Elections for the Alma Mater Society, your student government, Senate, and Board of Governors are taking place next week and we encourage everyone to vote as these students will represent you for the next year! There are two engineering students running; Sean Heisler for Board of Governors, and Joel Mertens for Senate.  Both are excellent candidates for the positions they are running for. We encourage everyone to investigate all the possible candidates and vote for those whom they believe are most suitable for each position.

For a full list of all of the positions and who’s running for them, click here.

The NCAA Division II Review Committee for UBC Vancouver has submitted its final report to UBC’s President, Provost and Vice-President, Students. The report is thirty pages in length and is accompanied by 558 pages of appendices. You can access the complete report including appendices at www.students.ubc.ca/ncaa

The report will be reviewed by the University’s Executive in late March or early April, and will then be referred to the Senate and the Board of Governors for information. Please note that the committee has no decision-making powers.

The UBC Faculty Cup is now recruiting the planning committee for next year’s event. Join an amazing team of students as they help organize five faculties in a full day competition for the prestigious Faculty Cup!

The goals for the 2010 Faculty Cup include:

• Involving more students in this exciting event
• Growing the Faculty Cup to be one of the largest events on campus
• Becoming the premier event for inter-faculty involvement on campus

For more information on available positions and the application process, please see the attached document: facultycuprecruitment.  Applications are due on Sunday, April 5 at midnight to jarrett.woodhouse@hotmail.com!

Back to the AMS elections…. you can now vote online here: http://adm.ams.ubc.ca/Elections2009/ until Feb 3rd.