The Cheeze is in the process of being replaced by a new and larger student building designed to better accommodate the needs of the engineering students , whose numbers can not be supported by the small size of the Cheeze . The Engineering Student Centre Project was led by former Vice-President Communications & Administration , Andrew Carne . Demolition of the Cheeze took place on April 24 2014 in one day . The construction process of the new Engineering Student Centre is predicted to finish in early Summer 2015 . Consistent with traditions at other Canadian universities the EUS historically paid a woman ( often a professional stripper ) to ride naked on an animal or a chariot through campus . The practice was called the Lady Godiva Ride in reference to Lady Godiva , the ' patron saint of Engineers ' . The ride drew vocal and diverse protests in the UBC Senate , in the BC Legislature , from the AMS , students and student groups . A central issue of the protests was gender , and to counter that argument the engineers also paraded a naked man in 1982 . In 1986 the EUS bowed to protests and replaced the annual March ride with a mock funeral procession , only to stage a strip show in the Hebb Theatre . An aspect of the tradition was the publication of photographs of the ' Godiva ' in the newspaper of the EUS aka ' Red Rag ' -- not to be confused with the current nEUSpaper . Much debate focused on censorship and the scope of a university ’s duties to be inclusive . This practice continued throughout the 1980s in spite of the rise of modern feminism and ended on all Canadian campuses after the École Polytechnique massacre
École Polytechnique massacre
École Polytechnique massacre
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