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ASFA Elections Unique in More Ways Than One
Last week’s Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ elections set themselves apart from others in the past with the sudden resignation of a new executive, the election of a candidate by just one vote and the tied vote of two other councillors.
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Math Error Prevents Fee-Levy Opt-Out Question From Getting on the Ballot
Twenty-nine cents have gotten in the way of a petition for all business students to stop funding six fee-levy groups.
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ECA Adopts “More Enforceable Ban” On Disrespectful Chants
Following the controversy over “sexist, violent, and degrading” chants sometimes sung at engineering events, the Engineering and Computer Science Association created a Student Spirit Committee at its council meeting Monday night mandated to make a songbook “free of crudeness and obscenity.”
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How the CSU Plans to Pay $42,000 in Back Taxes
The Concordia Student Union will pay off its $42,000 in overdue taxes partially using a somewhat off-the-books bank account holding interest amassed from fees collected over the years for a new student centre, according to CSU VP Finance Scott Carr.
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Concordia’s Global Engineering Week to Discuss Sustainable Approaches to Engineering
With a name that conjures up images of globetrotting engineers bringing infrastructure to impoverished nations, one might imagine a week of events organized by Concordia’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders to be composed of lectures and seminars about engineering in developing countries.
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CSU Electoral Officer Warns Pre-Campaigning Will Hurt More Than Help
Ahead of the upcoming Concordia Student Union general elections, which will include a vote on contentious fee-levy reforms, the CSU’s chief electoral officer is implementing new ways to deal with violations of election regulations.
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Arts and Science Students Heading to the Polls
A bumper crop of candidates is running for the seven executive positions in the Arts and Science Federation of Associations’ elections taking place from March 4 to March 6.
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Teaching and Research Assistants Rally for a Contract
Despite an outside temperature of minus-16 degrees Celsius, Concordia teaching and research assistants assembled Monday morning to voice their concerns as negotiations for a new collective agreement continued between their union—Teaching and Research Assistants at Concordia—and the university.
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ECA Speaks Out Against Disrespectful Chants
Less than a month after McMaster University suspended a student group over “sexist, violent and degrading material” in a songbook, Concordia’s Engineering and Computer Science Association took a similar stance on certain engineering chants they consider disrespectful and distasteful.
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CSU Owes $42,000 in Back Taxes
You can’t put a price on fun, but the Concordia Student Union is finding out the hard way that you can tax it.