überculutre Endorses Your Concordia
Now, I know you’re probably tired of getting emails endorsing this candidate or that platform, but I hope you will bear with me, as we both recognize that this is kind of a big deal. With this one election, students stand in a position to have their rights respected and to elect a representative body that actually gives a damn.
It is for this reason that überculture has decided to endorse Your Concordia and all the potential councillors, senators and Board of Governors representatives that are running under that banner.While both groups have turned to combatting rising tuition fees and expanding student space as key issues, we at überculture acknowledge and respect that Your Concordia is promising to be more transparent, with campaign platforms that include working the students into the inner workings of the university, helping students to be more informed, promoting inter-institutional relations and working towards a sustainable campus.
Furthermore, while Your Concordia’s opposition, Action, doesn’t necessarily promise things that would be detrimental to the student’s experience at Concordia (and in fact, some of their positions are very good), their campaign, especially as far as student life goes, seems to be focused on creating a party atmosphere.
Action seems to be promising things that will make them more relatable to students, but not necessarily things that will help them to be respected by the students. For us at überculture, we understand how important it is to be able to relate to your representatives, but given the choice between people who show the same attitude towards having a good time as us and people who are looking out for our rights (and keep in mind, this is a very simplified dichotomy), we’ll go with the latter because we believe that how our university treats us is more important than what we do on the weekends.
That’s not to say we don’t like to party. We do. Everyone likes to party, whether they admit or not, but we just think that partying is not a very good political campaign point.Additionally, we would like to announce our support for the also-running but unaffiliated Arts & Science councillors Alex Matak and Kelly Pennington, as well as the proposed fee levies for CJLO, Queer Concordia, The Void and the proposed ban on bottled water.
—Vincent Hubert,
On behalf of überculture
This article originally appeared in Volume 31, Issue 28, published March 29, 2011.
