Alex Lougheed
The Henry Angus Tuition Fee
Commerce students are before the ballot now. There are some good backgrounders out there. We scrapped ours because frankly, it was too dry. The important lessons coming from the history are: 1. The rhetoric behind accreditation grew stronger with time. At first it was not being mentioned, then there were short references, now there’s direct [...]
CUS Board to Vote on $500 Building Fee Referendum
Update 5:34pm: Today’s CUS meeting has been moved to Angus 296 from Angus 310. Normally we try not to post snippets, but we feel this one is important enough. At tonight’s CUS Board of Directors meeting (6:00pm, Henry Angus 310 296) there will be a vote to have the CUS go to a student referendum [...]
CP&D Open Houses Galore
This is a little last minute, but if you want to be heard about the future of housing on campus, as well as the future of the heart of campus (the University Boulevard area, as well as McInnis Field and the current bus loop), there are two open houses forthcoming. All you need to do [...]
Voter Funded Media Results
Here are the results from continuous VFM thusfar, and from the one-time VFM in interactive graph form! The real winner at the end of the day, I would say, is the gossip rag AMS Confidential, who managed to create themselves partway through continuous VFM and eventually surpassed the Radical Beer Tribune in terms of total [...]
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 [...]
The Presidential Debate Live Feed
Watch the Ubyssey‘s live video coverage of our co-presented, independent Presidential debate! Watch now!
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