Thrive Week is a weeklong celebration held annually at UBC to promote positive mental health. The week, lasting from November 2 to 6, is all about encouraging students to take a moment to reflect on their personal situation as well as their physical one.
An intruder threatening students at Totem Park was arrested by campus RCMP yesterday afternoon.
The UBC Faculty of Engineering is attempting to increase female enrolment to 50 per cent by 2020. The key to this, the faculty says, is in education and awareness, beginning at as early an age as possible.
Writing papers as an undergraduate can often feel anticlimactic. After spending long weeks on research and writing, the final product often languishes in a file folder (or a Google drive), never to be seen again. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The Liu Institute for Global Issues hosted another talk as part of the Lind Initiative that packed the room last Friday. This time the speaker was Jill Abramson.
Tsang put forward a motion in the last AMS council meeting to postpone approval of the MOU indefinitely, due to the new direction that the building will now be taking. The motion passed unanimously.
The AMS decided in last night's council meeting to oppose Translink's suggestion of cutting a bus line: the 258 to UBC.
At the last AMS council meeting on Wednesday, council approved a number of changes to the Business and Administration Governance Board (BAGB).
On Tuesday evening students gathered outside of the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, at which an Alumni BC event was taking place. The protestors held signs and distributed material with information about their cause to alumni entering the event.
The arts student centre is under pressure to be finished on time. This year’s AUS exec hopes that they will be able to put the student fees that have been collected for the building to its appropriate use.
We celebrated the cenennial anniversary of the Great Trek in late September this year, but did you know that's not the only Great Trek in our history? Here's an outline of the other times UBC students have marched for their needs and their future.
The AMS passed three motions at Council last night: give the Social Justice Centre $20,000 to fund a campaign opposing the tuition increases, reach out to alumni to ask for their support in opposition, and boycott UBC Food Services in protest.
The UBC Undergraduate Research Opportunities Club (URO) is offering grants for undergrads to go present their research at a conference at Harvard University.
In previous years, the questions the AMS survey had been using created data that was difficult to interpret not only for the AMS executive office, but also for student associations.
The university is lobbying the provincial government to remove the cap on domestic tuition, implemented in 2005, that prohibits domestic tuition increases of more than 2%.