Elections
Race: VP Finance
The VP Finance has the most thankless job of the executive, noticed only when problems arise. Tasked with crafting a budget to spend millions of dollars in three months, there’s little the VP Finance can do to shake up the status-quo in their most important task.
Race: VP Administration
The portfolio of the VP Administration is pretty straightforward. If it happens in the building, then they need to be a part of the discussion.
Student Legal Fund Society
From the rather sparse SLFS website, the society’s mission is “to provide advisory, legal, and financial assistance to initiate and continue advocacy, lobbying, and litigation, to improve education and access to education at UBC and other such matters of law which set broad precedent and concern UBC students.” In 2009, the SLFS put forward $18 [...]
Announcing: The Presidential Debate
Presented by the UBC Insiders, the Ubyssey and the UBC CSI, we are proud to announce the second (hopefully annual) Presidential Debate. One hour of questions, intended to point out differences between the candidate.
10 Observations on Bijan.ca
David Letterman has nothing on us.
AMS Elections 2011 Candidate List Revealed
The AMS Elections season officially kicked off today with the All-Candidate Meeting, and the official list of candidates has been released.
What Referendum?
Did you know the AMS is currently planning a swath of referenda for the fall? Probably not, as the process has up to now been shrouded in secrecy. Questions are rumoured to include student fee increases, bylaw changes, adjustments to executive turnover, and more. 
AUS Student Court Ruling: WTF?
Might as well go a bit further into the Student Court ruling, for the sake of the archives. (The next time Student Court makes a questionable ruling, hopefully people will come here to find out why the last one was questionable too.) But not too in depth, so don’t be scared off. Unlike Naylor’s “Rising [...]
Student Court: AUS Presidential Election “void and of no effect”
On Friday, Student Court handed down a decision in Trasolini v. AUS Elections Committee which concluded that this year’s AUS Presidential Election is “void and of no effect”. Upon reviewing the decision, Brian Platt sent an email to AUS council announcing that he was stepping down immediately. Elysia Pine, who was elected as AUS VP [...]
SUS Elections 2010: Better Know an AMS Rep Candidate
With many uncontested (or essentially uncontested) races, SUS elections have not had much excitement factor this year. (Except maybe this.) Still, there’s one race worth talking about, and Kevin Moore shares his thoughts on that. SUS AMS Rep The race for SUS AMS rep is looking to be the most exciting of the SUS elections. [...]
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