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Introducing the UBC Alumni Media Network

After their 2010 UBC con­voc­a­tion, a num­ber of crit­ical alumni came together and decided to found the UBC Alumni Media Net­work as a crit­ical resource for schol­ars world­wide. They con­tac­ted us with the fol­low­ing short dis­claimer: “We are committed …

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AMS ELECTION FRAUD 2010

Were you won­der­ing how so many people were said to have voted in the AMS elec­tions, but it did not fit your exper­i­ences with apathy on cam­pus? What could explain the bizarre dif­fer­ence in votes between some can­did­ates? I wrote an art­icle about the AMS

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URGENT: Motion from the FLOOR for tonight, Calling for the Resignation of AMS Council Members

Whereas AMS is com­mit­ted to the inclu­sion of non-dominant (mar­gin­al­ized) groups, and
Whereas the AMS Coun­cil denied stu­dents with dis­ab­il­it­ies the right to have a non-voting seat in the AMS Coun­cil, and
Whereas the AMS Coun­cil has upset stu­dents with dis­ab­il­it­ies, who left with tears in their eyes and yelling “shame on you” (as repor­ted by the […]

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EXTRA: UBC Student Media Opens Up for DIALOGUE with the RIGHT

Since we have been accused of bias and ad hom­inem attacks on defense­less can­did­ates, we did not have the oppor­tun­ity to reply. Our ori­ginal inten­tion was to have pro­duced a lar­ger num­ber of videos, but unfor­tu­nately that was not pos­sible, and this caused that mis­un­der­stand­ing, since a lot of can­did­ates were left uncovered (e.g., VP […]

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Fresh: Elections Committee in Action – Blake Dismissed!

Fol­lows, under my two para­graphs, the entire email sent out to VFMs today regard­ing another com­plaint brought to the Elec­tions Com­mit­tee by Blake Fre­d­er­ick, this time, obvi­ously, dis­missed. This is bound to cause a bit more nerves to boil around this slate and run busi­ness. The most inter­est­ing thing we should hope to dis­cover is […]

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On Bijan Ahmadian: Board of Governors Debate#2

We would like to share our thoughts regard­ing this video, and inform stu­dents on what is gong on here.
I would like to thank the Phantom edit­ing team for another inter­est­ing take on a very import­ant debate.
The video opens with state­ments from Bijan that are quite con­tro­ver­sial. First he gives his own take on how he […]

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