Not too long after I sent my grievance to the GSS elections committee, I got a reply letting me know that the referendum is under sole control of the President and GSS council, so my letter was forwarded to Joshua Newman. Here’s his reply, which also came very quickly:
Hi Ian,
The referendum question regarding The Peak was developed by the GSS Council, an elected body of 35 grad students representing every department at SFU. Council determined that this was the most fair way to ask this question.
Thanks for your concern.
Joshua Newman
President
Graduate Student Society at SFU
To which I just replied,
Thanks for the quick reply Joshua,
I noticed that the agenda for the 6 March council meeting [pdf, see page 15] indicate that the proposed question was:
"Do you want to continue paying $4.90 per student per semester to support The Peak?"
May I ask, since the minutes aren’t available online yet (I assume they won’t be until after they are approved at the next council meeting at the end of April, well after the election), what discussion took place around changing the wording?
Ian Bushfield
MSc. Physics Student at SFU
I continue to urge all concerned graduate students to email Joshua Newman at [email protected] and also contact their caucus reps to find out why the question was changed.
Vote NO to discontinuing funding from the Peak!
