Page 10 -- Over The Edge -- April 1, 1997

BOARD OF DIRECTORS/SENATE ELECTION

With the elections approaching quickly for UNBC students, we here at Over The Edge decided to run
the positions of each candidate for the Board of Governors and Senate. We asked the candidates
three questions apiece (three for BOG and three for the Senate) and here are the responses!

The three questions
we gave to the
Board of Governors:

1) How can the Board of
Governors position help
the average student?

2) What issues will YOU
bring to the Board?

3) What qualifies you for
this position?

The three questions
we gave to the
Senate:

1) How can the Senate
help students?

2) What ideas or new
focuses will you bring to
Senate?

3) What qualifies you for
this position?

The following list did not
contribute to our survey:

Board of Governors:
Toni Fletcher
Senate:

~ Amy Dash
Katherine Duncan
Bruce Edson

Darren Hynes
Jackie Wojtula

Thank you.

. offices

Arron Oberman_-
Board of Governors

1) The board of govenors
is a body in which
financial decisions are
made.
Choices

on fund

‘allocation for hiring new

profs, building facilities,
improving current library
inventories and the
building of services for
students, like a student
union building, are all
matter of concern to
both students and the
Board of Governors.

| have three key issues |

feel are paramount in
regards to UNBC student
life.

Le wines creation=otta
“Job Finder” office here
at UNBC. Our grads need
to know that when they
finish their degrees that
there will be a job waiting
for them when they get
out. Did you know that
the effectiveness of the
<<Job Finder>> office at
UBC is so high that 90% or
more of all grads that
leave the Commerce
Deptartment have a job
waiting for them!?!
These are the kind of
numbers I'm looking for
and demanding for the
grads of UNBC

2) Higher allocation of
funds for the Co-op
and Student
Services. Every student
here pays fees and those
fees should go _ to
improving student life
here at UNBC. | feel that
security in knowing that

‘you'll be a valuable asset

to the private sector will
greatly improve the
students sense of well
being at UNBC. The co-
op and student services
departments help
students prepare for the
rest of their life after
university and | feel it is
imperative to support
those offices. In doing so
we are:securing the
future for our students

and to me that is what
the Board of Governors is
here to do.

3) Security has been
wrongly falling under the
ax over the past few
years and WA TES
intolerable! I'm not sure
that most students are
awoare but the campus is
down to only three
security guards and one
of those is confined to the
security office at all times.
Most of you have noticed
and brought o my
attention that some of

your favorite
Commissionaires are
missing. I’m sorry to say

that most of them won't
be coming back under
the current budget and
this is something that

must be changed. Two
roaming gaurds on
campus is

unacceptable! We were
barely getting on with 3
guards walking around
campus and to have a
cut-back means putting
the well being of our
student body at risk.

The need to protect the
students at UNBC is of
great importance and a
top priority for the Board
of Governors to
reconsider and ammend.

Before coming to UNBC |
spent a total of 5 years in
Cele) tie eS treat haiew
management for two

multi-million dollar
corporations. One of
which was in_ the

computer manufacturing
sector and the other
hospitality and tourism.
The need for expert
managerial skills on my
part could effect the
bottom line and was a
matter of losing a millions
of dollars or not. I’ve
always challenged my
people to find new and
more productive ways to
achieve the company’s
goals, which, at the heart
of the matter, was really
each employee’s own
goal. | will expect
nothing less and actually,

even a bit more from the
university staff and
students. | am only one
person but with the
voices and ideas of the
student body behind me
! can wield the force to
make the changes that
are necessary here at
UNBC.

Without the students
UNBC is just an empty
building and the
positions available on the
BOG are just useless titles.
The students within our
community are the very
life blood here at UNCB
and itis to them thatlam
accountable. Therefore it
is my goal to make every
student concern the
major topics of our Board
of Governors meetings.
To summerize, it is the

-Student that puts me in

office and it is to the
student body that am |
solely responsible.

Jeremy Pillion - Board

of Governors

The board of governors
position wil help the
average student by
allowing students to have
a voice in key policy
desicisions that effect
them.

| will bring two issues to
the board.:

One- Students don’t
know what is going on in
the board of governors
untill after the fact.
Students need to know
what is going on before it
happens so that their
concerns can be taken
into effect.

Two- | feel that the
general public and the
business community
should know what is
going on at the university.
We do not have a
consistant policy for
deceminating

information to this goup .

nor do we have a policy
for dealing with these
groups.

What qualifies you for
this position? I’m not
sure. | think the fact that
| genuinely wish to make

Liz HUughes.- Board of
Governors

My name is Elizabeth
Hughes, and |! am a first
year graduate student in
the Department of
Psychology. My field of
interest is the study of
pain and pain
management. Thankfully,
my area of study is
completely unrelated to
my desire to run for the
Board of Governors.

Currently, | am the Vice
President of the Northern
British Columbia
Graduate Students’
Society. As such, | am
acutely aware of the
need for student input
into the administration of
the university. If | am
elected, | know that! can
provide an effective
voiceon the Board of
Governors, representing
not only the concerns of
graduate students, but
those of the entire
student body. Thank you.

Sean P Nardi - Senate

| have spoken to several
people, including some in
administrative positions,
and no one is able to give
me a straight answer as
to what exactly the
Senate does. As well, the
port of thie school
constitution outlining the
powers of the Senate is so
wordy that it makes the
Fraser river look clear.
Regardless, as a Senator,
these are the issues |
would like to see brought
to the forefront.

| thought that the recent
career fair that we had
was nothing short of
pathetic. Over the Spring
break |. was at UBC and
found a brochure from
their career fair. There
must have been a
hundred, major
companies at the fair. As
well, the fair was held in
the fall. The person
running our career fair