Residence Council executive race, one team wants “More for you,” and the other wants to bring “residences together.”
Team DSB consists of Presidential candidate Dominic Fok, Vice-President (Resident Affairs) candidate Susan Zhu and Vice-President (Discipline) candidate Ben Campbell.

This is the first year CFRC has been without its $48,000 annual fee from the University, and the station is looking for ways to fill the money gap in their operating costs. order to make up the difference, CFRC kicks off its second annual funding drive today.

Students at Wednesday night’s AMS debate in the JDU C were in the presence of the Others. Not ghosts, but members of the Queen’s Other Campaign, a non-hierarchal coalition of students who wished to address issues they feel are not represented by the AMS.

Bruce Griffiths, director of residence and hospitality services, said that he has spoken with the aMS almost every year about setting up an expanded flex dollar system.

You’ve seen her walking around campus in a suit, a coat and, if it’s convocation season, sometimes even a gown. They say you don’t know a person until you’ve walked a mile in his or her shoes.

The AMS isn’t just a club for Arts and Science students, says Alvin Tedjo, Team TPC’s presidential candidate. Team TPC—Tedjo, Vice-President (University Affairs) candidate Liz Craig and Vice-President (Operations) candidate John Paterson—said their leadership and experience are their strengths.

This is the story of how Team CMM—Presidential candidate Kingsley Chak, Vice-President (University affairs) candidate Julia Mitchell and Vice-President (Operations) candidate John Manning—became what Manning calls a natural fit for each other.
Chak and Manning first met after Manning was hired as the AMS food and safety director last March. “At the time, we didn’t know each other that well but we started working on the issue of the Stauffer library café,” Chak said.

At Wednesday’s AMS executive election debates, students grilled Team CMM and Team TPC about social issues, tuition, athletics, and at one point traded barbs about one part of each other’s campaign platform. Liz Craig, TPC’s vice-president (university affairs) candidate, criticized Team CMM’s plan to hire student counsellors to work at Health, Counselling and Disability Services.

On Jan. 17, I got as close to that dream as I ever will, when I patrolled the University with Campus Security. I arrived at the Emergency Response Centre (ERC) in Fleming Hall at 7:30 p.m. I was on
patrol with David Wilkinson and Saad Rashid.

Tim Ginn and Vishaal Patel, both CompSci ’08, are the only two candidates running for COMPSA president and, as it stands now, whoever gets elected will be without a vice-president.
The original COMPSA nomination period had to be extended because not enough people ran for executive office. Even now, with the nomination period over, there are no candidates for the vice-president (internal) and vice-president (external) positions because nobody ran for them.

Three candidates are vying to be president of the Engineering Society next year.
The presidential nominees are Bob Cockburn, Charlie Scott and Devon Stopps.
Cockburn, Sci ’08, said a relationship with the new Dean of Applied Science is a priority for him, adding that it’ll be important for the new dean to be visible at events and to be approachable like Tom Harris, who leaves his post in June. Cockburn said he also wants an improved image for engineering students.

Amelia Clarke is the former president of the Sierra Club of Canada, an organization that aims to protect the earth’s eco-systems. When it comes to reducing waste on campus, Clarke says it’s about the small changes students make in their lives.

Craig Langridge thinks interfaith interaction is a positive thing, but only as long as it doesn’t distract
him from his cause. Langridge, Sci ’08, is the Men’s Ministry Co-ordinator for Campus for Christ, an on-campus Christian student group. “I think it’s always good to have interfaith relations,” he said. “But at the same time we don’t want to get distracted from our number one focus.”