A press release on the Creative Writing website asks the public to “keep in mind that the investigation has not yet commenced and no findings have been made about any wrongdoing by Prof. Galloway.”
A second protest against the tuition hikes was held by students last week, this time in the form of a teach-in. The teach-in was organized by the Social Justice Club (SJC) and featured two speakers.
An intruder threatening students at Totem Park was arrested by campus RCMP yesterday afternoon.
On Tuesday evening students gathered outside of the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, at which an Alumni BC event was taking place. The protestors held signs and distributed material with information about their cause to alumni entering the event.
The AMS passed three motions at Council last night: give the Social Justice Centre $20,000 to fund a campaign opposing the tuition increases, reach out to alumni to ask for their support in opposition, and boycott UBC Food Services in protest.
Shortly after being released in early September after nearly 438 days in Egyptian prison, the former Al Jazeera English television producer arrived at UBC to take a term-long teaching position.
The university is lobbying the provincial government to remove the cap on domestic tuition, implemented in 2005, that prohibits domestic tuition increases of more than 2%.
UBC's assumption that students are irresponsible and can't be trusted to host social events creates a culture of disconnect on campus.
As students, we ask for an excellent education. We ask to be supported by our university. We did not ask for UBC to fight its way up an arbitrary rankings list. We did not ask UBC to become a “Place of Mind.”
UBC has no idea what they'll be spending the increased revenue from tuition hikes on. They have no way of measuring what impacts the increases will have on the student body. And they have no plans to consult with students about whether or not the fees should go through. All in all, you should be pretty angry.
Although the Board of Governors instruction to raise fees relies heavily on meeting goals related to the terms like “best”, “value” and “excellence”, UBC currently has no working definitions for these terms. “We’re going to seek feedback on that,” said Redish. “I’m not going to chart out a simple statement.”
The future of the annual Block Party music festival is at risk after university administrators refused to grant the AMS a permit to use Thunderbird Stadium for the event, according to the student society.
UBC is famous for a lot of things – beautiful campus, world-class research facilities, diverse student body. But overwhelming school spirit isn’t the first thing you think of when you think of UBC. With the help of some free beer and a campus-wide engagement in football games, this could soon be changing.
“What will determine the success of the search is who’s on the committee,” said Chancellor Lindsay Gordon in an interview with The Ubyssey. “So obviously we want to attract the best possible representatives of the stakeholders.”
We learn French. We know the face of the Queen. We can recite the names of Jaques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Captain Vancouver – do you remember the name of a single Musqueum chief? I don’t.