In early December 2022, less than one month after Kyle Sohn’s death in UBC residence, another student also had an emergency in her dorm room. She and other students are now calling for a review of UBC housing's safety policies.
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Diawara made her entrance in traditional Malian dress, with a long white skirt and cowrie shells in her hair. Less traditional was her cherry-red electric guitar.
AMS President Eshana Bhangu announced the policy change at the March 29 AMS Council meeting, adding that UBC staff members seeking help from the AMS Food Bank will now be diverted to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
March marks the one year anniversary of UBC's Student Affordability Task Force report. The Student Affordability Task Force’s (SATF) top priorities in its second year will include developing more tools to help students navigate rising tuition and living costs.
On April 12, AMS Council approved a five-year strategic plan calling for accessible services and student well-being and a series of governance changes.
"This year, the Board passed a new five-year strategic plan which outlines goals and projects to help the publication meet and adapt to the needs of the changing UBC campus and media landscape."
This business update covers the period of September 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.
In September 2022, members of The Ubyssey took to the streets to ask people how to pronounce our name. And only a handful got it right.
Although the ‘Birds dropped the Battle for BC to the Canadians 8–1 in seven innings, it was a celebratory night for baseball in the province that was played in front of an adoring crowd of Thunderbird fans.
Dr. Sarah Otto and Dr. Pieter Cullis were awarded the Killam Prize on March 15.
As students, we are taught that academic work, especially historical work, needs to be objective. After reflecting on some work by Indigenous feminist scholar Dian Million, I have learned that students tend to view anger within academic writing as reductive.
The Disability Affinity Group (DAG) says UBC did not respond to their requests to include Disabled people and experts in Disability Justice in developing the terms of reference for UBC’s Accessibility Committee.
UBC creative writing professor Keith Maillard’s 2023 book, In the Defense of Liberty, is a new entry in a growing field of historical fiction that challenges the retrograde idea that Trans and genderfluid identities are something new.
When the lights dimmed, a silence settled over the crowd, all of us bound by the promise of the theatre: a place where, like the titular Woods, anything can happen if you listen, and nobody leaves unscathed.