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Experience or Not?
By Bowinn Ma
My first comment is that it is interesting to notice a particular trend among candidates of all elections in all levels of our student governance. The following is, of course, a "blanket observation" and I am perfectly aware that there are exceptions everywhere.
The more closely the candidate has worked with the position they are running for, the more specific their answers and ideas will be and the less likely their campaign platforms will be based around political rhetoric. This can be seen very clearly in the presidential election between candidate Maxwell Maxwell, who started out running as a joke candidate with next-to-nothing knowledge of the AMS and its inner workings and quickly shifted towards a real campaign and candidate Jeff Friedrich, who is the current AMS Vice-President Academic.
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Lougheed Speaks!
Intimidation tactics? You decide.
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Biases
As any good journalist should, I shall lay my biases down for all to read. My attempt will be to keep facts factual (gee willikers Batman!), and opinions pointed. As a liberal-minded engineering student, closet psychology nerd, an amateur poet, songwriter, singer, debater and policy critic, I find myself with a broad range of useless skills. To help fund my entry into this contest I managed to convince three poor saps to invest in my idea: Andrew Carne, the EUS Executive Secretary; Wesley McInnes, an Arts Student and front man for The Shades of Gray; and Narinder Sanjit, a Sauder student.
But perhaps my biggest bias is how I loathe generalizations and vagueness. Too many candidates make speeches that merely describe the general goal of the position for which they're running. At the other end of the swimming pool are the candidates who have extremely specific "plans" that reek of the lack of understanding they have for the position. I hate the latter just as much as the former. These aren't the AUS, SUS, EUS or other *US elections, these are $20 000 a year positions. If you don't know the issues at least a few days before you make a speech, don't bother showing up. Wait a minute! Some of the senate candidates took my advice! (disclaimer: only the 5 executive positions are paid, not the senate)