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Issue of the Day: Policy Motions
Posted By Tim Louman-Gardiner On January 16, 2007 @ 12:32 am In Elections,Features | Comments Disabled
Genocide Awareness Project (GAP)and Pro-Choice students at UBC, March 2005. (photo by Gina)
Consider the following:
So today’s question: Should the AMS concern itself with issues that don’t directly affect students? Those primarily outside the University sphere?
Those who support such motions tend to argue the following:
But when they come up, there is a vocal contingent who tend to say things including:
It’s an age-old dilemma. Sometimes it’s purely in the abstract, but sometimes it has bearings on policy. For instance, what bearing would an official AMS policy on abortion have on anti-abortion demonstrations by AMS clubs? If the AMS has, say, an pro-abortion policy, should, or can, it constitute an anti-abortion club? Or should we even be considering these questions in the first place?
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