Students of UBC: I’m probably just as busy as you, and I’m voting in the AMS Elections. Also, shit-giving.

I managed to inform myself enough to vote, even though I was half-writing my paper while watching a candidate’s debate, was listening to an educational podcast while reading candidates’ bios, and was doing Biology readings in MASS when I was offered an autographed campaign material (lol wtf, seriously?).  And you’ve got til Friday at 5pm to inform yourself in all sorts of idiosyncratic ways too.  And I’m really not going to go beyond that in trying to convince you to vote because it’s your decision if you choose  to screw up our student society  participate.  But remember.  Non-participation is a form of participation, OH SNAP.

Although most candidates are very qualified this year, and quite frankly difficult to distinguish from one another, there are certain candidates I wish to show support (namely, and I do not know these people personally, Carven Li, Justin Yang and, my goodness, I cannot decide between Matt Parson and Alyssa Koehn) and certain candidates I do not want representing students (namely Erik MacKinnon; I cannot believe people have failed to give him shit for his sexist and revealingly immature blog, and go on endorsing him anyway, particularly when all of the other BoG candidates are wonderfully qualified.  So, there.  SHIT GIVEN. )   Also, there are really strange referendum questions.

So, read up:

Official Candidate Bios:
http://www.ams.ubc.ca/governance/ams-elections/candidates/

Ubyssey elections coverage:
http://ubyssey.ca/news/our-2012-ams-elections-special/

UBC Insiders elections coverage:
http://ubcinsiders.ca/category/elections/

AMS Confidential:
http://blogs.ubc.ca/amsconfidential/

And vote:

Polls close 5:00PM , Friday, January 27^th.  

https://ams.simplyvoting.com/