At last night’s debate, the sole VP finance candidate Mary Gan discussed student mistrust, fees, pandemic-related budget cuts and mental health coverage.
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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.
Through this living document, the caucus aims to frame the first of many discussions within the Senate as to how they can improve the academic governance of UBC over the next triennium.
Since the program’s inception in 2012, its popularity has grown substantially, with hundreds of staff regularly attending.
The Indigenous meet-and-greet — held for the past two AMS election cycles to give Indigenous students the opportunity to converse with candidates — has been cancelled this year.
Previously, these elections were conducted by AMS constituencies like the Arts Undergraduate Society or Science Undergraduate Society, for their respective Senate representatives.