Democracy: A Part of This Complete Breakfast
March 22nd, 2010
What are you doing here? You should be here, voting! If you are visiting this page even once to see this post, you should have already voted by now.
It’s pretty straight-forward: all you need is your banner number and your date of birth. Executive positions are ranked ballot, unopposed races are yes/no, and Senate gives you up to three votes out of the four candidates.
Do it! Democracy! You know you want it! For the Union!
Eric, I’m about to vote for you, but I’m going to need a solid promise that you are going to take serious action to stop the annual bane that is douchy looking DAGS candidate pictures. My head says “vote yes, they seem qualified,” but my voting finger screams “NO! DOUCHEBAG ALERT!”
Seriously, just ask Neil Bailey where he buys his plaid shirts, and invest in a few. Hell, I’ll loan you some of mine. Roll up those sleeves, grab a few prop beers and you’re good to go.
@John Hillman
I just want to say that under my leadership, DAGS has made significant improvements from the days of pictures of Yannick Tremblay wielding a lightsabre.
With that said, I am amenable to improvements to DAGS elections in the future, including candidate photos. Perhaps we can start a charity: the Neil Bailey Fund for Professional-Looking Graduate Student Clothes.
Side note: are the profiles available from the website? I couldn’t see any way to get there easily, but in any case, the profiles are here: http://www.dsuelections.ca/content/dalhousie-association-graduate-students
@Eric Snow
Did you do a statistical test to say that the improvements were significant?
@Yannick Tremblay
Bahahaha, I was hoping you still read this.
I don’t need a statistical test to prove it. I consider a lightsabre to be significant (and Jedi Knights will agree with me). Therefore, the change is significant. =)
By the way, do you still have that picture? If so, send it to me so I can frame it and put it up in the new DAGS office.
I didn’t realize that the profiles were up there until today, when I did some digging to make sure I wasn’t voting in any communists (besides Debogorski). You have to click on the little DAGS link at the bottom, then it opens them up. Presumably this is to protect people from accidentally stumbling upon those painful photos.
For the information of any Sexton Engineers your election ballot for the DSEUS elections is also at the bottom of the DSU election ballot when you log on. Please remember to vote in both elections!
Am I blind? Why isn’t there a link to the online voting on the DSU website?
@J-Con
Actually, that’s an understatement: there isn’t a link to anything on the elections, period. At least, not anywhere that you don’t have to go digging to find.
Thank god I did read this post before voting or else I would have no clue how to find the DAGS photos. I base my vote on photos alone…
@Eric Snow
This is exactly why we need to continue to address the photo crisis. Faced with a constant stream of insufferably pompous photographs, voters like Ms. Jones may be compelled to click “No” again and again, leading to the eventual unravelling of DAGS itself.
@Eric Snow
I don’t disagree that lightsaber can be considered significant; however, your metrics to measure impact are a bit off.
I can’t find the picture on the internet or on my computer.
The voting link is not working for some reason
@J-Con
I’ve seen complaints about that today through Facebook, too. C’mon DSU – update your website!
And the organisational process that creates student apath continues…
I assume you are referring to the link Eric put in his post, and it is now fixed. Thanks!
@J-Con
Now there