Shib issue: (Y T-and-A the old-fashioned way! (Y Fast fashion social problems: BOGO event on now And more! ls airbrushing hiding too much of the real story? The status of breweries on campus » Brewing program launches at Kwantlen, student-run brewery a no-go at UBC Laura Rodgers, (CUP BC Bureau Chief) t Kwantlen Polytechnic University, students hoping to learn the art of brewing beer can hop to it with a new two- year diploma program. They'll get to learn brewing techniques, science, and business skills to help them barrel into the beer industry. While craft brewing has been booming across Canada any formal programs to teach would-be brewers the ropes. The first such program opened at Niagara College in Niagara- on-the-Lake, Ontario in 2005, and in 2013 they partnered with Olds College to offer the program elsewhere in Canada. aficionados often learned the trade through home brewing clubs and other informal avenues. Others have gone abroad to the countries like the have existed for some time. Rather than tending to : carboys in their bathtubs, : Kwantlen brewing students will get to use a newly constructed : brewing lab at the school’s : Langley campus. They'll also get : work placements at local craft breweries in summer. There are 35 spaces in : the program, which starts in ; September. But as this one door for : fledgling BC brewers opens, : another is closing. At UBC, : some have been angling fora f . : student-run brewery, but their or some time, there are scarcely : : hopes recently came to a halt : when a referendum to fund the project was rejected by UBC’s : Alma Mater Society (AMS)—the : school’s student union. The initial plan was to put : the brewery in the new AMS- : run SUB building, which is Outside of these programs, beer The olan wants nett crete : brewery to be sold at the pub : and restaurant inside the SUB, : too. But student society finances : : have been tight in recent years, : and the project was repeatedly US or Germany where programs tabled toa later point. The new SUB brewery proposal had a deadline, : though, as building the facility : would’ve required changes : to the already-in-motion : construction plans for the : building. 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 program’s strongest ; proponents have graduated : since the first proposal, and ; the AMS had been questioning : 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 : province Thompson Rivers : University is in the exploratory : phase of putting together an : educational brewery on campus with a local master brewer. Gj Facebook Files: Vaguebooking » What is it, why people do it, and how to avoid it Sophie Isbister Life & Style Editor Mlifeandstyle @theotherpress.ca RE if you don’t know what it is, you've probably seen it. That post that usually reads something like, “I just can’t believe a person would do that.” The vaguebook status can range from the short—such as a simple “ugh!’—to the long—for example, “Don’t you just hate it when certain people steal stuff from you and then act all like it was theirs to begin with? SMH.” (SMH, or “shaking my head,” is the hallmark of a serious vaguebook.) UrbanDictionary.com’s top definition for this annoying practice describes it as “An intentionally vague Facebook status update that prompts friends to ask what's going on, : or is possibly a cry for help.” : Vaguebookers put a feeling out : there, with no real information : to go with it. And depending on : your age group or the maturity : level of your social network, your : Facebook News Feed might just : be flooded with such updates— : updates that aggravate the : crotchety and inspire concern in : the caring. Vaguebooking can be : particularly annoying because it : piques your curiosity, sometimes : making you feel like an invasive : jerk for wanting to know more. : You also don’t necessarily want to : : get involved with someone who : isa 100 per cent drama shitshow, : as vaguebookers tend to be. : But sometimes the lure of a : successful vaguebook is enough : to send even the most stoic of : friends to Facebook Messenger : to send a well-meaning, “Hey, : what’s going on?” Nobody should be : faulted for caring about their : friends, but that’s exactly what : vaguebooking does: it makes : you care, just to be let down if : the drama is boring, or worse, if : the vaguebooker continues to be : vague when prodded for details. : If your situation looks like the : latter case, then it could be that : the vaguebooker is truly just an : attention seeker; either that, : or they don’t feel comfortable : talking to you. This is why I : propose two rules when deciding : to engage with a vaguebooker. 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Facebook is all about : social voyeurism, and passive : aggressively vague status : updates illustrate this aspect : of social media perfectly. : Vaguebookers are putting : themselves out there, and : seeking validation: it’s up to you : to decide whether you want to : hide their updates altogether, : lurk silently, or engage with the : culprit, thus enabling them : further. Nobody should be faulted for caring about their friends, but that’s exactly what vaguebooking does: it makes you care, just to be let down if the drama is boring, or worse, if the vaguebooker continues to be vague when prodded for details.