Here are notes from the regular AMS Council meeting of January 23, 2019: Indigenous Topics: Student at Large Rodney Little Mustache asked about an upcoming referendum to help mark 2019-20 as the Year of Indigenous Students. He also raised issues about the job description for the new Indigenous Executive Assistant. And he reproached the Executive…
Read MoreOn 29 January, 2019, together with over 75 post-secondary institutions across Canada representing over 1 million students, the Alma Mater Society of UBC (AMS of UBC) signed a letter voicing our collective disappointment with the provincial government’s January 17 announcement. The announced changes regarding OSAP, tuition and ancillary fees (non-tuition fees) raise red flags for…
Read MoreIf proof were needed of a pub steeped in student history, look no further than the Pit Pub It was a cool November evening in 1968, when UBC students gathered on the second floor of the Student Union Building (SUB). They were eagerly awaiting the opening of what would go on to become a campus…
Read MoreFall Reading Break: VP Academic & University Affairs Max Holmes informed Council of plans for consultation with the students about the possibility of introducing a Reading Break in Term 1, along with an extended holiday break to make sure classes don’t begin as early as they did this year in Term 2 (on January 2).…
Read MoreHere are notes from the regular AMS Council meeting of November 28, 2018: New Speaker: Kareem Ibrahim became the eighth Council Speaker in AMS history, being appointed at the beginning of the meeting. Indigenous Committee: Council approved the creation of an Indigenous Committee. Max Holmes, Chair of the Advocacy Committee, called it an…
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