I've only been at UBC for two years and, in that time, I can count the number of times I've felt that the university is one big family on one hand — Homecoming 2014 and 2015 as well as Winter Classic 2015 and 2016.
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The option to enter the comp sci major directly from high school has been removed. Students wishing to enter the program must now complete a general first year in the Faculty of Science before applying to major in computer science.
Breaking free from history, but also finding her culture again, Bickersteth’s vocalizations of 20th century male classical composers from Rachmaninoff to John Cage was an allegorical re-rooting of culture.
Ron Gordesky, the student services manager, approached a student-run development company at UVic to provide software for Safewalk. While the new program has allowed Safewalk to keep up demand, the larger issue of consistently rising usage remains.
While the “divestment criteria” from the Finance Committee's report asserted that there was a proven rationale to the decision, it also said that divestment was not an effective way to achieve the desired outcome.
As a long standing tradition, January 31 marked the finale of the annual UBC Concerto Competition. After success from preliminary rounds, eight performers marked the final stage which is open to public at Barnett Hall, UBC School of Music.
The protest was organized by a grassroots group of faculty "who have had enough of the kind of bad governance that goes on at this university," said Mark Mac Lean, president of the faculty association and also the first to speak to the crowd.
This past weekend, UBC’s annual Faculty Cup concluded with Forestry beating out the 13 other faculties to take the top spot. Nevertheless, the combined efforts of all the faculties made for riveting tournament.
Teams from the University of Idaho and the University of Montana attended the event hosted by UBC’s Forestry Undergraduate Society Thunderjacks with the intention of honouring the strong history of lumberjacks and jills here in British Columbia.
Alzheimer’s disease initiatives are starting to come to UBC campus with a student-organized initiative, All Against Alzheimer’s. The initiative was started in early September and a team has been working on it since to bring the club to life.
Living up to their reputation as the best eSports team in North America, UBC’s League of Legends team swept their SFU counterparts on Saturday, winning with gold advantages and superior success in securing kills.
UBC’s Office of Information and Privacy has consistently exceeded the legal time limits for fulfilling requests related to the Institute and, at times, requested extravagant fees for requests. UBC must be held accountable for its veil of secrecy.
A night at the opera often involves tragedy, death, politics or a combination of all three. Strauss’ operetta, A Night in Venice, couldn’t be further removed from this image. An operetta — the precursor to the musical — is almost always a comedy.
All of UBC and UBC Okanagan's academic and non-academic discipline reports from 1996-2014 are available online for your perusal. They range from your standard forged medical note to elaborate, ostentatious and sometimes horrifically stupid ideas.
This past Saturday, the UBC Thunderbirds defended their perfect record as they faced off against Capilano RFC tallying yet another win. UBC scored early as Brock Staller was able to capitalize on two penalty kicks giving the 'Birds an early 6-0 lead.