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Another open letter to Blake Frederick

Dear lover,A lot has passed in the time since I first wrote you regard­ing my appre­ci­ation and my vote. I want you to know that since that fate­ful night I accep­ted the invit­a­tion to your house, I have never missed one of your debates, and my vote has al…

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The Devil’s Advocate 2009-02-06 23:21:00

I owe Ger­ald Deo another beer.

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Your 2009 AMS Executive

Don’t blame me. You voted for them (though likely for second place). In case you can’t identify the five heads of the hydra, you elected:VP Fin­ance — Tom “this is what I study” DvorakVP External — Tim “I’m small don’t hurt me” ChuVP Admin­is­tra­tion — C…

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Eat Cookie

A trib­ute to Eat Cake. Check this out if you have no idea what this is about.

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Revelations from ACF

This is the closest thing to a liveb­log you’re going to get from the D.A. Here are some quotes and thoughts on the {All Can­did­ates} — {Bijan} forum.And no, ACF isn’t back. I’m talk­ing about the second most excit­ing thing with that title… the All Cand…

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VOTE!

Thanks to War­ren Springer for let­ting us use his video.

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Condorcet explained.

Every­one votes, then no-one gets their first choice, but instead a can­did­ate that no-one really wanted but is inof­fens­ive is elec­ted (see picture).It’s also worth not­ing that the Board of Gov­ernors elec­tion, not being an AMS spot but a Uni­ver­sity posit…

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Graphifying the election

The axes are fairly explan­at­ory: Out­sider vs. Hack, and Knol­lie (ideo­lo­gical, though poten­tially not prag­matic; knows what they stand for) vs. Con­fused (prac­tical, stands for some­thing but not quite sure what, will nego­ti­ate and compromise).Candidates …

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Breaking news: there’s politics in campus politics!

Bijan Ahma­dian, Board of Gov­ernors incum­bent and can­did­ate, doesn’t plan to pri­or­it­ize sav­ing the UBC Farm — but would make it a pri­or­ity if he got the endorse­ment of the Friends of the Farm, which reveals that (sur­prise!) polit­ics is a part of student…

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Ode to Jeremy Wood

Our Jeremy Wood, to do some good­For VP Aca­demic stoodHe had a plan to fight the man­Whose mar­ket hous­ing blights the landTo save the farm, to save the dayTo save the over­worked RABut that’s not all, he’d heed the callTo fight Johannes Rebane.Our Jeremy …

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