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Where’s Fox News and their “fair and balanced” approach when you need it?

Not being a Com­merce stu­dent, I’m not going to say one way or the other how I’d vote on this ref­er­en­dum because it’s not my money on the line (although it’s prob­ably abund­antly clear where I stand). I will, how­ever, say that I’ve so far been …

Interview with Unopposed Candidate for AUS VP Finance

Obi-Wan Ken­obi is run­ning unop­posed for AUS VP Fin­ance, after his only oppon­ent was dis­qual­i­fied for fail­ing to appear at the All Can­did­ates Meet­ing. This means there will be a yes/no bal­lot ques­tion next to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s name.Thankfully we have in…

Interview with Unopposed Candidate for AUS VP Finance

Obi-Wan Ken­obi is run­ning unop­posed for AUS VP Fin­ance, after his only oppon­ent was dis­qual­i­fied for fail­ing to appear at the All Can­did­ates Meet­ing. This means there will be a yes/no bal­lot ques­tion next to Obi-Wan Kenobi’s name.Thankfully we have in…

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March 3 AMS Liveblog!!

Elec­tions drama, Inter­na­tional seat drama, and vari­ous other forms of drama! All live! Below the chat win­dow is the text of the present­a­tion by Isa­bel Fer­reras, Elec­tions Admin.AMS Meet­ing: March 3. Elec­tions, Intl seat, etc.TO: AMS COUNCILFROM: ISAB

March 3 AMS Liveblog!!

Elec­tions drama, Inter­na­tional seat drama, and vari­ous other forms of drama! All live! Below the chat win­dow is the text of the present­a­tion by Isa­bel Fer­reras, Elec­tions Admin.AMS Meet­ing: March 3. Elec­tions, Intl seat, etc.TO: AMS COUNCILFROM: ISAB

Thoughts from a Commerce and CUS alum.

The fol­low­ing is from a let­ter sent to the cur­rent CUS pres­id­ent by Com­merce gradu­ate Peter Rizov (BCom 2008), who was involved in CUS dur­ing his time at UBC. It is being pub­lished with his per­mis­sion. I feel it is essen­tial to include Peter’s assessme…

Thoughts from a Commerce and CUS alum.

The fol­low­ing is from a let­ter sent to the cur­rent CUS pres­id­ent by Com­merce gradu­ate Peter Rizov (BCom 2008), who was involved in CUS dur­ing his time at UBC. It is being pub­lished with his per­mis­sion. I feel it is essen­tial to include Peter’s assessme…

Voting Irregularities in AMS Elections

The fol­low­ing news was passed onto our edit­ors recently:Voting Irreg­u­lar­it­ies: AMS Launches Inde­pend­ent Invest­ig­a­tion Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2010The Alma Mater Soci­ety of UBC Van­couver (AMS), UBC’s stu­dent union, has dis­covered vot­ing irreg­u­lar­it­ies in…