UMSU needs to get organized to fight tuition increases and budget cuts, and quick
Recent UMSU executives have repeatedly stressed having a seat at the table, but that does nothing if the others sitting around it aren’t listening.
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Active Living Centre to offer women, trans, and non-binary gym hours
The University of Manitoba Active Living Centre (ALC) is organizing special hours for women and non-binary gym users. Advanced by Aly Raposo, women’s representative for…
Online voting won’t save student democracy
Voter turnout in the 2017 UMSU general election was low, but it was not because of a lack of ability to vote. It was because of a lack of desire to vote.
UMSU VP candidate apologizes for comments on transgender rights bill
A University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) vice-presidential candidate has apologized for comments made in November regarding a federal government bill that would provide further…
Platform promises
Here is your UMSU election Spark Notes.
UMSU community reps need a bigger platform
UMSU community representatives need more resources so the advocacy of marginalized groups can be carried out more efficiently, more substantially, and with greater impact.
UMSU United claims campaign shenanigans
A web address with the same name as an executive slate running in the 2017 University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) General Elections directed visitors…
UMSU vice-president internal resigns
And then there were three. A second University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) executive member has stepped down in less than six months as the…
The malaise of student politics
UMSU is powered by the tyranny of the self-interested.
Democratizing campus is the only way to effectively oppose tuition hikes
Lobbying efforts by the CFS have failed. Students must take efforts into their own hands.