Say No to Renaming UBC Bookstore
UBC claims that the name UBC Bookstore does not adequately reflect the products and services that the store provides and that the word bookstore" is limiting and restraining to their business and to t... continue reading »
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"Affiliation UBC Staff We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein"
"Affiliation Citizen of British Columbia Whoever thought of this should be punted."
"Affiliation MA in Children's Literature Alumnus What are they thinking????"
"Affiliation Concordia University I completed a B.A. and M.A. at U.B.C. in the English Department. Whenever I am in town I visit the bookstore to look at the books, not the other products."
"Affiliation UBC staff The name "UBC Central" is misleading. It does not indicate that it is a bookstore. It is understood that a bookstore usually sells other products and services besides books. It does not need to change its name to reflect that. The n"
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"Affiliation Professor Emeritus UBC The proposal is a further step in the commercialization of the campus. Perhaps the faculty could be dispensed with, students given computers with pre-programmed degree courses, with all exams being multiple choice. The "
"Affiliation UBC Arts Studies in Research and Writing I think the bookstore should be kept and separated from all the other merchandise."
"Affiliation Student UBC Bookstore is a better name for new students locating the building on a map. UBC Central sounds like it could be confused with an admin building like Brock Hall."
"Affiliation Professor emeritus Is this to emphasize the "Place of Mind" denomination? What's next? Re-naming the UBC Library (after all, it's also referring to books, just in Latin)??"
""Central" doesn't mean anything. If I see that, I don't know what kind of services are behind it. I would never enter."
"Affiliation Professor of English (emeritus) Another tag - "a place of mind" - indeed"
"I get the idea, they do more than sell books. End the double-speak. By 'Central', of course one means 'Books are peripheral'. Keep the name 'bookstore' and use it as your guide."
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"Affiliation French Dept-Fac of Arts Any decent university needs a BOOKSTORE called BOOKSTORE on its premisses. Do not take away fromUBC what makes it a place where reading BOOKS is a privilege and a necessity."
