercise? Perhaps a bustling gym with loud mu-sic playing? A 10k run through the forest? Or a full day skiing at Whistler? Its true, these things are all exercise, but maybe we need to broaden the definition even more.

There are many ways to move your body, and different bodies like to move in different ways. This may seem like common sense, and you may even know many of the ways that your body likes to move. Yet there is still a narrow, overarching view of what counts as exercise that stems not from a lack of ways to exercise, but from a limited idea of the mo-tivation behind exercising.

Exercise is often seen as a means to an end rather than a joy in itself. It may be seen as a way to reach weight loss or other appear-

ance-based goals, which often lead to unsustainable workouts and unenjoyable even painful types of exercise. Intensity is not a bad thing, but not every body can handle this kind of work-out. This is why it is important to broaden the definition of exercise to shift away from exercising to change appearance and move towards exercising for health and enjoyment. This doesnt mean that there is no space for training or athletics goals, but reaching these goals shouldnt be torturous or unenjoyable.

Researchers confirm that well exercise more if we enjoy it. A study done by psychologists (Hagberg et al., 2008) out of Swe-den shows that people who get to design their own program enjoy exercise 25% more than those who dont. They find it much more sustainable, and are more likely to do it on a regular basis. This allows for the health benefits

The departure point for this conversation is a classic article called Science and Complexity, written by Warren Weaver, which I had proposed to Helfand as a Cornerstone reading. The first half of this interview was pub-lished in the December edition of the Mark.

Simon: As to the question of the rift between science and the humanities, which C.P. Snow spoke about in his lecture The Two Cultures, in your experience at Quest, has the program of in-tegrating these two cultures been successful, or do you still see sep-aration?

Helfand: I think it has been partially successful. I think its more successful with the students than it is with the faculty, actually, and thats because the faculty have been trained along narrow tracks. I would like to see more interac-

tion in the development of the curriculum. We integrate all the disciplines into Cornerstone, but I would like to see that done for a year, not for a month...

Simon: So you were a big ad-vocate for Themestream?

Helfand: Yeah, I thought Themestream was a great idea. It wasnt my idea, but I thought it was a great way of linking things together. Its only linking sepa-rate courses, which is better than nothing, but its not a truly inte-grated year-long introduction to the arts and sciences, which is what Id like to see.

But with the students, I think it does. And I think its terrific, because its what the world needs, and its what the elite companies all say they want. They want peo-ple who can integrate thinking across disciplines. I just wish it would be even more so. People are still proud of the fact that they cannot understand science; theyre perfectly happy to believe

random nonsense they find on the web. And, as I say, when we only had a billion people that wasnt a disaster, but with ten billion peo-ple thats a disaster.

Simon: Now, regarding the dichotomy between the poet and the scientist (or the divide be-tween the two cultures), Weaver characterizes science as purely logical and quantitative, contrast-ing this to the alogical work of the poet. What about the role of so-called alogical reasoning in science? Some of the great unifi-cations of science have departed from the idealized method, rely-ing on analogical modes of rea-soning and abductive inferences to the best explanation. Formally, these thought processes border on metaphor and logical fallacy. What are your thoughts?

Helfand: Metaphor, sure, I mean were dealing with things on the subatomic scale or the Universe that are completely be-yond our sensory experience. So

of regular exercise, such as lower-ing rates of depression, osteoar-thritis, and heart disease.

Diversifying what we consid-er exercise will prevent injury. A lot of what we generally concep-tualize as exercise are endurance and strength-based activities, which devalue balance and flexi-bility-based activities that are im-portant for injury prevention.

Broadening our understand-ing of exercise will also allow for people with disabilities to be in-volved in the conversation. As some types of disability influence the way someones body wants to move or feels comfortable mov-ing, that persons exercise may look drastically different than the normative conception of exercise. Including this in our conception of exercise will encourage safer and more enjoyable exercise ex-periences.

So what does it mean to ex-ercise for you? Well, its pretty

we have to use metaphor, right? Thats part of science. If youre talking about the six-step scien-tific method you learn in eighth gradethats not the way science is done. Thats something some textbook author made up.

I think some philosophers of science do a great disservice to the approachability of science for people, because they make it into this... well, cold is the word thats often used, right? Cold, log-ical, rationalrational is not cold!

Simon: I am wondering about a common ground, then, because Ive got more poetic persuasions, perhaps, but Ive put myself out-side of my comfort zone at Quest by taking many science courses. This has brought me to question the value of analogical modes of reasoning in the history of sci-ence. I know some of the greatest unifications of scienceMax-wells equations, for instancerelied on what might be consid-ered a poetic mode of thinking: drawing out an analogy between electromagnetism and light, and recognizing an invariant property between them.

Helfand: I just dont see them as so separate. Thinking is a com-plex process, and there is not one part of your brain that does math problems and another that does poetry. Its all one piece up there! And sure, we make analogies and metaphors and things like that, but again, I think thats because we dont have sensory experience of these things. I think thinking is thinking, and I dont believe that I think one way when doing astrophysics and then a different way when Im cooking or some-thing. I see it all as a whole, and I think that the portrayal of science as cold and rational is part of the

simple, actually. It means trying new things until you find what you enjoy, or continuing to do the things your body loves. It in-volves remembering that for some people, exercise looks like going to the gym five days a week, and

for others it means going on oc-casional walks. It means that goal setting should be non-compara-tive and non-appearance-based, and about making your body feel good and loving the movement you do.

two cultures problem.Simon: It is a common mis-

understanding that theyre two different languages, somehow?

Helfand: Thats exactly right. We certainly havent solved the whole two cultures problem at Quest, but I hope we contribute a bit with the Foundation pro-gram, which requires students to get outside of their comfort zones. And this kind of discussion is ex-actly the kind of discussion that we should all be having all the timefaculty with each other, faculty with students, and the stu-dents with each other.

Simon: So if there were a message that youd leave behind to students who are finding them-selves on one side or other in that divide, what would it be?

Helfand: Open up to the other side. I have this catch phrase about what were trying to do here, and that is producing graduates who have developed a perspective on the problems of the twenty-first century and the integrative abili-ties to solve them. None of the se-rious problems we have are going to be solved by people on one side or the other. So integrative is the key word. You have to integrate. You dont have to become a sci-entist; you dont have to become a humanist. Lets not even talk like that. Lets become a student of nature, humans of the world, and look at it from different perspec-tives. The idea of this education is to give you toolsreally finely crafted toolsbut ones that have been developed from very differ-ent perspectives. Then you get to integrate them in your mind; you get to take information in and look at it differently because you have that set of tools. Not just like those of us who have PhDs.

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