{"id":45,"date":"2010-01-04T15:32:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amsconfidential.wordpress.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:57:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T03:57:36","slug":"rehashing-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/amsconfidential\/2010\/01\/04\/rehashing-old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehashing Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"

To combat the brain drain that occurs over winter break, here’s a quick recap of what’s affecting elections this term: namely, the United Nations Tuition Debacle.<\/p>\n

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The United Nations visited the Knoll<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m sorry,\u00a0 let me repeat that: the UN DEBACLE!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quick summary: is tuition a human rights issue worthy of the UN?\u00a0 Blake & Tim and their legal counsel think so, and they’re willing to secretly spend $$$ on it.\u00a0 Oh, it was all just a media stunt? The campus is safe from \u00a0Too late\u2014we’re still on Failblog.\u00a0 (The Ubyssey has a whole UN category<\/a> if you’re a total keener.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014so anyway, the wake of the biggest thing to happen to AMS politics since Slategate ’09 saw student leadership divided into two factions: Blake & Tim supporters, who believe Council are a bunch of groupthinking overreactors and that involving students in the tuition discussion is worth breaking a few rules, VERSUS Blake & Tim detractors (i.e. most of Council), who are generally displeased with the maverick turn Blim have taken.\u00a0 Also, they’re not too happy about said broken rules, especially the ones where they demand to be consulted about large expenses. Not to mention Blim had a secret rendezvous with an expensive lawyer and didn’t invite Council along.<\/p>\n

In an emergency meeting in which Blim did not appear (those NDP conventions throw serious parties), AMS Council unanimously passed a motion to\u00a0retract the complaint to the UN against the BC and Canadian governments<\/strong> in regard to Article 13(c) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Basically, they showed them who’s boss.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m suddenly confused at this methodology that everything has to go through committee.
\n-President Blake<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus, when we last left our esteemed student leaders, everybody was all het up.\u00a0 In lieu of legal advice<\/a> which said that removal from office was not an option*, Team Blim had been censured (note existence of previous attempts to do so) and, in addition:<\/p>\n