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NewsI’m Not Buying It
Most activism is predicated on doing something. Taking to the streets in protest, starting petitions and letter writing campaigns, or simply calling your MP to lodge a complaint, are all actions undertaken every day in the name of a myriad of causes.
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NewsStudent Centre Rejected
Concordia students handed Fusion its first major political defeat last Thursday, as the slate’s proposed Student Union Building fee levy was overwhelmingly voted down.
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NewsMath Association Challenges ASFA Goliath
The Arts and Science Federation of Associations, representing 17,000 Concordia students, will undergo a serious shakeup over the next few months. Leading the upheaval will be the Mathematics and Statistics Students Association, which represents 560 members.
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NewsA Bottle Panel
Water privatization was the topic on the table at a panel on Nov. 24, as insiders from the beverage industry, academics and environmental researchers were invited to debate both sides of banning water bottles on campus.
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NewsA 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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NewsIt’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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NewsRetail 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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NewsDocument, 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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NewsOwnership 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.”
