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UBC Insiders: AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009
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Monday, July 6, 2009. AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009. Since the AMS has not yet mastered the art of putting meeting dates and agendas online yet, the next one is:. Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 6 PM. SUB 206. TIP: there's also free food. If you spread the word about that as well, you may have more success. For example, UBC released a memo outlining how fields in Thunderbird Park are getting paved over. For the duration of the Games. The fields will be handed over to VANOC July 17, 2009. Of course, it doesn'...
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UBC Insiders: The Downside of Automatic Enrolment
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009. The Downside of Automatic Enrolment. The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FoGS) recently implemented "automated continuous thesis registration", which works as follows:. Starting in Summer 2009, when students register in a thesis or dissertation course once, their registration in that course will automatically roll each term until the end of the student's program (excepting if they are on leave).'. Some red flags started going up when this email arrived in July from FoGS (excerpt):.
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UBC Insiders: UBC Insiders 2.0
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009. UBC Insiders 2.0. UBC Insiders has re-launched with a new site, new editors, and a new mantra. Check out the new site at ubcinsiders.ca. Posted by Neal Yonson. We are lucky enough to be part of Voter-Funded Media. Contest, which allows readers to reward their favorite student blogs with money by voting on a weekly basis. Any UBC student can vote. Click here to get information on contest entrants and how to vote. UNA Board - July 16, 2009. 5PM, Old Barn Community Centre.
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UBC Insiders: AMS Council: August 19, 2009
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Thursday, August 20, 2009. AMS Council: August 19, 2009. It's so nice out today. Can't we all just go sit on the Knoll and have council there? A visit from Pierre Ouillet and Brian Sullivan. Tom Dvorak's EPIC Sunglasses tan. Pierre Ouillet (UBC's VP Finance, Resources and Operations) is here with Brian Sullivan to talk about structural deficits in the UBC budget. These must be the hot new thing in institutional finance this year, since we also got a presentation from Tom Dvorak about it last month. Pleas...
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UBC Insiders: Koerner's Pub Patio Project
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Friday, July 31, 2009. Koerner's Pub Patio Project. The following is a guest post by Dan Beaton, a PhD student in Physics and GSS Councilor. About a year and a half later, the current manager, Rick Carre, was hired and a GSS survey indicated that students felt Koerner's could be improved by providing food service. Rick made it happen and as a result Koerner's is now much busier, especially at meal times. Two views of the area that would be enclosed by the new patio. 98,000 (due upon completion). Of cours...
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UBC Insiders: A Shout Out
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009. To the AMS, and Fincom. In particular for helping fund my trip to Ottawa to attend the CIS AGM. You can read the articles I wrote about it here. If you are hoping to go to a conference, event, or have a special project in mind, I strongly encourage you to apply for one of their Student Initiatives Fund grants. Which is what I got). If you are an AMS club looking to do something special, they also have an option for you: the Clubs Benefit Fund. Posted by Neal Yonson. 6PM, SUB 206.
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UBC Insiders: AMS Council: July 29, 2009
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009. AMS Council: July 29, 2009. Highlights from AMS Council tonight:. Art Gallery gets $23,000. New pricing policy for Whistler Lodge in February 2010. Long overdue, you can now get the agenda and documentation. On the AMS's own website! Geoff Costeloe wants everyone to know he is hot and sweaty. But I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it in the fun boy-girl way. Jeremy Jaud gave an in camera presentation. Went to Montreal for 22nd annual Conference on First Year Experience; Met with Ann...
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UBC Insiders: Virginia Tech Shootings
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Monday, April 16, 2007. I'm sure you've all heard about the campus shootings at Virginia Tech. Tragic, sad, shocking. all barely begin to describe it. It raises thoughts. Like when there's a shooting at 7am and a murderer known to be at large, why don't you lock down the campus and cancel classes to avoid exactly what happened two hours later? I find that element of it really striking. Is there some disconnect? I have no idea. Posted by Tim Louman-Gardiner. Contest, which allows readers to reward their f...
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UBC Insiders: More from the CIS AGM
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Sunday, June 21, 2009. More from the CIS AGM. The Coles notes version of this post was already published: CIS restricts dual membership with NCAA. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization that governs high-performance sport at the post-secondary level, held its Annual General Meeting from June 8-12 in Gatineau, Quebec. When UBC decided to defer its decision on NCAA membership until at least 2010. Due to my inordinate interest in athletics at UBC, and the NCAA isssue, I went to check it out.
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UBC Insiders: Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena?
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Thursday, July 23, 2009. Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena? The new Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre is currently applying for an amendment to their liquor-primary licence. The matter will be coming before Metro Vancouver's Electoral Area committee for approval this Friday and there seems to be a significant hurdle in the way: as a result of past violations, the RCMP does not support it. Read the letter from the RCMP. This letter was posted yesterday on the the @ubcinsiders Twitter feed.
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