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Counterpoint: Commerce Students Should Not Support the Fee Referendum

Monday, March 8, 2010

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. […]

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Point: Commerce Students Should Support the Fee Referendum

Monday, March 8, 2010

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 […]

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AMS Electoral Fraud Presumed; Everything on Ballot Under Review

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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 […]

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CUS Board to Vote on $500 Building Fee Referendum

Monday, March 1, 2010

Update 5:34pm: Today’s CUS meet­ing has been moved to Angus 296 from Angus 310.
Nor­mally we try not to post snip­pets, but we feel this one is import­ant enough.
At tonight’s CUS Board of Dir­ect­ors meet­ing (6:00pm, Henry Angus 310 296) there will be a vote to have the CUS go to a stu­dent ref­er­en­dum to implement […]

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CUS Board to Vote on $500 Building Fee Referendum

Monday, March 1, 2010

Nor­mally we try not to post snip­pets, but we feel this one is import­ant enough.
At tonight’s CUS Board of Dir­ect­ors meet­ing (6:00pm, Henry Angus 310) there will be a vote to have the CUS go to a stu­dent ref­er­en­dum to imple­ment a build­ing fee of $500. This fee would only be imple­men­ted after the completion […]

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CP&D Open Houses Galore

Friday, February 5, 2010

This is a little last minute, but if you want to be heard about the future of hous­ing on cam­pus, as well as the future of the heart of cam­pus (the Uni­ver­sity Boulevard area, as well as McIn­nis Field and the cur­rent bus loop), there are two open houses forth­com­ing. All you need to do […]

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Voter Funded Media Results

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Here are the res­ults from con­tinu­ous VFM thus­far, and from the one-time VFM in inter­act­ive graph form!

The real win­ner at the end of the day, I would say, is the gos­sip rag AMS Con­fid­en­tial, who man­aged to cre­ate them­selves part­way through con­tinu­ous VFM and even­tu­ally sur­passed the Rad­ical Beer Tribune in terms of total cash […]

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Yes, The Killers Killed the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena

Monday, February 1, 2010

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 […]

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2010 Preliminary Election Results

Saturday, January 30, 2010

But wait, demo­cracy isn’t over just yet! Con­tinu­ous VFM is continuous!

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Over 6500!

Friday, January 29, 2010

Ignore the false reports, the elec­tions com­mit­tee just announced we’re over 6500!
Huge kudos to the elec­tions com­mit­tee. It appears a com­bin­a­tion of VFM and a new elec­tions vot­ing web­site has make for a sus­tained increase in turnout. See you all at the Gal­lery for results!

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