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“I’m only asking that you learn about feminism, work to support survivors well and refuse to accept or make excuses when men choose violence,” writes Marie Erikson.
Why then does UBC describe these degrees as taking four years when three quarters of students take longer?
The proposed legislation is transphobic and violent. If there was ever a time to stand up for the rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Alberta and Canada, that time is now, writes Amalie Wilkinson.
David Eby and the NDP should learn from past premiers and focus on governing for the long-term, writes Corwin Davidson.
![An enlarged image of the text of one of Hannah Arendt's manuscripts, which reads: "...incapable of either devising new rules for the handling of foreign affairs which had become global affairs or enforcing a Pax Romana on the rest of the world. Its political narrowness and shortsightedness ended in the disaster of totalitarianism whose unprecedented horrors have overshadowed the ominous events and the even more ominous mentality of the preceding period. Even scholarly inquiry has almost exclusively concentrated on Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia at the expense of their less harmful predecessors. Imperialist rule, except for the purpose of name-calling, seems half-forgotten, and the chief reason why this is deplorable is that its relevance for contemporary events has become rather obvious in recent years. Thus, the controvery [sic] about the United States' undeclared war in Vietnam has been conducted from both sides in term of..."](https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/arendtopinion.2e16d0ba.fill-340x238-c100.format-webp.webp)
From the American election to authoritarian crackdowns in Hong Kong, Hannah Arendt’s thought is more relevant than ever, writes PhD student Tim Pit Hok Yau.
“The Student Demographic Survey has so much potential, as long as we can unlock it. This idea has so much promise, so long as we can release the data for the entire community to benefit from,” writes Sarina Virani.
“Recovering from intense academic work and stress is rather difficult, if not impossible, while obligated to work on that exact intense academic work and under that exact stress. Because that obligation continues, reading break is not a time where students can truly take care of themselves,” writes Marie Erikson.
“Just as housing prices anger Canadians across the country, immigration has become more contentious through its inherent link to the housing crisis,” writes Nichols.
The AMS is hosting a Ubyssey-moderated Vancouver-Point Grey candidates debate today, Friday, October 18, from 6–7 p.m. in the Norm Theatre in the Life Building.
Was the fact that I now had some seniority in university overwhelming, daunting, and unforeseeable? One hundred percent, writes Ava Cervas.
Whether or not you consider it a good thing or not (I think it’s not), luck and the actions of people who aren’t BC Conservatives have had more to do with their rise than anything Rustad and company have done, writes Michael Grindlay.
The truth is, every single person in BC is in a relationship whether they may or not know about. That relationship happens to be with their MLA, writes Amardeep Bains.
Learning a bit of a new language out of interest should certainly be encouraged, yet this may not provide the skills that the Faculty of Arts aims to teach, writes Marie Erikson.
"The university dilemma has arisen because, as a society, we’ve molded university into a place where study is a means to an end. In the case of Bowdoin, it is even worse - a business model. That was never, and should never, have been the project of the university," writes Sunny Das.
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