The Thunderbird Gazette

Here at Insiders cent­ral, if there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s leav­ing old web­sites in our wake. First there was Insiders 1.0. No joke, it was pretty awe­some. It gave every­one a great out­let to talk about issues, occa­sion­ally flame each other, but most of all to learn about the issues of the day. […]

First meet­ing in a month, but a rel­at­ively light agenda. Here’s a run­down of what’s com­ing up. Present­a­tions Stra­tegic Plan – Bijan Ahma­dian Budget Com­mit­tee – Elin Tayyar/Ben Cap­pel­lacci Vague titles, but you can guess what sorts of things will be in them. The present­a­tion arising from the Final Report on Sys­temic Dis­crim­in­a­tion in the […]

Com­ing to the Board of Gov­ernors in early June is a new set of Park­ing Rules for UBC. Accord­ing to the doc­u­ment, the reas­ons they are look­ing to enact new rules are: (a) revise UBC’s traffic and park­ing regime so that it inter­locks with the new legis­lat­ive frame­work; (b) update and stream­line the exist­ing traffic […]

Back in Janu­ary, UBC Insiders broke a story about email vot­ing by the Board of Gov­ernors. At the time, we inten­ded to actu­ally go into the board policies that were involved. Life and AMS elec­tions got in the way. Hubert Lai, Uni­ver­sity Coun­sel (ie. UBC’s law­yer), gave an inter­view about Policy 116: Com­mer­cial Agree­ments Initiated […]

Might as well go a bit fur­ther into the Stu­dent Court rul­ing, for the sake of the archives. (The next time Stu­dent Court makes a ques­tion­able rul­ing, hope­fully people will come here to find out why the last one was ques­tion­able too.) But not too in depth, so don’t be scared off. Unlike Naylor’s “Rising […]