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UBC’s NEW BRANDING STRATEGY

Friday, October 2, 2009

Peri­od­ic­ally, the UBC admin­is­tra­tion comes up with a brand­ing strategy that seeks to pro­mote the uni­ver­sity. Such cor­por­ate  brand­ing strategy seeks to pro­mote the university’s image abroad. For this aca­demic year, we have been greeted with the …

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The Undergroung Bus Loop Tree Destruction Legacy

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

It will be very hard for you to notice, but the uni­ver­sity has gone ahead and killed a num­ber of trees that were stand­ing on the way of the under­ground diesel bus loop. A UBC Stu­dent Media con­trib­utor was at the scene and has sent us these pic­tures show­ing one of the trees being des­troyed by two […]

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Extra: Laptop & Cookie Campaign Strategy Plagues AMS Elections

Monday, February 2, 2009

A res­id­ent of Place Vanier today filed a com­plaint after wit­ness­ing a cam­paign irreg­u­lar­ity.
People were car­ry­ing laptops from door to door in dorm­it­or­ies, giv­ing people cook­ies and ask­ing them to vote for Johannes Rebane, a com­merce stu­dent at Sauder and can­did­ate for VP Aca­demic.
The stu­dent who wit­nessed this believes any­where from 100–800 votes were cast […]

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Board of Governors: Candidate Commentary

Monday, February 2, 2009

Impres­sions on Plat­forms, Can­did­ates and Races:
This series is one of our final pitches regard­ing the people run­ning for these year’s AMS elec­tions before the end of the online vot­ing period sched­uled for tonight. This post can also be con­sidered like our way of endors­ing or not can­did­ates, high­light­ing some of the reas­ons behind our own […]

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