Holiday E�ents on Tuition Tax Credit Campus — page 2 problems — page 6 Rae Spoon Sex in Hotels ... Brandon University’s Student Newspaper: scheduling time to breatheVisits since 1910 BU — page 3 Volume�ink 104, �ink. Issue 14 — — December page 7 3rd, 2013 Ty Moorman of the Bobcats about to attack in one of last weekend’s games. See page 5 for full details. Photo credit Milana Paddock/BU Athletics. AGMs two weeks in a row: we’re all just trying to get stuff done ment on behalf of those students. Ottawa (SFUO) was also present at the member locals to reaffi rm commitment to SPENDER VAN DYKE , THE FULCRUM (U OF O) At the meeting’s closing plenary, the meeting. SFUO president Anne-Marie Roy the No Means No campaign against rape O More than 80 CFS budget report was presented and ap- said the motions on unpaid internships culture on campus was also passed. schools across the country sent represen- proved without amendments and an om- and the condemnation of the misuse of As the panel on countering rape cul- tativestta�a to Gatineau, (cup) Quebec— for the Cana- nibus bill including eight motions was car- funds by the Senate of Canada are ones ture took place inside the Palais de Con- dian Federation of Students’ (CFS) nation- ried. The University of Ottawa Graduate she feels are particularly important to grès, where the meeting was held, protes- Protest,al general meeting November 21st–24th to Students’ AssociationDebate (GSAÉD) put forth a students. She atsaid there is “very CFS limited tors assembled AGM outside. vote on policy and future campaigns. motion to look at the possibility of produc- information” on the exact number of un- Montreal students from McGill and The nation’s largest university stu- ing a short documentary on the commer- paid students on internships, but the CFS Concordia Universities and Dawson Col- dent organization collects mandatory fees cialization of campuses and research. estimates it is between 100,000 and lege gathered to decry the CFS’s refusal from student members with the ultimate “That motion took a bunch of amend- 300,000. to let them cut ties to the federation. Pro- goal of lobbying different levels of govern- ments,” Wolfe said. “The most signifi cant The Memorial University of Newfound- testors played famous pop songs, altering was the dollar amount we land Students’ Union presented a motion lyrics to refl ect the group’s anti-CFS na- had proposed and it was to endorse the Work is Work campaign to ture, and used a lobster trap to illustrate given up to the national encourage work equity. The motion was how student unions can get into the fed- executive to decide what passed within the omnibus bill. eration but can’t get out. the most appropriate Roy said the federal budget is also a “We are very unsatisfi ed with the amount would be for question of priority, and that “myth-bust- way that they operate,” said Melissa Kate something like that. It was ing” has become necessary to educate Wheeler, president of the Concordia Stu- also decided that it would students on where public funding is really dent Union and one of the leaders of the be done with an open-ac- being spent. protest. “We followed their own process to cess, creative-commons “The budget is about priorities,” she defederate and they don’t have a choice licensing so that it could said. “The government is spending bil- but to listen because we have a right to be used freely by people lions of dollars on oil exploitation, tar choose who to associate with.” who wanted to use it and sands, the military, so clearly there is a The protest follows a September an- change it.” lot of money at the federal level, it is just nouncement from students on at least The Student Federa- not being spent where the CFS assembly 15 post-secondary campuses across tion of the University of felt it should be directed.” A motion for Canada, which — continued on page 7 Volume 104, Issue 14 — December 3rd, 2013 — 1 Forgotten how to move? 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