The cover of the March 17, 2006 issue of the Ubyssey's Page Friday issue focusing on racism

The Ubyssey is the University of British Columbia's student-run paper. Founded in 1918, The Ubyssey is a member of Canadian University Press (CUP), and is the largest student run paper in Western Canada. Notable writers throughout its history include Pierre Berton, John Turner, Allan Fotheringham, and Earle Birney. In the 1990s, the Ubyssey did not print for one year due to a dispute over student fees. The resolution included autonomy from the University of British Columbia Alma Mater Society, and the right for any student to "opt out" of paying the $5 fee. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (518x812, 209 KB) Summary http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (518x812, 209 KB) Summary http://www. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ... Canadian University Press is a non-profit co-operative and newswire service owned by about 70 student newspapers at post-secondary schools in Canada. ... Pierre Francis Berton, CC , O.Ont , BA , D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... John Turner (born June 7, 1929) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada from June 30, 1984 to September 17, 1984. ... Allan Fotheringham (born August 31, Canadian newspaper and magazine journalist. ... Earle Alfred Birney (May 13, 1904 – September 3, 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor Generals Award for Literature (for David, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945). ... The Alma Mater Society (AMS) is the student society of UBC and represents more than 43,000 undergraduate and graduate students at UBC. The AMS also operates student services, student owned businesses, resource groups and clubs. ...

There are two versions of the Ubyssey. The standard, university news edition appears on Tuesdays, or sometimes Wednesdays if there is a long weekend or the editors are too stressed to publish a paper on Tuesday. The other version is called "Page Friday", which focuses more on arts and culture, with limited focus on current news. Special issues are published throughout the school year, focusing on issues affecting the various resource groups of the AMS. The last issue of the year, coming out in April, is their annual parody issue, where the staff writers make fun of another newspaper. The last issue of the fall term is called the "Ubitchy", where the writers spoof themselves. In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ...

Regular issues of the Ubyssey appear twice a week from September to April (not including during exams or the Christmas break). No issues are printed from May to June. The summer issues are published approximately once a week from late July to late August; these are considered warm up issues for purposes of giving the writers and editors practice.

External links

• The Ubyssey's Web page with selected print content and covers