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…
On January 9, dozens of BCIT students made their way up to Mount Seymour for day of snow sports, eating and drinking, or just joining in the frosty fun of BCIT’s very first Winterfest. The event, organized by the BCITSA, provided a regular bus shuttle service between Burnaby Campus and Mount Seymour resort, a good…
BCIT Student Association confronts premier about provincial funding for BCIT Dear Premier Clark, Every year, more than 45,000 people attend BCIT in order to prepare themselves to enter the work force. Currently, those same BCIT students face the possibility of their education and careers being delayed. As elected representatives of the BCIT Student Association, we…