The Blitz: Character win
Without a doubt, defense won this game for the T-Birds.
News
While none of them seem to agree on how to tackle the housing crisis or even where it’s coming from, they all agree that the majority of rental housing in the city is unaffordable for low-income workers and students.
Colin Moore, director of UBC Food Services, says that bottled water is “kind of a necessary evil.”
Since last month’s alleged voyeur incident in Place Vanier, students living in the residence have said they feel unsafe and are concerned about campus security.
Culture
Summers used a fantastical setting to tell a story about real-world issues, such as imperialism, race and abuse.
The siblings discuss a meaningful picture of their mother, a hymn Georgia doesn’t want to sing, David’s sexual identity and the time his train leaves in the morning – all built up like they should matter, and they’re all wasted.
Eight Ways to Fate and All is a play that took the conventional stereotypes of substance abusers and shone upon them a realistic pathway towards understanding for all knowledge levels.
The show focuses on Harris’ time working at a call relay centre for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Syracuse, New York. She explores the vulnerability and compassion it takes to be on both sides of the phone line through a series of vignettes and poetry.
Sports
After two wins last weekend against the Lethbridge Pronghorns, the team is riding a high going into their first games on home ice.
Now in her second season with the Thunderbirds, Steer put up six goals and five assists through September — surpassing her four goals and six assists through her entire 2017 season.
They may not have played this weekend, but football still had its fair share of stories to tell.
With several teams playing at home for the holiday weekend, from basketball to hockey, there was lots going on in the athletics world — not to mention the host of away games happening too.
Opinion
“Even if you ‘never get the flu,’ or are thinking about rolling the dice and dealing with the symptoms if they come, you should still get the shot for everyone else’s sake.”
Experts agree that what you eat has a very direct and significant impact on your physiology and biochemistry.
The unfortunate news is that this will likely lead to a conversation involving the three of you and the living arrangement
But if Hamid wants a more engaged Council, it might be worth remembering that they are not— and should not be—a Board.
Features
The idea of introducing scientific methods into the study of religion is at the core of one of Slingerland’s newest projects, the Database of Religious History, which functions as an online encyclopedia of scholarly knowledge on religious cultural history that is structured and visualized in time and space.
Jump Start has grown to over 3,400 students, both international and domestic. And its benefits have been linked not just to improving retention, but to improving almost every aspect of a student’s university career.
Iceland is a land of contrasts: behemoth glaciers sliding slowly past actively smoking volcanoes. The tranquility of the aurora borealis was interrupted by the roar of the deadly waves crashing against the black cliffs of the southern coast.
Boyd, an associate professor of law, policy and sustainability in the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, had been appointed as the second-ever United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, a five-year position he began in August.
Science
“We’ve made IUDs cost equivalent here such that students are able to access both hormone-releasing and copper IUDs at the same price point in a simplified system.”
Talking about Gerardo’s work, Rohling said “there’s both a good science, and a little bit of art.”
“The ultimate goal for the simulation is to enhance the education experience for the students, afford them the opportunities that … they might not get before they are out in the workforce," said Skoretz.
“With trees, it’s really easy to get a ruler and measure out the tree rings, but there’s no trees in the high arctic – it’s too hostile of an environment,” she said.