AMS Elections announced Thursday afternoon that officials have issued an official warning to Mehta for using her official AMS email address “in the course of campaign activities.”
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On Thursday, AMS elections officials announced that Yee’s campaigning privileges have been suspended for 24 hours.
We dove into claims candidates made at the first and second AMS elections debates, about topics including transit, AMS finances and Senate rules and regulations.
At last night’s debate, the sole VP finance candidate Mary Gan discussed student mistrust, fees, pandemic-related budget cuts and mental health coverage.
In VP Finance Lucia Liang’s January budget reforecast, Hua noticed that the Sustainable Food Access Fee, Indigenous Student Fund and the Get Thrifty fee appeared twice in the non-discretionary allocation section.
Candidates for VP academic and university affairs Eshana Bhangu and Shivani Mehta chased each other’s tails at the first debate of the 2021 AMS elections.
Benson and Liu mostly responded to audience questions and rarely engaged in direct clashes with one another. The open debate portion often ended in silence, prematurely.
At the first Board of Governors candidates debate, hopefuls overlapped on many platform points but challenged each other on identity and representation.
The fact that the race was uncontested didn’t let Evans off the hook as the audience pressed him on how he promoted involvement in the AMS exec as someone seeking re-election.
The students specifically asked for the creation of academic and social spaces for Black students, an increase in the number of Black students and faculty and regular anti-Black racism training for staff and students.
In their role as speaker of council for the last two years, Ibrahim has largely acted as a facilitator of discussion rather than a direct participant, but has still pushed for equity and inclusion.
In addition to gender disparity, the review explored concerns such as graduate students’ mental health and the visibility of the Dean of Medicine, Dr. Dermot Kelleher.
UBC said that the rapid screening program in first-year residence is only supposed to be a pilot.
The motions are a step towards uplifting the Black community, said Dr. Austin Uzama, the senator who proposed them.
The centre has been established at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and is headed by assistant professor of Indigenous fisheries science and Nisg̱a’a Nation member Dr. Andrea Reid.