Canadian Union of Students. UBC Chapter,

The origins of the Canadian Union of Students can be tracked back to the late 1920s with the founding of an organization whose main objectives were to foster understanding and cooperation among students and to advance the legitimate interests of Canadian students. In the 1960's, the C.U.S. continually found itself in a swirl of political controversy. Some have suggested that during this period the C.U.S. was transformed from a nondescript student bureaucracy by leaders of the student New Left who sought to arouse student consciousness about significant social problems on the local, national and international levels. The increasing political overtones in the organization led a number of universities, including the University of British Columbia, to withdraw from the C.U.S. late in the decade. This action resulted in the transformaion of the body in 1972 and its rebirth as the National Union of Students.