L ifestyles EDITOR EDMOND LU JES HOVANES photo Visual artists produced fluorescent paintings during the “Light Up” party held by the Langara Social Club at Fortune Sound Club. LSC lights up student culture The club’s first event of the year brings Langara students together The Voice is also online! SCAN THIS QR CODE to find this story online, including exclusive media content, like photos and video from the Langara Social Club's “Light Up” party. Orvisit http,//langaravoice.ca/ By JES HOVANES ver 100 people showed up at For- tune Sound Club on Oct. 11 for the Langara Social Club’s first event of the school year: a hip hop dance party dubbed “Light Up.” Founded in 2012 by students who saw a need for more opportunities for student involvement, the Langara So- cial Club organizes events designed to bring students together both on and off campus. Event organizer Eyren Uggenti said the club has grown continuously since its start and that there is a growing awareness of the club on campus. “We have consistently had between 30 and 40 people at our weekly meet- ings,” Uggenti said. “We have seen a lot of traction with new students.” The Saturday event included a line up of four rap artists and a DJ who gave energetic performances during the early slot of the night. All audience members were able to stay on for the club’s regular Saturday party after the event. The light-up theme infused all aspects of the night with black lighting, complimentary glow sticks and flu- orescent face painting. Visual artists were in at- tendance creating glow-in-the-dark paintings over the course of the eve- ning. Langara student Alex Zang brought friends to the event from Douglas Col- lege and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He believes that the so- al EYREN UGGENTI President of Lan- gara Social Club cial club is succeeding “because they bring together [people] from different disciplines who would have never crossed paths otherwise.” Uggenti said this kind of cross-col- lege connection is exactly the kind of thing that the social club wants to fos- ter with its off-campus events. “We know that our students at Langara have friends that go to other institu- tions...so we open it up to the public.” Dance and music shows are not the only objective of the Langara Social Club. They also host all-ages events, fundraisers, on-campus social events, and events designed to get students in- teracting with the community in pro- ductive ways. Such as the #lunchbag event where they prepare lunches for hungry people using donated food. “We are just trying to get people to make connections while they are here,” Uggenti said. THE VOICE, THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 2014 5 Exaholics help ease breakups The brokenhearted are turning to a new website to heal their wounds By SABLEEN MINHAS the answer to everything, emotional matters like love and relationships are being dealt with in the virtual sphere as well. Everyone has that bad break up. In an age where we're being contantly in- nundated with status updates from all our social circles, it might be hard to put that ex out of mind. Social media might be working against you, but others do like to deal with their personal problems virtually. Apart from the how-to blog posts and videos, online support groups like exaholics.com are also helping some people to deal with their relationship distress. The site was created by Dr. Lisa Bob- by, a Denver-based therapist and pro- vides an anonymous 12-step recovery program to help people overcome their past relationships. “The fact that they can come here and share their innermost feelings of heartbreak without advertising the depth of their pain to family, friends, and others in their community is very appealing,” said an exaholics.com rep- resentative in an email. Turning to the Internet to cure a bro- ken heart may seem convenient but it has its share of downsides. Watching You- Tube videos about getting over your ex or following them on Facebook makes it hard to actually move on, said Ariel Stee, a health sciences [: a world where “just Google it” is ARIEL STEE student at Langa- Langara health fa. sciences student Virtual support may not be enough to deal with the real problem. “Receiving support from an anony- mous online resource may be all some people need to help them work through a relationship breakup or relationship difficulties,’ said Dr. Michele Bower, Langara’s interim department chair of counseling, in an email. “However, the website is not a replacement for receiv- ing support from a trained mental health professional.” Music streaming has a spotty record with students Spotify, the most well- Streaming music known music streaming site in the world isn’t very popular among students We asked Langara stu- By LENA ALSAYEGH Pe EMILY LINES S= isa digital musie streaming dents whether MEGHAN LYNCH RAFID SYED service that has been the leader 0 Langara student Langara student Langara student the industry, but only just the Y wo ul d use “I “at buy my ] ally love sn better version launched in Canada on Sept. 30. 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