Candidate Crazed

So it's only been a few hours into the first day of campaigning and it's obvious that the DSU elections are alive and well (at least for me I find everywhere I turn around there is another candidate).

For all of your election coverage there are a few places to go to:

- Website - dsuelections.ca

- Facebook - DSU Elections 2009

- Twitter - dsuelections

- Mike Smit- punditry.ca

Campaigning runs from March 9-16th.

Voting runs March 17-19th.

Calm Before the Storm

This weekend will be the last quiet weekend for the DSU for a few weeks. 

Starting on Monday the DSU Election campaigns go into full force and Green Week is also kicked off. Between candidates trying to spread their message, our sustainability office trying to push students to become more sustainable, annual events, and St. Patrick's Day, Dalhousie students will have more going on than they will know what to do with. It's a great time of the year for all of these activities to take place and I hope that students will try to take advantage of all the opportunities that will be available to them.

List of Upcoming Events

Monday March 9 - Campaigning begins & Green Week begins

Tuesday March 10 - All candidates debate - Tupper Link (12:30pm)

Wednesday March 11 - All candidates debate - Alumni Lounge (12:30pm)

Wednesday March 11 - DSU Annual General Meeting - Room 303 SUB (6:30pm)

Thursday March 12 - All candidates debate - SUB Lobby (12:00pm)

Friday March 13 - Presidential debate - Grawood (3:00pm)

Friday March 13 - Student Appreciation Night - McInnes Room SUB (7:00pm) FREE

Saturday March 14 - Residence Charity Hockey Game - Rink

Monday March 16 - Last day of campaigning

Tuesday March 17 - First day of voting

Tuesday March 17 - St. Patrick's Day at the Grawood

Wednesday March 17 - Voting

Thursday March 18 - Final day of voting & results announced at Grawood (8:00pm)

New Gazette Team

The Dalhousie Gazette held their annual general meeting tonight where the main item of business was filling the executive roles.

The Editor in Chief position had one candidate Josh Boyter who put forward a platform of sustainability, accountability, and leadership. After a two minute platform pitch and several minutes of questions and answers the students in attendance voted Josh to lead their newspaper for the coming academic year.

The other positions that were filled were the Copy Editor, News Editor, Opinions Editor, Arts Editor, and Sports Editor. Many of the candidates that were successful in their election had similar areas of focus which included writing more on what student societies are doing, using each other and university resources to assist them, making the newspaper sustainable, and additional communication methods with students and the community for news items.

The Editor in Chief also gave her annual report at the end of the meeting which highlighted that there were over 100 contributors to the Gazette this year and that each contributor averaged 3 articles. This is impressive and in the coming years hopefully the Gazette will increase the number of contributors. 

So please take this as my personal plea to all Dalhousie students to get involved and write articles for the Gazette on areas that they are passionate about (whether it is the band that is playing at the Rebecca Cohn next week or what the Ruby Team is doing), the Gazette will appreciate your assistance in providing a newspaper to students that they want to read.

And remember - this is your university experience so make it a good one!

Student Contributions Recognized

Today the prestigious Governors Awards were presented to four very involved and deserving Dalhousie students.

The ceremony was hosted by the University's Vice President Student Services and the President gave detailed speeches for each of the candidates and the contributions that they have made to the University community.

The four students which were honoured were Eric Snow, Amy Florian, Kaylyn Fraser, and Emily Rideout.

All four students covered a range of extracurricular activities and also represented a diverse group of students.

On behalf of of the Dalhousie Student Union I would like to extend a sincere congratulations to all of the award recipients for their dedication to improving the student experience at Dalhousie University and to say that we are very proud of them for all of their accomplishments.