UBC Journalism 'On The Beat'
The wooden double doors were closed Wednesday afternoon at St. Mark’s College Chapel. Father John McCarthy preached inside the concrete walls to his student congregation attending the weekly 12:10 p.m. mass. Plato’s Cave, the student run café to the right, had its single wooden door propped open. The laughter and chatter of the volunteers inside […]
The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling blasted Tuesday evening from the speakers in the Walter Gage Towers lounge. Volunteers staffed information tables by the doors and distributed pamphlets about sexual assault. Twenty-eight women and eight men sat in the room and bopped their heads to the music’s rhythm. Meghan Gardiner stood beside a velvet […]
Most people came to the President’s Campus Town Hall carrying umbrellas on the rainy Monday morning. Arrivals shed their wet raingear in the Chan Centre of Performing Arts and a homogenous business casual crowd emerged. Platters of bite size sandwiches, colourful vegetables and chocolate covered deserts spread across three tables in the lobby and invited […]
The heels of Lucia Misch’s brown cowboy boots clicked against the concrete floor as she walked across the Bike Kitchen Tuesday evening. “It’s been a busy day today,” said Misch. Several customers inspected bikes hanging from metal piping attached to the ceiling. Two workers circled a bicycle held by a silver stand and debated their […]
The paved road to the University of British Columbia Farm guided a constant stream of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians to the weekly Farmer’s Market. Student volunteer, Arthur Krumins, greeted visitors at the gate and the music of the Grist to the Mill Ceilidh band’s banjos welcomed them inside on the chilly Saturday morning. Toddlers stumbled […]
