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Engineer Expresses Concerns about UBC Development

Today, a 5th year Phys­ics Engin­eer­ing stu­dent from my close circle of friends sent me a txt mes­sage. He wrote: “Dude did u get elec­ted? U should blog about how ubc hated trek park and they ended up mak­ing it… Also the road paver in front of…

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REFERENDA CORRECTED:

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…

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UBC STUDENT MEDIA DURING THE AMS ELECTIONS: PATRICK CARACAS in CHARGE!

Dear stu­dents,
The UBC Stu­dent Media is now under the dir­ec­tion of Patrick Cara­cas, 4th year Film Pro­duc­tion Stu­dent. Learn more about Patrick Cara­cas:
UBYSSEY FEATURE
GOOGLE VIDEOS
FACEBOOK GROUP
Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes will not be con­trib­ut­ing to the UBC Stu­dent Media through­out the upcom­ing AMS elec­tions. More inform­a­tion:
UBC INSIDERS
UBC SPECTATOR
The UBYSSEY
SOCIAL CAPITAL
Pos­ted in UBC […]

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STUDENT POWER and the UBC FARM

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, initi…

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The LIBERALS vs the NDPHAVE WE FINALLY LOST IT?? The AMS needs a chill pill and it is coming!

How far has the influ­ence of Cana­dian polit­ical parties rup­tured rela­tion­ships between stu­dents, and trampled over the lar­ger interests of the UBC stu­dent com­munity? The recent move taken by out­spoken stu­dents who are mem­bers of the BC Lib­er­als on coun…

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FREDERICK DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY, TOOPE RETALIATES: AN INVESTIGATION of the UNDERGROUND BUS LOOP DEBACLE

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 b…

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FREDERICK DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY, TOOPE RETALIATES: AN INVESTIGATION of the UNDERGROUND BUS LOOP DEBACLE

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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CCP’s Walking Tour UPDATED to include the UBC FARM!

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 UB

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STUDENT RESISTANCE, the UBC FARM MOVEMENT and the UNDERGROUND BUS-LOOP FIASCO

In this art­icle, I exam­ine the fail­ure of the under­ground bus-loop devel­op­ment pro­ject at UBC. This pro­ject was going to cost UBC around 40 mil­lion CAD, at a time that the uni­ver­sity is being deeply affected by fund­ing cuts to Arts stu­dents, the lack o…

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Mundell Park @ Wesbrook Place – UBC Campus and Community Planning’s “future” for the UBC Farm??

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 ma…

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