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Have Flak Jacket, Will Travel

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 A war correspondent’s view from the trenches By Erica Smishek The Persian Gulf War brought us the Scud Stud, CNN’s 24-hour news coverage and scathing criticism […]

UBC Students Go to Referendum Over Transit Pass

TransLink, the University of B.C. and the UBC student society (AMS) have reached a tentative agreement on a transit pass that would cost students $20 a month compared to the […]

AMS Wants to Know What Students Think of the U-Pass

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Mid-February referendum will decide the issue By Tara Learn, AMS VP External What are your feelings on the U-Pass? This is what the AMS will be […]

Over the Top

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 UBC United Way Campaign surpasses goal; Slonecker honoured for exceptional service By Erica Smishek 2002 was a goal-smashing, record-breaking and award-winning year for the UBC United […]

UBC Sewage is Not a Waste

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 It’s a dirty job, but UBC-developed technology is leading the way in how to do it By Michelle Cook It operates out of a humble looking […]

Research Awareness Week 2003

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Forums focus on sustainability By Hilary Thomson How do we sustain our spirits, education and society? These are some of the questions being discussed at Research […]

Why Love Hurts

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Measuring beliefs of spouse abusers By Erica Smishek To believe is to accept as true. But if what you believe causes you to abuse your partner, […]

Putting an End to Expensive Print Journals

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 UBC group wants them online and free By Cate Korinth When scholars wish to gain status among their peers, they try to publish their work in […]

Board of Governors Approves Tuition Fee Increase

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 UBC’s Board of Governors voted Jan. 27 to raise tuition fees by an average of 30 per cent for undergraduate students and 20 per cent for […]

Vol. 49 | No. 2

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Why Love Hurts To believe is to accept as true. But if what you believe causes you to abuse your partner, would you — could you […]

Preventing Death

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 A Public Health Approach to Drug Use By Richard Mathias Canada’s drug laws kill Canadians. In 1994, B.C.’s Coroner issued a report on inadvertent overdose deaths […]

Double Cohort Presents Opportunity for UBC

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 A chance to attract the best and the brightest By Michelle Cook A record number of Ontario students will finish high school this spring, and UBC […]

Bargaining at UBC

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 At UBC Reports deadline, the university and some of its unions are engaged in the collective bargaining process. UBC Reports offered CUPE 2278 (Teaching Assistants) and […]

UBC Alumni

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Ships, Passing in the Night (Martin Ertl Keeps an Eye on Them) Martin Ertl, BSc’93, LLB (McGill) Since cutting the alma mater apron strings, Martin Ertl […]

Time Piece 1919

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 The return of students from war-time duty increased enrolment at UBC to 890 in 1919-1920. These veterans were studying engineering at UBC temporary headquarters at the […]

Kudos

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Studies that range from child psychology to stem cells have recently been recognized with UBC’s top research prizes. Economics Prof. Robert Evans has been given the […]

IN THE NEWS

UBC Reports | Vol. 49 | No. 2 | Feb. 6, 2003 Highlights of UBC Media Coverage in January 2003. Compiled by Brian Lin Fishery Prof an iconoclast In a profile on UBC Fisheries Prof. Daniel Pauly, The […]