Katic: A look back, and the year ahead in post-secondary education
Photo kiwinky/flickr Photo illustration Andrew Bates/The Ubyssey Tweet email print 2012 was not a good year for post-secondary education. As the economy floundered, pundits from left and right...
View ArticleKatic: AMS needs unequivocal leaders, not mere managers
Photo Geoff Lister/The Ubyssey Tweet email print This is the most important AMS election in years, and its results could impact generations of future UBC students. With skyrocketing debt and...
View ArticleKatic: Presidential campaigns anything but inspiring
AMS President candidates behind the mic at the Great Debate on Wednesday, January 17. Photo Hogan Wong/The Ubyssey Tweet email print The presidential candidates this year — Ekateryna Baranovskaya,...
View ArticleKatic: Commodified education behind campus mental health crisis
Photo Mab Coates-Davies/The Ubyssey Tweet email print Everywhere I turn, people are having solemn conversations about the mental health crisis on university campuses. However, nobody seems willing...
View ArticleKatic: A thrilling week for people power at UBC
Tweet email print People power is back. You may not have noticed — nobody has yet written our generation’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” — but popular discontent is transforming into broad...
View ArticleKatic: Vancouver a perfect home for TED-style elitism
Photo Illustration Andrew Bates/The Ubyssey, photo TEDx Vancouver/flickr Tweet email print To celebrate TED’s 30th anniversary, TED is moving its annual conference from Long Beach to Vancouver. Our...
View ArticleKatic: Proposed destruction of community garden emblematic of higher ed...
Think & Eat Green participants at the UBC Orchard Garden. Photo thinkeatgreen/flickr Tweet email print Behind the Macmillan Building, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems cultivates a humble...
View ArticleKatic: Why we’re asking UBC to divest from oil and gas
Photo Rickz/flickr Tweet email print Global warming is real. It has already altered our climate in fundamental ways, and it is only accelerating. However, I do not need to tell you this. I know...
View ArticleKatic: Farewell, and keep pushing the critical dialogue about UBC
A cloud of the words that appear most often in Gordon Katic’s columns. Wordle graphic Andrew Bates/The Ubyssey Tweet email print This is my final Ubyssey column. I have been a regular in the...
View ArticleLetter: Katic argues that the AGM was a historic occasion for UBC
Photo Cherihan Hassun / The Ubyssey Tweet email print Tuesday, October 28, 2014 could be remembered as one of the most important days in the history of politics at UBC. Over 500 students packed a...
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