Which professor should go to Mars?

UBC Okanagan’s third annual Life Raft Debate is going to Mars.

In an online event where the audience helps decide who will win the last seat in a shuttle to Mars, UBC professors will debate why their area of expertise is essential for humankind’s survival.

“For this year’s Society of Scholars Life Raft Debate, we imagine space agencies have discovered an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. In order to preserve humanity, a settlement has been developed on Mars,” says Karah Hopgood, a fourth-year biochemistry student and member of the planning committee. “Just one final seat remains on the life raft, or in this scenario a shuttle, and of the five professors only one will get on the shuttle.”

One of the six professors in the debate, Bryce Traister, dean of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, will argue no professor deserves a seat on the shuttle.

The debate takes place tonight at 7. To register, go to students.ok.ubc.ca/ life-raft.