UBC Elections
The 2006 elections to the Alma Mater Society of UBC went rather smoothly, in comparison to many other elections this year. Slates having been abolished, all candidates ran as independents. And this election may have exposed one of the benefits of the slate system: the guarantee that multiple serious candidates, representing the diversity of campus opinion, will be running for any given executive position. In the past, the moderate Students for Students slate waged war - usually victoriously - against the progressive slate du jour which ran under various names such as Action Now, Students' Voice, and Student Progressive Action Network. Because of said system, voters were guaranteed at least two choices for all the executive positions. By contrast, in 2006 there were only two candidates for VP Finance, of which one was a joke candidate.
The UBC Board of Governors race was a little more interesting, with results not being released for several weeks. In the end, voters gave the nod to Omar Sirri and Lauren Hunter, with a close third-place finish given to... the Fire Hydrant! Seven candidates were shamed by losing to an inanimate object, including (inexplicably, IMHO) incumbent governor Tim Louman-Gardiner.
All winning candidates for the Executive were endorsed by The Knoll, a new "alternative" paper funded by the AMS Resource Groups. Since said Resource Groups received a fair bit of funding from the AMS itself, the Elections Committee ruled this endorsement to be an unacceptable example of AMS funds being spent on partisan activities. The Knoll disputed this interpretation of events, essentially arguing that The Knoll was completely separate from the AMS Resource Groups, despite the fact that (a) The Knoll was funded by them, (b) The Knoll participants come from the Resource Groups, and (c) all Resource Groups are given free space to advertise in The Knoll. One wonders whether The Knoll borrowed this line of reasoning from other organiations that have benefited from such arrangements....
The UBC Students' Union, the cheekish union representing students at UBC Okanagan, may have already had their elections, but I couldn't find any online information regarding the candidates, or the election results (assuming that the election is over). The Phoenix, the UBC Okanagan student newspaper, does not have an online presence.
The 2006 elections to the Alma Mater Society of UBC went rather smoothly, in comparison to many other elections this year. Slates having been abolished, all candidates ran as independents. And this election may have exposed one of the benefits of the slate system: the guarantee that multiple serious candidates, representing the diversity of campus opinion, will be running for any given executive position. In the past, the moderate Students for Students slate waged war - usually victoriously - against the progressive slate du jour which ran under various names such as Action Now, Students' Voice, and Student Progressive Action Network. Because of said system, voters were guaranteed at least two choices for all the executive positions. By contrast, in 2006 there were only two candidates for VP Finance, of which one was a joke candidate.
The UBC Board of Governors race was a little more interesting, with results not being released for several weeks. In the end, voters gave the nod to Omar Sirri and Lauren Hunter, with a close third-place finish given to... the Fire Hydrant! Seven candidates were shamed by losing to an inanimate object, including (inexplicably, IMHO) incumbent governor Tim Louman-Gardiner.
All winning candidates for the Executive were endorsed by The Knoll, a new "alternative" paper funded by the AMS Resource Groups. Since said Resource Groups received a fair bit of funding from the AMS itself, the Elections Committee ruled this endorsement to be an unacceptable example of AMS funds being spent on partisan activities. The Knoll disputed this interpretation of events, essentially arguing that The Knoll was completely separate from the AMS Resource Groups, despite the fact that (a) The Knoll was funded by them, (b) The Knoll participants come from the Resource Groups, and (c) all Resource Groups are given free space to advertise in The Knoll. One wonders whether The Knoll borrowed this line of reasoning from other organiations that have benefited from such arrangements....
The UBC Students' Union, the cheekish union representing students at UBC Okanagan, may have already had their elections, but I couldn't find any online information regarding the candidates, or the election results (assuming that the election is over). The Phoenix, the UBC Okanagan student newspaper, does not have an online presence.
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