A Paradigm Shift
Political science is not the only way to understand the world. It seems like a simple statement, but when I first entered the Faculty of Arts…
Read articleShinerama Excitement!
Newsflash. The money raised during Shine Day (Sept 8th) for the UBC 2007 Shinerama Campaign has finally been counted! That means buckets upon buckets of pennies,…
Read articleIslamophobia on the Go
Today I had an Islamophobic moment. It started innocently enough. I was sitting at the back of the bus trying quite unsuccessfully to untangle my ipod…
Read articleSixteen Reasons Why Commuting is Good
When people hear that I spend two hours each way commuting to UBC from Surrey every day, the most common question is: but why? When the…
Read articleOMAR SIRRI: ON BOARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
It started from looking at the Terry website. Reading a description of the speakers’ series, I stumbled upon the following words… “We feel that there is…
Read articleMORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE LOCAL LIBRARY
Who knew dusty shelves and pin-drop silence had such an intimate connection to the health of the planet? At the recent Vancouver International Writers (and Readers!)…
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My favourite Superheroes: the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
By Shagufta Pasta,
Liminal: at a boundary or transitional point between two conditions, stages in a process, or ways of life. Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan declared a…
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