UBC is making enemies of students
By samanthaorwell on February 9, 2008 - 7:11pm
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I received this on Feb. 5/2008.
Broadcast E-mail to All UBC Vancouver Students, Faculty and Staff from President Stephen J. Toope:
For the second time in a week, our Vancouver campus community has received a threatening message.In this second case, an unspecific threat has been made for Wednesday. The threat does not specify a time, a location within the UBC Point Grey campus or the method of doing harm.We must take such threats seriously, and we are working closely with senior RCMP personnel to address this new threat.What can we all do when faced with such a threat? We are taking the advice of the RCMP to treat the non-specific nature of the threat with a higher level of community vigilance but to otherwise continue our normal activities.However, because of the specific mention of the Biosciences building in the threatening message received last week, and the traumatic experience of the occupants who endured a full lockdown of the building at that time, classes will be cancelled tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Biosciences Building.
For details, see the RCMP news release at: www.rcmp-bcmedia.caAnd please continue to look at www.ubc.ca for the latest information.
Now is this a new level of pulling the ol' fire alarm in high school to get out of class? Attention seeking tactics?
Well the first threat (See http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=1deef976-d7ef-4587-...) seems to be quite the serious issue.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/02/05/bc-threat.htm...
Infact there have been a few threats towards UBC as of lately. Other than the two above, UBC has gotten a lot of criticism towards development plans to kill the Grassy Knoll (see http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=228738).
They have a manifesto all their own- they will (or the news report says they will) keep vandalizing UBC to make a statement. Apparently they have gone through more civil forms of negotiation with governance bodies and, from experience, governance structures give little attention to the student voice.
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Threat was from Chinese student to kill Whites. Political correctness prevents truth getting out. This could have been another Virginia Tech.