Learning a bit of a new language out of interest should certainly be encouraged, yet this may not provide the skills that the Faculty of Arts aims to teach, writes Marie Erikson.
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"The university dilemma has arisen because, as a society, we’ve molded university into a place where study is a means to an end. In the case of Bowdoin, it is even worse - a business model. That was never, and should never, have been the project of the university," writes Sunny Das.
Campus colours connect you with an in-group despite not knowing each other. This visual identification breaks down the toughest barriers to forming social connections by showing commonality, writes Kev Heieis.
We hate clichés. How cliché!
“Your life doesn’t follow a fictional plot line,” writes Azquet Gomez Merlo.
Simply improving public opinion of bisexuals might not be the answer to reducing biphobia. It is a question of ontology: how we think up the categories we use to classify ourselves and how these classifications can be exclusionary to those who live on the margins of them, writes Elodie Bailey Vaudandaine.
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.
"When administrators are determined to embrace genocidaires and frame those partnerships as a meaningful contribution to the academy regardless of the violence they perpetuate, how are we to take their professed ‘commitments’ to human rights and equality seriously?" writes Graduate Students for Palestine.
“In this political climate, students are willing to face the risk of retaliation for using their voices to speak for the voiceless — the innocent children and families of Gaza — and this is nothing short of commendable,” writes Harleen Kaur.
"If we all took heed, we would recognize that those who built the People’s University for Gaza at UBC are not the enemy but are forging a path based on knowledge and justice," writes the Collective of Concerned Asian Studies Faculty.
For the first time since we became a society in 1996 (excluding a small update in 2017), I, along with board members and editors, am working on a bylaw review.
Anna Pontin argues that the source of stagnation between UBC administrators and Palestinian solidarity protesters is the university's failure to acknowledge that protesters initiated conversations months before the encampment even began.
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.
These are the editors who will be heading up each section of The Ubyssey for its 106th year.
"Today, as B.C. moves forward with legislation to implement the Haida Title Lands Agreement, I hope all Canadians see this development for what it truly is: a positive step to finally live up to the values shared by Indigenous Peoples and Canadians pertaining to justice and respect for human rights," writes Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot.
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