Thomas O'Donnell

School is back! Which means sports is back!

We’ve compiled a list of some courses that discuss Blackness, race or African cultures. This is by no means an exhaustive list, think of it more as a sampling of courses across the faculty of arts you could take to educate yourself. Caveat: some of these classes are not offered every year, so plan your worklist accordingly.

Ponderosa Cake is a coffee-cake-type loaf sold by UBC Food Services.

The lights, the stage and the pressing questions on policy platforms... Some people glide through the elections unscathed by the pressure and come out victorious, or at least with their dignity intact.

The Anthropology and Sociology building has a history almost as old as the university. The space where it and the Museum of Anthropology stand was previously an army base.

Jennifer Abel, a grad student who has worked in the research commons, is protesting the administration’s sudden decision, saying dedicated graduate student space is integral to student community.

The end of U-Pass season (for non-summer students) is coming. Unless you're willing to pay $172 a month for that three-zone privilege, here are some fun places to go and things to do before the dreaded end on April 30th.

This year’s Persistence of Vision film festival was the UBC Theatre and Film Department’s 28th annual occurrence of this event, showcasing the final short films of students in the UBC Film Production program.

“Carded! is an interactive art party where people buy, collect and trade artists work reproduced on ... trading cards,” says Chris Bentzen, co-founder of the event. He stands next to the other founder, Jim Hoehnle, who is selling the cards out of the furry box.

If you are as bad as I am at returning at library books on time and spend your paycheques paying off library fees, you’ll probably appreciate the Free Little Library — even if it does make you feel like a giant.

The famed laugh-haver will only be doing safety and etiquette announcements for Translink, but we’ve come up with a list of things he should say instead of superfluously introducing himself and talking about compass cards.

“Disposable cameras are such a fun medium, it’s taking something that’s considered low art and then printing it and putting it … into a … gallery space elevates the medium,” said Wong.