MUS resignations lead to winter electionThe Management Undergraduate Society will be holding elections beginning tomorrow morning for the positions of Vice-President Academic and VP Information Technology after receiving resignations late last semester.
Vying for the position of VP Academic, formerly held by David George, are Bianca Bolouri, Jeremy Schwartz and Viki Siwic.
George officially resigned due to an inability to fulfill his mandate as described by the MUS by-laws, which require the VP to maintain good relations with the governing institution.
"It was completely different from what I expected. I wanted to work on committees and student-run organization, but people wanted me to work on other issues," said George, who resigned right before finals last semester.
"The role was extensive and it wasn't the right fit and so what was resolved is that the position would be passed on and someone else would run because we didn't have the right fit," said MUS President Kelly McAndrew.
Paul Jung, VP information technology, resigned before returning to South Korea, where all citizens are required to serve two years of military service. According to McAndrew, Jung had applied to be an army translator but when that fell through he worried that he would be forced to join the army and returned home in early December to reapply. Zaid Naveed and Steve Paseli are applying for the position in the coming election.
McAndrew stated that she had planned to host the elections earlier in the semester, particularly as the MUS by-laws require that nomination forms be turned into the Chief Electoral Officer no later than seven days before the election. As it stands, the nomination forms will be in only two days before.
"It is standard procedure the way we're doing it. This is historically how it's done," she said. "We also had a bit of a miscommunication with Elections McGill. My initial intention was to host it last week; it wasn't able to occur last week, so we had to move it up which is incredibly unfortunate, but this is how it works."
The miscommunication was due to email confusion, according to Elections McGill Chief Electoral Officer Corey Shefman.
"On Jan. 21 they asked me if I received their last email and I hadn't, so there was clearly an email miscommunication," he said. "Despite the two days' notice we kept the same dates for Jan. 23 and 24 but the MUS informed me they wanted to change it to the 30 to the 31."
The election period will last from Jan. 30 to Jan. 31 and results will be announced at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31 in the Student Concourse.
-Kate Spirgen
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