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As their term comes to a close, The Journal sat down with Team AJA to reflect on their experiences as AMS executive in the 2020-21 year.
Jared den Otter, AMS president, Alexia Henriques, AMS vice-president (university affairs), and Alex Samoyloff, AMS vice-president (operations) came into their roles on May 1 of last year, shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The outbreak of the pandemic had them learn a new portfolio and, consequently, put some things on the back-burner.
“Clearly it’s been a very difficult year for everyone at Queen’s [.] and I think that our team has really, really taken a lot of the hurdles that were put in our path and taken them in stride,” den Otter said.
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Three weeks after the province-wide lockdown was lifted and Kingston entered the green zone, some AMS services are set to reopen.
According to AMS Vice-President (Operations) Alexandra Samoyloff’s report to AMS Assembly on Feb. 25, some services’ reopening dates were delayed because staff needed to be in the Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) region for 14 days prior to returning to their positions on campus.
“We are following a 14-day isolation rule if staff leave the KFL&A area. Therefore, with reading week and folks potentially going home, we did not have enough staff to safely open as the lockdown was lifted, Samoyloff wrote in a statement to