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UBC Tuition Increases! Thanks Again, Bijan

When Mr. Bijan Ahma­dian was cam­paign­ing for his re-election to the Board of Gov­ernors, people who opposed his can­did­acy argued that Bijan was noth­ing more than a pup­pet of the admin­is­tra­tion. Bijan’s sup­port­ers were very skep­tical of this claim. So far, and dur­ing the last year, not many stu­dents got involved with the inner workings […]

SLATE WARS: Corruption or Righteousness? Blake Frederick Disqualified??!!

Accord­ing to the counter ver­sion to the new break­ing news regard­ing Blake Frederick’s dis­qual­i­fic­a­tion through a flash rul­ing of the Elec­tions Com­mit­tee, the com­merce slate got together, organ­ized to catch the other appar­ent slate in action and appar­ently did so, and caused the Elec­tions com­mit­tee to dis­qual­ify Blake Fre­d­er­ick from the AMS Pres­id­ent­ship. Blake had […]

Bored of Governors: Outside Ponderosa at the Original Great Farm Trek

Ed Dur­gan and Rodrigo went to the Pon­der­osa Com­plex to check out the Board of Gov­ernors meet­ing at the ori­ginal date set for the Great Farm Trek, Novem­ber 27th 2008.
The videos show sev­eral people who had atten­ded that meet­ing com­ing out and ignor­ing or dis­miss­ing the stu­dents, with a few excep­tions. Bijan Ahma­dian gives an […]

AMS Election Results: The Unexpected Strikes

This year’s AMS elec­tion res­ults were revealed last night at the Gal­lery pub in the Stu­dent Union Build­ing at around 10pm.
The greatest sur­prise for most of the hacks was the elec­tion for VP Admin­is­tra­tion. Nobody believed that Tristan would not be win­ning, but that was the case as Crys­tal Hon, stand­ing for the ’silent majority’, […]

Electoral Committee Supports Johannes’ Innocence

In a short state­ment released at around 10:30 this morn­ing, the AMS Elec­tions Com­mit­tee insists that since Johannes denied par­tak­ing in illegal activ­it­ies and that the eye­wit­nesses pos­sess “ques­tion­able biases”, that Johannes must be inno­cent. The lack of detail regard­ing such ‘biases’ and why they are found to be ques­tion­able is dis­ap­point­ing, since they are […]

VP Academic Debate #1: Higher Quality

Here is the com­plete edits to the first VP Aca­demic and Uni­ver­sity Affairs debate, in higher quality!

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