Only six run for WLUSU board, nominations reopened
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January 21, 2010 12:16 AM
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Tonight at the Wilfrid Laurier University Students' Union All Candidates Meeting (ACM) it was announced that only six students put forward nominations for the 15 board of directors positions. As a result nominations will be re-opened and are due Jan. 27 at 12 p.m.
Four candidates declared they would be running for the WLUSU president.
Presidential candidates:
Sunny Chan Third-year computer science (business admin option)
Lawrence Maclin Fifth-year English and political science
Kory Preston Fourth-year political science
Kyle Walker Fourth-year geography
Board candidates:
Matt Mendonca (Third-year economics)
Chris Oberle (Third-year history and political science)
John Sampson (Second-year political science)
Rob Thompson (Third-year political science)
Chris Walker (First-year political science)
Seth Warren (First-year business)
Senate candidates (acclaimed):
Alishia Mallory (Third-year classics)
Omer Shah (Third-year philosophy and economics)
Chris Walker (First-year political science)
Board of governors candidates:
Omer Shah (Third-year philosophy and economics)
President of the School of Business Economics Students Society (acclaimed):
Aneesh Lal (Third-year business)
Videos of all candidates will be available at thecord.ca on Wednesday.
Comments
Who cares if it is all men that have applied. Its not WLUSU's fault if women don't involve themselves.
In the many years I spent at Laurier, women don't involved themselves because the men take over anyways. WLUSU needs to make itself more relevant to the rest of the school at large. The most noticeable thing they ever did when I was at Laurier was to take eleven thousand dollars and rebuild the hawk that no one cares about! Women don't have time for things that are irrelevant.
However, in addition to the lack of women, one must question why there is a lack of candidates in general?
I definitely agree that there aren't always equal ratios of men to women running for elected positions, but I encourage you to look at the hired positions and who occupy those spots in WLUSU. The management group (the VPs in charge of each department) are relatively equal in terms of male to female, and when you take a look at coordinators, executives, and general volunteers of each committee, there is an overwhelming amount of females getting involved. I disagree with the notion that men take over WLUSU. Women are very heavily involved, as are men. I encourage you to take a look not at the gender of those running, but what they can provide you as students!
Wow, all guys for BOD and President... not a good sign WLUSU