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Imagine UBC Pep Rally 2010 - Last year on this day.
In Jan 2010, I was elected AMS President, with a small margin, after a vigorous campaign on a platform to repair broken relationships between AMS and its natural partners, especially the UBC administration.
First stop was completing the agreement for a new Student Union Building - a process that had fallen apart after two long years, and thus threatened the future of the building. I took exclusive leadership of the negotiation process, and was very pleased to sign the agreement within 77 days of taking office.
To symbolize my “shoulder-to-shoulder” approach of working with UBC, I asked the UBC President, Prof. Stephen Toope, if we could replace our separate-delivery of Imagine UBC speeches with a duet format. He is a spirited guy and agreed with great enthusiasm. He is also a talented singer with a background in musical theatre, so keeping up with him was a fun challenge.
In the end, we were both overjoyed to feel the energy from the 8000+ people in the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.
I don’t know how many more times I can say it, but going back to the PST-GST would be a big blow to B.C.’s post secondary students.
The HST referendum is just around the corner and we are being asked whether we want to pay less or more tax. Keep the 10 per cent HST or bring back the 12 per cent PST-GST.
Seems like a pretty easy decision when considering the implications to our post secondary education system.
Dear Students:
None of us can choose how history will remember us. But each of us can choose how we will remember the events and people who grace our own history. I have been fortunate to be the 101st President of the student society of one of the top universities in the world, and like any president’s tenure, my time with the AMS has been filled with both good times and challenges. I will remember both for how they strengthened all of us as a student body. Especially, I will remember:
University Neighbourhoods Association was the top sponsor of UBC’s Got Talent 2011, which received 124 auditions, 15 of whom performed for an energetic crowd that filled up the Chan Centre on Jan 14.
