Elections

Best of AMS Elections 2008

By Serious Steve ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi everyone still reading the Insiders. This is Serious Steve from the Devil’s Advocate, bringing you the Best of the 2008 AMS Elections, as nominated by the VFM candidates and decided by me. (And before you ask, yes, yes I did hack the Insiders website. Because I’m that good. Watch my post stay up here [...]

Elections Results: photos and mockery.

By Gerald Deo ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night, I took photos. This morning, I mock people. You know you like it. Aaron from UBC Devils, undoubtedly plotting. Austin from UBC Devils. I’m a firm believer in keeping one’s friends close and their enemies closer. Andrew Forshner, of whom I cannot take a photo without it looking like he’s singing. Stef Ratjen, [...]

Results! (prefunctory)

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Here are the results. That is, the results before the 3 to 5 student court challenges that should be comin forward in the next week or so due to voting irregularities. Note the Bottom-of-the-barrel voter turnout. This is worse than this year’s SUS elections, if memory serves. To quote the Devil’s advocate: “Brendan Piovesan. DISENDORSED.” [...]

Ineptitude? Carelessness? Cheating? Elections train is off the rails

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

In a surprising announcement today, Elections Administrator Brendan Piovesan confirmed that the race for VP Administration, between incumbent Sarah Naiman, “Scary” Mike “the Rabbi” Kushnir, and Yian Messoloras, has been cancelled. The exact reasons are yet unclear, but they involve campaign rules transgressions on the part of one candidate. Apparently, Messoloras broke the rules when [...]

Maayan’s Endorsements

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Well, I figure there’s no point waiting any longer. If you care, here’s who I’ll be voting for, and briefly why. I haven’t included a scientific dissection of each candidate’s pros and cons, though I’m happy to discuss this in more detail in the comments. President: Erin Rennie – I talked about this in an [...]

Issue of the day: The UNA – Interveiw with Mike Feeley

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The UNA aren’t the fat-cats we students like to imagine. The University Town Neighbourhoods are the five outlying areas of UBC’s campus that have been leased out to private developers for the purpose of building high-end residential neighbourhoods, and thereby growing UBC’s financial endowment. The university has envisioned these neighbourhoods as part of making UBC [...]

January 17th: Debate photos and commentary.

By Gerald Deo ⋅ January 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the things people most frequently mention about UBC Insiders is that the posts are often wordy, and lacking in sass. This should remediate both of those. photos and comments behind the cut (warning, there’s lots!)Ubyssey staff Brandon Adams and Jesse Ferreras, huddling before the debates start. Or exchanging sweet nothings. Not that there’s [...]

VFM and other media-themed updates.

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Voting started yesterday (Friday). As you may have noticed, the system being used is the archaic and inflexible WebVote hosted on the UBC Student Services site, not the new AMSLink system purchased by the AMS this year, which is still not functioning. If you tried to vote, you may also have noticed that the VFM [...]

How the President is voting – Jeff Friedrich’s ballot

By Maayan Kreitzman ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Jeff Friedrich is the current AMS president. These are his words. (Cartoon by JJ McCullough):Ok… not to add fuel to the endorsement fire- but endorsing joke candidates? Maayan and Timmy, I think you two can step up and make a real choice here. And nothing against Erin, but being a joke candidate affords you a [...]

Endorsement: Erin Rennie for the win!