The Thunderbird Gazette

A note from the AMS Elec­tions Admin­is­trator:
To all those con­cerned:
The Elec­tions Com­mit­tee would like to announce a cor­rec­tion regard­ing the AMS Elec­tions ref­er­en­dum ques­tions:
Ques­tion 2: “Do you sup­port the removal of Blake Fre­d­er­ick from the office of Pres­id­ent?” did not pass, and did not reach quorum. It received 3542 votes in favour, and 1432 votes […]

Dur­ing the Fall term of 2009, the UBC Geo­graphy depart­ment offered a student-directed-seminar on “Envir­on­mental Com­mu­nic­a­tions: Improv­ing our Food Sys­tem by Increas­ing Aware­ness”. Ben Amund­son, a Global Resource Sys­tems (GRS) stu­dent, ini­ti­ated the sem­inar which covered issues of local food secur­ity and com­munity build­ing. Even though I did not need to take any courses this […]

This essay is an invest­ig­a­tion into recent media regard­ing the under­ground bus loop devel­op­ment pro­ject fail­ure at UBC. The AMS Pres­id­ent Blake Fre­d­er­ick issued a pub­lic report to the uni­ver­sity, say­ing that the uni­ver­sity Pres­id­ent, Dr. Toope should be held account­able for the fail­ure of a pro­ject that had been a ‘flawed’ from the begin­ning.
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Our recent art­icle high­light­ing our con­cerns regard­ing the “Wesbrook Place Self-Guided Walk­ing Tour” bro­chure pub­lished recently by the Cam­pus and Com­munity Plan­ning depart­ment, poin­ted out that, in the first ver­sion of the doc­u­ment, the UBC Farm was not labeled prop­erly on the accom­pa­ny­ing map.
Cam­pus and Com­munity Plan­ning (CCP) answered quickly through Tracy Bains, who created […]

UBC Cam­pus and Com­munity Plan­ning has issued a pub­lic­a­tion entitled “Wesbrook Place Walk­ing Tour” that fea­tures this map (above). “Mun­dell Park”, which does not exist yet, is placed right next to the UBC Farm, hid­den from the map. This park, which does not yet exist, is not, to be clear, pas­ted on top of the […]