We're not arguing that UBC should be writing about men’s team’s new uniforms — they should be focusing on the near-superhuman achievements of all their athletes — but they definitely shouldn't be only writing about the women’s teams.
2015 was a busy one. Fortunately you had The Ubyssey to distract you with articles about Mandopop stars, hot profs and tuition increases. We've compiled our top 10 most popular articles from the past year:
In the latest episode of UBC making their own rules and then breaking them, the university plans to build private housing on academic land.
On the big screens in front of the dance floor of the Pit, there was a constant stream of pictures from a range of battles, one of which looked a lot like Passchendaele.
Professor of anthropology Charles Menzies took to Twitter to trash the Hotline Bling project put on by Dive Into UBC, The Calendar and the AMS.
Suggesting our history is squeaky clean is a lie and robs UBC of a rich education of students being spurred to protest and causing administrators' minds to be changed.
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.”
Voting as a UBC student is easier than ever, and the outcome of this election could decide some very important aspects of our lives in the coming years.
In the words of the Kone elevator spokesman Patrick O'Connell, the students were not “free falling,” but just “feel[ing] the sensation of coming down."
Forget Bring Back The Gallery, students should be calling to “Take Down the Perch.”
We spend a lot of time on campus. As such, we tend to notice things that are wrong with it.
Every year UBC Rec holds Free Week which allows UBC students from all walks of life and fitness levels to try out all of their fitness classes for free.
The banners are out of sorts with what a school with anemic athletic attendance might expect, but perhaps they’re exactly what we need.
It's our job to find the truth. UBC's job, as a public institution, is to provide it.
During the 2011 federal elections, only 38.8 per cent of those between the ages of 18-24 who were eligible to vote actually did so. That’s embarrassing.