For the first time ever, UBC is revisiting its 45-year-old Academic Freedom Policy.
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But in the classroom, the concept and careful implementation of academic freedom can help to navigate sensitive discussions.
This past week was Transgender Awareness Week leading up to today’s Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Ubyssey talked to UBC community members about the significance of this week and day.
In a statement released across social media on Friday morning, Peter Smailes, UBC’s vice-president finance & operations, said it did not endorse UBC SFE. He referred to it as an “external group.”
According to a recent study, nearly 46 per cent of Canadians believe in at least one COVID-19 conspiracy theory circulating online.
A counter-demonstration entitled “Rally in Support of Trans Rights!” brought a group of students, faculty, staff and community members together at the Martha Piper Fountain.
Roughly 75 students gathered in front of the Nest’s Pride Installation on Wednesday evening for a meet-up as a peaceful show of solidarity against a talk from a transphobic speaker.
Sounds of mockery from the audience were just as piercing as the harmonious melodies, and it was difficult not to feel trapped.
Occasionally splintered along a divide between current executives and newcomers, the five AMS presidential candidates largely shared similar policy responses in their first showdown.
“It is a response to a time of polarization in our society,” said Erfan.
Another of Hamid’s executive goals was to create a centralized space for feedback on AMS services — but nothing has materialized so far.
Holmes is one of the AMS’s most visible, ambitious and productive executives.
“Rather than promoting goodwill and unity, the AMS has failed to condemn hate in some instances while hyperbolizing it in others. I want an AMS that respects that students can have unity and goodwill amongst each other despite disagreements.“
“In our constitution the AMS has as an objective ‘to promote unity and goodwill amongst its members.‘ The AMS therefore denounces all forms of violence and marginalization on campus, regardless of at whom it is directed“
“Public speech like Shapiro’s that called trans people’s existence and dignity into question that reinforced prejudice against [them] as liars and mentally ill, as dangerous.”
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