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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 [...]
Three green-tinted notes
A few notes of interest that come to mind for the environmentalist-lite on campus: UBC Farm Fee referendum: Yesterday I was at the farm. Getting there was a bit of a hazard due to the South Campus construction bedlam, and I ended up getting tangled in a barbed wire fence while attempting a shortcut, and [...]
Arts County Fair is no more
The yearly campus festival of music and debauchery synonymous with the last day of classes is no more. Ats County Fair, the last-day-of-class drinking extravaganza that has marked the end of the school year for 16 seasons of students at UBC has come to a sad end. The Arts Undergraduate society cancelled the event for [...]
AMS meeting Nov. 21- Frustrations
An excruciatingly long agenda was set for this last meeting before the winter break. After sitting on their laurels for a whole term, the Arts caucus decided to put everything they ever wanted in the AMS into this one meeting and throw it at us like a brick. Items of interest included re-establishing “unofficial” slates [...]
Jam spaces on campus – grassroots!
Two new posts today. Don’t forget to scroll down. So today I was walking along on the upper floor of the SUB, about to head downstairs to the pottery studio, when I heard this alluring jazzy music coming from the ballroom. I thought it might be a recording. So I headed over, thinking that I [...]
AMS meeting Nov. 7th – Nancy and Arts
Lowdown on yesterday’s meeting: it was exhausting, and sort of charged up for some weird reason. I think order was poorer than usual somehow. Maybe it’s the pressure of the end of the year building up. Anyway. The meeting began with Nancy Knight, the Administration’s AVP campus & Community Planning. Nancy always puts on a [...]
Things to notice when the lights go out
So two times today, power failed at UBC. The first time was around 1 in the afternoon. Sebastian, from my plant genetics class recounted to me that someone else in his lab had lost 100 PCR reactions that had been in the thermocycler due the 20-minute outage. I sympathized absently, and wondered how much money [...]
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