UBC Journalism 'On The Beat'
Hassan Arshad sat on a chair in front of the UBC MRI Research Center on Saturday and read a consent form given to him by Matt Dixon. Arshad took off his black sunglasses, crossed his legs and swayed his right foot lightly as he read the form. Arshad is subject number 14 of 15 participants […]
Nine years ago, Meghan Gardiner wrote a ten minute script for her graduation project for her UBC acting degree. Over the following years, it grew into a 45 minute performance where Gardiner plays ten characters. She has now performed Dissolve, her one-woman show on sexual assault, over 450 times across North America. On a Tuesday […]
Sarah Meli left her room early on Friday morning and walked to one of the common kitchens in her graduate residence to start cooking for the birthday party. She had sent an email three weeks earlier to inform over 150 residents of St John’s College that she was organizing a party for those born in […]
When Hisham Soliman chanted the words ‘Allah-u Akbar’ last Friday, over a 100 people fell to their knees and bowed down towards the direction of Mecca. The group consisted mostly of men, around ten women and one young toddler who stared inquisitively at the people as their foreheads touched the floor.The young boy watched, fidgeted […]
Last Saturday evening, while students were at the bars or in the books, a lecture hall at UBC was packed with grey and white haired citizens to hear Gwynne Dyer speak about climate change. The talk entitled, “Geopolitics in a Hotter World,” was the fall kickoff to a series of free public lectures hosted by […]
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 […]
On Friday afternoon the main room of UBC’s Asian Centre was full of economists eager to discuss fixing, of all things, the environment. Welcome to the 21st century. Environmental economist Lawrence H. Goulder gave the keynote speech in a weekend long conference entitled, “UBC 2010 Workshop on Environmental Economics and Climate Change.” His talk outlined […]
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 […]
UBC is no stranger to criticism over lack of consultation with students when it comes to campus development. But the design of the new Student Union Building is taking a revolutionary approach of engaging students’ input from the beginning. At least that’s the stated aim. Last Tuesday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the AMS […]
