Six months after its filling, former student Stephanie Hale’s human rights complaint against UBC Okanagan’s (UBCO) handling of her sexual assault report is now moving forward — but with a reduced scope.
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A jaywalking incident escalated into something else when Vancouver Police officers tackled, tasered and arrested former UBC football player Jamiel Moore-Williams on the Granville Strip this weekend.
The AMS has once again raised concern about “botched consultation” from UBC. This time, the issue is over the five-year review of the Housing Action Plan (HAP) — a process that also highlighted gaps in student housing strategies from the society’s perspective.
The society can now expel people from AMS property for criminal violations as well as 12 “nuisances,” including some that would affect low-income or housing insecure people such as “using the Premises as a private bathing facility” and “salvaging discarded food from garbage cans on the Premises.”
With plans undergoing since summer 2017, UBC President Santa Ono has launched the UBC Connects, a lecture series dedicated to bringing prominent voices to campus.
The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) recently published a policy paper outlining the prevalence of mental health disabilities on university campuses, and what the federal government should be doing to support student mental health.
The AMS could soon ban students and members of the public from its properties for, among other things, taking food out of trash cans, sleeping for “extended periods of time” or not wearing shoes.
UBC is in the process of developing an Indigenous Strategic Plan that will guide their approach to Indigenous engagement over the next few years. The new plan will replace the university’s former Aboriginal Strategic Plan, which was put in place in 2009.
The AMS is creating a sexual violence prevention and respectful environment policy working group, which hope will address a recognized gap in how they respond to sexualized violence.
After months of ongoing negotiations, Translink has extended the the current $41.00 U-Pass price to the end of 2019.
Hosted by UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, this year’s series of the Phil Lind Initiative focuses on the effects of the surge in populist nationalism and authoritarian powers — like Russia and China — on global liberalism.
On Tuesday evening, UBC’s Equity Ambassadors — a social justice group managed by UBC’s Equity and Inclusion Office — held “Sex in All Languages,” an event where different sex-related topics were discussed across various cultural viewpoints. The workshop was the final event of UBC’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Originally proposed by a student senator, an ad hoc committee on Academic Equity and Inclusion has been created by UBC Vancouver Senate.
UBC invited professor Richard Moon, a University of Windsor law professor and one of Canada's leading scholars on freedom of expression, to campus to give a quick talk on how campuses can deal with the topic, followed by a lengthy Q and A.
The results have already been presented to the Board of Governors (BoG) at the November 28, 2017 committees meeting, and changes to the plan based on the review are expected to be brought back for ratification in February.