{"id":8855,"date":"2014-03-24T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2014-03-27T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:41:12","slug":"students-elect-dozen-to-camosun-college-student-society-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/03\/24\/students-elect-dozen-to-camosun-college-student-society-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Students elect dozen to Camosun College Student Society board of directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Camosun College Student Society elected 12 new students to their board of directors in their recent spring elections, which took place March 18-20 on both campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Just over 450 Camosun students voted on both campuses over the three days. Meanwhile, a referendum to increase the recreation levy and, in turn, increase the fitness centre\u2019s hours at the Interurban campus was passed with 272 \u201cyes\u201d votes and 127 \u201cno\u201d votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8856\" alt=\"ccss-logo1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1-300x307.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/ccss-logo1-180x184.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Former students with disabilities director Rachael Grant was acclaimed as the CCSS\u2019 new external executive, a position that deals with outreach and communications.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Christie was elected as the new Lansdowne executive, while Andrea Eggenberger took the Interurban executive spot, the students becoming official representatives at each campus.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time CCSS board member Jordan Sandwith moves to the finance executive position on an acclaimed vote, while Joshua Goodwill (First Nations director), Annabelle Pickering (women\u2019s director), Andy Chen (students with disabilities director), Tatianna French (Pride director), and Stephanie Hurst (sustainability director) were either acclaimed or won in their respective positions. Andrea Lemus returns as the CCSS\u2019 international director. Morticia Chan and Adrian McLaren were acclaimed as Lansdowne directors.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the acclaimed students, where voters were asked to either vote \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d for a uncontested position, got overwhelmingly more \u201cyes\u201d than \u201cno\u201d votes this time out.<\/p>\n<p>The CCSS has two elections per year, one in the spring and one in the fall.\u00a0Although just over 450 votes is low for a student base at Camosun of nearly 8,000 students, it\u2019s consistent with the amount of votes CCSS elections have gotten the past several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Camosun College Student Society elected 12 new students to their board of directors in their recent spring elections, which took place March 18-20 on both campuses. Just over 450 Camosun students voted on both campuses over the three days. Meanwhile, a referendum to increase the recreation levy and, in turn, increase the fitness centre\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8856,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8860,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}