Read The Ubyssey’s award-winning articles

Start your Thursday off by taking a look at The Ubyssey’s recently-published award-winning articles.

First, here’s the latest news out of UBC.

• Candidates differ on visions for presidency in first debate

• Ukrainian Student Union leads rally marking one year of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Vancouver City Council is shutting down the Renter Office. Here’s what that may mean for students

Over reading break, The Ubyssey won nine John H McDonald Awards for Excellence in Student Journalism, including Student Publication of the Year. Six of those were for specific pieces The Ubyssey published over the last year. We’re so grateful to the Canadian University Press for the recognition, and even more grateful to our team of contributors, staff members and editors for all of their hard work. Here is a list of all our awards.

ARTS & CULTURE WRITING AWARD: “To all the stories I haven’t told yet: Finding my voice as a Filipina scholar” by Jasmine Cadeliña Manango

HUMOUR AWARD: “The Dingbat: Buchanan B can’t fool me — that’s a pole, not a French tutor” by Tova Gaster

DISABILITY REPORTING AWARD: “BC’s autism assessment process is slow and expensive. For students seeking accommodations, that’s a problem” by Charlotte Alden

FEATURE WRITING AWARD: “Student defenders of Fairy Creek” by Carter Dungate

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING AWARD: “Over $19 million of UBC’s endowment invested in companies tied to Uyghur genocide” by Nathan Bawaan

PRIZE FOR DIGITAL STORYTELLING: “UBC students take part in Sprouts-organized walkout” by Diana Hong, Nathan Bawaan, Marieta-rita Ose Osezua, Alex Fuster

STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR: Charlotte Alden

STUDENT PHOTOJOURNALIST OF THE YEAR: Isabella Falsetti

STUDENT PUBLICATION OF THE YEAR: The Ubyssey

— Charlotte Alden
Coordinating Editor

NEWS

Candidates differ on visions for presidency in first debate

By Nathan Bawaan

In the first presidential debate this AMS Election cycle, the two candidates in attendance mostly kept to themselves as they laid out their different visions for the AMS.

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Red Engineering Jacket disqualified from race for AMS president

By Anabella McElroy and Nathan Bawaan

The AMS Elections Committee said it decided unanimously to disqualify the Jacket from the race after committing multiple campaign violations.

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IN OTHER NEWS

• Ukrainian Student Union leads rally marking one year of Russian invasion of Ukraine 

  By Isabelle Dina

• UBC, AMS optimistic about SkyTrain to UBC despite seeming lower priority from Mayor's Council

  By Tanay Mahendru

• ‘Let’s keep pushing’: UBC hosts online discussion about Black experiences in the medical field

  By Bernice Wong

CULTURE

Rolling in (cookie) dough: Meet baking entrepreneur Andy Nguyen

By Colby Payne

Just three years ago, Andy Nguyen never imagined that today he would be running a thriving cookie business. Nguyen, alongside his sister Jessica, founded Bak’d Cookies, which sells their signature gourmet cookies online and at farmer’s markets across the Lower Mainland.

SPORTS

UBC Thunderjacks provide a ‘whole different world’ away from the hustle and bustle of university life

By Solana Pasqual

As Vancouver rain poured down on a gloomy Saturday morning, I followed the sounds of buck saws and axes into a deep clearing in the forests at the UBC Farm. Despite the wet weather, a group of around 15 people had gathered to practice loggers’ sports with the UBC Thunderjacks. The club has been around for decades, and members gather three times a week to learn how to chop, bucksaw, pole climb and throw axes.

THROUGH THE VIEWFINDER

A view of the snowcapped Lions from Lonsdale Quay