In 2018, 38 per cent of UBC students who reported experiencing racial discrimination at UBC in the 2017/18 academic year. Many of these students carry stories of feeling forced to defend their heritage, being singled-out by professors to speak on behalf of entire ethnicities and hearing racial slurs.
Needless to say, it’s a busy time in sports with fall teams in playoffs and winter sports up and running.
The new bylaws, to be voted on at the UBCFA Annual General Meeting (AGM) on October 30, could thus make it more difficult for unelected faculty members to propose items for consideration.
Whether or not you consider yourself politically correct, Halloween is a lot easier when we’re not being disrespectful.
U Sports’ guidance documentation hopes to provide recommendations and answers for common questions about the policy
Coren, a professor emeritus in the psychology department at UBC, has won numerous awards for his work, had his own television show called Good Dog!, written books that have topped the bestsellers lists, and currently writes the blog “Canine Corner” for Psychology Today.
The club has maintained that they denounce any violence connected to the event and do not believe it poses any harm to students.
With the 38-34 win, UBC secured themselves home field advantage for the first round of the Hardy Cup playoffs next week against Saskatchewan.
All we’re asking for is a few days to rest, catch up on sleep and, momentarily, not have to worry about the grind of classes.
Instead, after waiting the required 30 minutes before they can begin without quorum, the AMS then rushed through a huge series of reports while students helped themselves to the free food.
Alcohol can be fun when it’s utilized safely, but throwing a bit of peer pressure into the mix can make things turn sour very quickly.
I have taken the mightily important job of event planner and come up with a classic ghostly Halloween crawl including events in Vancouver that you can actually attend as well as a few that I, an aspiring Halloween party planner, wish existed.
“Indigenous” Halloween costumes are offensive to many people and we hope that our voices can inspire others to think twice about about selling, buying or wearing these costumes.
Six months after the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre’s (IRSHDC) opening, it is now finally becoming a formal university centre.
On Saturday morning, a mass shooting took place inside the Tree of Life Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh. Today, Hillel BC is hosting a vigil for all UBC community members to pay their respects to those killed.