Reasons cited on her blog post announcing her decision include a belief that the committee is not willing to “hear the concerns of faculty and learn from mistakes of the recent past to improve the future of UBC.”
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In an edition of 5-on-5 published for Valentine’s Day, one of the athletes participating on behalf of the men’s rowing team mentioned his crush on Olympic athlete and ’Bird Elizabeth Gleadle. As of March, the couple have been together for 11 months.
After a split against Corban University, the Thunderbirds baseball team completed the weekend series against the NAIA’s top-ranked Lewis-Clarke State Warriors with a win and two loses. UBC handed Lewis-Clark their biggest loss since 2013 on Friday.
The playoffs are winding down for the ’Birds, but one T-Bird team is still left standing. Women's volleyball finished fourth at the CIS tournament and men's basketball is prepared to host the CIS Final 8 tournament by claiming bronze in Canada West.
Defeat Depression is a Canadian fundraising campaign that encourages discussion and raises awareness around depression and other mood disorders. They hold runs, walks and other physical activities throughout Canada.
The reasons for shutting down the program were not disclosed in Moroney’s statement. Tutors believe that it is due to financial issues facing the centre, but this has not been confirmed by the university administration.
“Aside from the occasional emotional meltdown, I’m having a really good time. I’m learning about all the fun positions out there and all the ways that you can hate somebody. I never knew it was so dynamic, so multifaceted. No one’s ever happy.”
And although Dal isn’t around, his legacy of musical brilliance will be kept alive when the Dal Richards Orchestra — which for so long has had a love affair with the UBC Opera Ensemble — joins UBC at the ball once again this year.
Six UBC students plan to screen “Highway of Tears,” a documentary that brings up the issue of more than 520 missing and stolen Indigenous women in Northern BC. The documentary screening will be followed by panel discussion with guest speakers.
It’s March again and UBC's most iconic event is quickly approaching. What started as an intramural event in the 1970s has become a UBC tradition. The competition will be take place for the 38th time this year from March 20-23.
Cubukgil sees himself as a revolutionary and his app as a catalyst to major economic change. The development of this app arose from his own struggle with the inefficiencies of what he sees as a currently outdated market.
Despite not winning the CanWest, the ’Birds are still in the race for nationals and the team looks extremely strong. On the other side of the court will be the the Carabins, the team served the ’Birds their first quarterfinal loss in 10 years.
“It was so easy to hate Shayar for what he does, [but I wanted] to make him, in some ways, relatable and pitied. The tale is really one of redemption for him and it’s about [the] ingenuity and love that Scheherezade brings into his life."
My question is this: what is hate speech as visual imagery doing on a university campus? What right did the anti-abortion group who made these signs have to impose upon every viewer, every student, an active anti-Semitic and racist message?
For example, there was a whole song and dance about if a character was Gay or European. Labels like this are a bit tongue-in-cheek to blatantly it point out, but the fact that is that it is simultaneously hilarious and uncomfortable for the audience.