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UMSU 2011 Election results
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The 2011/2012 UMSU election results are as follows.
These figures are based on preliminary results provided by the CRO.
Executive positions
President Camilla Tapp (Working Together) 47.9%
Vice-president Advocacy Nour Rashid (Working Together) 51.5%
Vice-president Student Services Matt Hepner...
GSA election candidate interviews
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GSA presidential candidate
Presidential Candidate:
Peter Nawrot
Experience
Senator in Social Work Students’
Association (two years)
GSA vice-president (academic) (two
years)
Why did you decide to run?
None of the other current executives were running, and I have always found, in my...
UMSU LGBTT* community representative candidate
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LGBTTQ* Community Rep candidate:
Kyle St. Godard
Why do you feel the community representatives are important to UMSU council?
I feel they’re important because if there’s no one to represent the group, then it would be harder...
GSA election candidate interviews
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GSA senate candidates
senate candidate:
Olivier Gagne
Experience
Vice-president of departmental students’ association
Vice-president of U of M tennis club
GSA councillor
GSA senator since February 2011
Attended Canadian Federation of Students’ AGM
Why did you decide to run?
I was asked...
Less human than human?
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Art, especially literature, is filled with the inner battles of the human psyche — it defines our fears, hopes, underlines our strange uniqueness in the animal kingdom. It makes us feel as though we...
Zinc selenide
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There has been a significant breakthrough in the field of fiber optics. Researchers led by Prof. John Badding at Pen State University have developed a new type of fiber optic cable that uses zinc...
Senate highlights
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A Senate meeting was held on March 2 in the Senate chambers.
Richard Sigurdson, dean of the faculty of arts, chaired the meeting in place of president Barnard. Sigurdson claimed that this was due to...