Assembly opened the winter semester by ratifying Rector candidates and a prospective AMS executive team in Chernoff Hall Auditorium on Jan. 23. Five student fees made it onto the referendum ballot, including the Student Life Centre (SLC) fee, which is requesting an increase from $38.57 to $44.53.
Several Black student associations on campus spoke to The Journal about the recent events involving the distribution of a racist image of a candidate in the now-concluded AMS executive election. The candidates’ team, ERA, dropped out of the running.
Team ATP, composed ofcandidates Amaiya Walters for president, ArtSci ’23, Therese de Rivera for vice-president (operations), ArtSci ’24, and Preston Harrison for vice-president (society affairs), ArtSci ’23, is the only team running in this year’s Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) executive election.