Circus Safety The Underground Circus says certifications do not always Karate Kid Yushi Nakajima defends his title at the world championship Off Key Improv New players and liquor licensing ww to join Off Key Musical Improv ie reflect experience. P7 starting Mar. 9. P8 troupe. langaravoice.ca E MARCH 8, 2018 South Asian . fashion catches © eyes on catwalk P7 As \ HM mS Model for Zuri Designs at South Asian Fashion Week at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver, Coquitlam. PHOTO BY DESIREE GARCIA Temple fights dispensary Sikh temple asks police to halt opening of nearby pot store By CLOE LOGAN aes. hc A 2 east es” = y ‘ number of people that come to the temple’s free meal programs while under the influence of drugs — compound these issues,” Beesla said. “These types of shops shouldnt be Beesla took his concerns to the Van- open in community neighbourhoods. Sikh temple and a couver Police Board on Feb. 15, but says ‘The A says smoking [mari- dance studio are an act that is strictly no action was taken by city officials. juana] isn't allowed in public places. Why complaining about / forbidden by temple Jatinder Randhawa works at the Van- _are they putting it right in the middle of ispensaries in the | & protocol. couver bhangra a neighbourhood?” area because they fear they will “We serve citizens school Shan-E- a The se type S of Randhawa said. attract intoxicated people to from multiple back- Punjab Arts Club Rielle — Capler, the temple and the smell of grounds. As long as on Main St. and shops shouldn't be UBC cannabis marijuana will stop parents citizens respect the 51st Avenue. The . . and drug policy from bringing their chil- grounds, they are school is next open in community researcher, said it dren to the studio. welcome to a free door to a dispen- * " is important not The Khalsa Diwan meal,” he said. sary called Weeds, neighbourhoods. to judge all dis- Society Vancouver Sikh Beesla said he which has been — JATINDER RANDHAWA, STUDIO STAFF pensaries because temple, located on worries problems —_ open for two years. of the ones that the corner of Marine the temple has had Randhawa said he has respect for the _ are less considerate. Capler said it is es- sential dispensaries work together with communities to establish strong re- lationships. “Dispensaries have been shown to reduce crime in neighbourhoods,” Capler said. Drive and Ross Street, ¥, is 150 metres from the location of a future dispensary. Pall Singh Beesla, outreach coordi- nator and treasurer of the temple, said he fears a dispensary could increase the | with visitors refusing yt o follow their sober re- \J quire- ment will increase once there is a dispensary close by. “Having a dispensary distributing narcotics in close proximity, we fear will dispensary’s business, but does not think his neighbourhood is the right place for it. Randhawa said the smell of marijuana comes into the studio, and that parents are skeptical about bringing their chil- dren because it is next to a dispensary. * VOL. 49 NO. 12 > VANCOUVER, B.C. Free the books Open Educa- tional Resources Save money By CAMERON THOMSON tudents are upset with curricu- Si requirements that cost them hundreds of dollars in textbook purchases each semester, when only a small section of the books are used in class. Julian Prior, educational technology advisor at Langara College, said these concerns top the list of criticisms he hears from students. "From the interviews we have had with students, that is probably the most common complaint, that their instructors are making them buy a $200 textbook and just using one or two chapters from it,” Prior said. Open Langara, a committee formed in 2017, brings together rep- resentatives from all over campus to find ways to deliver free, open educa- tion resources (OER) to Langara in- structors — an alternative to traditional textbook purchases. In the last year, 15 instructors have adopted 57 OER's, saving their stu- dents more than $300,000 in ex- penses. Physics, math, statistics and business have Julian Prior the highest rates £p-TECH LANGARA of adoption so far. DEPARTMENT This spring, the Marketing 1200 required text- book costs $150 while the Kine- siology 1103 textbook goes for $120, and neither offered an open source resource option. Mark Abrams, director of an- cillary services at Langara, said one of the challenges of making more OERs available is the cost required to make them. “While there are various govern- ment programs and foundations that provide funding to develop open source materials... more avenues to pay for the development of these ma- terials is still needed,” Abrams said in an email to The Voice. Langara student Lara Griner used an OER last semester for her market- ing management course. "I thought it was great, I think the main point is that it was free. Compared to the ex- pensive textbooks that we have here, so it was good - no money whatso- ever, Griner said.