The Insiders
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Oct
19
AMS elections buzz
Posted by: Neal Yonson | October 19, 2007 | 20 Comments
As a disclaimer: this is a list of mere speculations, which is by no means complete, accurate, or in any way official. Some of the people on it are still undecided. If only more people would dish gossip *on* the record. It’s that time of year again!! Midterms are here and the rumors are flying. […]
Oct
18
Want to be consulted? It's your fuckin' week.
Posted by: Neal Yonson | October 18, 2007 | 9 Comments
There’s a veritable cornucopia of consultations going on right now. So get your voices and obnoxious views into those final reports, dudes. For serious. Sub Renew – AMS is starting the consultation process for the prospective expansion and renovation of the SUB. Everything from buying out Pacific Spirit Place (the university-owned and operated cafeteria) to […]
Oct
4
New AMS website – nice, but still out of date
Posted by: Neal Yonson | October 4, 2007 | 4 Comments
You may have noticed that the AMS website has been overhauled. To match with the new setting-sun logo, http://www.ams.ubc.ca/ is now a blue-and-white marvel of slick website design, courtesy of Calgary company White Matter. Good navigation, executive blogs, event notices, and recent news are featured, and nifty pictures and graphics artfully punctuate the pages. Too […]
Aug
31
Executive interview series, part V: Brittany Tyson, VP finance
Posted by: Neal Yonson | August 31, 2007 | Comments Off on Executive interview series, part V: Brittany Tyson, VP finance
Last, but certainly not least in our riveting executive interview series is Brittany Tyson. We sat down to chat about a month and a half ago, so don’t be surprised if that we’re talking about the PiR^2 rennovations “right now”!. I must say that Brittany is one of the most frighteningly competent people I’ve ever […]
Aug
28
AMS council kills Musqueam support motion
Posted by: Neal Yonson | August 28, 2007 | 7 Comments
At last Wednesday’s AMS council meeting (the last one of the summer), the embattled external motion regarding the Musqueam native band finally came to its demise. This policy, which has been tabled repeatedly in past meetings, has gone through a few iterations and adjustments. AMS president Jeff Friedrich took on the task of rewriting it. […]
Jun
4
Executive interview series part IV: VP-X Matthew Naylor
Posted by: Neal Yonson | June 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Executive interview series part IV: VP-X Matthew Naylor
Last week I sat down for the fourth chat of the our series, with AMS VP External Matthew Naylor on the sunny SUB rooftop patio. As the ambient noises of the water fountain and chairs being dragged about soothe you, listen to Matt talk about lobbying, government relations, the tuition debate, expanded U-Pass service, politics […]
May
31
AMS meeting, may 30
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 31, 2007 | 8 Comments
Yesterday’s council meeting was a picture of brisk efficiency. A colossally long list of agenda items was faithfully plodded through to general satisfaction, though not fascination. Here’s a summary of the things I didn’t sleep through: U-Boulevard efforts were successful, and monumental, said the president and VP academic. They reviewed the outcome (the plan is […]
May
16
AMS Academic Quality committee update and beer with BoG rep Darren Peets
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 16, 2007 | 8 Comments
Since these two events happened in the same day, and they’re not too lengthy, posts have been consolidated. The newest AMS committee, struck at the April 4th meeting had its first meeting yesterday. It has fairly broad aims: basically to prepare a framework for future AMS policy on matters of academic quality. That means setting […]
May
12
Executive interview series part III: Sarah Naiman
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Executive interview series part III: Sarah Naiman
Listen to me conduct a WHOLE interview with a woman politician without one mention of her hair, boyfriends, shoes, or smile. It’ll be brilliant. Coming up later this week: Engineering’s bizarre shame. Sarah Naiman, the AMS VP admin, and third executive to sit in the hot seat talked about SUB renovations, student life, and club […]
May
11
Executive interview series part II: Brendon Goodmurphy
Posted by: Neal Yonson | May 11, 2007 | 2 Comments
The series resumes, at last, with a conversation with our AMS VP Academic.Brendon and I sat down today to discuss U-boulevard, the new Acadmic quality committee, “consultation,” daycare, and the AMS-university relationship. have a listen HERE Some randomly summarized items are: AMS Planning & Developement committtee is coming up with a concrete consultation plan to […]
