In the wake of the recent release of the "executive summary" of the outside review commissioned by UBC and of the presentation of the history department’s own mediator, I have a few additional observations.
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I am in no place to decide what these folks should be offended about. I’m just a person who cares about political correctness and I’m here to “ruin everything” so people don’t run around being inconsiderate bigots.
Let's take a second to think about what we'd be losing. There are many private tutors available in Vancouver, but they charge exorbitant rates. On top of the pressure to succeed despite gruelling academic standards, UBC is already so expensive.
I put up with your slimy PR bullshit that you unapologetically ooze in the name of mental health awareness because I believed it… Fuck. I actually bought it. You told me you “make a difference” and I swallowed it like a fistful of lithium.
I didn’t get my new girlfriend anything for Valentine’s Day and I thought we were on the same page about it, but now she’s acting weird. I’m 90 per cent sure it’s about not getting flowers or candy or whatever her friends got from their boyfriends.
Dear Natalie, My roommate is being a total pain in my ass. He's inconsiderate, rude, has people over all the time without asking and leaves any room he enters a mess. It's a disaster zone in here and it's all his crap!
The university does not owe a fiduciary duty to its donors unless they are under the trust made beneficiaries. To make them beneficiaries would jeopardize the charitable status of their tax deduction.
My question is this: what is hate speech as visual imagery doing on a university campus? What right did the anti-abortion group who made these signs have to impose upon every viewer, every student, an active anti-Semitic and racist message?
When you mention genocide beside the picture of an aborted fetus at 24 weeks, you’re pretty much saying that someone who had a miscarriage is a murderer. The images that are being displayed are propaganda.
The notion that free speech is somehow okay, even if it compromises the safety of others, is a delusion. We pretend that violence must be physical. It doesn’t. Words and images are powerful and affect people's psyches — to deny that is ignorant.
For a large part of the student body, the AMS represents a slew of Facebook event notifications and little else — it can be hard to see the larger picture and even harder to imagine your place connecting with it.
Although there is a semblance of openness and inclusiveness on campus, that it doesn't extend to people on the right side of the political spectrum, socially or fiscally. Talks on campus deemed misogynistic [or] racist are quashed.
She keeps "accidentally" bumping into me in between classes, even though I know her classes aren't anywhere near mine. She keeps messaging my friends asking when we can all hang out. I've already told her we're done again and again...
UBC has about 50,000 students, so everyone contributing just $1 would bring in $50,000! This would exceed our goal five times over and for just a dollar. Our online campaign will finish at the end of March, so don’t wait!
Every few weeks, your student government spends a Wednesday night to talk about a bunch of things. In most cases, what we talk about won't affect a students’ day to day activity, but there are always a few tidbits that might interest you.