Four candidates are vying for the position of Vice-president External in next year’s Students’ Union: incumbent Nassr Awada, Christa Big Canoe, Melanie McNaughton, and Paul Novosad.The VP External has the responsibility to represent students at the civic, provincial, and federal levels. Issues dealt with include university funding, financial aid, and student employment issues. Awada, McNaughton,… Continue reading VP External
Month: February 1999
VP Op-Fi
By Joan Creaser
Saving students’ money is the main theme in this year’s Vice-president Operations and Finance election. The VP Op-Fi is responsible for monitoring Students’ Union expenditures, proposing expenditures (i.e. fees and levies for student associations) and for setting up the following year’s budget. While saving is the common denominator, where and what money should be saved… Continue reading VP Op-Fi
VP Events
By Mary Chan
The race for the newly re-christened Vice-president Events (née Student Life) is being contested by three enthusiastic candidates with various levels of experience in different roles: Francis Freckleton, Jared Lorenz and Peter Wootliff.Student involvement on a campus with a reputation for apathy is a big goal of all candidates this year."I hope to accomplish a… Continue reading VP Events
Presidential race
In a vast departure from the three candidates who ran last year, this year there are seven candidates running for the prestigious position of Students’ Union President. The election race promises to be quite heated, considering pressing campus issues and the sheer number of candidates running.The candidates present a wide variety of goals and proposals,… Continue reading Presidential race
Survey says…
According to a poll conducted by the University of Calgary’s ACCORD Research of 106 students. Do you intend on voting in the upcoming Students’ Union election? (in er cent) yes 33 no 50 Don’t know/not sure 12.3 What do you believe to be the most important issue that the Students’ Union should be addressing? (in… Continue reading Survey says…
Election ’99
By Jan Creaser
By now you’ve noticed a bunch of shining faces beaming from just about every visible surface on campus. It’s election time again and eager candidates are vying for attention and votes.Official campaigning for the 1999 Students’ Union General Election kicked off after an all-candidates meeting on Fri., Feb. 12. Forty-five students are running for executive… Continue reading Election ’99
Five love stories for Valentine’s Day
1. Love Your GoalsShannon tensed again as she threw up into the sink. Someone was going to come in here and think she was bulimic, she thought. But Shannon had nothing in common with those underweight, power-dressing, popular scenester types that had slipped ahead of her and…More throwing up. The competition had ended two weeks… Continue reading Five love stories for Valentine’s Day
Academic Awareness Week
If you love learning, you’ll love Academic Awareness Week.Running from Feb. 812, the week will provide students and faculty with a chance to share their achievements with each other as well as the entire campus. "We’re here to learn," said Students’ Union Vice-president Academic Toireasa Jespersen. "This is a week to display what the students… Continue reading Academic Awareness Week
Here come the hard hats
By Mary Chan
The Ford Edsel that is MacEwan Hall expansion is up and running. Again.The project was cancelled in mid-December when the university administration failed to meet the construction company’s deadline and approve the tendered bid. This came two weeks after the Students’ Union pulled out of tuition consultation, though University of Calgary officials denied any connection… Continue reading Here come the hard hats
If you build it…
A new building might be sprouting up on campus. No, it’s not a ballroom-it’s a temple of high technology. An Alberta Government announcement on Tues., Feb. 9 solidified plans to involve the University of Calgary in a $51 million program to increase Alberta’s technological output. The U of C won the lion’s share of the… Continue reading If you build it…