Eshana Bhangu is "ready to kick some ass" as your new AMS president
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Eshana Bhangu is "ready to kick some ass" as your new AMS president
As Mia Wallace sat watching MTV and America's Next Top Model with her mum, she knew that she wanted to be just like the women on her TV screen one day.
Madeline Laurendeau is a second-year geography student and activist who is among 15 other youth suing the federal government over climate change.
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“My default position for Board meetings would be that things should be open to the extent they can be,” McKenzie said.
“I think that the most important thing I do is teach … [and] what I hope that does is invite [students] into scholarship."
Starting in May, eyes will focus squarely on Evans as the campus waits to see how he — and his promises — fare as the head of the union.
Ghebremusse applied to a year-long visiting professorship at the Allard School of Law, got an interview and was hired. After that temporary position ended, she landed a tenure-track professorship and became the only Black woman faculty member at Allard.
“The thing that I do at UBC that, to this day, still terrifies me is to be really open and vulnerable about living with disability.”
Out on the Shelves was established on Davie Street in April 1983, at the heart of Vancouver’s burgeoning 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and is the city’s oldest queer library.
“It’s just such an emotional burden that it’s placed on you as someone with an invisible disability because you can’t outwardly show how you’re suffering.”
”Every student advising body on campus, every faculty, every department has their own list of these mental resources that they pass out to students who come asking for this kind of stuff ... So far the solution has just been to create a list, or a PDF, or a website with bullet points.”
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