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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…

The Devil’s Advocate 2009-02-06 14:21:00

I owe Ger­ald Deo another beer.

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…

Eat Cookie

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

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…

VOTE!

Thanks to War­ren Springer for let­ting us use his video.

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…

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 …

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…

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 …