Maayan Kreitzman
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“VP-Admin elect Tristan Markle adding ‘Right to Cheat’ to posters in support of VP-Academic elect Alex Lougheed” This was obviously meant to be public. If you’re not up on the controversy surrounding the VP Academic race, refer to the Ubyssey here and here. The implications of publicly discrediting a fellow executive-elect are unclear, but probably [...]
Right To Be Cold – Sheila Watt-Cloutier at UBC
Terry* presents the latest in our Global Citizenship Lecture Series: Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s talk, “Right to Be Cold” will take place this Friday, February 29th, at 12 noon in the West Atrium of the Life Science Centre. Map. In the past two decades, Inuit across the Arctic have reported profound changes to their environment and wildlife [...]
CFS Politics. What fun!
You’ve probably noticed them: ads on the 99 B-line with smiling, ethnically diverse young people with “I am CFS” drawn on their outstreached hands in marker. The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), which is one of the two main federal student lobbies, is gearing up for a huge publicity campaign in the next month to [...]
Vancouver Quadra by-election rush
UBC’s federal electoral riding, Vancouver Quadra, is having a by-election on March 17th. And if you live on campus, you can vote in it. (Click the image to enlarge) Quadra is one of the wealthiest and best educated ridings in the country. It contains most of Vancouver’s West side, including UBC. This by-election race has [...]
UBC Insider mission statement
We here on the blog have been feeling that lately we’ve been losing some focus. With more boisterous and demanding readership, an election campaign, and fewer (non-graduating) writers, the pressure (and temptation) to spit out easy personality-centered posts is hard to resist. This is an attempt to step back and re-balance. Though it may not [...]
VP Administration Special Election results
Tristan Markle 446 Shawn Stewart 306 Stephen McCarthy 280 Mike Kushnir 194 Yian Messoloras 189 Stephanie Ryan 104 J Mac The Keg 44 Aaron Palm 42 Congratulations to Tristan! Looks like the knolligarchy managed to swing it for him. Pretty good voter turnout. One more note: EA Brendan Piovesan resigned, effective today. Someone else will [...]
VP Administration post of awesomeness
Candidate analysis, random thoughts, EA deprecation, and who Maayan is voting for all rolled into one glorious post. Well, voting is now on for the re-vote for the fifth AMS executive position. The VP Administration race was cancelled in mid-campaign two weeks ago. Despite the fact that this cancellation was not allowed by AMS code, [...]
Sterling example of effective advocacy – Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Students spend alot of time agonizing over how to be effective advocates for change. Emma Preston, a founding member of UBC UAEM, and this year’s BC Rhodes Scholar, tells of how this group made the university fall head over heals for them. Billions of people, primarily in poor countries, lack access to lifesaving medicines; millions [...]
Voter Funded Media results!
Well, here they are at long last! The Knoll – $1600UBC Insider – Election Edition – $1500The Devils advocate – $1400Cavalier – $900Let Them Eat Cake – $725UVote – $600The Underground – $600The 432 – $600Plain title: Awesome Content – $75The Radical Beer Tribune – $0Maclean’s On Campus – $0 From the VFM administrator Paul [...]
VP Admininstration nominations – rumor mill
The race for the fifth AMS executive position, VP Administration, was cancelled in mid-campaign due to “campaigning irregularities.” While this cancellation was probably contrary to AMS code, and details were never confirmed by Elections Administrator Brendan Piovesan, a new race is soon to launch. And according to the rumor-mill, and the volume of nomination papers [...]
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