In previous years, the questions the AMS survey had been using created data that was difficult to interpret not only for the AMS executive office, but also for student associations.
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Broca's mosaics are far more contemporary than the traditional roman style. "Doing mosaics, it seems to me, is taking a fragmented world and putting those fragments together to make the world whole," she said. "In that sense it is very contemporary."
Shortly after being released in early September after nearly 438 days in Egyptian prison, the former Al Jazeera English television producer arrived at UBC to take a term-long teaching position.
The university is lobbying the provincial government to remove the cap on domestic tuition, implemented in 2005, that prohibits domestic tuition increases of more than 2%.
Researchers at the Samuels Lab at UBC have engineered “inside-out” plants which produce cellulose on their surface.
It was a face-off against two bitter rivals at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Arena on Saturday afternoon. Following a 2-1 win on Friday night the women's hockey team was looking to extend their winning streak, but were stopped short by the Manitoba Bisons in a crushing 4-1 loss.
Brett on the other hand, explored our relationships with the "other" by detailing his 25 year-relationship with his pet bird Tuco, who was the main inspiration for the book. His work examines what it means to be ‘othered’, to become something different from what people would associate as ‘normal’ and is linked to his traumatic experience of being bullied for his androgyny.
In Belonging, a Q&A event part of the Vancouver Writers Fest, all four writers personally attested to experiencing being “othered” throughout their lives. Whether through excerpts from their memoirs or discussing feelings on the spot, they also focused on how their personal turmoil translated into their literature.
Having a good costume is scary. Having no costume is way scarier. Between the new season of American Horror Stories and midterms, it's certainly no surprise that Halloween can creep up on you.
It was jarring but stuck to the theme of DYSTOPIA in a sense that it was not what it seemed. Generally, books are to be read and this practice rendered of using black marker rendered reading meaningless. This piece was unnamed but it was one of the strongest of them all.
After finishing the UBC Invitational tournament with two wins and a loss, UBC men’s basketball dropped 92-89 to the Seattle Mountaineers.
After picking up two wins on the road against Calgary and Lethbridge last week, UBC women’s soccer finished the regular season at home with a win against the UFV Cascade and a tie against the Trinity Western Spartans.
The team recorded a lopsided 4-0 victory against Trinity Western on Friday before settling for a 1-1 draw against Fraser Valley on Saturday and finish their season with an undefeated 10-0-2 record.
In an incredibly tight home opener on Friday, the men’s volleyball team was defeated by the Manitoba Bisons, 3 sets to 2.
When the donation came through, UBC Development processed the money as part of their grant to the Nest building. The AMS has contested this, believing that the donation should instead be transferred to the AMS, so that it can be credited towards the students’ contribution to the building.