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Canadian Political Science Students

Association Holds 6th Annual Conference

Northern Undergraduate
Student Society
-Annual General Meeting

NUGSS will be hosting it’s annual general

meeting Friday February 9, 2001 at 12:00
pm. It will be held in the winter garden.
Items on the proposed agenda are:

Executive Reports
Society Audit Reports
Society Financial Report
Bylaw Amendments

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All those who are interested are invited to
attend and participate in the meeting. If
anyone has anything for the agenda please
submit it to the NUGSS office.

IPH BE

| would like to thank the Medieval Culture
and Combat Club, the UNBC Sorority, and the
Political Science Student Association for their par-
ticipation in the WINTERFEST 2001. These were
the ONLY clubs who turned out to participate in the
events and thus awarded the prize moneys. It was
a very large disappointment that ONLY three of the
UNBC’s 80+ clubs turned out and thus received
more funding.

It was a fun time had by all. The noon pep rallies
helped set the stage for the day’s events and the
Talent Show was very well received. Congratulation
goes out to all the participants. Again, a big thank
you goes out to the Medieval Culture and Combat
Club, the UNBC Sorority and the Political Science
Student Association. You helped make WINTER-
FEST 2001 a success! | hope to see more clubs
out next year!

Sincerely,

Kelsey Dryden

Director of Internal Affairs

Northern Undergraduate Student Society
University of Northern British Columbia

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By Kim Warkentine

On the weekend of January
12, 2001 the Canadian
Political Science Students’
Association (CPSSA) held its
sixth annual conference at
the University of British
Columbia. Fifty student dele-
gates representing PSSAs
from all over Canada came
together in Vancouver, BC,
for three days to talk about
politics, free trade and what
kind of future we all envision
for the CPSSA. UNBC was
proud to send Debra Larson,
Ajay Kapila, and Kim
Warkentine to this year’s con-
ference which was themed
“Canada’s Role in North
America’. Following a tight-

ly scheduled itinerary (they

- Seattle)

made us get up at 9:00 am
on a weekend!) on Friday, we
had the honor of listening to
Roger Simmons (the
Canadian Council General to
speak of how
Canada must keep the
Canada-US border as a
bridge and not a_ wall.
Keynote speaker, Lloyd
Axworthy, the former minister
of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa,
talked about various security
issues involving Canadian-
American relations and how
Mexico is quickly pushing
Canada out of the way as
Washington’s main trading
priority. On Saturday we saw
two panels of trade and poli-
cy experts, including former
BC premier Mike Harcourt,
debate the future of Canada

in North America as well as
what trade agreements are
capable of helping enforce (
free trade: yes. human rights:
no). The UNBC PSSA would
like to give big thanks the Poli
Sci faculty for supporting us
in this venture. There was
also much partying involved
but this was supposed to be a
serious article so if you want
to hear about how many
drinks exactly Captain
Alberta had that weekend or
how the PSSA works come to
a meeting (Wednesdays at
1:30) or email
warkenO0@unbc.ca for more
information.

Left:

Two of the mem-
bers of the
University of
Northern — British
Columbia’s Political
Science Student
Association pose
with the coordina-
tor of the confer-
ence (center).

Below:
Delegates from
Political Science

Student
Associations
around Canada
attended the con-
ference held
January 12, 2001