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A Student Faubourg: Grand Opening 201_?
The Concordia Student Union Building, should students approve the proposed fee levy this week, will be housed in the Faubourg building at the corner of Guy Street and Ste. Catherine Street West.
In September, outgoing CSU President Prince Ralph Osei confirmed with The Link that the shopping mall was the site for the proposed student centre building. This fact has been confirmed with five other officials close to the project. -
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It’s Not Clean: Chief Electoral Officer
Before a single vote was cast in this week’s Concordia Student Union referendum, a nine-page contestation detailing the alleged widespread abuses of electoral law over the one-week campaign fell on the Chief Electoral Officer’s desk.
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Retail to Pay the Rent
Though both the administration and the Concordia Student Union admit the projected annual budget to buy and operate a Student Union Building is “very preliminary,” the anticipated cost to students is estimated at $2.6 million per year.
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Document, Decoded
The Concordia Student Union has no Plan B.
Plan A? A contract signed in 2009, which the administration has called “the roadmap” into the future of our student centre.
But acknowledging that the current 79-page contract between the CSU and Concordia administration “isn’t perfect” over the weekend, VP External & Projects Adrien Severyns set out to explain some of its stipulations regarding the operational cost, ownership and terms of agreement. -
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Clearing the Air
Despite large losses incurred operating Reggie’s student bar, CUSACorp is posting a profit for the second consecutive month.
According to files provided by Concordia Student Union’s VP Finance Zhuo Ling, CUSACorp, the CSU’s for-profit arm, made a net profit of $960 in October. -
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Ownership Unclear
Every month, the 39 tenants of the Faubourg building make out their rent cheque to Edifice 1616 Ste. Catherine Ouest Le Faubourg Inc. They don’t know where their money goes after that.
Neither do we.
“It’s a group of people, they use that name because they don’t want people to know their names,” said Jovette Whiteman, the administrative assistant to building administrator Ziki Zaffir. “It’s like a company number.” -
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Debating a Student Union Building
Is a student centre the only answer to the university’s pressing need for student space?
For Adrien Severyns, Concordia Student Union VP External & Projects, the answer is Yes. -
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‘A Giant Islamaphobic Seizure’
University of Berkeley professor Wendy Brown did not fly all the way from California to speak to Montrealers about a piece of cloth.
She also had no intention of discussing how the West appears to be in the midst of having a giant Islamophobic seizure. Nor the way in which, considering all the things that are happening in the world, it seems remarkable to her that we are so preoccupied with women’s clothing. -
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Fighting Hunger
Sylvie is a single mother. She works full time at a minimum-wage job to provide for her two children. Faced with mounting credit card debt and a stack of other bills, Sylvie turned to a food bank to help ease the cost of feeding her family.
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Passing the Buck
What started as a talk about the corporatization of Concordia turned into a debate about the controversial upcoming Student Centre referendum, as it was revealed for the first time that the Centre would be located in the Faubourg building.