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We here on the blog have been feeling that lately we’ve been losing some focus. With more boisterous and demanding readership, an election campaign, and fewer (non-graduating) writers, the pressure (and temptation) to spit out easy personality-centered posts is hard to resist. This is an attempt to step back and re-balance. Though it may not [...]
Check in.
Hello everyone. I would invite us all to think about what sort of issues we have yet to cover on this blog. We’ve been feverishly covering the elections, but we would like to continue to focus on the issues. We of course accept emails too, if you don’t want to leave a comment. Thank you.
oh, come on
This is a wholesale lifting of Alex Lougheed’s facebook note, in which he notices that Stephen McCarthy isn’t on the ballot. How to vote in the AMS Special ElectionThe original can be found here. Props to Alex for: voting at 1am, having eagle eyes, and also wicked MSPaint skills.
Yet another threat
http://www.ubc.ca/bulletins/index.html Vancouver Campus Advisory — New Threat ReceivedTue. Feb. 5, 4:15 pm Broadcast message to all UBC Vancouver Students, Faculty and Staff from President Stephen J. Toope For the second time in a week, our Vancouver campus community has received a threatening message. In this second case, an unspecific threat has been made for Wednesday. [...]
AMS Council Meeting, Jan 30, or how much we care about committee reform, deep down inside.
Today’s council meeting was both disappointing and heartening. Disappointing because the anticipated public lynching of EA Brendan Piovesan failed to materialize. Heartening because it turns out that deep down inside, we really care about committee reform. And there were several other important (University Ombuds Office!) and thoughtful (Systemic discrimination in the AMS?) decisions. We got [...]
BioScience Building locked down
from the UBC website: There has been a police incident at the Bio Sciences Building, which is located at the intersection of Main Mall and University Boulevard at the University of British Columbia. On the advice of the RCMP, the Bio Sciences Building has been locked down. Building occupants have been instructed to stay where [...]
New rail line to UBC annouced today!
Peter over at the Cavalier (click) has this story. In short, the province is funding an expansion of the sky train to UBC by the year 2020 as part of a 14 biollion dollar transit bonanza announced for the province today. From the press release: UBC welcomes the provincial government announcement today of a $14 [...]
The new AMS bulletin board: right here.
Seems like this here little blog is in some demand for plugging all and sundry AMS postings. Maybe we should start charging for them. Anyhoo, here’s two things y’alls might want to know about: From VP Admin Sarah Naiman: From AMS Executive Coordinator of Student Services (ECSS) Shagufta Pasta: AMS EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR OF STUDENT SERVICES [...]
Allan McEachern, Chancellor of UBC, dies at 81.
Allan McEachern, UBC’s chancellor passed away last night. No more details are available at this time. McEachern became UBC’s chancellor in 2002, and this year marked the end of his term. A UBC alumnus several times over, McEachern earned his Bachelor of Arts and his Law degree here. In 1990 he was awarded an honorary [...]
Foresight: UBC’s annual report; AGM today!
UBC, over the last several years, has adopted the practice of holding an Annual General Meeting, to coincide with the release of its annual report. The AGM is happening today at 12:00-1:00, in downtown Kelowna. It is being broadcast live (at 12:00) in two ways so that we can watch it too: At the Michael [...]
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