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Campus community members gathered for a vigil yesterday afternoon in front of the UBC Bookstore to commemorate the victims and families affected by the Lapu Lapu Day festival tragedy on April 26.
On December 10, 2019, UBC declared a climate emergency and formally recognized the importance of UBC taking a leadership role in combating the crisis. Just over five years later — and with five to go on many promises — The Ubyssey broke down what the university has done to address the climate emergency so far.
Spring has sprung, the sun is back out on campus and the end of the semester is upon us. For our last T-Birds 5-on-5 of the 2024/25 season, we asked five assorted questions to five varsity athletes. Here are their answers.
Many sports can have a home-court advantage — where a team does better in home games than away ones. We broke down past national championship data for three sports to see if the home team really does have the upper leg when hosting.
The Ubyssey sat down with for an interview with the person under the mascot costume to learn more about the inner workings of Thunder the Thunderbird.
On Friday evening in War Memorial Gym, the Saint Mary’s University Huskies were bested in a tight 68–61 consolation semifinal by the University of Alberta Pandas, ending their run at the Final 8 tournament.
On Thursday night, UBC women's basketball team pulled out a tight 55–50 win over the Saint Mary's University Huskies in front of a rowdy home crowd to advance to the U Sports national semifinals.
Here we're covering major platform points from candidates in every race.
Here we're covering the Great Debate on March 6 where the candidates for all positions debated each other.
On March 7, Nate Petrone and the no. 4 University of Calgary Dinos defeated the no. 2 UBC men's basketball team in the Canada West championship, hosted at War Memorial Gym.
Last night, newcomer UBC Board of Governors (BoG) candidates Jasper Lorien, Cade Desjarlais, Yi Chen and Mohkam Singh Malik (ਮੋਹਕਮ) met in the Michael Kingsmill Forum to discuss tuition increases, PhD stipends and endowment divestment plans.
On Saturday night in War Memorial Gym, the Thunderbirds defeated the University of Winnipeg Wesmen 74–72 in the playoff quarterfinal, thanks to a career-best performance from Fareed Shittu.
From January 30–February 2, UBC Opera put on their version of Street Scene at the Chan Centre and unfortunately, it was a slightly underwhelming affair — save for select standout performances.
Over the weekend, the UBC Thunderbirds took down the UBCO Heat in a two-game series — earning a narrow 85–80 win on Friday night before a 105–79 blowout on Saturday.
UBC volleyball celebrated their annual Pride Night festival on Friday evening at War Memorial. Both men's and women's teams walked away with straight set wins against the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack.