Month: July 2009

Koerner’s Pub Patio Project

Post author By Neal Yonson
Post date July 31, 2009

At the last GSS Council meeting on July 23, 2009, a plan to expand Koerner’s Pub came up for council approval. However, before it could be dealt with quorum was lost for the third month in a row and no decision could be made. This project has been on the table for quite a while now, and many people have put a lot of work into refining the design and financing options of the plan.

Most graduate students and other patrons of Koerner’s Pub are unaware of the planned pub expansion. Since it represents one of the biggest and most meaningful projects the GSS has considered in a number of years, this post is meant to inform all of those people about what the project’s all about, why it’s worthwhile, and what the current situation is. Most of the information in here represent the findings of the Pub Patio Project Task Force (PPPTF) and its presentation to council, which can be viewed here.

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AMS Council: July 29, 2009

Post author By Neal Yonson
Post date July 30, 2009

Highlights from AMS Council tonight:

Art Gallery gets $23,000
New pricing policy for Whistler Lodge in February 2010

Long overdue, you can now get the agenda and documentation on the AMS’s own website!

Geoff Costeloe wants everyone to know he is hot and sweaty. But I’m pretty sure he didn’t mean it in the fun boy-girl way.

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Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena?

Post author By Neal Yonson
Post date July 23, 2009
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The new Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre is currently applying for an amendment to their liquor-primary licence. The matter will be coming before Metro Vancouver’s Electoral Area committee for approval this Friday and there seems to be a significant hurdle in the way: as a result of past violations, the RCMP does not support it.

Read the letter from the RCMP about problems Athletics has been having controlling alcohol and drugs at concerts held in the arena.
This letter was posted yesterday on the the @ubcinsiders Twitter feed. For up-to-date news, follow us!
The full agenda package can be found here, and contains a wealth of documents about the application, though hopefully I will be able to save you the trouble of reading through it all.

Thunderbird Arena currently has a liquor-primary licence which covers the seating area in Father Bauer arena as well as the location of the former Thunderbar. When the new facility was erected around Father Bauer arena, the new areas were not covered under the existing liquor licence. As a result, UBC Athletics is applying for an amendment to the existing liquor-primary licence to cover the seating area and floor of the new arena. This application is not only in UBC’s interests, VANOC wants it too. It’s in the venue agreement, and so UBC does as VANOC wants.

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AMS Council: July 8, 2009

Big party tonight! Highlights:

Olympics, Olympics, Olympics!
We support Iran… being referred to committee
2009-2010 budget

There was a very full house tonight, 90-100 people for the hour-long Olympics presentation by Michelle Aucoin, UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat, Kristen Harvey, PR person for VANOC (and former AMS president!) and Manon Chouinard, PR for the Integrated Security Unit. Although those were the speakers, the delegation was much larger including two RCMP officers, three ISU members and other Olympics Secreteriat staff.

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AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009

Post author By Neal Yonson
Post date July 7, 2009

Since the AMS has not yet mastered the art of putting meeting dates and agendas online yet, the next one is:

Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 6 PM. SUB 206.

Agenda

The most interesting thing will be a presentation from Michelle Aucoin, Director of the UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat about what to expect when the Olympics happen on campus. If you or anyone you know is curious or concerned about the impacts of the Olympics at UBC, I encourage you show up, and to spread the word! TIP: there’s also free food. If you spread the word about that as well, you may have more success.

For example, UBC released a memo outlining how fields in Thunderbird Park are getting paved over for the duration of the Games. The fields will be handed over to VANOC July 17, 2009.