We won.

The following should soon be appearing on the website of the Independent Electoral Commision of the Simon Fraser Student Society.

VOTE “YES” ON THE REFERENDUM ON CFS/SFSS FEES

(Visit our webpage at www.sfssvoteyes.ca. for more information)

On March 20, 21, and 22, SFU students will have the chance to choose whether or not they want to do the ( Read more... )

Another fourteen-hour day: I have disappeared into the Simon Fraser Student Society.

This is because it's Elections and Referenda time. I am running for election against someone I've never heard of, and also against a woman who is tied to a large number of highly CFS -y intistutions, events and people. This is interesting.

One referendum question is ( Read more... )

Just before the Winter Solstice: I got elected

January 8th: SFU got up and running, as did my job

Mid-January: Six SFU students went to Nanaimo for the CFS conference, a get together which I now believe is not only time ill-spent, but actively detrimental to the health of many of the participants - I think it's fair to assume that people get real ( Read more... )

Maybe one of the reasons that I'm fascinated by post-apocayptic imagery is because I feel that I've come just after the party ended; just after the back broke. This is not all bad: I like empty spaces and blowing trash.

This sentiment has been more pronounced over the last week, and not in a good way.

First of all, I'm sick, and it's fucking with my ( Read more... )

I still don't know how to write about it, and I can explain more in person.

Last weekend's CFS meeting  was a fucking trial. It involved travel to a strange and unnatural land where the sun never shines (the interior of a convention centre). It involved working on a team in an increasingly hostile environment (where people are instructed to follow ( Read more... )

One of them 11.5-hour days at the office.

A day where we've paid for our delegates to attend the CFS meet only  to discover that one - no two - of the five - oh, no six (apparently someone is coming from SFU-Kamloops... yes, that's right, the Kamloops Campus) - people that we're sending to Friday evening - no,  Thursday afternoon - meeting in ( Read more... )

Reason #882 why the CFS is bad:
Its online communication seems limited to "Funny, I was sure I emailed you."

This novel approach applies to such benign items as showing up in the North AQ with a table, pamphlets and so on, much to the surprise of the entire student society board, then stating that they must have got the wrong email from the General ( Read more... )

I'd been to meetings and so on, but now, at work in the Student Union on the first day of school, I actually feel that I'm on the job at the SFSS ( Read more... )

XRO:
The office is full of old papers and I am left to puzzle out what happened over the last year and where we spent our money. There should be two rather pricey banners sitting around, but I've not seen them. There is a box of just shy of a thousand "I Support the SFSS" buttons. Those ran a little over five hundred bucks and I think went largely ( Read more... )