Coming soon... GCSU Elections
In the spirit of election season here at glendon I thought I would provide a list of some of the people up for elections. I have also included a list of websites where available where you can take a look at their platforms.
Brett Cockburn - President
Jonathan 'Yoani' Kuiper - President (CleanSlate)
WebsitePeter McKenna - Vice President (CleanSlate)
WebsiteAli Khan - Director of Academic Affairs (CleanSlate) (Acclaimed)
WebsiteKen Yam - Director of Communications
WebsiteAdam King - Director of Communications (CleanSlate)
WebsiteCélia Jutras - Director of Bilingual Affairs (CleanSlate)
WebsiteDan Wolfe - Director of Bilingual Affairs
Roberto Alvarez - Director of Cultural Affairs (CleanSlate) (Acclaimed)
WebsiteNatalie Riggs - Director of External Affairs (CleanSlate)
WebsiteGregory Junop - Director of External Affairs
Those are the candidates I have found so far through my passive research of looking for posters on the walls, so if you are a candidate please let me know. As far as I know the positions of councilors were all acclaimed.
New Online Petition
Now I must warn you all in advance, that this is purely meant for humorous purposes. But if it is taken literally then its out of our hands:
Sign Petitionremember, this petition only takes fake names
gee wiz, what the?
taken from:
Glendonites
Dear Glendon students,
The GCSU had a meeting last night regarding the 6 hour general meeting.
motions were presented to ratify the motions that were passed at the general meeting, along with new motions.
the ratification for the dropping of the lawsuit being dropped was passed,
the ratification for the impeachement of our President and V-P was not.
why? well as the speaker stated, the manner it was done was "illegal" and unconstitutional. All year you, the students, have been after each member of council claiming that we need to follow the constitution 100%, and now you go around and do something unconstitutional? that my friends, is not right, and could endanger the Union with more lawsuits.
so we, the council, discussed ways of trying to work around it for you guys. what you should have done for the impeachment was to hold a referenda question for the student populous to vote on. in order to do so, we need it to reach the student body 16 days prior to the voting of the referendum.
we counted days, and tried to figure out when would be best to hold it, and with the help of our new current speaker, we decided that by the time it all happened and took place, we would no longer be in office anyways. Basically, we do not have 16 days, we tried our best to please the students, but we are now running out of time.
so in short:
1)there is no longer a lawsuit, just a great debt for next year's council
2)the president and v-p were un-impeached (if that is even a word or makes sense?)
seeee ya around.
*rhoda*
As stated in the letter posted by Rhoda Mousa on the Glendonites blog they have refused to ratify the impeachment of our president and vice-president. Though let us nonetheless applaud them for ratifying the motion to drop this lawsuit against York University. The main issue now is this latest turn of events, from last nights G.C.S.U council meeting.
So as you all know, a general meeting was held roughly a week ago and one of the motions passed during that meeting was to impeach the president and vice president. And as you may or may not already be aware of before that motion was carried a vote was made by students regarding the interpretation of the constitution with the specific section on impeachments, and a majority of students during that meeting had decided to over-rule the speaker’s interpretation of the constitution (that in itself is within our constitutional right to do so, if you weren’t aware of that fact).
Are you telling me the opinion of one speaker is paramount than the opinions of 110+ students that were present in the meeting? Now I can’t speak for those reading this, but I believe that’s what most political scientists would call a dictatorship you know when only one person’s opinion matters. Wow you guys are really taking a page from the autocratic regimes of history by trying to pull something like this. What’s next a G.C.S.U run Gestapo? How about an SS division of G.C.S.U? Seeing how as you guys are already taking the first steps by opposing decisions made by the members you supposedly represent you might as well go all the way.
Now in all fairness the president did make a very good case, but the fact is most people decided that mistakes were made during the course of his term which is the reason why he was voted for impeachment. I believe your argument on impeachments in this manner would be a cause of more lawsuits is one that is very much a fallacious one, because precedence does exist of a president being impeached before a general meeting. IT’S BEEN DONE BEFORE. It’s also worth mentioning that a referendum would have been ideal in this situation but that wasn’t possible thanks to the lack of time left until election. That still doesn’t mean we can forget about holding our elected members accountable for their actions does it? Why did many of us waste 6 hours of our life for? You obviously didn’t get the point.
Proof that one vote does make a difference
Last night at 6pm a general meeting of the Glendon College Student Union was held in the Senate chamber, the items on the agenda of the meeting were four motions put forth in a petition brought forward by the Students For Good Government, and since they are too long for me to describe here and the fact that all but two were discussed during the course of this meeting it is easier to just refer you all to the full list on the S.F.G.G page found
here.
(The other motions will be on the agenda in another general meeting scheduled for Tuesday March 15th at 12:00 PM in the Senate chamber and all students are welcome to go and bring their sessional cards to vote).
Of those motions approved at this meeting two were approved. The first resolution was to drop the pending litigation against York University. The second resolution concerned the impeachment of Ron Fietkou, and Vanessa Stepnowski of their respective roles as the president, and Vice president of the Glendon College Student Union.
After a good amount of debating some of the issues such as whether or not the lawyers representing the G.C.S.U were working pro-bono and some concerns made by students about the flow of communication between students and council concerning the lawsuit. At the end of this discussion when it came time to vote on the issue the majority consensus was to dismiss the lawsuit against York University.
The second resolution took roughly the same amount of time to pass as the first one, if not longer as there was a concern addressed by the speaker on whether such an act was constitutional to do so. The speaker put forwards his own personal interpretation that this act was not constitutional. The students present during the meeting nonetheless voted to overrule the speaker and decided to agree in their interpretation of the constitution that it was valid to impeach executive members during a general meeting.
Before the vote took place however since the president was on the speakers list he was allotted a certain amount of time to state his position on the issue and to plead his case and Mr. Fietkou made a number of valid points. The end result though was that the motion to impeach was passed by the student body that was present during the meeting.
Overall the duration of the meeting was very much time consuming, and it was roughly 12:00 am when the meeting adjourned. The speaker of the meeting managed to keep order and a good degree of neutrality during the meeting, despite a few disruptions that were caused during the meeting.
On the other side of things the proceedings were very often delayed by numerous small but nonetheless time consuming technicalities such as role call, and calls for quorum (for those of you who don't know the meaning of quorum, essentially it is the minimum number of members present for a meeting to take place) in this case the number was determined to be at 110 people.
There were numerous occasions where time was spent in trying to establish and re-establish quorum, and on one particular occasion at around 11:30 PM two members had left the meeting calling quorum on the way out, there were a number of councilors who were absent from the senate chamber during voting time as well as some being present but choosing to abstain from the voting. By the end of the night there were many people relieved that the meeting was over with and that they were able to successfully pass the aforementioned resolutions.
Update
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GCSU vs York University *update
Here are some articles concerning the recent lawsuit brought about against York University. This is just a rough list I found off the net through various sources, please post your comments if you find any other source.
CFS Press ReleaseYork University Press ReleaseToronto Star ArcticleExcalibur ArticleExcalibur ArticleExcalibur ArticleExcalibur EditorialInside TorontoRadio-CanadaUWO's The GazetteUWO Editorial in The GazetteUWO's The Gazette (note a retraction of some incorrect details posted
here)
The Charlatan
Formal Response to Letter
February 1, 2005
Esteemed Mr. Karim Mazzawi
Thank you for your correspondence,
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