Two ongoing conversations in the university community were reignited at the UBC Vancouver Senate meeting last night, with a resolution to calls for a vaccine mandate and an update on honorary degree reviews.
Governors mostly discussed return to campus plans and a proposed vaccine mandate as classes enter their third week.
Incumbent of 13 years Joyce Murray is projected to win UBC’s riding, Vancouver Quadra.
Students in the line spoke of difficulties getting registered to vote and concerns about the cancellation of the Vote on Campus program.
In a tweet posted at 7:31 a.m., BC Hydro said the outages, which began just before 6 a.m., were impacting 5,000 customers. Crews were sent out to campus this morning.
To fill the gap, one student created a website — ubccovidtracker.com — to track and map all the exposures on campus. The website is unaffiliated with UBC.
The first motion falls short of an outright vaccine mandate, however, instead leaving the decision up to Ono and the Board.
Despite intending to argue his case in the BC Supreme Court on April 29, and then on July 26, Linkletter is still waiting.
Between August 31 to September 26, the UBC neighbourhood saw a daily case rate of seven per 100,000 residents, up four from last week.
UBC’s new system, announced last week, requires rapid testing for students, staff and faculty who are unvaccinated.
The event, intended to be held on September 8 after the start of phase four of the BC Restart plan, was advertised as a “rager” and “the first of its kind at UBC.”
UBC will provide rapid COVID-19 testing for all students, faculty and staff who are unvaccinated or don’t wish to disclose their vaccination status.
Board of Governors representative Max Holmes pushed AMS executives on what they’ve been doing to address the drug poisoning crisis.
Masks will be mandatory on transit again starting Wednesday, August 25, TransLink announced this morning.
UBC has largely maintained recent trends in COVID-19, new data from the BCCDC dashboard shows.