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 University of British Columbia It is unacceptable that a university has a bookstore that does not include the name "Book" in its title! I find this shameful and appaling."
"The bookstore is UBC-how dare they change it!"
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"No person I have ever met has been confused by the services offered by the UBC bookstore. Rebranding it to Central downplays the value of books, and by association, the value of education, which is the wrong message for a university to send."
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"Affiliation UBC Student If I were a first year and told to go to "UBC Central", I would be looking for a big tent in the very centre of campus, near the libraries or something. Moreover, I LIKE having a "Bookstore," even if it does sell mostly other item"
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"Affiliation UBC English alumni "Central"="confusing.""
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"Affiliation Critical Studies The change in moniker insults the thousand-year tradition of erudition and letters that the university ought to represent, and of which the administrators should view themselves as guardians."
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"The definition of bookstore has expanded in the past few years. We all know that bookstores offer all sorts of resources besides just books. But the inherent idea of BOOK must remain in the name of the BOOK store."
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"Affiliation History Dept., UBC First we had, "Think about it." Now we have "A Place of Mind." Oh, and no "Bookstore." Perhaps we should eliminate the Library and call it something else. Someone else noted on these pages that "books are what we do." Not s"
"Affiliation UBC alumnus "UBC Central" doesn't even say what it is, how would one know that is where to purchase books, or anything for that matter?"
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