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Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011
arts A hit list to satisfy your arts fix P. 12
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editorial Is there a student centre decision on the horizon? P. 21
Volume 29 Issue 2
Stars and Mother Committee endorses all Mother complete lineup BoG-related governance for orientation concert recommendations Montreal outfits to grace the stage at Loyola Quad on Sept. 15 Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo News editor As promised, the Concordia Student Union will be delivering a good dose of the Canadian music scene to the students they represent. In a press release on Sunday, the union revealed that four-piece Montreal outfit Stars and Vancouverbased Mother Mother will grace the stage at the Loyola Quadrangle on Sept. 15, along with hip-hop artists Nomadic Massive and Lunice, two artists that had been announced last week. While he could not disclose the exact amount paid to each artist for the concert, VP finance Jordan Lindsay revealed that fees for the
four artists would cost $30,000. The total orientation budget the CSU is working with is around $270,000, of which the union is contributing $150,000. A bit less than half of the remaining $120,000 is provided by the Concordia Orientation Initiative, or COI, while Lindsay expects around $45,000 in sponsorship sales, of which they have already secured around $35,000. Lindsay also included provisions for $32,000 in petty sales (for beer, food and the like) to balance the budget. As with last year, however, the concert (and orientation as a whole) is entirely free. “We’re really hoping to get between four and 5,000 [people attending],” VP student life Laura Glover said. They are prepared to give tickets to as many people as the Quad can fit - a bit over 6,000 people. Glover’s wish for the concert? “I really hope it doesn’t rain!”
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CSU unhappy with recommendation to reduce undergrad reps to one governor and one “alternate” Jacques Gallant Editor-in-chief The latest step in Concordia’s mission to fix its governance troubles came last week when an ad hoc committee of the Board of Governors announced it was endorsing all of the recommendations stemming from an external review. The BoG’s ad hoc committee on governance met four times over the summer to pour over the BoG-related recommendations in the external governance review committee’s
report. The result is that the ad hoc committee will announce to the full board at its Sept. 28 meeting that it supports all the recommendations, minus a few significant tweaks. Whether the board will actually adopt the recommendations remains to be seen. The major modification suggested by the ad hoc committee is to include two undergraduate representatives on the BoG, one with speaking and voting rights, while the other, who would be known as the alternate governor, would have speaking rights only. Both, however, would have full voting and speaking rights at the committee level. The EGRC had originally recommended that the number of student representatives on the Board - currently four undergrads and one graduate student - be reduced to one undergrad and one grad, keeping in mind its recommendation that
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