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NCAA? No way!

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Voice your opinion about UBC’s potential join to NCAA (division II), an athletic association of the United States! Your voice will really make a difference – not many people know about this issue!

Submit an online response form by 11:59 pm TONIGHT by clicking this link: feedback.cfm?page=online

Obviously, I’m very against this whole thing. Feel free to side with whichever view you choose, but keep in mind YOUR OPINION IS CRUCIAL AS TO WHETHER THIS HAPPENS.

Here is what I wrote:

I came to UBC because of the strong focus on academics and the pursuit of knowledge. As a first year, I fear that the attempt of this athletic recognition will reduce the attention to academics at UBC. And as far as the “pros” of this situation, I think that increased school spirit is NOT a fair trade for the decrease in attention to scholarly pursuits at this university. I don’t want UBC to become a school where people come to be athletes. I would be very angry and disappointed with the school as well if less funding was given to academic-focused scholarships in order to boost the amount of money available to athletic scholarships. Finally, I think that by entering the NCAA (which has incredibly limited spots for Canadian teams) we would alienate ourselves from other schools in Canada – only to be able to play against second-rate schools in the States. This whole situation is a bad idea which only benefits the athletes and athletic components of UBC. I hope very much that it doesn’t end up happening.

If you have any thoughts/opinions/ideas, submit them! This is your school too! Just keep in mind I am incredibly biased and basing your response off mine might not be a great idea if you don’t know exactly what’s happening. However, if you agree with me (which I really hope you do), then I encourage you even more to complete the online response form by 11:59 TONIGHT.

Lindsay

PS. I swear it only takes 10 minutes. I know you have 10 minutes.

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Remember when I said Asha is cool?

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If you want to have a laugh, read on…

I’m in English 110, which, as I have come to realize, is a course based on studying complicated pieces of literature. Being a science gal (though I do love writing and reading), some of the stuff is a bit hard for me to comprehend and can be really frustrating at times.

For example: Emily Dickinson. As far as I know, she was a recluse who hung around home all day and wrote thousands of poems that she never intended to be published. So. Was she a profound person? Or just crazy? I mean, some of her work is brilliant. It’s just that sometimes I find it really hard to squeeze meaning from certain things she says, i.e.

“Because He knows — and

Do not You —

And We know not —

Enough for Us

The Wisdom it be so”

(excerpt from an untitled poem [480] by Emily Dickinson)

According to Asha, the speaker behind this stanza “is like Yoda after having a stoke”. I agree. And best of all, I got a huge laugh out of the whole thing and really feel a lot better about analyzing profound (or not so much) sayings by famous people. Thanks bud 🙂

And so Now my

Friends

I must say — adieu — to

go and

read — More

pOems.

– nLdsyai

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September 6: Brosh/Firthday.

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If you’re a Science student and have forgotten our amazing cheer, here it is:

3.14159, we are Science – we’re so fine.

Physics, Bio, Chemistry: you can’t handle our degree!

SCI-ENCE! U-B-C!!!

My Frosh was absolutely incredible. Imagine – 200 people (excluding our leaders, some of whom were sporting some very nice underwear over their clothes in a fit of faculty pride) running around campus and downtown Vancouver for ten hours and dancing up a storm on a private boat cruise near Vancouver – dessert included. I can’t believe how much fun I had yesterday! Frosh events have so much potential to be epic, and I wasn’t disappointed in any way! How could I have been? I got to participate in: a milk chug (dyed  blue, of course, for the faculty); a spontaneous water balloon fight; a scavenger hunt set in downtown Vancouver that asked for things such as a bottle filled with my group’s spit, a blue slinky, photo evidence of being piggybacked by a cop, a xerox of somebody’s face, sneaky paparazzi photos of celebrity look-alikes; and many more (incredibly bizarre) things. Anyways, I think the Science Undergraduate Society (SUS) and UBC’s Faculty of Science (as well as all the amazing volunteers) deserve a HUGE thanks for donating so much of their time and amazing ideas to the day.

So THANKS!!!!!!!!

All that aside, yesterday was also my 18th birthday. Like Frosh, it was about as close to perfect as it could get. I had cake on the boat cruise, and on the way home my Frosher/fellow Froshees were sweet enough to sing to me. My inbox and Facebook wall were full of birthday wishes. And, to top it all off, I arrived home at 12:30 – dead tired – to a decorated door that was quite “phalic” as my RA described it, but full of love all the same. To Kayla, Nikki, Nicholas, Eileen, John, Lucy, Jason, Emily, Aron, and Riley: thank you so much. I thought that having a birthday so quickly after leaving home would be really sad… I guess it just goes to show that you never know when so much kindness and caring are going to hit you. Be prepared – it’s a touching moment. Anyways, to EVERYONE who made September 6/2008 the day it was, thanks. I can’t say it enough.

I can’t imagine a better way to have finally reached adulthood.

LOVE,

Lindsay

ps. Check out photo documentation of my door: Birthday Door <3, More Birthday Door <3

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