April 15
Senate votes down special meeting on Israeli post-secondary partnerships
Senators voted not to hold a special meeting to consider the AMS's open letter demanding UBC cut ties with Israeli universities. Read More.
April 11
Black Box Diaries is a film memoir of assault, neglect and perseverance
Premièring at the Sundance Film Festival three years after her memoir, her debut feature documentary, Black Box Diaries, went on to win a Peabody award and received Oscar and BAFTA nominations.
April 11
Student designers burn up the catwalk at the UBC Fashion Club
With a focus on personal stories, identity exploration and unabashed creativity, the UBC Fashion Club's annual catwalk at the Cecil Green House showcased six collections from designers both in and beyond the UBC community.
April 7
The Ubyssey’s Team of the Year: Women’s Rugby
After watching UBC’s varsity teams throughout the year, The Ubyssey’s Sports team has come together to bestow awards on the best athletes, teams and moments of the year. Up first, Team of the Year.
April 8
The Ubyssey’s Game of the Year: Men’s Basketball’s OT thriller
For the second award, we’re recognizing the best sporting event of the year, a single game that stood above the rest in terms of tension, excitement and stakes. In the closest vote of all our awards, Men’s Basketball’s semifinal comeback win against Winnipeg took the win here.
April 9
The Ubyssey’s Moment of the Year: Adia Pye’s championship-winning try
For our third award, we’re recognizing the most impactful moment of the year — a play, an off-the-field story, a celebration — a single point in time that has resonated for months after. The easy winner here was the last-second try that clinched a championship for Women’s Rugby, in front of their home crowd, no less.
The good news was that what the BAJA team thought was wrong with their engine was, in fact, completely fine. The bad news was what they found instead. Read More.
Recent stories
Arts & Culture
United Players’s Network is a good retelling of a great story
An adaptation of the 1976 film of the same name, Network was written for the stage by English writer Lee Hall in 2017 and directed for the Jericho Arts Centre by UBC’s own Kathleen Duborg.
Opinion
Point of Inquiry: I thought I’d be done with the AMS in 2025. I’m glad I’m not.
In 2025, the Huntley administration replaced toxicity with focus. In 2026, as students confront the affordability crisis and the AMS faces its deficit, service costs and businesses’ performance, this is the new bar in student politics.
Features
From CiTR to Chalamet, Nardwuar will always be a random kid from Vancouver
When we spoke with Nardwuar the Human Serviette in the CiTR record library, we thought we were on a tight timeline. Nardwuar doesn’t think that way.
News
AMS backs referendum calling for UBC to cut ties to Israeli institutions
AMS Council heard from speakers for and against a referendum question that called for the student union's support in ending UBC's academic relationships with Israeli institutions. After nearly two hours of deliberation, the question will appear on the ballot with the AMS' backing in March.
B.C. budget holds current post-secondary spending while cutting public sector jobs, raising taxes
Post-secondary institution expenditures over the next three years will modestly increase, according to B.C.’s provincial budget tabled Tuesday afternoon, while the province will sink into a record-breaking $13.3 billion deficit.
Midterm review: VP Student Life Kevin Heieis
Over halfway through his term, Heieis’s work to improve student life has not gone unnoticed. Out of his 14 identified action items, Heieis has reported full completion of seven, with five goals in progress and two that have yet to be addressed.
Midterm review: VP Administration Dylan Evans
While Evans has addressed some long-standing issues with clubs and clubs spaces, it is unclear how many of Evans’s stated goals will be achieved by the end of his term, particularly regarding AMS sustainability.
Humour
Peak? More like shit's bleak
The Peak’s jealous hateposting about me (the technical term is fan behaviour) ended in some fake resolution about The Peak’s editor and I becoming allies. I am here to speak out against any sorry misconceptions that The Peak and I will ever be allied in anything other than hating one another.
From the cult: How to rig an election
How can you make an ill-intentioned power-grab without a sizable voter base? By fighting dirty, that’s how.
Semi-biohazardous spaces earn big on Airbnb
This, however, is not another capitalizing-on-daddy’s-assets-for-a-little-extra-drinking-money-scheme. Instead, these listings are calculated, strategic financial moves by students trying to afford textbooks.
Everything about UBC's SLOP is awesome
“So one day I was watching The Lego Movie, and it got to that part where Emmet builds the double-decker couch,” said Inna Vator, instigator of the Second Lifted Object Project (SLOP), in an interview with The Ubyssey.
Sports & Rec
Mona Berlitz is making an impact — even from the sidelines
When UBC’s all-star forward, Mona Berlitz, tore her ACL in a preseason exhibition contest in her home country, Germany, her fourth season was cut short before it had even begun. But now, even while recovering, she’s discovered how to be there for her team, even if it’s not on the court.
Canada’s top goal-scorer, Grace Elliott, is driven to win
Grace Elliott has done it all. She’s led the country in goals for two straight years. She’s the reigning U Sports player of the year. She’s UBC’s all-time point leader. Her university career is coming to an end this year, but she’s made the most of every second.
Seattle's Super Bowl win was eleven years in the making
On Feb. 8, the Seahawks defeated the Patriots 29–13 in Super Bowl LX, a game that, by itself, wasn't the most entertaining. But for Seattle, that moment was the culmination of a decade-long project, rebuilding a contender after a would-be dynasty collapsed.
Is Canadian football becoming ‘more American’? How the CFL's rule changes will impact U Sports football
The game of Canadian football is changing. With new rules implemented in September, the CFL will alter their game substantially. With an infrastructure built upon the pro league’s foundation, university football — and, by extension, UBC — may have to change with them.
Research
Hot gas from the early universe challenges what we know about galaxy clusters
UBC scientists have discovered hot gas in a 12-billion-year-old galaxy cluster, shedding light on galaxy clusters in the early universe — and contradicting current models of their evolution.
Dr. Alan Jacobs on how social mobility relates to the rise of the far-right
A recent paper by Dr. Alan Jacobs and Dr. Mark Kayser investigates one under-explored driver of far-right voting: social mobility.
UBC researchers propose no-fault compensation for high-risk neural devices
Moving a computer cursor with the brain alone was proven possible in 2004, and even done wirelessly in 2021. But as high-risk medical devices advance, an unknown slate of adverse effects and potential injuries — and legal implications — may follow.
Gut Feelings: How to manage IBD while in school, from UBC alumni
From knowing when to take a step back from school to learning when to stand up for yourself, Gut Feelings has assembled a short guide of resources and tips from alumni living with IBD.
Photo
In photos: The polar bear swim
On the last day of classes, hundreds of students gathered on Wreck Beach for the Calendar's annual polar bear swim. Here are photos from the catharsis.
This month in photos: November
In the midst of midterm season, The Ubyssey's photographers captured sports, a blind dating event, and other events around campus.
