University of Victoria Students' Society

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Sep 2	A Mere Matter of Management: With the departure of General Manager Marne Jensen last month, the UVic Student Society is now looking for a new chief of staff. Jensen held the position for 10 years, by far the longest for any UVSS General Manager since the student society began to hire its own management in 1989. Examining t...
Sep 1	Tales from the SUB: August Roundup: Felicita's to become less noisyAt the August 30 UVic Student Society Board meeting, Finance Director Kelsey Hannan moved a motion recommended by the Finance committee to spend up to $8000 on acoustic drapes the reduce noise levels in the Felicita's pub in the Student Union Building. While the UV...
Aug 31	Health Plan Fee SUBsidy to Continue at Reduced Rate: After a long discussion at yesterday's UVic Student Society Board meeting and another discussion today at the Finance committee, the UVSS is moving forward on the controversial issue of the student health plan administration fee.The Board entered into a new contract with StudentCare for 2010-11 o...

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UVSS Uncovered

Sep 3	UVSS Handbook: $25 000 loss: Today I picked up my UVSS Handbook. The UVSS has a handbook printed every year and makes them available to students for free. As a result, the UVSS has a net loss of roughly $25 000 on the handbooks every year. Considering the UVSS's current debt, it should question what it spends money on, such ...
Sep 1	UVSS Budget lacks detail: With the fallout of the discovery of the UVSS's excessive Health and Dental plan Administration fee and with the UVSS budget to be presented to the UVSS board in the upcoming weeks, it is relevant to look at what financial information board members, as well as the general membership, are presente...
Aug 31	Health Plan Admin fee saga continues: Ever since the current UVSS board learned of the excessive Health Plan Administration fee it collects back in May, considerable debate has occurred at the board and committee level on how to reasonably address the issue.In a perfect world, the Administration fee would be immediately reduced to re...

Wayward Rob

Sep 5

I Abstain: I have been having conversations with fellow board members recently on the role of abstentions. There are two points of view on when to use abstentions.One point of view is that they should only be used in cases of conflict of interest. The other point of view is that there are many times when ...

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