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vol. 42, issue 16

Profile . News Digest . Campus works . People . Letters to the Editor . Calendar Forum: Official Community Plan for UBC (Oct. 9) Public Hearing: Official Community Plan for […]

Oct 3, 1996

Enrolment up by more than 1,000

UBC’s total enrolment for the 1996/97 academic year has increased by more than 1,000 students over the previous academic year. An enrolment summary released by the Registrar’s Office reports 31,812 […]

Oct 3, 1996

United Nations war crimes prosecutor to speak at UBC

Justice Richard Goldstone, who served as chief prosecutor at the United Nation’s Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals for both the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, is giving a free lecture at […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC robots hold key to a safer future

Watching the Dynamites buzz around their private soccer pitch, Prof. Alan Mackworth foresees a time when households will be cleaned by tiny robotic vacuum cleaners thinking and working together. The […]

Oct 3, 1996

Students satisfied, survey says

A majority of UBC undergraduates expressed satisfaction with university life, according to the 1996 Survey of Undergraduate Experience at Canadian Universities. Eight-five per cent of the UBC undergraduates surveyed indicated […]

Oct 3, 1996

Staff retirement incentive offered

by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer UBC full- and part-time monthly paid staff aged 50 or more may be eligible for a new Early Retirement Incentive Program announced recently by the […]

Oct 3, 1996

Public Hearing

Official Community Plan for UBC The Greater Vancouver Regional District invites you to a public hearing on a proposed Official Community Plan (OCP) for the part of Electoral Area ‘A’ […]

Oct 3, 1996

Students admitted electronically

by Stephen Forgacs Staff writer Applying to UBC has never been easier, or faster. More than 600 students who applied for admission to UBC for the 1996/97 school year did […]

Oct 3, 1996

Robo prof

Alan Mackworth builds machines that see, reason and act by Charles Ker Staff writer The Dynamites have finished their first two-on-two scrimmage and, like any conscientious soccer coach, Alan Mackworth […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC Reports People for 96-10-03

Mechanical Engineering Prof. Clarence de Silva has won the 1996 Meritorious Achievement Award pre sented by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists. De Silva has held the Natural Sciences […]

Oct 3, 1996

Policy fails to recognize rights

Editor: Re: Discrimination and Harassment Policy, Professor Kahn’s response (UBC Reports, Sept. 19) I must apologize in my original letter for not recognizing that the policy is employing civil procedures […]

Oct 3, 1996

Choi building opens to cultural celebration

A new cornerstone of UBC’s international focus, the C.K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research, officially opens on Oct. 7. The Choi building provides a new home for […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC Reports Digest for 96-10-03

UBC’s total enrolment for the 1996/97 academic year increased by more than 1,000 students over the previous academic year. An enrolment summary released last month by the Registrar’s Office reports […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC Reports Calendar for 96-10-03

A listing of UBC-related or UBC-sponsored events occurring on campus and off campus within the Lower Mainland from October 6 through October 19, 1996. UBC Reports welcomes calendar submissions from […]

Oct 3, 1996

Study to compare treatments for obsessions, compulsions

by Gavin Wilson Staff writer People with obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes wash their hands until their skin is raw and bleeding, re-do the same load of laundry 10 times in a […]

Oct 3, 1996

Splane to address changes in international nursing

Internationally recognized health educator Verna Huffman Splane will speak on changes in international nursing, the political, economic and social developments affecting the field, as well as opportunities for Canadian nurses […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC Reports Index for 96-10-03

Murder mystery in air for Homecoming ’96 Solve a murder on the high seas, lend an ear to local literati, or sample enough apples to keep a dozen doctors away. […]

Oct 3, 1996

UBC Reports :: More Homecoming Highlights

More Homecoming Highlights Oct. 16 Great Trekker Award Reception: Party Room, SUB, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. $12, $6 (students & under-employed). For tickets call 822-2901. Oct. 17 75th Anniversary of […]

Oct 3, 1996

Doctor-assisted suicide McCreary lecture topic

by Gavin Wilson Staff writer An ethics professor from the first U.S. state to legalize physician-assisted suicide will deliver the John F. McCreary Lecture during this year’s Health Sciences Week, […]

Oct 3, 1996

Geneticist earns Science and Technology gold

Dr. Judith Hall, head of Pediatrics at UBC and B.C.’s Children’s Hospital, has won a B.C. Science and Technology gold medal for her work in medical genetics. Gold medals are […]

Oct 3, 1996