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Remembering Daniel Rezmer

Last summer, Quest stu-dents who enrolled in field cours-es abroad while benefiting from financial aid bursaries received significant bursary decreases, making many reconsider their at-tendance of the university.

During a discussion on September 16th addressing these bursary cuts, Quest President Da-vid Helfand, Vice President Toran Savjord, and Director of Financial Aid Steven White explained that the principle behind the bursa-ry program is to allow people to come to Quest, not to cover exter-nal fees.

Unlike scholarships which award merit alone, this bursary program allocates funds to those who cannot afford full tuition, and is based on a variety of factors including student and parent income. Funds for both scholarships and bursaries are

derived from the university’s gen-eral income which includes dona-tions, tuition, and summer use of the campus.

“We didn’t think any-body on the bursary program would take these classes [field courses],” says Savjord on Mon-day. “When we saw the bursa-ry program was being used by students that could afford these courses, we felt that was not what the program was intended for.”Helfand proposed an alternative bursary program model for field courses. He suggested that instead of Quest subsidizing a portion of each student’s field course costs, the course is advertised at full price and the field trip fund is re-distributed to allocate bursaries to the students who could not oth-erwise attend the course. “What we don’t want to say is that only people whose families make over a certain amount of money can take this course. That’s totally an-tithetical to everything we stand

for,” says Helfand.

But some students now feel their education is unsupport-ed by Quest, and are doubting their financial ability to contin-ue a Quest education. Tanner Batchelor, a student who suffered bursary reduction due to her en-rollment in a field course to Ant-arctica, shared in an email that her $3000 bursary reduction was shocking to her and her parents. “My parents are barely contribut-ing to my trip, and I have worked since the day I turned fifteen so these types of trips would be an option,”says Batchelor.

Nonetheless, Helfand and Savjord maintain that al-though they do not wish to dis-credit the hard work of the stu-dents, the bursary program has to be functional. They explained at Monday’s discussion that the bursary program should distrib-ute funds to all those interested in Quest but in need of support. “As far as operating this institu-tion, keeping it alive for everyone, and allowing people from differ-ent countries with no funds and

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In a mere week and a half, Daniel Rezmer established a reputation on campus known for his smile, his positivity, his quick-ness on the soccer pitch, and as the guy who skipped school to go to Burning Man. On Wednesday, September 11th, 2013, Rezmer died in a cliff jumping accident while he was among friends at the Powerhouse behind campus by Mamquam River.

In a solemn address the following morning, President Helfand spoke to a silent student body and urged them to stay strong and support each other through such a difficult time so early in the year.

Many Cornerstone classes opted to take time to mourn privately or in groups in-stead of holding class Thursday. Friday night’s candlelight vigil and celebration of life drew over 300 participants including Quest students and faculty, Rezmer’s friends and teachers from Magee High School in North Vancouver, and the Rezmer family and close friends. The celebration of life was a chance for those who knew

Rezmer to share their memories of him, as well as an opportunity for the many Quest students who hadn’t had the chance to meet or connect with Rezmer to learn more about the person he was. Some stories were inspiring, some were hilarious, and some were heartbreaking; all had a common thread: Daniel Rezmer was an inspiration and a ray of light for everyone whose lives he touched. Despite his short time at Quest, Rezmer’s legacy will not be for-gotten.

Healing for Everyone The morning spent dolling out hugs.Habrich always looming high above us.A new pinnacle of permanence.But now I, we, all, Have another spot out of view, but in mind.A bridge that Passes overthe river just likeashes blown through theWind. It ripples and isAlways there.It takes us to thatplace, that perception

of risk, unstuck, f*cked,smashed out of place.

Like most, we probablyonly know his face.But we know the face of friends who adorethis space, and we know,we adore more than their face.

We are but a moment intime. Quest University is our place, this, our happy space,and all of us are; beautiful unique,share the loved face.

Our concept of safe has once again beenshattered. Were our soulsreally that safe?A comfort rattled, those aroundus hurt. Hugs and hammocks.Love and smiles.

The tears thatwet the page today are realThey are salty and they are sad-ness.A sadness shared, as wecome together in a community of support, love, and rapport.

This place will not be the same. A growing pain, rememberedand not in vain. Souls havebeen touched and hearts unsettled.

Go now and hug those youlove. Hold them close, and tellthem why it is that you lovethem most.

These things that happen. They are permanent. So take it like this ripsy rhythmic rolling rhyme.Let it take away the sad placesin your sore, cold, and upset minds.

We are in this together and like the roll of thebeat we’re gonna escapethe heat and get mellow,get raw, get lost, andget happy. For today is the day that you letit all out. You let it all go.

Just be the emotion youare. Hold someone’s hand.Let it all flow.

Because now is the time to make peace with those thatare gone and come back tothe present. Remember that it feels wrong. And remember that lives lived happyare as good as those lived long.

--Keegan Pearson

MONEY TROUBLES

ALESSANDRO TERSIGINI

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no ability to borrow to come to Quest, we are trying to do the best we can with what we can see and what people are providing us,” says Savjord.

However, some students feel extremely mistrusted. “What I understood from emails from Quest was that because my fi-nancial statement contradicts my ability to go on this trip, Quest thinks I am lying,” says one stu-dent who asked to remain anon-ymous.

Fourth year student Sar-ah Brenne explained via letter that she is also unsettled by the way Quest approached this issue. “When Darcy announced that he was taking a class to the Ancient World, I knew I had no option but to go. So I started working throughout the school year off campus so I could pay for this op-portunity,” says Brenne. “I chose Quest because I understood it was a place that encouraged study abroad; instead we were given this disincentive.”

Both Helfand and Sav-

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Students at the candlelight vigil for Daniel Rezmer Friday night. Photo courtesy of Kendrick Dettmers

Students feel bursary reduction is discouraging learning off campus; administration looks to help all students in need

jord urge all students to attend a follow up discussion in mid Octo-ber, and are open to student col-laboration on designing a revised bursary program.

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NEW BEGINNINGSCULTURE

A fast growing community leads to changes in Orientation and Cornerstone

CALEAH DEAN &VALERIA VERGANI In September, 2013 Quest University Canada saw the arrival of its biggest incoming class yet. At a larger university, 230 incoming students would have melded into the student

body with ease, but at Quest their induction meant rethinking their integration process into the com-munity and block system.

The first important change to the Orientation experience in 2013 was the introduction of sum-mer webinars that would substi-

tute some of the on-campus work-shops from pre-vious years. This gave students and parents a chance to ask questions and feel more pre-pared before their arrival in Septem-ber.

“One of the oth-er objectives here was to have stu-dents see our fac-es”, Melanie Koen-derman, Dean of Students, told me. “They would hear me and Krista talking about in-ternational affairs and Steve talking

about financial aid and they would start to put faces to names [...]. We wanted people to feel like this was home.”

Cornerstone changed drastically too this year, with a brand new theme: “What is knowledge?” replacing the previous theme of “Humans and Nature.”

According to Chief Academic Officer Ryan Derby-Talbot, “De-signing and teaching the Corner-stone course is one of the health-iest things we do as tutors. The course forces us out of our partic-ular corners of academic exper-tise, and returns us to the simple foundations of learning and in-quiry that lie at the roots of our passions in the first place.”

A special committee worked on redesigning Cornerstone for the past two years. A new theme was voted on, and faculty from diverse disciplines came together to de-sign the new syllabus.

One of the biggest changes to the class is the inclusion of Field Ex-

ercises, an activity that requires students in different Cornerstone classes to team up and answer questions given to them by a tutor other than their own. This exer-cise helped students connect with the forest surrounding the cam-pus and gave them the opportu-nity to practice presentations by reporting their findings to their classes.

Poema Kazaki and Martina Ziza, two international students said, “We like Cornerstone a lot, espe-cially all of the readings because they really fit together to make us think about knowledge.”

Nonetheless, according to Der-by-Talbot, “It may take a few years to get a solid feel for what works best for the course and the top-ic”. Humanities tutor Darcy Otto, newly deemed Cornerstone Co-ordinator, agreed that, “Everyone understands that the new theme is something of an experiment.”

Adventure Pursuits was also par-tially changed this year. Instead of spending two whole days with Toran Savjord, Vice President and Director of Recreation and Athletics, all Cornerstone classes participated in the same day of activities on campus during the first week of class and a second off campus day later on. The first day’s activities were coordinated by Savjord, Student Affairs, and Q-reps. According to Eva Schip-per, a Student Affairs employee and second year student, this new setup limited the time during which the students in each Cor-nerstone class could bond with Savjord and among themselves.

Ah, the unpaid intern-ship. For many students of our generation, it is the first stepping stone to a professional career, par-ticularly in the creative industries. Unpaid internships are a rite of passage, an entrance into a previ-ously untouchable world. But are they worth it?

The short answer is no. The long answer is hell no.

There are so many problems with the current system of unpaid in-ternships that it can be hard to know where to begin. So let’s start at the start – with the very defini-tion of what an intern is.

In British Columbia, an intern-ship is defined by the Employment Standards Act as: “on-the-job training offered by an employer to provide a person with practical experience.” It goes on to say that “If the duties performed by in-terns fall within the definition of “work” contained in the Act, the intern falls within the definition of “employee.” In other words, if an intern does anything that could be considered “the labour or services an employee performs for an em-ployer whether in the employee’s

residence or elsewhere,” then they should be paid.

BC is one of the few provinces in Canada that actually has any laws that dictate internships, but the province’s definition is so vague that it leaves a loophole for rogue employers to exploit students. Em-ployers either ignore the law out-right or students are left to work the most mundane of tasks, often fetching coffee or taking out trash instead of actually building practi-cal skills as they are not allowed to do “work” without pay.

This situation is made worse by the catch-22 of “necessary experience” for entry-level jobs that prevent first-time job seekers from work-ing in seemingly accessible posi-tions, simply because they have not had the training. Employers rarely train potential workers for long enough to fulfil these require-ments, so these job-seekers have to take unpaid internships or get left out of the job market.

Though Statistics Canada does not track the number of unpaid intern-ships offered across the country, labour groups estimate that there are 100-300,000 people working them across Canada. That’s up to

DOWN WITH UNPAID INTERNSHIPSHundreds of thousands of Canadian students are being exploited, and it needs to stop.

TARI AJADI mountains of student debt. Ac-cording to a BMO student survey, BC students expect to graduate with $35,000 on average. What’s worse is that many universities, in-cluding our own, demand we work in order to complete our degree – in essence, we’re paying the school to work for no money. Granted, we have some safeguards in our expe-riential learning model, but they are by no means fail-safe.

Such a system doesn’t benefit em-ployers either. They end up with a group of under-trained students who have not, if they have fol-lowed the law, ever done work that directly profits a business. Those students have little idea of what it means to integrate themselves into an organization or strike out on their own in an entrepreneurial role.

To put it bluntly, this system is ter-rible. However, there seems to be change afoot. Interns in the US, in-cluding some of those who worked on the movie Black Swan, have been suing their employers for their owed wages. They have real-ized that they have rights; that they deserve to be paid for the hours of hard work that they put into their internships.

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300,000 people in this country doing an honest day’s work for no pay.

An example of how warped the system has become is the unpaid bus person internship recently of-fered at the Fairmont Vancouver. Not only is the very idea of an un-paid internship in clearing tables absurd, but the students who are enrolled aren’t even allowed to do the job!

The consequences of this system can be tragic, as CBC’s GO Public showed earlier in September with their report into Alberta student Andy Ferguson’s death. Ferguson, a 22-year-old studying radio, TV and film, crashed into a gravel truck after working 16 out of 24 hours in a day at one of his two un-paid internships.

In a similarly tragic incident, earli-er this summer, a Bank of America intern was found dead in the show-er after having seizures caused by staying awake for 3 days straight.

Beyond horror stories of unscru-pulous employers and fatalities lies the question of accessibility – most students cannot afford to work for free when they already have

Universities are working to amend their practises too. Many of the larger ones across Canada are ex-panding co-op options in the hu-manities and arts as well as in the sciences and engineering.

Still, not much can be done with-out a unified effort towards over-hauling the status-quo. StatsCan needs to start tracking unpaid in-ternships, and there needs to be a concerted effort by the federal government to create safeguards which deter predatory employers from taking advantage of students.

More than anything else, students need to know their rights. We need to be able to call out unsuitable practises as soon as they occur, and be willing to enact every edict of the law if necessary to defend themselves. We cannot wait to be saved by those who are taking ad-vantage of us.

OPINION

Cornerstone students at adventure pursuitsPhoto courtesy of Kendrick Dettmers

At the age of 14 Priscilla visited Whistler for the first time, a year later she had convinced her mom to sell their house in Quebec and she officially moved “home” for the first time. Finish-ing school through correspon-dence at the age of 16, she met the “Godfather of Snowboarding” Martin Gallant who apprenticed her in the lifestyle. Snowboard-ing, similar to many adrenaline based sports is truly a person-al pursuit. The feeling of find-ing your “flow” is addictive, it is similar to the ‘one shot’ in golf that keeps you coming back; it is unfiltered satisfaction, it is expe-riencing the heightened version of yourself, but it is also a rarely sustainable addiction. After over a decade in the industry Priscilla had “…done more than [she] ever dreamed, but it wasn’t enough.”

During an injury rehabilitation Priscilla came across a book called “12 Steps to Raw Food” and started filling a hunger that snowboarding couldn’t. The principle behind raw food diets is that enzymes and vitamins are lost through the cooking process (especially high temperatures). Priscilla recalls the first three weeks of her first raw food diet as a transformation, seeing new col-or in her skin and iris’, while cre-ating a mental and spiritual health through awareness.

Emphasizing the dif-

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GETTING OFFMABEL VAUTRAVERS & CALEAH DEAN

HIKES AROUND CAMPUS

ACADEMICS

Need to get away from campus? Try one of these hikes.ANDERS HORNOR

Whether by preference, curiosity or pre-disposed genet-ics, it is difficult to find food alter-natives (especially those of a deli-cious nature) within the cafeteria’s compound. Luckily for Quest, there is a new chef in town and she is a building another reputa-tion for being the best. Priscilla Levac is Quest’s new gluten-free/vegan/raw food chef. You have probably only seen her back turned to you as she works to refill the food bar in the atrium which usually sells out halfway through lunch. Before Priscilla honed her passion and skill sets through her current craft of avocado chocolate cake expression, she was pioneer-ing what was considered possible within the realm of professional female snowboarding.

Priscilla’s bag of tricks is as deep as her accomplishments within the industry: In 2004 she won the US Open and was named female snowboarder of the year. In 2008 she was the first female to get a cover shot with Snowboard Canada, entered the industry as an entrepreneur: designing and running her own brand of female base layers called Cillia. By the end of her career she’d filmed full parts with Kingpin Productions, Mischief and Standard Films, had a signature line with Ride outer-wear and was the first female to ever have a pro model binding.

ference between mind and heart instincts, Priscilla knew she had found an unselfish and proac-tive avenue to focus her energies through with aims to benefit oth-ers in a positive way. Priscilla is realistic about meat and dairy ad-dictions, pointing out that trying to save the world is often fruitless, preferring to plant her optimism locally while remaining aware of the power consumers can have on food systems.

Hikes:

“Alice Lake Loop”Difficulty: EasyDistance: 3-15km dependingDescription/directions: This gen-tle hike can be approached from many directions making it a good one to know for adventurers of all skill level. For those looking for an easy stroll or jog around a beau-tiful and swimmable forest lake, take Highway 99 northbound for roughly 5 minutes and take a right onto the Alice Lake Road. If you want a longer cross coun-try stroll, leave from the Quest parking lot and take a right at the roundabout just after the bridge. Park at the end of Perth Dr. and begin hiking along the forest trail and continue on the logging road. This will add another 10-15km to your hike/run.

“Cliff Hike”Difficulty: NeutralDistance: 6kmDescription/Directions: With a few more ups and downs then the Alice lake trail, the Cliff hike will add some excitement and leg and lung workout to your repertoire. Leaving from the Atrium head to-wards the multipurpose room be-

low the caf. Take a right through the gate adjacent the MPR. Follow the gravel road for about a minute until a small unmarked trail pres-ents itself in the alders to the left. Take this trail, being careful of loose dirt, across the bike bridge at the bottom. Continue up the hill past the first fork, taking a right at the second fork, continu-ing further up the hill. The road elevates for another kilometer or so as fledgling alders fight for space, filling up the road. Follow the path until it enters the woods where it will get remarkably cool-er and the adventure will begin. The trail will follow a dryish creek bed for a while, as it winds further up the hill. Eventually the trail will turn westwards back into the creek valley. For a brief moment, after a couple biking ladders and serene forest pond, the trail will emerge in a clearing. Follow the trail up the slope where it will fork again. Stick to the right following the bike reflectors nailed to the trees as the trail snakes into the squamish valley. Take a break and enjoy the majestic view above a 60 ft cliff, marked by a very distinct “Cliff!” sign. Follow the trail back towards campus and take your first right as you emerge onto a road, recross the bike bridge and take in your last few breaths of

forest freedom.

“Waterfall Hike”Difficulty: More strenuousDistance:11kmDirections: Taking highway 99 take a left onto the Squamish Valley road. Follow the valley road for about 30 minutes un-til you pass the outflow pipe for the Daisy lake ROR power plant. Continue for another minute or so until you cross another bridge and park wherever space is avail-able. The trail head is within view of the far side of the bridge on the right. From here the hike is relatively straight-forward. The trail will work its way via some chain and rope climbs up onto a lumpy ridge. On one side will be gorgeous views of the Squamish Valley and the other a gradually elevating drop starting at about 80 ft. The trail will follow the ridge for another kilometer or two with various view points along the way until it reaches a larger viewing area that overlooks a spindling waterfall with a massive boulder wedged in the canyon above it. From here continue on the trail until it skims a clear cut. Here you can either continue on the trail for another 5-6 km up the hill or cross the clearing to a logging road. The trail will meet with the

same logging road further up the trail. Take the logging road back down into the valley, letting the awe inspiring view of the valley, river and breathtaking Tantalus Mountain Range guide you home. Stick to the left, either scrambling down a large rock field or taking a left at an intersection in the road,

until you meet back up with the Squamish Valley Road.

Vegan avocado chocolate cake, photo courtesy of Joy the Baker

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Priscilla plans to include vegan/gluten free soups and stews to the Fall menu admitting that in Squamish, sometimes you need hot food. The hot-menu additions will be made with a thick cashew cream base. The dessert reper-toire will continue to be made of mostly nuts (cashews, almonds, walnuts, pecans) and natural sug-ars found in dates, shredded co-conut, honey and agave. Priscilla wants to continue expanding her passion from behind the count-

Sex is pretty cool. It can be a lot of different things to different people and this is something that the author’s of the Mark’s sex col-umn: “Getting Off ” are pretty in-terested in. Sex is something that is obsessed over in our culture, but is at the same time, highly ta-booed. We have come to find that the things we learned in public school health classes did not pre-pare us for our own sexual expe-riences. Sex from a textbook may work in a classroom but rarely seems to work in the bedroom. So how do we get educated? For one thing, we start talking about it. Sex doesn’t have to be something shrouded in mystery. Although it tends to be a fairly private ex-perience for most people, it’s also something that a whole lot of peo-

ple engage in. This column is not meant to be an authoritative guide to getting laid or some end-all-be-all to educating yourself. We sim-ply are looking to start more open dialogues with our peers about something that happens a lot and is spoken of less often. So here’s how it works: You send us your questions, concerns, dilemmas, hopes, fears, and feelings and we will give you facts, stories, ideas, experiences, and commiseration. In the same vein as an advice col-umn, yes, but we aren’t going to pretend to be the all-wise yoda masters of sex. We’re just thinkin’ that some of you may have some things you’d like to get off your chest about getting off.

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er into the Quest community through potential workshops and the complimenting flavor she has added to palates across campus.

RECREATION

ADVICE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013B1 || THE MARK

Each month, Conlan Mansfield will speak with a Quest tutor re-garding their interests, the start of their journey, and what drives them to keep going. This inter-view has been edited for clarity and length. For the extended ver-sion, please email email The Mark at themarknewspaper@gmail.com.

Conlan: Ryan, how did you first become interested in math? How did you get started on this jour-ney?

R: I didn’t have any particular preference for math until I was about 14. I took an ‘Algebra 2’ class in high school and I per-formed well in the class. Some-thing about Algebra made a lot of sense to me. But when the teacher wrote on the board, on the very first day of class, the words “com-plex numbers” with two branches off of it; one leading to “real num-bers”, and the other to “imaginary numbers”...when he wrote the latter, for the life of me I couldn’t understand it. When it came out

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that an imaginary number was the negative of a root, it was like, “well why would you ever do any-thing like that, and what value does it have? That’s what really started me on my journey.

C: Of course, this raises the ques-tion: just what exactly is mathe-matics?

R: I have been wrestling with that question on a pretty deep level, and especially since coming to Quest. What’s interesting about my previous experience – and what I notice about a lot of peo-

ple trained in math – is that we all learn how to do math: the ac-tivities, how to carry them out, to solve problems, and to conduct research, but not to examine what it is. If I were to say ‘what is math’: math is a set of articulations that

human beings have created to or-ganize and account for observa-tions of patterns involving num-ber and shape; an interface of the activity of human beings articu-lating ideas against patterns that are ‘lurking’ in shape and number. The way that one can look and see how those patterns all relate con-sistently is what math is.

CONLAN MANSFIELD C: On that note, Ryan, could you comment on the relationship be-tween math and creativity?

R: It’s so funny – math gives the illusion of being somewhat robot-ic because it is a set of rules, the same way that you would equip a robot with a set of rules. Most people think that math is the application of rules – Algebra is an accounting structure, for in-stance. I’m not an accountant, that’s not what I like to do. What I am is a ‘pattern hunter’ – Alge-bra gives me an effective notation and an accounting system to keep a very clear track of the path that I make as I go ‘hunting through the jungle’, so to speak. But that hunting – the direction that I take while in the jungle, whether I go ‘left’ or ‘right – that comes down to a kind of intuitive, gut feeling. It’s fascinating watching mathe-maticians work, because they are different as a person can get in their mathematical process. In the end, people often think of math as constricting – as though there’s one way to solve a problem, and that’s the way that the teacher has shown you to solve the quadratic

formula or whichever. Really, if you have a good problem, there is plenty of ‘mess’ in there, and play-ing in this mess is what develops the intuition that allows more of those ideas to stick together in-side that thought chamber.

C: Ryan, what would your Ques-tion be, and why you would choose that Question?

R: I think that if I really get to the bottom of what motivates me, it’s a yearning for a sense of beauty - a way of seeing how ideas rest together. It’s that kind of beauty – when I can see how things relate to one another – that motivates me. The Question I articulated for myself was, “what is the rela-tionship between beauty and pat-tern?” - beauty being the aesthet-ic drive, and pattern being how things fit together. After being at Quest for a year, I added some-thing to that, because I recog-nized that what I was really inter-ested in was the human interface between beauty and pattern; so, “what is the relationship between beauty and pattern, and how do we articulate such things?”. That’s my Question.

Girl Powerstrong mid-field play would suc-cumb to a nasty ankle injury early in Saturday’s game; sidelining her

for the rest of the weekend’s ac-tion. Batchelor’s injury served as a rallying cry for the already de-pleted Kermodes, who currently

have a number of injured players sitting out. Fourth year veteran Gellie An-

nabelle admits that the injuries have been frustrating but have also united the team. Previously unheralded players are now be-ing given opportunities to shine.

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Luckily for the Kermodes, former reserves are now confidently step-ping into these starring roles. Never was this more on display than during Saturday’s contest in which Daniella Smith—the re-placement for Batchelor—came on to score a timely equalizer for the ladies. It was an emotionally charged moment that energized, revitalized, and propelled the wounded squad to its eventual 3-2 victory after another Tarleton goal early in the second half. It is unsung heroes like Smith that have become the norm early on in the season for this Kermode team. Goalkeeper Tiana GilChrist remarks that Kyle Kirkegaard and Kelly McQuade—in particular—have stepped up and provided a solid defensive back-line for the squad. “It’s great knowing that we

can call on any of the girls on our roster and they’ll be ready to con-tribute and compete. That’s all you can ask for.” Ultimately, the depth of this Kermode squad might be what separates them from the rest of the PACWEST competition. “We honestly believe we can win with anyone on our roster playing, not just the (original) starters. We have depth,” Gilchrist continued. After capturing the first medal in Quest history last season with a third place finish at the provincial championships, the Kermodes are hoping to take the next step and capture its first PACWEST title. With this tough minded group, that might just become a reality come October when the provin-cial championships roll around.has developed, that might just become a reality come October when the provincial champion-ships roll around.

Ryan Derby-Talbot, photo courtesy of questu.ca

Battered and bruised, drained and exhausted, the Quest Kermodes women’s varsity soccer team still managed to kick their way to two hard fought victories in the opening games of Pacif-ic Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) league play. Saturday’s match-up (Sept. 7) pitted the Kermodes against the Douglas College Royals while Sunday (Sept. 8) saw the Kermod-es take on the Kwantlen Eagles. In Saturday’s afternoon affair, lead striker Mari Tarleton, scored what would be the game-winning goal late in the second half for a 2-1 victory over the Royals. Tan-ner Batchelor, second year outside mid-fielder, scored the team’s oth-er goal earlier in the match. It wasn’t all good news for the Kermodes though as Batchelor, a key contributor to the team’s

Women’s soccer team starts strong in opening weekend of league play despite wave of injuries.JOSE COLORADO

Daniella Smith, scores a symbolic goal for the Kermodes squad in Saturday’s match against the Kwantlen Eagles. Photo by Cassidy Osterling

Comics by Anna Piper Bradley