Archive for January, 2010
Debate: Senatorial Quarrel
The problem with having an election for five spots is you end up with a race of twelve candidates (last year aside). Fortunately for us, only seven candidates showed up today to answer some questions from the moderator, Forestry Senator and All Around Good Guy Mr. Angus Cheung, and from the audience. More on their [...]
Race Profile: VP Academic and University Affairs
UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. Note: Alex was the 2008/2009 AMS VP Academic and University Affairs. The VP University affairs is the largest and most detail-oriented position on the executive. Best described as the executive that handles “everything else”, the VP A/UA is the single [...]
Race Profile: Student Legal Fund Society
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The Student Legal Fund Society was created in the wake of the 1997 APEC protests. Its specific mandate is: “SLFS is a non-profit student run society that provides advisory, legal, and financial assistance to fund, initiate and continue advocacy, [...]
Race Profile: VP Finance
UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The VP Finance has traditionally been one of the most difficult jobs to be effective at in the executive committee. Tasked with crafting a budget to spend millions of dollars in three months, there’s little the VP Finance can do [...]
Race Profile: International Student Seat
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The non-voting international student seat was created by AMS Council in November 2008 at the request of representatives from the International Student Association (ISA). They were looking to increase communication between the AMS and the ISA, International House, and [...]
Referendum: Student Court
Edit, Jan 21 2:30am: Much like the House and Senate reconciliate on health care reform, we misinterpreted how the original two questions were to be merged. The Chief Justice will still be required to be a third year law student if this referendum passes. Thanks for the comments, all. Keeps us on our toes. On [...]
How to Cast Your Ballot This Year
With voting for AMS Elections opening in just over one week, we sat down with Ricardo Bortolon, Chief Returning Officer, to get the details on how students will be voting. In summary, the key points for this year are: 1. No paper balloting (except affiliated colleges) 2. 15 minute voting time limit – research candidates [...]
Two New Student Court Bylaw Questions
The newly formed AMS Legislative Procedures committee has ruled, and the chair of Council has upheld an interpretation of a March 2009 motion of AMS council to add two questions to the referendum ballot. They interpreted the following resolution of council, brought forward by former Law councillor Clare Benton: “That on the recommendation of the [...]
Sneak Peek: The Point Grill
The Point Grill, located at Marine Drive residence, is UBC Food’s newest restaurant, and is set to open very soon. The always adorable Andrew Parr was nice enough to give myself and Rabi Sun (of Portraits of UBC and Just Shoot Me fame) a sneak peek at what was going in there. Although the official [...]
A New Hope
Today we are happy to present a guest post written by Dia Montgomery, Law Rep on AMS Council. The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose. BARACK OBAMA, press conference, [...]
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