Currently listening to: “For Love and Your Mother’s Sake” – The United Steel Workers of Montreal (The second part of my post-elections rundown.) In this year’s AUS elections, the candidates included an exceedingly high proportion of joke candidates not usually seen in undergraduate society elections. With four fictional Star Wars characters running in the races […]
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#106: The value of joke candidates.
March 25th, 2010 4 Comments
Tags: AUS · elections · joke candidates
#105: Post-election musing
March 23rd, 2010 5 Comments
Currently listening to: “Telephone” – Lady GaGa Now that AUS elections are done and over, perhaps it might finally be appropriate for me to comment briefly on it, and the assorted accompanying drama. But first, let me extend a warm congratulations to next year’s newly elected councillors and executive. With the introduction of a new […]
#091: Of delegates, diplomacy, and a dozen other things
January 10th, 2010 2 Comments
Currently listening to: “Elizabeth” – The Dreadnoughts So, it’s been a while. I apologize for the schizophrenic nature of this entry in advance. For the past three days, I’ve been at UBC Model UN (UBCMUN), wading the waters of faux-international diplomacy and (“fair and balanced”) journalism. Representing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (read: North […]
Tags: Arts Week 2010 · AUS · books · UBCMUN
#076: Cookies (and other treats!) for charity
November 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
Currently listening to: “If I Can’t Love Her” – Beauty and the Beast (clockwise: jimjams, peanut butter cookies, Nutella pinwheels, lemon madeleines) Want a taste of some of that? Come on out to MASS in Buchanan D tomorrow (Monday, Nov 23) and check out the AUS Garage Sale + Bake Sale in support of rare […]
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#070: Meet the Dean
November 2nd, 2009 Comments Off on #070: Meet the Dean
Currently listening to: keyboard-clicking, page-turning, distracted coughing, et cetera Just a brief plug for this week’s Arts Meet the Dean session at MASS (Buchanan D-140) at noon on Wednesday, November 4! Come and engage in open dialogue with Dean Nancy Gallini and chat about the issues that affect you as an Arts student. (And as […]
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