T-Birds soar to victory at Homecoming

Fall sports are in full swing!

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The Ubyssey & Lauren Kasowski
September 29, 2023

Howdy,

When the leaves are falling, the air is getting crisper and you can walk into any Starbucks and order a chai latte with pumpkin cold foam and cinnamon without getting weird looks, you know it’s officially autumn.

And with autumn comes football season!

That’s right, football is in full-swing and our T-Birds are sitting in first place in our conference with a historic 4–0 record after their 54–37 victory at Homecoming. Go pick up our latest issue on stands or read about it here!

Our latest issue also includes pieces about migrant rights rallies, climate activism here in Canada and abroad, and where to take your PSL latte on a date.

Before you know it, it will be raining five days a week with chilling winds so take some self-care time to go enjoy the fall weather while you still can! See you around campus :)

— Lauren Kasowski
Sports+ Rec Editor

New issue!

HUMOUR

The five stages of post add/drop grief

You check Degree Navigator the next morning just to be sure, and there it is: a requirement with no substitutions. But it has to be a mistake! How can you trust a website still stuck in its dial-up era?

By Sonali Sharma

Blue Chip needs to stay put for my mental health

Walking another 45 seconds for caffeine is like buying textbooks after paying tuition — it’s not fair.

By Shubhreet Dadrao

NEWS

Migrant rights advocates organize "Status for All" rally as part of national call for justice

On September 17, Migrant Students United (MSU) at UBC rallied alongside Sulong UBC, MSU at SFU, Migrante BC, Committee for Domestics' Workers and Caregivers’ Rights and Gabriela BC for “Status for All” in front of the Canada Border Services Agency building.

By Isabelle Dina

Teaching Assistants have a new collective agreement, here’s what changed.

Members of component 1 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) 2278 at UBC voted on a new collective bargaining agreement.

By Shih-wei Wang

'We need to do something now': Vancouver marches for climate justice

“Hey-ho, hey-ho, fossil fuels have got to go!” chanted thousands of protestors last Friday in Vancouver, as the city joined others across the world to strike against climate inaction.

By Cess Lee

SPORTS + REC

Thunderbirds use strong second half to defeat Alberta 54–37 at Homecoming

The 'Birds were victorious at Homecoming for the first time since 2017 with a strong performance from the defence.

By Caleb Peterson

UBC Cheer is bringing cheerleading from the sidelines to the spotlight

Too often, cheerleading is stereotyped as girls just waving pompoms. But the UBC Cheer Club shows just how physically and mentally demanding a sport cheer really is.

By Stella Griffin

CULTURE

Embracing collective resistance at ARTIVISM 2023

“Madness in the Masses” is the theme for this year’s ARTIVISM, an annual visual and performing arts festival that centres around topics in social justice and amplifies the voices of marginalized artists.

By Elena Massing

Kawika Guillermo's Nimrods confronts the "pater" in patriarchy

Kawika Guillermo’s name was chosen by his mother. It’s Hawaiian; a localization of the Hebrew David, and it meant a lot to her, the daughter of an Ilocano preacher who’d immigrated to Hawai’i.

By Julian Forst

SCIENCE

UBC tackles microplastics crisis with tech and policy

Welcome to the age of the ‘Plasticene’, a world so infected with plastics that they’ve embedded themselves in our fossil record. Microplastics are infiltrating global water systems, causing scientists, activists and governments to sound the alarm.

By Elena Zanuzzi

FEATURES

Bangladeshi voices are absent from climate policy. Abul Bashar Rahman biked across Bangladesh to hear them

Bashar soon realized how hopeless and immense the climate crisis may seem to many people, deterring them from taking action. He wanted to learn what he could do and what role he could play in climate action in Bangladesh. So he quit his job.

By Mahin E Alam

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