Another school year is beginning at BCIT, and with the autumn weather comes premiere season on TV – a perfect procrastination excuse for students. Every year, the wait for television premieres in the last half of September is unbearable. There seems to be even more anticipation this year, as there are many exciting shows ending…
New plan, new building, same goals. BCIT’s latest proposed capital plan, titled BCIT Renew, could lead to the construction of a brand new Health Sciences Centre for Advanced Simulation (HSCAS) on the Burnaby campus as early as July 2016. The plan was submitted last spring and outlines the institution’s investment priorities for the next five…
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Vancouver International Film Festival opens on September 26 and runs through October 11. With the closure of the historic Granville 7 cinemas, VIFF found a new home at several venues, including the Vancouver Playhouse and The Centre for the Performing Arts. Festival screenings also returned to previously used theatres, such as The Rio on Commercial…
BCIT has apologized after mistakenly sending the personal information of 134 students to 22 other BCIT students through e-mail on August 26, 2013. After a privacy breach in June 2012 (unrelated to the incident on August 26) where personal medical records of more than 12 thousand students were accessed by an unauthorized third party, BCIT reviewed security…
The second annual FroshFest, organized by the BCIT student association (BCITSA), attracted hundreds of students to the Burnaby campus tennis courts on the first Friday of the fall term. Students celebrated with cheap drinks, delicious food, and classic tunes. According to BCITSA’s official Facebook event page, admission cost $15. One beverage and one burger were included in…
Plastic, yellow fish are replacing the barely visible aquatic markings that had previously been guarding storm drains around BCIT’s Burnaby campus. Two students from the Ecological Restoration program worked to revitalize the markings as part of an internship earlier this year. Ken Ashley, Director of BCIT’s Rivers Institute, explained that BCIT is actually built on…
Rape is probably not the first word that comes to mind when you think of post-secondary education. Yet in the span of less than a week, two Canadian universities on opposite sides of the country have come under fire for students spouting pro-rape chants during frosh week celebrations. On September 4, St. Mary’s University in…
BCIT students who park in Lot D will have to temporarily find parking elsewhere to make room for staff as a result of a large construction project in Staff Parking Lot 7 at the Burnaby campus. BCIT Media Relations Coordinator Dave Pinton said he is not sure why the project is delayed. However, as a…
Children at the BCIT Student Association (BCITSA) Childcare Centre could have been served a very dangerous batch of grapes if the deadly black widow spider hidden inside them wasn’t seen as early as it was. Purchased from the Superstore on Scott Road in Delta, BCITSA Childcare Centre Manager kept the grapes in her fridge for…
A new student lobby is on the rise as they transition from a campaign called Where’s the Funding (WTF) to a group representing post-secondary students across the province. The name of this up-and-coming organization is Alliance of BC Students (ABCS) and for the time being, it is primarily comprised of representatives from student unions and…
Tap on, tap off. Those four words sum up how BCIT students will be taking transit in the near future. There’s no set date as to when, but BCIT students will be scrapping their paper U-Pass cards for the new smart card. According to spokesperson for Translink, Derek Zabel, once students have the new Compass…