UBC on CBC radio! (X2)

I’m always on the lookout for UBC-related news in the mainstream media. And today, since I had the scholastically inauspicious displeasure of being sick as a dog at home, I had lots of time to mope around the house listening to CBC radio and doing not much else. To my happiness, two pretty interesting stories [...]

Victory!

Athletics has decided not to close the Aquatic Centre gym! They apologized for the process, and agreed to find other ways to deal with the (minor) issues raised like liability, class space, and old machines. This is a victory that happened because the AMS and students at large worked together. The AMS reps couldn’t have [...]

UBC Insiders’ claim to fame!

Thanks to Tim’s latest post, we’ve been featured in Maclean’s 50

Neat new stuff

And a plug. I refer readers to Maclean’s Education. A helluva site with tons of good articles. There’s a very useful piece on how to get a reference letter for grad school, a skill that students far too often find themselves without. And even discussions on Facebook. Apparently Spencer Keys (a friend of the show) [...]

Budget Highlights

Where I read it. So you don’t have to! The first thing to note is that post-secondary education (PSE) isn’t the showpiece of the budget. But there are a few tweaks and spending increases that will be of interest. It’s also important to note the possible implications of the equalization formula calculations – a province’s [...]

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY The Global Outreach Students’ Association presents: (in collaboration with the College of Health Disciplines ) Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, and Access to Essential Medicines Saturday, March 24th, 2007 9:00 am-5:00 pm First Nations Longhouse (1985 West Mall) FREE ADMISSION, FREE FOOD http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/GOSA/GOSA_events_conf0607.htm REGISTER AT gosa.ubc@gmail.com Speakers include: Kelly Bannister, UVic Accessing traditional [...]

We’re back! Contributors needed!

So we’re gonna resurrect this blog around the undergraduate society elections. Particularly Arts and Science. We’re hoping to drum up a little bit of interest in them. But we need contributors. For two reasons. First, we don’t have enough time to do this all ourselves. And second, we need people on the ground, in these [...]

Updates on Student Email Lists; Good news!

See below for an email from the University to Kevin Keystone, AMS President. It was sent yesterday at 5:34pm. The short version is that the University is agreeing in principle to allowing students to authorize the giving of their information to the AMS, so, by next year, the AMS may have contact info for its [...]

What the AMS has done this year for students

As UBC students, we each pay a fee to the AMS, our student union. Part of it goes to pay the five AMS Executives to work 40-60 hours per week. So what, under the “supervision” of AMS Council, have they accomplished this year? I have come up with a list of what I consider the [...]

Childcare at UBC: a small step forward

AMS Council Meeting was productive today. This is the 3rd last meeting before turnover. What came forward as an addendum to the Agenda was a motion for the AMS to contribute 100 000$ a year for the next 10 years to expand the childcare program at UBC, such that the current 2-3 year waitlist is [...]