The fourth-year political science student, current senator-at-large and AMS president listed nine key areas of his platform, including intentions to seek re-appointment as chair of the Senate Academic Building Needs Committee.
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Mathew Ho is vying for a seat on the Senate with a platform of increasing hybrid and online learning opportunities.
Agosti-Moro said experience sets his platform apart from the opposition — he’s been on Senate for two years and is co-chair of the Student Senate Caucus.
AMS Elections Chief Electoral Officer Isabelle Ava-Pointon is urging students who have already cast their vote this week to vote again after ballot changes.
Bhangu is planning on using her experience as vice chair of the Senate Budget Committee in advocating for affordability.
With experience working as the associate VP academic affairs this past year, Mehta wants to focus on developing “attainable, realistic and long-term goals.”
Second-year arts student Lauren Benson is running for AMS VP Administration, vowing to increase communication between the AMS and students and establish a COVID-19 recovery benefit for clubs.
As an AMS insider, Mary Gan wants to increase the AMS’s financial transparency for students.
Saad Shoaib, a third-year arts student, is running uncontested for AMS VP external on a platform of student affordability and AMS transparency.
Evans, a fourth-year political science major, bore both successes and controversy during his term. Now, he’s running on a platform of support for the COVID-19 recovery, an AMS governance review and creating an AMS equity unit.
As the only contested AMS executive race in this year’s elections, Shivani Mehta and Eshana Bhangu went back and forth, questioning each other’s track records and plans if elected.
Here we’ve covered claims made at the Great Debate on Saturday, February 27 which included the races for AMS president, VP academic and university affairs (VP AUA), VP administration, UBC Board of Governors (BoG) student representatives, VP external, VP finance and Senate.
In their final debate, ten candidates for five student senator-at-large positions again found consensus on almost every issue, but the knowledge gap between Senate insiders and outsiders became more apparent.
In contrast to the first debate — and debates for other races — candidates stayed away from directly challenging one another and found much agreement, with only minor dissent.
While Mary Gan has years of financial experience, a few of her plans to quell the AMS’s financial fears were logistically uncertain.