Wanna laugh? Spoof issue on stands now!

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The Ubyssey & Iman Janmohamed
March 30, 2023

Happy almost end of term!

It's the end of the semester and boy, oh, boy are we excited for summer to kick in. But for the time being, we're still in class!

Don't worry though! To get you through the end of the semester, The Ubyssey just released our annual spoof issue. This year, we spooked exclaim! to create explain! — a satire issue that pokes fun at arts and culture at UBC. A major shoutout goes to the Ubyssey staffers who edited, wrote, designed and took photos and video for this issue!

explain! is out on stands and online now! So, stop by your favourite stand across campus to pick up a copy.

I promise you'll laugh!

— Iman Janmohamed
Opinion + Blog Editor

Grab a copy of explain! today

THE UBYSSEY’S SPOOF ISSUE

By Imaxipad

Imaxipad / The Ubyssey

Growing up, JJ Moniker never thought he’d become a star.

And to this day, he still isn’t.

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By Justine McElroy and Teva Granola

Minni Ong / The Ubyssey

The Oscar-losing film TÅR is not a bad movie because it’s slow-paced, plays into stereotypes of lesbians as sexual predators or seems confusingly too realistic.

No, TĀR is a bad and dangerously irresponsible movie because it makes classical music seem sexy.

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By Cherry Radler

Banana Mezcal / The Ubyssey

The bore and disappointment of your MATH 100 lecture is coming to the Fredrique Vood Theatre.

Early critics are hating Ugh or How I Finished All My Math 100 WebWorks 10 Minutes Before the Deadline and got a 60 or Derivative, like the Math Thing, You Know What I Mean? a vanity project of producer and on-set lurker Twink Brosco. The musical goes where no one has gone before. Well, no one except for the thousands (I think? I didn’t check) of students who did better than you in MATH 100 last year.

NEWS

UBC says residence building targets limited by finances amid AMS criticism

UBC plans to add 3,300 beds to on-campus housing in the next ten years, but the AMS says that this is not enough to meet growing student numbers.

By Khushi Patil

AMS to continue using CampusBase for operations, improvements to come

The AMS will continue to use CampusBase as the platform for club operations, with a planned launch of a help centre for club members set for April 2023.

By Bea Lehmann

Voter turnout was over 22 per cent during this year's AMS Elections — why?

This year saw the second highest voter turnout in AMS Elections history, which the AMS Elections Committee and students attributed to several factors, including heavy advertising, polling stations and referenda items.

By Ashley Macdonald

Clubs seeing improved reimbursement times as AMS stabilizes financial system

The AMS has had a longstanding issue with slow reimbursement payments to club and constituency executives, worsened in recent months by a transition to a new financial system and personnel turnover in November 2022.

By Nathan Bawaan

Social Justice Centre, Divestment Coalition hold protest against UBC investments complicit in human rights violations

The march was organized as a call for UBC to divest from companies that are complicit in human rights violations.

By Michael Vento and Breanna Spence

CULTURE

High-impact community service: A look at UBC’s Rotaract Club and Car Smash

The Rotaract Club of Vancouver-UBC is a campus club like a mushroom: it looks small and self-contained at first, with about 35 current members made up mostly of UBC students, but digging a little deeper reveals the vast network of mycelium underneath.

By Julian Forst

OPINION

Commentary: Social media makes transactional relationships the norm

I, like many other Gen Z-ers, indulge in a TikTok scroll from time to time. Who can’t resist the instant dopamine fix? The funny videos where you think “OMG that is so me. How did they know?” Feeling incredibly guilty after watching some influencer get up at 5 a.m. and do more in a day than I’ve accomplished in a week. All while taking care of five children. And a full time job.

By Dana Turdy

SPORTS

Pitching seals the deal for UBC baseball with three weekend wins

UBC baseball improved to a 3–5 record after winning three of four games this weekend versus the third-ranked Lewis-Clark State Warriors from Idaho, thanks to incredible pitching.

By Lauren Kasowski

SCIENCE

ChatGPT has entered the chat, bringing UBC challenges and opportunities

According to UBC experts, concerns about your friendly neighbourhood chatbot might be overblown.

By Tova Gaster

VIDEO

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