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Five venues that could host an emergency Block Party/Welcome Back BBQ
If they dig up McInnes Field, where will concerts go? Photo Geoff Lister/The Ubyssey Five thousand people looking for a place on campus to drink? It’s not the RCMP’s feverish nightmare, but it could be...
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Internet goes down in res, causes existential crises
Photo Kai Jacobson/The Ubyssey Yesterday evening, Resnet, the ethernet system that provides delicious flow of internet to all UBC residence buildings, crashed and burned, going offline Saturday night...
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Of course there was a cougar sighted on UBC Okanagan campus
Maybe the cougar is hiding. File photo Geoff Lister/The Ubyssey I get broadcast emails from the UBC Okanagan campus, and this morning at about 9 a.m. this one popped into my inbox: Alert: Cougar...
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Don’t look now, but the SUB is falling apart
I love the old SUB, and a part of me will always miss it when the Ubyssey office is turned back into a storage room or something. But it’s getting to be a bit worse for wear. Flaky paint! Half of the...
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How to get ubcsecure WiFi on iOS 7
File photo Kai Jacobson/The Ubyssey Gold iPhone? Green iPhone? Heck, maybe you just upgraded to iOS 7 and want to get your damn phone onto UBC’s famously sluggish campus-wide wireless network,...
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Chapters’ employees: No Holocaust books because “CEO is Jewish”
A selection of Holocaust books at the Granville St. Chapters store. Photo Arno Rosenfeld/The Ubyssey Looking to find a better deal on books for her history of the Holocaust class, fourth-year UBC...
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Why don’t we have block parties like they do in Bellingham?
A man drags a woman as police tell people to leave the area on Saturday Night in Bellingham, Wash. The Bellingham Police Department rescue unit showed up after reports of people throwing beer bottles...
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Why is UBC canceling classes for alumni?
UBC sends a lot of email to its students. But lately, some alumni — well, mostly alumni — have been receiving emails cancelling their classes. For students it’s alarming and for alumni simply puzzling....
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There isn’t actually a Lamborghini being sold at UBC
Not actually a lambo that’s for sale. Photo from Craigslist. Unfortunately for all of you with a couple hundred-thousand bucks lying around, there may be no Lamborghini for sale on campus. After...
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Someone got Sauder’s dean coal for Christmas
Dean Helsley received a traditional Christmas gift Friday night. Well, it seems like Santa Claus wasn’t happy with Dean Helsley this year. A midnight delivery of coal appeared on Sauder’s doorstep...
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The Onion accidentally makes UBC rape joke, because this is totally the year...
This is Totem, right? I mean, it’s clearly Totem. We just don’t have any proof. The Onion — “America’s finest news source” — decided to throw editorial standards out the window this afternoon and make...
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Calling all Apple hipsters: update your computer
File photo Kai Jacobson / The Ubyssey Some time ago, somebody discovered a massive flaw in Apple OS X and iOS’s secure networking protocols. Last week, Apple admitted to this problem in an update to...
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