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Students have reported a range of problems with the service ranging from improperly parked bikes to bikes emitting a “chirping” noise.
On paper, Student Court is the society’s neutral third-party decision-making body in times of disagreement — in practice, it is hasn’t been functional in 10 years.
Despite insistence that there is wide support for the project, the university still has plenty of people to convince.
Currently, UBC doesn’t prohibit romantic relationships between students and faculty.
At its February 6 meeting, AMS Council approved a referendum question to expand the Sexual Assault Support Fund (SASF) fee from $3.65 to $9.30. It also voted to endorse the fee increase.
In recent months, AMS VP Academic and University Affairs Max Holmes has been working on budget proposals to UBC — and he now expects that about $7 million of the AMS asks are on the university’s priority list.
Undergraduate students may soon be able to take journalism courses pending a potential merger between the journalism school and an undergraduate writing department.
According to the arts faculty’s Associate Dean Academic Dr. Stefania Burk, the proposal is currently being reviewed by the faculty’s curriculum committee — and it seems to be going well.
The campus was originally open for classes as announced at 6:20 a.m on the school’s website.
“The productivity right now is so low that it warrants talking about it to create a net positivity in the future."
Essential services — like Student Health Services, UBC Campus Security and food services — continue to operate.
Event co-organizer Alexa McPhee described the event as a community art project “led by mainly Indigenous women with … a lot of support from allies.”
“You don't think that you're going to have to have a special budget to buy special clothes that you have to wear for various events that the school puts on."
UBC cancelled an “accent reduction workshop” for international co-op students following backlash.