What are your top priorities for this year? Look over some of the different policies that are germane to students: for example the grievance process and the Code of Student Conduct. One of the ways that I’m going to do that is to form multiple working groups that will be[Read More…]
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Todd Plummer – VP internal
What are you working on this year? One of my big projects this year is showing the faculty associations how SSMU can complement what they do; that it’s not an alternative or umbrella organization. Some have been more receptive than others, although most people are just getting back to school,[Read More…]
Maggie Knight – President
How did you prepare for this year over the summer? There are a lot of things that have to be accomplished over the summer, from just making sure you’re up to speed in your portfolio, transitioning from the person before you … as president, it’s really important to make sure[Read More…]
JoÃl Pedneault – VP External Affairs
What are the main issues you’ll be focusing on this year? As people know, the government announced that there will be a massive tuition increase starting September 2012. So my immeditate priority is to inform as many students as possible of that fact, what the effects of that might be,[Read More…]
Shyam Patel – VP Finance & Operations
How was your summer? It was extremely busy, but very exhilarating. I consider myself to be a very organized person, so before starting anything new I looked at everything that needed to be fixed. The first thing I did was organize all the material left by my predecessors and right[Read More…]
Quebec backs down in MBA tuition battle
The Quebec Ministry of Education has recognized McGill’s Desautels MBA as a ‘specialized’ program, a year after McGill first began operating the MBA under a self-funded tuition model. That one controversial word has caused the Ministry to effectively retract the $2 million fine it had imposed on McGill in March[Read More…]
Joshua Abaki – VP University Affairs: B-
Josh Abaki is nothing if not zealous. Sometimes, that translates into good results: Abaki followed through on his campaign promise to keep campus libraries open 24 hours a day for most of each semester. He was a committed defender of the student cause during the fallout of the Architecture Café’s[Read More…]
Winer, Chaini, and Wun win SSMU Council seats
Last Tuesday, members of the Students’ Society’s 290 clubs voted to elect the clubs and services representatives to SSMU Council. The three spots up for election went to Adam Winer with 19 votes, Sahil Chaini with 16 votes, and Billi Wun with 15 votes. Most of the candidates—Andrew Tyau, who[Read More…]
Acclamation a growing problem for campus societies
The turnout for last week’s Arts Undergraduate Society elections was a relatively healthy 14.4 per cent. What the AUS didn’t have, though, was enough candidates. Five of the 10 elected positions, including the presidency, were acclaimed. This is an all-too-familiar story in McGill student politics. It’s rare to find a[Read More…]
Turnitin users affected by downtime
Over the last few weeks, a number of Canadian universities have experienced problems with Turnitin, the digital paper-submission system which detects plagiarism by comparing students’ work to that of their peers. The University of Toronto and Ryerson University both posted university-wide notices regarding the outage, which began on March 9.[Read More…]
