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<\/a>Wyatt Matthews has been elected as the CCSS finance executive, and Karen Kanoga is now the CCSS international director. Solomon Lindsay, who was recently interviewed by\u00a0Nexus<\/i>\u00a0for his extra-curricular community activities, is the new CCSS sustainability director.<\/p>\n
Chris Smithson is now the CCSS pride director, and Srijani Nath is the CCSS women\u2019s director. Melanie Winter was elected as the CCSS students with disabilities director; Winter is also now the Interurban student representative on Camosun College\u2019s board of governors.<\/p>\n
The election ballots also had a referendum question, which passed. The question asked whether or not Camosun students supported a 25-cent-per-month increase in student fees toward the Walk Safer program. 679 students said yes, while 544 said no.<\/p>\n
Grant says she is happy with the results, and says that, given that she has one more year of school left, she wanted to utilize her presence at the college while she can.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a position that I\u2019ve loved contributing to,\u201d says Grant. \u201cI\u2019ve found a lot of passion in the work I\u2019ve done with the student society as the role of external executive. I\u2019m excited to be re-elected and contributing again in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant says there is always room for improvement in a non-profit student environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re definitely working on continuing to do that good work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Grant says that the passing of the Walk Safer referendum is important to student life and safety on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really great to see such an overwhelmingly positive response to additional Walk Safer funding,\u201d she says, \u201cwhich shows that students value the service.\u201d<\/p>\n
The use of online voting for the first time in a CCSS election may have been the reason for the high number of votes that were cast. Grant says that online voting is vital in today\u2019s world in terms of accessibility to a voting platform for students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was really exciting to see happen,\u201d says Grant. \u201cWe definitely had a higher voter turnout than we\u2019ve ever had, and that\u2019s always really good to see; a lot more students had a chance to vote for who they want to see represent them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant is looking forward to continuing work in policy development for the student society.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to be working with a lot of new people on our board as well as several returning folks,\u201d says Grant. \u201cIt\u2019s a good mix of fresh faces and people who are wanting to continue. It looks like we have a really good team this year, and I\u2019m excited to get to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grant says one of the key elements of her position is being present for the needs and interests of the students.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of the members of the board of directors work for the students, so if a student were to come to me, it\u2019s my job to try and do my best to help accommodate what they\u2019re looking to accomplish,\u201d says Grant. \u201cIf they\u2019re having issues, then I connect them to advocacy; if they want to fundraise for a particular cause, then I support that. I don\u2019t really view it as a position of power as much as a position of empowerment and facilitating. I\u2019m really excited to have the privilege of being able to do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The recent Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) election, which took place from April 3 to 5, had three times the number of student votes cast compared with previous years\u2019 average turnouts. Out of 9,369 students currently registered at Camosun, 1,223 voted\u2014a voter turnout much larger than the CCSS average of approximately 400. Rachael Grant has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-may-17-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14004,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14001\/revisions\/14004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}