Author Archives: Alex M
Every Year is the Year of Feminism
A week ago today, The Terry Project hosted a BARTalk that sought to assess how feminism fared in 2014. Panelists Lucia Lorenzi (PhD candidate in the English Literature department), Jarrah Hodge (blogger at Gender Focus) and Scott Anderson (professor in the philosophy department) discussed the events that gave feminism major media coverage over the past […]
The Communist Who Ruled the AMS: An Interview with Blake Frederick
Five years ago today, on November 27th, 2009, news broke in The Ubyssey of a scandal that would polarize campus for months to come. Two incumbent members of the AMS Executive, President Blake Frederick and Vice President External Timothy Chu, had gone behind the backs of AMS Council and taken drastic action to try to […]
University Administration Backs Out of Panel After #IAmAStudent Protester Added
Later this week, the Terry Project in partnership with AMS Events is hosting a BARTalk on the proposed tuition increases, called “Fees, Funds, and the Future of Education.” Initially, there were 5 panelists slated for the discussion: Dr. Louise Cowin (the university’s Vice President, Students), Anji Redish (the Vice Provost and Associate Vice President of Enrolment […]
Taking Capitalism to Court: An interview with Kshama Sawant
Kshama Sawant made headlines last year as the first socialist elected to the Seattle city council in over a century. Along with her party, Socialist Alternative, Sawant led the charge to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour in Seattle. Last week Sawant was in Vancouver for her first post-election visit to Canada. She […]
The Knoll Interview Series Part 2: The New SUB Saga
This is part two of an interview series on The Knoll, a grassroots student press that was active on campus from 2006 to 2010. Former editors Nathan Crompton, Tristan Markle, and Bob Neubauer sat down with The Talon to talk about the original grassy knoll, real-estate development at UBC, the history of their activism on […]
The Youth Rise Up Manifesto
Note: This piece was written and submitted by a group of individuals who are all involved with the Coalition of Progressive Electors. Ilana Shecter and Talon editor Urooba Jamal are COPE candidates in the upcoming election. Alex M, also a Talon editor, is on the COPE Executive Committee. Roshak Momtahen and Shawn Vulliez are active […]
Seeking: YOUR House Hunt Horror Stories
Hi folks! For a new series on Vancouver’s ongoing affordable housing crisis and how it is impacting UBC students, we’re looking for your house hunt horror stories. Spent three months looking for a place and wound up living on a rickety living room floor with an ad-hoc partition? Jumping between houses slated for demolition just […]
A Few Questions About the $1,000,000 “Safety Improvements”
Trigger Warning: discussions of sexual assault and rape culture. “Don’t be a creep” posters are still peppered across the Point Grey campus, serving as tattered reminders of the series of sexual assaults that occurred at UBC last year. In August, the university published the final recommendations from the Safety Working Group that was established to address and […]
All Doublespeak, No Solutions: Vision Vancouver’s Approach to Rising Homelessness Numbers
Note: Alex M, the author of this article, currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). Over the summer, a battle broke out between the municipal government and local community organizers over the crisis of homelessness in this city. Under the incumbent party, Vision Vancouver, homelessness has been steadily increasing […]
The Knoll Interview Series Part 1: Dome-ocracy
This is part one of an interview series on The Knoll, a grassroots student press that was active on campus from 2006 to 2010. Former editors Nathan Crompton, Tristan Markle, and Bob Neubauer sat down with The Talon to talk about the original grassy knoll, real-estate development at UBC, the history of their activism on […]
