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Updates on Student Email Lists; Good news!
See below for an email from the University to Kevin Keystone, AMS President. It was sent yesterday at 5:34pm. The short version is that the University is agreeing in principle to allowing students to authorize the giving of their information to the AMS, so, by next year, the AMS may have contact info for its [...]
What the AMS has done this year for students
As UBC students, we each pay a fee to the AMS, our student union. Part of it goes to pay the five AMS Executives to work 40-60 hours per week. So what, under the “supervision” of AMS Council, have they accomplished this year? I have come up with a list of what I consider the [...]
Childcare at UBC: a small step forward
AMS Council Meeting was productive today. This is the 3rd last meeting before turnover. What came forward as an addendum to the Agenda was a motion for the AMS to contribute 100 000$ a year for the next 10 years to expand the childcare program at UBC, such that the current 2-3 year waitlist is [...]
Why VFM
So, dear reader, you may be wondering why in [deity]‘s name Gina Eom and Tim Louman-Gardiner are bothering with this here VFM project. First, they’re bored. Second, they happen to (perhaps naively) believe that AMS and UBC elections have a tremendous impact on student life, and that the student representatives, like it or not, are [...]
Who are these people
This is a completely self-promoting post which hopefully no one will read. If you’re wondering who the heck we are, I suppose this will give you a better idea. Tim is a law student, but prior to this obtained a BA Hons in PoliSci (also at UBC). He is interested in Canadian politics, sports, and [...]
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