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 »
"Affiliation masters student It's a book store!"
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"Affiliation Physics student "UBC Central" only reflects the location of the bookstore"
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"Affiliation writer when learning becomes "business" and requires "branding" it ceases to be about wonder...and in the words of Wm Steig, "wonder is respect for life." Long after the physical objects of books, people will still identify "books" as literat"
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"Affiliation Radiation Onoclogy BCCA keeo the :"bookstrore" in teh new name"
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"Affiliation PhD student in History, UBC Changing the name in order to "rebrand" is silly. But the pricing of academic texts is criminal. Our outrage shouldn't begin and end with the word "bookstore"."
"Affiliation Student A campus bookstore is a campus bookstore. If it's not broken, don't fix it."
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"Affiliation undergrad student A UNIVERSITY without a BOOKSTORE... what on earth?"
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"Affiliation UBC student A bookstore should be central to a university campus, but calling it "UBC Central" is vague and confusing. It's central because it is a bookstore, and no one should apologize for that."
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"Affiliation UBC I still assign books for my courses. As long as I do (and that will be for a long time), my students will need to know where the bookstore is. UBC Central sounds to me like a bus station."
