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OCTOBER 23, 2014 • VOL. 47 NO. 4 • VANCOUVER, B.C.

Standing room only at mayoral debate

By JAMES GOLDIE

Post-secondary institutions have been left out as locations for early voting in the city’s upcoming elec-

tion. Unlike East Vancouver residents,

many of whom are outraged that no ad-vance polling station is located in their neighbourhood, students have re-mained quiet on the matter.

This year, the City of Vancouver has expanded early voting opportunities to eight days in eight locations across the city leading up to the Nov. 15 election.

One of these stations will be located at Sunset Community Centre.

Although it is less than one kilometre from Langara, that still might not be close enough for student voters.

Terri Evans, introduction to urban politics instructor at Langara, said young people are harder to engage dur-ing a municipal election.

Unlike many of their parents or grandparents, few are big taxpayers or property owners.

As a result, many young people feel distanced from the political process.

“If trying to secure a higher partici-pation rate from people who are 18 to 24, locating it on campus would seem to be the more logical place,” Evans said.

“You see a lot of attention paid to old-er people because they have a habit of voting,” she added.

Despite low voter turnout among young people, the city chose not to use advance polling stations at post-second-ary institutions.

However, the City of North Vancouver will do so for the first time this Novem-ber.

“The mayor met with the president of the student union at Capilano Universi-ty,” said North Vancouver city clerk and chief elections officer Karla Graham.

“We’ve arranged for a voting oppor-

tunity at the university on [one of] the advanced voting days.”

Graham said this strategy is just one of many her office is implementing to increase voter turnout among young people in North Vancouver.

The City of Surrey will be offering an advance poll at Simon Fraser Universi-ty’s Surrey campus for the second year in a row.

Susan Ho, assistant city clerk and election deputy in Surrey, described last year’s poll at SFU Surrey as “lively” and said it was a good opportunity to raise awareness among young people about voting.

Vancouver chief election officer Jan-ice MacKenzie could not be reached for comment on her office’s decision-mak-ing process regarding early voting loca-tions.

Advanced polling at Sunset Commu-nity Centre will be offered Nov. 4 to Nov. 12, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m..

No advanced polling for Langara

By KERA SKOCYLAS

Close to a dozen police officers were at the Langara campus during the Vancouver mayoral debate which went off without a

hitch on Oct. 22 amidst safety concerns

in the wake of the attack on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Mayoral candidates Bob Kasting (in-dependent), Kirk LaPointe (NPA), Gregor Robertson (Vision Vancouver), Colin Shandler (independent) and Mee-na Wong (COPE) were on campus for the intense debate, avidly watched by some 350 audience members.

The candidates covered several hot-button topics including homelessness, transit and lack of government trans-parency – with many arguments draw-ing cheers and groans from the crowd.

The event began with a moment of si-lence in honour of Canadian soldier Na-than Cirillo, the victim of the Ottawa shooting.

“Thank you for starting with a very important moment of silence for the tragedy in Ottawa today,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said when he first took the microphone.

Security appeared to have been heightened in the wake of recent at-tacks, in which one soldier was shot dead at the National War Memorial ear-lier in the day and two soldiers were hit

by a car in Quebec on Monday.Several police officers walked

through back hallways, looking in rooms and checking the perimeter throughout the event.

“There was some thought of cancel-ling it just because we thought people might be distracted watching the prime minister’s address,” said Frances Bula, Langara’s journalism department chair.

Langara nursing student Rita Balu said that she was worried because of the shooting but felt the security presence was appropriate.

Voter turnout among youth has always been low, but many cities are using advanced polling at schools and nearby venues to encourage students to cast their vote this year

Police presence visible at spirited Langara event

RENEE SUTTON photoAll five Vancouver mayoral candidates gathered for a debate at Langara on Oct. 22. Topics of debate included homelessness, minimum wage and government transparency.

STUDENTS AND VOTINGWhy is voter turnout so low among young people?

JAY YOOPolitical science student“The idea of anarchism is so strong nowadays. That really has to do with ... decisions not to vote.”

JACKIE XIAN General science student“People don’t care about the politics. Students tend to care about themselves.”

TATENDA HATUGARICreative writing student“There are also lots of immi-grants in Vancouver who don’t know anything about local politics.”

TAYLOR PIGEAU Photography student“They’re maybe just not edu-cated enough on the facts. So the interest just isn’t there.”

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“Thank you for start-ing with a very important moment of silence

VANCOUVER MAYOR GREGOR ROBERTSON

News 2 EDITOR MADELYN FORSYTHTHE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014

NICH JOHANSEN photoConstruction on the new state of the art science and technology building continues on campus and is set to open in April of 2016.

Noise disruption not an issueConstruction only causing minor problems for current students

Drop out at your own riskStudy finds unfinished degrees won’t help with the job market or wages

ALICE D’EON photoMysha Dewar-McClelland demon-strates skills to fend off an attacker.

“Trust your

instincts. If you feel

like you’re being

followed or being

watched, don’t ig-

nore those things.”

“Be confident”

“Take out their

knees. If they can’t

run, you have a

better chance of

getting away.”

“At night or in a

secluded area,

don’t bury yourself

in a cellphone.”

Source: Mysha Dewar-McClelland

Safety tips Self-defence is key to fending off predators

Elements Acadamy teaches skills for people to prepare against potential attacks

By SANDY POWLIK

Vancouver students who drop out of college face high unemployment rates and low wages in what’s al-

ready a competitive job market.A recent study compiled by the Wall

Street Journal showed those with only some college credits earn the same as those who only completed high school. While jobs avail-able to high school graduates seem at-tractive at an aver-age of $15 an hour, those with a post-secondary educa-tion are making an average of $32 an hour. For a full-time employee, that’s a potential loss of almost $700 a week.

A degree does not guarantee a high paying job in B.C., however. Dietetics student Betty Chiang knows that po-tential employers in her field offer higher wages outside the province.

“In Vancouver, it may be hard to find a job to support your lifestyle, but there are other opportunities [in] other plac-es,” said Langara economics instructor Lanny Zrill. He also said finding a bet-ter job and a high standard of living with a four-year degree may be easier in a city like Regina.

“It’s mostly location and the fact that there’s so many of us coming out with the same degrees. People come out with PhDs and they’re working at Mc-Donald’s,” said publishing student Christina West, who is unenthusiastic about future job prospects in Vancou-ver.

“If you go in with the right intentions and you know you’re going to end up doing something in that field, good on you,” she said.

Jeannine Mitchell, author of Ka-Ch-ing!, a financial advice e-book for stu-dents, agreed students should want to be in school whole-heartedly.

Zrill said the demands of going through years of focused work in col-lege will benefit everyone.

“Your ability to work hard and your quality as a colleague ends up being more of a determinant of your success than what you got your education in,” he said.

By NICH JOHANSEN

Construction of the new science and technology building promis-es great benefits for future stu-dents and faculty, but has caused

minor disruptions for current ones. The work site is situated beside the

library, but according to staff the con-struction has not been too intrusive.

“Surprisingly, it’s not dirty,” a library employee who requested not to be iden-tified on the grounds that she didn’t know if she was allowed to comment, said. “I guess they have to do drilling into the concrete which is kind of noisy but usually it’s not for too long. It’s re-markably clean and quiet.”

“Within the library there hasn’t been

any interruptions,” said librarian Joyce Wong.

Publishing instructor Giselle Lemay said the parking lot closures due to the construction have caused some prob-lems for faculty workshops that she has organized.

“I have a lot of guests who come to put on the workshop. Some of them are find-ing it difficult to get all the way around to the parking entrance because they are used to the one off of 49th,” said Le-may.

The $49-million building is funded en-tirely by Langara through the Capital Building Legacy Fund and reserves from previous budget surpluses, said Wendy Lannard, director of facilities.

Students pay $34.35 into the Capital

Building Legacy Fund each semester, according to the Langara fees informa-tion website.

Lannard said the building should be completed by April 2016, and that it will house all the science departments with “up to date [and] far more modern facili-ties.”

“The second floor is going to have an event space in it. The upper floors will have the sciences. In addition, there will be a lot of collaborative study space,” she said. “Right now the plans are for Subway to go into that building.”

Peace and conflict studies student Anita Kim, said the construction hasn’t really affected her and that she is “look-ing forward to see what the building will actually look like.”

By ALICE D’EON

Vancouver women’s groups and uni-versity organizations have paired up with Elements Academy to

learn self-defence, and Langara stu-dents want a piece of the action.

The Vancouver martial arts studio, which offers discounted rates for stu-dent groups, teamed up with the Langa-ra kinesiology department last year and owner Emma Hamilton said she would be happy to return.

“Self-defence on campus is a very im-portant issue,” said Mysha Dewar-Mc-Clelland, an Elements Academy instruc-tor.

She pointed to reasons why students

often find themselves in vulnerable situ-ations but was careful not to place blame on assault victims.

“Because it’s getting darker earlier and often students are at an age where they are experiencing freedom for the first time,” she said.

“They are not necessarily thinking about the consequences of their ac-tions.”

Campus groups like Phrateres UBC have partnered with Elements for their expertise in women’s self-defence.

These sessions teach women skills that can be “easily remembered and called upon in a situation,” said Dewar-McClelland.

Although Langara is situated in the

VPD patrol district with the lowest amount of violent crime, some students still have concerns.

Langara student Chanelle Gunderson said she wouldn’t know what to do if at-tacked.

“I’ve been told to go for the eyes or the groin, but I’d probably just run away,” she said.

Nasrin Ali, a student in Langara’s rec-reation leadership program said she doesn’t feel safe.

“I tend to stay at school quite late and I walk really fast to the SkyTrain” she said.

Ali and Gunderson said they would attend a self-defence course if one was offered at Langara.

CHRISTINA WESTSays she is unsure of job prospects.

It costs $48.9 mil-

lion

Teeple/Proscenium

Architects were

in charge of the

preliminary design

Construction

started last Fall and

will be done until

April 2016

Source: Langara College website

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Library to host a 3D printing meetup On Oct. 24 some Langara students will get a chance to bring their 3D renderings to life

NICH JOHANSEN photoDesign and formation instructor, Yvan Morissette watches as one of the school’s 3D printers turns a computer rendering into a tangible object.

Langara cyclists ride to school in rough weather

MARY BEACH photoLangara librarian Alison Curtis knows that the secret to biking year round is good rain gear.

Langara experiencing technical difficultiesDepartment staffing shortages and Internet service changes have caused campus-wide disruptions.

Vancouver’s rainiest months are not enough to deter Langara’s cyclists

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By NICH JOHANSEN

One of Langara’s two 3D printers will be opened up to students at a printing meetup on Oct. 24, to build on the momentum from a

printing showcase held in September.A 3D printer takes a three-dimen-

sional rendering and prints it out as a real life structure.

The creative arts division acquired their printer in February and has been working to incorporate it into the cur-riculum of some of their courses, said Tomo Tanaka, the chairman of the cre-ative arts division.

The desktop 3D printer is a lower-end model, and costs roughly $2,500, he said.

The new technology is shared by all departments under the creative arts division. Tanaka said that they orga-nized a printing demonstration in Sep-tember and were surprised by the in-terest it generated among Langara students.

The October meetup is hosted col-laboratively by the library learning commons, the computer science de-partment and the creative arts divi-

sion.“We noticed at the showcase that

quite a few students have experience doing 3D rendering,” said Joyce Wong, learning commons coordinator. “They’re interested in printing their objects, so we wanted to continue the enthusiasm and interest in 3D print-ing.”

“Give us your file, we’ll try and print out your file,” Tanaka said. “We’ll see how that goes.”

The opportunity to print students’ own renderings at the meetup is limit-ed to the first 10 registrants.

Wong said that the printer is cur-rently being used by the faculty for ex-perimental purposes. While it is not currently part of any classes, Tanaka expects 3D printers will be an integral part of the curriculum in the near fu-ture.

Tanaka explains that the printer works by using a plastic filament to create structures. “The filament comes in a long spool that gets heated up and squished out a nozzle.”

“It’s like a glue gun on steroids,” said Yvan Morissette, design formation in-structor.

By MEL EDGAR

Many Langara students had prob-lems accessing Internet servic-es or the IT Service Desk last

week as a result of a switch to a new Internet service provider (ISP).

Langara College’s switch to BCNET as their ISP this Thanksgiving week-end meant IT staff anticipated inter-mittent disruptions to services like myLangara, D2L and campus wireless networks.

The change also coincided with ren-ovations of the IT services office which, at times, left the service desk manned by only one staff member.

Students calling to reach the IT of-fice would have heard a recorded mes-sage about “critical staffing issues.”

Staffing issues in IT date back to this summer, when the department went from five staff members to three.

Ian Humphreys, vice president of en-rolment and business development, ac-

knowledged the issue in an IT news update on the Langara website.

Service and support would be limit-ed, said Humphreys, “for the duration of the summer and until we have new staff in place and trained.”

Mina Abdelsayed, co-founder of Surf Internet, formerly known as IAAK Technologies Inc., said changing ser-vice providers at a large institution like Langara would have been quite compli-cated, taking anywhere from two to six weeks of work prior to an actual switch.

The additional complications, Abdel-sayed said, is due to colleges like Lan-gara having static IPs which are slight-ly more difficult to change and the time it takes to make a smooth transition between ISPs depends on Langara’s ex-isting infrastructure and network de-sign.

BCNET is a non-profit organization comprised of 43 members including post-secondary and research institu-tions.

By MARY BEACH

Bike to Work Week, held by HUB from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2 is hoping to encourage cycling as a primary

mode of transportation even in the midst of the rainy season.

Langara will host a “celebration sta-tion” on campus for the event with free refreshments, information, bike me-chanic services and a prize draw.

The Langara campus is already full of permanent bike-friendly amenities such as multiple covered bike racks, a bike repair shop in the Langara Stu-dents’ Union and even an outdoor air pump.

“Bike racks tend to have fewer stu-dent cyclists in the winter,” said Tanya Lewis, a Langara English instructor who has biked to work for 12 years.

“It seems to me that the faculty who cycle, cycle all year. We are not fair weather cyclists.”

Alison Curtis, a librarian at Langara,

bikes to work because she doesn’t have to pay for bus fares or gas and it gives her a chance to enjoy the scenery on the way to Langara.

“Every day on the way to work I see something re-ally cool.” said Curtis

“I once saw an eagle sitting in a birch tree being hounded by crows,”

English instruc-tor Toby Chernoff says biking on his tandem bicycle is

the favourite mode of transportation for him and his daughter, Violet.

“Biking is way nicer than driving,” said Chernoff.

“All the people who are waiting for the bus, paying for all the parking, they’re crazy, crazy, crazy people.”

MEL EDGAR photoDespite the issues, Langara students use the on-campus computers daily.

TOBY CHERNOFFLangara English instructor

“It seems to me that the faculty who cycle, cycle all year. We are not fair weath-er cyclists

Tanya Lewis

Langara English instructor

ntertainment4 THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014 EDITOR ASHLEY LEGASSIC E

RICHARD OLAK photoRichard Olak stars as main character Erik Matheson in The Battle of Burgledorf next year.

Studio 58 grad’s movie will come out next year

Studio 58 ‘punk’ to hit the small screen

Two Langara grads are putting their education to use and may make a difference for performers

By VIVIAN CHUI

A Young Drunk Punk from Langara has swaggered into Calgary for lights, camera and action in a

new comedy sitcom. After a Vancouver audition

for the Young Drunk Punk tele-vision series in July, Studio 58’s Tim Carlson was shortlisted for the lead role a month later.

He was on tour in Edmon-ton at the Edmonton Interna-tional Fringe Festival with Lorax Improv, a five-year-old theatre improvisation group consisting of two friends and himself, he said in an interview with the Cal-gary Herald.

The casting confirmation pro-cess kept Carlson in the air over four days as he flew between Van-couver, Edmonton, and Toronto.

Carlson graduated from Langara College’s three-year acting program in professional the-atre training at Studio 58 two years ago.

“He was a good student, inventive, very creative, and h a r d w o r k -ing,” said Stu-dio 58 artistic d i r e c t o r K a t h r y n Shaw.

His creativity

was particu-larly show-cased in a

p e r f o r -m a n c e with fel-l o w c l a s s -m a t e D a n i e l Doheny that in-v o l v e d only fin-gers and light, Shaw said.

Studio 58 alumnus Ryan McCallion recalls Carlson’s puppetry extravagan-za project with Doheny that only in-volved camera and hands, re-enacting popular movies such as Jurassic Park.

“He embodies talent,” said Ryan Mc-Callion, who graduated from Studio 58’s at the same time as Carlson. “He has a dignity about him.”

McCallion was the lighting crew head at a Studio 58 production of Julius Caesar, where Carlson starred as Mark Antony.

“He was generous on and off set,” said McCallion.

Young Drunk Punk, commissioned by Rogers Com-m u n i c at i o n s Inc., will pre-miere early next year on the televi-sion network City, accord-

ing to Rog-ers Media TV’s web-site.

Langara graduate Tim Carlson is making a name for himself by starring in a Calgary sitcom

By SABLEEN MINHAS

It’s a story of a regular gas station worker who falls in love with a wom-an. Sounds clichéd? What if this regular guy embarks on a quest to

save the world from dark evil? A world in which dwarves, elves,

vampires and an evil queen with a pet falcon are real. Well, that is the unusu-al plot of The Battle of Burgledorf.

It’s a feature-length fantasy movie written and directed by Richard Olak, a Langara digital film production pro-gram graduate and has been in the making for about 10 years.

“The Battle of Burgledorf is essen-tially like a satire and very comedic homage to the hero’s journey,” Olak said. Though the hero goes on a Frodo-like adventure, the movie has no other relation with the Lord of the Rings, he said.

“Most of the film is made on the blood, sweat and tears of the people who helped us,” said Olak, the lead ac-

tor, director, writer and producer of the movie.

Guy Judge, a Langara digital film production program graduate, is a co-producer of the movie.

“I remember one day [Olak] said ‘Hey, what do you think about this idea for a movie?’ and I was like that’s the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I love it!” Judge said.

The first draft of the script was writ-ten in 2004 while Olak was studying at Langara.

“Over the course of about four years and after 13 drafts, I finally locked it in 2008,” Olak said.

The movie was shot in 70 days over four years at 50 different locations, but with a major flaw.

“We shot. . . 90 per cent of the film, with no visual effects in mind,” said Olak.

The movie will be released by the end of this year as the team is still working on visual effects, colour cor-rection and sound, he said.

“One day [Olak] said ‘Hey, what do you think about this idea for a movie?’ and I was like that’s the stupid-est thing I’ve ever heard. I love it!

GUY JUDGE

Union of B.C. Performers directors may include Langara grads

By JES HOVANES

With civic elections just around the corner voting is a hot topic right now, but two Langara grads have

another race to worry about. Studio 58 grads Garry Chalk, class of 1976, and Lee Jeffery, class of 1987, are running for director positions in the Union of B.C. Performers.

UBCP is the union that negotiates on behalf of B.C. actors and performers for fair wages, safe working conditions

and health benefits among other things.

Chalk will be entering his third term if he wins this election.

Overall, he praises the work of the union.

“It’s been very rewarding,” Chalk said. “A united group of people is much stronger than an individual.”

The elections have had a very low turn out in past years.

Chalk said that only about 10 to 20 per cent of members voted in the last election.

“We’ve gotten together with the campaign to get it out there and to get people to vote because the vote mat-ters,” he said.

Noah Dennis, a young Vancouver ac-tor, said that he used to be a member of

UBCP but let his membership lapse. Dennis didn’t vote even when he

was a member.He said young actors feel that union

membership prevents them from doing jobs.

“I want to do independent projects that the union holds you back from,” Dennis said.

He said voting or not voting in a union election is like any election for young people.

“There is a lack of awareness of the ins and outs of the union . . . people are busy and it’s a part of the business that most actors are not really interested in.”

The election runs until Nov. 27, 2014. Candidate statements are available on YouTube.

FACEBOOK photoLangara’s Studio 58 graduate, ac-tor Tim Carlson, will be starring in a new TV series premiering early next year, set in Calgary, Alberta.

Langara grad makes new fantasy movie

JES HOVANES photoGarry Chalk is running for director in UBCP this fall.

Lifestyles 5EDITOR MIKE HODDER THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014

SUZI WEBSTER photoSuzi Webster is pushing the boundaries of digital media and her wearable designs are a comment on how technology shapes the human experience.

Langara fine arts instructor is creating interactive garments for the digital generationBy SHANNON LYNCH

Imagine if your body or mind could influence how your clothes looked with the aid of technology. Langara department of fine arts instructor, Suzi Webster, has designed

interactive wearables that do just that.Webster’s interest in incorporating technol-

ogy into clothing fuelled her inspiration for her latest project, Electric Heart, as well as previous pieces such as Electric Skin, Electric Dreams, and Barking Mad.

Electric Heart, a three-year-long project, takes the wearer’s heartbeat and transforms it into pulses of light and colour. Webster said it’s “very complex,” but it essentially takes the pulse through an iPhone app and a pulse oxim-eter.

This information is transmitted to the gar-ment, which then pulses.

First-year general studies student Zoya Ku-zeljevic, 18, said, “I think high fashion has got-ten really dull. I’ve never seen anybody wear clothes that light up with their mood and heart beat. So I think it’s new and interesting.”

Through LED lights and sensors, Electric Skin transforms the wearer’s breath into puls-es of light.

Electric Dreams does the same with the use of sensors and fibre optics that collect alpha waves generated by the wearer’s thoughts.

“All of that work is looking at what’s inside the body, and making it visible,” Webster said. She added it’s a metaphor for how we use our technologies and what we use them for. “Whether they bring us closer to the body, closer to each other, or further apart.”

The Barking Mad project, a jacket, was an idea that spawned from living in the crowded city of London, England, where Webster was

doing her master of fine arts.“I wanted to make something that would

create space, more personal space, without having to interact with people,” Webster said.

It’s not a functional item though, just an art piece, Webster added.

The jacket has sensors that detect proximi-ty and that input gets relayed to speakers in-side the coat. Depending on how close some-one is, the coat will yap like a poodle or bark loudly like a Rottweiler. “It was more about making a comment,” Webster said.

Webster’s inspiration for these projects stems from her deep interest in “how technol-ogy is affecting us as humans at the moment.”

Webster said she hopes to complete Electric Heart by November.

“The idea was that two people who are sepa-rated, two lovers, could send each other their heartbeat as a kind of love message,” she said.

“I’ve never seen any-body wear clothes that light up with their mood and heart beat.Zoya Kulejevic,18,general studies

SUZI WEBSTERWebster studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and her workhas been shown nationally andinternationally

CHARLOTTE DREWETT photoJames Mornin fields questions at a booth for the Langara Business Association in the main foyer.

By CHARLOTTE DREWETT

James Mornin is one of many stu-dents under the impression that joining a school club or volunteer-

ing will look good on a resume. While that is true, employers say it’s

not enough to simply pad a resume with extracurricular experience; they want to know how volunteering or join-ing a club has improved the applicants skills and furthered them as a person.

Mornin, a first-year bachelor of busi-ness administration student and mem-ber of the Langara Business Associa-tion, said he joined the club to have fun, make friends, and learn from other members.

He also stressed the importance of volunteering for professional develop-ment.

“It’s more or less the equivalent of volunteering, because we plan events and that takes a lot of effort,” he said. “It’ll look good on a resume to say I was involved in planning this, or planning that.”

Mornin has the right idea according to Tanya Sieffert, human resources manager at Great Little Box Company Ltd., one of B.C.’s top employers in 2014.

Sieffert said including empty infor-mation on a resume isn’t impressive but an applicant may want to include experience to “showcase some of the skills that they have received or im-proved on or developed while being part of that club.”

Denise Baker is the executive direc-tor of Vantage Point, a not-for-profit organization that pairs volunteers, or as Vantage Point calls them “knowl-

edge philanthropists,” with other not-for-profit organizations. She said that simply volunteering to add it to your resume is not enough.

“If you can’t articulate why you wanted to engage with that not-for-profit… that will show and that won’t be very impressive,” Baker said.

She added that while joining a club could be educational, students should get off campus to volunteer.

“Volunteering with an external orga-nization you’re going to be… getting exposed to all kinds of different people and different types of jobs,” Baker said. “Exposing yourself to a wide range of experiences it just good.”

Sieffert said extracurricular experi-ences help students become ===well rounded, regardless of whether it’s vol-unteering or joining a club.

Techno fashion shines a new light

Employers say students need to choose organizations they personally connect to in order to stand out

1 Find a cause that

you are passionate

about

2 Determine how

much time you

can commit

3 Match your skills

to the position

4 Be prepared for

personal growth

Gettingstarted

Working for free could pay off big

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I have always thought I was too busy to vote, especially in a municipal election. Let me clarify: not too busy to actually go and mark my ballot,

but rather too busy to research where each candidate stands on current is-sues.

Apparently I’m not the only youth who is not voting either. According to Elections BC participation statistics, less than 50 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds who were eligible to vote in 2013 and less than 40 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds voted.

With the Vancouver municipal elec-

tion coming up on Nov. 15, politicians are out campaigning across the city.

The question is, how do you get youth to vote in municipal elections or participate in the democratic process of voting at all?

I have to be honest, while writing this I navigated to social media web-sites many times. Once or twice it wasn’t even a conscious decision; I got myself to Facebook, realized nothing new had come up on my news feed, and then racked my brain as to why I had gone to the website in the first place.

Politicians should be using social

media to engage youth. I did a simple search on Facebook to see if I could find any pages that put the election into perspective and came up with a few events and one page about the Vancou-ver civic election with a meager seven “likes.”

I’m not saying that this information needs to be served to youth all neatly organized and easily assessable but I’m saying that maybe it wouldn’t hurt for candidates to engage youth on so-cial media with discussions. Go to where the voters are, and in this case it’s online.

That said, Lang-ara College was scheduled to host a mayoral debate at the college on Oct. 22. For those who made the effort to attend, put their phones down and pay attention, in-formation was available to help make informed de-cisions on the mu-nicipal election.

I have a shameful confession to make. It’s tough to admit, but when it comes to volunteering, I’ve been a real

Scrooge. I won’t go so far as to say I’ve never

done it, but more often than not, my in-tentions to volunteer my time go by the wayside.

I’ve signed up for countless volun-teer orientations and even attended a few, but when the time comes to get out there, head to an unfamiliar location, mingle with strangers and donate my time, my passion for the cause is too easily replaced by my desire to do any-thing else.

As guilty as this makes me feel, I’m sure I’m not the only student with this

mentality. After all our assignments are finished, and our shifts at work are in the bank, how many of us have any extra time we are willing to part with?

It’s not always a matter of laziness or apathy, however. We have relationship commitments and family obligations. We have personal hobbies that we are passionate about and these things take time.

That being said, I think there’s really no good reason not to volunteer.

A wide range of organizations can benefit from student support. Whether you care about rescuing abandoned kittens or rebuilding communities dev-astated by natural disasters, there is an outlet for you to make a difference

while building your resume.

As important as it is to nurture our friendships and maintain our per-sonal health, vol-unteering, too, has an important role to play in our well-being. Not only does it feel amaz-ing, volunteering to help a charitable fundraiser or pro-mote awareness of an issue we care about is a necessary reminder that we are part of something much greater than ourselves.

Social media key to young voters

Student volunteering worthwhile

OPINIONCHARLOTTE DREWETT

OPINIONALICE D’EON

‘We should not have to choose between our privacy and our safety.”

Those were the words of victims’ rights advocate Carol Todd in response to the federal government’s so-called

cyberbullying bill.I tend to agree

with her.Bill C-13 is, for

all intents and pur-poses, a resurrec-tion of the defeated C-30, intended to give police war-rantless access to users’ information. The previous bill gained notoriety across the country

after former public safety minister Vic Toews gave Canadians an ultimatum.

“Either stand with us or with the child pornographers,” he said.

That outrageous comment was more than enough ammunition for the bill’s critics, but the Conservative govern-ment is at it again.

Unfortunately for them, most Cana-dians didn’t want C-30 when it was first introduced and we don’t want it now. They can dress it up in a new name and change some of the wording without any real difference, but we still won’t buy it.

Let me be frank: these bills are about extending the reach of online police en-forcement at the expense of Canadians’ privacy. While protecting children from Internet predators is an admira-ble cause, giving police the authority to access private information from Inter-net service providers without a war-rant is ripe for exploitation.

Who is making sure the police don’t abuse their power?

What’s to stop governments and po-lice from using easily accessible data to undermine public dissent or legitimate criticism from the media?

Too many questions without any clear answers, if you ask me.

OPINIONBEN ZUTTER

Privacy concerns

Issues & ideas 7THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT.23, 2014EDITOR EDRICK DUDANG

MEL EDGAR photo

A student browses Langara Confessions, a popular Facebook site that publishes confessions from Langara students anonymously

Confession not really privateLangara Confessions moderator admits to knowing your secretsBy MEL EDGAR

‘Inbox us your most heart felt, hilari-ous, and embarrassing confessions from Langara! They will be posted ANONYMOUSLY on our page.”

This is the siren call of Langara Con-fessions, a Facebook community launched in 2013, imitating similar sites at UBC and SFU.

An unknown person moderates what is posted on Langara Confession’s site. The Voice has agreed to maintain the moderator’s unknown identity, but this person, or persons, knows exactly who is behind the confessions.

“I see my role at Langara as an enter-tainer and kind of like a gossip girl,” said the moderator in an interview conduct-ed with Facebook messenger.

“It’s anonymous, so I don’t think it’s that much of a concern,” said the mod-

erator. First year nursing student Kathleen

Jocson said she would never post on the site herself, but trusts the moderator be-cause he or she promises confidentiality on the site.

Although the site is mostly for enter-tainment, the moderator said some posts might have had real world repercus-sions.

The moderator said he or she has con-cerns that a security guard featured in several love or crush confessions might have left Langara as a result of the atten-tion from the site.

Kabir Madan, a second year nursing student, learned the hard way that not all posts are anonymous.

“I thought if you posted on the wall it would just mask my identity, I didn’t know I had to send in a message to the page,” he said.

I n s t e a d , Madan posted a confession di-rectly on the page sharing both his and his crush’s identity with the many people who fre-quent the page.

Madan has since deleted the post, but said he wants students to be aware.

“My advice is just be careful at what you post out there because things like this can happen,” he said.

Langara Confessions has over 1,900 likes and continues to post confes-sions three nights weekly, on Mon-days, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

“I see my role at Langara as an entertainer and as a gossip girl

MODERATOR OF LANGARA

CONFESSIONS

SANDY POWLIK photo

1p is a program that offers extra tips and security to passwords.

Crime bill causes concern; more powers to law enforcement may infringe on citizen privacy rights

Langara students should take extra caution with their information online

By SANDY POWLIK

Students at UBC were recently told about a two-year-old computer bug in the university’s system

that may have breached students’ per-sonal information.

The bug was allegedly not detected until this September and fixed within two days of detection. According to UBC registrar Kate Ross, the bug af-fected 0.1 per cent of transactions, such as electronic funds transfers, making individual risk very low.

There is currently no legal require-ment under the B.C. Information and Privacy Act to report privacy security breaches, yet UBC took the responsi-bility to tell students.

Vancouver police Sgt. Randy Fin-cham said no one should enter “any personal information into a device that they don’t want to share publicly.”

Langara general arts student Adam Huizinga knows how to keep his in-formation secure while online. Huiz-inga, who works at an Apple store, said to make sure every password is unique.

“There’s always risk,” Huizinga said. He typically doesn’t use Wi-Fi, and when it comes to doing anything per-sonal he uses his phone.

Huizinga said there is a lot more se-curity in transmitting data from a phone to a cellular tower than with Wi-Fi in a public place like Starbucks. He recommended two-step verification as a way to ensure personal online secu-rity.

Langara associate director of IT op-erations Justin Yau said the campus has systems in place “to monitor for malicious activities and to provide se-cure access to information.”

He recommended only providing personal information electronically when absolutely necessary, and to be familiar with privacy settings on social media sites.

By MARY BEACH

Bill C-13, known as the anti-cyber-bullying bill, is set to pass in the House of Commons, despite road-

blocks with privacy experts and the Supreme Court.

Don Davies, NDP member of parlia-ment for Vancouver Kingsway, said most MPs, and many Canadians, sup-port legislation that will make non-con-sensual sharing of intimate photos a crime. However, he said that the Con-servatives expanded the bill to include new broad powers for the police.

“It should be a criminal act to make and distribute intimate images of any-body without their consent,” Davies said. “[However], there’s no point in passing a bill that not only people ob-ject to, but someone’s going to chal-lenge legally.”

Under the new law police will be able to obtain basic information from people online, such as name and address – without a warrant from a judge.

The Supreme Court of Canada de-scribed that kind of power as excessive, in a June 2014 ruling. In a police inves-tigation of an alleged child pornogra-pher, information was gained from the Internet service provider without a warrant. The Court upheld the convic-tion but stated in the judgment that “the conduct of the search in this case therefore violated the Charter.”

Davies, who visited Langara College Friday added, “If the bill is ruled un-constitutional, which we have every expectation it will be at the end of the day, the law will be struck down and it won’t be of any assistance to anybody.”

However, many students say that they have mixed views about the bill.

“I guess I’m con-flicted,” said Tani-ka Charles, Langa-ra English student. She would like to see a law that of-fers protection without a loss of privacy.

“Just like you can’t search some-one’s house with-out a warrant, maybe you shouldn’t be al-lowed to search someone’s Internet ac-count without having a warrant ei-ther,” Charles said.

The bill was, in part, a response from the suicide of Amanda Todd who was a victim of cyberbullying. She died on Oct. 10, 2012.

Cyberbullying bill poised to pass

Online privacy not fully secure

ADAM HUIZINGAArts student

DON DAVIESNDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway

KABIR MADANNursing student

1 Crime bill makes it

illegal to transmit

an “intimate”

photographs

without that

owner’s consent.

2 Police have easier

access to ask ISP’s

for the phone calls

and emails of

suspects.

3 The bill gives immu-

nity to telecommu-

nicators who have

given personal

information to law

enforcement.

Bill C-13details

UBC breach may affect Langara

8 portssTHE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2014 EDITOR LUKASZ JONCA

Falcons ready to start season By LENA ALSAYEGH

The Langara Falcons men’s basket-ball team is heading into a new season as reigning PacWest cham-pions and expectations are high.

They are currently undefeated with a record of 5-0 in the preseason, but the real test will come Oct. 31, when they host their season home opener against Douglas College.

“We lost a few key guys, but I think we’ll have a chance to repeat as cham-pions,” said head coach Paul Eber-hardt.

“I’ve been doing this way too long, and looking at the talent we have, I think it’s realistic to say that we would have a chance to win it all again.”

Nine players are returning along with four new additions.

Rookie Montell Lindgren, who Eber-hardt feels is a good fit for the team, was recruited from Prince George and was a former provincial team point guard.

Lindgren said that the team is al-ready well-built, and he is just trying to find his place.

“I’m trying to get the ball to the

vets,” he said. “I get to play with guys that know what they’re doing, that’s a big, big help.”

Veteran player Jitinder Lohcham is entering his fourth year on the team and feels confident despite being one of several team members dealing with preseason injuries.

He says his goal is to take on a lead-ership role with the new recruits.

“We run a system and it has taken a little bit of time this year to get it down because we have a lot of young guys, but I think once it comes around and everybody is used to it and running it every day in practice, it’ll be good. We’ll be back to where we were last year,” Lohcham said.

Eberhardt said their game strategy hasn’t changed, even though this is one of the biggest teams he has ever coached in terms of player size.

Chemistry, experience, and a will-ingness to sacrifice for the team will be the key to winning another champion-ship.

“Our goal is always to win a national championship, we also want to be the highest-scoring team in the country,” Eberhardt said.

Langara men’s basketball coach is confident with this year’s team

LENA ALSAYEGH photo Jitinder Lohcham goes for the dunk with an NEC Nighthawk on his tail on Oct. 18, 2014

LUKASZ JONCA photoMembers of the Langara Ultimate Club from left to right: Tiffany Tang, Julien Perreault, Larry Govinthasamy, Chris Ren, Clement Trinh and Alex Woodburn practicing on Oct. 16, 2014.

Victory for ultimate club Brand new sports club at Langara College triumphant in debut tournament

The Women’s Soccer PacWest Provincial Championships will be held at Quest Uni-versity Canada on Oct. 25-26

By ORVIS NOEL

The Langara Falcons women’s soccer team has secured a playoff spot af-ter finishing third in the division

with a regular season record of 7-5-3.The team finished off the season

with back-to-back victories over the weekend. Beating Capilano University 1-0 on Saturday and Quest University Canada 3-1 on Sunday.

The team has a history as PacWest Provincial champions, last taking home the title in 2005, 2006 and 2008.

“Our ability to help finance student athletes is one of the main reasons our team has on-the-field success,” said Jake McCallum, director of athletics and intramurals.

Coach Ryan Birt has been with the team for the past 14 years and is excit-ed about this year’s lineup.

“We had serious injuries, [but] be-cause of our talent we pulled it through. We are getting healthy at the right time for the playoffs,” said Birt.

The coach said that his philosophy for the team is that soccer should be a part of their lives, and the team needs to breed a competitive atmosphere while still having fun.

The PacWest Provincial Champion-ships will be held at Quest University on Oct. 25 and 26.

The Langara Falcons men’s soccer team did not qualify for the champion-ships this season. Finishing fifth in the league with a record of 5-8-2.

By NATASHA CHANG

The Langara Ultimate Club was two weeks old when they won their first Canadian Western University Ulti-

mate Championships.Teams from UBC, SFU, Langara and

University of Victoria all took part in the tournament, which was held in Burnaby on Oct. 4 and 5. Langara’s team finished with a record of 7-1.

First-year computer science student Chris Ren and Langara communica-tions officer Chris Smith started the club this fall and got a lot of attention from students on Clubs Day, when more than 200 students signed up.

According to Smith, winning the championship meant a lot to everyone involved. “This was a great way to kick off the new team and the new club,” Smith said.

Despite their small, brand-new ros-ter, the club played well. “There are a lot of good and experienced people who helped out around the team,” Ren said.

Smith said their strong teamwork was what allowed them to beat out more experienced opponents. “We fo-cused on teamwork from the beginning and clearly it’s paid off,” he said.

The club is currently recruiting new members, and plans on hosting a fund-raiser at the end of the month. Players

of all skill levels are welcome in the club, and there’s room for both casual and competitive play.

“We make sure, regardless of experi-ence, everyone gets to play,” Smith said.

The next tournament for the team is the USA Ultimate Championships, where Ren said their goal will be to have fun and build a solid foundation for the team.

“The spring tournament is really big and it’s competing against a whole bunch of good teams in the U.S.. That level is going to be way higher, so we just want to get some experience in,” Ren said.

WOMEN’SSOCCEROct. 18, 2014Langara 1Capilano 0 WOMEN’SSOCCEROct. 19, 2014Langara 3Quest 1

MEN’SSOCCEROct. 18, 2014Langara 5Capilano 0

MEN’SSOCCEROct. 19, 2014Langara 0Quest 3

MEN’SBASKETBALLOct. 18, 2014Langara 119NEC Nighthawks 58

RESULTSFalcons

“There are a lot of good and expe-rienced people who helped out around the team

CHRIS RENComputer science student

Women’s team playoff bound