Category Archives: Campus
#ReasonsToResist at UBC: Finance and Labour
This is Part Two of a Five-Part series from The Talon on Reasons to Resist at UBC. See Part One: Tuition and Housing here. The focus of this series is to reflect and extend the current state of activism on campus, by evidencing yet more potential issues related to financial and negotiating power at the […]
Kelly Gerlings’ #WeOppose Protest Speech: “UBC, Can You Hear Us Now?”
This speech was given by Kelly Gerlings of #IAmAStudent at the AMS Trek for Tuition and Housing. Hello UBC! My name is Kelly Gerlings and I am a student. I want to tell you a few things. I am a domestic student, a settler here. I am graduating this year, in May (let’s not talk about […]
Facing Our Debt: A Photo Project
For some background to this project click here. “Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a ‘disciplinary technique,’ and, by the time students graduate, […]
Why I Didn’t Report
Our society has created the perfect platform for violation of female or feminized bodies, as it is founded upon violence, colonialism and the sexual power and privilege of cisgender heterosexual men.
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 […]
#ReasonsToResist at UBC: Tuition and Housing
This is Part One of a Three-Part series from The Talon on Reasons to Resist at UBC. The focus of this series is to reflect and extend the current state of activism on campus, by evidencing yet more potential issues related to financial and negotiating power at the University. It is by no means intended […]
Consultation on whose terms? An Inside Look at the Residence Fee Conversation
Note: I would like to clarify that these views are my own and I am not speaking on behalf of RHA Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS), the organization responsible for providing that housing, is supposed to be committed to supporting access to residence. However, the 20% fee increases proposed earlier this month suggest otherwise. […]
Meet the Editors: Evelyn Cranston
Evelyn Cranston was an editor and collective member for The Talon UBC‘s first year, from 2014 to 2015. She designed The Talon‘s print edition, which is available to view online here.
Place, Memory, and the 2008 GSS Handbook
In 2008, the release of the annual UBC Graduate Student Society Handbook caused a big stir. Usually a quite ordinary student resource (intended to be used as an agenda and a basic guide to campus resources), the editors of the 2008 GSS Handbook turned it into a primer for resistance, complete with a thorough history […]
Jewishness in the age of Protective Edge
Trigger warning: graphic violence in the indented quotation that follows Every floor was covered with wounded patients. We were treating the injured in dental chairs, doing surgery on the ground, doing anything we could to save people.” In normal times, Kuwaiti Hospital serves two or three cases a day, usually older women. “Our colleagues weren’t […]
