I hope this term looks up for you! Perhaps you could ask Eastwood for tips on studying for psychology?

But that’s too bad about your term :( Hopefully next term treats you better

I WANT IT EM THE POSTER AND ALL ITS GLORY AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
ITS SO AWESOME AND OMG ITS HOLOGRAPHIC THIS IS TOO MUCH

That’s disappointing to hear about the Halo Reach event. No Reach? What kind of event promotes a new game but doesn’t have it available for demo?

And I wasn’t surprised about the kiddy lasertag and freebies (though they are still cool to me) since most of their players are 13-16 years old.

But housing on campus achieves more than a financial return for UBC – it delivers academically, socially and environmentally too. And that is why we are working very hard to increase the supply of student housing on campus. Despite having more student housing at our Vancouver campus than on any other Canadian university campus, we know that there is still high demand at UBC. Our recently approved Vancouver Campus Plan creates the capacity to house 50% of students on campus by 2030. Student Housing and Hospitality Services also has a plan to create 2,500 new units of student housing in the next five years, with 500 new beds coming online at Totem Park Residence by Fall, 2011.

Making the campus a complete community means encouraging a diversity of people – students as well as faculty, staff, and others – to live here. This diversity of people creates the year-round population that will bring more shops and services on campus. (When a large part of the population disappears for four months in the summer means many shop owners don’t see UBC as a good place to locate a business.) And we know this is important for students; in a recent survey we conducted, 74% of students living on campus said this was the most important thing UBC could do to improve their quality of life. Having a more substantial year-round community at UBC, where people can meet all their needs in one place and not have to commute to and from campus so frequently, will also have a huge impact in terms of reducing UBC’s GHG emissions and achieving our sustainability goals. Right now, more than 50% of households at UBC have someone who works or studies on campus, which is one of the most significant contributions UBC can make to sustainability. More housing, of all kinds, will make UBC a more vibrant, livable community for everyone.

I agree that the housing situation at UBC *needs* to be rectified… they are spending money to build an entirely new SUB (our current one is outdated, sure, but hardly unusable) and yet thousands of international AND domestic students end up not being able to come to UBC not because of their academic merit, but because they can’t find a place to live? Ugh so rage inducing.