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Emily Yee Clare – VP University Affairs

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…]

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…]

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…]

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