Paul Bucci

Five local boys have been chosen to play for the Fraser Valley North baseball team in the B.C. Summer Games.

Five local boys have been chosen to play for the Fraser Valley North baseball team in the B.C. Summer Games, which will be held in Langley July 22-25.

The players include Cole Johnson, Tarin Richardson, C.J. Stovman, Matt Strother, with Zack Nielsen on reserve.

North team head coach Wayne Bampton is excited to see his team in action. Read more…

Tim Daly has lived in Maple Ridge since he was born. Like many players, his father put him in hockey when he was very young.

Tim Daly has lived in Maple Ridge since he was born. Like many players, his father put him in hockey when he was very young.

The defenseman will be heading south to play in the NCAA next year. Daly received a full scholarship to attend St. Cloud State in Minnesota to play for the Huskies.

“I took a fly-down to St. Cloud, and loved everything I saw. It just seemed like a great fit for me there,” said Daly. Read more…

Poetry for people who don't really like poetry

The sun is setting over a sticky, sweating Commercial Drive. Just up the street, at the Café Deux Soleils, a crowd is forming, interested passer-bys and smokers getting their last puffs in before entering the ring for the big event. Regulars, like family, meet up to share some drinks and laughs. All throughout the cafe are busy eyes scanning tattered notebooks, which contain the poems for tonight’s consumption. Poets, like boxers surrounded by their posses, are warming up, eyeing the crowd. But like old pros, they’re completely unfazed. The atmosphere is more like that of a football game than a boxing match, though, as it is a team Slam tonight. Read more…

Alumni save the UBC Film Production Program

Alumni passion saved the UBC film production program. As word spread that the program would be closing indefinitely last year, people stood up and took notice, rallying public support and industry leaders to their cause. The program had been on shaky ground for a number of years, which kept students and graduates worried as they waited for the final word. A member of the film department contacted an alumnus, who contacted other alumni, alerting them to the problem.

“[They] said that there was possible writing on the wall about the closure of the department,” said Sidney Chiu, who graduated in 2002. “I’ve always heard that they were going to shut down the program ‘this year.’ The warning signs were there.” Read more…

UBC activism today and Nate Crompton’s last stand

Last summer, in an East Vancouver house with yellow stucco walls, a group of campus radicals worked feverishly on arts and crafts. There were late-night jam sessions, long theoretical discussions and piles of books. There was food and communal eating.

From this came what we now know as the Trek Park protest, a year-long saga that culminated in a police confrontation during KnollAid 2.0, which saw 20 students arrested and 19 charged with various misdemeanors. One of those 19 was Nathan Crompton, a man at the centre of many of the most heated debates on campus in recent history. Read more…

A controversial campus protest is destroyed during the holidays

Last month, as students were busy writing their exams, the Trek Park protest was demolished and reverted back to a parking lot.

“I came to work one day and it wasn’t there,” said Doug Singleton, Director of Campus Security. “One can speculate all one wants as to what happened to it. All I can say is that Campus Security had no hand in the removal of it.” Read more…

The Gleaner, Langara's independent student newspaper, faces extinction

The Gleaner’s newsroom smells of stale cigarette smoke and newsprint. The walls are plastered with countless faded back issues, comics, and letters. Sitting among stacks of newspapers and a handful of computers is Tanya West, the business manager of the Gleaner Publications Society (GPS). West is also manges the editing, production, and often, the writing of the twice monthly newspaper. She writes the cheques, writes the stories, and puts out the paper. She is The Gleaner. Yet after seven years at the helm, there are signs that Tanya West and The Gleaner are going to be facing a rocky future. Read more…