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As students, we are taught that academic work, especially historical work, needs to be objective. After reflecting on some work by Indigenous feminist scholar Dian Million, I have learned that students tend to view anger within academic writing as reductive.
The Disability Affinity Group (DAG) says UBC did not respond to their requests to include Disabled people and experts in Disability Justice in developing the terms of reference for UBC’s Accessibility Committee.
Although the ‘Birds dropped the Battle for BC to the Canadians 8–1 in seven innings, it was a celebratory night for baseball in the province that was played in front of an adoring crowd of Thunderbird fans.
UBC creative writing professor Keith Maillard’s 2023 book, In the Defense of Liberty, is a new entry in a growing field of historical fiction that challenges the retrograde idea that Trans and genderfluid identities are something new.
When the lights dimmed, a silence settled over the crowd, all of us bound by the promise of the theatre: a place where, like the titular Woods, anything can happen if you listen, and nobody leaves unscathed.
The Admiralty Trail runs along the cliff edge with access to Acadia Beach and Spanish Banks Dog Beach. It is mostly flat with gentle curves, offering a leisurely stroll with views of Burrard Inlet and the North Shore’s mountains on one side and the forest of ferns and various trees on the other.
SWAH 101 and 102 will introduce students to the language, but also to Swahili’s broader cultural significance.
Some may search out an iced strawberry oat matcha latte from one of the abundant Starbucks locations in Vancouver, but if you’re a fan of the concept but not the execution, you might be looking for something else to fill that 16oz, caffeine-craving hole in your heart.
She won under the Remy the Rat name, but Decker said she intends to serve as president as herself.
The motion was to continue the 2022/23 base budget allocation, release $800,000 for food security initiatives and defer the 2023/24 budget.
UBC plans to expand resources for its former youth in care students following the BC government’s announcements that there will no longer be age restrictions on access to the provincial tuition waiver for former youth in care.
All members of the Ubyssey Publications Society (UPS) are eligible to attend and speak at the meeting.
Six years ago the AMS eliminated its Oversight Committee, a committee tasked with holding executives accountable. Now, AMS Council has voted to bring an oversight committee back, in a different form.
UBC needs to act in providing secure and affordable housing options to students living on campus. An exorbitant percentage price hike not only negates the security that the university owes to students paying incredibly high tuition, but also rings alarm bells. And when you add this rent hike into the mix amid a very prevalent housing crisis that has taken BC residents by storm, you don’t get a very pleasant outcome.