Students give CSU, CJLO, CUTV the nod

And the results are in! It appears that students were in a giving mood for the holiday season as everything passed in the CSU By-Elections.

A ‘no’ campaign a week before the election stirred controversy but all the bylaw changes were put through.

The biggest one being that candidates for executive positions will run independently instead of with a slate.

Also, quorum for general meetings was lowered to four hundred and fifty and the currently inactive Senate of Faculty Associations was eliminated.

Another major change is that students will pay fifty cents less towards a student centre and send the money to a special CSU contingency fun.

Students have entrusted their community radio and television stations with some of that extra money. They gave CJLO and CUTV both the extra nine cents per credit fee levy. In return CJLO has promised that they will move to FM downtown and CUTV will be able to get on cable.

The CSU got the support they asked for in their fight to retain student seats at the Board of Governors and their opposition to tuition hikes as well.