UBC creative writing professor Keith Maillard’s 2023 book, In the Defense of Liberty, is a new entry in a growing field of historical fiction that challenges the retrograde idea that Trans and genderfluid identities are something new.
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Last Tuesday, reports obtained by The Ubyssey showed that you’ve been totally weird recently, man. Eyewitness accounts state that your vibe has totally shifted the last couple weeks and that you’re kind of freaking everybody out.
At the UBC Board of Governors annual Christmas spa night, merriment and joy were in full swing. The recent tuition increase was going to do many good things for the school (we can’t think of any right now, but that’s beside the point), and the Board was being rewarded with a bigger holiday party than had ever taken place at the Norman MacKenzie house.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a common measure of whether a person is psychologically whole. UBC has long been waging war against students’ psychological requirements and it has finally begun its final barrage on the smoking remains of the student psyche.
In an era of information overload, sometimes you need to make your mind go blank even if it’s just for the seven minutes it takes to walk from class to class. Here’s a list of perfectly-timed songs with which to prevent a conscious thought from ever breaking through.
The dust has settled; you’ve formed your indestructible Jump Start friend group, you’ve switched out of engineering and you’ve come out as bisexual. How do you signal to friends, peers and complete strangers that you’re not the same person you were three weeks ago?
UBC student Ritika Saraswat has started a new non-profit called Re-Defined, an organization geared towards “empowering people from marginalized backgrounds and helping them redefine themselves.”
Our criteria is mostly focused on the quality of a pun that everyone can enjoy (though your inside jokes seemed great), particularly in the category of wall-based references that we can riff on.
If your club has any artists or crafters who have work to sell or promote, this is the time!
"This decision was made in consultation with [millionaires] the Deans on both campuses, [nerds] academic heads and directors, [kiss-asses] student leadership, union groups and associations."
Students who do not declare their vaccination status by January 24 will be subject to an academic hold in which they cannot receive marks or apply for programs such as Go Global.
The Ubyssey, in collaboration with AMS Elections, releases the elections timeline for candidates every year in January. This year, the elections timeline looks like this:
We did a comprehensive philosophical and statistical analysis to answer the age-old question of whether or not you should run for the bus.