On Thursday UBC announced that it has been the target of what they are identifying as a “brute force attack” against their identity management infrastructure. Students and staff may be asked to reset their passwords as a result of the attack.
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Currently there are three major university administrations positions being filled by interim personnel. So who are these new officials, why did the old ones leave and what do they even do within the university?
According to Devon Campbell, the environmental committee leader of the VOC, the proposed resort would severely impact mountain goat and deer habitats, increase traffic on the Whistler highway and deplete up to 22 per cent of the groundwater.
A high-risk sex offender wanted Canada-wide was arrested at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, at a construction site near 16th Avenue and Wesbrook Mall. He does not match the description of the suspect in the recent sexual assault at UBC.
The group presented a petition in April 2014 to the Senate that called for an end to the two most invasive categories of experiments on animals — categories D and E. Not until after the protests did the Senate reach out to the group.
This year, the AMS underwent a review of its governance system, which evaluated the effectiveness of its structure — particularly the roles of executives and council — as well as the society’s accountability and how well it represents students.
According to Global News, a sexual abuse case involving an 11-year-old and several younger children has been opened. The campus RCMP are working with the affected families and are utilizing the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
The grant was provided by the Civil Forfeiture Office in partnership with the Victim Services and Crime Prevention Division of the Ministry of Justice through their provincial strategy, Violence Free BC.
“I think governance is always somewhat expressive of the gang that are there doing it at any one point in time,” said Belkin. “At this point in my thinking I would be inclined to the view that it’s more a stylistic issue than a structural issue.”
BC minister for Translink, Peter Fassbender, participated in an AMS-organized transit town hall meeting in the Nest on Thursday to answer students’ questions about the future of Vancouver’s transit system.
“From the research and international standpoint — mostly the research standpoint — it was pretty much a universal good news budget,” said John Hepburn, UBC’s vice-president research and international.
“There's nothing [people] have to lose,” said Pamela Melo, VendChat’s marketing director. “They download it. If they find it useful, they use it. If they don’t, they can delete it — but they have donated.”
UBC came under fire last November for allegations by other students at Green College where the assailant, Dmirty Mordvinov, was living, that UBC did not appropriately respond to their claims of aggressive behaviour by Mordvinov.
“It’s been on our radar, but I would say absolutely that [The Ubyssey’s previous] story and the petition have made my office more aware that we really have to do something because it’s perceived as a valuable service.”
The Bike Co-op and Kitchen, Sprouts, the Aqua Society and the Pottery Club are among those that will be moved to new spaces around campus once the renovations to the old SUB begins this summer, which the AMS believes will confer long term benefits.