Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a common measure of whether a person is psychologically whole. UBC has long been waging war against students’ psychological requirements and it has finally begun its final barrage on the smoking remains of the student psyche.
On October 17, UBC hosted an event at the Vancouver Playhouse featuring Talaga, who delivered a powerful and moving talk titled Covering the Apocalypse: What it is like being an Indigenous journalist in Canada, about her experience as an Indigenous journalist in a country with a violent colonial past and present.
Would you believe me if I told you that I had experienced spiritual wonders — spellwork, divination, the casting and removal of curses? What if I told you that I gained insight into past lives and karmic tolls, and that it all happened in the living room of my grandfather’s house?
Holy Spider (directed by Ali Abbasi) follows Rahimi, a journalist covering the news of a serial murderer named Saeed, labelled “The Spider Killer,” who targets sex workers.
One of my clearest memories associated with Carly Rae Jepsen’s music is when “Stay Away” started playing on my first boyfriend’s car radio when we kissed for the first time.
The AGM is held to inform students of important updates from the AMS. Unlike AMS Council or committee meetings, the AGM gives students the ability to provide direct input on things they care about.
The AMS unearthed a 1972 time capsule and put a new one in its place celebrating the Great Trek this Friday. The event took place at the Great Trek Cairn on Main Mall and included speeches from notable former AMS executives on the importance of student activism.
UBC computational linguistics students are streamlining the process of detecting landslides for NASA.
Walking through campus on Saturday, you could feel the excitement and comradery emanating from the 2,700 runners that took part in the annual Great Trek half-marathon, 10K and 5K road races.
This one-time funding reduces the financial gap between last year's and this year’s budget allocation to food security, which cut UBC funding to the AMS Food Bank in half.
Last night, a short AMS Council meeting touched on the AMS's Annual General Meeting (AGM) updates and student advocacy plans.
A fund from the provincial government awarded over $560,000 to mental health researchers at UBC.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of cheaply made costumes are churned out by the fast fashion industry, worn once by consumers, and then thrown away.
In a game that contained enough drama to last an entire season, the UBC Thunderbirds (4–3) were able to shock the previously undefeated University of Saskatchewan Huskies (6–1) in a high-scoring, back-and-forth thriller, taking home a season-defining win by a score of 35–29.
On my first day back on campus, I got off the R4 and walked carelessly north towards the shining Buchanan headlights that guided me home when I stopped dead in my tracks. This is not where my class is today. I gulped, fear seeping into every pore. Was I supposed to go to… the other side of campus?