“Looking around the Great Hall of the Nest filled with roughly 40 organizers and attendees at Tuesday afternoon’s Sexual Assault Policy information session, you could have counted the number of men in attendance on one hand.”
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Practice your surprised face when all of your family, relatives and old classmates greet you at the airport with a large banner and balloons. You can’t let them know that this has been a recurrent daydream of yours since the second day of classes.
A Week of Caring kicked off the 2016 United Way UBC Community Campaign on Tuesday, October 11. A series of five events running until October 14 composed the first campaign event to take place on UBC’s Vancouver campus.
Dozens of UBC students and community members gathered yesterday at the flagpole near the Rose Garden to mobilize against increasing costs of post-secondary education in Canada and the “price tag” put on attending UBC.
Sex — it’s everywhere on campus. The opportunities for sexual experiences during your university years seem endless, but the variety of birth control methods are not so vast. So how do you prevent sex from leading an unwanted pregnancy?
Hoping to draw a wide audience of students, faculty and staff alike to the event, the UMI is collaborating with Heart of the City Piano Program and Shine On Music to organize an evening tailored for UBC’s music lovers.
Wondered which birth control options are out there beyond the advice of your friend’s sister’s cousin who liked the pill? Despite still not having access to Uber, UBC is about to get an app for that.
In the last year, four UBC faculty members have been appointed to the Order, Canada’s highest civilian honour. Approximately 100 Canadians are inducted to the Order with each bi-annual round of appointments, which take place in December and June.
The UBC Social Justice Centre is organizing a similar protest outside of the US consulate in Vancouver to take place on February 11. Sharma hopes that Saturday’s protest will help spark even further action among Canadian students.
“A large portion of the crowd and the organizers here [at the rally] are from UBC, and I think that that really speaks to what we stand for as a community,” said Madison Schulte, a second-year commerce student at UBC.
UBC is nearing the end of the hiring process for a managing director of campus safety and security to replace the previous role of director of Campus Security, which was left vacant when the former director transferred to athletics last semester.
Kevin O'Leary came to UBC last night. In a 24-minute speech followed by a Q and A session, he outlined his vision for Canada and derided the policies of Justin Trudeau's Liberal government. Let's dig into some of the claims he made.
The increase in hiring of female faculty to the tenure stream from 35.4 to 46 per cent from 2010 to 2014 is a step in the right direction, but disparities are still seen at the tenure and administration levels.
In a lot of ways, Stuart McLean was my first love. I grew up with him and his stories. The Vinyl Cafe was a staple in my life. Every Sunday at noon on the dot, CBC Radio would be on and Stuart's voice filled our home.
As of Monday, March 6, the UBC bus loop will close and bus routes will begin pickup and drop-off along Wesbrook Mall, according to an announcement from UBC Transportation. We've broken down how this will affect your route.