The Ubyssey

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Culture Queue is a monthly calendar of arts and culture events happening on campus and across Vancouver, curated by reporter Selina Hay. Culture Queue provides a monthly overview of the best in arts and culture, so you can mark your calendar before the late-night IKB grinds begin. This edition will focus on the month of September, with events divided into film, visual arts, theatre, music and community.

Drédyn Fontana and others, including his counsel, leaving the courthouse. Hearings for the long-awaited trial of Drédyn Fontana — the removed AMS VP Academic & University Affairs — against the Alma Mater Society for wrongful termination ended Wednesday last week, pending the court’s judgement.

We have a saying in Systems: our tools should serve us, not the other way around. This hasn’t always been the case. Our newsroom interacts most frequently with two tools: Google Drive and our Content Management System, Wagtail. We use Google Drive to store gathered documents, draft stories and track assignments. Our CMS is how we upload stories to our website, ubyssey.ca. Years ago, we had a custom CMS called Dispatch. But as time passed, it grew more and more cumbersome to use.

This time last year, Football was ahead of schedule. Against the Manitoba Bisons — who had been the best team in the conference the year prior — the Thunderbirds were dominant, crushing them 21–9 in a game where they never trailed. It was a cathartic arrival for a team with plenty of rookies and young players. If that was how they could play against the finest competition in Canada West, the sky was the limit. The following week, they lost by 37.

The Ubyssey acknowledges we operate on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.

Leonard Foster joined the succession of temporary deans for the faculty of graduate and post-doctoral studies on August 1. He begins a one-year term in which he will have to lead a faculty grappling with declining enrolment and at the core of UBC’s plans for the future. The Ubyssey reached out to Foster for an interview to detail his appointment and plans for the faculty’s future but he declined due to scheduling issues and asked to respond to questions via email.

While Men’s Soccer came out of Langley with a decisive 3–0 victory, that was likely the last thing on anyone’s mind when the game ended. In a tragic turn of events, TWU midfielder Justin Oh suffered a severe leg injury that delayed the game for nearly an hour, casting a pall over the result.

It’s a situation no team ever plans for. A player sustains a gruesome injury. A red card is shown. The game abruptly halts as players are forced to leave the pitch. An hour passes before the injured player can be securely removed from the vicinity, and for the entire duration of the delay, it is unclear whether the match will even continue. But then, the match resumes after skipping a few beats, and the players are responsible for resetting themselves in spite of the shocking scene they witnessed.

3 hours ago While Max Comsia led the way on offence with a goal and an assist, it was UBC’s midfield that was key to the T-Birds’ first win of the season. Thanks to that versatile group in the middle, the ‘Birds held on to their lead despite allowing two penalty kicks. Juan Pablo Sastoque Vega with photos by Raul del Rosario, videos by Thomas Favelle