The Thunderbird Gazette

Uni­ver­sit­ies are strapped for cash. Being debt-restricted by recession-paranoid gov­ern­ments, many schools are look­ing to altern­at­ive deliv­ery mod­els to meet the demand for hous­ing stock across the coun­try. At the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto, hous­ing stocks are low, and plans are under­way to build a tower of a tower. Thirty-plus stor­ies of stu­dent hous­ing. Typ­ic­ally, more […]

Just a quick post to let every­one know the 2010 con­greg­a­tion cere­mon­ies are tak­ing place this week. Yes­ter­day, Eng­lish, Econ and other small arts pro­grams crossed the stage. Today it’s more of the same, includ­ing Poli Sci, Law and Edu­ca­tion. Telestu­dios airs a live stream of the cere­mon­ies, unfor­tu­nately using Microsoft pro­pri­et­ary plat­forms (.asx and […]

Vote res­ults are out, and the three lucky short-listed firms are:

Bing Thom Archi­tects
Busby Perkins+Will
HBBH+BH

These three now com­pete to have the AMS’ New SUB Com­mit­tee to sign them on over the oth­ers. We’re pretty happy about the short-list as it’s a happy medium between the Insiders edit­ors choices.
It remains unclear what pro­cess the Com­mit­tee will be going through to […]

Most of y’all have heard by last Fri­day that the Koerner’s Pub liquor license has been sus­pen­ded by the UBC Treasury/Legal depart­ments. In response, Koerner’s still has its doors open, but the taps are dry.
Accord­ing to a memo, the license was sus­pen­ded because of two incid­ents this month. The first incid­ent, a drunk under­aged youngster […]

Update 5:34pm: Today’s CUS meet­ing has been moved to Angus 296 from Angus 310.
Nor­mally we try not to post snip­pets, but we feel this one is import­ant enough.
At tonight’s CUS Board of Dir­ect­ors meet­ing (6:00pm, Henry Angus 310 296) there will be a vote to have the CUS go to a stu­dent ref­er­en­dum to implement […]