Elena Massing

Over the past year, we’ve been making a lot of changes to the way The Ubyssey works. We’ve invested much more time into sharpening our craft, and recently, our newsroom has been talking about the distance between us and our community.

I had never truly seen the inside of The Birdhouse before. I saw the venue in a different light on June 18 at Skátne.

When we spoke with Nardwuar the Human Serviette in the CiTR record library, we thought we were on a tight timeline. Nardwuar doesn’t think that way.

On Jan. 6, we received an email from Wong, inviting us to the aura-farming competition being held a few hours later in the Nest. When the UBC community needed him most, Pea Man was here to save the day.

Photographer and UBC alum Cassidy Chen has already shot shows at Paris Fashion Week and made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, but she isn't planning on slowing down anytime soon.

Emily Tang has loved governance since long before she got involved with UBC’s Graduate Student Society. She thinks her passion started in elementary school, when she was involved in student council. But politics aren't everything to the master’s student.

Sofia Avelino is about to become a new Infidels Jazz classic. Last week’s Hero’s Welcome gig was her second time performing the music of Brazilian jazz legend Elis Regina after a sold-out show on Granville Island in May — and as Infidels founder Tim Reinert said at the start of the night, when you have someone sell out a show, you have to ask them to come back for another.

Paul Kwon is running to be a staff representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is the manager of finance and operations at UBC Hiring Solutions.

Charles Menzies is running to be a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is a professor in the department of anthropology. He has served as a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors from 2017 to 2020 and 2023 to 2026. He also currently sits on the UBC Vancouver Senate.

Erica Frank is running to be a faculty representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. She has been a professor in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and department of family medicine in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine since 2006. She has also served two terms as a Tier I Canada Research Chair.

For the first time in its 107-year history, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra saw its musicians go on strike. This, however, is just one example of a deeper issue affecting all types of creatives living and working in Vancouver.

Reconciling is presented as fragments of conversations between Larry Grant and Scott Steedman, most of them rooted in different geographical locations that hold weight in Grant’s life.

This September, the UBC Library, in collaboration with the AMS, the provost’s office, the Museum of Anthropology and the Robert H. Lee Alumni centre, commemorated the Point Grey campus and its development over the past century with a pop-up exhibition Celebrating 100 Years of UBC at Point Grey.

On June 24, Chanreet Bassi became the first Thunderbird to be drafted to the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). She’ll be joining PWHL Vancouver, an expansion team formed alongside a new Seattle team this spring.

CampOUT! originally began as a day camp hosted at UBC and was inspired by a similar program at the University of Alberta, Camp fYrefly. It has since expanded with the support of UBC’s Faculty of Education, SOGI UBC and the Equity & Inclusion Office, as well as funding from community partners like Foundry — an inclusive care network based in Vancouver.