The GSS is now looking to a third-party operator to run the pub’s day-to-day operations, and they hope to have the place up and running before the start of the fall term.
After donations from TRIUMF, Canada’s national physics lab, came under fire from critics, Elections BC has ruled that the full amount of the donations must be returned.
The Association of Canadian Colleges and Universities agreed to draft a deal that would restore centralized licensing for academic materials. But UBC, after reviewing the deal, has decided it won’t sign up.
The second instalment of The Ubyssey‘s DOXA festival film reviews.
In anticipation of a festival-filled summer with great music and hopefully better fashion, here is a brief list of festival fashion do’s and don’ts.
Orange cones, rusty blue fences and the drone of heavy machinery—none of these are unusual on an evolving campus like UBC. But for the class of 2016, these sights may come to define their degree like never before.
Chris Cochrane completed his first marathon at only 17 years of age when he ran the 2008 Okanagan Marathon in Kelowna, and that was just the beginning of his career in making the lazy feel inadequate.
Parting shots and snap judgments on today’s issues. May 14, 2012: Summer scheduling is weird, Vancouver is nice out, student space issues, and transit advocacy.
It’s hard to argue that the never-ending construction isn’t negatively impacting the student experience. The university needs to take steps to avoid embittering students—many of whom won’t see the finished product.
Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? is a documentary film exploring the recent mass disappearance of bee populations, a phenomena termed colony collapse disorder.
Securing funding for festivals is always challenging, but few people outside DOXA’s inner circle were aware that the festival almost didn’t happen this year.
Facing mounting costs and a university unwilling to sign a building agreement, the EUS have abandoned a plan to incorporate—but it might not stop a policy that would give deans final say on activities in faculty student spaces.
Part one of our reviews from the 2012 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, running in Vancouver from May 4–13.
The third annual undie run was a half-naked campus marathon.
Raw footage of the 3rd annual UBC undie run.
Legislation introduced by the provincial government Monday will give the director of Electoral Area A—a swath of unincorporated land which includes all of the UBC campus—a voting seat on the TransLink Mayors Council.
Tomorrow at UBC, scheduled power-switch maintenance will close almost 20 buildings.
American students may have been surprised to see the name Barack Obama in an email from UBC.
Critics say that donations to the BC Liberal Party from TRIUMF, the Canadian physics lab on campus, should be returned.
John Boyne, author of World War I novel The Absolutist, is always looking for parallels between the past and the present.
The Thunderbirds couldn’t win both of their games on Thursday, dropping their second game of the day and prematurely ending their season.
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