Neal Yonson
UNA seeks consultants to take them seriously
To campus denizens not in the Neighbourhoods, the UNA may as well just be a group of people standing on the top of Save On Foods screaming “Respect my authoritah!”
Open Textbooks Project Needs to Open Minds
This project is less about creating open textbooks, and more about convincing people to actually use them.
Random. Precedent Setting. Undergrad. Cash Grab.
Another year, another attempt at a random precedent setting undergrad cash grab from UBC. This year’s version is the proposed Bachelor of International Economics (BIE), a new degree program in the Vancouver School of Economics (VSE), a new school in the faculty of Arts.
The bylaw the UNA deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
Yes, children make noise when they’re running around and having fun and that might be annoying. It’s a known design defect and no software patch has yet been developed to fix this bug. However, complaining about noise from a playground is something that makes you look like the crankiest of cranky old coots.
Save the Farm… Again
Here’s an idea to make the future of the UBC Farm even more secure: put it into BC’s Agricultural Land Reserve.
BoG Releases Final Plan to Do Nothing on Student Housing Affordability
While the moves made by BoG in the last few years to enable the building of lots of new student housing are very welcome and full credit should be given to them, it won’t possibly meet its potential if the affordability aspect continues to be ignored.
Here’s Why The UBC Liquor Store Moved
Saying Wesbrook Place is a “better location” for a liquor store implies that some sort of fomal comparison was made between two or more locations, based on a measurable set of criteria. This did not happen.
Everything Old is New Again
Everything Old is New Again
More Cellphone Towers Coming to UBC
“UBC is experiencing an increasing number of requests for new voice-based cellular installations on campus and in the adjacent university neighbourhoods.”
Block F ‘Freight Train’ Tears towards UEL
Using graphic language from the world of railroads, leaders of the University Endowment Lands community sought to articulate their concerns about the coming development of a large tract of UEL forest by Musqueam First Nation at a meeting on July 16th.
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