The Insiders
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Mar
31
UBC Farm politics, elaboration of.
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 31, 2008 | Comments Off on UBC Farm politics, elaboration of.
If you’ve voted in the current student referendum, you may have noticed that there is no question about the UBC Farm. Most people of course, wouldn’t have expected one, but it is a surprise to some. The Friends of the Farm started a campaign to get a question on the referendum ballot which would see […]
Mar
31
What to learn from the Crompton Lougheed affair
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 31, 2008 | 44 Comments
Due to a hole in WordPress, this post’s author is misattributed. The follow was written by Maayan Kreitzman. The world has gone mad. I don’t check comments for one day while working on a paper, and when I return there’s a frenzy! Anyway. There’s plenty of discussion in the below post about any and all […]
Mar
27
Student Court Decision
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 27, 2008 | 95 Comments
The Student Court released its decision today in the VP Academic matter. They allowed the appeal, ordering that Alex Lougheed be disqualified. The Court left the matter of how to fill the vacancy up to the AMS Executive. More to come later, undoubtedly after Council. But, for those interested, the excerpt that outlines the reasoning […]
Mar
25
Budget "cuts" are a pretty good idea.
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 25, 2008 | 12 Comments
As Tim mentioned below, the BC government had decided to reshuffle this year’s post secondary education money, as reported in the Vancouver Sun. The result is that universities lose out on a percentage or two of funding and smaller colleges and professional schools get a boost. UBC specifically is losing 8.7 million dollars from its […]
Mar
22
Weekend Update
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 22, 2008 | 14 Comments
Various and sundry news items: At SFU, the defederation referendum passed. Over 66% of voters voted in favour of leaving the CFS. 4500 votes were cast. To student politics people, this kind of referendum is the Most Important Thing Ever. But it goes to show that, to students writ large, it really isn’t that big […]
Mar
13
Quick note on our comment threads
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 13, 2008 | Comments Off on Quick note on our comment threads
With the latest discussions around our guest editorials, we’ve been forced to remove some comments because they were outside the implicit code of respect expected on our blog. We have preserved the option for anonymous comments because we think it is an important option in some (though not many) cases. Anonymity is not an exemption […]
Mar
12
UBC and the NCAA
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 12, 2008 | 18 Comments
[I’d meant to write this sooner, but work commitments sapped my time and writing energies. As well, there’s a very good Ubyssey article on the subject; read it here. I also note that there has been some discussion at AMS Exec about the Athletics fee; I’m not sure what it is, and I’m not sure […]
Mar
11
Counterpoint: Of the Knolligarchy and Other Phantasmagoric Creatures of the AMS Politics
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 11, 2008 | 45 Comments
An opinion piece by Bahram Norouzi When Maayan emailed me a week ago and asked me to write an opposing perspective on “power-mongering in the AMS assisted by AMS funds” by the “Knolligarchy” I knew that I was up for some crap, what I didn’t know was its magnitude. Having read the opinion piece by […]
Mar
9
Financial Aid and Tuition
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 9, 2008 | 2 Comments
I have been meaning to post about this for quite some time now, being heavily subsidized by a european government to study one of the most expensive programs in a college (medical) for a registration fee (covering a half year buspass as well as heavily discounted warm lunches) of 200 Euros (300 CAD) a semester. […]
Mar
8
Point: focus on the Knolligarchy
Posted by: Neal Yonson | March 8, 2008 | 49 Comments
An opinion piece by Jesse Ferreras, M.J. Candidate, UBC School of Journalism. Counterpoint coming next week. There’s a war on truth at this University, and a resurgent movement of leftist radicals is fighting on its front line. I’m speaking, of course, about the Knolligarchy, formerly a joke name that now encompasses UBC’s newly-visible activist front. […]
