For 25 years, the Chan Centre’s Chan Shun Concert Hall has been where UBC music students master their craft, but that all changed this fall, when they learned their rehearsals were being shifted to a smaller facility, one they say is not living up to what they were promised.

“We were all disappointed and probably a little bit mad,” said Saya Leznoff, President of the Music Undergraduate Students’ Association.

Entering her fourth year on campus, and first as president, Saya Leznoff never imagined she would have to fight for access to a facility so integral to her studies.

But that is where she and so many music students at UBC now find themselves after they were informed their rehearsals were being relocated to the smaller Telus Studio Theatre.

Leznoff argues that the new facility is no

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