Protestors have started to occupy campus buildings to increase pressure on the university to meet the Palestinian solidarity encampment’s demands.
Students have continued to rally for increases in funding from protesting to creating their own initiatives and through AMS advocacy — with student politicians securing substantial funding for the food bank this year and continuing work on an agreement with UBC for permanent funding.
The Ubyssey spent a day on MacInnes Field to learn about community members' motivations for attending the encampment.
Organizers' demands include divesting from companies complicit in Palestinian human rights abuses, boycotting Israeli universities and institutions and publicly condemning what organizers call a genocide in Gaza.
Last night, Senate met to vote on the disestablishment of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and received a presentation on UBC’s $3.8 billion budget for the next academic year.
What does it mean to be in love with someone when you know the relationship is doomed to end?
“begin everything with bismillah | in the name of God”
This year’s AMS Elections saw the third highest voter turnout in AMS history with 21.1 per cent.
Games are a fun way to pass the time, but they’re also arenas to unlock competitive instincts, form memories and build community. They’re practice for the real world, but they also shape it.
Once we graduate this type of constant proximity will be lost, but while it lasts, I’ll savour the limited car rides we have left together.
Christian 'CK' Kyle is set to be the next AMS president.
Presidential candidate Brandyn Marx’s campaign has been suspended today between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., which is when voting closes.
Presidential candidates came together for a second time to talk about creating a safe space for marginalized students at Council, the recent rejection of student-petitioned referendums and how they would lead policy updates.
Brandyn Marx is running for president out of concern about the organization’s lack of equity for all AMS students and staff.
Shaun “The Bulldozer” You is a third-year political science student running for president on a platform focused on bulldozing a path to make “an AMS for the people.”