{"id":18,"date":"2018-04-09T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/?p=18"},"modified":"2018-04-09T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T18:46:34","slug":"ubc-finds-space-for-what-matters-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/2018\/04\/09\/ubc-finds-space-for-what-matters-right\/","title":{"rendered":"UBC Finds Space For What Matters, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a big day at UBC: it was the official opening of the <a href=\"http:\/\/aboriginal.ubc.ca\/indian-residential-school-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre<\/a>. This is a very important thing for UBC to do; as a settler on this land, and a member of the UBC community, I hope very much that this will help in addressing the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear example that UBC will make space for the things that it believes are important. In this case, it built a new space in the heart of campus, right between the two major libraries &#8211; right in the heart of UBC&#8217;s research base, you might say.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect you know where I&#8217;m going with this, but just to make it clear:<\/p>\n<p>If UBC can build a whole new building for something that matters, surely it can spare two floors of a library for its graduate students without taking back a chunk of that for administrative offices. After all, it&#8217;s not administration that makes a university world-class, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubc.ca\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which UBC makes a big deal of being<\/a> ; it&#8217;s research and teaching, both of which graduate students are heavily involved in.<\/p>\n<p>Make more space for what matters, UBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a big day at UBC: it was the official opening of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. This is a very important thing for UBC to do; as a settler on this land, and a member of the UBC community, I hope very much that this will help in addressing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[285166,3459536,3470442,37,3470213],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grad-students","tag-no-koerner-admin-building","tag-space-matters","tag-ubc","tag-what-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nokoerneradminbuilding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}