{"id":898,"date":"2009-10-16T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/?p=898"},"modified":"2009-10-16T00:51:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T08:51:25","slug":"costeloe-first-ever-student-vice-chair-of-vancouver-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2009\/10\/16\/costeloe-first-ever-student-vice-chair-of-vancouver-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Costeloe, First-Ever Student Vice-Chair of Vancouver Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just confirmed with the Senate Secretariat that Mr. Geoff Costeloe, of Terry fame, was elected to the position of Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Senate this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a student has been elected to the position since its creation in 1916. No one formally asked for the tally, but I&#8217;m told it was &#8220;close&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The role of the Vice-Chair is to be speaker of the Vancouver Senate in the\u00a0absence\u00a0of the Chair, Prof. Stephen Toope.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ubyssey.ca\/ideas\/?p=4157\">last election<\/a> of the Vice-Chair, student senator Mr. Blake Frederick lost to\u00a0incumbent\u00a0Vice-Chair Dr. Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe in a close tally of 36:23.<\/p>\n<p>This would mean in the\u00a0occasional\u00a0absence\u00a0of the President, a student reigns over the most powerful academic body at UBC Vancouver. The vote indicates a strong show of support and trust in the student body by the faculty, alumni and administration, and a progressive vision for the current Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just confirmed with the Senate Secretariat that Mr. Geoff Costeloe, of Terry fame, was elected to the position of Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Senate this Wednesday. This is the first time a student has been elected to the position since its creation in 1916. No one formally asked for the tally, but I&#8217;m told it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}