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The Dorothy Somerset Studio, a cozy black box theatre, was modestly set for the UBC Players Club’s SNL-ified rendition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
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The UNA, the representative organization of the campus’ residential neighbourhoods, released a newsletter on November 10 containing feedback for the new project and a perceived insufficiency of the plan’s sustainability measures.
Lynda Li, a fourth year kinesiology student at UBC, received the Thomas Clarkson Award at the 2022 Global Undergraduate Award summit in Dublin, Ireland.
AMS VP External Erin Co, who advocates to all levels of government on UBC issues, said her team will continue to lobby on housing affordability and transit, pushing the new government to fulfill their promises on those issues.
Culture
The Dorothy Somerset Studio, a cozy black box theatre, was modestly set for the UBC Players Club’s SNL-ified rendition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
“Are [the Filipino people] stupid,” he asked us, looking around. “No, they’re being exploited.”
On Saturday afternoon UBC students, led by the 2SLGBTQ+ engineering club Gears & Queers, hosted a cairn-painting event to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR).
Gather around everyone for a pumpkin-flavoured fall treat with horror anthology Queer Little Nightmares.
Features
I feel a deep sense of belonging to a city where superficially, I don’t belong. Is it fair for me to call Manila home when I’ve grown up in a bubble of privilege and foreigners living in the exact same situation as me?
The fourth-year political science student isn’t just taking classes and planning for graduation. As a national correspondent for The Kyiv Independent, Lapatina has been reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian war since Russia invaded Ukraine this past February.
The Singaporean sun seared our backs as we ambled out of Changi International Airport with our luggage, but it didn’t deter us from awing at the Green City.
There’s a coastal stretch of land inside the smallest state in the US. It sits along an oceanic passage as if hugging the brisk Atlantic. It’s a sub-rural area but large enough in size that it stretches halfway across the state. It’s quaint, sunny, lively and historic. It’s nothing like busy, fast-paced Vancouver.
Opinion
The AMS Sustainable Action Plan (ASAP) outlines how your student society will improve its sustainability going forward. Besides outlining how the AMS will practice sustainability, it also states the AMS’s commitment to ethical and sustainable purchasing, including guidelines for licensees, contractors and employers.
We’re in the final stretch of the semester and oh boy, is it hard. Homesickness is starting to hit and you’re just starting to realize that the elective you took for an easy A is dragging your average way down. It’s slump city.
Here’s what to expect at the November 16 Senate meeting.
“Isn’t the weather beautiful? I can’t believe it’s not raining. It’s like, who did this?” The answer is, no, the weather is not nice. And the climate crisis did this.
Science
Dr. Robin Hsiung, an associate professor in the faculty of medicine and a staff neurologist at the UBC hospital clinic for Alzheimer's and related disorders, discussed their intriguing research on neurodegenerative diseases in an interview with The Ubyssey.
Dr. Nichole Fairbrother’s Perinatal Anxiety Research (PAR) lab is committed to improving mental health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum people through in-depth investigation of mood and related disorders.
According to UBC neuroscientists, pain is an individual experience influenced by cognitive and emotional processes.
Philosophers have long debated the nature of reality. But thankfully, science can help armchair philosophers and brain aficionados alike better understand these centuries-old questions — and hopefully add some neuroscience to your daily existential crisis.
Sports
Rainbow flags draped all around War Memorial Gym as Thunder and DJ Nasri mixes greeted fans at UBC Volleyball’s fifth annual Pride Night on Friday.
UBC women’s hockey swept the University of Alberta Pandas at home this weekend, with a double overtime 3–2 win and a 2–1 regulation win to continue their undefeated-at-home streak.
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is scheduled to run from November 20 to December 18 and will be available on TSN in Canada. Here is your guide on where to watch World Cup games on campus.
UBC women’s soccer bounced back from a disappointing quarterfinal loss to finish fifth place at U Sports nationals in Quebec City last weekend.