For 52 years, Dave Doroghy and his carollers have taken to the streets of West Point Grey to spread holiday cheer. But what started as nothing more than a few teenagers taking advantage of the lenient alcohol rules in the Doroghy household has become something much bigger.
Senate met for the last time this year to discuss the student experience of instruction survey data, look at UBC’s research accomplishments and hear the annual library report.
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! is a Russian romantic comedy that is equal parts silly drunken misunderstandings, reflections on how deeply the transitory nature of time is felt on New Year’s Eve and the reminder of how fate can change our lives suddenly when we need it most.
Bluntly-titled, Hot Frosty follows a widowed diner owner who wraps a magic scarf around the neck of a ripped snowman, not knowing he would come to life and bring joy to the small town.
UBC came to the conclusion that the way to increase student morale was simple: host a campus-wide talent show inspired by everyone's glory years — elementary school!
Is there anything more quintessentially suburban/middle class/North American in December than your parents powering down your Wii and telling you to “log off that game already,” only to turn on those relaxing, soothing, mind-numbing flames for hours on end?
“The first time someone saw me, they screamed … they called me an ‘abominable snowman.’ It really hurt.”
Students will be forced to opt into the UBC Battle Pass as a part of their student fees, effective at the start of the new term, Jan. 5, 2026.
It’s a regular afternoon for Nazreen Cameron as she prepares roti and chicken curry in her kitchen, when she gets the sudden urge to check her phone. She sees multiple missed messages alerting her she has received an award at UBC and asks her son for confirmation, assuming it to be a scam. “No, Mom,” he reassures her. “You got the award. $5,000.”
The sets at Shindig, the annual Battle of the Bands hosted by CiTR/Discorder Magazine, spanned genres and aesthetics that drew in a crowd of all demographics.
UBC recently sent 14 students, staff and faculty — some attending in-person and others virtually — to COP30, held in Belém, Brazil from Nov. 10 to 22.
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 holiday season, UBC has generously decided to give students and faculty the biggest gift of all — learning — which is why all finals will be scheduled on Dec. 25, effective immediately.
On the heels of their annual provincial lobbying trip, AMS executives said their campaign for pushing student-run food bank grants and voicing concerns for the provincial post-secondary education review went “quite successfully.”
UBC’s first symposium on Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference and the Monolingual University (LLIMU) took place this fall as part of the Faculty of Arts’ Multilingual Week.