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Counterpoint: Commerce Students Should Not Support the Fee Referendum

This piece in oppos­i­tion to the pro­posed $500 Com­merce fee was writ­ten by Adrian Pape, an under­gradu­ate stu­dent in com­merce.
The point to this coun­ter­point can be found here.
Prob­lems with the CUS Ref­er­en­dum
1. “Build­ing fee” or “stu­dent fee”: call it what you want, this fee has already been rejec­ted by the pro­vin­cial government. […]

Point: Commerce Students Should Support the Fee Referendum

What excit­ing times we live in! The CUS this week has a ref­er­en­dum before their mem­bers to decide on a $500 fee to sup­port the con­struc­tion of Phase II of the Henry Angus build­ing. This is one half of a point-counterpoint on the sub­ject. This was writ­ten by Laura Sil­vester, out­go­ing CUS pres­id­ent.
For the counterpoint […]

AMS Electoral Fraud Presumed; Everything on Ballot Under Review

With impec­cable tim­ing, the AMS chose the last Fri­day of the read­ing break to post a press release regard­ing alleg­a­tions of vot­ing irreg­u­lar­it­ies in the last round of AMS elec­tions. Due to the com­plete absence of details in the press release and the high poten­tial for scan­dal, there has been quite a bit of speculation […]

Yes, The Killers Killed the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena

Avid read­ers of this blog may recall a post from last sum­mer entitled: “Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thun­der­bird Arena?”
The ori­ginal post should be read in its entirety, but if you’re too lazy the syn­op­sis is that in July 2009, UBC Ath­let­ics put an applic­a­tion for­ward to amend the liquor licence at […]

Photos! January 20 Debate

Rabi Sun, the man behind the much-beloved Por­traits of UBC pro­ject, and the Just Shoot Me blog was kind enough to help out UBC Insiders with some debate pho­to­graphy last week. This is a huge step up for us, as it means not only are the pic­tures in focus (some­thing we struggle with), they are […]

Why Frederick and Chu should not be fed to the wolves

This is an opin­ion piece by Bow­inn Ma, EUS Pres­id­ent 2007–2008; AMS Coun­cilor 2006–2008; Former Hack, less so now.
[Cup of salt: I know both Chu and Fre­d­er­ick, but only in passing. I have spoken to both but have never spent any exten­ded amount of time with either.]
Let me be clear: This is not […]

Debate: Jan 25 Prez, VPAc, VPX

The fol­low­ing is a guest post by Bow­inn Ma, EUS Pres­id­ent 2007–2008; AMS Coun­cilor 2006–2008; Former Hack, less so now.
We also took pho­tos so don’t quit before the end of this post!
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Couldn’t attend the debate?
The Ubyssey held a liveb­log, as did The UBC Spec­tator.
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Pres­id­en­tial Race
Nat­alie Swift
Bijan Ahma­dian
Sean Kim
Pak Ho Leung
[Salt warn­ing: I per­son­ally endorse […]

Referenda: CPI Indexing and Engagement Levy

These are the last two ref­er­enda that need to be covered for this year’s elec­tions. They’ll be covered together because they are rel­at­ively straight­for­ward so there is not a whole lot to say.

Index­ing AMS Fees to CPI
By not hav­ing their fees indexed, the AMS is los­ing money year over year as the value of the […]

Race Profile: AMS President

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UBC Insiders Ana­lysis
Click here to skip to pro­files of the can­did­ates in this race.
The Pres­id­ent is the vis­ion­ary and leader of the AMS. In the most fun­da­mental sense, the job of the AMS Pres­id­ent is to ensure the organ­iz­a­tion is ful­filling its man­date. This man­date is a set of eleven object­ives which can be found […]

Past President’s Picks: Mike Duncan

As per UBC Insiders tra­di­tion, we asked this year’s pres­id­ent to make some endorse­ments. As Blake can­not due to slate rules, this is a guest post by Mike Duncan, the illus­tri­ous pres­id­ent of the AMS in 2008-09, and cur­rent Board member.

If you know me, you know that I care deeply for this school and for […]