The Insiders
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Jul
23
Did The Killers Kill the Liquor at Thunderbird Arena?
Posted by: Neal Yonson | July 23, 2009 | 10 Comments
The new Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre is currently applying for an amendment to their liquor-primary licence. The matter will be coming before Metro Vancouver’s Electoral Area committee for approval this Friday and there seems to be a significant hurdle in the way: as a result of past violations, the RCMP does not support it. Read […]
Jun
21
More from the CIS AGM
Posted by: Neal Yonson | June 21, 2009 | Comments Off on More from the CIS AGM
The Coles notes version of this post was already published: CIS restricts dual membership with NCAA. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization that governs high-performance sport at the post-secondary level, held its Annual General Meeting from June 8-12 in Gatineau, Quebec. When UBC decided to defer its decision on NCAA membership until at least 2010, […]
Jun
12
CIS restricts dual membership with NCAA
Posted by: Neal Yonson | June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Ubyssey-edited version of this can be found at ubyssey.ca. Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS), the organization which governs high-performance athletics at Canadian universities, sent a bold message to schools looking to join the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at their annual general meeting on Thursday. Voting 55-20 in favour, CIS members instituted a policy which […]
Feb
8
Sterling example of effective advocacy – Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Posted by: Neal Yonson | February 8, 2008 | 7 Comments
Students spend alot of time agonizing over how to be effective advocates for change. Emma Preston, a founding member of UBC UAEM, and this year’s BC Rhodes Scholar, tells of how this group made the university fall head over heals for them. Billions of people, primarily in poor countries, lack access to lifesaving medicines; millions […]
Jan
23
Issue of the Day: The Musqueam Issue
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 23, 2008 | 25 Comments
Now for something a little more controversial. Somebody who I work fairly close with recently questioned my leftist politics. That’s fair – I feel quite comfortable in the bureaucracy of the AMS, and I feel quite comfortable trying to balance the 42 000 different opinions of AMS members, and I even support many CASA policies. […]
Jan
23
Issue of the Day: Sustainability
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 23, 2008 | 3 Comments
I like to think of myself as an environmentalist, and its definitely how I got my start in student politics – co-chairing the Student Environment Centre for two years. Those two years were spent feeling frustrated and overwhelmed – partly because of the generally poor organizational structure of the SEC (and other Resource Groups), and […]
Jan
17
Issue of the Day: Governance, Pt. 2 – Internal Issues
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment
At the end of the day, UBC is an academic institution. The Board of Governors should be responsive to students’ concerns, needs and priorities. Creating a University Town has changed the campus community (read about the ramifications in Tim’s article about on campus events, alcohol licensing, ACF), and has created many new pressures and responsibilities […]
Jan
15
Issue of the day: Student Senate Caucus, efficacy of.
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 15, 2008 | 8 Comments
I admit that I cannot comment on the senate proceedings this past year, as I am now living on another continent. However, if history is an indicator of the present and future, I will allow myself to write a short excerpt on student senator’s and their caucus’ effectiveness. The Continuity HarpThe majority of the Senate’s […]
Jan
15
Buzzwords: "Council Empowerment"
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
This post is by Spencer Keys, the AMS President of 05/06. We thank him for his participation. I will be blogging more about the basics of both committee reform and the Strategic Framework later in the week for the new readers out there. Maayan has politely asked me on a number of occasions to write […]
Jan
15
Issue of the Day: AMS Businesses
Posted by: Neal Yonson | January 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
The AMS businesses are an important way for the AMS to make money so that we can keep student fees lower. And we do have some of the lowest student union fees in the country (when you take out athletics fees, health & dental, U-Pass, etc, and you’re left with the AMS’ actual operating budget). […]
