Rodrigo: we’ve had this discussion before: comments are for commenting on the posts, not for an offhand mention before springing into a rant ending with a plug for your site.

What is most bizarre, I found, was that, without much to say and in need of a target, people tried to put Tristan Markle on the spot for having some elements of the administration being not very happy about what he’s been doing in his negotiations with the administration. Just to set the record straight, if it were not for Tristan and involved students who care, basically the UBC administration would have taken over student funds and the SUB renewal project altogether. The administration would be hiring their own architects, and their own developers and project managers to make sure that the new SUB used student money to serve big corporations and developers, and ensuring that a shopping mall would be implanted on top of the knoll and the bus bunker. People have to understand that Tristan has been influential not only in starting the campaign against the shopping mall and the bus loop, but also in educating people like Mike Duncan on such issues, and ensuring that the SUB Renewal consultation process was actually the best this university has ever seen in terms of development that caters to students’ wants and needs.

Like Mike Duncan said, students have to draw the line and make their investment count, and not simply turn around and let it be taken over by an administration that has a proven record of siding with developers, Properties Trust, and members of the Board of Governors who shouldn’t be there in the first place because of an obvious conflict of interest, sprouting from the fact that they are not even elected, but appointed for the most part. The issue of aboriginal representation at the BoG has not come up yet, and that is shameful for this campus and for students. This university should be student driven and not development and industry driven, and having a couple of largely ineffective and poorly articulated student board members has been a curse this past year. Students on the board did nothing to ensure that other students can attend open board meetings, they have not listened not even to the AMS resolutions against the bus loop, which led to a discussion in the AMS council that ended up with Tim (BoG) claiming that his voting record in the board does not matter, whereas Bijan was never around to update the AMS council on what the board has been up to… Students on the board this year have proven to be, compared to last year, complete fumbling amateurs, who don’t have an opinion, cannot relay students’ opinions, and who have to be constantly overseen by the AMS in order not to screw up every single time.

Many students are tired of this selling out from students to the board on account of prestige and lack of accountability with students. More real commentary on actual issues and the proposals facing us will be posted soon at ubcstudentmedia.wordpress.com

Ok, now it is time for REALLY?! With Rory Green.

Me cheering made you think less of Tim? Really? Someone who has been active in journalism for, what seems like quite a while is judging candidates based on how loud my “woo-hoos” are? ReallyR? This is how your opinions are formed? Realy??

And, Iggy’s cheer section at the back, who chanted “IGGY IGGY IGGY” didn’t also affect your opinion of Iggy? Really? When an Iggy supported held up a large Bristol board sign saying “TIM CHU NOT FOR YOU” you had no problem with that? Really?!?! Members of Iggy’s campaign team interrupting current V.P. External when she tried to ask a question didn’t bother you, but me cheering for a friend did…. Really!?

Really! Really? Really.