Your Student Newspaper's Weekly Update - March 12

Last month, I explored the Kelowna Lantern Festival, a wholly new experience for me. From a newcomer’s perspective, here is what I found out, and here is how I capped off a very eventful Lunar New Year.

Learning can happen anywhere. Explore the different learning spaces at and beyond the UBCO campus.

Ramadan is an important month for Muslims of all different faiths and identities. But how does this holy month impact Muslims who don’t feel like they belong in their religion and community anymore?

Read about Vancouver-born Tony McAleer, who travels across Canada and the United States speaking to communities about the interrelationship between pride, compassion, and hatred.

In reality, we are all so unlike each other that the phrase loses its significance. Of course we are not like other girls — that is what we have in common.

Women in science have had their brilliance quietly written out of history for years. While their names might not be in the textbooks we read, their fingerprints are still all over the technologies we use today.

Ever felt energized right after walking out of the doctor’s office? Your brain is running the biggest con ever, but in your favour.

Why have so many students transferred to UBC Vancouver? Was our campus not good enough for them? The answer was — as it so often is — a complicated yes-and-no.

Art in the modern age — especially online — has faced many unexpected challenges. This can be seen largely in the development of its relationship with modern propaganda-like ads, but what is that relationship really like? And how does it affect you?