Fourth-year science student Hannah Xiao, who ran for Senate back in 2015, is now running again to become a student senator-at-large for the upcoming school year.
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Third-year commerce student Kuol Akuechbeny is running for a seat on UBC’s Vancouver’s student senate caucus with a platform centred around mental health, diversity and expanding Open Educational Resources.
First-year bachelor of international economics student Matthias Leuprecht is running to be one of five student senators-at-large in the UBC Vancouver Senate. His platform places environmental sustainability and Canadian Indigenous reconciliation at the forefront.
Max Holmes, current student senator and AMS VP Academic and University Affairs (VPAUA), is running for re-election in the Vancouver Senate. If elected as a senator, Holmes plans to continue his focus on survivor-centric sexual assault policy and reforming academic concession, complementing two major tenets of his VPAUA platform.
After a year of serving as a senator-at-large in the UBC Vancouver Senate’s student caucus, fourth-year mining engineering student Jakob Gattinger is running for re-election to continue the work he’s already started and tackle the topics he didn’t get around to addressing last year.
In Big Mind, Mulgan takes us through the emergence of collective intelligence and its current applications. The most salient examples are websites such as Wikipedia that profit from the collective input of its thousands of users.
Third-year cognitive systems major Aaron Verones wants to improve the communication from the VP Administration office, increase space availability to the UBC community and route more money back into students by hiring them whenever possible.
Second-year arts student Chris Hakim is running for VP Administration to bring more consistency to the AMS’s operations. Having been involved in student governance since he first came to UBC, Hakim now has a wealth of experience within the AMS.
Third-year economics student Adam Forsgren aims to expand the AMS’s investment portfolio and to make the organization’s monetary operations more accountable to students in the role of VP Finance.
Third-year business student and AMS University Affairs Commissioner Kuol Akuechbeny is running for the position of VP Finance on a platform of supporting clubs, student entrepreneurs and businesses through ambitious financial reform.
Max Holmes is the current VP Academic and University Affairs and is running for re-election in this year’s uncontested race. Holmes was elected to the position in a September by-election following Daniel Lam’s departure.
Jeanie Malone, biomedical engineering graduate student and Board of Governors student member, is re-running for election to the Board after a year of lessons learned. Malone’s goals for the coming year are pretty consistent with last year’s platform’s emphasis on the student experience and transparency, but with an acknowledgement of the challenges that lie in the year ahead.
Jakob Gattinger is ready to take his frustrations with UBC governance bureaucracy and throw himself into a new role with the Board of Governors. As someone who ran for the race — and lost — last year, he has since then accrued new experience in the form of a Senate seat and a brief stint as interim VP Academic and University Affairs.
As the celebrity elites prepare for the biggest night of the year, us average Joes sit on our couches and watch them schmooze it up on the red carpet. Obviously, the only way for us to deal with the jealousy of this celebration of art, industry and opulence is alcohol.
The AMS/GSS travel insurance doesn’t cover disruptions to your travel plans, such as flight delays and missing bags, which happen all too often.