Stories from Alex Nguyen at The Ubyssey

Notice of Ubyssey Annual General Meeting

Alex Nguyen — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:30:48 +0000

File The Ubyssey

Join us in discussing our financials and make your voices heard. Anyone who has paid the Ubyssey Publication Society fee is welcome to participate.

UBC changes its wording of campus notifications on COVID-19

Alex Nguyen — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:31:20 +0000

File Yiyang Wang

On March 19 afternoon, the university revised its most recent campus notification without any update, keeping the timestamp at March 17 at 4:10 p.m. PDT.

‘Can I have oat milk instead?’: Building a sustainable campus food system goes beyond cutting single-use plastics

Alex Nguyen — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:02:33 +0000

Rachel Cheang

While much public attention has been given to the phasing out of single-use plastic at UBC, there are many other complex considerations and initiatives that go into building a sustainable campus food system.

Students once again occupy MLA office to raise demands in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

Alex Nguyen and Henry Anderson — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:31:34 +0000

Alex Nguyen

This morning, over 50 people — including many UBC students — filed into Eby’s office carrying posters, banners and drums to call for actions against the plan to route the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory.

Taking root: How Canada’s first student recovery community is growing at UBC

Alex Nguyen — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:05:23 +0000

Maya Rodrigo-Abdi

"I think one day, it would be amazing if being in recovery was just as normal as being 22 and in university.”

‘Dead people don’t recover’: UBC professor’s biometric opioid dispenser tackles unsafe drug supply in Vancouver

Alex Nguyen — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:49:16 +0000

Alex Nguyen

In a city that has seen over 5,000 overdose deaths since 2016 because of contaminated drugs, Tyndall sees the initiative and safe supply as the “next frontier of harm reduction.”

We hosted a student journalism conference and won four awards this weekend

Alex Nguyen — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 02:06:06 +0000

Diego Lozano

Over the weekend, The Ubyssey put on the eighty-second iteration of the largest annual national student journalism conference, NASH82.

Over a year after reversed cut, SASC workers unionize

Alex Nguyen — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:28:11 +0000

Zubair Hirji

Ultimately, over a year since the reversed cut, the AMS and SASC workers see the collective agreement as a mark of a better working relationship.

AMS Council votes to review relationship with fraternities and IFC

Alex Nguyen — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:38:34 +0000

File Kosta Prodanovic

Following the recent drugging allegation in UBC fraternities, AMS Council voted unanimously to approve a motion to re-explore the student union’s relationship with the IFC — the governance body for UBC's 10 fraternities — and its members.

Following drugging allegation, AMS to review relationship with IFC

Alex Nguyen — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:00:07 +0000

File Geoff Lister

UBC fraternities came under scrutiny after Dr. Marina Adshade, an economics professor, published a tweet partly alleging that six female students had been drugged there.