Elections
Referendum: Bylaw Changes
Aside from the referendum question to modify bylaws regarding Student Court, a second question exists with Bylaw Changes. These changes are for the most part “housekeeping” changes and are intended to close loopholes and update the Bylaws to be legally compliant with the BC Society Act. The heart of the changes are centered around altering [...]
Race Profile: VP Administration
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. On paper, the VP Administration does not have a lot of duties within the AMS. That changed a lot in 2008 with the successful NEW SUB referendum. Until the NEW SUB is actually opened, the VP Admin’s job will [...]
GSS Executive Elections 2010
Nominations for GSS executive positions closed yesterday. Candidate lists and events lists after the jump. Candidates President: Hanni Bagnordi Lozano Bahador Moosavi zadeh Arvind Saraswat VP Admin: Edwin Gershom VP Finance: Majid Hosseini Jaishankar Iyer VP Academic/External: Dumitru Constantinescu Sedi Minachi VP Services: Jaishankar Iyer Sara Saberi Senate: Francisco (Cisco) Grajales Raymond Pan Events 5pm-8pm, [...]
Referendum: Impeachments
The following is a guest post by Bowinn Ma, EUS President 2007-2008; AMS Councilor 2006-2008; Former Hack, less so now. One of the roles of guest writers is to change things up, and change things up I shall! The UBC Insiders team has done a magnificent job of creating thorough, professional, and complete postings, but [...]
Race Profile: Ubyssey Board of Directors
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. Although the Ubyssey’s tag line is “…since 1918”, the current incarnation was created in 1995. After a shutdown for some time, the Ubyssey was re-launched in 1995, free of AMS control, as the Ubyssey Publications Society (UPS). The Ubyssey’s [...]
Debate: Senatorial Quarrel
The problem with having an election for five spots is you end up with a race of twelve candidates (last year aside). Fortunately for us, only seven candidates showed up today to answer some questions from the moderator, Forestry Senator and All Around Good Guy Mr. Angus Cheung, and from the audience. More on their [...]
Race Profile: VP Academic and University Affairs
UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. Note: Alex was the 2008/2009 AMS VP Academic and University Affairs. The VP University affairs is the largest and most detail-oriented position on the executive. Best described as the executive that handles “everything else”, the VP A/UA is the single [...]
Race Profile: Student Legal Fund Society
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The Student Legal Fund Society was created in the wake of the 1997 APEC protests. Its specific mandate is: “SLFS is a non-profit student run society that provides advisory, legal, and financial assistance to fund, initiate and continue advocacy, [...]
Race Profile: VP Finance
UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The VP Finance has traditionally been one of the most difficult jobs to be effective at in the executive committee. Tasked with crafting a budget to spend millions of dollars in three months, there’s little the VP Finance can do [...]
Race Profile: International Student Seat
. UBC Insiders Analysis Click here to skip to profiles of the candidates in this race. The non-voting international student seat was created by AMS Council in November 2008 at the request of representatives from the International Student Association (ISA). They were looking to increase communication between the AMS and the ISA, International House, and [...]
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