To gather student responses and understand how students feel about the tradeoffs associated with implementing a reading break in the fall term, the Senate will be launching a student survey from February 26 to March 13.
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On March 2, candidates for president, VP external, VP administration, and the Board of Governors were quizzed on issues ranging from tuition freezes to the AMS’s relationship with the Interfraternity Council (IFC).
The Ubyssey is fact-checking every candidate’s platform and all the statements they made during the debates to determine whether they're true, misleading or plain old false.
“… the Elections Committee was informed on March 2, 2020 that Axel's campaign published a Facebook cover photo, event page and photos in that event page. All of these campaign materials were unapproved.”
This is the first campaign period after the AMS banned postering — and with changes in candidates’ campaign strategies, students are divided on how this affects their elections awareness.
According to Borno, he wanted to ask for an ad approval but Instagram was unable to show the full caption with the photo unless he posted it. He said he posted the photo for around 40 seconds before archiving the post.
In order for a referenda question to reach quorum, it must obtain a two-thirds majority of votes in its favour.
Axel Kong has a lot of ideas. He wants to shake up the Senate with an ambitious platform, but has faced criticism for his muddled understanding of Senate policy.
Borno was inspired to run after participating in several Middle Eastern student associations and becoming the current president of Colour Connected Against Racism, an AMS resource group.
First-year commerce student Braden Bellinger is running for one of the five student senator-at-large seats on a platform of improving the classroom experience.
As a newcomer to the Senate without any student government experience, Snow Wang has three main goals: implementing a fall reading break, improving course evaluation surveys and eliminating scaling, or down-curving.
Her platform is centred on easing the transition for international students into the Canadian education system, pushing for open educational resources and improving Indigenous representation.
This is the current AMS VP Administration’s first Senate run but he’s not unprepared, showing good knowledge of Senate policies and procedures — which is not always the case for first-time candidates.
This year Holmes is also running for his second term as a student representative on the Board of Governors and hopes to spearhead collaboration between the two bodies.
Burnham’s platform centres around the implementation of equity plans, reforming the Senate appeals committees and advocating for summer courses to be included in awards criteria.