Iman Janmohamed

The Ubyssey won four John H. McDonald Awards for Excellence in Student Journalism this weekend at the Canadian University Press’ national student journalism conference.

More than 150 racialized legal academics and allies signed two open letters calling on UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law to implement equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) practices.

The AMS is hosting a debate for candidates running in the provincial election to represent Vancouver-Point Grey today, Friday, October 18, from 6–7 p.m. in the Norm Theatre in the Life Building.

On October 10, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed a bid to appeal a BC Court of Appeal decision which allowed former UBC professor Steven Galloway’s defamation trial to proceed to trial.

We hate clichés. How cliché!

You open your phone to an avalanche of texts from your friends about some breaking news. Your fingertips brush against the cold, smooth glass of your phone screen. You move over to Instagram to see what all the buzz is about. The only problem? You can’t see the news.

I know it’s hard not to compare yourself to others, especially when they’re your friends. But here is something important to keep in mind: appearances can be deceiving.

Reporting and protesting hold common ground in finding value in amplifying voices. Anyone can share their voice, be a voice, initiate change — maybe taking action is being human.

MOA’s recent closure was part of a series of seismic safety upgrades — funded in part by BC’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills and the Government of Canada — to the museum’s Great Hall.

UBC’s Board of Governors met in the University Centre Ballroom at UBC Okanagan on June 27 to discuss the encampments on UBC campuses and to receive an update on the university’s Climate Action Plan 2030.

One week after the AMS’s special general meeting failed to meet quorum, Sulong UBC held a community meeting to demand AMS reinstatement of staff food-bank access.

On June 1, Palestinian solidarity encampment protesters held a rally and occupied campus buildings to disrupt the BC NDP Forward conference held in the Nest.

University is a time of rapid change and self-exploration, and you and your friends found each other in the chaos of exams, breakups, papers, makeups, a global pandemic and everything in between. And that’s beautiful.

Every April, Ubyssey staff elect the next year’s editorial. These are the editors who will be heading up each section of The Ubyssey for its 106th year.

On May 15, around 50 protestors affiliated with the Palestinian solidarity encampment occupied the seventh floor of Koerner Library to call on UBC to release a statement within 24 hours responding to the encampment’s demands.

At UBC, changing perceptions about Queerness in engineering frequently falls on the shoulders of students or student-run clubs like Gears and Queers.

The Ubyssey spent a day on MacInnes Field to learn about community members’ motivations for attending the encampment.

On April 24, AMS Council met to rescind its investigation into the UBC Social Justice Centre (SJC) and pass its updated respectful workplace (PC1) and sexualized violence (PC2) policies.

On Monday night, AMS Council approved a new code change allowing the society to launch an investigation into the Social Justice Centre (SJC) after the group allegedly consulted lawyers without informing the AMS.

Here are the top features of the 2023/24 academic year.