Meet Head of the Class honouree Emily Oxland

“I really wanted to help a team find success,” says Oxland about her future at UBC Okanagan, “instead of going to a team that has already had a lot of success.”

Read all about B.C.’s best and brightest student athletes who made this year’s Head of the Class.

Meet Head of the Class honouree Hannah Haughn

“I was offered a lot of different options which was very fortunate for me. But I chose UBC because I thought this was the best place for me to become the best player I could be.

“Definitely I want to go to the Olympics. So 2016 is the real goal, and then 2020. But we have to build a team first.”

Read all about B.C.’s best and brightest student athletes who made this year’s Head of the Class.

Scott Dickens in the 50m breast stroke Sunday at UBC. By Mark van Manen. (Taken with instagram)

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UBC student Hayley Pipher on how she survived the deadly 2004 tsunami

During a dream vacation to Thailand, the seventh grader had become separated from all seven members of her family, including her entire immediate family, when the tsunami ravaged the coasts of the Indian Ocean region, including the tiny island of Koh Hong.

So quickly had the water begun to rise above her ankles, that on the urging of complete strangers who also happened to be vacationing there that morning, she followed them on a climb to higher ground.

It was on their yacht which she now found herself a passenger, sailing through the night on a 14-hour junket of hope to the city of Phuket, where they imagined embassy offices might be located.

Step up your game, UBC students.

SFU students Ian MacDougall and Mack Warner returned to Vancouver on Tuesday after a five-day whirlwind trip to the United States. The trip culminated with them finding Morgan Freeman in Mississippi, and getting him to be in their film, which is due for a school assignment this week.

Weeeee!

Two $25,000 slides are part of the bill for UBC’s new Student Union Building. One would take students from the fourth to the third floor, and one from the third to the second.

Creepy or not?

A UBC has created Peeked Interest: a website for secret admirers to post anonymous photos they’ve taken of a love interest in the hope of setting up a date.

Evel Knievel’s dad’s brother’s great-granddaughter plays basketball for the UBC Thunderbirds! (Whew, say that out loud three times.)

How awesome is that?

Bottoms up, UBC

The UBC Alma Mater Society is creating the world’s first microbrewery owned by the students who will consume its output.

The brewery is expected to add an extra $500,000 to $1 million to the new Student Union building’s operating budget.

Bid to save UBC monkeys from grim death

A researcher for Stop UBC Animal Research wants to “adopt” four rhesus monkeys before they are killed as part of an experiment to duplicate Parkinson’s disease.