Day 2 Recap

January 16th, 2013 • Uncategorized

The Presidential race and the BoG race are both showing potential to be more exciting than the other races. First of all, the presidential candidates did a karaoke sing-off on Monday and reconvened for Day 2’s Vanier Debate. If you haven’t already, go Like AMS Elections on Facebook to follow news of election events, especially candidate meet-and-greets!

If you’ve  been following even just past AMS Elections, you’ll notice that DJ President and friends are no longer trying to make #amselxn happen again, now (re)opening up the hashtag to hashbrown cravings. (AMS Confidential: use #amselections to tweet about elections. Use #AMselections to tweet about your breakfast choices.)

If you scroll down to Latest News, you will see Ubyssey’s coverage of the first debate. I’ll cover the debates in the next few days. For now, I just want to let you know that BoG candidates Erin Rennie and Harsev Oshan have both missed their first BoG debate.

Tonight, Harsev won his bid to be the President of the Inter-Fraternity Council, which is a council of the nine Fraternities on campus. Impressive. He’s feeling a lot of love from some of these inter-frat councilors who voted him and Sebastian Silley, fellow BoG candidate Mike Silley’s brother, to become President and Secretary, respectively. I wonder if his victory speech contained any AMS campaigning or any mentioning that he’s got the right method to get us snakes out to vote.

What about Erin Rennie? Maybe shuffling her friends who are volunteering for the BC Lib to build her a data-mining machine of a campaign website. Or not.

As presidential candidate Caroline Wong talks about Customer Relationship Management to improve AMS Businesses, I’ve got to wonder… who will use constituency relationship management to improve their bidness and play their A game?

It’s still early but I already want to see campaigners coming to the forefront with pre-election petitions and surveys, instead of the tired Facebook profile picture game where you mark your friends online with your campaign smile. Believe me, posterclone is happening already. Which means meaningless endorsements are soon to comeeeeeee :S

 

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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

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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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