Talkin’ on the world

Nov 27, 1996

The UBC Debate Society will compete against rivals from Oxford,
Cambridge, Yale and Harvard at this year’s World Debating Championships
taking place Dec. 28 to Jan. 3 in Cape Town, South Africa. World
team members Christopher Moreno, a master’s student in Applied Ethics
and Western Canada’s top-ranked debater, and third-year law student
Justine Wiltshire, a semi-finalist at Oxford’s Debater of the Year
competition, are the current western debating champions. Combined,
they have 11 years of experience, more than 20 awards at the regional,
national and international levels and three appearances at previous
world competitions.

  • Contact: Christopher Moreno, 604.730.8132 or Justine
    Wiltshire, 604.221.2775

UBC remembers victims of Montreal massacre

Two campus events will commemorate the 14 women killed on Dec.
6, 1989 at Montreal’s l’Ecole Polytechnique. On Nov. 28 the Engineering
Undergraduate Society and the Association of Engineering Women will
share a moment of silence and light candles in memory of the Montreal
victims. The Alma Mater Society marks the anniversary on Dec. 6
with several events beginning with a candlelight procession at 4
p.m.

  • Contact: Rachel Barstow, president, Engineering Undergraduate
    Society, 604.822.3818
    Allison Dunnett, AMS Co-ordinator of External Affairs, 604.822.2050

Hunger takes deadly toll

Feeding the 800 million people in the world who are constantly
hungry is an issue of political will, not technological know-how,
says Law Prof. Ivan Head, chair of South-North Studies. Head, who
gave the keynote address at the United Nations’ 1996 World Food
Day ceremony, says most developing countries have seen stagnant
or reduced agricultural production in recent years. As a result,
malnutrition contributes to the deaths of two-thirds of the 14 million
children who die each year.

  • Contact: Prof. Ivan Head, Chair of South-North Studies,
    604.822.9255 / 6127

UBC Press marks 25th anniversary

Despite cuts in funding, UBC Press, Canada’s third largest university
press, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by adding 30 titles,
including some of its most ambitious books ever, to the 380 now
in print. The Press survives with a delicate balancing act, fulfilling
its mandate as a scholarly press by publishing highly specialized
works, but producing enough commercial publications to pay the bills.
“The scholarly books we publish may not sell many copies, but they
will still be important 100 years from now,” said UBC Press director
Peter Milroy.

  • Contact: Janice Williams, UBC Press marketing manager,
    604.822.5042

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