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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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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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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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A BRIEF CRITIQUE OF THE UBC FARM MISSION STATEMENT

My object­ive in this com­ment­ary is to assess crit­ic­ally and ana­lyze the UBC Farm Mis­sion State­ment pro­posed in the South Cam­pus Aca­demic Plan . This offi­cial devel­op­ment plan starts out already assum­ing that there is some single body of the­ory out ther…

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Bored of Governors: Outside Ponderosa at the Original Great Farm Trek

Ed Dur­gan and Rodrigo went to the Pon­der­osa Com­plex to check out the Board of Gov­ernors meet­ing at the ori­ginal date set for the Great Farm Trek, Novem­ber 27th 2008.
The videos show sev­eral people who had atten­ded that meet­ing com­ing out and ignor­ing or dis­miss­ing the stu­dents, with a few excep­tions. Bijan Ahma­dian gives an […]

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