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Biology Program to Evolve in 2011W

On May 12th, the Sen­ate of UBC Van­couver will be vot­ing to pass changes to the Bio­logy pro­gram. These changes will entirely abol­ish senior spe­cial­iz­a­tions (e.g. Animal Bio­logy, Cell Bio­logy and Genet­ics, Plant Bio­logy, etc.) as well as modify exist­ing first and second year require­ments. Changes to the Bio­logy pro­gram, if passed by Sen­ate, will […]

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President’s Platt-form: See what I did there?

When I ini­tially con­tac­ted Brian Platt, ask­ing him a few ques­tions about his Pres­id­ency and the dir­ec­tion he wants to take it in, I was pre­par­ing an art­icle about the elec­tion and had con­tac­ted vari­ous other sources, includ­ing Ryan Tra­solini, so that I…

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Shortest Scandal Ever

Accord­ing to reli­able sources, Brian Platt remains the incom­ing AUS Pres­id­ent. The votes stand. Nice mustache.

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AUS Presidency Controversy

Ryan Tra­solini has filed a com­plaint over his loss to Brian Platt by one vote, that of the Elec­tions Admin­is­trator Mat­thew Naylor. In an open let­ter writ­ten by Tra­solini he claims that the votes for the pos­i­tion of AUS Pres­id­ent were mis­coun­ted, and …

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AUS Presidency Controversy

Ryan Tra­solini has filed a com­plaint over his loss to Brian Platt by one vote, that of the Elec­tions Admin­is­trator Mat­thew Naylor. In an open let­ter writ­ten by Tra­solini he claims that the votes for the pos­i­tion of AUS Pres­id­ent were mis­coun­ted, and …

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Shortest Scandal Ever

Accord­ing to reli­able sources, Brian Platt remains the incom­ing AUS Pres­id­ent. The votes stand. Nice mustache.

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AUS Presidency Controversy

Ryan Tra­solini has filed a com­plaint over his loss to Brian Platt by one vote, that of the Elec­tions Admin­is­trator Mat­thew Naylor. In an open let­ter writ­ten by Tra­solini he claims that the votes for the pos­i­tion of AUS Pres­id­ent were mis­coun­ted, and …

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Matt Naylor: The Decider

Because my com­puter is about to run out of bat­ter­ies, I will keep this brief. Brian Platt and Ryan Tra­solini were tied after votes were coun­ted for pos­i­tion of AUS Pres­id­ent, and Matt Naylor, AUS Elec­tions Admin­is­trator cast the final decid­ing vote. …

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Matt Naylor: The Decider

Because my com­puter is about to run out of bat­ter­ies, I will keep this brief. Brian Platt and Ryan Tra­solini were tied after votes were coun­ted for pos­i­tion of AUS Pres­id­ent, and Matt Naylor, AUS Elec­tions Admin­is­trator cast the final decid­ing vote. …

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Excited for Constiuency Election Results? Too bad.

Accord­ing to sources, the con­stitu­ency res­ults (at least in full) will be delayed until Monday at the earli­est due to there not yet being a list of eli­gible voters made avail­able to the respect­ive Elec­tions Admin­is­trat­ors from the Registrar’s office. O…

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