Sci Week gets David Suzuki, amongst many other pretty interesting activities open to all students.
Arts Week gets lots of bzzr. It’s hard to tell from the official website — which for some reason was never really updated or promoted — but there was Mardi Gras, the Poetry Slam, a Performing Arts Showcase, club booths and some mysterious Gladiator event I can find out nothing about.
Mardi Gras and the Poetry Slam were both 19+ events, so I naturally couldn’t go. Even if I could, I’d only go to the Poetry Slam to see what one is; large parties aren’t my favourite thing. Club booths can be discounted because Science students have that too, and I already joined the ones I wanted last term. Since I was running a fever on the evening of the Performing Arts Showcase, I didn’t go. My first Arts Week thus began and ended on a Tuesday evening.
The Gladiator event was still nowhere to be seen as far as I knew.
It’s probably really hard to organise a week for students of such diverse interests. Arts is likely the most varied discipline at UBC. Regardless, it just seems overly tragic to decide what unites Arts students is a love of malted barley. Two out of the only three running events (club booths don’t count) were 19+. That is two-thirds, which is also the majority. What happens if you — just possibly — don’t like bzzr?
You become an outcast. That means a loner. Like me.
My heart is all broke. I’ll go weep in my corner now.
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