The other inspiration behind the book is the organization, Pencils of Promise. Sotas read Adam Braun’s book about the organization, his mission and his experiences. Through this, she found the courage and confidence to share her work.
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Yesterday, a number of files that were meant to be excluded from the 861 page document pertaining to Gupta's surprise resignation last August went public. The error appeared to be simply in how the files were uploaded.
“Information that has come out from freedom of information requests, as well as Wednesday’s leak of documents, has justified our concern that the Board of Governors had acted via secret, in camera processes,” the Faculty Association (FA).
I know, I know — enough of the football coverage. The season's over and you're still talking about them, seriously? Yes, seriously. Someone made a football pump up video from footage of this season's Vanier Cup winning run and it's spectacular.
With David Harding on viola, Dale Barltrop and David Gillham on violin, and Ariel Barnes on cello, this first class collaboration between UBC and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra promises a rare, world-renowned show.
The Vancouver Art Gallery on Hornby Street has long hosted numerous intriguing exhibits from paintings to sculptures. Tuesday evenings are by donation entry until 9 p.m., so why not take advantage of the exhibitions?
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.
As far as I’m concerned, the Western Hemisphere should create our own language just to stick it to the Old World. I say this not only on behalf of Americans in Canada, but Canadians in America, Brazilians in Mexico, Chileans in Québec and so on.
“What was published is a one-sided representation of what transpired in the months prior to my resignation,” reads the emailed statement. “The assertions in the released documents were not based on facts or evidence given to me at any time.”
The timeline that led up to former President Arvind Gupta’s surprise resignation last August is becoming clearer, largely thanks to documents accidentally leaked by UBC and discovered by Reddit users late last night.
The UBC Winter Classic is back at Doug Mitchell Arena on Friday and although we won’t be seeing the Montréal Canadiens steamroll past the Boston Bruins outdoors in front of a sold out Gillette Stadium, there is a lot to look forward to.
Of course, life hacks are popular by their very nature — they offer an easy, seemingly painless version of reality in which the rest of your lifestyle doesn’t have to change to accommodate whatever self-improvement you’ve just vowed to commit to.
Last week marked the culmination of the Lenses of Sustainability dialogue series, a three-part student-led series focused around providing spaces to have open conversations about pressing sustainability issues.
Reddit has cracked the case about why former President Arvind Gupta resigned, discovering a number of documents in the release package that contain no redactions unlike its heavily blacked out counterpoint.
“There is a wandering in the wilderness phase of career development. To many students … this wandering feels like, ‘This means I got the wrong degree and that I’m not employable.’ But it’s not aimless wandering — It’s purposeful wandering.”