Food insecurity is on the rise and what is the administration doing about it? Not much!
Student Union
On Oct. 4, the Fulcrum received an anonymous article submission raising concerns with many elements of the Union’s operations, the most pressing of which being the ongoing by-elections.
Students have not been able to access any public documents pertaining to the UOSU’s 2021-22 Board of Directors (BOD). This includes meeting minutes, subcommittee minutes and Executive Committee members’ reports which were public in the Union’s first two years of existence on its Google Drive. Why?
The University of Ottawa Students’ Union considered changing the structure of their five-person executive committee, including adding a presidential position, at a Board of Directors meeting on Sunday, but after over three hours of debate a number of concerns were raised and the decision was pushed to January.
The General Assembly to decide whether an anti-abortion group could receive resources and support through the University of Ottawa Students’ Union failed to come to fruition after the meeting faced difficulties reaching quorum.
As a General Assembly to decide whether an anti-abortion group will be able to access resources and support through the union quickly approaches, the UOSU’s BOD amended the union’s clubs code at their meeting on Sunday.
The University of Ottawa Students’ Union’s fall byelections saw a number of vacant positions filled. The UOSU’s five-seat executive committee found their equity commissioner, while four empty seats on the Board of Directors have been filled.
Thirty-one parties are claiming about $1.86 million from the University of Ottawa’s former student union, but its court-appointed receiver PwC estimates the total value of valid claims will be less than $1 million. The creditors range from student organizations and former employees to a landlord and a union, court documents show.
The Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa Students’ Union met on Sunday, where they passed a motion to take a pro-choice stance on abortion. The motion comes in the wake of controversy after an anti-abortion group regained the official club status they had lost under the school’s former student government.
The Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa Students’ Union met on Thursday night where they approved the agenda for the upcoming General Assembly, to be held on Nov. 7. They also passed a motion to support an upcoming on-campus rally against cuts to OSAP and the introduction of the Student Choice Initiative.
U of O students voted decisively in February to leave the SFUO behind and embrace the UOSU instead. But now that the dust of the union transition has settled, where did the enthusiasm of students go?
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the court-appointed receiver of the now-defunct undergraduate student union, is launching a claims process with a bar date of Oct. 11.
Jason Seguya sat down the Fulcrum to reflect on the union’s first 101 Week, the impacts of the Student Choice Initiative on campus atmosphere, and the future of UOSU services and businesses.
The new union will offer the same services as the SFUO except for UOSERT, which is now operated by Protection Services. The Women’s Resource Centre and Pride Centre will also be merged.
The executive committee and board of directors for the new union were also elected.
A majority of candidates are running uncontested, and many positions have no candidates at all.
The University of Ottawa stated their intention to dissolve their agreement with the SFUO in late September, following a string of financial mismanagement allegations against the union’s executive.
A group of students on campus has begun working on the creation of a new student union. Going by the name University of Ottawa Students’ Union, the group hopes to be on a student referendum ballot in November.
This came in response to fraud allegations, and allegations of financial misconduct faced by at least three individuals on the SFUO executive, and for many students, felt long overdue. For others however, concerns of administrative interference in student governance raised red flags, and some students feel as though their voices are being stifled. We’re here to tell you that this is not the case.
The administration has a lot of questions to answer in the coming months and negotiations will be intense, but this needs to be readdressed with a proper overhaul of the SFUO. With only two executives currently serving, students need to come together to make sure that the SFUO does what it can to regain the trust of students at the U of O.
The SFUO announced that three executives will vacate office, and their intention to continue operations in light of the university’s contract termination notice.
In a statement released on Sept. 25, the University of Ottawa announced that they have given the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) official notice of termination of the contract held between the SFUO and the university administration.
Following the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa’s latest Board of Administration meeting, U of O president Jacques Frémont condemned the string of BDS motions put forward to the SFUO.
The union finally came to an agreement with the administration to remove the disparity between the pay of teaching assistants (TAs), regardless of their level of study or faculty.
The BOA has the right to create ad hoc or standing committees, and they should use this authority to create a committee to present a report to the public on the BOA’s in-camera sessions.
