Archive for January, 2010
2010 Preliminary Election Results
But wait, democracy isn’t over just yet! Continuous VFM is continuous!
Over 6500!
Ignore the false reports, the elections committee just announced we’re over 6500! Huge kudos to the elections committee. It appears a combination of VFM and a new elections voting website has make for a sustained increase in turnout. See you all at the Gallery for results!
Insiders Predicts Turnout Down 42%
Note: Within an hour of this post, the elections committee broke the model! Good job, EC! (more t-tests, next time, I promise) I did a really simple logarithmic fit to the data the elections committee has been releasing. I’m going to go ahead and predict turnout this year will be 3781. Only 58% of last [...]
Council Poll!
Haven’t voted yet? Why not? It’s taken our monkeys a while, but they’ve finally counted the ballots and ranked the pairs. Who Council chose, as of Wednesday, January 20th. Note: Proxies were counted as council members. This is simply a sample for entertainment purposes–I haven’t bothered with confidence intervals or any of that fun stuff. [...]
The Presidential Debate Video
Voting is now open. Cast your ballot now! Insiders would like to offer a huge thanks to our partner, the Ubyssey, the moderator, Geoff Costeloe, the hosts, the UBC Centre for Student Involvement, and our supporters, AMS Elections. We saw an attendance of over 70 live in the house in this first-ever event. Note: the [...]
A Round-by-Round Breakdown of the UBC Insiders/Ubyssey Presidential Debate
Before the debate begun, Natalie had managed to rack up a bunch of endorsements from media outlets. Yet Bijan has had the larger facebook group, the smoother campaign, and hadn’t been attacked for his perceived weaknesses on tuition\UBC relations. Would there be clash? Would one candidate stick out? The esteemed Alex Lougheed and I were [...]
The Presidential Debate Live Feed
Watch the Ubyssey‘s live video coverage of our co-presented, independent Presidential debate! Watch now!
Photos! January 20 Debate
Rabi Sun, the man behind the much-beloved Portraits of UBC project, and the Just Shoot Me blog was kind enough to help out UBC Insiders with some debate photography last week. This is a huge step up for us, as it means not only are the pictures in focus (something we struggle with), they are [...]
Why Frederick and Chu should not be fed to the wolves
This is an opinion piece by Bowinn Ma, EUS President 2007-2008; AMS Councilor 2006-2008; Former Hack, less so now. [Cup of salt: I know both Chu and Frederick, but only in passing. I have spoken to both but have never spent any extended amount of time with either.] Let me be clear: This is not [...]
Debate: Jan 25 Prez, VPAc, VPX
The following is a guest post by Bowinn Ma, EUS President 2007-2008; AMS Councilor 2006-2008; Former Hack, less so now. We also took photos so don’t quit before the end of this post! ********************* Couldn’t attend the debate? The Ubyssey held a liveblog, as did The UBC Spectator. ********************* Presidential Race Natalie Swift Bijan Ahmadian [...]
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