Martha Piper, President of UBC, is fianlly stepping down. She made public today her intended resignation, effective June 2006. Waitwait, 2006? Well, at least I'll get a month or two at UBC without her evil presence. This is the woman who we pay almost half a million dollars a year, who talks about her new car and how much she loves it at congregation speeches, has more than doubled my tuition, and who submited in factum during a recent court case that the Musqueam shouldn't get to claim the land that makes up the UBC golf course since they weren't civilized enough to leave their imprint on it. So take note, any of your enviro-friendly camping types, leaving a light footprint of your passage=uncivilized. If you were any sort of civilized camper, you'd chop down trees to build a wall around your site and probably alter the direction of any near by bodies of water with your beer bottle collection. sigh.

And as glad as I am that she's leaving, I'll be even happier when it's finally my turn. Must go write a paper now, on the anti-global capitalism (some call it anti-globalization, but that's a misnomer) movement in global civil society.