Page 2 -- Over The Edge -- March 17, 1997 Northern Undergraduate Stu By Kevin Milos This column is a non-partial, non-opinionated report on the activities of the Northern Undergraduate Student Society. Over the past years, there has been.a growing interest by the student population here at UNBC about what the student society is and what it does. A portion of this interest has been piqued by the fact that students realize they contribute an average of $45 dollars to the student society each semester in the form of regular fees to a maximum of $30 and $15 dollars as a contribution towards a future Student Union Building. Others simply are not aware of what the Society does as information on all of the boards decisions is not always for readily available You may already be well on your way to a CGA certification. Applicants who have satisfactorily completed equivalent courses are eligible for exemptions. Get the credit you deserve. 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The Northern Undergraduate Student Society was officially incorporated in 1994 as a regulatory body to provide lobbying power and services to undergraduate students here at UNBC. Since its day of incorporation, the Society has been primarily focused on establishing itself within the University. The board has come to the realization recently that it has now accomplished this task and is currently redirecting its focus towards establishing a Student Union Building and restructuring itself, along with its constitution, to better provide the students with the services they desire. Executive decisions governing the activities of the Society are made by a board of directors that are elected by the undergraduate student population, since all undergraduates automatically become members upon paying their fees at the beginning of the semester. The board meets once a week, currently scheduled for 3:00 every Monday, and everyone is invited to come along and make suggestions. Although only directors are granted votes, any student is allowed to make a motion. There are a total of nine directors whose positions include Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Recorder, Sports & Clubs, Social & Promotion, Ombudsperson, External Liaison and Fund- raiser. Recently, the recorder position has been unofficially ‘declared redundant and has been replaced by a Public Relations director. With this background on the structure and simple history of the Northern Undergraduate Student Society, as mentioned earlier, this is the first in a series of continual, non- opinion reports on the activities of the Society. If anybody has any questions or comments about this column or about the contents thereof, or that they would like to address towards the Society, letters can be sent directly to the Over the Edge Newspaper office at: Over the Edge 3333 University Way Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9 Letters can also be dropped off at the Over the Edge office personally. The office is located in the Agora, across from the Northwood Winter Garden in room 7-219. All questions and comments will be treated as a priority and free opinion is always welcome. This week’s report will be a summary of the activities and decisions that the Northern Undergraduate Student Society (NUGSS) has made over the past three weeks, in order to further give some background since this is the first publication of this column. Since board meetings for the Northern Undergraduate Student Society are currently scheduled to take place every Monday, the first meeting that is being covered in this report dates back to February 3 with consecutive meetings being covered for March 3 and March 10. February 24, 1997 The Rugby Club approached the Student Society to request that the Society pay $800 for a bus so that they could go to the lower mainland and play two college/university teams. After a discussion, a motion was set fourth that the Rugby Club receive $735 for the bus. John Robertson, Ombudsperson, motioned that he receive his $300 honorarium for the month even though he did not meet the stipulation that he attend all of the meetings for the month. John’s argument was that he forgot about the time change and with warning about setting a bad precedent, the motion was passed with the opposition of the then- acting chair, Brian Cole. John Robertson motioned that NUGSS pays $10, a cut rate from $15, to join ACCUO, a college and university association that has a defined ombuds association. The general consensus was that the association will be utilized by John Robertson during the summer and so passed. Grant Leippi motioned that all funding be withheld from the Over the Edge Student Newspaper until full financial reports are received from the Newspaper for this year. An agreement was made beforehand that if financial reports were submitted for September 1994 to August 1995, then partial funding would be provided to the newspaper. These records were submitted earlier and the Board made the decision upon Grant’s recommendation to break this agreement and continue to withhold approximately $4000 that the Newspaper requested, which is $3500 less than the maximum amount that they are allowed to claim. The board also requested proof of all . dent Society (NUGSS) Activity Report numbers indicated in the reports by means of receipts and invoices. The motion passed. Residence Council asked that NUGSS pay for a bus down to the Munk Bar from the UNBC residences. The event will be open to all students, not only those living in residence, so Brenda Haggerty motioned that $149.80 and the applicable taxes be paid out. The motion passed with Grant Leippi abstaining from his vote. Brenda Haggerty motioned that someone, the person was not recorded in the minutes of the Student Society since there was only an unaddressed letter, receive $300 for the promotion of Japanese Cultural Day so long as receipts of the expenditure of the money are provided and they don’t charge at the door. The motion passed. Brian Cole motioned to order 1500 copies of letterhead paper for the Society at a cost of $120 and 250 personalized business cards for each of the directors at a cost of $280 plus any taxes. The motion passes. March 3, 1997 Brian Cole took the time at the beginning of this meeting to make the announcement that he is resigning from his position as Chair of the Northern Undergraduate Student Society due to extreme frustrations and aggravation stemming from it. An outline of reasons can be found in the article written in the last issue of Over the Edge by Dionne Olsen on the front page. Amongst Brian’s final recommendations to the board were that the entire society needs to work on its image and defeating student apathy within the society. He feels that the directors of the student society are not doing enough work for themselves and need to focus themselves more instead of looking for direction from other members of the board. He _also claims that student apathy is not an excuse for the lack of student participation and the board should look at fixing the problem. An entire review of what the goals of each of the Cont. on page 8.