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Jul
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AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009
Posted by: Neal Yonson | July 7, 2009 | Comments Off on AMS Council Agenda: July 8, 2009
Since the AMS has not yet mastered the art of putting meeting dates and agendas online yet, the next one is: Wednesday, July 8, 2009. 6 PM. SUB 206. Agenda The most interesting thing will be a presentation from Michelle Aucoin, Director of the UBC 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Secretariat about what to expect when […]
Jun
18
AMS Council: June 17, 2009
Posted by: Neal Yonson | June 18, 2009 | 12 Comments
AMS council tonight. Highlights: Provincial Elections campaign budget revealed Executive quarterly reports released Student Court appointments It’s a proxy party tonight. Low turnout, lots of substitutes. Leftover food also means a weird dinner combination: Pi-R-Squared with smoked salmon appetizers. CASA Conference Recap First up was a presentation to recap the recent CASA policy conference in […]
May
7
AMS Council: May 6, 2009
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 7, 2009 | Comments Off on AMS Council: May 6, 2009
After a month-long break for exams, AMS council met tonight. Highlights: 1. AMS to reimburse AUS $35,062.04 for accumulated Arts County Fair debt. 2. Azim Wazeer, Joel Mertens and Josh Sealey recommended as new student senators 3. Lots of committee appointments 4. Whistler Lodge improvements 5. External Office to stop distributing some provincial election campaign […]
Oct
24
CASA Membership Downgrade was the Right Move
Posted by: Neal Yonson | October 24, 2008 | 9 Comments
In the post below, Maayan expressed shock that AMS Council would change it’s position in CASA “without due diligence”. I think that Council should be praised for its prudent political decision, not accused of haphazardly voting without thinking. The concerns expressed by the AMS in the letter sent to CASA cannot be swept aside merely […]
Oct
23
AMS Council Votes to Change CASA Membership
Posted by: Neal Yonson | October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments
In an apparent unanimous decision, AMS Council voted tonight to change its membership in CASA from full member to associate member. (View the AMS’s press release here.) The AMS is one of the five founding members of CASA, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, a student federal lobby organization that is predicated on four main […]
Apr
8
An Open Letter to the AMS
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 8, 2008 | 35 Comments
Sometimes in times of crisis it’s important to look at the big picture. So that’s what I’m going to attempt here. Make no mistake – the AMS has as fundamental a crisis as it can realistically expect to face. Since it has mandatory membership its very existence is not at stake, but its ability to […]
Apr
2
March 2008 AMS Referendum results
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 2, 2008 | 33 Comments
Due to a hole in WordPress, this post’s author is misattributed. The follow was written by former Insiders editor Maayan Kreitzman. Don’t forget the below posts. It’s a busy week!Well, unoficial results are in, and all the questions have been approved with a majority ‘yes’ vote. Here are the numbers: Overall turnout: 44%Total votes: 18,446 […]
Apr
1
Re-thinking referenda
Posted by: Neal Yonson | April 1, 2008 | 10 Comments
Today is the last day to vote in this year’s AMS referendum. The results of the four questions will determine if we continue to have a U-pass program, if we’ll start subsidizing refugee students, if we’ll build a new SUB, and if we’ll make some by-law changes. The reason you need to we cajoled, marketed, […]
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
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. […]
