Judgment Day 1.0

January 14th, 2013 • Uncategorized

0:01 – It’s after midnight and I see no websites yet! I should be hearing the sounds of tweeting and hallway postering. Caroline Wong and Ben Cappellacci did it last year, right after midnight. What will we see in the morning!?

1pm – I call this the first-wave campaign cut off. If you got your material out by now, you have made some kind of impression on me. Because the following are the first AMS things that made it to my newsfeed, I am going to give them some blogtime.

 

Oh hell no! “Because Oshan Guarantees!”

I remember using a mnemonic in my campaign last year and it was for platform points. Truthfully, I can’t remember what it was. I’ll remember this slogan though. But for its truly cheesy nature.

I will have you know, though, that black red and green are the colours of the Kenyan flag. Watch. I put money on Harsev doing more in his campaign to signal pan-African sentiments with the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative.

He will attend the fabulous UBC Africa Awareness Initiative Conference Week and he will campaign!

It’ll be interesting to watch the guys fight for the Greek vote for BoG, with Harsev Oshan, Mike Silley and Matt Parson all in the Greek system.

Meanwhile, nothing from hack Conny Lin and oldhack Erin Rennie yet!

 

Bam. First campaign poster I have seen, in the comfort of my own home. votejay.ca is not up yet though
Here’s Jay for President. A sit-down picture, a la Ben Cappellacci campaign photo in 2012.

Opting for the “Adjective. Noun.” format, this has got to be an attempt to remind students what the AMS does. I don’t dig it. But it’s the website, interviews and the debates that matter the most to me though.

 

 

 

 

Derek Moore for VP Admin

Self-promoting as honey badger, this creature is leading the VP Admin candidate pack with smiles. Hasn’t prepared much for his website yet though, but I’ll stay tuned. He seems to be the first one to have over 30 Likes on his Facebook page. Pretty impressive planning. His race is exciiiii-ting.

Can’t wait to see more of “robust” Derek on votederek.ca

 

 

Re-Elect Kiran for VP Academic
is looking good. Opening her website with a letter signed with a ‘Sincerely’ that actually sounds sincere, Kiran has proven that this election she has prepared to tell you everything she has done well and has plans of doing even better as the VP Academic. I will have to say that some parts of her platform are not memorable as I know there is a urgent need that students have identified in the past year. A need that the elected VP Academic should work into ‘their’ platform. Hint. That being said though, Kiran has a very comprehensive platform. I especially admire any candidate who offers in-depth platform explanations. More analysis on the VP Academic races and the other races later!

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I am a cheap, library-fine-collecting, free-food-finding, late-assignment-penalty-reduction-requesting critical student at UBC.

With the mission to "improve the quality of the educational, social, and personal lives of the students of UBC," I wish to see AMS not only provide student services for such improvements but to also advocate outside the traditional scope of academic and tuition issues, to improve the well-being of students.

Candidates

UBC Board of Governors: Erin Rennie, grad student Conny Lin, undergrads Harsev Oshan, Tristan Miller, Mike Silley (incumbent) and Matt Parson

AMS President: Caroline Wong, Ekateryna Baronovskaya, and Jay Shah

AMS VP Academic: Montana Hunter, Kiran Mahal (incumbent), Anne Kessler

AMS VP Finance: Joaquin Acevedo, Mateusz Miadlikowski

AMS VP External: Tanner Bokor

VP Admin: Justin Fernandes, Derek Moore, Olivia Yung, Barnabas Caro

Senate: Read about them here.

Student advocacy? Do something with my tuition!

Let's look at what will happen to your tuition in the next few years.
UBC's international student policy is that for students who commence their studies in 2012/2013, the international tuition fees will increase by no more (but likely no less!) than 2% per year for the next 4 years. Domestic students are also facing a 2% increase in tuition a year.

This year's AMS Election is likely to be even more important for students, because it is also the same year as our provincial election. This year's AMS Execs have the opportunity to organize and gain potential to make AMS's lobbying efforts much stronger than it has been in the past four years. The AMS Execs meet with the BC Premier, provincial ministers and critics from the opposition party, along with the University Neighbourhood Association, the University, Translink, other student unions and many other important players of post-secondary life and politics.

I hate student fees.

I hear you.
Go actually take a look at your student fees.

Here's a good Ubyssey article that explains some of our student fees. You're easily paying over $200 for services you may not be able to afford.

Where else are students writing about UBC/AMS?

If you're on this site, then you already know to visit Ubyssey, UBC's official student newspaper.

There's also the SPAM Festival of AMS elections, AMS Confidential. Not the unsolicited email type, but this fun-loving type that makes so many people happy that they would dress up as such and march in a SPAM Festival.

Lastly, there's UBC Insiders. Not sure if they are covering this election but they are extremely informative. Some serious investigative critical blogging there.

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