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May 10	C+CP discards 10,000+ students from campus population counts: A quick update on some Campus and Community Planning (C+CP) skullduggery, only because it should be recorded somewhere and the Ubyssey is apparently too busy ambulance-chasing to cover it. Last month, UBC embarked on a process to update their Regional Context Statement (RCS). Essentially the RCS ...
Apr 11	How To Get A Condo Built At UBC: Today, the Ubyssey published a story about Modern Green’s dealings with UBC. Modern Green is the Beijing-based property development firm behind a condo development called “Yu” in Wesbrook Place. I had been looking into this story for quite some time before giving the Ubyssey all the documents I h...
Jan 2	UBC hands out $11.8M in interest-free mortgages to admin, faculty: From the AMS’s report on Student Housing: “UBC requires [Student Housing] to take out internal loans for building new residences from the UBC endowment, and charges profit seeking levels of interest on these internal loans of approximately 5.75%. UBC is lending to a part of itself and requiring ...

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miriam

Apr 23	on graduating: In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a portrait of a man alters itself with every vile act the man it portrays takes until it is a hideous thing to look at. This plant I named Dionysus. I see Dionysus as the Picture of Miriam. It has grown splendidly in residence at UBC. At times, cer...
Jan 30	A month without Facebook: I was that dweeb who e-mailed your hotmail invitations to this new website called Facebook, in 2007. My decision to permanently leave Facebook for 2013, then, came as a surprise to many. “May I ask, why are you leaving?” was the number one final message my friends sent me when supplying me with...
2012 Sep	UBC Green Party resurrects from the dead. See you at AMS Club Days!: We’re open to everyone interested in green ideas–YES, even if you’re new to political issues and even if you appreciate other political parties. Diversity rules! Membership in the club is only $1 and we have some executive positions open for students who are looking to take on more active roles. ...

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夢と愛の千夜一夜

Apr 21	An Unfortunate Reality: Sorry for the long hiatus from blogging; I have been busy with several projects as well as finishing my sixth co-op term. I have also been doing a lot of reading recently. When I first came to UBC, I was maybe reading one or two books per year. Last year, I managed to get it up to 25 books; this ...
Jan 30	Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass is the third and final book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, following The Subtle Knife and The Golden Compass. Unfortunately, as part of a series, I don’t know how to effectively describe the book ...
Jan 25	Shane Mac’s Stop With The BS: Stop With The BS by Shane Mac My rating: 2 of 5 stars Shane Mac’s Stop With The BS was shared with me by Humaira. It is a book whose writing was started, completed, and taking place entirely on a series of train rides down the West coast. I found the book to be a lot of ranting and preaching in t...

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AMS Confidential

Jan 29	Campaign infractions from a hideous man: Editor’s note: Last year, a similar item appeared in our Secret Submissions Area (no, not that). We thought we’d thrown him off our trail by doing nothing, but our mysterious scribe returned, demanding a share of Voter Funded Money and claiming that we had “been enriched by his musings, and must...
Jan 25	Endorsements Part 2: President etcetera: We had a lot of trouble writing this post, for a lot of reasons. There’s the usual boilerplate: you’re all good candidates. There wasn’t too much difference between the various campaigns. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because the AMS is moving in a pretty clear direction and it’s kind of ob...

Spilling T

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