If next year’s AMS executive decided to withhold the money from the student fee collected to go toward the Queen’s Centre, that money would have to be made up either out of the University’s cash reserves or by incurring additional debt, said Andrew Simpson, vice-principal (operations and finance).

Caitlin Adair is in the throes of her busiest time of year. As commissioner of internal affairs (CIA), Adair oversees the AMS election.
Throughout the election, Adair supervises the election team and manages day-to-day space bookings for election-related events. She spends about three hours a week in meetings and the rest doing administrative tasks—sitting through clubs manager’s office hours to answer questions, booking advertisement spaces, putting together a guide to non-academic discipline and delegating tasks to her committee members.

AMS team RWS hopes to work with the University and the city to compost organic waste across campus. Food Services is starting a pilot composting project next week in Leonard Hall this month, but Residence and Hospitality Services Director Bruce Griffiths said it’s unlikely this will be expanded any time soon.

In next week’s AMS election you’ll vote for $58,359 worth of student government, and set in motion an two month hiring process for the $691,741 worth of commissioners, directors, managers and other AMS salaried staff.
In 2007-08, the AMS paid $494,917 in wages to all its staff; $209,511 of that went towards the executive, commissioners and directors that make up AMS council.
AMS Executive salaries have increased $3,909 since 1998-99, and increased $1,725 from the 2006-07 year.

Engineering Society presidential candidate Mitchell Curley says the situation surrounding Clark Hall Pub inspired him to enter the election. He decided to run after being inspired by Clark Hall debates at last Monday’s council meeting.
Curley, Sci ’08, said he doesn’t see the situation as a daunting responsibility.

Team WCW wants the AMS to have a longer outlook than just a 12-month term.
Vice-president (university affairs) candidate Yanique Williams said she wants AMS governments to begin to think in five or 10-year plans. The team’s slogan—“Are You Ready for Change?”—suggests they are looking to challenge the AMS’s transient nature, she said. Vice-president (operations) candidate Andrew Cameron said the team also wants to re-create the Queen’s Centre working group that existed a few years ago. The group would be made of AMS members and students-at-large.

Last Friday AMS Vice-President (Operations) John Manning handed Ban Righ Centre Director Barb Schlafer an $8,422 cheque the AMS Board of Directors decided to give either the centre or Queen’s Day Care two and a half years ago.
In July 2005, four months after the AMS Board of Directors cancelled the AMS-run After-Hours Childcare service (AHC), the Board decided to give the $7,797 collected from its opt-outable student fee—which had already been approved for that year—to either the Ban Righ Centre or Queen’s Day Care.

Jacob Mantle, ArtSci ’10, and Dominique Vanier, ArtSci ’08, share more than their office space in the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Core.
“We have the same goals,” Vanier said. She and Mantle have worked in ASUS together for two years. This year, she’s the academics commissioner and he’s the internal affairs commissioner.

Rick Lawley arrives at 300 Barrie St. with a blower fan about half the size of a house door, a ladder and a package of information about saving energy.
On the busy corner of Brock and Barrie streets, the two-storey Ghetto house, has an open space for the living room and kitchen and a rickety, narrow staircase that leads up to three bedrooms upstairs.
Lawley has been a certified energy auditor at Amerispec for five years. He’s conducting an environmental audit on the house to assess its energy efficiency level.

Andrew Cameron was put in the unusual position yesterday of speaking for himself and his two running-mates, presidential candidate Allison Williams and vice-president (university affairs) candidate Yanique Williams, both of whom were in Ottawa at Queen’s Model Parliament.
The vice-president (operations) candidate said his team wants to focus on four As: advocacy, accountability, advancement and approachability.

Two years ago, in February 2006, Talia Radcliffe became Campus Activities Commissioner when Louis Plamondo resigned amidst controversy over an ice rink that was paid for but never built.
Radcliffe, who had previously been deputy commissioner, said she felt she was thrown into the position and it taught her how to keep cool under pressure.

Holly Archer, head manager of the P&CC and a fourth-year drama and English student, has only been involved with the AMS for two years but she doesn’t think that will hurt her campaign for AMS president. On the contrary, she believes her diverse experiences in those first two years at Queen’s make her an ideal fit for the job.

At the top of a flight of stairs, inside a small office across the stairwell from the locked doors of Clark Hall Pub, sit about 10 cardboard boxes stuffed with paperwork, dating from the late 1970s to 2007. The boxes, overflowing with rolls of receipts and handwritten IOUs, along with a set of Quickbooks software and some Excel spreadsheets, comprise Clark Hall Pub’s financial records. It was those dishevelled boxes and computer records David McConomy, an assistant accounting professor with Queen’s School of Business, examined in August 2007, at Rob Macnamara’s request.