Fentanyl overdose deaths, which are quickly becoming a massive issue across greater Vancouver, are being tackled through several channels within the university — including VICE, Student Health Service, and even fraternities.
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Last night, students gathered in the Gallery 2.0 to engage with the AMS on affordability in the form of an interactive “The Price is Right” style game show. Host Gordon Katic quizzed contestants on the prices of different aspects of postsecondary.
The First Nations and Indigenous Studies department is investigating the ways that they can bring Indigenous content into the classroom. Currently, the Indigenous Curriculum Working Committee is being assembled to research different initiatives.
The Andrew W. Mellon foundation has awarded UBC a three year grant of $679,970 in order to develop a digital publishing platform for those pursuing Indigenous studies. The platform will allow students and scholars to engage in collaborative research.
The final presentation to the UBC Board of Governors will occur in spring of 2017. On October 3, UBC will also be consulting with the Vancouver campus community on options as to how they can meet the campus’s evolving athletic demands.
The goal of UBC Aquatic Centre and Equity and Inclusion's survey and the subsequent implementation of new signage is "to ensure the Centre is welcoming, respectful and inclusive to all its’ patrons," according to the survey's website.
Offering height and views previously unaccessible to most first year students, Orchard Commons has been met with excitement. However, delays in the completion of construction have left some first years disgruntled.
Construction on the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSC) is underway and projected for completion in July 2017. The IRSC aims to increase awareness about residential school issues by providing access to public records.
The consultation period for UBC's new sexual assault policy has been extended past it's original deadline of September 30. The exact length of the extension is yet to be determined by UBC's university counsel, Hubert Lai.
Starting this week, football players will be joining Safewalk teams to walk people home on busy nights. With these additional people, Safewalk will be able to send out three teams on these nights, when there would have otherwise been two.
The fees you pay the AMS are either discretionary — meaning they can spend them as they see fit — or non-discretionary — meaning the AMS collects the fee, but it's immediately passed into someone else's bank account.
On Tuesday evening, protesters filled the streets of downtown Vancouver, demanding an end to campus rape culture across the province. WAVAW, a Vancouver-based rape crisis center, organized the event to kick off their “Feminist Frosh Week.”
The Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) is developing a system to coordinate the buying and selling of lower-level class textbooks, so lower year science students don’t have to do the ground work on their own.
While the campus's population may have decreased by a few thousand, UBC managed to remain busy over the summer! From the Olympics to the drafting of a new sexual assault policy, here's a recap of what students — old and new — may have missed.
Since your AMS executives have now been working for the entire summer, we asked each one about their goals for the school year, what they accomplished over the summer, and their strategy for student engagement.