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Archives for March, 2009

the results are in! / sfu senate election results

Perhaps not strangely, the main search term for people landing at my website today has been ’sfu senate election results’.
To properly appease the masses, here they are.  A fairly small amount of students participated – 1,376.  Twice that participated in the SFSS elections.  If there’s one thing that these elections show, it’s that the elections [...]

guelph action / activism elsewhere

So, a bit of a break from my roughly 20k-words worth of papers is due, in my estimation.  I’ve come across some evidence of another university going through similar budgetary difficulties as SFU has recently — at the University of Guelph, in Ontario.
Apparently, as part of a budgetary review sparked by a “budgetary crisis,” the [...]

sorry, i can’t afford it / the sfu budget and student aid

On Thursday, March 26, the SFU Board of Governors reviewed and approved the proposed university budget. [n.b.: you can view a PDF of the budget here and you can read a quick analysis of the impacts here.]
I am currently a member of the Board of Governors, elected by and from the students, and I voted [...]