'Extremely disheartening': Student senators express opposition to new faculty-specific student senator election rules
Elections for faculty-specific student senators will be run by the UBC Registrar’s Office instead of the AMS this year, a change opposed by the Student Senate Caucus.
In an email sent to students on February 5, UBC announced that students interested in running for faculty-specific senator positions should send their nomination paperwork to their office. Previously, these elections were conducted by AMS constituencies like the Arts Undergraduate Society or Science Undergraduate Society, for their respective Senate representatives.
The change comes after the AMS learned that constituencies had accidentally been breaking provincial law in how they were running their elections.