Bringing You Up To Date

It has been a long time (March 9) since my last post and I do apologize for not posting since then. During the past two weeks a lot has taken place and I will now do my best to bring things back up to speed.

DSU AGM

On March 11th the DSU held an annual General Meeting. Approximately 210 Dalhousie students came to the meeting. A variety of items were on the agenda which included year-to-date reports from the executives, constitutionals amendments, and motions from Dalhousie students. To see online versions of the prepared constitutional amendments and the motions please click here.

The agenda was not able to be completed in the 4 hours of the meeting on March 11th so a subsequent meeting was created and is being held on Wednesday April 1, 2009 in the McInnes Room of the Student Union Building. For more information on the meeting please click here.

DSU Elections

Dalhousie students completed voting for executive, senate, and board of governor candidates on Thursday March 19th and the results were announced that night in the Grawood. I am proud to announce that we have a strong incoming executive and I look forward to seeing their goals and priorities develop. For the list of successful candidates please click here.

CASA Conference

I am currently on a conference for the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations. This conference is a combination of two of the annual conferences: Lobby and Annual General Meeting. Today we are in sessions reviewing policies that have been developed throughout the months since the Policy and Strategy Conference. Tomorrow through Thursday the CASA delegates (which I am one of) have meetings set up with government officials (MPs and staff) to discuss our policies and stances that we are advocating for. I plan to write several blogs throughout the week reflecting the meetings that I am attending along with a post which will summarize what takes place at the AGM next weekend.

This post covers all the main items which have occurred over the past two weeks - if you have any questions about any of them or any other areas please contact me at dsupres@dal.ca.