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 UBC - Faculty of Dentistry UBC Bookstore has its own 'identity', a culture on its own. Do not mess up with that."
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"It is outrageous. What kind of an university will UBC be without a bookstore on campus? The word bookstore has lots of positive connotations to it for example a place for enligtenment and distribution of knowedge. UBC central sounds more like a name of a "
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"Affiliation Professor of English, former head of department The UBC Library has become a "Learning Centre" and now the Bookstore is to be given a vacuous placeholder name, "UBC Central." I thought we were trying to be a "world class" (gag) university. Po"
"Affiliation Vancouver Island University shame!"
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"Why not put our thoughts and money into other things, as in ways to help students, teachers, and staff to save money while on campus. Everyone who visits UBC's Bookstore at least once, amongst other University's "Bookstores", know and realize right then t"
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"Affiliation department of history replacing a name that has meaning (I think everyone knows that a bookstore, like a drugstore, engages in more activities than any literal reading of the name), with a name like 'central' that has no meaning is an embaras"
"Affiliation Applied Science, CPSD UBC's latest train station? University students should be required to buy a few books at a place called a bookstore. (Even "Chapters" has some reference to a book.)"
"The name "UBC Central" gives no clue as to what is actually being named. My guess would be a bus station! Let's keep the UBC Bookstore--we are, after all, a University!"
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"Ridiculous name change. Sounds like it should be the name of the Bus Loop, if anything."
"Affiliation UWC BEd, 1969 A bookstore is a precious thing, and it seems, a rare thing. What part of 'book' is difficult? I can assure you that my grandchildren do not understand that the word is quaint. As soon as they see a shop sign that has 'book' in "
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"Affiliation UBC Graduate & continuing student I'm not so opposed to a name change as to the new name being UBC Central. That tells me absolutely nothing and is downright confusing. Surely if a name change is needed we can come up with a better, more "
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