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Arvind Gupta, probably being excluded from a secret Board meeting at the very moment this photo was taken. Photo courtesy of: Mackenzie Walker/The Ubyssey

Wow.

What a week.

We don’t even need to say what we’re talking about on the show this episode, you already know it – Arvind Gupta. We snagged an interview with Dr. Gupta during his media blitz on Thursday, and we’ll also hear from student Senator Gurvir Sangha and Faculty Association president Mark Mac Lean.

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• On Monday, UBC released an 861-page document dump ^[4] responding to all of the FOI requests made in the wake of Gupta’s resignation.
• On Tuesday, we broke the story of unredacted memos attached to the Gupta FOI release ^[5]. Maayan wrote that John’s letter to Arvind was “a pointed and unrelenting thrashing, detailing nearly every aspect of leadership style and management skill that you can think of as deficient.”
• On Wednesday, Gupta broke his silence ^[6] and started dishing on how the Board of Governors really operates. He went on a media blitz for the next day afterwards.
• On Thursday, the UBC Faculty Association released a letter ^[7] outlining how UBC had violated Freedom of Information laws and called for an external review of the Board.
• In non-Gupta news, Senate voted last week to remove Science pre-requisites from the Medical School admissions process. ^[8]
• We also discuss the story about in indigenous professor at UBC fighting the university in the Human Rights Tribunal over being denied tenure.