“eax OVER THE EDGE | iC is October 10-14, 2007 >>NUGSS Scandal Continued ls he sweet and innocent, or is he a How the Runners Up Feel Haakon Suiiivan ADVERTISING AND DisTRisuTiOn MANAGER As a response to the shakeup in the NUGSS executive, | asked the past canditates questions about Jenna, the presidency, NUGSS, etc. The first interview was in person with past canditate Brandon Lewis: You ran in the last NUGSS election right, Brandon? Yeah, sure did. How do you feel about running against a candidate who wasn’t quali- fied to run? Truth is, | knew she was on academic probation cause we were pretty good friends and | was going to say something during the election but then | thought that it would be dirty campaigning and so it really didn’t bother me. And NUGSS didn’t really do anything to look into our background when we starting running and, you know, it didn’t really bother me. They didn’t do anything? They didn’t make you sign any wavers to look into your grades? | did, but | guess they didn’t look into anyone’s background and gave them a sheet saying that they were running and that’s about it. ; How well do you think Jenna ran her presidency during her term? ! thought she did a good job she put all her effort into it and that’s what she wanted to do and that’s why she put so much effort when we were running. But myself, | didn’t put a whole lot of effort into it because | was just sort of running for fun. But that’s what she wanted to do this year and she was committed fully to it. How do you feel about what they did to Jenna? They forced her to resign and deleted her existence from their website. | think its retarded. | think that they should live with their mistake they didn’t check into her background. She got in fair and square so they should live with what they have she should run the rest of the presidency. If they try to bring someone else in it just shows that their not caring towards us because that new person will have to meld in with the group that’s been working at it for a couple of months here and everything could go down the . drain including our new NUSC building. It could be delayed or everything © get screwed up. You think that this will affect the building? Oh, | think it will. They got to have to start new communications with a different president, they gotta start a couple things over. Pretty much guar- anteed they can’t just pick up as soon as someone else takes over. How do you think NUGSS should change so that this will never hap- pen again? | think they should stop being lazy and start looking into backgrounds and not believing into what spiel people say about themselves, they should ac- tually do some research. | mean, if you running for presidency of anything else, the blackmail’s going to come out and people are going to find out about the past to see what credentials a person has. They’re not going to let some criminal become our prime minister because they know...they look | into their background right? If it was someone running to become a NUGSS president then NUGSS should take the time to look into their background. What was your initial reaction when you heard that she was forced to resign? : | was surprised because | thought they would’ve known and thought it was OK when we were running. 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Sign up today on this special UNBC student plan: $40 per month - 250 Daytime Minutes - Unlimited Evening and Weekends - Unlimited Incoming Calls - Unlimited Canadian-wide Callin and Text to any 10 numbers. Another canditate, Thomas Knudsen, reached me by facebook to say this: “Regardless of whether she should or shouldn’t have been there, Jenna still did some amazing things for the Society and for UNBC, and her contri- bution should be remembered. NUGSS, however, is responsible for follow- ing its own bylaws, and I hope that they will be more attentive in the future. What I’m really concerned about, though, is the complete lack of infor- mation presented to students. As a public organization, NUGSS has a re- sponsibility to keep its stakeholders informed of its activities and status, and to completely erase Jenna's existence from the website without any explanation is very inappropriate. Although the reasons for her resignation may be private, the fact that we have had a major change to the leadership of this organization should have been promptly and clearly presented to the constituency. NUGSS should have taken immediate responsibility for its mistake, but instead it is being perceived as trying to hide it.” © ROGERS” authorized dealer * 256.95 monthly System Access Fee {non-government fe), a monthly 911 Emergency Service Aacess Fee and a one-time Action Fe apply n action to the morahiy service fer for each linen the account. Offers available unt Octbe'31, 2007 and are subject to change without notice. MY Student Plan requires valid Ganadan College or Unhersity identification fom a partiGpating educational Instiution. Avaable ona 36-meonth term ory. 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