Welcome to Spilling T

This year, it’s just AMS Confidential and Spilling T for VoterMedia!

We’re a day away from seeing a ton of candidate Facebook pages 🙂
Let’s take a look at what to expect:

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

OKAY, so far I know 16 people!

Student Legal Fund Society: slate – Dawei Ji, JJ MacLean, Roshak Momtahen, Aaron Sihota, Jordan Stewart

UBC Senate: Anne Kessler, Elaine Kuo, Kiran Mahal and a bunch of others

From the looks of it, besides the obvious need to cover the presidential race, it looks like student profiles on Tanner Bokor and on the BoG candidates are much needed! I mean, first off, what- Erin Rennie’s back in student politics!?

That’s it for now. Good luck everyone! Get those posters printed and blogs running! Can’t wait to see themmmm.

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.

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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