As an AMS insider, Mary Gan wants to increase the AMS’s financial transparency for students.
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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.
He’s running uncontested — one of four AMS insiders vying for seats without competition — part of wider concern that this year’s execs did a poor job of getting students involved enough to run for executive positions.
After Lawrence Liu withdrew last night, AMS digital media coordinator Lauren Benson is now the lone candidate in the VP Administration race. The absence of competition was reflected at the Great Debate earlier today in which Benson stuck to familiar talking points and performed with consistency.
Saad Shoiab answered questions on Hong Kong, Indigenous students, international students and his fraternity membership at the Great Debate on Saturday.
At 5:01 p.m. on Saturday, AMS Elections officials posted on its Facebook page that Bhangu’s right to campaign had been suspended for the next 24 hours — but the team has since downgraded the penalty to 12 hours.
Anyone can tell that the UChicago PhD student is passionate about her work in international politics research and is eager to bring new perspectives to UBC.
While Saad Shoaib detailed which groups he’d lobby with, he separated himself from ThePlug Vancouver.
In a press release, VPAUA Georgia Yee said that the faculties of arts, science, education, dentistry, forestry and land and food systems have all decided to stop using “algorithmic proctoring software."