Charlotte Alden

All members of the Ubyssey Publications Society (UPS) are eligible to attend and speak at the meeting.

Six years ago the AMS eliminated its Oversight Committee, a committee tasked with holding executives accountable. Now, AMS Council has voted to bring an oversight committee back, in a different form.

We broke down key takeaways from this year's election results: the second highest turnout ever and the first to elect a "joke" candidate since 2017.

The Ubyssey Publications Society Board of Directors oversees the business and financial side of The Ubyssey. Board members have no say over editorial decisions at the paper.

At the event held on March 1, members of the Indigenous Committee and AMS Elections candidates asked questions back and forth about how candidates viewed decolonization and what the Indigenous Committee wanted to see from candidates.

AMS Council appointed Anisha Sandhu as a student senator-at-large on Wednesday night following Dana Turdy’s departure from the UBC Vancouver Senate.

The AMS is reviewing the role of the Managing Director and the current reporting structure of the society to the position. AMS Council approved the terms of reference and appointments at its November meeting.

The AMS is hopeful its businesses will bounce back to profitability after the pandemic and hiring and supply issues compounded to squash AMS businesses’ revenue to a quarter of what it was three years ago.

The UBC Apple Festival returned in-person this weekend, after two years of pandemic-forced closure — but as the climate changes, B.C.'s apples are changing too.

The Apple Festival is back after a two-year pandemic hiatus. To celebrate, two of our editors attended an apple tasting last weekend. Here are our honest, expert opinions as students with strong opinions on apples.

Research assistants and student academic workers at UBC are trying to unionize following years of complaints around pay inequity, bullying and harassment from supervisors and unrealistic work expectations.

The Ubyssey isn’t good at transparency. We don’t properly advertise our finances, our annual general meeting or the student positions on our Board of Directors, and our key editorial guidelines and policies aren’t easily accessible. We're changing that.

Nominations for the Alma Mater Society’s by-election for the VP finance position open on September 8.

The result of this structure is a lack of representation and accountability, residents told The Ubyssey. Community members aren’t voting for who becomes their de facto mayor, and the community is also unable to enforce key bylaws that would improve the quality of life of those in the region.