I didn’t take notes at a debate, and it showed; I misattributed a question during the debates, and when I received a note from someone to bolster a group I immediately jumped on it instead of taking the time to ensure I was talking about the right person.
It was unprofessional of me, and unfair to one Josh Hutchinson, to whom I’d like to apologize.
Neal Yonson is a native of Ottawa. He graduated from the University of Toronto with an Hon.B.Sc. in 2006 and will be happy to tell you about how things seemed to work more smoothly there. After traveling across the country for free (protip: strategically arrange grad school visits where they reimburse travel) he came to UBC to start a Ph.D. in chemistry. He was quite happy to avoid student issues until he found out how much it cost to go to the BirdCoop. Since then, he has been involved with a variety of advocacy projects.
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I also thought it was Tommy Douglas, voted “Greatest Canadian”, who brought Canada universal health care. He also was a member of what would now be the equivalent of the NDP.
Where’s Tim when you need him? We should invest in some sort of L-G signal.
Interesting article. After reading it I’m left wondering just how biased the AMS and their “insider” posse really is.
I say this because I am actually the 3rd year transfer student that asked the moderator if the debates were always stacked with plants and hacks.
I don’t know if you are purposely trying to frame Josh to score online college points but yeah… you got the story completely wrong.
And for the record, I was in the crowd filming the debate on behalf of Iggy. I had no intentions of asking a question hence I don’t believe I was in any way a plant.
After watching a dozen of Tim’s close friends ask loaded questions like “who am I and what do I do?” I just had to ask if this was par for the course.
I walked into that debate with no expectations or motives. I left thinking UBC has some rather petty and conniving people dominating the student council.
nope, that was really just my mistake and nobody else’s; I didn’t doublecheck and I’m glad you called me on it.
Mistakes happen, Gerald. All the time. No need for a witchhunt by Iggy’s supporters.