Riding the transit system in Vancouver is pretty simple if you follow the Golden Rule— if you'd rather someone not spill artisanal baconnaise on your shoes, maybe you should leave your weird sandwich at home.
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The days of the old register-for-one-class-and-then-withdraw-for-the U-Pass trick are gone. It's in your best interest to endure the two minutes it takes to load your Compass card online than to scour the couch cushions for change.
Summer should be the liveliest time for a university student, but the reality can be fairly lonely. If your friends leave Vancouver for the summer, your social life can be left in the cold. But it doesn't need to be like that!
Okay UBC, it’s time we had a little talk about our stairs. They are not a road in which you drive. This is the fifth incident on campus since fall 2014. To be fair, that was four accidents in two weeks — but let’s not allow history to repeat itself.
On more than one occasion, squirrels from the surrounding treetops have been making their way into the windows of unsuspecting victims in Place Vanier. It is believed that they are plotting to pilfer all of the sacred exam-time snacks.
My team and I will document our trip, our visit to the highest of hardcore students. They have fought for their spots. They have had their study playlists ready for weeks. This is their Olympics. This is what they trained for.
Without all the school things I don’t want to be doing — such as writing essays or overhearing Janette from Kamloops bitch about her nailbeds during lecture — this pile of words would never come to life.
Today, 4/20 is more of a celebration of culture than the political demonstration it once was. Now, the movement is a crowd of several hundred red-eyed stoners shuffling in the direction of the nearest Chipotle.
Last night, the UBC Ski and Board Club hosted their seventh annual Undie Run and it surely won’t be their last. Hundreds of students stripped down to their underwear and went for a naked jog around campus.
The UBC Film Society is proudly debuting two short films that they produced this year tonight at 6 p.m. at the Norm Theatre in the Old SUB. After the shorts are given their worldwide premier, a “secret” screening of a film will be shown.
Fifty Shades of Grey’s kinkier sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, is filming for the next two days at the Cecil Green Park House. The film is set to be released in theatres February 2017 and stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
From cupcakes and cous cous, to baklava and nachos, the ISA had seven tables set up in the Marine Drive commonsblock, presenting traditional dishes from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania.
On Friday, April 8, Roots on the Roof is hosting a DIY moss art event. Students can form and figure moss on tile, whether it be words or shapes, that will grow and fix itself to the tile. Roots on the Roof is calling it “a living art piece.”
Starting at 11:30 a.m., certain menu items from UBC's food trucks will be $1 each — a one piece fish and chips at School of Fish, poutine at Hungry Nomad, cashew salad at All About Thai, the Wreck Dog at Doghouse and spring rolls at Roaming Bowls.
Don’t worry, these ones are just actors. The Man in the High Castle, an American TV show about an alternative history in which the Nazis and Japan have split North America into three sections, is back and filming at UBC.