Elections
AMS Elections: Candidates
A long-awaited list of all candidates!PresidentBlake FrederickPaul KorczykAlex Monegro VP AcademicDavid NogasSonia PurewalJohannes RebaneJeremy Wood VP ExternalTimothy ChuFireThe King’s HeadIggy Rodriguez VP AdministrationCrystal HonTristan MarkleWater FountainJeremy “Kommander Keg” McElroy VP FinanceAle CoatesTom Dvorak Board of GovernorsBijan AhmadianAndrew CarneMichael DuncanBlake FrederickTristan Markle There are a few new names, but lots of people are also returning. I’m [...]
Presidential Platforms: Paul Korczyk
Alex’s platform is still not up (although I am now greeted by a nice profile shot, so as long as I see his right side, I’ll recognize him), so I’m moving on to looking at Paul’s. I was interested by the contrast of issues I found discussed on his website. Here I’m hoping to highlight [...]
Presidential Platforms: Blake Frederick
While Alex Monegro’s website is not yet up and running, the other two presidential candidates have their platforms posted: http://www.blakefrederick.ca/Student%20Support.html and http://voteforpaul.wordpress.com/platform/ . I hope to provide a bit of critique of both, starting with Blake’s (I figure alphabetical organization is the least biased of options, and since Alex’s site isn’t up yet…)Blake Frederick While [...]
Presidential Candidates for the AMS elections
So the candidates I know of so far running for AMS president are Blake Frederick, Paul Korczyk, and Alex Monegro. I’m sure many of you will be invited to join their facebook groups soon- I have so far managed to avoid the onslaught, but we’ll see what happens over the next few days. After all, [...]
Electoral Area A Candidates Exposed
On November 15th, people will go to the polls in Metro Vancouver to vote for new municipal governments. People that live on UBC campus will also go to the polls, but they won’t be voting for mayors and councilors like everyone else since UBC is not part of any municipality, but rather part of an [...]
Vote!!!
So most of you have probably already been bombarded with messages to vote today- I know I’ve certainly had 3 of my profs tell me a total of about 15 times to go out and vote. But even after all that, I found out that people were still not planning on it. So I figure [...]
Elections
So lots of students societies finished their fall voting today, and I thought that it might be interesting to look at how elections are run. Being a Science student, and a SUS Council member for the past 2 years, I can at least comment on the way that SUS campaigns are run, and I would [...]
March 2008 AMS Referendum results
Don’t forget the below posts. It’s a busy week!Well, unoficial results are in, and all the questions have been approved with a majority ‘yes’ vote. Here are the numbers: Overall turnout: 44%Total votes: 18,446 U-Pass renewal NO: 500 YES: 17,945 ; 97.2% in favourBylaw reforms NO: 1284 YES: 4357 ; 77.3% in favourWUSC (student refugee [...]
Re-thinking referenda
Today is the last day to vote in this year’s AMS referendum. The results of the four questions will determine if we continue to have a U-pass program, if we’ll start subsidizing refugee students, if we’ll build a new SUB, and if we’ll make some by-law changes. The reason you need to we cajoled, marketed, [...]
What to learn from the Crompton Lougheed affair
The world has gone mad. I don’t check comments for one day while working on a paper, and when I return there’s a frenzy! Anyway. There’s plenty of discussion in the below post about any and all aspects of this controversy. I want to zoom out and offer a few things we can take away [...]
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