Monday, both Crown Counsel Daniel Porte and Almestadi’s defence counsel presented similar submissions to BC Supreme Court Judge Fleming: that Almestadi should be found not criminally responsible (NCR) for his attack on Mary Hare.
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This year, CAP is restructuring, alternating between those and guest speaker sessions in order to better fulfill students’ stated desires and needs.
On Friday, a psychiatrist further testified to the mental state of former UBC student Thamer Almestadi, 19, who is on trial for attacking a fellow UBC student Mary Hare in Totem Park residence last year.
Last Thursday, AMS VICE hosted a naloxone training party in the Nest Performance Centre, in which trainers educated attendees about opioids and taught them how to administer naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
Hosted today in the Great Hall, the 2017 AMS Annual General Meeting (AGM) was dominated by financial updates from the President and General Manager’s Annual Report.
Last week, UBC students received a broadcast email requesting feedback on a tuition proposal for the 2018/19 school year. Some students remain doubtful towards the effectiveness of these consultations. The proposal itself involves a series of tuition increases that are said to “reflect inflationary pressures” of the university’s operating costs.
During the sixth and seventh days of the trial of Thamer Almestadi — who has been charged with attempted murder in connection with an attack that took place at UBC on October 4 of 2016 — the court heard the accused testify.
In February 2016, UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG) established the Excellence Fund, whose revenue draws from part of the 46.8 per cent incremental increase in international tuition that was approved in December 2015.
Admitted students will spend a year earning Master of Management Studies in Global Business and Society (GBS) from Yale after completing their nine-month MM program at Sauder, graduating with two masters degrees.
The court first heard from witness Mohammed Ashik Abrar, a 21-year-old second-year student in chemical engineering. During the fall of 2016, he lived alongside Almestadi in Totem Park’s Salish House — they frequently smoked cigarettes together outside the building and studied together in the commons block on occasion.
On October 2, UBC law students opened a clinic at the Powell Street Getaway to assist homeless or low-income Vancouverites in applying for ID.
Lifeline executive Irene De Souza said the group wasn’t there to argue, but did have the end goal of changing minds. “We’re ... just basically asking the question of whether all humans get human rights,” she said.
The Faculty of Medicine at UBC changed its curriculum this year to include a mandatory FLEX Program that encourages medical students to engage with meaningful research, community projects or volunteer work.
Over $400,000 was spent by 1,000 UBC students on textbooks during the first week of this semester, according to the AMS #textbookbrokeBC campaign. Its booth, set up outside UBC Bookstore for the third successive year, invited passing students to record how much they had spent on textbooks for the upcoming semester.
The UBC Free Speech Club held an event Thursday night titled “Questioning Free Speech,” in which three professors gave contrasting presentations that discussed the roles, limits and ramifications of free speech.