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This year’s referendumsMegan Devlin
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Students will be voting on two ref-erendums along with the University Students’ Council slates February 10 and 11. The kicker is that each referendum needs 20 per cent voter turnout to pass — last year Western had 19.6 per cent turnout.
The first referendum asks stu-dents if they’re willing to donate an extra 50 cents with their student fees to fund Western’s marching band. The second asks if students want to change the current orientation pass purchasing model from opt-in to an opt-out one.
The marching band’s status as a club means they get no finan-cial support from the USC or the
university.“Most marching bands in Canada
get some sort of funding from their student government or from their school,” Elizabeth Jewlal, president of Western’s marching band, said. “Right now we’re working purely on our own finances and grants.”
Membership to the band is close to $400 and the uniform alone costs $200. Students also have to come up with money to travel to parades and competitions on their own, as well as finance their instruments.
“When I became president this year … I realized we wouldn’t be able to have a marching band in three years if we didn’t do something ser-ious,” Jewlal said.
The second referendum asks current students how future incom-ing first-years should pay for their
O-week pass.Right now, first-years fork over
$90 in cash when they step on campus.
The alternative model on the ballot will have all first-years pay the $90 as part of their student fees when they pay tuition. They can opt out if they don’t want to participate.
Sam Kilgour said that in 2013 and 2014 orientation had nearly univer-sal buy-in — 97.5 per cent and 98.3 per cent respectively.
If the referendum passes, Kilgour said the USC would be able to book the O-week headliner as early as January — enabling them to bring in bigger names.
He also said it would enable more cash-strapped students to partici-pate since they can use OSAP to pay student fees.
What do the people I’m voting for actually do?
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The University Students’ Council (USC): The USC is the governing stu-dent body at Western University. The USC lobbies and advocates for stu-dents’ interests and concerns within the greater framework of the univer-sity and in the London community.
The USC consists of 50 voting members; three of whom are the slates which we are currently voting on, 46 councillors and one speaker.
Councillors are a member of a USC standing committee and vote on motions in council concerning the direction of the USC, and — their most important task — the budget.
Board of Governors (BOG): The BOG is the highest governing administrative body at Western University, comprised of a group of various individuals who are entrusted in the school’s manage-ment. Their responsibilities include upholding Western’s mission state-ment and enhancing its public image. Students elect two under-graduate students and one graduate student to sit on the board and act as voting members.
Senate: Fourteen elected undergraduate students and four graduate students are a part of the Senate. They are responsible for academic issues and concerns of the university.
Faculty President: Each fac-ulty on campus is represented by an elected student who votes in USC meetings and lobbies for their respected faculty’s interests and organizes faculty programming.
Affiliate President: Like a fac-ulty president, an affiliate presi-dent represents the interests of Brescia, Huron and King’s University Colleges in USC meetings, as well dealing their own affiliate issues in their respective councils and lobby-ing their administrations.
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Platforms: Team Litchfield vs Team Sophie
Team Litchfield opted for a longer, more detailed platform that seemed to be catered toward those more familiar with the University Students’ Council.
Beginning with a focus on mental health, Team Litchfield wants to bring the Jack Project — not named after presidential can-didate Jack Litchfield — to Western. Named after a former Queen’s student, the initiative has spread to several campuses in hopes of promoting mental health awareness.
Rather than ignoring the realities of mental health coverage on campus, Team Litchfield acknowledges the problems and presents solutions. They propose looking to the province by applying for mental health grants. The slate wants to integrate Aspira.org into our current system. Investing capital in these resources is a necessity in reaching more students.
Additionally, Team Litchfield wants to bol-ster de-stressor programs, like therapy dogs and midnight breakfasts. While some might look on this and contend that the USC exec-utive team should be involving themselves with more important things, it is important to remember that the little things add up.
Moreover, this slate seems to be cam-paigning on a platform that has big ideas — like expanding mental health on campus — but also on smaller changes that will be noticeable improvements for students.
Creating a “Spoke to Go” system in which students do not have to show identification in order to get into the Spoke late at night would allow for underage students to still buy food. Additionally, while it would require lobbying, getting towel service at the Rec Centre would be an added benefit in many students’ lives.
On a programing front, Team Litchfield would offer exciting events that students would probably love to attend. Beerfest on concrete beach had people invigorated — this slate wants to bring that back. Not only that, they also propose a wine tasting festival and a food truck extravaganza. If the hour-long lineups at the BeaverTails truck are any indication, these are ideas that students will love.
Environmental sustainability is promin-ently featured on Team Litchfield’s platform (something not particularly discussed on Team Sophie’s). While these promises will require advocacy, this is targeted and smart advocacy. Western’s administration has iden-tified sustainability as one of its long-term goals — it would be advantageous for the USC and administration to work together.
There are also the benefits to students that this segment of the platform offers. Getting a discount throughout campus for bringing your own coffee mug would save students money over time. Having to print for every class can also add up in ink and paper costs; Team Litchfield has pledged to make class-rooms less reliant on paper.
Of course, Team Litchfield is not without faults. There seems to be a clear disjoint between different members of the slates. Internal candidate Dilani Logan and external candidate Richard Sookraj appear to have drafted their own respective sections of the platform. There is clear overlap between the internal and external sections and the initial part of the platform.
While it’s important for slate members to have their own ideas, this doesn’t suggest a cohesive slate and that could become prob-lematic if Team Litchfield were elected.
The platform is also bloated. There are segments that are slogs to read through. Team Litchfield would have been better to streamline some sections, as it becomes cumbersome reading through some parts.
In the end, Team Litchfield presents a pragmatic platform that has both big ideas and tangible points that will improve the lives of students. When the slate wants to advocate, it’s targeted and conceivable that they could accomplish what they propose.
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Team Sophie has presented a populist plat-form that appears to cater to students who do not have a comprehensive understanding of how the University Students’ Council works.
While the USC executive team is regularly in meetings with Western administration to lobby for improvements to student life, the most glaring problem with Team Sophie’s plat-form is the lack of tangible solutions.
Most students would agree that parking on campus could be improved, but the USC has absolutely no jurisdiction over it and has way better things to focus on.
It’s not just parking that would be trouble-some for Team Sophie if elected. Moving fall study break to Thanksgiving is also something out of the jurisdiction of the USC. It’s a nice sentiment, but attaining this goal will be diffi-cult — fall reading break is only two years old and it’s doubtful it would be moved.
Though vice-president internal candidate Alex Benac is arguably the most qualified for his position of all the candidates in this elec-tion, Team Sophie’s mental health section of the platform leaves much to be desired.
This platform fails to attack the root of the problem. Instead, Team Sophie has opted to recycle platform ideas from elections past. Changing the “3 in 23” exam scheduling has been on virtually every USC platform in recent memory but administration has seemed chilly to change it and it’s not clear what this policy would be changed to.
Putting mental health resources onto already bloated course syllabi is another example of not actually tackling the issue. Allocating resources to shorten the wait list would have been a more desirable platform point, for instance.
Looking more positively on Team Sophie’s
platform, the transparency they hope to show in executive schedules is particularly wel-comed. As journalists, this would make our lives easier as we could track the USC more closely. It also makes sense for the efficiency of the organizations. If coordinators and associ-ate vice-presidents know what their respective supervisor is doing, perhaps they can be more deliberate about scheduling meetings.
Visiting residences every week might have drawn some scorn during the first debate but one must respect Team Sophie’s desire to bring the organization to students — particularly when student apathy is a major concern.
While visiting residents may not be the most effective use of time, it’s encouraging Team Sophie is looking at different ways to reach students, especially first years.
Team Sophie seems quite proactive with regards to bringing the USC to students. Establishing a Clubs Forum will bring clubs’ concerns to the forefront. By reintroducing the involvement compass, students will have a better avenue to get involved by being pre-sented with targeted options that are person-alized to them.
Lindsee Perkins, the slate’s external candi-date, has made clear that she wants to focus on the city of London. Team Sophie cites the influx of “new blood” on the municipal level that they hope to work with. Indeed, this makes sense. Why not establish the connec-tions with people who have a fresh outlook?
Restorative justice ticketing is arguably the most creative aspect of Team Sophie’s plat-form but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the strongest. The intention is noble — let’s have students learn from their mistakes and not be financially burdened — but is this a realistic system for small infringements, such as noise complaints?
The platform presented by Team Sophie is filled to the brim with advocacy points that presidential candidate Sophie Helpard is likely excited to work towards. One must wonder, however, if these goals are achievable given the USC executive team’s short one-year term. While their vision should draw admiration, when it comes to the specifics of the platform the vast majority will be difficult, if not impos-sible to achieve.
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JACK LITCHFIELDI'm Jack Litchfield and I am honoured to be running for USC president. I am currently the president of the biggest faculty students’ council, Social Science, and chair of the USC's long-term plan and budget committee, which means I am very familiar with meeting a budget. Attending Western has been an amazing experience. I am running for USC president because I want to make sure future students enjoy the best possible experience here too. My platform is based on four years of experience including clubs, councils, university senate and a varsity team. Thanks to this experience, I know I can deliver on the promises I make. I do not promise to try, I promise to do. Team Litchfield stands for continuity. We will follow through on worthy projects already in the works and start new ones to give you the best of both immediate and long-term results. We will be an admin-istration grounded on strong communications dedicated to empowering you listening to you, and being the student voice on issues that matter to you. I encourage everyone to vote on Feb. 10 and 11 and show you care too.
SOPHIE HELPARDHello Western! My name is Sophie Helpard and I'm running to lead your Universi-ty Students' Council along with Lindsee Perkins and Alex Benac. Throughout my three years here, I've met students from every faculty and residence who have shared their stories with me. As orientation coordinator for the past year, I had the honour and privilege of serving incoming undergraduate students of every stripe, as well as representing hundreds of volunteers (sophs) that helped in this transition. I'm familiar with how to balance the needs of various groups and I believe that my team can work with each and every student at Western to promote all forms of wellness on campus. I would strongly encourage you to exercise your right as a student to vote in this election. No matter who you vote for, having your voice heard is crucial. Please make an informed decision by checking out our platform and getting to know us at teamsophie.ca. I hope you like what you see and I hope you cast your ballot for Team Sophie!
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I don’t care about USC elections
Nusaiba Al-AzemOPINIONS EDITOR
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Of the courses I’m currently taking at Western, my favourite is about ana-lyzing Canadian policy. I’m the kind of person who regularly tunes into the Cable Public Affairs Channel to watch the House of Commons’ broadcast when I’m hanging out at home on a Saturday. I like to keep abreast of political and social issues around me – so much so that people are always confusing my major for political science. I’m no John Rawls of course, but I’m typically not ignorant either.
When it comes to the University Students’ Council however, I am, without a shadow of a doubt, ignorant.
I am pretty darn apathetic about the USC and student government at Western. I have a very vague idea about how it works, I’ve attended a total of two council meetings in my four years at Western and when elec-tions roll around, I just don’t care.
I certainly wasn’t this way in high school about student government nor am I this way about any other elections, but when it comes to the USC, I’m just going to say it: I’m not all that invested. For somebody who shells out over $680 a year to this organization and cares about politics, that’s extremely out of the ordinary.
For the elections issue this year, I forced myself to evaluate my apathy and reach a conclusion as to why it exists. And the answer’s pretty simple.
It’s hard to get a handle on how the USC works. And it’s hard to care about things you don’t understand.
As a student journalist at The Gazette, I have arguably much easier access to the executives of the USC than average Western students. I also have knowledgeable co-workers whose jobs are to write about stu-dent government. As such, my USC knowledge has improved remark-ably during my time at this paper. And yet, even with these resources, I’m still lost when it comes to how the entire system works.
I can only imagine how much more lost I would feel if I didn’t have such easy access to this information.
Something has got to give in our political system at Western. People have been debating recently about specific systemic factors like the slate system that make it harder for fringe politicians and regular students to get a foot in the polit-ical door, but I think the exclusiv-ity encompasses much more than specific sections. I can’t speak for everybody, but for me, it felt as though I was late to the proverbial (political) party as soon as I got my acceptance letter.
Maybe if the USC maintained a user-friendly website all year around, with much more infor-mation than is currently available online, more people would be able to engage with their student rep-resentatives. There’s no excuse for voter apathy of course (mine or others’), but there are steps that can be taken to make student pol-itics more inclusive and engaging for everyone.
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Slate system called into questionAmy O’Kruk
NEWS EDITOR@AmyAtGazette
A spattering of campaign posters, a platform party and campaign booths in the University Community Centre — it must be election sea-son. Another year marks another trio canvassing the Western campus for the student vote. After all, these days when you cast your ballot for University Students’ Council presi-dent and vice-presidents external and internal, you get an all-or-noth-ing package deal.
These united candidates are elected in what is called the slate system. With this month’s elections signifying the slate system’s third year in action, some argue it’s time to examine what Western’s student council elections look like now, and what they were like before an era of an alleged lack of competition and USC veterans filling the ballot.
The slate system first emerged in November 2012 when the 2012–13 USC voted in favour of overhauling the electoral process by replacing presidential candidates elected by students-at-large and internally elected vice-presidents with the present-day electoral slates.
Adam Fearnall, USC president at that time, said the initial motion also suggested the rest of the USC’s vice-presidents would be hired.
Council eventually voted in
favour of a three-person slate system and against hired vice-presidents. Instead, as it remains now, the rest of the USC VPs are internally elected.
The last year before the slates featured four presidential candi-dates competing for the student vote. Since the slate system’s enact-ment, there has been a maximum of three slates running, with the last two years featuring only two.
Brent Duncan, former USC speaker of council, said while the slate system has its benefits it has also created disadvantages for presi-dential hopefuls.
“I think the only people that are interested in running collectively, as a slate, are going to be people who have been directly involved in the USC,” Duncan said.
Duncan added, “when I was an undergrad there were quite a num-ber of people who had limited or zero USC experience and some of them ran excellent campaigns.”
He said a lack of fringe candi-dates eliminates people who aren’t already bound by USC structures of thinking. He stated diverse can-didates engage more groups around campus and can create more stu-dent excitement about elections.
Over the last few years, whether affected by the slate systems or not, student voter turnout has been down. Last year 19.6 percent of eli-gible students voted or 5,275. The year before saw 7,843 voters and
in 2012, the last year of individual presidential candidates, 10,426 stu-dents came out to the polls.
Fearnall said one of the positives of the slate system is the inclusion of the vice-presidents internal and external compel the candidate’s platforms to be more expansive.
“Campaigns are more issues and policy based than they were; students see a broader set of issues during the election campaign,” Fearnall said.
Matt Helfand, current USC presi-dent, said perhaps the platforms have become so broad they are at odds with engaging students.
“I think what’s happened is that there might be an element of infor-mation overload, so there’s a bit too much coming forward,” Helfand said. “There’s a lot to choose from in terms of the scope of platforms and I think what we’ve really seen is fewer candidates coming to the forefront and that has had a negative impact.”
Helfand said he would be pleased to entertain the notion of moving back to the old system of one presi-dential candidate running with some internal selection for the other vice-presidents or a two-per-son slate.
“The slates reduce the overall saliency of elections for students, reduce some of the excitement and led to an outcome that I don’t think was intended.” Covers of the past two Gazette elections issues featuring the slate system
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8 • Elections Issue thegazette • Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Social Science FacultyStats Experience Platform
Social Science and FIMS Senator 2014 — 2015
Voting USC senator 2014—2015
Social Science Soph 2013 — 2015
Social Science USC councillor 2013 — 2014
Improved communication
Increasing first-year involvement
Gaining autonomy over the Student Donation Fund.
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“I have been a member of this council for the past two years. I have accumulated enough knowledge to do a great job leading them. I want students to know what their council does for them and in this role I will provide tangible benefits to social science students.”
Arjun
Singh
PSLPR chair2014 — 2015
Social Science councillor 2014 — 2015
Deputy speaker of USC, 2013 — 2014
Sociology department representative, SSC 2013 — 2014
Student donation fund autonomy Involvement
Balanced Programming
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“I am running for SSSC president because I believe this council has potential to serve students better. Social Science students deserve a student government that is responsible, responsive and delivers results based on student feedback. I want to provide that.”
Science Faculty
Acclaimed Presidents
Stats Experience Platform
Science [email protected]
Founder and leader of two registered NPO
Initiated the Alzheimer Bike Campaign (Alzheimer Youth Organization, HOFFEE)
Initiate the “Western Science Fair,” an intercollegiate conference
Promote science related initiatives
Strengthening relationships within our university and other schools through collaborations
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“I want to bring more excitement to student council and to enhance science students experience.”
Haley
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GeneticsIII
Arjun
S i n g h
Criminology and English III
SSC Student Games Commissioner 2014 — 2015
SSC/USC Science Councilor 2013 — 2014
SSC Honoraria Committee 2013 — 2014
1st Year Representative 2012 — 2013
Coordination
Legacy: Concrete ‘3 Year Plans’ drawn up by the current and incoming president to ensure carry over of started efforts year to year
SciPride
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“I have developed a strong passion for student government over my three years of education at Western … I feel like I have completely spanned the different types of positions on the SSC and have the required knowledge and experience to effectively lead the SSC as president. “
Soojeong
C h o e
Adam
F a ll e r
Science Specialization in Finance Dan [email protected]
Brandon
P a li n
Honors Specialization in Creative Writing & English Language and Literature
with a Major in the Arts and Humanities (III)
President of Arts and Humanities
“I am passionate about our faculty and I am so proud of everything the AHSC has accomplished this year. I am excited to bring new ideas to the table as well as continue the momentum from this year’s council to ensure that our students are supported, informed, and are enjoying their Western experience.”
Increased opportunities and support for upper year students
Improved community outreach within and outside the Western Bubble
Improve council dynamics
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Melissa
Media and the Public Interest (III)
President of FIMS
“I hope to bring my passion for the faculty to create a more inclusive faculty with a more involved and active student body.”
Advocacy (i.e. empowering the student voice and ensuring constituent issues are heard and addressed)
Revitalizing a culture of student engagement
Enhancing the student experience
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Tara
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Health Studies (IV)
Health Studies President
“I love HSSA. I want to continue expanding HSSA’s events and create a strong identity for the School of Health Studies.”
Academics
Opportunities for students (student opportunity fund)
De-stress and mental health
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Taylor
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Bachelor of Music with Honors Specialization in
Music Education (III)
Faculty of Music President
“Music's presence on campus has been growing and I would like to continue the great work that has been started over the past two years.”
Creation of a VP Academic
Enhance communication within faculty organizations
Develop the faculty of music's presence in the community and have a larger emphasis on charity initiatives
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Ivy
Tr a n
BSCN Collaborative Nursing Program (II)
Nursing President
“I value student leadership opportunities that work to serve the students. I believe that nursing students at both Western and Fanshawe deserve the best of what nursing school has to offer and I truly hope I can project that goal forward by being an inclusive and passionate president.”
Bridge the gap between Western and Fanshawe nursing program
Encourage and increase student participation to association and faculty events
Enhance student life and well-being
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Brady
Kinesiology (II)
Faculty of Health Sciences President
“ I am committed to being the voice of students and bringing your opinions to the USC and faculty dean’s office … I want to bring valuable events and opportunities for students to gain beneficial skills that can be used to network themselves through the Health Sciences community.”
Programming
Student life
Open Door — Student Opportunity Fund (SOF)
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Missing information from Stephanie Vojvodin • Faculty of Kinesiology
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