Neal Yonson

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By Neal Yonson ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Please accept my apologies in advance to those who find copy and paste posts offensive. I was recently introduced to CanLII, a site that archives court decisions. After a brief search for “UBC”, I found this one which was too funny not to pass along. “The plaintiff says that U.B.C. should not have left a [...]

Collect $200 As You Pass Go

By Neal Yonson ⋅ April 3, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

As a number of media sites have already reported, UBC lost its parking case at the BC Supreme Court. The court found that UBC has no authority to issue parking tickets or collect money for parking violations. I know what you’re thinking… Well, not necessarily. The suit focused on UBC’s ability to issue parking tickets [...]

NCAA Committee Results

By Neal Yonson ⋅ March 24, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

After almost a year, the NCAA Division II Review Committee has finally released its final report regarding UBC-V’s potential application to NCAA Division II. At 588 pages including appendices it’s a monster, but unless you are an absolute nut for documents, the first 28 should suffice, along with the Consultation Summary Report which was posted [...]

Vote in GSS elections!

By Neal Yonson ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Ah, what’s that in the air? It smells like the seemingly never ending elections cycle. While the AMS elections are sort-of-but-not-really-over, GSS elections are still going strong. This is a reminder that if you are a grad student, please vote! The GSS could do great things, but you need to make sure it has a [...]

Pit Night!

By Neal Yonson ⋅ January 29, 2009 ⋅ 19 comments

There was a somewhat peculiar piece of business at tonight’s AMS council meeting. Should AMS councilors be allowed to sneak into Pit Night via a back entrance after council meetings?After receiving a number of complaints (from myself included; the Ubyssey also wrote an editorial), the AMS’s Business Operations Committee recently decided to disallow entrance to [...]

A Brief History of Athletics

By Neal Yonson ⋅ October 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Athletics and Recreation fee has been controversial ever since its introduction in 1985. As a fee imposed by the Board of Governors, there has been very little student input into the collection of this fee, the amount charged, or its uses. As a result, it has increased by a monstrous 481% over a 23 [...]