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Condor-WHAT? A brief guide to the new AMS voting system

The Con­dorcet Method was foun­ded by math­em­atician, philo­sopher, and polit­ical sci­ent­ist, Mar­quis de Con­dorcet in 1785. His method determ­ines the win­ner of an elec­tion by a com­par­ison of voter’s pref­er­ences in a mul­ti­party elec­tion. This means rather …

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WTF is SLFS – One of the most important elections you’ve never even heard about!

With a man­date to “provide advis­ory, legal, and fin­an­cial assist­ance to fund, ini­ti­ate and con­tinue advocacy, lob­by­ing and lit­ig­a­tion to improve edu­ca­tion and access to edu­ca­tion at UBC and such other mat­ters of law, which set broad pre­ced­ent and con…

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Knoll Index

Aver­age cost of tuition for stu­dents who study in Sweden, Fin­land, Cuba: 0 Aver­age cost of tuition for domestic UBC stu­dent: $4,612.14 Aver­age cost of tuition for inter­na­tional UBC stu­dent: $18,448.56 UBC Pres­id­ent Stephen J. Toope’s annual salary: $…

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AMS Erections: Representation, Equity, and the AMS Hard-On for Patriarchy

In this year’s elec­tion, of the 21 can­did­ates run­ning for the AMS Exec­ut­ive and Board of Gov­ernors, only three can­did­ates are women (rep­res­ent­ing 14% of all can­did­ates).    There are more joke can­did­ates than there are female can­did­ates in thi…

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