Douglas students to rally in Victory Square: U-Pass Bash Students to support the OnePassNow Campaign October 21 By Kristina Mameli, News Editor % n Wednesday October 21, the Douglas Oi Union is encouraging students to trek to Victory Square for a friendly rally in support of the OnePassNow campaign. The DSU, in conjunction with UBC’s Alma Mater Society and both Vancouver Community College and Emily Carr’s student unions, has been working on the campaign which is urging the Premier to make good on his election promise to institute a universal U-Pass for all Metro Vancouver students. The DSU has arranged for shuttle busses to bring students to and from the event. The busses will be leaving Douglas’ New Westminster campus from 7" Street at 11:30 a.m. for the rally which starts at noon. The DSU has also requested that instructors give leniency to students attending the rally. The rally comes just two days before the Mayor’s Council votes on a 10-year TransLink Plan—a move that could drastically affect the OnePassNow campaign’s efforts to gain a single $25 per month U-Pass for Vancouver students. Bane erareeaae forts oe re rs pees pane te aan Organizers hope that student support at the rally will send a strong message to both Premier Gordon Campbell and the Mayor’s Council. Hot pink has become the campaign’s colour of choice and student supporters are encouraged to wear the colour as a show of solidarity. Olympic medals unveiled The medals hold a series of Olympic firsts By Kristina Mameli, News Editor he official Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic medals were revealed Thursday in Vancouver. The medals, which feature orca and raven designs representing both the Olympics and Paralympics respectively, also hold a series of firsts in Olympic history. Each medal is unique, part of a larger whole designed by Corrine Hunt, a Vancouver designer and artist of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage. With the medals, each Olympian will receive a silk scarf with the full image printed on it so they can see where their medal fits in with the medals of other athletes. The orca is representative of a strong creature that lives in a community, or pod. Hunt views the Olympics as a type of community. The raven, the symbol of the Paralympics, represents being able to rise above and persevere in the face of adversity and is in honour of Hunt’s paraplegic uncle. Intended to represent the landscape of the West Coast, the medals are undulated, another first. Each was hit nine times to achieve the look representative of our mountains, waves and snow, as part of a 30- step process. The Olympic medals are circular, while the Paralympic medals are a more squared circle; all weigh more than 500 grams each—the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history. 399 Paralympic and 615 Olympic of the specimens were produced. On the other side, in both official languages, are the names of the Games, the 2010 emblems and the name of the respective sport in which it will be awarded. On the Paralympic medals, “With Glowing Hearts/Des plus brillants exploits,” is written in Braille on the blue and green ribbon. wr News Shorts By Kristina Mameli Shooting in Burnaby Aman is dead following a suspected targeted shooting in Burnaby Wednesday afternoon. Police were thankful no one other than the 27-year-old man was hurt in the daylight shooting outside Dancin’ Stars Performing Arts studio and Columbia Martial Arts Academy on Edmonds Street. Multiple shots, as many as 6 according to an anonymous witness, were fired around 4:30 p.m.—a time and place that could easily have put parents and children headed for afterschool lessons in grave danger. The victim has since been identified and was known to police. His name has not been released at the time of this writing. New West becomes the new home of the Richmond Night Market Raymond Cheung, the former operator of the Richmond Night Market plans to relaunch the event in a vacant lot beside Queensborough’s Starlight Casino. The market, which originally shut down in 2007, is expected to be a carnival style family affair, and will include food, kiosks, entertainment, rides, games and free parking. Cheung is in the final stages of obtaining the right permits so the event can go ahead. $30 million spent by VANOC for post-Games Vancouver’s Olympic Committee plans to dole out as much as $30 million in bonuses in order to keep employees until after the Olympic and Paralympic Games finish in March 2010. According to VANOC’s Deputy CEO Dave Cobb, the raises were negotiated long ago and were calculated according to seniority. They are designed to keep employees from leaving during the final stretch pre-Games. In the past, other committees have lost an average of 12 employees during that time period. _ VANOC is currently operating with a $1.76 billion budget that is mostly privately funded. CEO John Furlong has said that he expects to break even at the end of the Games. Olympic-related road closures to start in November What you need to, but don’t want to, know about transportation in Vancouver 5 to March 2. According to officials, residents and workers in these areas By Kristina Mameli, News Editor on that side of False Creek as well as on 1". This list of restrictions courtesy of CBC.ca: © Quebec Street, between Terminal Street and 2nd Avenue, from January 15 to March 25. ¢ Renfrew Street, between Hastings Street and McGill Street, from January 24 to March 1. * Canada Place and Waterfront Road from etting downtown just got that much more difficult. es . 5 ‘ 4 will still have access to their homes and places of employ. VAR Sen ne ecrent Nee Granville between Smithe and Cordova, Robson between Bute and Beatty, the Hamilton/Mainland corridor between David Lam Park and Georgia, Beatty between - Smithe and Dunsmuir will all be pedestrian only areas related traffic restrictions as early as November 1. Not to worry—there are many more to follow leading up to the Games in February. The success of the plan relies on urging Vancouverites Tandy: 2740 Feb 28. © Quebec Street southbound only, between Keefer Street and Terminal Street, from January 29 to March 2. ‘ Pee . 3 between noon and midnight from February 12-28. to favour transit over driving and to avoid Olympic areas Es : : duri ak h iris dims ‘af tied wlan} 30 Transit will be the only option for those travelling to : t Le : Neat age oe ear 9 Olympic and Paralympic venues, where there will be no cent reduction in commuter traffic along major arteries. i ‘ , iuare te ghee disk adi tone lalsis cay chatiniee clined. ce public parking from February 4 to March 1. Stopping and r : ae ‘ : : ¢ Expo and Pacific Boulevards, between Nelson Street and Quebec Street, from January 29 to March 2. ° Midlothian Avenue, between Dinmont Avenue and Ontario Street, from February 1 to March ; : parking on the street will also be severely restricted during in Vancouver, that means not travelling downtown between , 7-9 d : don’t I i 7 that time frame. —9 a.m. and making sure you don’t leave between 2-7 p.m.