One of Eby's goals this year is to establish a strong base of student voters. Turnout in the 18 to 24 age group was 47.9 per cent in the 2013 provincial election — the second-worst category after 25 to 34-year-olds (39.8 per cent).
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In order to increase awareness of relevant elections issues, the VP External Office has been running campaigns about affordability and housing rights, as well as hosted town halls with topics such as pipelines and political fundraising.
UBC is nearing the end of the hiring process for a managing director of campus safety and security to replace the previous role of director of Campus Security, which was left vacant when the former director transferred to athletics last semester.
“A large portion of the crowd and the organizers here [at the rally] are from UBC, and I think that that really speaks to what we stand for as a community,” said Madison Schulte, a second-year commerce student at UBC.
This new fee would put money towards the construction of new fitness and gymnasium space for students on campus, linked to the university’s GamePlan consultation, which is currently still in progress.
From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. yesterday, students at UBC's law school participated in a national “research-a-thon” in which law students across the country examined the Safe Third Country Agreement between the United States and Canada.
Yesterday’s “Ban the Ban,” a learn-in for UBC students faculty and staff, was hosted as an “immediate and urgent response” to President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration and travel into the United States.
Following this lift, UBC has approximately 30 faculty and staff as well as 350 students who are still affected. More specifically, the student block comprises 102 undergraduates and 248 graduates according to the managing director of Public Affairs.
Another heavy snowfall is causing problems for people trying to get to UBC today. As of 11:45 a.m., the buses most impacted with service to UBC are the 41/43 Joyce/UBC, 49 Metrotown/UBC and the 99 UBC/Commerical-Brodway.
On Tuesday night, UBC Campus and Community Planning hosted a second GamePlan Workshop, a public consultation on their long-term strategy for future investment in athletics and recreation facilities on campus.
Six people were killed in the midst of prayer when a lone assailant stormed into the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, located in the Sainte-Foy neighborhood of the provincial capital. The attack was condemned as terrorism by Justin Trudeau.
“There have been a lot of attacks on Muslim women who are wearing the hijab, and so this is a way to put on a hijab for someone who has never tried it before and ... meet a Muslim person, talk to a Muslim person, see what they're about.”
The AMS and GSS statements follows President Santa Ono’s statement, in which he announced the creation of a task force with the goal of determining what degree of assistance that the university can offer to those affected by the ban.
When Cameron England, a third-year political science major, returned to where he’d left his wheelchair outside the Nest while he was volunteering at the AUS conference all day, he discovered that his wheelchair was gone.
The Equity Enhancement Fund has been active for its 20th year in 2017 and its goals are to spread community involvement in increasing equality, inclusion, diversity and intercultural understanding both inside and outside the UBC community.