AMS Council ran for over four hours on Wednesday night. Here’s a recap of what you might have missed at the jam-packed meeting.
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In an email sent to students on April 27, the Go Global team wrote that the decision was made based on advice and guidelines from the BC CDC, Global Affairs Canada and UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Policy.
Since 2019, the organization has focused on providing free menstrual products on campus, with a little help from the AMS on the funding front.
The project, led by the UBC Black Caucus with funding from the IBPOC Connections initiative in the Equity & Inclusion Office, ran for the month of March.
Following an announcement on the event page that it was to be rescheduled, several outlets reported that the cancellation was due to pressure from student activists over Bal being chosen as a speaker.
The expansion will provide a multipurpose space for Indigenous students, faculty and staff on campus.
Some UBC medicine students have voiced concerns over the lack of available postgraduate residency spots after the BC NDP promised to build a second medical school in the province.
Restaurants along University Boulevard have erected plastic barriers around their outdoor seating area, raising concerns over the spread of COVID-19 by both public health experts and those within the university community.
UBC President Santa Ono confirmed that the university will be providing “as much on-campus instruction for … students as possible.”
The accessibility shuttles are intended to supplement the current Safewalk vehicles and allow for Safewalk to be more accessible to students with disabilities as well as the rest of campus.
Horgan’s comment garnered backlash from those in the 20 to 39 year age cohort who felt that the reason for a recent rise in cases was more complex than just young people failing to comply with public health orders.
The UBC Board of Governors met again this month to discuss tuition increases and approve the budget for the 2021/22 fiscal year.
AMS VP External-elect Saad Shoaib and current AMS VP External Kalith Nanayakkara said this creates an opportunity for the society to push harder for student-specific housing support.
On April 7, the Board of Governors Finance Committee recommended tuition and fee increases for full Board approval, despite over 90 per cent of students indicating in the tuition consultation survey that they opposed increases.
Sundhu was officially acclaimed as the NDP candidate for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo at a nomination meeting on April 7.