Who’s Who at Con U ?
Lex gill
Csu President
The Concordia Student Union’s President Lex Gill was the head of the Your Concordia slate in the 2011 CSU elections, one of the more contentious in student council history. Gill entered office on a platform of fighting tuition hikes, fiscal responsibility and some much-needed T&A (that’s transparency and accountability, you perverts). As a CSU councillor last year, she developed a bit of a reputation as a rabble-rouser—so much so, in fact, that the Mirror named her one of the top 10 loudest activists in Montreal this year. Gill’s job is to serve the interests of students, and it’s your job to make sure she does. (For you graduate students with issues, however, Gill can’t help you. You’ll need to go see Robert Sonin, the president of the Graduate Students’ Association.)
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Peter Kruyt –
Chairman of the board
The Chairman of Board of Governors, Peter Kruyt, loves Concordia so much that he essentially refuses to leave. Though the policy for BoG councillors has been a limit of two terms of three years each, Mr. Kruyt has been around since flannel was fashionable and everyone was looking to Seattle for rock music. He’s not alone. A majority of those representing the community at large on the Board have overstayed their term limits by significant margins. At the first BoG meeting of the year on Sept. 28, reforms to the bylaws will be debated and seem destined to pass, which means that, after 16 years, Mr. Kruyt might finally graduate and get into the real world, where his job as President and CEO of Victoria Square Ventures will occupy most of his time.
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Laura Beach & Aj West Student bog reps
The Concordia University Board of Governors is a wretched hive of scum and villainy—it is literally the Mos Eisley to Concordia’s Tatooine. That might be taking it a bit far, but in recent years, the BoG has become awash in controversy after it dismissed former presidents Judith Woodsworth and Claude Lajeunesse with hefty severance packages over the last three years. Luckily, students have a Han and Chewbacca to defend them, as two undergrads are elected to represent them on the BoG. This year, those reps are Laura Beach and AJ West. Beach is the founder of TAPthirst, a student group responsible for getting the school to commit to banning bottled water on campus. West spent his time last year as president of the Cinema Students Association.
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Frederick Lowy
Conu President
Older than God and twice as controversial, this is President Lowy’s second rodeo when it comes to being capo di tutti capi of Concordia. During his original run from 1995 to 2005, Lowy was most notable for being in charge during the event that put ConU on the map and in the news. Unfortunately, that event was a massive riot (See ConU WTF 101 on p. 14 for details). Stepping in for the recently-dismissed Judy Woodsworth, Lowy will leave when the Board of Governors selects someone to take his place, and will ostensibly return when they go through the biannual firing of the president.
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Andrew Woodall
Dean of students
So you have a problem, and nobody on this list has been able to help you. Luckily, Here’s where the Dean of Students comes in.
You want to book non-student space? Woodall. Got a problem with your student association? Woodall. It burns when you pee? Well, Woodall can’t help you there, so get your ass to the campus clinic.(See Resources on page 4 for clinic details, and for God’s sake remember: no glove, no love)
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Huggy Da Muggy
Sustainability mascot
Looking like a mixture of Grimace from the old Mickey D commercials and an alcoholic’s nightmare, Huggy da Muggy is your friendly campus sustainability mascot. Spreading hugs and his/her/its message of environmental friendliness and the three ‘R’s to all in its path, Huggy has created havoc and joy all over campus since it was born/hatched in 2010. Don’t let its peaceful exterior fool you. If Huggy sees you being wasteful, it will literally eat your soul and vomit out a recycling plant.
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David Graham –
Provost
If all David Graham did was tend to his amazing mustache, that would have been enough to make this list. But there is much more to Graham than his positively epic whiskers. As Provost, Graham is the big cheese of book learnin’ at the university. He is in charge of hiring profs and shaping the academic direction of the school. He also chairs the Senate, which is the highest academic body on campus, except for that prof who smokes a massive joint before he teaches. We kid, we kid.
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You
The student
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s a sappy sentiment that nobody else on this list matters without you guys. But without thousands of ConU students behind them at a tuition protest, Gill, Sonin and their politico buddies will look pretty stupid shouting slogans into bullhorns. Woodall would be out of a job without you students, as would Graham. And Lowy probably stays fit on the job by feeding on the souls of the young. Heck, even the photogenic and lively staff of The Link would have no reason to put out a paper if there was no one to read it. So, yeah. You matter—a lot—so now you gotta get informed, get involved and make sure to make your voices heard. Let’s raise hell.
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