The student-run Agora Eats Cafe is located in the Macmillan Building and is an affordable, organic and vegetarian eatery.
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The 2021/22 AMS Council met for the last time on Wednesday night to hear an end-of-year report on AMS services and to vote on executive transition honorariums.
From interrupting classes to die-ins and hunger strikes, new climate activism group Save Old Growth’s activity on UBC’s campus has sparked both support and ire from the UBC community.
In an emailed statement, Rae Ann Aldrige, executive director of UBC Safety & Risk Services — the department which includes Campus Security — said the university is reviewing the situation.
All but two of these posters on information on housing policy and safe consumption were taken down earlier this year.
Despite numerous assurances by the AMS, an investigation by The Ubyssey has revealed concerns about the legitimacy of the claim that the masks are Health Canada approved.
Several motions were successfully passed at yesterday’s AMS Council meeting with little to no debate, including code changes on executive accountability and funding for renovating a lounge in the Nest.
UBC Vancouver Senate met virtually on Zoom last night and approved motions related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and new degree requirements for future arts students.
The Student Legal Fund Society (SLFS) currently has no directors, after no students ran for the positions in the most recent AMS elections.
“As there are now signs of further Omicron variants and increased case numbers, experts have indicated that BC is about to enter into a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic."
Students are reporting long wait times for student health appointments — which the director of UBC Student Health Service (SHS) said is due to an increased demand that emerged from the pandemic.
UBC is once again planning to build a basketball court in the Wesbrook Place neighbourhood after it abruptly withdrew the project application last November.
On Friday, April 8, the AMS held its annual end-of-year concert, Block Party, in the plaza outside the Nest. Over 6,000 students gathered in a tightly knit crowd.
According to a VPD press release posted yesterday, 35-year-old Alan “AJ” Birtwistle was last seen near International Village in downtown around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13.
UBC will not support the recent AMS motion that urged the university to divest from companies complicit in Palestinian human rights violations.