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Terry Tales: Game On!!

If you liked Terry Talks then you are going to love Terry’s next big event: Terry Tales!

This is your chance to meet and talk with like minded stu­dents about issues that mat­ter to you. Think of it as a mini-Terry Talks. Each stu­dent comes with a 5 minute story in …

UBC Tuition Consultation: What Does It Really Say?

So I just received an e-mail from UBC ask­ing me to fill out a sur­vey on tuition. There are three ques­tions and they read as follows:

To what extent will the pro­posed 2% tuition increase ($88.59 on a base Arts/Science tuition) be an imped­i­ment to you con­tinu­ing your stud­ies at UBC?
Your …

UBC MIX Update

Although, I would love to apply the fam­ous words of Mary Shelly’s Dr. Franken­stein, “Its alive!!!” to the 2008 Wish “Its still alive!!” may be more accurate.

Many of you may have thought the con­trary. Thought that no work had been done on the Wish and it had slowly dis­in­teg­rated in …

UBC MIX Announces First Partnership!!!

I’m pleased to announce UBC MIX’s first part­ner­ship: Sci­ence One Bio­logy and HIST 104!

This part­ner­ship is a great one and the fac­ulty involved are cer­tainly diving into it head first.

There are sev­eral com­pon­ents to this part­ner­ship. I’m going to go ahead and out­line what the plan is.

There will be 4 …

UBC MIX is hiring!

Dear Terry­verse,
If you have been fol­low­ing Terry for the past little while you will know that come this Septem­ber, UBC MIX will be ush­er­ing in its first part­ner­ship between Sci­ence One Bio­logy and His­tory 104.

In order to help facil­it­ate this part­ner­ship, we will be hir­ing a Gradu­ate Aca­demic Assist­ant for …

UBC Prioritizes Octogenarians Over Student Life

A pro­posal went though recently to put a hos­pice on cam­pus. This seems like a great way for UBC to make some extra coin on some of the cam­puses unused land. Prob­lem though — one of the pro­posed sites for the hos­pice is behind St. John’s Col­lege — right next …

Thoughts on the Issue at Hand

Well it sure has been a crazy 48 hours. That’s the biggest reason that I haven’t writ­ten one of these already. I wanted to take some time to let things fil­ter out and crys­tal­lize a bit. Haste makes waste they say. That and through­out the whole pro­cess all I found …

Senate Agenda for November 18th Meeting

After see­ing the Agenda for this month’s Sen­ate meet­ing I thought I would post it up for every­one to see what Sen­ate does on a month to month basis. I’ve included a little back­ground on each item that I think is sig­ni­fic­ant. If you have any ques­tions feel free to …

Continuing Down the Rabbit Hole

So where do we stand after Wednesday’s coun­cil meet­ing. Lets first look at what we have learned and move on to what what will hap­pen in the com­ing days. I’m feel­ing very much like Alice today and so this post is influ­enced by Carrol’s fantasy world, one of my favourite …

Some Papers I Wrote

I thought I would be an egot­ist­ical bas­tard and post up some papers I wrote this year for one of my all time favor­ite classes: POLI 310 — Par­lia­ment and Party: The Strategy of Polit­ics. If you are in poli-sci you must take this course. I really liked writ­ing the …