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The centre for Indo-Canadian studies questions what has and has not changed over the years as they prepare to launch their centen-nial commemoration of the Komagata Maru incident.

Dont want to read a full-length article? Check out the snapshots, where UFV students weigh in on a inexplicable e-cigarette ban, Neil Youngs bid for eco-justice, the death of small talk, and the unlikely romance between grizzly and polar bears.

Youll either be weeping freedom tears or will feel slightly ill when you watch this true story about the devastating Operation Red Wing. But U.S. patriotism aside, Lone Survivor is a war film to go down with Zero Dark Thirty and Black Hawk Down.

Tim Ubels fills you in on all things Abbotsford Heat as they finish their road trip and come back home.

One hundred years since the Komagata Maru

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Whether youre on the Ab-botsford campus or the Chilli-wack campus, the sounds of construction can be heard over the usual din of higher educa-tion. The Student Union Society Student Union Building gained walls and a second floor over Winter break a barren dirt patch no more. As well, the construction of the new UFV Agriculture Centre of Excel-lence at Canada Education Park in Chilliwack is underway. The new facility will house a dem-onstration barn and innovative greenhouses allowing students to gain practical hands-on ex-perience in B.C.s agricultural sector.

UFV under construction

CIVL referendum successAfter asking students for

a $4.85 raise to the CIVL fee, UFVs campus-community ra-dio station will be able to ex-pand their services. The ref-erendum ran from January 15 to 18, with 58 per cent of responders voting yes. With this increased fee, CIVL will be able to expand its broadcast radius to Chilliwack, including the CEP and TTC campuses. As well it will be able to upgrade equipment, expand opportu-nities for students, and more widely promote events.

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Mars One, a Dutch-based non-profit organization, is rais-ing money and narrowing down applicants to send the first hu-man beings to set up life on Mars. UFV grad Alex A-Lex Marion has been shortlisted and is enthusiastically embrac-ing the chance to colonize an-other planet. Mars One is fund-raising on Indiegogo.com and Marion has set up a YouTube channel discussing the one-way trip. More details in our next is-sue.

A-Lex on Mars

What happens when you decide to head to another province 12 hours before your flight leaves? Anthony Biondi details his trip to Edmonton all the while feeling a little hobbitish.

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This newspaper has many uses.

We cleaned our offices over the winter break, unearthing a box of old photos. Among them were images of The Cas-cade made into a joint, a roll of toilet paper, and folded news-paper hats for both people and dogs.

In more recent memory, weve given away old issues to be used as kindling. A par-ticularly memorable pile of old issues were sacrificed to a student working on a papier-mch art installation last se-mester.

Wandering around campus, Ive seen The Cascade used to mop up spills, prop open win-dows, and act as tablecloths. Ive picked up more than one issue that found a home as something to doodle on.

This year we even embraced this trend; our Christmas is-sue doubled as wrapping pa-per. Judging by how quickly the issues in D building were shucked of their covers, we helped cut costs for at least one budget-conscious student.

But more than any of that, no matter how entertaining or inventive these uses are, we hope you read it.

The truth is, we have no idea who reads the paper. It could be everyone, and it could be no one. Occasionally we get emails complimenting The Cascade s grammar or criticiz-ing its coverage, but not often. We release our papers into a

void. You could be using it for kindling or papier mch and never read a single word. Then again, you could be flipping straight to the Sudoku puzzle every week. Who knows maybe youre actually inter-ested in our SUS coverage.

No matter what you use it for, The Cascade needs your help.

Next week, were heading to referendum for a fee increase, and there are a couple of rea-sons why.

First, the facts: for as long as anyone can remember, The Cas-cade student fee has been $4.50 per semester. With CIVLs re-cent fee increase, that makes us the lowest fee on campus. With this referendum, were asking to increase that by $1.50 well still be the lowest fee on campus, at a grand total of $6 a semester.

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mission to tie the fee to infla-tion, so we can still cover our expenses as the cost of living and printing rises every year.

In the grand scheme of things, this isnt a lot. This is my sixth (and final) year at UFV. My semesterly contribu-tion to The Cascade has cost me a little under $60, compared to the $17,000 Ive paid in tuition. Overall, Im not too bummed about it. I hope you arent ei-ther.

Weve seen a fee increase coming for a long, long time every year, printing costs get just a little more expensive. Weve tightened budgets, but as every student knows theres only so much you can tighten a budget.

So were asking you for help. This isnt just a fee increase, but would translate into an increase in both the quality and quantity of our content. In

the future we hope to expand into multimedia, offering in-fographics and video coverage among other original online content. We would be able to hire more students on staff as writers, reporters, editors, ad salespeople, designers the list goes on. We hope to host guest speakers and events on campus, and in a perfect world we can afford glossy paper for the cover.

At the end of the day, were hoping that you, our reader, the average student, will be willing to spare us a buck and a half. Were your kindling, your makeshift tablecloths, something to sop up a spill in a hurry. But were also your student paper. We tell you what SUS is doing and what UFV is up to, and where your other student fees are going. We train the next generation of journalists, helping students get experience in writing, ed-iting, and creating. We create 20 pages of distraction to help get you through the agoniz-ingly boring time you waste between classes or waiting for the bus. Were here for you, whatever you need. And yes, this paper does make an excel-lent hat for your dog if youre looking for materials.

But no matter what you use it for, I hope that you think this paper is worth an extra $1.50 a semester. Either way, you can let us know next week. Our referendum runs from Janu-ary 29 to 31 under surveys on myUFV.

DESSA BAYROCKTHE CASCADE

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With an approved third read-ing removing the ban on local harm reduction services, Ab-botsfords city council moved one step closer toward elimi-nating the 2005 bylaw that prevented these facilities from running after a public hearing on January 13.

While the reaction of Ab-botsfords community has been mixed toward the removal of the harm reduction ban, Mayor Bruce Banman maintains that the bylaws amendment has been well thought-out and will ultimately protect those suffer-ing with addiction, as well as the community.

This has been in the works for a number of years Fra-ser Health Authority and the Hepatitis C council of British Columbia wrote [the city] ask-ing us to revisit this bylaw, Banman explains. It mainly has to do with Hepatitis C. Ab-botsford has among the highest Hepatitis C rates in the prov-ince and the Fraser Health Au-thority felt that one of the con-tributing factors was the lack of a needle exchange program.

While there are benefits to making harm reduction servic-

es like needle exchanges avail-able in Abbotsford, many peo-ple have expressed concerns regarding the general publics safety with the implementa-tion of these sites. However, Banman assures there will be many safety precautions put in place, one of which being what he calls a good neighbour agreement.

Fraser Health will find providers to do the needle ex-change it may be a mobile needle exchange; it may be a specific area or areas. And lets say there becomes a problem

with that or it ends up being a negative impact on a neigh-bourhood, Banman says. To help those who are fearful of that we will put mechanisms in place so that we can work with Fraser Health Authority and the providers.

While programs like the good neighbour agreement will work to maintain commu-nity safety, Banman acknowl-edges there will be a learning curve.

We can learn from other communities, which we will do, but sometimes you dont

know what the concerns are until you get there, he says. You have to be mindful as you go through this, which is why we have a joint partnership.

Banman also hopes that the presence of these local needle exchanges will help link those suffering with addiction to ser-vice providers equipped to be-gin treating them.

Those that are struggling with drug addiction end up exchanging a needle with a health care provider or a sup-portive network of some kind, and they start to establish

trust, he says. So, when they are ready to come [off] the drugs when theyve finally had enough they are more likely to reach out because they have established that relation-ship with a service provider.

And while these facilities will serve as a starting point, Banman asserts that there still needs to be more funding put in place by other resources like Fraser Health, if Abbotsford wants to take better care of those who are suffering with addiction.

Fraser Health Authority spends approximately $79 per capita, which goes to treat mental illness and addictions. Theres a strong correlation be-tween mental illness and illicit drug use, he says. How are we supposed to deal with this problem when its drastically under-funded? If youre not spending the money how do you expect to make a dent in this problem?

The first part of the solution is to stop infecting people, Banman concludes. I would say now we need to step up our campaign and help those who are mentally ill and addicted.

KATHERINE GIBSONTHE CASCADE

Harm reduction measures to hit Abbotsford

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Mayor Bruce Banman discusses the recent amendment to Abbotsfords harm reduction bylaw.

After four days in her new po-sition and a week in the Fraser Valley, the new UFV director of teaching and learning Maureen Wideman has barely scratched the surface of what she can do in the role.

Its a challenging time for sure with all the budget cuts and the restraints, she says, but theres lots of opportuni-ty, too, to do things in a differ-ent way ... thats why Im here.

Wideman was brought in from Ontario where she was the manager of disability ser-vices at the University of On-tario Institute of Technology and the faculty services devel-opment consultant for over 10 years.

She also has experience working with faculty and stu-dents with disabilities to make technological and online learn-ing more accessible. She steps into the directing role at UFV following Wendy Burtons re-tirement in December.

My job does include both faculty and students ... I kind of look at it like a mechanic shop. So you know when you have a car and youve got a rattle un-der the hood ... you take your

car to a mechanic, she says. With a lot of teachers they have tremendous expertise, but they have expertise in whatev-er field they have ... It s like a service department, you bring in your problem, your rattle under the hood, and well take a look at it.

The position holds a steep learning curve, especially for someone coming in from anoth-er province. However, Wide-man is eager to get to know the landscape of UFV and develop some concrete ideas for the di-rection to take teaching and learning on campus.

Im still learning the land-scape. I have some ideas, but Im not exactly sure yet. Some of the best ideas Ive had on ways to improve teaching and learning have come from stu-dents, she says. It takes a collaborative approach you need to get out there and you need to talk to people ... sit down and chit-chat and ex-plore ideas and see where the opportunities are.

While she has only been in the province a few days, Wide-man is already getting used to the West Coast.

It was -37 C when I left On-tario and now its 10 C or 12 C

[here]. Its just magnificent, she says.

She adds that part of joining Fraser Valley culture and tak-ing on this position is embrac-ing UFVs loyalty to the sur-rounding community.

As a school, we have to be

able to provide what employers are asking for, she says. What we want is to be supportive of the community thats out there.

Wideman also notes the fine line between demands on stu-dents and demands from the

government for a school to be successful.

Things are not going to stay the same, she says. Things are changing, and theyre changing rapidly. You have to put yourself in a position where you can react to change.

JESS WINDTHE CASCADE

Maureen Wideman steps into the top spot teaching and learning at UFV

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VANCOUVER (CUP) At Kwantlen Polytechnic Univer-sity, students hoping to learn the art of brewing beer can hop to it with a new two-year diploma program.

Theyll get to learn brewing techniques, science and busi-ness skills to help them barrel into the beer industry.

While craft brewing has been booming across Cana-da for some time, there are scarcely any formal programs to teach would-be brewers the ropes. The first such program opened at Niagara College in Ontario in 2005, and in 2013 they partnered with Olds Col-lege to offer the program else-where in Canada.

Outside of these programs, beer aficionados often learned the trade through home brew-ing clubs and other informal avenues. Others have gone abroad to the countries like the U.S. or Germany where programs have existed for sometime.

But rather than tending to carboys in their bathtubs, Kwantlen brewing students will get to use a newly-con-structed brewing lab at the schools Langley campus. Theyll also get work place-ments at local craft breweries in summer.

There are 35 spaces in the program, which starts in Sep-tember.

But as this one door for fledgling B.C. brewers opens, another is closing. UBC, some angled at UBC for a student-run brewery, but their hopes recently came to a halt when a referendum to fund the

project was rejected by UBCs Alma Mater Society (AMS) the schools student union.

The initial plan was to put the brewery in the new AMS-run SUB building, which is currently being constructed. The plan was for beer from the brewery to be sold at the pub and restaurant inside the SUB, too. But student society finances have been tight in re-cent years, and the project was repeatedly tabled to a later point.

The new SUB brewery proposal had a deadline, though, as building the facil-ity wouldve required changes to the already-in-motion con-struction plans for the build-ing. As an alternative, brewery supporters proposed building it at the UBC farm instead. But the AMS refused to give any of their existing funds to the project.

Supporters then floated the idea of getting students to pay a small fee from $2.50 to $7 over a number of years to fund the brewery. But many of the programs strongest proponents have graduated since the first proposal, and the AMS had been question-ing whether a student-society-run brewery would be able to run as a profitable business. A vote to put the student fee proposal on a school-wide referendum ballot took place last in early-January, and AMS council voted against it.

In the interior of the prov-ince Thompson Rivers Univer-sity is in the exploratory phase of putting together an edu-cational brewery on campus with a local master brewer.

LAURA RODGERSCUP B.C. BUREAU CHIEF

Brewing program launches at Kwantlen, student brewery no-go at UBC

Theres a lot more aware-ness about what it means to be South Asian. Theres more of a cultural and religious aware-ness, said Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, coordinator at UFVs centre for Indo-Canadian stud-ies, regarding the upcoming centennial anniversary and commemorative exhibition of the Komagata Maru incident.

Education at a young age, she explained, needs to fight igno-rance in our community.

Im very excited about our exhibition launch, Sandhra said. Its being launched in our Sikh Heritage Museum ... [it] is housed in the National Historic Temple, which is the oldest standing Sikh Temple in the Americas. Weve converted the ground floor into a fully functioning museum.

The Komagata Maru exhibi-tion, titled Challenge and De-nial, launches on January 26 and will run for the rest of the

year. It is split into two parts. The first is a timeline detailing the history of South Asians and B.C. between 1897 and 1915. The second part features artist Jarnail Singh who depicts dif-ferent scenes of the Komagata Maru incident.

On May 23, 1914, a coal

freighter carrying 376 people from India was barred from landing on the B.C. coast. The majority of the group was Sikh, but also included Muslims and Hindus, all of whom were Brit-ish subjects.

The B.C. government legis-lated that they had to pay $200

a head to set foot in the prov-ince, which was a fortune at that time. After two months of being anchored off the coast, British Navy ships arrived to send them back the way they came. Only 20 of them were al-lowed to stay in Canada, hav-ing proven their Canadian resi-

dence status.The exhibition will also fea-

ture keynote speaker Nsibe Kaur, a descendent of the shore committee that brought the passengers food and water during their two-month stay off-shore and raised $60,000 to pay off the ships owners.

Those men were earning a dollar a day, Sandhra ex-plained. To raise $60,000 is just amazing.

In 2008, Prime Minister Ste-phen Harper formally apolo-gized for the incident.

Over the 100 years theres this recognition that we are citizens, we are Canadians. At the same time, I do want us to question also what hasnt changed and what can we do to work on that, Shandhra said.

This issue was brought into the public eye on December 2, 2013 when it was widley re-ported that a was caught uri-nating on the Komagata Maru memorial in Vancouver.

ASHLEY MUSSBACHERTHE CASCADE

Commemorating a century

Image: City of Vancouver archives - AM1584-: CVA 7-123/ James Luke Quiney In 1914, almost 400 immigrants were barred from landing in B.C.

Not every student has the money to travel the world and study abroad.

But the international depart-ments new global citizenship grant is helping to bring a lit-tle of that global spirit closer to home. The idea? Every stu-dent can take part in actively building an international com-munity here at home on UFVs campuses.

The grant aims to financial-ly support student-led events on campus that encourage a globally aware student body, working in conjunction with UFVs mandate of an interna-tionalized campus.

Were on our way in pro-gramming to lessen the gap or divide between domestic students and international [students], explains Kara Bertram, UFVs international contract training and study tours co-ordinator. Through this grant and other initiatives were trying to bring aware-ness that international is for everybody.

This kind of support was previously available through grants like the international-ization fund, but that financ-ing was available for staff and faculty initiatives only. Now students can work toward a more globally minded cam-pus.

The global citizenship grant gives UFV clubs and associa-tions access to approximately $3000 in funding for campus events.

Due to the grants global mandate, one of the main stipulations for accessing this money requires at least two clubs or associations to work together as a team. Bertram is hopeful that this will inspire events on campus that connect students, while building unity among the groups that run on campus.

We want to have differ-ent groups work together and come up with potentially even more engaging and mean-ingful projects, Bertram ex-plains. For instance, we could have the India student club apply for this grant to throw a Diwali celebration, which they

would do anyways but what if they worked with someone else? What if they worked with, say, history [students]? They could come up with something even bigger.

Bertram also notes these events have the potential to link local issues with those happening on a broader scale around the world, adding an-other layer of international understanding among stu-dents.

The events can be a local issue that has implications or connects to a global issue, or it can be a global issue that af-fects us locally, Bertram says. Its important to increase understanding of each other, [between] domestic and inter-national.

Learning from each other, working together, sharing per-spectives and knowledge and experiences, and just the in-teractions that occur as well, says Bertram, will bring awareness of global and local issues to the greater UFV com-munity.

KATHERINE GIBSONTHE CASCADE

Globalizing campusInternationalization fund supports local events

CICS explores the challenges and denials behind the Komagata Maru incident

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SNAPSHOTS Curtailed commentary on current conditions

Remember the days of those early 90s TV shows like Saved by the Bell and Boy Meets World? The bell rang and the halls were filled with the hustle and bustle of chatty teens.

What happened to those casual social in-teractions between classes, from our high school days until now?

Last week, as I walked down the hall of D building, the walls were lined with students, using the wall as some form of balance prop, gazing intently at their iPhones. No one spoke, and only their thumbs moved.

I know people generally avoid small talk like the plague, and the invention of the iPhone has made it incredible easy to do. However, the fact we retreat to our iPhones instead of making friendly, chatty conversa-tion is sad.

I am just as guilty in using my phone as a socially acceptable way to be antisocial, but if you choose to strike up a conversa-tion with someone before class starts instead of checking your Twitter feed, youll most likely improve your small talk skills, and who knows you may even make a new friend.

Socially acceptable to be antisocialBrittney Hensman

The Big Apple, now run by the worms, may soon add e-cigarettes to their smoke-free air act. After a vote of 43-8 from city council and the signature of late mayor Bloomberg, such harmless water-vapour-emitting innova-tions of the free market have been banned from public and private venues.

The reason, according to city council speaker Christine Quinn is that many of the e-cigarettes are designed to look like cigarettes and can lead to confusion or con-frontation, as reported by 1010 WINS AM.

Yet this ludicrousness seems to be trend-ing among other wannabe-nanny states. Chicago has also passed a 45-4 vote to pro-hibit e-cigarettes from public spaces.

Richard Carmona from e-cigarette manu-facturer NJOY wrote to the New York coun-cil saying the ban was well-intentioned but scientifically unsupported, and that it con-stituted a giant step backward in the effort to defeat tobacco smoking.

Weak arguments for the ban expose these governments priority of tobacco taxation over saving lives. Hopefully these bans will be revoked with more evidence of e-cigarettes easing people out of smoking and benefitting their health.

E-cig ban a growing trend in nanny states

Lauren SouthernWith rising tempuratures, polar bears are coming down from icier northern regions and moving into Canadian (and American) soil by means of Alaska and the territories.

This is a problem because the polar bears seem to have a keen interest in our grizzly bears another big, bulky hunk of danger-ous muscle.

So what, you might be thinking. Wont that just result in some ridiculously awe-some hybrid?

A hybrid, yes, but perhaps not very awe-some. Instead, the combination of genetics is creating an even more aggressive, and there-fore more dangerous, species of bear.

This mismatched animal has the potential to screw up our ecosystem by preying on different species and causing more problems for locals. With a new marauder to worry about, humans and animals alike will be im-pacted.

The calm, serene forests of Canada have gained a new predator; perhaps even a foe for the hunter of all hunters us.

Grizzly and polar bear hybrids, oh my!

Taylor Breckles

I love Neil Young. I dont like the oil sands. But the sludge that were pumping out of Alberta is much like Young theyre both products.

After Young finishes his latest fundraising tour, hes going to donate the profit to First Nations organizations to help battle the oil companies and pay for legal fees.

Who is going to be the winner in this lat-est eco-show? The lawyers, for one. And of course, Young will still be paid for his perfor-mances. So will his crew, his manager, and the catering staff. Only the cash that remains after payday will be donated.

I applaud what Neil Young is trying to do, but the end result of this debate will be bigger consumer SUVs with bigger stereos, playing Youngs songs louder than ever before. Instead of looking to a musician to solve our problems, we should be getting a political economist on the front line.

Rock-star campaigns always end the same: a lot of feel good promises that quickly drain themselves empty, like the gas tank of a tour bus. We need politicians and policy makers to take this issue seriously.

Neil Young is a product, too

Christopher DeMarcus

B.C. has a long history of environ-mentalism. Its become a way of defining ourselves, a culture of its own.

However, to the detriment of our cause, it has now become a clich.

When two peaceful environmen-talist protesters comically outwit-ted security and snuck up behind Prime Minister Harper during a conference with the Vancouver Board of Trade, Harper joked that it wouldnt be Vancouver without it. Without the dramatics, without the hysterics, you can almost hear him thinking.

It has become especially easy to write off eco-protesters.

The main criticism comes in the form of an ad hominem attack. For those of us who have avoided taking Philosophy 100 thus far, instead of attacking the argument the protesters are making, critics needle at their characters.

Illogical, they call them. Irratio-nal. Unreasonable, and most likely unhygienic.

The list continues, as seen in al-most every eco-critical letter to the editor in The Province and the Vancouver Sun. The most common

accusation environmental protest-ers receive more often than not from smug boomer-centrists or Calgary natives is that environ-mentalists are hypocrites.

They probably drove to the pro-test, is the argument. This proves they rely on fossil fuels and they should really be inviting a pipeline through their needlessly pristine coastline. Gasll be cheaper, dont they know?

Consider David Suzukis fuel usage as he jets around the world giving talks on climate change, they say. Or Al Gores supposedly huge energy consumption.

Its a biting attack. Theres no consideration given to the envi-ronmentalist agenda; its a way of side-stepping what environmen-talists are really trying to say, an avoidance of action by those who want to comfortably drive their SUVs guilt-free.

The fallacious argument is inevi-tably made by those who fail to un-derstand. Environmentalists speak to a change in our economy, in the infrastructure in which we are all bound. Sami Grover writes in Treehugger that we live in a world structurally designed to promote waste, consumption, and fossil fuel dependence. For example, light

rail from the lower mainland to Vancouver is put on hold while the highway is expanded and bridges are built to accommodate the ever-increasing levels of traffic. It is the hope of the environmentalists to force the change in infrastructure by not feeding into a fossil-fuel-dependent system; leave the oil in the ground, let the gas prices go up, and begin a transition to green

energy.George Monbiot writes in the

Guardian that hypocrisy is by defi-nition the discrepancy between our aspirations and [our] ac-tions. Those of us who consider ourselves environmentalists have high aspirations: we want to live ethically, without detriment to our home. But we will, time and time again, fail to live up to these aspi-

rations. Monbiot writes that the alternative to hypocrisy isnt moral purity (no one manages that), but cynicism. Someones environ-mental foibles should by no means stop them from voicing their envi-ronmental concerns.

After all, wouldnt most of us rather be a hypocritical environ-mentalist than a cynic without a soul?

NADINE MOEDTTHE CASCADE

Debunking the eco-Puritan

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Systemic environmental change demands a little hypocrisy.

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MSG: The not-so-deadly killerChinese food lovers rejoice! Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG), the infa-mous ingredient in Asian cuisine, may not be as unhealthy as we ini-tially presumed.

MSG is typically used in order to obtain the savoury taste known as umami. Gathered through a fermentation process, MSG is the secret ingredient thats not quite a secret, seeing as it has been used in Asian cooking for centuries be-cause of its flavour enhancement. Yet this umami supplier has been scaring Americans away.

I can make some stupid fuck-ing hipster dish with Dorito pow-der and serve it on roasted corn with fucking lime juice and people would eat the shit out of it, says Chef David Chang on Eater, If I say, thats got MSG in it, no ones going to say, well, that sounds de-licious.

Chang has a point. Americans and Canadians eat unhealthy food every day. Look at fast food chains and think about what kinds of chemicals go into that food; think about processed foods, fro-zen meals, and meat on steroids. Yet we have no qualms about eat-ing all those products.

Furthermore, glutamic acid

(found in MSG) is essential to our survival as humans. We need that compound in order to survive: its essential to cell metabolism and is an important neurotransmitter in our brains. Yet its viewed as a

non-essential amino acid. Why? Our bodies produce enough of it to survive without the necessity of outside intake. Even so, if our bod-ies need it in order to survive, it cant be that bad for us, can it?

If scientists from prestigious universities, microbiologists from Harvard for example, can agree that MSG doesnt harm the body in any way, why cant the public agree as well? Maybe its because

the average Joe doesnt know about the natural occurrence of MSG in our bodies. Maybe its because they dont know that we eat natural MSG every day as it is present in many foods. Either way, its negative reputation has stuck. Maybe they tend to view its capti-vating taste as an addiction.

There is some explanation as to why humans tend to crave umami. Glutamic acid has a significant presence in breast milk, therefore as infants were exposed to the taste of umami as soon as we es-cape the womb. As children, we are generally taught to trust mom-my and do, eat, act, and say what-ever mommy deems good if mommy has been giving us this substance since birth, whos to say we should stop eating it now?

Several common eateries and even some high-end restaurants have started openly using MSG in their food. As the origins of MSG are explored and the natural oc-currence of this substance in our world is revealed, MSG will stop being one of the foods to fear.

Regardless of how long it takes for that fear to subside, MSG will be making its way into the public without disgust or shame once again. In the food world, slow and steady wins the race.

TAYLOR BRECKLESTHE CASCADE

Image: lexnger/ flickr

Embrace the savoury taste of this culinary pariah.

What the West cant do

When we see a televised bombing in the news, what is our immedi-ate reaction? We know its wrong to assume, but the reaction per-petuated by our media is to react with racism: what crazy Muslim did this?

Why cant a Christian bomb a building? On April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma, two white U.S. citizens, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nich-ols, did just that.

Western governments claim they intervene in regions around the world to protect human rights. The Middle East is portrayed to the media as corrupted by a revolution of Islamic extremism, and the West has to save the world again.

However, the Wests interest is not in human rights, but economic gain.

Last semester my sociology pro-fessor asked if anyone thought they knew what Islam was. Some-one said, It is a political religious ideology that hates the West. As a political science student, I was pretty angry about this claim. How can he think that way? To base people only on what you see on the news?

Islam is not an ideology. The Western nations encourage us to believe that. Christians believe in Christianity, Jewish people believe in Judaism, and Muslims believes in Islam. Why is that so hard to

understand? There are nice Mus-lims, and there are extremists with other religions.

To understand this topic better, we must give it a broader outlook.

We have our own Christian ex-tremists in Canadian history with the example of residential schools.

In 2001 Michael Ignatieff, in Human Rights as Politics and Idola-try, stated that Democracy with-out constitutionalism can turn into an ethnic cleansing a cultural genocide. That is what Canada committed in residential schools. Can Canadian society call residen-tial schools a cultural genocide? It fits the criteria, as Canada over-looked its democratic responsibili-ty as a government and victimized First Nations children to cleanse their minds. The Gordon Residen-tial School in Saskatchewan was the last federally run residential school, and closed in 1996.

These kids were getting beaten while I was watching Sesame Street.

Is it okay to do this? Is it okay for the Church to just apologize and the government give a $2 bil-lion compensation package? Is that what Western policy is about? Throw money at a problem, say sorry, give them a plaque, and say it is all over? Ignatieff explains, we are stuck with enforcing hu-man rights in the twenty-first cen-tury through an international sys-tem drafted by the victors of World War II.

Human rights as politics are

volatile, because the victors and the people with power dictate hu-man rights as politics. The West can correctly label what happened in Rwanda in 1994 genocide, or what Al-Qaeda does in the Middle East extremist acts, but according to them, what Canada did from 1876 (the enactment of the Indian Act to 1996) is not genocide they

did not conduct Christian extrem-ism. The country was helping make people better. Canada was a democratic country without con-stitutionalism until 1996, because the government bypassed consti-tutionalism and acted as a form of nationalism gone rogue for 100 years. The government wanted to cleanse the country and believed

in the statement of one people one nation one destiny. Western na-tions are unable to commit geno-cide, but nations that do not have a stable power and democracy are able to.

That is what we are doing on an international level to the Muslim people.

OWEN COULTERCONTRIBUTOR

Image: Adam Reeder/ flickr

The Middle East isnt exotic, Western thinking just calls it that.

Quick to stereotype other cultures, but perhaps we should look in the mirror

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Last winter, I went hiking with some friends in the mountains north of Maple Ridge. To be hon-est, I didnt want to go. Theyre sporty, outdoorsy folk the kind of people who go cycling in logo-plastered Spandex and not only own real snowshoes, but ac-tually use them while I think a cold winter day means cozy slip-pers and a book, not blisters and hypothermia. But somehow they pried me off the sofa and into the truck, and away we went.

I began to feel better about going as soon as we left the city and reached the trailhead. It was a perfect December day, bright and crisp. The trail was dusted with fresh snow, but the brisk pace kept us warm. The cold air was so clear that we could count every individual tree on the mountains from miles away. After a couple of kilometres, we rounded a corner and found our-selves looking out on the Gold-en Ears completely cloaked in white, side-lit by the low winter

sun.We stopped and sat on a

snow-covered log, drinking hot tea from a Thermos and passing around a bag of homemade cook-ies that someone had brought. My fingers were freezing and my nose was running, but it kept crossing my mind how glad I was that I hadnt stayed home doing laundry and watching

Netflix. I would have wasted my day and not even known it.

We werent the only ones en-joying a winter hike. A Korean family with two small girls zipped into Hello Kitty snowsuits caught up to us after a few min-utes. They had just enough Eng-lish to ask us to take their photo we deduced from their ges-turing with the Golden Ears

in the background. How flatter-ing is it that we live a place so extraordinary that people come from the other side of the planet to see it, even in the dead of win-ter?

But it seems like we take our provinces beauty for granted. Our long, wet winters keep us inside for six months of the year. And while everyone knows the physical drawbacks of an indoor lifestyle vitamin D deficiency and pudginess, to name a couple we dont often think about the psychological effects it has on us.

Living with walls around us splits us from the natural world both physically and mentally. Nature deficit disorder, the development of behavioural problems in people who grow up without being exposed to natural environments and wild places, has been on the radar of psychologists for over a decade. Just this month, the American Chemical Society published the results of a scientific study that spent several years tracking the mental health of people who relocated from grey urban en-

vironments to areas with more trees and green space. No ones particularly surprised by their findings: people surrounded by nature became significantly happier and more emotionally stable than those surrounded by concrete. We like green stuff. We need it in our lives.

Thats why were so lucky to live here. Even in the heart of Metro Vancouver, were never more than half an hours drive away from breathtaking walking trails, mountains, and creeks. That Korean family knew that they only had so long to visit B.C., and they were taking ad-vantage of every minute of their time here, snow or no snow. Its a good reminder for us to enjoy what weve got.

Its now January and we have at least a few more weeks of win-ter before the weather starts to warm up but Im turning off Netflix and grabbing a jacket. Theres an entire world outside waiting to be hiked, skied, pho-tographed, and explored. The hardest part is taking the first step out the door.

Beer chicken with honey garlic sauce1 whole fryer chicken4 garlic cloves, minced1 cup of liquid honey1 bottle/can of beer (the type of beer is up to you)

For chicken lovers, these three easy recipes are inexpensive and perfect for weekend cooking on cold days. Also, one chicken will go a long way. Cook on the weekend and youll have meals through the week.

The measurements below are suggestions. To be honest, I dont measure anything. I cook to taste.

Beer chicken soupAt least half the drippings from the recipe to the right (dont use all

of them!)Chicken carcass (hopefully with chicken still on it)1 chicken breast cooked (optional for more meat)1 stick celery1 carrot1 parsnip 1 small yam red onion (sliced thinly)2 bay leaves2 garlic cloves1 cup of ricewater

Put the chicken into a large pot and fill with water until it just covers the chicken. Throw in the bay leaves, drippings, garlic, and whatever spices you prefer (I recommend a dash of parsley). Bring water to a boil and leave to simmer for three hours. During this time you can prep the vegetables.

Once time is up, youll need to remove the carcass and pick off the remaining meat. There are two ways to do this: either use a metal strain-er, being careful not to lose the broth, or fish around in the pot with a large spoon. Be careful not to burn your fingers. I recommend letting the bones sit to cool before picking off the meat.

While the bones cool, you can put the rest of the ingredients, except the rice, into the pot. Turn to low and put the lid on to let it simmer away. If you have a cooked chicken breast, dice it and put it in with the vegetables.

After youve picked the meat off the bones and put everything in the pot, let it simmer on low for another hour. Put the rice in half an hour before serving. You will find that the honey from the drippings will make this soup sweet and delightful!

Thai chicken vermicelli

Heat a pan to medium and add the drippings, can of coconut milk, peanut butter, brown sugar, lemon juice, and soya sauce. Mix until its a smooth consistency, and then add the rest of the ingredients except the vermicelli. Cook for 20 minutes.

Follow the instructions on the vermicelli package, and once noodles are ready place them in the pan with the sauce and vegetables. Mix well, and serve.

Chicken and beerRecipes by ASHLEY MUSSBACHER

VALERIE FRANKLINCONTRIBUTOR

Getting outside is good for mental health, especially in winter

Photo: Valerie Franklin

The mountains, air, and lakes of Maple Ridge are good for you.

500 grams of dry vermicelli1 chicken breast1 tbsp of drippings1 cup peanut butterdash peanut oil 1 tbsp soya sauce1 tbsp lemon juice

2 tbsp brown sugar1 can coconut milk cup crushed peanuts red onion (sliced thinly)broccoli (to taste)bean sprouts (to taste)cilantro (to taste)

Preheat the oven to 350 F, and place the thawed chicken in a roasting pan. I suggest using one that does not have a rack for dripping, because its better if the chicken sits directly in the juices. Pour the beer into the bottom of the pan. Mix the honey and garlic in a bowl, and spread onto the chicken either with a spoon or brush.

When the oven is ready, put the chicken on the middle rack and cook for 90 minutes uncovered. Every half hour, take the chicken out and spread more honey. If you like garlic, make sure to get the garlic bits on the chicken. They will caramel-ize.

When its done, save the drippings and the carcass! You will need them for the next two recipes.

Note: cook time may vary for different ovens.

Essential recipes for students

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There and back again: a writers tale ANTHONY BIONDITHE CASCADE

Humour

If youre looking for some high-minded culture, your an-swer lies in UFV theatres latest production, the Canadian play Age of Arousal. With student rush tickets available for only $10, its never been more af-fordable to see a play.

To commemorate the tragic events surrounding the Kom-agata Maru in 1914, the UFV centre for Indo-Canadian studies has curated an exhibi-tion at the Sikh Heritage Mu-seum. The event will feature a reading from Chanting Denied Shores by author Tariq Malik.

The Reach is featuring a col-lection of work from national photojournalists with the theme of war and conflict: me-morials to the fallen, objects that survived atomic blasts, sites of concentration camps, and the link between the pho-tographer and the subject.

Arouse your interest

Komagata Maru Centennial Exhinition

Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences

Jan 8-26

Jan 26

Jan 23 - Mar 30

Upcoming

Events

Chris Janzen returns to UFV this month after graduating with a BFA in 2010. His latest autobiographical visual arts show presents the painful, positive, and often unset-tling transformation from self to husband and father. You can swing by anytime during school hours to see his work hanging in the gallery on the Abbotsford campus.

It(wa)s All About Me

Jan 8-24

I watch people. Im like Sherlock without his ADHD medication. I cant help but pick up on the bad habits of students, then ruthless-ly judge them.

Im not sure if its right to judge, but for the sake of eti-quette and my sanity I have to. There is a basic set of manners we should review be-fore the next time we have to share the same space together.

First rule: others first The umbrella rule of etiquette

is forgetting yourself and con-sidering the comfort of others. A magical thing happens when you put others first: other peo-ple enjoy you being part of the group. Being considerate is the key to getting what everybody wants: respect.

A good place to watch eti-quette crimes of this nature is the library. You can hear stu-dents gabbing into their cell-phones, stuffing their faces with pizza pockets, or cranking their beats to 11 with the sweet, sweet sounds of a new Nickelback

mash-up. Please, follow the rules. Be

quiet. Be considerate of others.

Second rule: be firm, not mean

Who is to save us from the con-stantly loud library marauders? The stern librarian. Not mean, but stern. The librarian is an en-forcer, the perfect example of a manners maestro. We should aspire to be librarians, who rule their sacred stacks with a velvet grip. Youre doing a everyone a favour by politely asking the loud ones to shut up, instead of telling them Nickelback sucks.

Third rule: have lively argu-ments, not meaningless quar-rels

Most etiquette guides will tell you not to talk about religion or politics. But besides food and the weather, what else is there to talk about? Economics and philosophy, of course! Critical viewpoints should be actively debated at university. This may be the only time and place for you to do so.

An old and tired phrase is to try and see the other side. For-get that. You cant see the other

side. Thats why you called them a monstrous asshole. Instead, review the other side. Make sure you know the specif-ics of what theyre saying, and repeat it back to them nicely, not like a parrot.

Ask questions to try to un-derstand where their idea came from and how it works. Unpack the argument gently. Dont use dynamite. Socratic questioning should be used for learning, not for poking your classmates in the eyes.

Fourth rule: put Wikipedia back in your pants

Weve all done it. We pull it out under the table and start tapping away. Hoping no one is looking. Just before we get caught it loads onto the screen: Wikipedias answer to your an-thropology professors probing questions.

Seriously, put it away. If you didnt do the readings, admit it. Wikipedia wont score you any points, but it will let everyone know youre a narcissist that needs attention. No one wants to hook up with a narcissist.

Fifth rule: you can never be over-dressed

University is supposed to be a crazy, out-of-this-world, uniquely dynamic, and bizarre place. But there is another prin-ciple that ties us all together: professionalism. At least, a basic sliver of professionalism.

If you want to wear your py-jamas to school, do it right. That other day a young lady was walking through the halls in a Batman onesie complete with bat-mask hood. Thats doing py-jamas right.

The point is, dont be a lazy slob. Dont dip yourself in bong water before coming to class. And for fucks sake, cant get-ting high wait until 4:20 p.m.?

For students and professors, its not often that etiquette and academics are grouped together most of us assume that we re-membered how to flush a toilet and wash our hands from grade three. Please wash your hands it doesnt take long to wash off the H1N1. Respect your-self by respecting others. And remember, someone might be watching you.

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Etiquette can get you what you want, when you want it

In an office there lived a writer. Not a smelly, sticky, dirty of-fice, filled with litter and cof-fee stains. This was a writers office, and that means comfort. In this office, there was one par-ticular writer: me, a very meek and soft-spoken writer of some degree. It came to me, as most adventures do, in the form of a request to attend an annual jour-nalism conference in Edmonton.

This invitation came sud-denly, as if out of nowhere, less than a day before the trek. In a whirlwind of effort, I packed my things and was off to a city I had never seen before.

We travelled by plane over the misty peaks of the Rocky Moun-tains my first flight, in fact. It was smooth enough only one of our party was stopped by security. Then up we went over mountain and dale, then over the valley filled with ice and snow. Shortly after, we landed safely in the snowy cold. What we found was beyond our imag-ination.

We took a train from the air-port to the city centre. The first sight we saw when we left the station in high spirits was the last thing we hoped to see. One of our party pointed out to us the great tower of Enbridge, reaching high above the other buildings, its great yellow-and-red logo embossed high on the surface of its peak. And not only that, for as another member of our company alerted me, the air reeked of oil.

I was in denial at first. There

was no way that such a great city filled with so many people could support an enterprise that does nothing more than crush environmental matters. My journey had not taken me over the misty mountainous peaks to find a glorious, clean land. No. We had landed in Dol Guldur.

Later in conversation with Edmontonians, we met with devout opposition when it came to our ideas of natu-ral preservation. We warned about the problems involved in transporting oil via pipe-line through our glorious nat-ural province, but our ideas were cut down, demolished by hard, dark responses.

A hippie, one of us was called. There is no room for such environmental thoughts when economy is on the line.

One afternoon while I was out walking the citys streets, there was a bus on the side of the road. It had blown out a vital component in its engine and had spilled transmission fluid far along the gutter. The driver of the bus was talk-ing to a woman at the bus stop as I passed, and as if it was destiny, he said to her, Imagine what an environmen-talist would say if he saw this. He spoke in a mocking tone, as if he would look the hip-pie in the eyes and

laugh.The situation appeared to be

quite simple. I was behind en-emy lines. Enbridge, the great oil tycoon that had taken over and darkened the landscape of Alberta, had also indoctrinated its residents.

The people of Edmonton had become the sort to laugh at en-vironmentalism and worship sheer profit. I thought of the destructive actions of Saruman and the orcs. They had been

bought. The oil runs deep in Edmonton and wears a happy smile. The Enbridge lobby window was lined with happy-looking fake plants made from oil.

Luckily, there was little trouble on our journey and our company returned safely, not coated in bitu-men.

The danger had passed, but my reflections are scarred in my mind.

If our neighbours, who control the oil industry in that region, have the mindset that economy, not ecology, is the primary as-set of our planet, it is hard

to say what may happen in our future.

What future abuses will we have to put up with if the prov-ince of Alberta believes they are doing the right thing?

I left our Shire as one man, and came back as not really the same man as I was before. I hope, and fear, for our future in this glorious province.

Alas, the ideals of our neigh-bouring province could fuel the enemys fires and send him on a destructive collision course with our natural land.

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CROSSWORD El crucigrama

Aries: March 21 - April 19: Dont buy a disco ball this year. Its still not cool.

Gemini: May 21 - June 21: You came in like a wrecking ball because you ARE a wreck-ing ball. You should consider dropping that arts degree and going into construction.

Cancer: June 22 - July 22: If you wake up to a farm animal standing over you, it means only one thing: a goat has imprinted on you, and now you are its mother. This is why people never go to Chilliwack.

Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22: The position of planets Saturn and Pluto would usually be encouraging you to explore your boundaries and push yourself to new heights this week, but Pluto isnt actually a planet so it doesnt really mean anything.

Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21: The only thing I see in your future is jellyfish lots and lots of jellyfish.

Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21: Your horoscope will be ex-tremely didactic this week.

Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19: I know you think Snakes on a Plane is a fictional account of snakes on a plane, but there are snakes on every plane. Consider the lowly ferry as an alternative transport.

Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18: Play your cards right and the real Slim Shady might just inspire all your paper topics for the next year.

Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20: Jalapeos go well with every-thing except gifts you intend to give your mother.

Leo: July 23 - Aug 22: Rihanna is your spirit animal.

Virgo: Aug 23 -Sept22: The alignment of Mars and your mothers dishware makes it increasingly likely that some-one will misinterpret a perfectly innocuous request from you as a marriage proposal.

The Weekly Horoscope Star Signs from January Jones*

Taurus: April 20 - May 20: Jupiter is almost in the sphere of luck for you this semester. Youll be able to pass one of your midterms without study-ing, but good luck figuring out which one.

2. You need a ____ to use Microsoft Word. (11)5. You call people using this. (8)8. A green vegetable often found on burgers. (7)9. This bug is featured in a famous Spanish song. (9)11. The Spanish hat. (8)12. The most famous Mexican food. (4)

1. This red food is often mistaken as a vegetable. (6)3. Where people get their groceries. (12)4. Eddy Van Halen played the _______. (8)6. Dora is a (female) _____. (11)7. Rock, pop and blues are types of _______. (6)10. The dark drink no university student can work without. (4)

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Answer keys

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2 BORSCHT4 ALPHABET6 MISO8 CHOWDER9 MUSHROOM10 BROCCOLICHEDDAR11 BISQUE

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1 RAMEN3 CHICKENNOODLE6 MINESTRONE7 PEA

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*No, not that January Jones

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I always thought Reel Wrapps was a video rental store when I drove past. Do you remember when those things still existed? But recently, when looking for wrap and flatbread restaurants in Abbotsford to satisfy a craving that Subway couldnt appease a fellow foodie rec-ommended Reel Wrapps.

The place is called Reel Wrapps for a reason, and I was, in a way, right about the movie thing. Memorabilia and photos of old movie stars Marylin Monroe, James Dean, and so on decorate the walls. A couple life-sized figures of movie stars

stand eerily to greet customers. Im not going to say which mov-ie stars they are seeing as I spent my time avoiding their creepy eyes. The bathrooms have a sign that says dressing room on it. The whole place is basically movie-themed. Its quite elabo-rate.

Vintage movie stuff and old

movies arent my cup of tea, so I wasnt a fan of the atmosphere; but the place is clean and neat, and I was comfortable to sit down and enjoy my Wrapp. Reel Wrapps serve burritos; soft flour wraps stuffed with veg-gies, meat, rice, or noodles and sauces or spice. If you arent into wraps, this isnt the place to be

Reel Wrapps serves pretty much only wraps. You can make it a meal with pop and chips, or get a smoothie, but wraps are the feature presentation, as the menu says.

The good thing about a menu focused on one kind of food is that usually the place does it well, and this is true for Reel Wrapps.

Reel Wrapps has diversity within the wrap world. I had a difficult time picking did I want spicy Thai chicken? Cajun wrap with blackened steak, rice, tomatoes, peas, peppers, and spicy sauce? Or a breakfast wrap with farmers sausage, potatoes, scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese, and salsa? There really is some-thing for everyone.

I ended up going for the Shanghai chicken with grilled chicken, jasmine rice, steamed veggies, peanuts, and hoisin sauce in a whole wheat wrap. I

went for the lunch-sized wrap, which may have been a mistake. It was a difference between $7.45 and $9.45, but it left me wonder-ing how big the dinner size was.

The wrap was delicious, though. It was stuffed with fla-vour, and they didnt skimp on the fillings. I had a hard time taking a bite, and thats not a bad thing. Not at all. I expected there to be an overload of rice and al-most no chicken or veggies, but it was well-proportioned. I liter-ally had to stuff it in my face to get a good bit, and it was satisfy-ing.

I will definitely have to re-turn to try another wrap! Im going to try the full dinner size, as the lunch didnt quite hit the spot. The West Coast wrap with shrimp, honey mustard, and let-tuce calls my name. Though next time I think I will go for take-out. Im more a fan of Benedict Cum-berbach than of James Dean.

Lone Survivor offers one of the most intense narratives I have experienced in years. Not since Black Hawk Down or Saving Pri-vate Ryan has a film been so engrossing with its characters and their war-defined obstacles. But with that intensity comes a propagated view of evil Tali-ban and more-than-human Navy SEALS. It results in, from one point of view, a respectful retell-ing, and from another an over-blown sense of American valour.

Based on the failed Operation Red Wings in 2005, recounted in the best-selling book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell, Lone Survivor follows four mem-bers of SEAL team 10 as they are thrust into fierce combat from which Luttrell played by Mark Walhberg was the only survivor. That sense of com-mitment and sacrifice is shown within the opening moments of the film as clips of Navy SEAL hopefuls trudging through the vigorous training regime. The sense of patriotism is overpow-ering, and itll either dig deep into your heart or your stomach.

Aside from Walhberg, the cast is comprised of Ben Foster, Emile Hirsch, and Taylor Kitsch, who portray their characters with prowess. From intense conversa-tions with Luttrell to undergoing intense training, each actor gives his greatest respect the real-life counterparts they play. The be-ginning of the operation is de-tailed with the same attention as other great modern combat films like Black Hawk Down or Zero Dark Thirty. All the while, that ever-repeating theme of patrio-tism comes off the screen.

Director Peter Berg doesnt just wish to show how badass the U.S. military is he also asks the audience an incredibly

difficult question. What causes the entire mission to go awry is when the team is discovered by goat farmers whom they suspect might be Taliban. The film not only shows the teams delibera-tion whether to let them go or to kill them but also poses it to the audience. What are the lengths you would go to keep your friends alive?

Despite the outcome given in the title, the next 40 minutes go down as difficult and intense. The pain and agony suffered by these men as they somehow keep fighting can seem over-dramatic, but after consulting with Luttrells book, it is true to his account. Continuing to fight

for their lives despite having been shot multiple times, jump-ing down a mountain more than twice, and having fingers blown off is heartbreaking to watch. As they begin to fall, each death is a blow straight to the gut.

However there is a moment where the drama breaks into the absurd. When one of the sol-diers falls and lies dying on the mountain, he is disrespectfully looted of his possessions includ-ing his wedding ring. This is where the film turns into a 80s single-minded action flick where the antagonists are nothing but heartless oppressors. This scene disrespects the final moments of the soldier s life and Berg loses

the tone he had going for the film. Had they stayed true to the real events, this film would have been a monumental war film.

The final moments of the main conflict are harrowing and end in blood and tears. Lone Survi-vors climax, while performed admirably, doesnt exceed the movies middle point. But it isnt meant to. Everything after that conflict acts as the resolution. We see Marcuss continuing will to survive despite having just watched his three friends die.

After the screen goes black and the audience is given a minute to breathe, the screens subjects are once again show-ered with American patriotism.

We are given pictures and clips of fallen soldiers while Peter Gabriels Heroes plays in the background. Berg wants you to cry freedom tears, while framing it as showing respect.

Lone Survivor is meant as a tes-tament to these fallen soldiers who, despite insurmountable odds, stayed united to the very end. Lone Survivor is by far Pe-ter Bergs best film and certainly helps his reputation after mak-ing Battleship. While the amount of American patriotism may de-ter some film-goers, the loyalty and respect of this film is real and unignorable.

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I dont think anyone really likes Danny Browns voice the first time theyre exposed to it. I re-member I didnt when I first heard a track from Browns 2013 Old. I was sitting on the swings of a local park with a friend, up to no good as usual. Hey, check this out, he said. Sec-onds later, my ears were filled with the most ridiculous voice Id ever heard, along with some of the most unusual production Id come across in a rap song. I walked away from my first encounter with Danny Brown thinking that if ever there was a voice youd expect to belong to a stereotypical crack-cocaine ad-dict, this was it.

However, I couldnt complete-ly dismiss Brown, because like it or not, the man could rap.

Days later I gave in and down-loaded Old Browns sophomore album. I came across a picture of Danny Brown in the process, and immediately thought that if ever there was a face that youd expect to see on a stereotypical cocaine addict, this was it.

One thing I look for when lis-tening to rap is how tightly a rapper manages to adhere to the rhythm of a track while rapping. I was floored. Browns ability to put out verses that fall perfectly in line with the track rhythmi-

cally, without having to hesitate or make changes in pronuncia-tion to accommodate a word, and without straying from an established rhyme scheme, is truly impressive. This is a man who understands that a rap-

pers voice isnt used to produce melodies. Its used in the same way a drum kit would be; its all about rhythm. Old is packed with the type of rhythmic preci-sion that Brown seems to strive for. Tracks like Kush Coma highlight Danny Browns rhyth-mic prowess.

One of the most attractive as-pects of Old, along with the lyr-ics and execution, is Browns ability to fluctuate between two almost entirely different voices; a whiny, high-pitched near-squeal that is the most promi-nent Danny Brown trademark, and a deep, aggressive tone that is almost the complete opposite of Browns normal voice. This is especially highlighted in tracks like Red 2 Go.

Regarding the content of his songs, Danny Brown is about as stereotypical a rapper as youll ever meet. This album is riddled with songs about his familys struggle for money when he was a young child, and songs almost entirely focused on partying and drug use. With a song title like Smoking and Drinking, there arent many places it can go ex-cept smoking blunt after blunt after blunt after blunt.

Danny Brown songs, in terms of what theyre about, can be neatly tucked away in one of three possible categorical draw-ers: smoking (both cigarettes and marijuana), molly (a concentrat-ed form of MDMA), and fellatio. If youre trying to challenge the conventions of rap, or trying to prove to your older relatives that rap is not all sex and drugs and rock-and-roll, Danny Brown is not your man.

But if youre looking for a rapper that manages to keep an original sound, even in todays music scene, youve come to the right place.

For a 31-year-old, Brown doesnt look, sound, or act like it. And it comes across in his music. But Old produced one of the most confident rap albums Ive heard in a long time. Brown keeps nothing back. He has poured his lifestyle and beliefs into this record, and as question-able as those beliefs may be, his efforts have resulted in one of the most thoroughly enjoyable rap albums of the past decade.

Danny Brown Old Album Review

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es Warpaint, despite how some might describe them as a rock band, dont do a lot of rocking out. The quar-tet, blurring the line between im-provisation and meticulous com-position, favours slowed-down, half-slurred lyrics that arent ever locked-down songs, while not purely spontaneous as it was in the case of LA-antecedents like Slow-dive. Emily Kokals vocals, some-times low in the mix, hanging out in guitar whine (Theresa Wayman), bass groove (Jenny Lee Lindberg) and drum backbeat (Stella Mozga-wa), frequently trail off or refuse to finish rhymes, half-believing in some lyrics and emphatically driv-ing others home. The reveries and refrains that emerge, audible and repeated hypnosis-like, suggest songwriting isnt where Warpaint wants to spend its time: Im not alive...Im not alive enough..., Love is to dance... Most of the whats said after the ellipses, out of focus, vague desires, blissed out like the rest of their self-titled (but third) album, hasnt advanced much from Exquisite Corpse six years ago. But forging forward isnt really what the band is about. Warpaint is fine with standstill, harmonizing and swaying around intricate variations, building ver-bal repetition that crowds some-thing alive/like cyanide into a headspace for five minutes.

Mogwai has been characteristi-cally minimalist in the past, espe-cially in 2011s Hardcore Will Nev-er Die, But You Will. Rave Tapes takes leave of Mogwais previous albums in the sense that it is more electronic than Hardcore, and is less melancholy, ditching that feeling of yearning that character-ized Hardcore for a much calmer sound. Remurdered, for ex-ample, is a song seemingly made for people who like to ride trains at night bobbing their heads in the crowd. At least, thats the feeling it conveys. The album is very in-volved instrumentally, as there are next to no vocal parts on any of the songs Rave Tapes builds a wall of sound within each song, even if its a minimalist track, the absence of vocals is rarely obvious. This al-bum also seems a lot heavier, the sounds it boasts have a definitive weighted-down feeling, and ev-erything is very dense. In contrast to Hardcore, Rave Tapes features synthesizers much more promi-nently, favouring them over tradi-tional guitar, bass, and kit. Usually, I wouldnt dig that type of blunt transition, but in Mogwais case, it works.

The E Street Band has defined some of the most pivotal moments in Bruce Springsteens career. Wheth-er it was Roy Bittans gloomy pi-ano lines on Point Blank or the late Clarence Clemmons sax solo acting as the emotional centrepiece to Jungleland, the Boss often needs a full, functioning group of musicians to make his songs click. With the recent loss of Clemmons on sax and Danny Federici on ac-cordion and organ, the E Street Band had some vacancies to fill as they prepared to record Spring-steens 18th studio album High Hopes. Tom Morello, former mem-ber of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave, guests with the E Street band for three quarters of High Hopes tracks, but sticks out like a sore thumb on every track. Morellos intrusive solos on the recycled The Ghost of Tom Joad and High Hopes nearly ruin the whole record. Springsteen is at his best on High Hopes when he has the listener all to himself, most no-tably on the haunting hymn-like The Wall or the closing cover of Suicides Dream Baby Dream. But while Dream Baby Dream starts like classic Bruce, with the ghost of Federici accompanying him on accordion, it gets lost in a sea of overproduction and unnec-essary orchestration.

Two and a half years after the re-lease of their self-titled debut al-bum, The Head and the Heart are back with a remarkably matured collection of 13 songs. Titled Lets Be Still, the band has mostly for-gone the increasingly all too com-mon indie folk single sound and instead display some very real depth. A lot of the strong points of the album come from instru-mental arrangements, which vary from stripped-down dusty banjo to anthemic rises. Interestingly, the album is shared between the two male vocalists, Josiah Johnson and Jonathan Russell, with Char-ity Rose Thielen also showing up on other tracks. Subtle harmonies play throughout. The one obvious track that exists to receive radio play is Shake. While its a nice song, it doesnt offer anything that hasnt be heard before. But the rest of the album really shines. Sum-mertime offers some excellent, experimental vocals by Thielen. And my personal favourite track is These Days Are Numbered, a hauntingly echoed acoustic song, sung by Thielen, thats reminiscent of a painfully empty existence, but one that hasnt given up hope. When the beautifully operated harmonica hits, the song really el-evates.

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Even if youve never read any of his books, you know who Stephen King is. People usually associate King with blood-cur-dling horror stories that would frighten the elderly into early graves if they ever read one. This is partly true: Stephen King does write horror stories, but he also writes your normal, not-quite-run-of-the-mill mystery and fic-tion stories. Joyland is a mystery set in an amusement park. This is a good choice for readers who want to experience Kings writ-ing, if only to see what all the fuss is about, without getting the colour scared out of their hair. As seen in previous novels such as The Green Mile and The Colorado Kid, King can go be-yond horror and is just as adept at depicting genuine emotional distress based on everyday life situations.

Devin Jones, a college student, goes off in search for a summer job to take his mind off his bro-ken heart. Seems simple enough, right? This story starts out as a simple introspective sabbatical, and turns into one of the more creative mysteries Ive ever read.

As always, King has a gift for

writing realistic, engaging dia-logue, and this piece is no excep-tion. King really makes the best of his ability to move a story along with dialogue. As in any other King story, however, the first third of the story is mostly set-up background informa-tion. As a veteran King reader, I was able to navigate through this less-than-suspenseful part of the book and get to the much-await-ed climax. But this is something Ive heard from those who are unfamiliar with Stephen King over and over: He just doesnt cut to the chase fast enough.

While that may be a legitimate comment, I feel it works in the storys best interest to delay the climax in favour of character building and setting up enough suspense to make the arc of the story worthwhile.

Although there is a super-natural element to this story, as there most always is with King, its not the most important part of it, I find. Sure, in regards to the events of the story, it is. But, in terms of the feeling one is left with after reading, its human interaction that really carries the flame in this book.

King has a knack for showing us how easy it is to bring out either the best or the worst in a person, and perhaps more im-portantly, almost glorifies flaws in protagonists. It brings home the fact that people are not per-fect theyre complicated, and thats what makes this story in-teresting and engrossing.

Its also what makes King such an effective writer, the fact that he doesnt shy away from hu-man imperfections, instead em-bracing them as one would an old friend, and letting the reader judge whether or not those flaws make a character worth caring about. In this case, I would say they do.

Ryse was originally announced by Crytek back in 2010 as a new hack-and-slash game set in an-cient Rome. Then at E3 2011, a pre-rendered trailer was released showcasing it as a Kinect-only game for the Xbox 360. It looked like a promising title for those who wanted something other than kid games for the add-on. Then the game disappeared for almost two years, until an actual gameplay demo was shown at E3 2013 (now an Xbox One title) to major disappointment. With the Kinect feature almost entirely removed, Ryse had become just a hack-and-slash game with an a lot of quicktime events. It was released to lukewarm reviews and has since been forgotten.

When I finally got my hands on the game, it triggered many old memories and oddly enough, I liked it. The story follows a young soldier, Marius Titus, as he rises through the ranks of the Roman army and begins to un-cover the truth about his fam-ilys murder. While it definitely takes a page from Gladiator, it offers some straight-up jerks to hunt down and exact your ven-geance on.

Hack-and-slash games are part entertainment, part guilty pleasure. There is a large fan base for the genre, especially for the high-octane epics like Devil May Cry, God of War, Bayonetta, and so forth. But those games of-fer a level of over-the-top action that Ryse does not. It goes for a more realistic and visceral per-spective with cringe-worthy ex-ecutions and slow, tactical com-bat. But for fans of this style, it is immensely satisfying.

When I played the game at PAX Prime last year, I found I could simply spam the execu-tions and never get hit by ene-mies. In multiplayer, thats been fixed: you cannot execute every-one you come across. You have to play smart and choose moves carefully. For some, this is what makes the hack-and-slash genre bland.

Hack-and-slash games that rely more on cinematic style rather than evolving intricacies can quickly lose their flair. When comparing games like Lords of the Rings: War in the North to Bayonetta, the difference is unde-niable. When gameplay aspects dont expand beyond simply smashing the same buttons over and over again, its easy to lose interest. There has to be an ad-vancement of interaction that will keep the players interested. Throw in new combos or new equipment that boosts the char-acter s attributes, at least. De-spite being movie-based titles, EAs Lord of the Rings: Two Tow-ers and Return of the King games managed this where a stand-alone game did not.

Thats what Ryse is, essential-

ly. It is a case of style over sub-stance. Its amazing graphics and intense executions try to hide the games lack of interactive progress. You do get to upgrade Mariuss executions or damage protection, but this doesnt add any combos or new equipment.

There is a multiplayer feature that offers character upgrades by completing rounds in scenarios pitted in the Coliseum. This as-pect is very similar to Mass Effect 3s multiplayer. But the promot-ed feature of buying packs with actual money looms above the game. Its certainly discourag-ing trying to get through a game when micro-transactions are ad-vertised all over the screen.

Ryse is a decent hack-and-slash game. Its beautiful graphics are immersive and captivating and the combat can be fun. But it is also entirely understandable why this game received the re-views that it did. It has little re-playability for most gamers and doesnt offer anything truly new to the Xbox One besides amazing graphics. What the game would have been like as a Kinect-only game is a mystery.

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Ryse: Son of Rome

The Beatles Its Getting Better All the Time Paul was right when he wrote this upbeat, sickly optimistic little dit-ty. In fact, its so juvenile and rosy coloured, it really seems like it should have been a Ringo song to me at least. Perhaps life for UFV students in the valley will echo its jovial sentiment.

The Flaming Lips Turn It On

This is really the only Lips album Im a huge fan of. Embryonic was much more modern and experi-mental, more of a post-rock ver-sion of this low-fi pop punk trip, but this song is as catchy as any realizations the Flamers have had since getting really big in the aughts. Bruce Springsteen State Trooper Radio relay towers gonna lead me to my baby. This line speaks volumes of the climate for UFV students, driving back and forth across the Lougheed, the number one, or the Fraser Highway, and finally we may be connecting them with their babies on the east side of Sumas! Stay tuned! Refused Liberation Frequen-cy

They wanted the airwaves back. They didnt just want airtime, they want all of the time, all of the time. And now we have more opportu-nities to give it to you, and to see that we help you make the best use of it here at CIVL. Thanks, UFV students. Elvis Costello Radio, Radio

A song so blunt, theres not too much to say about it at all. When Ian Curtis of Joy Division asked us to dance, dance, dance, dance, dance on the radio, that was simi-larly repetitive, but not quite as concise. Declan McManus does it here in much more efficient means.

CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy is stoked for this new se-mester and the opportunities it brings. Here are some songs about things getting better, starting with CIVL.

1Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City

2Hag FaceHag Face3LossesDemos4Open Letters 1-65Fiddlin FrenzyBiscuit in the Fiddle Case

6ChromeoWhite Women7 Shannon And The Clams

Dreams In The Rat House

8The CourtneysThe Courtneys9Jessy Lanza Pull My Hair Back10Ylangylang Fantasmagories11Sebastien Grainger Yours To Discover12 Betrayers Let the Good Times Die

13Like A MotorcycleMotorpool14Skynet The Wild15Post ScriptPost Script16WilLive At The Ironwood17The Strumbellas We Still Move On Dance Floors

18Craig Cardiff Love Is Louder (Than All This Noise)

19The Woodshed Orchestra Buzz

CHARTS ShuffleAARON LEVYCIVL STATION MANAGER

JEREMY HANNAFORDCONTRIBUTOR

Joyland by Stephen KingMARTIN CASTROCONTRIBUTOR

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Todays society can be divided into two groups of people: those who watch sports and those who couldnt care less. Grow-ing up, I have seen some incred-ible moments, both negative and positive, that came from athletic achievements and athletic stag-es.

The Vancouver riots on June 15, 2011 are a prime example of how sports can negatively im-pact a society. The city became distraught after more than two-and-a-half months of emotional investment and hanging on ev-erything the team did. It was almost inevitable that the city would boil over, no matter the end result of the game.

On the other hand, during a Boston Red Sox game after the now infamous Boston Marathon bombings, Red Sox captain Da-vid Ortiz gave a now-famous speech, uttering the words, this is our fucking city, to rau-cous applause. The event was so much more important than anyone could have known at the time; the city was divided,

and then united against a com-mon enemy. The city fell in line as they realized the enemy was outside, and the city was not

going to tear itself up but in-stead rise above and show true strength in numbers.

Sports bring people together

when times are tough. Some may think that being so in-vested in sports is a source of negativity, but I truly believe

sports bring out the best in peo-ple. They show what people are like, because there is nothing to hide behind. Sports players completely bare themsevles ev-ery time they step onto the field, court, or ice.

No matter the end result of the game, the way people are so easily affected by sports can be treated negatively by those who dont understand the point. Sports exist as a means for mem-bers of a community to gather and watch or play in a respectful and competitive environment. It is people who let their emotions get the better of them that pres-ent a negative association with sports, but overall sports are far more beneficial than they are detrimental to communities around the world.

Although sports can be a medium for everything that is wrong with society, from those that dont get why they are such a big deal (the attack on Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks from this weekend), sports and athletic stages bring people to-gether and unite broken com-munities in so many ways.

The Abbotsford Heat finished their six-game road trip on a positive note, defeating the Grand Rapids Griffins 3-2 in Michigan. The Heat managed to go .500 over that span, despite being outscored 20-11. The vic-tory featured a three-point per-formance from Max Reinhart, who continued his solid play with a goal and two assists on Saturday night. Bouncing back from their Friday night shutout loss at the hands of the Griffins, the Heat showed great poise, gaining the 3-2 lead and hold-ing it through the entire third period.

Carter Bancks opened the scoring with a short-handed marker at 10:46 of the first pe-riod, going five-hole on Griffins goaltender Tom McCollum. The Griffins quickly countered as Nathan Paetsch knotted things up at a goal apiece 43 seconds later, only to have Reinhart give the Heat the lead again heading into the second frame. A disal-lowed Heat goal kept them from adding an insurance marker, as referee Trevor Hanson deemed that a Heat player made illegal contact with McCollum. The teams traded goals in the second period, as Xavier Ouellet for the Griffins and Markus Granlund for the Heat each added a goal in the second, with Granlunds being the eventual game-win-ning tally. Heat goalie Joni Ortio

turned aside 31 of 33 shots, as he refused to crack under the pres-sure from the Griffins offense in the third period, preserving the 3-2 lead. Ortio now has 17 wins on the season, and the Heat im-prove to 27-14-1-1.

Family businessWith brothers Griffin and

Sam performing in the spotlight this past month, as they donned their team Canada jerseys at the World Junior Hockey Cham-pionship, Max Reinhart of the Abbotsford Heat has quietly es-tablished himself as one of the Heats most consistent young forwards in this 2013-14 season.

His notable sophomore cam-paign includes 30 points in 35 games and a midseason call-up to the Flames when Curtis Glen-cross went down