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.

As another year ends, we feel it’s important to highlight some of the people around campus who have shaped the issues UBC talked about.

Out of early sink or swim moments, Sean Heisler has grown into an experienced navigator of UBC’s top-level bureaucracy.

Twice a week this year, we profiled the people who help make UBC what it is. Here is our roundup of some of the people that make up Our Campus.

“It’s not what I would have expected university would be like, but I much prefer it. It’s hands-on, dealing with real people and putting yourself on the line. It’s not like writing a final essay, where you might stress about it, but when you hand it in, only your prof reads it.”

For two decades, UBC has played a special role in unofficial diplomacy with North Korea. An unprecedented exchange program brought six professors here last term. How did UBC become a world leader in dialogue with North Korea—and why don’t more people know about it?

For one of our final issues of the year, we let our senior illustrators loose on a comic about UBC of wildly epic proportions. Here’s the result.


