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BoG Holds Extraordinary Meeting to Pass CUS Fee

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The UBC Board of Gov­ernors will be hold­ing an extraordin­ary Board Com­mit­tee meet­ing tomor­row, April 21st, to approve the new Com­merce stu­dent fees and a Board 3 for the Sauder build­ing upgrades (agenda). It’s import­ant to note that the date-stamp on the agenda is April 19th. This means that there was only two days of […]

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BoG Breakdown – Mar. 23 Meeting

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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The Board of Gov­ernors meet­ing for March/April has once again rolled around. Today is the Board Com­mit­tees Meet­ing, with the full board meet­ing being April 8th. The agenda has a num­ber of inter­est­ing ele­ments on it, including […]

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Engineers Vote: All Candidate Forum Coverage

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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The EUS Elec­tions
Cov­er­age by Bow­inn Ma.
• EUS Pres­id­ent 2007–2008
• AMS Coun­cilor 2006–2008
• EUS Vice-President Internal 2006–2007
• EUS Exec­ut­ive Social Coordin­ator 2005–2006
Cur­rently an Arts stu­dent, Bow­inn is two years removed from the EUS. For ref­er­ence, she and her gov­ern­ment brought Engin­eer­ing such ini­ti­at­ives and ser­vices as the Engin­eer­ing Stu­dent Centre Pro­ject, the EUS Organizational […]

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AMS Electoral Fraud: The Technical Perspective

Friday, March 12, 2010

This is part one of a two-part edit­or­ial series on the recently revealed AMS Elect­oral Fraud.
While many of our read­ers have prob­ably read the pre­lim­in­ary report issued by the Elec­tions Com­mit­tee, and were pos­sibly even present at the last Coun­cil meet­ing, there hasn’t been a detailed tech­nical explan­a­tion provided about exactly how the sys­tem was […]

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Race Profile: Board of Governors

Friday, January 22, 2010

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UBC Insiders Ana­lysis
Click here to skip to pro­files of the can­did­ates in this race.
The 21-member Board of Gov­ernors at UBC is com­posed of “the Chan­cel­lor, the Pres­id­ent, eleven per­sons appoin­ted by the Lieu­ten­ant Gov­ernor in Coun­cil (rep­res­ent­ing the province), three stu­dents elec­ted by stu­dents, three fac­ulty mem­bers elec­ted by fac­ulty, and two employ­ees elec­ted by […]

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Race Profile: Board of Governors

Friday, January 22, 2010

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UBC Insiders Ana­lysis
Click here to skip to pro­files of the can­did­ates in this race.
The 21-member Board of Gov­ernors at UBC is com­posed of “the Chan­cel­lor, the Pres­id­ent, eleven per­sons appoin­ted by the Lieu­ten­ant Gov­ernor in Coun­cil (rep­res­ent­ing the province), three stu­dents elec­ted by stu­dents, three fac­ulty mem­bers elec­ted by fac­ulty, and two employ­ees elec­ted by […]

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Referendum: Bylaw Changes

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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 the […]

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Referendum: Impeachments

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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 […]

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How to Cast Your Ballot This Year

Sunday, January 17, 2010

With vot­ing for AMS Elec­tions open­ing in just over one week, we sat down with Ricardo Bor­to­lon, Chief Return­ing Officer, to get the details on how stu­dents will be vot­ing.
In sum­mary, the key points for this year are:
1. No paper bal­lot­ing (except affil­i­ated col­leges)
2. 15 minute vot­ing time limit – research can­did­ates in advance
3. AMS […]

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Where the Money Goes

Friday, November 6, 2009

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In case you haven’t heard, UBC’s salary data has been released for the fiscal year end­ing March 2009 (avail­able here, Excel sheet includ­ing 2008 data, com­piled by UBC Insiders, avail­able here). In accord­ance with the Fin­an­cial Information […]

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