Notices have been posted at the 52 building complexes at UBC’s Vancouver campus using a certain type of heat exchanger, advising building users to not consume any of the hot water. This followed the discovery that five heat exchangers had failed.
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On March 13, UBC and Scotiabank made a joint statement announcing a $2 million donation from Scotiabank to support cybersecurity and financial risk analysis initiatives at UBC. The grant will be administered over the course of five years.
AMS VP External Kathleen Simpson emphasized that the SIS confirmed that many students are also worried about the high costs associated with staying in Vancouver after graduation as well as the cost of post-secondary education itself.
The delay was approved with the intention of allowing time to implement feedback from the Watson Group, governance consultants recently hired by the Board, in order to ensure sufficient consideration of all relevant best practice guidelines.
The diversity fund that was launched last November is being used to finance the review process that will make recommendations about the fund’s future designation. The $300,000 put into the fund this year will support the review process.
“The database has existed for many years before, but hadn’t been professionally updated for quite a while — so we wanted to revisit refreshing it so that it can have a more common look and feel,” said Darran Fernandez.
Max Holmes, this year’s elections administrator (EA), attributes the increase mostly to a change in the allocation of the elections’ committees’ $3,500 advertising budget to be more focused on getting people to vote rather than attend events.
“I handed over my card and I said very quietly and confidentially, ‘Could we get together? Some of your people, some of my students — let’s sit, let’s talk.’ The answer that came back to me was, ‘We have a no-dialogue policy with you people.’”
“While that really specific activist work is so important, unfortunately people weren’t really showing up. If we’re not providing a service that people are using, then unfortunately it’s time to step away from that,” she said.
“Going into it, it’s our every intention to support Sprouts and to uphold the mandate of their club, but ... we did ultimately say that it’s the AMS’s space and that we can do with it as we please,” said Scott.
On March 7, the provincial government announced its support for bringing ride-hailing services to BC. The timeline is set for the end of 2017, but the legislation for it is “still to be written” according to James Lombardi.
The service, which encompasses all of the AUS’s current well-being projects under a single portfolio, aims to address various aspects of well-being through a three-pronged approach centred on organizing events, advocacy and student resources.
One of them will establish a fee that would fund the construction of a student fitness and recreation building on campus. Another will allow the AMS to sell up to four pieces of art from their collection.
In a race of six candidates, Kevin Doering, Jakob Gattinger, Daniel Lam, Ian Sapollnik and Simran Brar have secured the five senator-at-large positions on the student caucus of the UBC Vancouver Senate.
Daniel Lam has won the race for VP Academic. Lam ran unopposed for this position on a campaign of affordability, equity and inclusion and the student experience, but he was still ecstatic to win the position.