Ouer the Edge © September 30 ,2009 Sports and Clubs 9

Pick a Club, Any Club

ANDREW BAILEY

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Clubs are a tremendously important as-
pect of student life here at UNBC. On
the 16" and 17" of September, UNBC
held the first Clubs Day of the year. In
case any of you were unable to attend
on either of those days, I ran to each
table getting the necessary information
that you will need to decide which club
to join and how to join it. So here it is,
everything you need to know: compli-
ments of your friendly neighborhood
Editor in Chief. .

UNBC’ Arabian Club

The UNBC Arabian Club is a brand
new this year as Khalid Altwaim be-
comes the club’s first ever president.
This club’s aim is to give students a
clear picture of Arabian beliefs, trad-
itions, and customs of all the differ-
ent Arab countries. To achieve this,
the members of this club will partake
in Arabian activities that will occur
throughout the year and will mainly
take place on the UNBC campus. This
club is open to all students of UNBC.
Some specific activities the club hopes
to promote this year will be traditional
dancing, a cultural exhibition featuring
cultural artifacts, and devouring trad-
itional Arabic food and beverages.

Rugby Club

The UNBC Rugby Club is divided
into a Men’s team and a Women’s
team both of which compete in sev-
eral tournaments throughout the year.
No experience is necessary and prac-
tices take place approximately two to
three times a week. Any men who are
interested in playing rugby this year
can email unbcmensrugby@hotmail.
com, interested women can email
pgvixens @ gmail.com

A-Cappella Club

Possibly the fastest growing club on
campus the A-Cappella club went from
having 19 members last year to signing
up 80 members over the two day club’s
day period. This club is split up into a
Men’s choir, a Women’s choir and a
potential mixed choir. Anyone who can
hold a note, beat-box, or help organize
events is welcomed into this club and
can join by emailing its president Sean
Haughian at unbc.acappella.club@
gmail.com.

UNBC Pole Art and Fitness

For anyone looking to get in shape
and find new friends this is probably
the club you should start with. A brand
new club to UNBC this year, President
Veronika Kollbrand explains “TI started
participating in Pole Art last year in
PG. My first lesson was amazing and
I’ve been doing it ever since.” This
club will be organizing weekly practi-
ces and no experience is necessary to
join as exercises will start at the begin-

ner level. Any fitness level is welcome
however, be warned, Pole Art is an ex-
treme cardio vascular workout incor-
porating abs, arms and hand strength
in very intense exercises. Anyone
looking to meet the challenge needs to
email kollbra@unbc.ca to sign up and
start getting ripped!

The Medieval Club

One of the rowdiest clubs on campus,
the Medieval club has been in exist-
ence at UNBC since the beginning
of time. Meetings/Practices are held
on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30.
Everyone is allowed to drop in and
all combat gear is provided. Medieval
Club President Billy Wong is excited
about the upcoming school year stat-
ing “I think it’s going to be excellent,
we have lots of new recruits looking
to get in shape and get exposure to
life in Medieval society. Plus we have
more fun than any club on campus.”
If you’ve never seen the movie Role
Models than you might be unaware of
just how awesome Medieval Tourna-
ments are, if you have seen it, you’re
already writing down Tuesday 7:30 in
your calendars.

Chemistry Club

The Chemistry club takes part in a ton
of activities throughout the year, most
notably paintballing, the magic show,
and a science fair. The science fair is
an event where elementary school kids
get to show off the awesome science
experiments they have created. Un-
fortunately they’re not all going to be
volcanoes but there will undoubtedly
be some there, and of course other cool
science stuff as well. This club will
be meeting once a month and those
interested in joining need to contact
the Chemistry Club President Amanda
Lam.

Pre- Med

The Pre-Med club has two presidents
this year: Shannon King, and Chris Uy.
This is a club open to anyone, as any-
one who is attending University can
claim to be Pre-Med; hence I’m not
entirely lying when I tell the ladies at
the bar that I myself am pre-med. This
year will be different from previous
years in the Pre-Med club as they have
spread out their traditional 3 day con-
ference into a monthly lecture series.
These lectures involve people in the
medical field coming into the school
to talk to students about their experi-
ences and offering tips to get into the
medical business. Anyone interested
in being a part of this club can email
unbcpremed@hotmail.com or simply
show up to the meetings which occur
on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in the Med-
ical Building’s atrium, which is a super
awesome chill spot so if nothing else
go there for the view.

Free the Children

Free the Children groups can be found
all over the world. Like Andrew Bail-
ey, this club is extremely famous and
kind of a big deal. Created by a Can-
adian, this group works hard organ-
izing fundraisers to raise funds and
awareness for child issues. This year’s
UNEC Free the Children club, which
is brand new to our school, is being
run by Kiyono Arao and will be fund-
raising for a school in Africa. Anyone

interested can either send an email to
free_the_children_unbc@hotmail.com
or join on Facebook by searching for
Free the Children @ UNBC.

WUSC

Anyone who wants information about
this club should just look for someone
who looks like a hippie and ask them
about it. Oh wait, damn I just saw a
mirror, I guess I should probably be
able to explain this one myself. WUSC
stands for World University Service
of Canada, and is a group that is very
present on a majority of Universities
throughout Canada. Those of you are
avid OTE fans will have no doubt read
Shelby Petersen’s sensational article on
Abdi- Ahmed Mohammed in our last
edition and therefore know that Abdi-
Ahmed is a student attending UNBC
thanks to WUSC’s Student Refugee
Program. This year’s slew of WUSC
events, which will include a Fair Trade
Market and the Ten Thousand Villages
Craft sale, will be without one major
UNBC juggernaut event, the Mr. and
Mrs. UNBC Inner Beauty Pageant
has been cancelled this year in hopes
of returning full force next year. This
is honestly one of the most fantastic
clubs on campus to be a part of and
they are extremely active in a ton of
internationally beneficial causes so
really you need to put this paper down
and email wusc@unbc.ca. Or just
show up to the meetings which will be
held on Thursdays at 6 o’clock in the
cool- kid nook directly across from the
book store.

Nursing Club

Without nurses in my life I would not
be here writing this. Nurses are an in-
credibly important group of colossally
awesome people. That being said,
there are currently potential nurses in
need. UNBC’s Nursing program needs
to raise enough money to hold a trad-
itional pinning ceremony upon their
graduation. This club’s aim is to raise
enough funds so that these fantastic
Men and Women are able to receive a
special traditional nursing pin before
we ship them off into the hospitals to
immediately start saving the lives of
those we love. The traditional pinning
ceremony is separate from UNBC’s
official convocation and therefore is
not funded by the school. The Nurs-
ing Club this year is organizing some
fantastic fundraising events such as a
Pig Roast on October 3. Anyone who
has any time to help out this year will
increase their karma ten-fold by send-
ing an email to nursing.unbc@live.ca
and joining this club to help those who
help us.

Dance Club

This club is open to anyone and will
be extremely beneficial to those of us
students who haven’t taken the time
to learn how to dance yet. Spoiler
alert: the famous and invulnerable An-
drew Bailey actually joined this club.
I know right, he joined a club? He’s
like the Wes Bentley of clubs. The
reason I joined this club is because it
has become inherently obvious that the
ability to dance is of vital importance
to a plethora of social situations. And
as far as the situation goes, the dance
club has you covered, as they plan to
touch on every possible dance step that

will ever come up. Dance lessons will
occur twice a week and although it
does focus on partnered dancing, there
is no need to fret as a partner will be
provided; which seems to me to be an
awesome way to meet people while
learning a valuable skill. Lessons take
place Monday’s at 3 p.m. and Wednes-
days at 5:30 in the NUSC event space.

UNBC Sorority

Always a fun club, the Sorority is
open to any and all students, so dudes
are in fact welcome as well. Tandra is
the president this year and this club
as always will be organizing a ton of
events throughout the year. The soror-
ity isn’t just an automatic join however
as anyone interested in joining must
participate in at least two Rush Events.
If you’re reading this paper on the day
that it has come out you’ve still got
some time as there is a British Comedy
night on Thursday October 1", as well
as a Potluck BBQ on Saturday Oct. 3".
So if you can get to both of those you’ ll
have gone to two and you'll be golden.
Any further questions can be sent to
sorority_unbc@yahoo.com or you can
phone them at 250-961-5640.

Biology Club

This year’s Biology club President is
Katherine Sui. The Biology Club is
an awesome networking opportunity
for people who are either super inter-
ested in Biology or taking a biology
class that they’re not quite sure they
can pass and might need a little extra
tutoring. The Biology Club is involved
with nature walks, hikes and movie
nights. There is also a Quiz Bowl,
which sounds awesome just because if
you put Bowl after anything I’m there.
This club meets weekly on Mondays at
6 p.m in room 6-390. and hosts small
weekly events to go along with larger
monthly events. Anyone interested in
joining can email Katherine at bio-
clubunbc@ gmail.com.

GAIA

Shane B. Doddridge is this year’s
GAIA president. GAIA is a very act-
ive club that has traditionally focused
on creative writing, however this year
will be expanding to make room for
visual art as well. GAIA will be produ-
cing three to four Zines throughout the
school year as well as the famous year-
end anthology. Events for the members
of this club will include: Open Mic
nights, local music shows and hope-
fully some T-Shirt designing. GAIA
meets every Thursday at 6 o’clock in
the Wintergarden. As far as submitting
work to be included in the anthology
goes, President B. Doddridge explains
“anyone who wants to submit can sub-
mit even if you’re not a member we
still want your stuff.”

Curling Club

GAIA President Shane B. Doddridge
has taken on another presidential role
with UNBC’s Curling Club. This club
provides students with a fantastic op-
portunity to take up the incredible sport
of curling at a very low cost. Drop in
prices to curl will be set at $5 with all
equipment and instruction provided.
No skill is necessary and President B.
Doddridge encourages beginners to
join. To put the $5 cost in perspective,
to join a curling league in PG costs
roughly $300. So yeah it’s a pretty

good deal. Members will be added to
an email list for updates as to when the
next curling night will be. Members
always have the option of bringing a
friend provided they let the club know
about it beforehand. Anyone interested
in joining this club, and you should all
be, can email doddrids@unbc.ca to
join.

Anime Club

Before Clubs Day I had no idea what
Anime was, now I do and I'd like to
pass that information onto you. Anime
is a form of Asian cartoon which fo-
cuses on mature audiences. Luckily
we are all very mature and therefore
this club is open to all UNBC stu-
dents. Members of this club enjoy an
Anime marathon once a month. Those
interested in joining can do so over the
almighty Facebook by searching for
UNBC Otaku North.

Computer Science Club

The UNBC Computer Science Club has
two main functions, those of gaming
and those of academics. This creates an
awesome environment in which fun is
had during L.A.N. parties and comput-
er game tournaments; while learning is
also done through networking and in-
formal tutoring. UNBC Professors are
also involved with this club which ac-
centuates the networking potential, as
students have the opportunity to meet
their professors on an informal basis.
The L.A.N. parties take place on cam-
pus and focus on games that students
cannot usually play with many people
online, for example Left for Dead and
Starcraft. If you know what any of that
means you should undoubtedly email
hannay @unbc.ca to join this spectacu-
lar club.

Alumni Association

As we all hope to one day reach the
ranks of UNBC Alumni, it’s important
to get an understanding of what that
means. A great way to do that is by par-
ticipating in the various Alumni events
that are open to all UNBC students and
occur throughout the year. Such events
include a Christmas Party, a Charity
Golf Tournament and a huge Home-
coming Event. Stacey Pickering will
be running this club as she has become
the first person ever to be employed by
UNBC as the Alumni Relations Of-
ficer. A club with better networking
potential does not exist on this campus
and it is therefore an obvious choice
to take part in this association’s many
events.

Asian Club

This year’s Asian Club President is
Melvin Ko. This club to open to all
UNBC students and aims to promote
an appreciation for Asian culture;
members of this club enjoy various
dinner events such as hot pots, and
sushi nights and also take part in many
different cultural festivals throughout
the year. This club’s first big event of
the year will be the Mid-Autumn Fes-
tival which will be taking place in the
first week of October so you will defin-
itely want to be looking for their table
in the Wintergarden area to buy your
tickets. Those of you interested in join-
ing this club need to email unbcac@
gmail.com

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