The Dropbike bike share system, which arrived on campus this month, will allow commuters to temporarily rent bikes at central “havens” or regular bike racks around campus.
Search the Archive
news
- All
- News
- Culture
- Features
- Opinion
- Humour
- Science
- Sports
- Photo
- Guide
- Videos
- All magazines
- Magazine: Resolve
- Magazine: Seg Fault
- Magazine: Memory Leak
- Magazine: Redefine
- Magazine: System Failure
- Magazine: Ways Forward
- Magazine: Goes Around
- Magazine: Comes Around
- Magazine: Reclaim
- Magazine: Self
- All Spoofs
- Spoof: Mid Appétit
- Spoof: explain!
- Spoof: Girlbossmopolitan
- Spoof: NICE Magazine
- Spoof: The Main Maller
- Spoof: 2019 Spoof: Who?byssey
- Spoof: 2018 Spoof: Oh-No
- Spoof: 2017 Spoof: Breitbarf
UBC has announced that the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences (IKBSAS) — which includes about 50 per cent of students enrolled at its Okanagan campus — will soon be under external review for the first time since the campus was created in 2005.
AMS Council has approved a fossil fuel-free mandate in the society’s investment policy yesterday, after hearing interests about this divestment at its June 20 Council meeting.
AMS Council has voted to sell Jean-Paul Lemieux’s Jeune fille en uniforme, one of 4 pieces authorized for sale by a March 2017 referendum.
“It’s very common now for an Indigenous grad student to have a job offer when they’re maybe even two years out from completing a thesis,” said Kesler. “There are so many things wrong with that.”
Directly student-funded groups are asking the AMS to “repeal and reimagine” a quarterly financial report structure that was introduced earlier this month, citing concerns about limited consultation and added labour.
At a town hall meeting on the proposed rapid transit to UBC, panelists hammered home the urgency of improving the Broadway corridor’s transit capacity — and the perks of bringing it to campus.
Because the funds are distributed based the size of the student population and the number of graduate programs offered, UBC topped the recipient list with $6 million — half of the total amount.
The Equity and Inclusion Office hosted an discussion event on Monday afternoon that centred around freedom of expression and controversial events on campus. Around 50 campus community members attended the event.
Each of BC’s 25 public universities, colleges and institutes will receive $75,000 in funding. UBC plans to allocate theirs toward supporting marketing resources and strategies for its co-op programs across both campuses.
The AMS has released a 22-page document that provides updates and information regarding the Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), almost a month after the society announced its now-reversed decision to cut the centre’s support services.
The AMS executives then published an apology and retracted this decision on June 25, but the town hall still saw around 40 people in person and over 1,800 views via The Ubyssey’s livestream, who asked questions about multiple aspects of the issue.
Second-year UBC law student Shawn Zhang has been using satellite imagery to locate and document re-education camps in Xinjiang, an official autonomous region in China.
“The amount of tickets available to UBC students will still remain the same,” said Hamid. “The tickets sold to UBC students will also be the same price.”
Without a UBCSUO representative, the 13-member committee’s only Okanagan member was Associate Vice-President of Students Ian Cull, whose office reports directly to Vancouver's VP Students.