Apr

11

quickie update.

Posted by: | April 11, 2008 | 7 Comments

Looks like Kwantlen won’t be leaving the CFS just yet. Steve Lee, KUSA Director of Finance, had this to say (via MSN): “one major complaint was the high amount of stuff – free food, donuts, candy, isic cards, buttons – that the cfs was giving away.when we put forward a set of rules to the […]

Apr

11

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Good luck on exams everyone!!

Mar

13

Quick note on our comment threads

Posted by: | March 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Quick note on our comment threads

With the latest discussions around our guest editorials, we’ve been forced to remove some comments because they were outside the implicit code of respect expected on our blog. We have preserved the option for anonymous comments because we think it is an important option in some (though not many) cases. Anonymity is not an exemption […]

Mar

11

Counterpoint: Of the Knolligarchy and Other Phantasmagoric Creatures of the AMS Politics

Posted by: | March 11, 2008 | 45 Comments

An opinion piece by Bahram Norouzi When Maayan emailed me a week ago and asked me to write an opposing perspective on “power-mongering in the AMS assisted by AMS funds” by the “Knolligarchy” I knew that I was up for some crap, what I didn’t know was its magnitude. Having read the opinion piece by […]

Feb

13

Check in.

Posted by: | February 13, 2008 | 35 Comments

Hello everyone. I would invite us all to think about what sort of issues we have yet to cover on this blog. We’ve been feverishly covering the elections, but we would like to continue to focus on the issues. We of course accept emails too, if you don’t want to leave a comment. Thank you.

Feb

6

Yet another threat

Posted by: | February 6, 2008 | 15 Comments

http://www.ubc.ca/bulletins/index.html Vancouver Campus Advisory — New Threat ReceivedTue. Feb. 5, 4:15 pm Broadcast message to all UBC Vancouver Students, Faculty and Staff from President Stephen J. Toope For the second time in a week, our Vancouver campus community has received a threatening message. In this second case, an unspecific threat has been made for Wednesday. […]

Jan

14

Allan McEachern

Posted by: | January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

It’s elections season. The posts will be coming fast and furious. Please scroll for Brendon’s thoughtful first Issue of the Day. UBC’s Chancellor Allan McEachern died last week. And over the weekend had a bit of a chance to reminisce and reflect. He led a fascinating life. His death is reverberating through the legal community; […]

Nov

7

Things to notice when the lights go out

Posted by: | November 7, 2007 | 9 Comments

So two times today, power failed at UBC. The first time was around 1 in the afternoon. Sebastian, from my plant genetics class recounted to me that someone else in his lab had lost 100 PCR reactions that had been in the thermocycler due the 20-minute outage. I sympathized absently, and wondered how much money […]

Aug

30

Eom, Louman-Gardiner, Kreitzman, meet in unprecedented summit

Posted by: | August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment

Monday saw the first-ever gathering of three of UBC’s preeminent bloggers. In an unprecedented move, the three pen-wielding heavyweights met for sweet-potato frites and girly beer at a depressingly swish, undisclosed Main St. location. In two and a half hours of talks, Eom professed the “new worldliness” of her pinot, and Louman-Gardiner brought up his […]

Jul

12

Recognizing the Staff on Campus

Posted by: | July 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

It looks like the President’s Service Award for Excellence is getting a facelift, or at the very least formalizing informal guidelines which were practiced for several years. Currently, the PSAE is open to both faculty and staff, the recipients (up to five per year) receive a gold medal and a monetary award of $5000. Having […]

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