{"id":27494,"date":"2025-11-12T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27494"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:04:58","slug":"camosun-college-student-society-fall-election-results-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/11\/12\/camosun-college-student-society-fall-election-results-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College Student Society fall election results in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Camosun College Student Society Lansdowne director-at-large Aleah Peterson (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) held its fall student elections from Wednesday, October 22 to Friday, October 24.<\/p>\n

A total of 602 students voted in the election, down from 688 in last year\u2019s fall elections. CCSS external executive Terence Baluyut notes that the turnout for this election was low, which is typical for a fall election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a low turnout, which has historically been common for us at the fall-time elections,\u201d he says. \u201cOne of the reasons for this is the positions being filled are director-at-large positions, which fewer people run for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acacia Tooth was voted in as pride director. Two of the Lansdowne director-at-large positions were filled by Aleah Peterson and Angela Chou. Several positions still remain unfilled, including four Interurban directors-at-large and two Lansdowne directors-at-large, as well as one off-campus director position. (As of press time, these results had yet to be ratified at a November 10 student society board meeting.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were not able to fill these positions, which is unfortunate,\u201d says Baluyut. \u201cWe will be putting out a notice soon for people so we can have these positions filled, so we can have proper representation on our boards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baluyut says it\u2019s important to highlight the ongoing post-secondary funding concerns that all students are now facing.<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society pride director Acacia Tooth (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe ongoing cuts the college has been doing just to balance their budget are affecting our students directly,\u201d he says. \u201cA few days ago I was contacted by students from the science and hospitality departments who said they couldn\u2019t move forward with their programs because the courses they needed were not being offered.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College Student Society Lansdowne director-at-large Angela Chou (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Baluyut says that being involved in student politics is an opportunity to amplify students\u2019 voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel grateful that not only do I get to voice my concerns,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I also feel the responsibility to bring forward all the voices of my fellow Camosun students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baluyut says it\u2019s important that students know of the ongoing issues he and the other board members are fighting for.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really important to highlight that if there is a moment to step up, now is the perfect time,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are trying to build momentum in terms of raising awareness about the challenges we have been having, not just in our institution, but across the province.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baluyut says that he hopes that more students will get involved in post-secondary advocacy\u2014this is something that can be done by running for the remaining open positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust last week I was with the BC Federation of Students meeting with MLAs in parliament trying to tell them about the chronic underfunding that has been happening in the system,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is the moment to step up, and hopefully there will be some more people within our student body who will take on the responsibility of bringing forward the voices of Camosun students to the people who make these decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) held its fall student elections from Wednesday, October 22 to Friday, October 24. A total of 602 students voted in the election, down from 688 in last year\u2019s fall elections. CCSS external executive Terence Baluyut notes that the turnout for this election was low, which is typical for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27525,"comment_status":"closed","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":[342,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-november-12-2025","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494","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=27494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27498,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27494\/revisions\/27498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}