Neal Yonson
A Forensic Examination of the War on Fun, Part 1
Last year, former Ubyssey reporter Bryan Zandberg wrote a piece for the Tyee examining whether there was a “War on Fun” at UBC. A year later, the piece is as dated as it is current. Sgt. Dan Wendland is no longer with us at UBC, but his legacy lives on through the policies he implemented. [...]
AMS Council: Sep 2, 2009
Highlights from tonight: Is UBC driving us crazy? Further plundering of the President’s fund by the external office Again I will point you to KatDov’s AMS Reports if you’d like another opinion. I had a bunch of things going on tonight and this will probably be a sub-par meeting summary. Dave Tompkins was absent tonight, [...]
A Shout Out
To the AMS, and Fincom in particular for helping fund my trip to Ottawa to attend the CIS AGM. You can read the articles I wrote about it here and here. If you are hoping to go to a conference, event, or have a special project in mind, I strongly encourage you to apply for [...]
AMS Council: August 19, 2009
It’s so nice out today. Can’t we all just go sit on the Knoll and have council there? Highlights: A visit from Pierre Ouillet and Brian Sullivan Tom Dvorak’s EPIC Sunglasses tan Bonjour Pierre Ouillet Pierre Ouillet (UBC’s VP Finance, Resources and Operations) is here with Brian Sullivan to talk about structural deficits in the [...]
The Downside of Automatic Enrolment
The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FoGS) recently implemented “automated continuous thesis registration”, which works as follows: “Starting in Summer 2009, when students register in a thesis or dissertation course once, their registration in that course will automatically roll each term until the end of the student’s program (excepting if they are on leave).’ On the [...]
Campus Shows: Fall 2009
This year, the Ubyssey will have more resources invested in their culture section (one editor last year; this year there are two), with fewer resources going into news (two editors last year; this year only one). They now have a culture blog and, I believe, a paid culture staffer over the summer. Correction: Apparently the [...]
Koerner’s Pub Patio Project
At the last GSS Council meeting on July 23, 2009, a plan to expand Koerner’s Pub came up for council approval. However, before it could be dealt with quorum was lost for the third month in a row and no decision could be made. This project has been on the table for quite a while [...]
AMS Council: July 29, 2009
Highlights from AMS Council tonight: Art Gallery gets $23,000 New pricing policy for Whistler Lodge in February 2010 Long overdue, you can now get the agenda and documentation on the AMS’s own website! Geoff Costeloe wants everyone to know he is hot and sweaty. But I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it in the fun [...]
Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena?
The new Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre is currently applying for an amendment to their liquor-primary licence. The matter will be coming before Metro Vancouver’s Electoral Area committee for approval this Friday and there seems to be a significant hurdle in the way: as a result of past violations, the RCMP does not support it. Read [...]
AMS Council: July 8, 2009
Big party tonight! Highlights: Olympics, Olympics, Olympics! We support Iran… being referred to committee 2009-2010 budget There was a very full house tonight, 90-100 people for the hour-long Olympics presentation by Michelle Aucoin, UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat, Kristen Harvey, PR person for VANOC (and former AMS president!) and Manon Chouinard, PR for the [...]
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