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A photo of a blue banner hanging in the Nest that reads AMS Elections.

Yesterday at 2:25 PM

New graduate student senator election to be held after initial ballot nullified

The graduate student senator election has to be rerun after an AMS error caused results to be nullified by UBC.

Iman Janmohamed

A photo of the a sign hanging in the Nest which blue and has "ams eletions" in white text across it.

Referendum calling on AMS to support two-day student strike for Palestine passes

A photo of the outside of the Ubyssey board office. The wall reads: The Ubyssey Administration Office.

Razia, Wong, McAllister secure Ubyssey Board of Directors seats

A photo of five people slashed together.

Nawar, Lorien, Hassib, Gupta, Yi-Kieran win UBC Senate seats

Culture

Photos and sheets of paper with text on them stuck to a window and white wall.

March 18

The Beauty in BIPOC exhibit is by women of colour, for women of colour

The Beauty in BIPOC may be depicted through the lens of modern cameras, but it highlights a problem that women of colour have been experiencing over many generations.

Tiana Khandelwal

A red book cover with an illustration of a shocked blond woman with her hands on the sides of her face. There are large block letters reading "She's a Lamb."

She’s a Lamb! details the unapologetic lengths one performer will go to claim the stage

Realwheels Theatre accepting artists to disability-led performance arts training program

A quilted piece hung on a white wall depicting henna designs being drawn onto a hand. There's a thin white curtain with red flower designs beside it.

In the middle of things — Medias Res Gallery platforms Farsi-speaking artists

Features

Igor Drljača wears a black turtleneck and smiles at the camera on the top floor of the Nest in front of the rooftop garden.

March 11

For Igor Drljača, film is about self-healing and reclaiming truth

As a kid, Igor Drljača could never get through the New Year’s Eve screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey that a local Toronto television station would play before midnight in the 90s.

Fiona Sjaus

Peter Wall photographed wearing a grey suit, white collared shirt, orange tie and purple scarf in front of the One Wall Centre.

Real estate developer and philanthropist Peter Wall dies at 87

Kamakshi Anand smiling at the camera in a green sweater outside IKB on a sunny day.

Kamakshi Anand’s poetry tells the stories numbers can’t

Sophie Co smiles at the camera while sitting in front of the UBC fountain in a white jacket and black top.

‘An essential part of life’: Sophie Co tackles food insecurity through the power of community

Opinion

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Yesterday at 5:00 PM

Hyperlinked: No, the bus does not sound like your playlist

Everywhere we go, we surround ourselves with music. But are our playlists actually inspiring — as they should be — or just white noise? Let your inner monologue find its voice more often, writes Media Columnist Colin Angell.

Colin Angell

Nobody (Tony Kulenovic) is pictured on the left wearing a white hoodie that covers his face, gesturing to himself. u/sasamats (Eve Sankar) smiles raising her right hand in the centre. Barry 'Bee' Buzzword (Quyen Schroeder) is on the right, facing right but with their heard turned smiling toward the camera. All three candidates are shown in black and white, surrounded by a thin white outline and placed on top of a photo of the AMS Nest with a translucent blue overlay.

Opinion: We ran for AMS President as joke candidates. Here’s why

American President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy (right) posing with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his wife Olive Diefenbake (middle) on the steps of Parliament in Ottawa on May 18, 1961.

Opinion: What a Cold War-era foreign relations crisis can teach us about today’s

Nathan Herrington, wearing brown pants, a black coat and a black and white keffiyeh being held by RCMP officers in navy clothing as he is being walked forward. Herrington is speaking to passersby, and his backpack is being carried by police.

Letter to the editor: UBC staffer’s detention is part of a pattern of racial and political profiling

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Humour

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March 18

MORE cool pick-up lines to subject your crush to

Try these lines to see if you have chemistry.

Ariela Heimlich

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Ha-roscope: March movies

Panel 1: Two people sitting on the floor. Person One says "AMS elections are happening." Person Two says "Already?" Person One says "Yeah, and nobody's gonna pay attention, let alone vote." Person Two says "I know I'm not!"
Panel 2: Person One says: "Yeah, case in point. Drives me nuts. What's it take for people to get interested?" Person Two says "I dunno, it just doesn't have the feeling of a real election."
Panel 3: Person One says "A real election... What could make it feel more like a real election?"
Panel 4: Person One has a lightbulb over his head.
Panel 5: There's a box at the top of the panel that says "One week later." In the panel, Person One stands at a podium in front of a crowd. Behind them, there's a sign that says "Me for AMS president." Person one says to the crowd "Vote for me and I will punish the outgroup!"

Turnout

Icon of a person with question marks above their head. AMS positions — President, VP AUA, VP administration, VP external affairs and VP finance — are written faintly in the background.

Quiz: Which AMS executive position matches your personality?

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Science

Illustration of two blue hands spelling out "BC" in ASL. The letters "BC" are superimposed over the image.

March 12

Help BC Hear Better is advocating for better hearing health care across the province

Three adult groups in BC have hearing health costs covered by the provincial health care system — people with disabilities, veterans (who are primarily covered federally) and workers who develop hearing loss due to work-related noise exposure, thanks to WorkSafe BC. The rest of the population? No coverage.

Yomna Bedaiwy, Illustrations by Emilija Vītols Harrison