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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009
Since the AMS has not yet mastered the art of putting meeting dates and agendas online yet, the next one is: Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 6 PM. SUB 206. Agenda The most interesting thing will be a presentation from Michelle Aucoin, Director of the UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat about what to expect when [...]
AMS Council: June 17, 2009
AMS council tonight. Highlights: Provincial Elections campaign budget revealed Executive quarterly reports released Student Court appointments It’s a proxy party tonight. Low turnout, lots of substitutes. Leftover food also means a weird dinner combination: Pi-R-Squared with smoked salmon appetizers. CASA Conference Recap First up was a presentation to recap the recent CASA policy conference in [...]
CIS restricts dual membership with NCAA
The Ubyssey-edited version of this can be found at ubyssey.ca. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization which governs high-performance athletics at Canadian universities, sent a bold message to schools looking to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at their annual general meeting on Thursday. Voting 55-20 in favour, CIS members instituted a policy which [...]
Gordo In Da House
Ah, election day. The day I walk into the SUB for my morning coffee and notice over a dozen cameramen and reporters just milling about in the concourse. Were there more bonfires last night? Another murder in the park? Doesn’t seem likely. Who’s that grey-haired man with snazzy glasses walking in with an entourage? Why [...]
AMS Council: May 6, 2009
After a month-long break for exams, AMS council met tonight. Highlights: AMS to reimburse AUS $35,062.04 for accumulated Arts County Fair debt. Azim Wazeer, Joel Mertens and Josh Sealy recommended as new student senators Lots of committee appointments Whistler Lodge improvements External Office to stop distributing some provincial election campaign materials deemed partisan, must remove [...]
UBC in the news
I definitely don’t want to turn into a news aggregator blog, but there have been a number of UBC news items lately that I thought were interesting and wanted to share. And trust me, I think it’s totally lame when I read something that is just a recap of other stories I’ve already read or [...]
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