AMS elections season has begun, and students are competing for five executive positions, two Board of Governors seats and five seats on the UBC Vancouver Senate.
Notably, no candidates are running for the VP student life executive position, and it is currently unclear whether the sixth executive position will be filled.
Here are this year's candidates:
President
Dylan Evans
Jasper Lorien
VP academic and university affairs
Jaiya Panchi
VP finance
Audrey Xue
Iman Dhaliwal
Nathan Shack
VP student life
No candidates
VP administration
Lokesh Sandhu
William Sparks
VP external affairs
Alex Zheng
Board of Governors
Bryan Buraga
Drédyn Fontana
Zarifa Nawar
Sultana Razia
Jacky Xue
Senate (at-large positions)
Bryan Buraga
Ian Chung
Ash Dennis
Drédyn Fontana
Luca Jenkin
Jasper Lorien
Elisa Nasimi
Zarifa Nawar
Jaiya Panchi
Sultana Razia
Student Legal Fund Society
Acclaimed slate: A-Team (Lucia Lu, Jacky Xue, Vihaan Gukta, Nathan Harris, Damarise Carcellar, Elaina Fung)
The campaign period begins on Mar. 2. Voting opens on Mar. 9 and closes on the 13. Results will be announced shortly after.
The Ubyssey will moderate a debate on Mar. 4, and the AMS is hosting two ‘meets and mingles’ on Mar. 2 and 3rd.
This article was updated Feb. 20 at 1:10 a.m. to remove Max Wilson Sladkus from the Senate race. Instead, he was acclaimed as the student senator for the faculty of land and food systems. This article was further updated Feb. 28 at 1:03 p.m. to remove Riley So from the VP administration race, who dropped out.
This article was updated Mar. 1 at 4:06 p.m. to remove Vedin Schimmack from the VP external race — who dropped out — and to note that the SLFS race has been acclaimed.
