#vp activities

By Connor Simpson

The final two positions in the 2012-2013 SU Executive have finally been announced. Our very own Business Manager, Daniel MadDonald, has won the VP Finance job. And friend of the paper Chelsea Merry (follow her on Twitter here) has been named the new VP Communications. The full executive roster for next year:

Kate VanGerven - President Danielle MacDonald - Executive VP Jonathan Millington -  VP Activities Chelsea Merry - VP Communications Daniel MacDonald - VP Finance

That's right. There are TWO Daneil(le) MacDonalds. Executive meetings should be fun.  

By Connor Simpson

The news broke around 9:30 pm last night when the Twitter blasts first hit our phones, this is your new UPEISU executive:

Kate VanGerven - President Danielle MacDonald - Executive VP Jonathan Millington -  VP Activities

All those running unopposed got in. Both referendum questions passed. Numbers after the jump.

Voter Turnout: 33.51%

President Josh Coles - 448 Kate VanGerven - 671 Abstain - 70

Executive Vice President Yes: Danielle MacDonald - 870 No: Danielle MacDonald - 106 Abstain - 110

Vice President Activities James Beaton - 163 Brittany Fullerton - 410 Jon Millington - 515 Abstain - 69

Ombudsman Yes: Curtis Moerike - 754 No: Curtis Moerike - 141 Abstain - 157 Councillor: Science Representative(6) Lucas MacArthur - 264 Emiley MacKinnon - 282 Michelle MacDougald - 311 Sylvie Morin - 272 Matthew Rice -267 Shelby Russell - 250 Jonathan Stockless - 191 Abstain - 623

Councillor: Business Representative Yes: Justin Lank - 91 No: Justin Lank - 25 Abstain - 15 Councillor: Nursing Representative Yes: Amanda Johnston - 55 No: Amanda Johnston - 3 Abstain - 4

Graduate Student Senate Representative Yes: Bob Deziel - 23 No: Bob Deziel - 2 Abstain - 1 Graduate Student Representative Yes: Heather Wotton - 21 No: Heather Wotton - 4 Abstain - 0

Valedictorian: Morning Convocation Katie Killen - 49 Sarah O'Donnell - 56 Hannah Waxer - 45 Abstain - 31 Valedictorian: Afternoon Convocation Yes: Amy Wilson - 106 No: Amy Wilson - 19 Abstain - 27 Referendum Question #1 Yes, I am in favour of amending the ratio of student reps - 426 No, I am not in favour of amending the ratio of student reps - 107 Abstain - 454

Referendum Question #2 Yes, I am in favour of making the Access - 604 No, I am not in favour of making the Access - 127 Abstain - 229

Councillor - Arts Rep #1 Yes: Oliver Bork - 206 No: Oliver Bork - 42 Abstain - 59

Councillor: Arts Rep #2 Yes: Amy Doyle - 213 No: Amy Doyle - 41 Abstain - 46

Councillor: Arts Rep #3 Yes: Kelsey Cormier - 195 No: Kelsey Cormier - 45 Abstain - 56

Councillor: Arts Rep #4 Yes: Travis Gordon - 228 No: Travis Gordon - 29 Abstain - 40

By Connor Simpson

Good evening, kiddies. Everyone is getting home from class, relaxing before a quick but polite supper with family or roommates and then escaping to the Wave for, yes, Sex Trivia, but also more importantly to wait with bated breath for the election results to be announced, right? At least, that's what we're doing. [In the mean time, vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote] But before that we have a little news to discuss.

Oh, Vice-President of Activities. Why don't your elections ever go smoothly? You're the election we want to love but can't because you keep lashing out and burning our favorite t-shirts because we apparently cheated on you (or something). And this time is no different, as a candidate has been busted for leaving posters up once again. 

James Beaton, or JB as he'd like to be called, has been busted for leaving at least two posters up on campus after the campaigning deadline ended. Jeff McGuigan, friend of the paper and current SU Ombudsman, found the poster in the picture above in the Business Building on Wednesday afternoon. We also spoke to a source who was on campus Monday evening well after 9pm and Beaton's poster on the door to the SU office stairs was still up. Beaton could not be immediately reached for comment, but we'll update the post as soon as we hear from him. 

There've also been a few problems with students unable to vote in their appropriate elections. From the conversations we've had with people the problems have included but not been limited to: business students not being able to vote for business rep, 4th or more year students being able to vote for grad rep, and certain students not being able to vote for VPA (!!). The grad and business student problems have already been solved, from what we've been told, but the VPA problem was new this afternoon. No official word on whether the results would be or will be considered tainted, but all signs are pointing to no. That is, depending on if a loser throws a tantrum at the end of the night and raises a stink.

Computer Services have to be a little more careful next time. This is the second election in a row they've jeopardized. Third try is the charm, right? 

This is the video from yesterday's UPEISU election debate. It starts with the VPA debate, and then the presidential debate starts at the 16:20 mark of the video. 

President

Coles, Josh (fb group) VanGerven, Kate (fb group)

Vice-President of Activities

Beaton, James (fb group) Fullerton, Brittany (fb group) Millington, Jon (fb group)

Executive Vice-President

Danielle MacDonald (fb group)

Ombudsman

Curtis Moerike

Science Representative

Lucas MacArthur Emiley MacKinnon Michelle MacDougald Sylvie Morin Matthew Rice Shelby Russell Jonathan Stochless

Arts Representative

Kelsey Cormier Travis Gordon Chelsea Merry Sara Reeves Amy Doyle Oliver Bork

Valedictorian

Katie Killen (morning) Sarah O'Donnell (morning) Hannah Waxer (morning) Amy Wilson (afternoon)

Nursing Representative

Amanda Johnsten

Graduate Student Senate Representative

Bob Deziel

Graduate Student Representative

Heather Wotton

Business Representative

The numbers are finally in. Travis Gordon is the new First Year Rep and Jon Millington is officially the new VP Activities. Congratulations to all the candidates on a hard fought campaign. 

Vice President Activities Jonathan Millington 603 Logan O'Brien 349 Abstain 58

Senate Representative Yes, Matthew MacInnis 676 No, Matthew MacInnis 66 Abstain 116

Board of Governors Yes, Nicole Lane 642 No, Nicole Lane 90 Abstain 112

Councillor - Arts Rep #1 Yes, Tyler MacNeill 209 No, Tyler MacNeill 31 Abstain 36

Councillor - Arts Rep #2 Yes, Chelsea Merry 194 No, Chelsea Merry 34 Abstain 44

Councillor - Arts Rep #3 Yes, David Parker 186 No, David Parker 32 Abstain 50

Councillor - Arts Rep #4 Yes, Sara Reeves 210 No, Sara Reeves 25 Abstain 34

Councillor - Science Representative Yes, Emiley MacKinnon 249 No, Emiley MacKinnon 29 Abstain 25

Councillor - Business Rep #1 Yes, Kyle MacNeill 120 No, Kyle MacNeill 19 Abstain 12

Councillor - Education Representative Yes, Natalie Doyle 42 No, Natalie Doyle 1 Abstain 2

Councillor - Nursing Representative Yes, Amanda Johnston 51 No, Amanda Johnston 3 Abstain 5

Councillor - First Year Representative Swany Amarapala 37 Travis Gordon 165 Madison White 45 Abstain 14

Councillor - Graduate Student Rep Yes, Heather Wotton 12 No, Heather Wotton 1 Abstain 1

International Student Representative Yes, Aondo Frederick 70 No, Aondo Frederick 15 Abstain 14

Yesterday we reported that VP Activities candidate Logan O'Brien's Facebook group was still up on Facebook, despite the facts that the campaign deadline for electronic media had already passed and the polls were already open. He did change the name and picture of the group, but some of the content was still available. We offered him a little help and produced a guide on deleting Facebook groups, in case he was having some trouble. We also reported him to the CRO, in order to follow proper election procedure. 

Unfortunately, as of lunchtime Wednesday, he failed to comply with election bylaws. The group still exists. He has changed the group from "private" to "closed," slightly altering the privacy options for the group. You can still find it, though, and therein lies the problem. Wall posts are still there, as are his answers. He started to follow our instructions and deleted 21 people from the group, but from there he... got bored or something and stopped. The number of group members fell from 232 to 211 overnight. 

When we woke up this morning, all we could see was this: 

If you were a member of the group, you could see that around midnight last night he changed the privacy settings for the group and some members were deleted. If you scrolled down, the wall was still in the same state it was yesterday:

Between the time of 12:43 pm and 1:10 pm Wednesday, the number of members in the group fell to one, but as of 1:44 pm the group is still there.