Yesterday, the three president candidates — Andy Lin, Rodney Little Mustache and Marium Hamid — faced off in the first 2018 AMS Elections debate. From the very start of the debate, they were able to clearly distinguish their experiences and leadership styles from one another.
VP Administration candidate Aaron Verones and has campaign team have been ordered to suspend all online campaigning for 24 hours, starting today at 4 p.m., as punishment for violating the AMS Elections procedures and handbook.
When Rodney Little Mustache attended an AMS by-election debate this past September, he asked both candidates if they would support developing an Indigenous committee. He was met with a mixed bag of student governance rhetoric and on-the-spot enthusiasm.
In the face of the ongoing fentanyl overdose crisis, UBC and campus organizations are taking steps to provide medical and psychological support for substance users. Many of these steps are based around the philosophy of harm reduction — principles and methods that make substance use safer for users.
Two UBC students has launched the hashtag #justiceforjamiel to provide support for former Thunderbird Jamiel Moore-Williams, who was tackled and arrested last week by seven VPD officers in a jaywalking incident.
After acknowledging that the Pit is “down in the dumps” at the January 10 AMS Council meeting, the society has now reintroduced food services and revamped the pub’s operations to boost its tepid profit.
Following an election within the UBC Board of Governors (BoG), it was announced today that former Vice-Chair Michael Korenberg has been made the new chair. BoG member Sandra Cawley succeeds Korenberg as the new vice-chair.
With a $4.9 million donation from the Liuzu Temple of Chan Buddhism in China, UBC is now leading a long-term international network to advance the study of Buddhism and East Asian cultures.
At a recent AMS Council meeting, during a bid for a seat on the student health and well-being committee, one councillor brought up that he would like to see mental health coverage reexamined.
A recent UBC study published by Dr. William Honer has found that Vancouver’s drug supply has become increasingly contaminated, signalling a growing risk for both regular and recreational users.
Lim said UBC Campus Security, which has patrolled the Nest since the AMS cut their security service in 2016, told her they had removed the man before, and they had the situation under control. But Lim said she wasn’t worried.
This year, there are 17 students running in the 2018 AMS Elections, with two uncontested races.
Hundreds of people participated in this year’s annual February 14 Women’s Memorial March, which commemorates missing and murdered Indigenous women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
An online open letter is now calling for presidents of Canadian universities to support Indigenous students in light of the February 9 acquittal of Gerald Stanley, who was brought to trial for the second-degree murder of Colten Boushie, a Cree man.
Two UBC student groups focused on social justice have deleted and apologized for a Facebook post linking an article that Jewish groups said “blatantly promotes anti-Semitism and bigotry.”