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Wanted: Maverick Sidekick

Thank you to our anonym­ous Tip­ster for provid­ing the UBC Spec­tator with this information.Now I won­der who this could be… any­ways, any­one who knows a Palin look-a-like help this poster out!If you like what you’re read­ing, please con­sider vot­ing for us…

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Wanted: Maverick Sidekick

Thank you to our anonym­ous Tip­ster for provid­ing the UBC Spec­tator with this information.Now I won­der who this could be… any­ways, any­one who knows a Palin look-a-like help this poster out!

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The Battle of the Enigmatic: Thoughts on the VP Academic Race

The VP Aca­demic & Uni­ver­sity Affairs race may be the least-talked about con­tests this year. Ben Cap­pel­lacci and Rodrigo Fer­rari Nuñes are going head-to-head this year for the pos­i­tion. But with the atten­tion going to other pos­i­tions (hotly cont…

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The Battle of the Enigmatic: Thoughts on the VP Academic Race

The VP Aca­demic & Uni­ver­sity Affairs race may be the least-talked about con­tests this year. Ben Cap­pel­lacci and Rodrigo Fer­rari Nuñes are going head-to-head this year for the pos­i­tion. But with the atten­tion going to other pos­i­tions (hotly cont…

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What Caught Our Eyes Today?

Cam­paign sea­son is offi­cially under­way and here are a few pre­lim­in­ary obser­va­tions on my part:1) Sean Kim’s Obama-esque posters are pretty cool. Very nice edge.2) Jeremy McElroy’s cam­paign pic­tures look awe­some. A good mix of ser­i­ous­ness and friendline…

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Let the Games Begin!!

No, I’m not refer­ring to the Olympics (which will be com­ing to Van­couver in less than a month!! w00t!). Rather, I am refer­ring to the start of cam­paign­ing sea­son with respect to the upcom­ing UBC AMS Elec­tions. In my second full year of being invo…

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1000 Needed for a Referendum!

As per the Impeach the Pres­id­ent and VP External FB Group:As some of you may know, impeach­ment by Coun­cil was unable to go for­ward because AMS bylaws con­flic­ted with the Soci­ety Act. How­ever, there is a new stu­dent ini­ti­at­ive to impeach Blake and Tim t…

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Unbelievable, Untrustworthy, and Unacceptable

Sasa has raised the issue and I credit her with bring­ing the Spec­tator back to life with her post.Wow. Just wow. I am in total shock as to what just happened here. I feel as though I have been slapped in the face by Pres­id­ent Blake Fre­d­er­ick. I’m sure …

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Pants Off! for Charity

One of my friends is organ­iz­ing this cre­at­ive char­ity event, so I thought it’d be worth­while to share it with fel­low students…——Join your fel­low stu­dents and walk through the cen­ter of cam­pus with your under­wear in plain sight. Put it over your c…

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A Very Sad Day

I am pretty sure this is UBC-relevant news, con­sid­er­ing the amount of fans sup­port­ing the Nucks on cam­pus. Our team was hand­ily des­troyed in the 3rd period and lost 7–5 in Game 6 today to the Black­hawks, thus being elim­in­ated from the 2009 NHL Stanley …

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